Research Opportunities

Name	Office	Phone	Research Interest
David Acevedo-Polakovich	SL230	4404	Applied Youth Development, Cultural Competence in Service Organizations, Community Psychology.
Jane Ashby	SL137	6473	Cognitive processes situated at the intersection of reading, speech, and vision by recording eye movements and brain electrical potentials.
Richard Backs	HP2180	6497	Psychophysiology of attention and human performance; aging and emotion effects on cognition while driving.
Terry Beehr	SL223	6466	Industrial/organizational psychology
Sharon Bradley-Johnson	SL232	6480	Assessment of learning disabilities, assessment of children with physical and/or mental impairments, infant/toddler cognitive assessment and intervention.
Neil Christiansen	SL225	6495	Personnel testing and selection, organizational uses of personality in inventories. Director-Industrial/Organizational Psychology Graduate Program
Stephen Colarelli	SL235	6483	Evolutionary psychology and the application of evolutionary psychology to industrial and organizational psychology.
Gary Dunbar	HP2182	3282	Behavioral neuroscience, recovery of function after brain damage, use of stromal cells and pharmacological interventions as treatments for brain damage and neurodegeneration. Director-Neuroscience Program, Neuroscience Advisor, CNS Advisor
Rachel Foster-Lifson	SL220	6475	Self-concept, psychology of women, religion, social cognition.
Bryan Gibson	SL213	6487	Self presentation, consumer attitudes, gambling.
Kyunghee Han	SL103	6496	Scientific study of culture, quantitative methods for evaluating the cross-cultural equivalence of psychological tests, psychological test/scale development and evaluation.
Timothy Hartshorne	SL215	6479	Behavior difficulties in CHARGE syndrome, parent-professional relationships, and the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. SASP Advisor
Mike Hixson	SL224	6462	Curriculum-based measurement, reading, direct instruction, precision teaching, applied behavior analysis, behavior development.
Susan Jacob	SL104	6477	School psychology, law and ethics, sexual minority youth.
Mel Jaffa	SL201	6478	Attitudes, interpersonal behavior, emotionality and arousal, personality, obesity, cigarette smoking
Carl Johnson	SL234	6493	Behavior analysis and therapy, organizational behavior management, behavioral pediatrics
Jessica Marcon	SL 229	6490	Cognitive/social psychology related to the identification of fingerprints & own - and other - race faces, memory, social influence, and legal psychology.
Elizabeth Meadows	SL209	6499	Assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, responses to trauma, prevention of psychopathology, and the interactions between psychological and medical problems.
John Monahan	SL212	6491	Visual perception and attention, Stroop effect, gender differences in spatial perception
Sandra Morgan	SL222	6484	Reading instruction, academic and behavioral interventions in general education, infant feeding and sleeping. Director-School Psychology Graduate Program
Larissa Niec	SL204	6471	Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, young children with disruptive behavior disorders, children's interpersonal functioning, child maltreatment
Justin Oh-Lee	HP2181	6481	Behavioral neuroscience, behavioral-pharmacological evaluation and therapy in Parkinson's disease, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. APSSC Advisor, Neuroscience Advisor
Hajime Otani	SL101B	6494	Human memory and cognition, metamemory, hypermnesia, aging and memory. Chair of the Psychology Department, Director-Life-span Development Research Center
Debra Poole	SL231	4349	Child development and social policy; e.g.; eyewitness memory
Stuart Quirk	SL137	6486	Emotional response in personality and other disorders. Personality assessment.

Mark Reilly	HP2177	2343	Experimental analysis of behavior, operant/respondent conditioning, animal learning, quantitative models, behavioral pharmacology, substance abuse. Director-Experimental Psychology Graduate Program. Neuroscience Advisor
Katrina Rhymer	SL138	6468	Academic, behavioral, and social/emotional interventions, curriculum based measurement and single-subject design research
Donna Ronan	HP2105	2284	Addictive disorders, health behaviors, gender issues. Director-Psychological Training and Consultation Center
George Ronan	SL202	6476	Assessment of personal problem solving and treatment/evaluation of violent offenders.
Michael Sandstrom	HP2179	2881	Elucidation of the compensatory mechanisms underlying early corrective action within the nervous system associated with deteriorative diseases. Developing therapeutic strategies to combat early aspects of deteriorative brain disease. Neuroscience Advisor
Reid Skeel	SL136	6485	Ecological validity of neuropsychological assessment. Cognition and medication adherence. Influence of affective variables on cognitive performance. Decision-making and risk-taking. Malingering. Director- Clinical Graduate Program, CSA Advisor
Roger Van Horn	SL205	6498	Cognitive and psychosocial aspects of interpersonal relationships; development and cultural influences on parent-child relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships. Psi Chi Advisor
Nathan Weed	SL227	6482	Assessment of personality and psychopathology; use of q-sort methodology to validate personality test inferences; item subtlety in test construction; detection, correction, and statistical suppression.