Emily Falk

Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing
Associate Dean for Research at the Annenberg School for Communication; Director of Penn's Communication Neuroscience Lab; Distinguished Fellow of the Annenberg Public Policy Center

328 Annenberg School for Communication


Research Interests

Social Influence; Social Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Behavior Change; Health Communication; Media Effects; Climate Action

Specific Research Areas

Neural and psychological predictors of behavior change and the spread of ideas/ behaviors; media effects at the individual, group and population levels; interactions between social network characteristics and neurocognitive/ affective/ social processes; health communication, health behavior change, and climate action.

Professor Emily Falk will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.

Advisee

Taurean Butler [Psychology Graduate Student]

Education

Sc.B., Neuroscience, Brown University

PhD, Psychology, UCLA