Psychology Faculty

Social, interpersonal attraction, close relationships, social perception and cognition, emotion.

Eugene Borgida

Social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, political psychology.

Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

Individual differences, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology assessment, mental abilities, twin and adoption research.

Dwight Burkhardt

Vision and neuroscience, function of retinal neurons, human psychophysics.

John Campbell

Industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, performance modeling, prediction and selection models, decision-making processes, industrial training and development.

Bruce Cuthbert

Psychophysiology, emotion, temperament, mood and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, diagnostic issues in internalizing disorders.

Colin DeYoung

Stephen Engel

Cognitive neuroscience of human vision, combining functional MRI and behavioral data: perceptual learning, visual adaptation, color vision.

Christopher Federico

Political psychology; intergroup relations and racial attitudes; the psychology of legitimacy; political expertise.

Charles R. Fletcher

Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension.

Patricia A. Frazier

Counseling and social, coping with traumatic life events; PTSD and posttraumatic growth; perceptions of control over traumatic events.

Jonathan Gewirtz

Neural substrates of memory, negative affect, and drug dependency.

Marti Hope Gonzales

Applied social psychology, impression management and self-presentation, accountability, political psychology, medical compliance.

William Grove

Classification and behavior genetics of psychoses, numerical taxonomy, personality disorders, clinical vs. statistical prediction, assessment and forensic psychology.

Jo-Ida C. Hansen

Counseling, vocational interest measurement and inventory construction, career development, cross-cultural interest measurement, leisure.

Sheng He

Human vision and attention, visual awareness, cognitive neuroscience.

William G. Iacono

Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological makers of schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and development of psychopathology, lie detection.

Research on the perception, attention, and memory of visual input using behavioral testing and functional brain imaging.

Daniel J. Kersten

Cognitive neuroscience, human vision, computational vision, neuroimaging, visual psychophysics.

Wilma Koutstaal

Human memory and judgment; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; aging.

Robert Krueger

Clinical and personality psychology, personality disorders, behavior genetics, classification of mental disorders, quantitative methods.

Nathan Kuncel

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Structure and prediction of performance in academic and work settings.

Richard M. Lee

Counseling psychology; ethnic minority mental health; cultural socialization, acculturation, and ethnic identity; transracial adoption; social connectednes.

Gordon Legge

Cognitive and biological, human visual perception, cognitive science.

Monica Luciana

Neurochemical (dopaminergic and serotonergic) modulation of functions of the human prefrontal cortex; neurodevelopment of executive functions in adolescence using behavioral, molecular genetic and neuroimaging techniques.

Angus MacDonald, III

Basic cognitive and affective neuroscience using fMRI, the neural and genetic bases of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, and the psychometrics of measuring group differences.

Traci Mann

Health behavior change, particularly in the context of eating, dieting, and obesity; Self-control; Stress and eating; Predictors of eating in everyday life.

Chad J. Marsolek

Human memory, vision, learning, and how they are modulated by emotional and social factors. Cognitive neuroscience.

Matthew McGue

Behavior genetics, individual differences, quantitative psychology, aging, substance abuse.

Cheryl Olman

Biological basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging; modulation of low level visual responses by scene perception.

Deniz Ones

Personnel selection and classification, personality assessment and research, meta analysis, cross-cultural research.

J. Bruce Overmier

Cognitive and biological: stress, conditioning, learning, and memory in animals and humans, and their biological mechanisms.

Andrew J. Oxenham

Auditory perception and cognition; computational models of hearing; hearing impairment and cochlear implants.

Christopher J. Patrick

Emotion; temperament; psychopathy and criminal behavior; cognitive-emotional effects of alcohol and drugs; pathological fear and anxiety; coping; detection of deception.

Gail Peterson

Radical Behaviorism; experimental and applied behavior analysis; general behavior theory.

Joe Rausch

Measurement and analysis of change, psychometrics, measurement invariance, P-technique, dynamic factor analysis, latent curve models.

Alexander J. Rothman

Social, judgment and decision-making, health beliefs and health behavior, persuasion, cognition and emotion, stereotyping, research methodology.

Paul Sackett

Personnel decision making, job performance, counterproductive behavior in the workplace, managerial potential.

Paul Schrater

Statistical pattern recognition, human and computer vision, multi-modal sensory integration and motor control.

Jeffry A. Simpson

Social, interpersonal relationships, attachment, evolution and social behavior, personality and social behavior, social influence.

Mark Snyder

Social, social perception and interpersonal behavior, the self and social relationships, self-monitoring processes, social influence and attitude change, personality and social interaction, social and psychological aspects of volunteerism.

Mark Thomas

Neurobiology of drug-induced plasticity and addiction, behavioral neuroscience, transgenic mice, cellular electrophysiology.

Neal Viemeister

Auditory perception, psychophysics, models of perceptual processes.

Niels Waller

Quantitative models of individual differences, psychometrics, factor analysis, taxometrics, item response theory.

David J. Weiss

Psychometric methods, counseling, computerized adaptive testing, latent trait measurement theory.

James Butcher

Personality assessment, cross-cultural psychology.

René V. Dawis

Counseling, individual differences, industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, work adjustment, vocational assessment, vocational counseling, measurement of abilities, values, and work personality.

Norman Garmezy

Clinical, personality, developmental psychopathology, stressors of childhood, stress resistance and resilience in desadvantaged children and adolescents.

Irving Gottesman

Genetics of psychopathology and schizophrenia.

Gloria R. Leon

Personality, stress and coping in extreme environments, psychosocial aspects in disaster response and management, psychosocial factors in space missions, thermal control of astronaut status.

Warren W. Roberts

Experimental, physiological.

Auke Tellegen

Personality research and assessment, clinical.