PBS faculty and their trainees conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and are recognized as world-class contributors to their fields. In addition, we have numerous faculty and teaching assistants who have been recognized for excellence in mentoring and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. All of these efforts are supported by the outstanding staff and students who are key to the success of our department.

Most members of our department are present in this directory, which can be filtered by Research Areas, Center and Institute Affiliations, and/or Positions. To see groups of researchers with similar interests, regardless of their research areas, try entering relevant search terms below.

Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 North N201
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Icek Aizen
Professor Emeritus
Attitudes, intentions, and behavior; behavior change
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Tobin 513
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Sr Research Fellow
Office: Morrill 1 N233
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Dan Anderson
Professor Emeritus
Office: Bartlett Hall 85
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
David Arnold
Professor Emeritus
I have retired
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Lori Astheimer
Senior Lecturer
My research uses neuroimaging techniques to explore the relationship between attention and language processing across the life span.
Office: Tobin 539
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Culture, morality, historical psychology, cultural evolution, and computational text analysis.
Office: Tobin 636
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Office: Bartlett Hall 69
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Office: Bartlett Hall 75
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 418
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 601
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 515
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 407
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Associate Professor
Our lab focuses on understanding circuit functions for social behavior and social recognition throughout life.
Office: LSL N229
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Joseph Bergman
Shop Supervisor
Office: Tobin 111
Neil Berthier
Professor Emeritus
Vision and attention in reaching; motor learning; manual search in toddlers; working memory and executive function in support of search.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 417
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in PBS is teaching large, small, and online undergraduate courses. I am a personality and social psychologist by training.
Office: Tobin 631
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Zachary Bivins
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 601
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Jeffrey Blaustein
Professor Emeritus, Alumnus
We studied the effects and mechanisms of action of steroid hormones on the brain and behavior, as well as the effects of environmental and pubertal influences on those effects.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Professor Emeritus
Teaching of undergraduate statistics, Western philosophical and Eastern mystical approaches to Consciousness. Putting the finishing touches on a text titled Introductory Statistics Using R.
Office: Bartlett Hall 81
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 633
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Brooke Burrows
Graduate Student
Research interests include international justice mechanisms, reconciliation processes, how the human rights framework impacts conflict resolution, and understanding conflict
Office: Tobin 624
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Post-doc
Research interests include: Sleep and memory consolidation across development and environmental influences on sleep in early childhood.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Sheldon Cashdan
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Carolyn Cave
Undergraduate Advisor, Scheduling Representative
Office: Tobin 510
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Professor
I study various aspects of visual cognition, focusing on visual attention, visual search, and the interference between targets and distractors in complex visual scenes.
Office: Tobin 432
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Speech perception; Cognitive neuroscience of language
Office: Tobin 518
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Erik Cheries
Senior Lecturer, Honors Program Director
Early conceptual development; Infants' understanding of objects, agents, and the socio-moral behavior of other people.
Office: Tobin 538
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Morrill 1 N233
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology
Graduate Student
suicide prevention; social processes; health equity
Office: Tobin 601
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 420
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Chuck Clifton
Professor Emeritus
I was on the UMass faculty from 1968 until 2008, primarily doing research on sentence comprehension, both reading and listening.
Office: Bartlett 71
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Andrew Cohen
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and computational modeling.
Office: Tobin 427
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Candice Colon-Kwedor
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Bartlett Hall 07C
Michael Constantino
Professor
Psychotherapy process, outcome, integration, implementation; patient, therapist, relational factors; patient-centered, measurement-based care; psychotherapy training; adult depression, anxiety
Office: Tobin 612
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 517
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 North N201
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 528
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Financial Manager (CRF)
Office: Tobin 622
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 408
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Office Manager (PSC)
Office: Tobin 123
Marv Daehler
Professor Emeritus
Office: Bartlett Hall 77
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Provost Professor
Prejudice and stereotyping; implicit social cognition; self-concept, STEM education.
Office: Tobin 635
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Senior Academic Advisor
Office: Tobin 502
Matt Davidson
Lecturer
My teaching interests include the development of cognitive control and executive functions, and the factors that influence mechanisms underlying these abilities in both typical and atypical cases.
