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Faculty
Name		Interests	Contact
	Eugene Borgida Professor of Psychology and Law	Social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, political psychology.	borgi001@umn.edu N387 Elliott Hall 612-625-3381
	Thomas Brothen Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology	The use of course management systems and other technology to improve post-secondary student learning; teaching of psychology; history of psychology and educational interventions.	broth001@umn.edu N315 Elliott Hall 612-624-6498
	John Campbell Professor	Industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, performance modeling, prediction and selection models, decision-making processes, industrial training and development.	campb006@umn.edu N478 Elliott Hall 612-625-9351
	Colin DeYoung Associate Professor	Personality structure, biological basis of personality traits, cognitive abilities, impulsivity and antisocial behavior.	cdeyoung@umn.edu N422 Elliott Hall 612-624-1619
	Stephen Engel Professor	Cognitive neuroscience of human vision, combining functional MRI and behavioral data: perceptual learning, visual adaptation, color vision.	engel@umn.edu S249 Elliott Hall 612-625-5571
	Christopher Federico Associate Professor of Psychology and Political Science	Political psychology; intergroup relations and racial attitudes; the psychology of legitimacy; political expertise.	federico@umn.edu N385 Elliott Hall 612-626-0560
	Charles R. (Randy) Fletcher Associate Professor and Area Director	Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension.	fletc002@umn.edu S255 Elliott Hall 612-625-6096
	Patricia A. Frazier Professor	Counseling and social, coping with traumatic life events; PTSD and posttraumatic growth; perceptions of control over traumatic events.	pfraz@umn.edu N571 Elliott Hall 612-625-6863
	Jonathan Gewirtz Associate Professor	Neural substrates of memory, negative affect, and drug dependency.	jgewirtz@umn.edu N246 Elliott Hall 612-625-6653
	Marti Hope Gonzales Associate Professor	Applied social psychology, impression management and self-presentation, accountability, political psychology, medical compliance.	gonza001@umn.edu N315 Elliott Hall 612-625-9035
	William Grove Associate Professor	Classification and behavior genetics of psychoses, numerical taxonomy, personality disorders, clinical vs. statistical prediction, assessment and forensic psychology.	grove001@umn.edu N438a Elliott Hall 612-625-1599
	Jo-Ida C. Hansen Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Counseling Psychology Program; Director, Center for Interest Measurement Research; Co-Director, Career Counseling and Assessment Clinic; Adjunct Professor, Human Resources and Industrial Relations	Counseling, vocational interest measurement and inventory construction, career development, cross-cultural interest measurement, leisure.	hanse004@umn.edu N556 Elliott Hall 612-625-2081/ 612-625-3873
	Sheng He Professor	Human vision and attention, visual awareness, cognitive neuroscience.	sheng@umn.edu N252 Elliott Hall 612-626-0752
	William G. Iacono Regents Professor Distinguished McKnight University Professor	Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological makers of schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and development of psychopathology, lie detection.	wiacono@umn.edu N438 Elliott Hall 612-625-6078
	Yuhong Jiang Associate Professor	Research on the perception, attention, and memory of visual input using behavioral testing and functional brain imaging.	jiang166@umn.edu S251 Elliott Hall 612-625-7003
	Daniel J. Kersten Professor	Cognitive neuroscience, human vision, computational vision, neuroimaging, visual psychophysics.	kersten@umn.edu S212 Elliott Hall 612-625-2589
	Bonnie Klimes-Dougan Contract Assistant Professor	My work utilizes developmental and neuroscience approaches to identify disruptions in stress/emotion regulatory processes that precede, accompany and are a consequence of depression and suicidal behavior. Additionally my work examines factors that modify these risk trajectories.	klimes@umn.edu N414 Elliott Hall 612-626-4347
	Kristen Kling Contract Associate Professor	Gender differences, psychological correlates of academic success	klin0186@umn.edu
	Wilma Koutstaal Associate Professor	Thinking, memory, and mental agility; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; aging.	kouts003@umn.edu S247 Elliott Hall 612-626-1966
	Robert Krueger Hathaway Distinguished Professor	Classification and etiology of psychopathology and substance use disorders, personality disorders, personality psychology, quantitative and molecular genetics, quantitative models of individual differences.	krueg038@umn.edu N414 Elliott Hall
	Nathan Kuncel Associate Professor	Structure and prediction of performance in academic and work settings.	kunce001@umn.edu N464 Elliott Hall 612-624-1651
	Richard M. Lee Professor	Counseling psychology; cultural and ethnic minority psychology; international adoption.	richlee@umn.edu N563 Elliott Hall 612-625-6357
	Gordon Legge Distinguished McKnight University Professor	Cognitive and biological, human visual perception, cognitive science.	legge@umn.edu N257 Elliott Hall 612-625-0846
	Shmuel Lissek Assistant Professor	The neurobiology and psychophysiology of human anxiety, classical and operant conditioning markers of clinical anxiety, generalization of conditioned fear, the neural antecedents of avoidance and other fear-related decisions.	smlissek@umn.edu N416 Elliott Hall 612-624-8204
	Monica Luciana Department Chair Professor	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.	lucia003@umn.edu N419 Elliott Hall 612-626-0757
