Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Name	Contact	Program	Research Interests
Yalcin Acikgoz Associate 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	Psychological Science	Aggression; media; video games; bullying.
Doris Bazzini Professor	(828) 262-8967 bazzinidg@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	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 Professor	(828) 262-8933 bergmans@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice.
Reagan Breitenstein Asssociate Professor	breitensteinrs@appstate.edu Dr. Breitenstein's Website	Psychological Science	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.
Brooke Burrows Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8194 burrowsbe@appstate.edu Professional Website
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 and Director of Clinical Training Aeschleman Distinguished Professor of Psychology	(828) 262-8936 curtinla@appstate.edu https://clinicalpsychpsyd.appstate.edu/	Clinical	Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, integrated care, social factors and body image.
Chris Dickinson Associate Professor	(828) 262-8940 dickinsonca@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception.
Lauren Disselkoen Undergraduate Internship Coordinator; Lecturer	(828) 262-8931 disselkoenlj@appstate.edu
Lisa Emery Professor	(828) 262-8941 emerylj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Developmental psychology; adult development & aging; emotion regulation; memory.
Sandra G. Gagnon 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	Psychological Science	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.
Ashley Gilliam	(828) 262-8961 gilliaman@appstate.edu		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.
Thomas (Tom) Gross Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8798 grosstj@appstate.edu		• Universal Social/Emotional/Behavioral Assessments and Supports • Program assessment and evaluation for social and academic support of learners • School psychology cultural competency
Jacqueline Hersh Associate Professor Director of the Psychology Clinic	(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.
Christopher Holden Associate Professor Departmental Honors Director	holdencj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	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 Assistant Director of the Psychology Clinic	(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 Professor	(828) 262-8949 huelsmantj@appstate.edu	Industrial-Organizational	Organizations; organizational culture; organizational assessment; program evaluation.
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.
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; Women's health; Fat talk, body image, eating disorders, & obesity; Interpersonal violence & physician's intervention in primary care.
Lindsay Masland Professor Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success (CETLSS)	(828) 262-7596 maslandlc@appstate.edu	CETLSS	college student motivation and engagement, transformative teaching practices for student success, data-based decision-making about teaching, faculty development
Matthew Meier Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8947 meierme@appstate.edu Website		Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory Capacity, Individual Differences, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering
Lynn Mosteller Undergraduate Advising Director Senior Lecturer	(828) 262-8958 mostellerlh@appstate.edu
Angela Napoli Lecturer	(828) 262-8954 napoliar@appstate.edu
Lucinda O. Payne Senior Lecturer	paynesmithlo@appstate.edu
MaryAnn Samad Visiting Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8956 samadm@appstate.edu
Dr. Cassidy Sandoval Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8300 sandovalcm1@appstate.edu		Women’s health Body image (body dissatisfaction, positive body image) Weight stigma Eating behaviors Mobile health assessment and intervention
Thomas Schwartz Lecturer	(828) 262-8928 schwartztw@appstate.edu		Identifying and addressing educational barriers for underrepresented groups
Andrew Smith Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor of Psychology Psychological Science Program Director	(828) 262-8960 smithar3@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.
William Stiles Adjunct Professor	stileswb@appstate.edu	Clinical	Psychotherapy process and outcome; verbal interaction; theory and epistemology.
Crystal Taylor Assistant Professor	taylorcn3@appstate.edu
Joe Wang Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8938 wangjs@appstate.edu		Behavioral Consultation, Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Mixed Method Single Case Design, Prevention
Douglas A. Waring Associate Professor	(828) 262-8962 waringda@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	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	Psychological Science	Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent.
Stephen White Assistant Professor	whitesw@appstate.edu		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
Richard Wilson Senior Lecturer	wilsonrp@appstate.edu
Twila Wingrove Professor Assistant Chair	(828) 262-8965 wingroveta@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Legal/forensic psychology, developmental psychology.
Katie Wolsiefer Assistant Professor	(828) 262-8943 wolsieferkj@appstate.edu Website	Psychological Science	Social Psychology: stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, social cognition, implicit and explicit attitudes, communication of bias (and bias reduction) in healthcare.
Jamie Yarbrough Professor 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 Assistant Chair	(828) 262-8930 zrullmc@appstate.edu	Psychological Science	Experience and evoked neural activity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research.