Michael E. Dawson

Expert in emotions and bodily responses, psychophysiology, schizophrenia and phobias
  • Professor Emeritus of Psychology
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
  • Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences
Office: (213) 740-2294

Expertise

  • human psychophysiology
  • mechanisms and processes underlyingattention and information processing
  • interrelationships between physiologicaland psychological aspects of behavior
  • experimental psychopathology
  • brain and behavioral dysfunctionsin schizophrenia and otherpsychopathologies
  • detection of deception
  • polygraph tests (lie detectors)
  • classical behavioral conditioning andcognition

Additional Information

  • Former President, Society for Psychophysiological Research
  • Co-author of Emotions and Bodily Responses: A Psychophysiological Approach (1978)