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Michael E. Dawson

Expert in emotions and bodily responses, psychophysiology, schizophrenia and phobias

Professor of Psychology
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-2294 or mdawson@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • human psychophysiology
  • mechanisms and processes underlying attention and information processing
  • interrelationships between physiological and psychological aspects of behavior
  • experimental psychopathology
  • brain and behavioral dysfunctions in schizophrenia and other psychopathologies
  • detection of deception
  • polygraph tests (lie detectors)
  • classical behavioral conditioning and cognition
Additional Information:
  • Former President, Society for Psychophysiological Research
  • Co-author of Emotions and Bodily Responses: A Psychophysiological Approach (1978)

More:
For more information go to:

http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1003199.html