Description: Keanan Joyner
I’m an Assistant Professor of Psychology (clinical science area) at University of California, Berkeley . My program of research is dedicated to a comprehensive, ontogenetic account of the etiology of addiction. By this, I mean that I want to understand the spectrum of risk for addiction all the way from liabilities for addiction - dispositional factors the predate use of substances - as well as consequences of chronic, heavy use that maintain a Substance Use Disorder. Two of the dispositional liabilities I’
I enjoy all things psychological science, and am also interested in broad psychopathology classification issues (e.g., very pro- Hierachical Taxonomy of Psychopathology [HiTOP] ). I have particular expertise in electroencephalography/event-related potentials (EEG/ERPs), behavioral genetics, and advanced quantitative methods.
Note: I will be accepting a graduate student in the Clinical Science area at UC Berkeley for the Fall 2023 cycle