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 Professor |
Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice. |
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Reagan Breitenstein Asssociate 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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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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Chris Dickinson Associate Professor |
Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception. |
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Lauren Disselkoen Undergraduate Internship Coordinator; Lecturer |
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Lisa Emery 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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| Ashley Gilliam |
My lab's research focuses on how culture and experience influences cognition. We are particularly interested in within-culture variation and the flexibility of culturally-influenced cognitive biases. |
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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 Director of the Psychology Clinic |
Psychotherapy process and outcome; enhancing and tailoring empirically supported treatments; access and dissemination of ESTs; child and adolescent psychopathology. |
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Christopher Holden Associate Professor Departmental Honors Director |
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 Assistant Director of the Psychology Clinic |
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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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 Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor of Psychology Psychological Science Program Director |
Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism. |
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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 |
School Mental Health
Universal Screening for Social-Emotional and Behavioral Risk
Intervention for Social-Emotional and Behavioral Risk
Teacher Stress and Burnout
Teacher Self-efficacy
Classroom Management |
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Joe Wang Assistant Professor |
Behavioral Consultation, Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Mixed Method Single Case Design, Prevention |
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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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Stephen White Assistant Professor |
Utilization of preclinical models of anxiety & depression for better understanding the etiopathology of mood disorders and evaluation of novel anxiolytics and antidepressants, understanding the role of gut biota in the development of mood disorders, and animal models of nociception and analgesia |
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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 Professor 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. |