30 psychology professors in the United States, at 17 universities. The most represented are Stanford University, Columbia University and Harvard University. 13 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.
The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United States whose recent work sits in psychology. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently psychology figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.
Psychology · Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesMental Health Research Topics
Recent: Emotion regulation and mental disorders: Bridging affective and clinical science. (2026)
Neuroscience · Developmental and Educational Psychology
Reading and Literacy DevelopmentNeural Networks and ApplicationsChild and Animal Learning Development
Recent: Simulation data of the hippocampal network - Capturing rapid learning in an extended successor representation theory of the cognitive map (2026)
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesChild Welfare and Adoption
Psychology · Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesMental Health Research TopicsMemory and Neural Mechanisms
Recent: Correspondence in emotionality between spoken words and ecological momentary assessment in individuals varying in depression and anhedonia (2026)
Mental Health Treatment and AccessCognitive Abilities and TestingChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Recent: High Prevalence of Cerebrovascular Calcifications and Clinical Correlates in Indigenous Bolivian Forager‐Horticulturalists: A Population‐Based Observational Study (2026)
Universities on this list: Stanford University (6) · Columbia University (3) · Harvard University (3) · University of California, Davis (2) · University of California, Los Angeles (2) · University of Minnesota (2) · University of Southern California (2) · Michigan State University (1) · New York University (1) · Pennsylvania State University (1) · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1) · University of Maryland, College Park (1) · University of Michigan (1) · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1) · University of Pittsburgh (1) · University of Wisconsin–Madison (1) · Yale University (1)
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