Office: Tobin 416
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Carolyn Davies
Lecturer
Office: Tobin 536
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor
Self-Regulation; Child/Adolescent Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development; Parenting and Adult Development; Developmental Psychopathology; Individual Differences
Office: Tobin 413 (on sabbatical, 2023-2024)
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 602
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
intergroup relations, status inequalities, prejudice reduction, perspective taking, empathy, peace and reconciliation, social change
Office: Tobin 634
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 519
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Suicide and self-damaging behaviors, interpersonal-emotional processes, minority stress, emotion regulation
Office: Tobin 620
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Associate Professor
Office: Tobin 617
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 420
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
International Exchange Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Jen Dolan
Program Manager, Rudd Adoption Research Program
Office: Tobin 516
John W. Donahoe
Professor Emeritus
Basic condititioning research and associated neural processes, implications of basic processes for complex behavior, biobehaviorally constrained neural-network simulations
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Laurie Dove
Assistant to the Director of Advising
Office: Tobin 509
Graduate Student
I study how circadian rhythms affect metabolism at the organismal level and cellular level, such as how circadian disruption-induces weight gain and how astrocytes and neurons share metabolites
Office: Morrill IV North N225
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor
I study deception and honesty as social presentational strategies in everyday life, as well as examining the factors that underlie and promote academic success in college students.
Office: Whitmore 301
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 407
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 642
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Kate Fite
Professor Emerita
Visual Neuroscience and Comparative Neuroanatomy
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Administrative Assistant
Graduate Student
Interested in the study of the neuronal mechanisms of maladaptive reward and stress behaviors that induce pathological conditions such as drug addiction and eating disorders.
Office: Morrill IV North N201
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 417
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Research Fellow
Office: Tobin 301E
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Psychotherapy process, outcome, and integration; therapist effects; psychotherapy training; mental health care disparities; measurement-based care; patient-centered research; common factors; consensus
Office: Tobin 602
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Shannon Gair
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Maria M. Galano
Assistant Professor
Early-life Exposure to Trauma and Violence; Developmental Psychopathology of PTSD; Culture and Mental Health; Intervention Adaptation and Evaluation
Office: Tobin 615
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Research Fellow
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Business Manager
Office: Tobin 440
Nicole Gervais
Post-doc
Research interests: learning and memory, behavioral neuroendocrinology, aging and cognition
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 602
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
amazing person; black researcher
Graduate Student
race; racism; social cognition; privilege; racial identity; mixed race Black children
Office: Tobin 418
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Adam Grabell
Associate Professor
Early childhood psychopathology; normative vs. impaired emotion regulation; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; pediatric irritability; early childhood therapeutic interventions
Office: Tobin 614
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
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Professor Emeritus, Rudd Family Foundation Chair
Research focuses on relationships in adoptive families across time, openness in adoption, and on identity development and adjustment in adolescents and young adults.
Office: Tobin 619
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Rosa Guerra
Bookkeeping
Office: Tobin 440
Diego Guerrero Lopez
Graduate Student
I am Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. student in the Developmental Science Program. I am interested in the relationship between internal numerical representations and symbolic representations of number.
Office: Tobin 420
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Professor Emeritus
Issues in clinical training and supervision; psychotherapy integration; ethical issues in professional psychology; teaching of psychology; psychology and sports
Office: Tobin 532
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Senior Lecturer
Office: Tobin 529
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
mobile technology implications; parenting; early academic interventions
Office: Tobin 417
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Professor Emerita
Early development of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders in preschool children and toddlers. Interests include executive function, emotion regulation, parenting, and culture.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Christina Hogan
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Graduate Student
Reasoning, judgment, and decision-making
Office: Tobin 517
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Tobin 530
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Spaulding-Smith Fellow
Office: Tobin 642
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Technical Specialist
Office: Tobin 111
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 407
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
psycholinguistics; sentence processing (reading); computational psych/ling
Office: Tobin 426
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 629
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Linda Isbell
Feldman-Vorwerk Family Professor in Social Psychology
Affect and cognition; social cognition; stigma and mental illness; emotions and medical decision-making; diagnostic error in medicine
Office: Tobin 630
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Professor Emerita
Moral psychology; political psychology; social justice; social cognition.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Alexandra Jesse
Associate Professor
My research focuses on speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception.
