Faculty Research Interests
David
F. Patton Barone
- History of psychology
- Integrations of personality/social psychology and psychological practice
Raymond
M. Bergner
- Descriptive psychology
- Clinically useful conceptualizations of psychopathologies
- Psychotherapy
- Research on love and sexuality
- Psychotherapy integration
John
F. Binning
- Assessing person-job personality fit
- Affective determinants of voluntary employee turnover
- Factors affecting the employment interview process
- Conceptual and technical requirements for test validation
- Personnel selection and training methodologies
Gregory
S. Braswell
- Cultural contexts of cognitive development
- Effects of parental beliefs and interactions on children
Salvatore
J. Catanzaro
- Dynamics of mood states and mood regulation
- Stress, coping, and health across the life span
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior
- Measurement of personality and psychopathology
- Cognitive-social learning theories of personality
Gary
L. Cates
- Prevention and remediation of academic skills deficits
- Applied behavior analysis in educational settings
- Behavioral consultation
- Curriculum based assessment/measurement
- Assessment and treatment of child psychopathology
Gary
L. Creasey
- Attachment
- Intimacy and romantic relationships
- Relationships and school competence
- Family influences on development
- Emotional regulation
Thomas
S. Critchfield
- Human learning
- Choice and decision
- Stimulus class formation and concept learning
- Theories of punishment and negative reinforcement
- Small-N research method
J.
Cooper Cutting
- Psycholinguistics
- Language production
- Quantitative methods in psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Figurative language
Eros
R. DeSouza
- Community psychology and applied social psychology
- Gender roles and sexual orientation
- Social action/social change
- Sexual harassment
- Personality and culture (cross-cultural research)
Karla
J. Doepke
- Treatment outcome research with children
- Autism
- Child eyewitness testimony
Donna Eisenstadt
- Self and social identity
- Prejudice and prejudice reduction
- Psychology and law
Valeri
A. Farmer-Dougan
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Disequilibrium models of reinforcement
- Neurobiology of reinforcement
- Developmental disabilities
Paul
A. Garris
- Parkinson's disease
- Stroke
- Social-sexual behavior
- Mechanisms of psychostimulant action
- Dopamine neurotransmission
Byron
A. Heidenreich
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Neuropsychopharmacology of monoamine neurotransmitters
- Neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse and psychotherapeutic medications
- Extracellular electrophysiology
- Anatomical techniques including immunocytochemistry
Matthew
S. Hesson-McInnis
- Covariance structure modeling/factor analysis
- Sexual harassment and sexual orientation
- HIV prevention with women at risk
- Adult/adolescent attachment styles and conflict resolution
- Multiple inference models of attributions in social cognition
Kathryn
E. Hoff
- Interventions to improve social and behavioral outcomes
- Peer relations
- Parent training
Alvin
E. House
- Asperger's syndrome
- Executive functions in children
- Mood disorders in children
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Postive psychology
Alycia
M. Hund
- Development of location memory processes
- Spatial cognition
- Memory and categorization
- Cognitive flexibility
- Cognitive development
Patricia
A. Jarvis
- Life span social development
- Parent-adolescent/child social interactions and parenting
- Relationships between stress, coping, and attachment: Parents
and children/adolescents
- School and work transitions: Adolescents' stressors and coping
strategies
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
J.
Scott Jordan
- Perception and action
- Spatial perception
- Consciousness
Jeffrey
H. Kahn
- Emotional expression and emotion regulation
- Self-disclosure and well-being
- Professional help seeking behaviors
- Scientific training in applied psychology
- Social-cognitive models of educational and career outcomes
Steven
E. Landau
- Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Children's disturbed peer relations
Michael R. Leippe
- Social influence/persuasion
- Attitudes
- Psychology and law
- Eyewitness behavior
- Prejudice
Dawn
M. McBride
- Prospective memory
- Implicit/automatic memory
- False memory
- Explanations of the picture superiority effect
- Forgetting
Adena
B. Meyers
- Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood
- Child maltreatment
- Family, community, and school-based interventions
- Graduate training in psychology
Margaret
M. Nauta
- Career development
- Women's vocational experiences
- Educational retention and persistence
- Role model influences
- Family-work conflict
Karen
S. Pfost
- Predictors of bulimia nervosa
- Correlates of psychological virtues
- Substance abuse
- Gender roles and feminist issues
- Personality assessment
John
B. Pryor
- Social cognition
- Sexuality
- Attitudes
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stigma
Glenn
D. Reeder
- Perceiving the motives of other people
- Impression formation and attribution processes
- Prejudice and stigma related to mental illness
Marla
J. Reese-Weber
- Sibling and dating violence
- Adolescent development
- Development of conflict resolution skills
- Family processes
- Romantic relationships during adolescence
Rocío
Rivadeneyra
- Media influences on adolescents' self-concept, achievement, and attitudes
- Media portrayals of ethnic, racial, and gender stereotypes
- Role of media on adolescent sexuality
- Role of stereotypes on the academic achievement and motivation of minority youth
- Latino/Latina youth
Kimberly
T. Schneider
- Sexual and ethnic harassment
- Job stress
- Organizational climate and culture
- Organizational withdrawal
- Job attitudes and job behaviors
W.
Joel Schneider
- Cognitive abilities
- Personality assessment
- Marital and family processes
Susan
K. Sprecher
- Compassionate love
- Mediators of attraction
- College students' sexuality
- Social network influence on romantic relationships
Michael
J. Stevens
- International psychology
- Behavioral medicine
- Existential psychology
- MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
- Substance misuse
Mark
E. Swerdlik
- Alternative service delivery systems/response to intervention (Rti)
- Reintegration of combat veterans: Impact on children and families
- Psychological assessment
- Student support teams/interdisciplinary team functioning
- School law as it relates to special education
Renée
M. Tobin
- Emotion regulation
- Personality and social development
- Interpersonal relationships
- Linking research to practice
Jeffrey
B. Wagman
- Perception-action; ecological psychology
- Haptic perception and tool use
- Perceptual learning
- Perception of affordances
Corinne
Zimmerman
- Development of scientific reasoning
- Scientific literacy
- Students' understanding of scientific concepts
- Assessment in science
