Psychology

Jordyn Ricard

ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026

Jordyn R. Ricard is a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology. Her research examines how exposure to community violence shapes mental health outcomes. She also examines how structural interventions can mitigate the negative effects of community violence, with the goal of promoting safer communities, improving well-being, and reducing pathways into the legal system. As an ISPS Fellow, she is investigating how psychological adaptations to community and structural threat interact to confer risk for mental health problems. Prior to Yale, she earned her B.S.

Jennifer Richeson

Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology

Jennifer Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and a faculty fellow with ISPS. Her research examines multiple psychological phenomena related to cultural diversity. For instance, she examines how people experience racial and other forms of societal diversity, be it efforts to navigate one-on-one interracial interactions or the political consequences of the increasing racial/ethnic diversity of the United States.

Peter Salovey

Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

Laurie Santos

Professor of Psychology, Head of Silliman College

Laurie Santos is the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003.

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