Office: Tobin 433
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Apolipoprotein E4, Emotion Regulation, Alzheimer's Disease, fMRI
Office: Tobin 602
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Office: Morrill 4 North N216
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
My current research focuses on the association between specific deficits in impulsivity and risk-taking behavior in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 624
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Senior Research Fellow; Adjunct Visiting Asst. Professor
Office: LSL N235
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Elizabeth Kohler
Alumni, Lecturer (Retired)
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 624
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Associate Professor
Reward-based learning and decision making; Motor learning and performance; Developmental changes in adolescence; fMRI; EEG; EMG; eye tracking; hormone assays.
Office: Tobin 411
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
Cognitive aging in nonhuman primates, with particular interest in Alzheimer's disease, sex steroids and women's cognitive health
Office: Morrill 4 North N204
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Emotion regulation, Coping strategies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Office: Tobin 620
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Holly Laws
Senior Lecturer, Director of Methodology (CRF), Alumni
Office: Tobin 616
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 602
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 418
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Bernhard Leidner
Professor
After a PhD in social psychology at The New School for Social Research and a postdoc at the University of California at Davis, I joined UMass's Psychology of Peace and Violence Program in 2011.
Office: Tobin 639
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Professor
Emotion, social cognition; intergroup relations, societal conflict and cooperation.
Office: Tobin 632
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Gisele Litalien
Associate Director (CRF)
Office: Tobin 608
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Alumni
Office: Tobin 638
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Marian MacDonald
Professor Emerita
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 626
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Assistant Professor
Development of social cognition across human and nonhuman primates; cognitive bias; intergroup relations; race, gender, social status; stress and resilience
Office: Tobin 412
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Director of Psychological Services Center, Professor of Practice
Dr. Martell's scholarly activity has focused on the development of behavioral activation in the treatment of depression and on applying affirmative CBT with LGBT individuals.
Office: Tobin 137
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Administrative Assistant (PSC)
Office: Tobin 123
Ellanjé Martin
Events & Communications Manager (CRF)
Office: Tobin 622
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Graduate Student
Research Interests: memory, aging, visual perception
Office: Tobin 519
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Jennifer M McDermott
Associate Professor
Learning and the development of attention and executive functions across early to middle childhood; self regulation, emotion processing, and the influence of early adversity on development; EEG; ERP.
Office: Tobin 618
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Michael McDermott
Facilities Operation Manager, Website Administrator
Office: Tobin 606
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 642
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Assistant Professor
Close relationships and health across sociocultural contexts; Discrimination and health in ethnic minority and immigrant children and adolescents.
Office: Tobin 410
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science, Social Psychology
Christina Metevier
Associate Provost for Academic Programs at the Mount Ida Campus, Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in the department is teaching and advising. My background is in neuroscience and behavior.
Office: Tobin 527
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Jerry Meyer
Professor Emeritus
Office: Tobin 526
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 420
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Cellular and network mechanisms of motivation, learning, and executive functions. Psychiatric diseases resulting from disruption of these neural systems.
Office: Morrill 4 North N208
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
intergroup conflict, prejudice, intergroup contact, contact through music/arts
Office: Tobin 627
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Professor Emerita
Research interests focused on the development of memory and cognition in infants, toddlers, and preschool children.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Jerome Myers
Professor Emeritus
No longer actively engaged in cognitive research but still working on issues in statistical analysis, currently focusing on mixed-effect models of data analysis.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 518
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 North N201
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 514
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Professor Emerita
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Aging, memory and emotion regulation, fMRI, neuropsychological markers of MCI and Alzheimer's Disease
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Associate Professor and Honors Faculty
Cognitive, neural (fMRI/EEG), and developmental mechanisms underlying the acquisition and emergence of uniquely human and culturally-transmitted abilities such as reading and mathematics.
Office: Tobin 414
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 North N225
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Flexibility and Plasticity in Maternal Brain Circuitry across Postpartum
Office: Morrill 4 North N214
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Morrill 1 N233
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Anastasia Perris
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 519
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Professor, Department Chair
Office: Tobin 611
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Paula Pietromonaco
Professor Emerita
Close relationships, emotion; social cognition, health, gender.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Sally Powers
Professor Emerita
As a developmental psychopathologist, my research examines the interaction of neuroendocrine, social, and psychological factors in depression and anxiety disorders throughout the human life span.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Associate Chair of Teaching and Advising
Office: Tobin 537
Grant Facilitator, Bookkeeping, Purchasing
Office: Tobin 441
Rebecca Ready
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Dr. Ready earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Univ of Iowa. Internship and clinical neuropsychology fellowship were at Brown Univ. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Office: Tobin 609
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Allecia Reid
Associate Professor
Influences of social factors, including peers and stigma, on health behaviors and outcomes. Improving health promotion interventions.
