Faculty
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Yalcin Acikgoz Associate Professor |
Employee recruitment and job search, applicant reactions in recruitment and selection, applicant decision-making, applications of social media in human resources, impression management in the workplace. |
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Mary Ballard Professor |
Aggression; media; video games; bullying. |
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Doris Bazzini Professor |
Impact of professional female athletes on women's body image
Female body dissatisfaction's impact on relationship maintenance processes
Factors that influence romantic relationships
Dog Breed Stereotypes as a function of Race and Urban Factors |
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Jackie Belhumeur Wayne Senior Lecturer |
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Shawn Bergman Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor |
Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice. |
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Reagan Breitenstein Assistant Professor |
Sleep, Temperament, Qualities of the home environment and family relationships, Twin and behavior genetic designs, Developmental psychology |
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Joshua Broman-Fulks Professor |
Anxiety disorders; anxiety vulnerability factors; physical exercise; taxometrics. |
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Dr. Brooke Burrows Assistant Professor |
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Will Canu Professor |
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; social adjustment and psychological disorders; child clinical psychology; adjustment and intervention in rural contexts. |
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Lisa Curtin Clinical Psychology Program Director and Director of Clinical Training Aeschleman Distinguished Professor of Psychology |
Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, integrated care, social factors and body image. |
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Kaleb Davis Lecturer |
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James R. Deni Professor |
Specific Learning Disabilities, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Intervention Fidelity, Implementation Science, & School Mental Health, Professional Issues in School Psychology, Special Education and related areas, School Psychology Accreditation, Revide Connect for ADHD students. |
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Chris Dickinson Associate Professor |
Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception. |
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Lisa Emery Associate Professor |
Developmental psychology; adult development & aging; emotion regulation; memory. |
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Sandra G. Gagnon Professor |
High school and college bullying
Preschool social-emotional-behavioral development
INSIGHTS Into Children’s Temperaments
Child temperament
Adult-child relationships
Parent and teaching stress
Peer interactive play
Intervention fidelity
Needs assessment
Examiner errors in graduate student standardized test administration |
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Amy T. Galloway Professor |
Development of food preferences, picky eating, normal and disordered eating in children and adults; parent and child food interactions. Sustainable and community food system research. |
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Dr. Thomas (Tom) Gross Assistant Professor |
• Universal Social/Emotional/Behavioral Assessments and Supports
• Program assessment and evaluation for social and academic support of learners
• School psychology cultural competency |
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Jacqueline Hersh Associate Professor |
Psychotherapy process and outcome; enhancing and tailoring empirically supported treatments; access and dissemination of ESTs; child and adolescent psychopathology. |
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Brian Higley Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Robert W. Hill Associate Professor |
Perfectionism; interpersonal characteristics; self injury; personality; ethics; therapy. |
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Christopher Holden Associate Professor |
Personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, relationship-contingent self-esteem, mate retention behavior, open science. |
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Hannah Holmes Clinical Assistant Professor |
Health psychology, women's health, human sexuality, emotion-focused interventions for chronic pain |
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Timothy J. Huelsman IOHRM Program Director Professor |
Organizations; organizational culture; organizational assessment; program evaluation. |
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John Paul Jameson Professor |
Suicide prevention; rural mental health services; empirically supported psychotherapies; community/academic partnerships; school-based mental health. |
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Lauren Keroack Undergraduate Internship Coordinator; Lecturer |
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Timothy D. Ludwig Professor |
Organizational behavior management; behavioral analysis; employee performance; occupational safety. |
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Denise M. Martz Professor |
Health psychology & behavioral medicine; Women's health; Fat talk, body image, eating disorders, & obesity; Interpersonal violence & physician's intervention in primary care. |
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Lindsay Masland Professor Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success (CETLSS) |
college student motivation and engagement, transformative teaching practices for student success, data-based decision-making about teaching, faculty development |
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Matthew Meier Assistant Professor |
Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory Capacity, Individual Differences, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering |
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Lynn Mosteller Undergraduate Advising Director Senior Lecturer |
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Angela Napoli Lecturer |
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Lucinda O. Payne Senior Lecturer |
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MaryAnn Samad Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Cassidy Sandoval Assistant Professor |
Women’s health
Body image (body dissatisfaction, positive body image)
Weight stigma
Eating behaviors
Mobile health assessment and intervention |
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Thomas Schwartz Lecturer |
Identifying and addressing educational barriers for underrepresented groups |
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Andrew Smith Professor |
Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism. |
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Kenneth M. Steele Professor |
Learning in nonhumans and humans; visual and auditory perception; activity anorexia; music perception; color priming; the "Mozart effect." |
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William Stiles Adjunct Professor |
Psychotherapy process and outcome; verbal interaction; theory and epistemology. |
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Crystal Taylor Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Adelya Urmanche Assistant Professor |
Substance use and misuse
Overdose prevention and harm reduction
Community-based collaborations
Psychotherapy process research and supervision |
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Douglas A. Waring Associate Professor |
Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity. |
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Rose Mary Webb Department Chair Professor |
Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent. |
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Richard Wilson Senior Lecturer |
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Twila Wingrove Professor Assistant Chair |
Legal/forensic psychology, developmental psychology. |
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Katie Wolsiefer Assistant Professor |
Social Psychology: stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, social cognition, implicit and explicit attitudes, communication of bias (and bias reduction) in healthcare. |
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Jamie Yarbrough School Psychology Program Director |
Empirically supported academic and behavioral interventions, implementation science, research-to-practice gap in educational settings, resistance to change, multi-tiered systems of support, response to intervention, curriculum-based measurement, progress monitoring, school consultation, and prevention of school failure. |
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Mark C. Zrull Professor Assistant Chair |
Experience and evoked neural activity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research. |