Faculty
Name | Contact | Program | Research Interests |
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Yalcin Acikgoz Assistant Professor |
(828) 262-8926 |
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 |
(828) 262-8929 |
Aggression; media; video games; bullying. |
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Doris Bazzini Professor |
(828) 262-8967 |
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 |
(828) 262-8932 |
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Shawn Bergman Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor |
(828) 262-8933 |
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 |
(828) 262-8934 |
Anxiety disorders; anxiety vulnerability factors; physical exercise; taxometrics. |
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Will Canu Professor |
(828) 262-8935 |
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 Professor |
(828) 262-8936 |
Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, integrated care, social factors and body image. |
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James R. Deni Professor |
(828) 262-8938 |
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 |
(828) 262-8940 |
Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception. |
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Lisa Emery Associate Professor |
(828) 262-8941 |
Developmental psychology; adult development & aging; emotion regulation; memory. |
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Cheryl Fox Senior Lecturer |
(828) 262-9842 |
Educational psychology, applied behavior management/behavior change, adult development and aging. |
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Sandra G. Gagnon Associate Professor |
(828) 262-8944 |
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 |
(828) 262-8945 |
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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Jacqueline Hersh Assistant Professor |
(828) 262-6969 |
Psychotherapy process and outcome; enhancing and tailoring empirically supported treatments; access and dissemination of ESTs; child and adolescent psychopathology. |
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Robert W. Hill Associate Professor |
(828) 262-8947 |
Perfectionism; interpersonal characteristics; self injury; personality; ethics; therapy. |
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Christopher Holden Assistant 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 |
(828) 262-8951 |
Health psychology, women's health, human sexuality, emotion-focused interventions for chronic pain |
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Timothy J. Huelsman IOHRM Program Director Assistant Chair Professor |
(828) 262-8949 |
Organizations; organizational culture; organizational assessment; program evaluation. |
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Hannah Jackson Lecturer |
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John Paul Jameson Professor |
(828) 262-8950 |
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 |
(828) 262-8931 |
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Pamela Kidder-Ashley Professor |
(828) 262-8928 |
Mental health correlates of high school and college bullying, ecological correlates of social competence in preschoolers. |
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Timothy D. Ludwig Professor |
(828) 262-8952 |
Organizational behavior management; behavioral analysis; employee performance; occupational safety. |
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Denise M. Martz Professor |
(828) 262-8953 |
Health psychology & behavioral medicine; fat talk; women's health; obesity & eating disorders; body image & relative size; teen interpersonal violence & bullying; body snarking. |
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Lindsay Masland Associate Professor Director of Transformative Teaching and Learning |
(828) 262-7596 |
college student motivation and engagement, transformative teaching practices for student success, faculty development, equity and belongingness in the college classroom |
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Lynn Mosteller Undergraduate Advising Director Senior Lecturer |
(828) 262-8958 |
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Lucinda O. Payne Senior Lecturer |
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Andrew Smith Professor |
(828) 262-8960 |
Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism. |
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Kenneth M. Steele Professor |
(828) 262-8961 |
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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Douglas A. Waring Associate Professor |
(828) 262-8962 |
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 |
(828) 262-8927 |
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 Experimental Psychology Program Director Associate Professor |
(828) 262-8965 |
Legal/forensic psychology, developmental psychology. |
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Katie Wolsiefer Assistant Professor |
(828) 262-8943 |
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 |
(828) 262-8966 |
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 |
(828) 262-8930 |
Experience, preference, interactive and stimulus-guided behavior, and neural plasticity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research. |