Jennifer A. Chatman
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley
Jennifer A. Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Haas School of Business. Professor Chatman's research explores the psychology of leadership and culture within organizations, including the transmission of culture, understanding what makes for cultural fit and how organizations can design and manage teams and cooperation to maximize both productivity and individual experience.
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Phil Cowan
Dept. of Psychology,
UC Berkeley
Philip A. Cowan is a Professor of Psychology, the former Director of the Institute of Human Development and one of the founding faculty members of The Greater Good Science Center. His research and clinical interests focus on family systems and children's development. One overarching theme of his research is that the quality of relationships among family members, not "just" parenting behaviors, plays a central role in both individual and family development. A second theme is that preventive interventions with both parents in couples groups can have positive effects on both family relationships and children's adaptation to school.
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Charles Garfield
Shanti & Dept. of Psychiatry,
UC San Francisco
Charles Garfield is the Founder of Shanti and Shanti National Training Institute as well as a Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School San Francisco. Shanti is one of the first HIV/AIDS communication organizations in the world for his work with Shanti, he was named National Activist of the Year, one of America's highest awards fro contributions in community service.
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Jack Glaser
Goldman School of Public Policy,
UC Berkeley
Jack Glaser is Assistant Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. For example, he investigates the unconscious operation of stereotypes and prejudice using modern, computerized methods, and is investigating the implications of such subtle forms of bias for criminal justice. His involvement in the Center stems comes from his recognition that the prevalence of prejudice is a formidable barrier to peace and well-being and that decades of fruitful research on prejudice, how it operates and how to reduce it, should be applied to improve this situation.
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Jodi Halpern
Joint Medical Program
UC San Francisco & UC Berkeley
Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program. Her research areas include ethical and philosophical foundations of health care.
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Carol Hyman
News Services
UCSF
Carol Hyman is the Assistant News Director for UCSF and Media Relations Director for UCSF Medical Center and Children's Hospital. Carol was formerly a Senior Public Affairs Representative at UC Berkeley.
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Stephen P. Hinshaw
Dept. of Psychology
UC Berkeley
Stephen P. Hinshaw's main interest is in the field of developmental psychopathology. Major themes of his work include the role of peer relationships in normal and atypical development (particularly ADHD), the early prediction of behavioral and learning problems, the contribution of family factors to antisocial behavior, neuropsychology and neuroimaging and the implementation of combinations of psychosocial and pharmacologic intervention for children with externalizing behavior disorders. Increasingly, his research interests are focusing on adolescent and young adult outcomes, as children in his various projects continue to participate in prospective, longitudinal studies. His newest research interest lies in the area of stigma and mental disorder. He is one of the founding faculty members of The Greater Good Science Center.
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Dacher Keltner
Dept. of Psychology
UC Berkeley
Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, is a social psychologist who focuses on the prosocial emotions, such as love, sympathy and gratitude, and processes such as teasing and flirtation that enhance bonds. He has conducted empirical studies in three areas of inquiry. A first looks at the determinant and effects of power, hierarchy and social class. A second in concerned with the morality of everyday life, and how we negotiate moral truths in teasing, gossip, and other reputational matters. A third and primary focus in on the biological and evolutionary basis of the benevolent affects, including compassion, awe, love, gratitude, and laughter and modesty. Professor Keltner is Co-Director of The Greater Good Science Center.
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Rob Maccoun
Goldman School of Public Policy
UC Berkeley
After receiving a doctorate in social psychology, Rob MacCoun spent seven years as a behavioral scientist at RAND. There he was a staff member at the Institute for Civil Justice and the Drug Policy Research Center, and a core faculty member at the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies. His research examines public policy issues from the perspective of cognitive and social psychology. He has written numerous studies of individual and group decision making, criminal and civil jury behavior, alternative dispute resolution, public perceptions of the fairness of public policies, and the formal and informal control of risky conduct in the United States and Western Europe. He has also studied the effects of group diversity on military unit cohesion, and the effects of political views on the interpretation of research evidence. His work is described in detail at HYPERLINK "http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Emaccoun" http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun
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Christina Maslach
Vice-Provost, Undergraduate Education
UC Berkeley
Christina Maslach is currently the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education. Her prior administrative positions include the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Faculty Assistant (to the Chancellor) on the Status of Women, and Vice-Chair of the Psychology Department. As a scientist, she is best known as one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout, and the author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used research measure in the burnout field. Her recent research includes a focus on job engagement (the opposite of burnout), as a form of psychological and social well-being, so she is especially interested in future collaborations with the Center.
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Rodolpho Mendoza-Denton
Dept. of Psychology,
UC Berkeley
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, focuses his research on the interface of culture, social cognition, and intergroup processes. He's interested in understanding how marginalization of one's social group affects basic processes related to social identity and intergroup relationships. His involvement with the Center revolves around the positive effects of intergroup contact and friendship on academic adjustment and prejudice reduction.
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Susan Stone
School of Social Welfare,
UC Berkeley
Susan Stone is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare. Her interests include family and school influences on child and adolescent school performance, especially for urban and at-risk children and youth; parenting under stress; linking families, schools, and communities; and school-based social work practice. Her affiliation with the Center stems from a long-standing interest in ways in which scholarly work can be used as a policy lever to promote the health and welfare of children, families and communities.
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Barrie Thorne
Depts. Of Sociology & Women’s Studies
UC Berkeley
Barrie Thorne has a joint appointment as a Professor of Sociology and of Women's Studies. Her fields of teaching and research include the sociology of gender; feminist theory; the sociology childhood and of age relations more broadly; families; and ethnographic methods. From 1998-2002 Barrie Thorne co-directed the HYPERLINK "http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/wfnetwork/berkeley/index.html" Berkeley Center for Working Families, helping to build a feminist intellectual community focused on the mes of "cultures of care" and on the changing contours of family life in the context of global economic restructuring. She is currently an ethnography about children growing up -- and parents raising children -- in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of Oakland.
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Julia Walsh
School of Public Health
UC Berkeley
Dr. Walsh is an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, as well as a physician and health-planner with a particular interest in cost-effectiveness analysis and priority setting. Her research emphasizes how to improve health and wellbeing given the meager resources available in developing countries. She is also Co-Director of the HYPERLINK "http://big.berkeley.edu/" Bay Area International Group (BIG) which focuses on financing health in developing countries. Her association with the in Center arises from her efforts to document both the enormous impact of girls' education on wellbeing and health and the interrelationship between population, environment and war.
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Robb Willer
Department of Sociology
UC Berkeley
Robb Willer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. His research focuses on microsociological foundations of human sociality and community (e.g. altruism, cooperation, collective action) and the social psychological bases of political ideology. Some of his current projects include a field study of "Freecycle," an on-line gift-giving community, experimental work on the interplay of reputational concerns and altruism, a multi-method project on whether and when altruism is contagious, and a study of the heritability of prosocial behaviors in humans. He has published in the past on such topics as competitive altruism, indirect reciprocity, trust, social norms, and collective action.
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