Graduate Training in Clinical, Positive, and Social Psychology

The Psychology Graduate Group offers a broad range of research opportunities in clinical, positive, and social psychology. Faculty and graduate students in these areas study a variety of topics that cross traditional boundaries of psychology.

Clinical Psychology has a proud history at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning with Lightner Witmer, who founded the first psychology clinic in the United States at Penn in 1896. The clinical training program aims to prepare highly qualified, creative clinical scientists. The Positive Psychology Center is at the vanguard of a new field called Positive Psychology whose mission is to understand and build the emotions, strengths, and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive. Scholars working in the area of Social Psychology investigate a wide variety of domains ranging from individual decision making to large-scale phenomena such as social networks.

Below is a list of faculty and their areas of research interest. Many faculty also maintain lab Web sites that provide more detailed information on their research programs.

	Professional Title	Specific Research Areas
David Asch	Professor; Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics	Clinician and patient decision making; health policy; medical ethics
Jacques Barber	Professor Emeritus	Psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches
Cristina Bicchieri	Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics	Judgment, decision making, and rational choice
Dianne Chambless	Merriam Term Professor of Psychology; Director of Clinical Training	Anxiety disorders, expressed emotion, and empirically supported treatments
Anjan Chatterjee	Professor	Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology
Paul Crits-Christoph	Professor; Director of the Center for Psychotherapy Research	Process and outcome of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety, affective and personality disorders, psychosocial treatments for substance use disorders, and methodological and statistical issues in treatment reasearch
Robert DeRubeis	Samuel H. Preston Term Professor in the Social Sciences; Department Chair	Causes and treatments of mood disorders
Angela Duckworth	Assistant Professor	Grit; Self-Control
Edna Foa	Professor; Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety	Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety and stress disorders
Martin Franklin	Associate Professor
Geoffrey Goodwin	Assistant Professor	Social cognition, moral psychology, and reasoning
Joseph Kable	Assistant Professor	Psychological and neural mechanisms of choice behavior
Anne Kazak	Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Department of Psychology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Child and family adaptation to serious pediatric illness
Howard Kunreuther	Professor	Decision Processes
Irwin Lucki	Professor	Behavioral pharmacology
Ian Lustick	Professor	Evolutionary psychology, ethnopolitcal conflict, computational modeling, complexity theory and dreams
Clark McCauley	Professor	Stereotyping and essentializing, group identification and intergroup conflict, terrorism and genocide
Barbara Mellers	I. George Heyman University Professor	Behavioral Decision Theory, Emotions; Fairness; Preference Measurement ; Policy Implications
R. Arlen Price	Professor	Behavioral genetics
Adrian Raine	Richard Perry University Professor; Chair, Department of Criminology	Neurobiology of antisocial behavior in children and adults
Paul Rozin	Professor	Cultural psychology, with a focus on understanding the role of food in human life positive psychology and ethnopolitical conflict
Ayelet Meron Ruscio	Assistant Professor	Anxiety and mood disorders–their nature, classification, and comorbidity
Robert Schultz	Professor; Director of the Center for Autism Research	Pathobiology and treatment of autism
Maurice Schweitzer	Professor	Emotions, ethical decision making, trust, and the negotiation process
Martin Seligman	Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology; Director of the Positive Psychology Center	Positive Psychology, optimism, learned helplessness, and depression
Deborah Small	Associate Professor	Human decision making
Philip Tetlock	Leonore Annenberg University Professor
Thomas Wadden	Professor; Director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders	Treatment of obesity