	Angus MacDonald, III Associate Professor and BP Area Director	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.	angus@umn.edu N426 Elliott Hall 612-624-3813
	Traci Mann Professor	Health behavior change, particularly in the context of eating, dieting, and obesity; Self-control; Stress and eating; Predictors of eating in everyday life.	mann@umn.edu S357 Elliott Hall 612-625-5838
	Chad J. Marsolek Professor	Human memory, vision, learning, and how they are modulated by emotional and social factors. Cognitive neuroscience.	marso002@umn.edu N253 Elliott Hall 612-624-1597
	Matthew McGue Regents Professor	Behavior genetics, individual differences, quantitative psychology, aging, substance abuse.	mcgue001@umn.edu N241a Elliott Hall 612-625-8305
	Cheryl Olman Associate Professor	Biological basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging; modulation of low level visual responses by scene perception.	caolman@umn.edu S243 Elliott Hall 612-626-7607
	Deniz Ones Professor	Personnel selection and classification, personality assessment and research, meta analysis, cross-cultural research.	onesx001@umn.edu N472 Elliott Hall 612-625-4551
	J. Bruce Overmier Professor	Cognitive and biological: stress, conditioning, learning, and memory in animals and humans, and their biological mechanisms.	psyjbo@umn.edu N258 Elliott Hall 612-625-1835
	Andrew J. Oxenham Professor	Auditory perception and cognition; computational models of hearing; hearing impairment and cochlear implants.	oxenham@umn.edu N249 Elliott Hall 612-624-2241
	Gail Peterson Associate Professor	Radical Behaviorism; experimental and applied behavior analysis; general behavior theory.	peter004@umn.edu S223 Elliott Hall 612-625-2863
	Alexander J. Rothman Professor	Social, judgment and decision-making, health beliefs and health behavior, persuasion, cognition and emotion, stereotyping, research methodology.	rothm001@umn.edu N321 Elliott Hall 612-625-2573
	Paul Sackett Professor	Personnel decision making, job performance, counterproductive behavior in the workplace, managerial potential.	psackett@umn.edu N475 Elliott Hall 612-624-9842
	Aaron Schmidt Associate Professor	Employee motivation and self-regulation, including goal prioritization and time allocation, responses to actual and anticipated success, and applications of self-regulatory theory to individual and team training.	aschmidt@umn.edu N486 Elliott Hall 612-626-9188
	Paul Schrater Associate Professor	Statistical pattern recognition, human and computer vision, multi-modal sensory integration and motor control.	schrater@umn.edu S211 Elliott Hall 612-626-8638
	Jeffry A. Simpson Professor	Social, interpersonal relationships, attachment, evolution and social behavior, personality and social behavior, social influence.	simps108@umn.edu S354 Elliott Hall 612-626-0025
	Mark Snyder McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology	Personality and social behavior; self and identity; altruism and pro-social behavior; social perception and interpersonal behavior; social influence and attitude change; motivational foundations of individual and collective action.	msnyder@umn.edu N367 Elliott Hall 612-625-1507
	Moin Syed Assistant Professor	Identity development among culturally and ethnically diverse youth; intersections among multiple identities; educational and career pathways; narrative psychology.	moin@umn.edu N567 Elliott Hall 612-625-9501
	Mark Thomas Associate Professor	Neurobiology of drug-induced plasticity and addiction, behavioral neuroscience, transgenic mice, cellular electrophysiology.	tmhomas@umn.edu S254 Elliott Hall 612-624-4963
	Neal Viemeister Professor	Auditory perception, psychophysics, models of perceptual processes.	nfv@umn.edu N264 Elliott Hall 612-625-4024
	Niels Waller Professor	Quantitative models of individual differences, psychometrics, factor analysis, taxometrics, item response theory.	nwaller@umn.edu N657 Elliott Hall 612-626-8729
	Chun Wang Assistant Professor	Psychometric methods,item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnosis, and semi-parametric modeling.	wang4066@umn.edu N658 Elliott Hall 612-626-8936
	David J. Weiss Professor	Psychometric methods, counseling, computerized adaptive testing, latent trait measurement theory.	djweiss@umn.edu N660 Elliott Hall 612-625-0342
Emeritus Faculty
Name		Interests	Contact
	Ellen Berscheid	Social, interpersonal attraction, close relationships, social perception and cognition, emotion.	bersc001@umn.edu
	Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.	Individual differences, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology assessment, mental abilities, twin and adoption research.	bouch001@umn.edu
	Dwight Burkhardt	Vision and neuroscience, function of retinal neurons, human psychophysics.	burkh001@umn.edu N240 Elliott Hall 612-625-6375
	James Butcher	Personality assessment, cross-cultural psychology.	butch001@umn.edu S353 Elliott Hall 612-625-9880 MMPI's Website
	René V. Dawis	Counseling, individual differences, industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, work adjustment, vocational assessment, vocational counseling, measurement of abilities, values, and work personality.	dawis001@umn.edu
	Irving Gottesman	Genetics of psychopathology and schizophrenia.	gotte003@umn.edu N231 Elliott Hall
	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.	leonx003@umn.edu N420 Elliott Hall 612-625-9324
	Warren W. Roberts	Experimental, physiological.	rober028@umn.edu
	Auke Tellegen	Personality research and assessment, clinical.	telle001@umn.edu N252 Elliott Hall 612-625-1351