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  • Richard Amernick

    Richard Amernick

    Adjunct Faculty

    School Psychology

  • Michael D Anderson
  • Giorgio Ascoli

    Giorgio Ascoli

    University Professor

    Department of Molecular Neuroscience: Description and generation of dendritic morphology, lucid dreaming, human consciousness, protein structure and binding in the nervous system

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  • Carryl Baldwin

    Carryl Baldwin

    Associate Professor

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Applied Auditory Cognition and the use of neurophysiological measures (i.e. EEG, ERP, EKG, and eye tracking) when people perform multiple modality dual tasks as a function of changes in sensory or environmental condition or cognitive aspects of the task.

  • Marjorie Battaglia

    Marjorie Battaglia

    Assistant Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Adult and elderly development

  • Nicole Beadles

    Nicole Beadles

    Assistant Professor

    School Psychology

  • Brandon Beltz

    Brandon Beltz

    Adjunct Faculty

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition

  • Avrama Kim  Blackwell

    Avrama Kim Blackwell

    Associate Professor
    Director of the PhD Program, Neuroscience Program

    Department of Molecular Neuroscience: Computational and experimental approaches to the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms of long term memory storage, understanding the cellular and molecular events underlying the discrimination of spatio-temporal patterns by neurons

  • Deborah A. Boehm-Davis

    Deborah A. Boehm-Davis

    University Professor
    Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

    How human performance is helped or hindered by the design of tools that help us accomplish everyday tasks with a particular interest in how improving the display of information can improve human performance.

  • Angela C Boone

    Angela C Boone

    Adjunct Faculty

    School Psychology

  • Louis C Buffardi

    Louis C Buffardi

    Associate Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Work and family issues, human error, individual differences.

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  • Lauren B Cattaneo

    Lauren B Cattaneo

    Associate Professor

    intimate partner violence, client-centered services, empowerment

  • Linda Doss Chrosniak

    Linda Doss Chrosniak

    Associate Professor

    Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: learning and memory processes in both humans and animals

  • Rachel Cohen

    Rachel Cohen

    Associate Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology

  • Jose M Cortina

    Jose M Cortina

    Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, and significance testing, as well as predictors and outcomes of emotions in the workplace.

  • Timothy Walter Curby

    Timothy Walter Curby

    Assistant Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Variability in teacher-student interactions, Continuous measurement of teacher-child interactions, and the Student Classroom Experience.

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  • Sarah D'Elia

    Sarah D'Elia

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Reeshad S Dalal

    Reeshad S Dalal

    Associate Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Examining individual differences in decision-making competence, dynamic performance appraisal (e.g., the impact of instability, such as peaks and troughs, in an employee's job performance), and the impact of situational "strength" on motivational constructs such as goals, implementation intentions, and mood.

  • Doris Bitler Davis

    Doris Bitler Davis

    Associate Professor

    Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Experimental Psychology, with a specialization in animal learning and memory.

  • Kimberly S Dechman

    Kimberly S Dechman

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Susanne A Denham

    Susanne A Denham

    University Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children

  • William Aaron Deutsch

    William Aaron Deutsch

    Adjunct Faculty

    Applied Developmental Psychology

  • Dana Dunleavy

    Dana Dunleavy

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Eric M Dunleavy

    Eric M Dunleavy

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Christianne Lee Esposito-Smythers

    Christianne Lee Esposito-Smythers

    Associate Professor

    Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent depression, adolescent substance abuse, development of cognitive behavioral prevention and intervention programs for adolescent mental health problems

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  • Seth Kaplan

    Seth Kaplan

    Associate Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Exploring individual and team performance in high-reliability contexts.

  • Todd B. Kashdan

    Todd B. Kashdan

    Associate Professor

    Anxiety, positive emotions, purpose in life, how personal strengths operate in everyday life, social relationships, and how to foster and sustain happiness and meaning in life.

  • William Kennedy

    William Kennedy

    Assistant Professor
  • Eden B King

    Eden B King

    Associate Professor

    Dealing with and preventing discrimination in the workplace.

  • Frank Krueger

    Frank Krueger

    Co-Director, Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics | Chief, Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory

    Molecular Neuroscience Department: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Cognition, Functional Neuroimaging

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  • Jim Olds

    Jim Olds

    Director and Chief Academic Unit Officer, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study; Chair, Department of Molecular Neuroscience; The Shelley Krasnow University Professor of Molecular Neuroscience

    Role of signal transduction in memory storage

  • Donna Orsini

    Donna Orsini

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Raja Parasuraman

    Raja Parasuraman

    University Professor
    Director, Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory using event-related potential (ERP), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) methods; aging and Alzheimer's disease; molecular genetics of cognition; neuroergonomics

  • Robert Pasnak

    Robert Pasnak

    Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Children and life span development- particularly helping children who lag in cognitive development catch up to their peers.

