FACULTY

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.
Jamil Zaki is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and director of the Psychology One Program as well as the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions (empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (altruism). Jamil received his BA from Boston University, his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Now that he’s in the Bay Area, his hobbies include compulsive hiking, eating avocados, and trying to remember how to drive again.
Jamil Zaki is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and director of the Psychology One Program as well as the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions (empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (altruism). Jamil received his BA from Boston University, his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Now that he’s in the Bay Area, his hobbies include compulsive hiking, eating avocados, and trying to remember how to drive again.

Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D.
Steven O. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the director of the
Social Concepts Lab. He received his B.S. in Applied Psychology from New York University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Broadly, he is interested in how adults and young children conceptualize groups, and how those concepts guide how they reason about individuals.
Steven O. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the director of the
Social Concepts Lab. He received his B.S. in Applied Psychology from New York University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Broadly, he is interested in how adults and young children conceptualize groups, and how those concepts guide how they reason about individuals.

James Gross, Ph.D.
James Gross is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford and former director of the Psychology One Program. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on emotion and emotion regulation, and includes measures of emotion experience, behavior, autonomic physiology, and brain activation.
http://spl.stanford.edu/director.html
James Gross is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford and former director of the Psychology One Program. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on emotion and emotion regulation, and includes measures of emotion experience, behavior, autonomic physiology, and brain activation.
http://spl.stanford.edu/director.html