Student Research Opportunities
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT FACULTY AND
DIRECTED RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY INTERESTS
NAME |
OFFICE |
PHONE |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
| Renee Babcock | SL 228 | 6469 | Cross-cultural differences in the experience of worry among young and older adults, adult age differences in memory and reasoning, use of computers among elderly adults |
| Richard Backs | HP 2180 | 6497 | Psychophysiology of attention and human performance; aging and emotion effects on cognition while driving |
| Terry Beehr | SL 233 | 6466 | Industrial/organizational psychology |
| Sharon Bradley-Johnson | SL 232 | 6480 | Assessment of learning disabilities, assessment of children with physical and/or mental impairments, infant/toddler cognitive assessment and intervention |
| Neil Christiansen | SL 225 | 6495 | Personnel testing and selection, organizational uses of personality inventories. Director - Industrial/Organizational Psychology Graduate Program |
| Stephen Colarelli | SL 235 | 6483 | Evolutionary psychology and the application of evolutionary psychology to industrial and organizational psychology |
| Gary Dunbar | HP 2182 | 3282 | Behavioral neuroscience, recovery of function after brain damage, use of stromal stem cells and pharmacological interventions as treatments for brain damage and neurodegeneration. Director -Neuroscience Program, Neuroscience Advisor, CNS Advisor |
| Rachel Foster-Lifson | SL 220 | 6475 | Self-concept, psychology of women, religion, social cognition |
| Bryan Gibson | SL 230 | 4404 | Self presentation, consumer attitudes, gambling |
| Simone Grebner | SL 203 | 6282 | Job stress, physiological stress responses, coping, occupational success, training |
| Kyunghee Han | SL 103 | 6496 | Scientific study of culture, quantitative methods for evaluating the cross-cultural equivalence of psychological tests, psychological test/scale development and evaluation |
| Timothy Hartshorne | SL 215 | 6479 | Behavior difficulties in CHARGE Syndrome, parent-professional relationships, and effectiveness of therapeutic interventions SASP Advisor |
| Mike Hixson | SL 224 | 6462 | Curriculum-based measurement, reading, direct instruction, precision teaching, applied behavior analysis, behavior development. |
| Susan Jacob | SL 104 | 6477 | School psychology, law and ethics, sexual minority youth |
| Mel Jaffa | SL 201 | 6478 | Attitudes, interpersonal behavior, emotionality and arousal, personality, obesity; cigarette smoking |
| Carl Johnson | SL 234 | 6493 | Behavior analysis and therapy, organizational behavior management, behavioral medicine |
| Elizabeth Meadows | SL 209 | 6499 | Assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, responses to trauma, prevention of psychopathology, and the interactions between psychological and medical problems |
| John Monahan | SL 212 | 6491 | Visual perception and attention, Stroop effect, gender differences in spatial perception |
| Sandra Morgan | SL 222 | 6484 | Reading instruction, academic and behavioral interventions in general education, infant feeding and sleeping. Director - School Psychology Graduate Program. |
| Larissa Niec | SL 204 | 6471 | Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, young children with disruptive behavior disorders, children's interpersonal functioning, child maltreatment |
| Justin Oh-Lee | HP 2181 | 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 | SL 101B | 6494 | Human memory and cognition, metamemory, hypermnesia, aging and memory. Chair of the Psychology Department, Director - Life-span Development Research Center |
| Debra Poole | SL 231 | 4349 | Child development and social policy; e.g., eyewitness memory |
| Stuart Quirk | SL 137 | 6486 | Emotional response in personality and other disorders. Personality assessment |
| Mark Reilly | HP 2177 | 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 | SL 138 | 6468 | Academic, behavioral, and social/emotional interventions, curriculum based measurement and single-subject design research |
| Donna Ronan | HP 2105 | 2284 | Addictive disorders, health behaviors, gender issues Director - Psychological Training and Consultation Center |
| George Ronan | SL 202 | 6476 | Personal problem solving, treatment/evaluation of violent offenders and victims of violence |
| Michael Sandstrom | HP 2179 | 2881 | Brain plasticity, compensatory neuronal activity, and behavior associated with deteriorative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s using animal models. Neuroscience Advisor |
| Sonya Sheffert | SL 214 | 6473 | Spoken language processing, cognition, human memory, multimodal learning, speaker recognition. Director - Undergraduate Program |
| Reid Skeel | SL 136 | 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 | SL 205 | 6498 | Cognitive and psychosocial aspects of interpersonal relationships; development and cultural influences on parent-child relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships. Psi Chi Advisor |
| Stephen Wagner | SL 206 | 6490 | Work-related attitudes, the psychology of employee ownership, group dynamics in organizations. IOPA Advisor |
| Nathan Weed | SL 227 | 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 of test response set; MMPI scale development and validation |