Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Name	Contact	Program	Research Interests
Yalcin Acikgoz Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8926 acikgozy@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	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.
Mary Ballard Professor	(828) 262-8929 ballardme@appstate.edu	Experimental	Aggression; media; video games; bullying.
Doris Bazzini Professor	(828) 262-8967 bazzinidg@appstate.edu	Experimental	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
Jackie Belhumeur Wayne Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-8932 belhumeurjr@appstate.edu
Shawn Bergman Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor	(828) 262-8933 bergmans@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice.
Reagan Breitenstein Assistant Professor	breitensteinrs@appstate.edu Dr. Breitenstein's Website	Experimental	Sleep, Temperament, Qualities of the home environment and family relationships, Twin and behavior genetic designs, Developmental psychology
Joshua Broman-Fulks Professor	(828) 262-8934 bromanfulksj@appstate.edu Lab Website	Clinical	Anxiety disorders; anxiety vulnerability factors; physical exercise; taxometrics.
Will Canu Professor	(828) 262-8935 canuwh@appstate.edu Website	Clinical	Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; social adjustment and psychological disorders; child clinical psychology; adjustment and intervention in rural contexts.
Lisa Curtin Clinical Psychology Program Director Professor	(828) 262-8936 curtinla@appstate.edu https://clinicalpsychpsyd.appstate.edu/	Clinical	Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, integrated care, social factors and body image.
James R. Deni Professor	(828) 262-8938 denijr@appstate.edu	School	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.
Chris Dickinson Associate Professor	(828) 262-8940 dickinsonca@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception.
Lisa Emery Associate Professor	(828) 262-8941 emerylj@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Developmental psychology; adult development & aging; emotion regulation; memory.
Cheryl Fox Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-9842 foxcf@appstate.edu		Educational psychology, applied behavior management/behavior change, adult development and aging.
Sandra G. Gagnon Associate Professor	(828) 262-8944 gagnonsg@appstate.edu	School	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
Amy T. Galloway Professor	(828) 262-8945 gallowayat@appstate.edu	Experimental	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.
Jacqueline Hersh Assistant Professor	(828) 262-6969 hershjr@appstate.edu Website	Clinical	Psychotherapy process and outcome; enhancing and tailoring empirically supported treatments; access and dissemination of ESTs; child and adolescent psychopathology.
Robert W. Hill Associate Professor	(828) 262-8947 hillrw@appstate.edu	Clinical	Perfectionism; interpersonal characteristics; self injury; personality; ethics; therapy.
Christopher Holden Assistant Professor	holdencj@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, relationship-contingent self-esteem, mate retention behavior, open science.
Hannah Holmes Clinical Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8951 holmeshj1@appstate.edu		Health psychology, women's health, human sexuality, emotion-focused interventions for chronic pain
Timothy J. Huelsman IOHRM Program Director Assistant Chair Professor	(828) 262-8949 huelsmantj@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Organizations; organizational culture; organizational assessment; program evaluation.
Hannah Jackson Lecturer	jacksonhm1@appstate.edu
John Paul Jameson Professor	(828) 262-8950 jamesonjp@appstate.edu	Clinical	Suicide prevention; rural mental health services; empirically supported psychotherapies; community/academic partnerships; school-based mental health.
Lauren Keroack Undergraduate Internship Coordinator; Lecturer	(828) 262-8931 keroacklj@appstate.edu
Pamela Kidder-Ashley Professor	(828) 262-8928 ashleypk@appstate.edu	School	Mental health correlates of high school and college bullying, ecological correlates of social competence in preschoolers.
Timothy D. Ludwig Professor	(828) 262-8952 ludwigtd@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Organizational behavior management; behavioral analysis; employee performance; occupational safety.
Denise M. Martz Professor	(828) 262-8953 martzdm@appstate.edu	Clinical	Health psychology & behavioral medicine; fat talk; women's health; obesity & eating disorders; body image & relative size; teen interpersonal violence & bullying; body snarking.
Lindsay Masland Associate Professor Director of Transformative Teaching and Learning	(828) 262-7596 maslandlc@appstate.edu	School	college student motivation and engagement, transformative teaching practices for student success, faculty development, equity and belongingness in the college classroom
Lynn Mosteller Undergraduate Advising Director Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-8958 mostellerlh@appstate.edu
Lucinda O. Payne Senior Lecturer	paynesmithlo@appstate.edu
Andrew Smith Professor	(828) 262-8960 smithar3@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.
Kenneth M. Steele Professor	(828) 262-8961 steelekm@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Learning in nonhumans and humans; visual and auditory perception; activity anorexia; music perception; color priming; the "Mozart effect."
William Stiles Adjunct Professor	stileswb@appstate.edu	Clinical	Psychotherapy process and outcome; verbal interaction; theory and epistemology.
Crystal Taylor Assistant Professor	taylorcn3@appstate.edu
Douglas A. Waring Associate Professor	(828) 262-8962 waringda@appstate.edu	Experimental	Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity.
Rose Mary Webb Department Chair Professor	(828) 262-8927 webbrm@appstate.edu	Experimental	Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent.
Richard Wilson Senior Lecturer	wilsonrp@appstate.edu
Twila Wingrove Experimental Psychology Program Director Associate Professor	(828) 262-8965 wingroveta@appstate.edu Website	Experimental	Legal/forensic psychology, developmental psychology.
Katie Wolsiefer Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8943 wolsieferkj@appstate.edu	Experimental	Social Psychology: stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, social cognition, implicit and explicit attitudes, communication of bias (and bias reduction) in healthcare.
Jamie Yarbrough School Psychology Program Director	(828) 262-8966 yarbroughjl@appstate.edu	School	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.
Mark C. Zrull Professor	(828) 262-8930 zrullmc@appstate.edu	Experimental	Experience, preference, interactive and stimulus-guided behavior, and neural plasticity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research.