Mara Mather, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Gerontology and Psychology

Mara Mather is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Psychology at the University of Southern California. She is a cognitive psychologist whose research focuses on memory, emotion, decision making and aging. She received the Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging in 2005 and the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America in 2007. Dr. Mather also received the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award and the Margret M. Baltes Dissertation Award in the Psychology of Aging for her doctoral research at Princeton University.

Dr. Mather is currently serving as associate editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and is on the editorial boards of Emotion, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Psychological Science, and Psychology and Aging.