Office: Tobin 628
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Luke Remage-Healey
Professor
We study hormone action and production in brain circuits using a variety of approaches.
Office: Morrill 4 North N212
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 515
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Heather Richardson
Professor
Office: Morrill 4 North N206
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Morrill 1 N231
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 530
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Professor Emerita
Recognition memory and reasoning. Research tools include signal detection analyses and event-related potentials. I am not accepting new students.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Christina Rowley
Graduate Student
Office: On Internship
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Currently, my research interests lie primarily in how statistics anxiety develops within introductory statistics courses.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor, Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Neurocognitive research on basic auditory perception, speech perception, and selective attention with the goal of helping listeners (including children and older adults) understand speech in noise.
Office: Tobin 415
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 North N225
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Tejas Savalia
Graduate Student
Tejas received his MS in CSE from IIIT Hyderabad. He is interested in developing computational models using Machine Learning techniques to explain neural functions.
Office: Tobin 519
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Aline Sayer
Lecturer (Retired)
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
David Scherer
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Senior Academic Advisor
Office: Tobin 503
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 629
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher
I study how hormones affect the brain and social behavior in animals.
Office: Morrill 1 N231
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 626
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor
Physiology and cognitive functions of sleep in development and aging; learning and memory; sleep (polysomnography); activity monitoring (actigraphy).
Office: Tobin 419
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
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Postdoctoral Researcher
I study auditory systems neuroscience and social behavior in songbirds.
Office: Morrill 1 N233
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
I am currently interested in the relationships between physical activity and sleep/cognition in early childhood and preadolescence.
Office: Tobin 530
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Professor
I explore human memory as it unfolds in time by applying computational models that predict both accuracy and response time data. I also investigate methods for improving statistical reasoning.
Office: Tobin 434
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Adrian Staub
Professor
Psycholinguistics, including lexical and syntactic processing in comprehension; eye movements in reading.
Office: Tobin 430
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
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Professor Emeritus
Group violence, mass killing, genocide; post-conflict healing and reconciliation; bystanders; youth violence; raising altruistic children.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Rebecca Stowe
Senior Lecturer, Alumni
Office: Tobin 139
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Bonnie Strickland
Professor Emerita
Internal versus External locus of control. Gender differences in health. Women and Depression.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Morrill 4 S368
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
I am interested in studying how children understand their social worlds, including group hierarchy and group identities. I am passionate about working with people from different cultural contexts.
Office: Tobin 408
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Building Coordinator, Interim Compliance Administrator
Office: Tobin 401
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Professor
Prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, status inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination, collective action, social change, peace and reconciliation.
Office: Tobin 637
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Departmental Assistant
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 513
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 620
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 517
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Black maternal health, perinatal mental health, postpartum depression, risk, resilience
Office: Tobin 620
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 408
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Elinor Waite
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Graduat Student
Office: Tobin 515
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Dongwei Wang
Data Manager, Rudd Adoption Research Project
Office: Tobin 623
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Arnold Well
Professor Emeritus
Cognition, cognitive neuroscience, statistical reasoning and analysis.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 620
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Susan Whitbourne
Professor Emerita
Personality and cognitive processes thru adulthood. Projects include a longitudinal study of personality from college thru retirement and the Age Friendly University.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Laura Wildman-Hanlon
Assistant to the Chair, Office Manager
Office: Tobin 438
Lecturer
Office: Tobin 535
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Ashley Woodman
Senior Lecturer, Program Director DDHS
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families
Office: Tobin 409
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Graduate Student
My current research interests focus on nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and other maladaptive emotion regulation strategies.
Office: Tobin 603
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Evan Yeadon
Communications Coordinator
Office: Tobin 436
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Director of Finance and Operations
Office: Tobin 437
Graduate Student
Office: Tobin 629
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Graduate Student
I am fascinated by language processing in the brain. My research focuses on Chinese visual character/word recognition, spoken word identification, as well as audtiory-visual speech perception.
Office: Tobin 518
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience