Ann M. Kring

Ann M. Kring is a Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, holding a position in the Department of Psychology. She previously served as Chair of the Department from 2015 to 2020. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook (1991) and faculty roles at Vanderbilt University before joining UC Berkeley in 1999.

Her research focuses on emotional processes in clinical populations, particularly schizophrenia, exploring links between emotion, cognition, and social deficits. She leads the Emotion and Social Interaction Laboratory and has contributed to seminal work on negative symptoms, anhedonia, and translational affective science.

Key awards include Fellowships from the Society for Experimental Psychologists (2022), AAAS (2021), and the Association for Psychological Science (2005). Her work bridges basic and clinical research, with over 200 publications in journals like Schizophrenia Bulletin and Cognition and Emotion.

Grants include NIH funding for studies on prenatal inflammation (R01MH118545) and negative symptom assessment (RO1MH082890). She actively collaborates with institutions globally, advancing understanding of emotion in psychopathology and interventions targeting social and cognitive deficits.