People

Gene Heyman

gheyman@fas.harvard.edu

Associate of Department of Psychology, FAS

Gene Heyman is currently evaluating the economic and social correlates of the opiate epidemic and conducting lab research on economic and psychological models of attention allocation.

Hopi Hoekstra

hoekstra@oeb.harvard.edu

Alexandra Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard College Professor, FAS

The Hoekstra lab is interested in understanding the genetic and neural basis of behavioral evolution. Specifically, we capitalize on natural variation within or between species of wild deer mice (genus Peromyscus) to identify regions of the genome and/or...

Jill Hooley

jmh@wjh.harvard.edu

Professor of Psychology, FAS

A major focus of Professor Hooley’s research interests concern psychosocial (especially family) predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe psychopathology such as schizophrenia, depression, and borderline personality disorder. She is also...

Carole Hooven

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Lecturer on Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS

Carole Hooven is in interested in how hormones shape human behavior (and vice versa), with a focus on sex differences.

C.T. James Huang

ctjhuang@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Linguistics, FAS

Syntactic theory, Syntax-semantics interface, and Chinese linguistics

Jeff Huffman

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS

Our lab is interested in the relationship between psychological constructs, biomarkers, and health behaviors in patients with heart disease and other medical illnesses. We are also working to develop psychological well-being interventions to promote...

Steven E. Hyman

seh@harvard.edu

Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Steven E. Hyman, MD, is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and a Core Institute Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT where he directs the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. From 2001...

Ryan Jane Jacoby

Staff Psychologist, OCD and Related Disorders Program

Assistant Professor of Psychology/Psychiatry

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School

My research broadly focuses on the nature and treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders, including specific interests in psychological mechanisms of exposure-based therapies (e.g., inhibitory learning approaches) as well as treatment augmentation strategies...

Ichiro Kawachi

ikawachi@hsph.harvard.edu

Professor of Social Epidemiology, HSPH Associate Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology), HMS

My research interests are focused on: (a) the social determinants of health– including macro-level determinants (e.g. income inequality, social capital), neighborhood contextual influences on health, and psychosocial predictors of cardiovascular disease...

Sean Kelly

sdkelly@fas.harvard.edu

Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Kelly's work focuses on various aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific nature of human experience. This gives him a broad forum: recent work has addressed, for example, the experience of time, the possibility of...

Talia Konkle

talia_konkle@harvard.edu

Professor of Psychology, FAS

Talia Konkle's lab uses human functional neuroimaging to explore how representational spaces of the mind are mapped onto the surface of the brain. She focuses on high-level vision: how do we recognize and organize our knowledge about objects, scenes, and...

Edward Kravitz

edward_kravitz@hms.harvard.edu

George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

Aggression is a nearly universal feature of the behavior of social animals. In the wild, it is used for access to food and shelter, for protection from predation and for selection of mates. Despite its importance, little is known of the neural mechanisms...