  • Jill Washychyn Payne

    Jill Washychyn Payne

    Adjunct Faculty
  • William A Perez

    William A Perez

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Matthew S Peterson

    Matthew S Peterson

    Associate Professor

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, aging, brain plasticity, cognitive training

  • Jeffrey W Pollard

    Jeffrey W Pollard

    Assistant Professor
  • Elizabeth L Purnell

    Elizabeth L Purnell

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Keith D Renshaw

    Keith D Renshaw

    Assistant Professor

    Clinical Psychology: Anxiety, depression, and interpersonal relationships, with a particular focus on romantic relationships in which one partner has an anxiety disorder.

  • John H Riskind

    John H Riskind

    Professor

    Clinical Psychology: Cognitive-behavioral research, treatment, and theory of anxiety, mood, and related disorders.

  • Johannes Rojahn

    Johannes Rojahn

    Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Intellectual and developmental disabilities, especially [1] challenging behaviors and other forms of psychopathology (epidemiology, assessment, applied behavior analysis) and [2] socio-emotional development and social adaptation.

  • Ellen Rowe

    Ellen Rowe

    Assistant Professor

    School Psychology: Areas of assessment and measurement with children.

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  • Tamara Gabrielle Salamon

    Tamara Gabrielle Salamon

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Alexei V Samsonovich

    Alexei V Samsonovich

    Assistant Professor
  • James F Sanford

    James F Sanford

    Associate Professor

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition

  • Mary Schumann

    Mary Schumann

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Brett E Scofield

    Brett E Scofield

    Adjunct Faculty

    Substance abuse in college students, treatment approaches that address depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, and the effectiveness of services offered at university-based counseling centers.

  • Anna Chelsea Sharber

    Anna Chelsea Sharber

    Adjunct Faculty

    School Psychology

  • Tyler H. Shaw

    Tyler H. Shaw

    Assistant Professor

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance or sustained attention and automation and team performance.

  • Eric B Shiraev

    Eric B Shiraev

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Jerome Short

    Jerome Short

    Associate Professor

    Clinical Psychology: developing and evaluating mental health promotion programs for children, college students, and the elderly; understanding the long-term effects of parental divorce on children; social support; substance abuse prevention; and mental health policy

  • Robert F Smith

    Robert F Smith

    Professor
    Chair, Psychology

    Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.

  • Peter Noonan Squire

    Peter Noonan Squire

    Adjunct Faculty

    Human-Robot interaction and cognitive process using various neuroimaging

  • Norman J Stanhope

    Norman J Stanhope

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • June P Tangney

    June P Tangney

    University Professor

    Clinical Psychology: Working at the interface of clinical psychology, social psychology, and criminology. Studying moral emotions and cognitions associated with crime, substance abuse, HIV risk behavior, and rehabilitation. Developing novel interventions for 'general population' jail inmates drawing on restorative justice, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.

  • Erin Lee Tarpey

    Erin Lee Tarpey

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Lois E Tetrick

    Lois E Tetrick

    University Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Occupational health psychology including stress, work-family, and safety; the employee-organization relationship including psychological contracts, social exchange theory, and the norm of reciprocity; organizational climate and culture; innovation and creativity; positive aging and retirement transitions; cross-cultural aspects of industrial organizational psychology.

  • David W Thompson

    David W Thompson

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Dawna M Thompson

    Dawna M Thompson

    Assistant Professor

    School Psychology

  • James C Thompson

    James C Thompson

    Associate Professor

    Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Examining how we recognize human movement and make sense of other peoples' actions and how this can be applied in specialized settings such as surveillance and in conditions in which human movement recognition may be impaired. *Faculty can have primary affiliation with only one program; for a list of faculty with secondary affiliation in the CBN program, see the CBN Research Interests page.

  • Alice Jayne Trageser

    Alice Jayne Trageser

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Patricia B Wanschura

    Patricia B Wanschura

    Associate Professor

    human development and statistics, with a particular  interest in children's thinking and memory strategies

  • Cedric Wilson

    Cedric Wilson

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Adam J Winsler

    Adam J Winsler

    Professor

    Applied Developmental Psychology: Children's transition to school, development of self-regulation, private speech, Vygotskian sociocultural theory, bilingualism and early schooling for English-language learners

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  • Rachel M York

    Rachel M York

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Robert J Youmans

    Robert J Youmans

    Assistant Professor

    Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Dr. Youmans’ research focuses not simply on creative behaviors in design and engineering, but also on the basic cognitive and social mechanisms thought to be responsible for creative behaviors. These mechanisms include controlled attention, situation awareness, task-set switching, working memory, judgment and decision-making, language, and group processes. Dr. Youmans also conducts research on other applied cognitive topics including methods of enhancing learning in higher education, and the safe, efficient, and intuitive design of commercial products and systems.

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  • Stephen Zaccaro

    Stephen Zaccaro

    Professor

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Steve has directed funded research projects in the areas of team performance, shared mental models, leader-team interfaces, leadership training and development, leader adaptability, and executive coaching.

  • Holly Alyse Zanville

    Holly Alyse Zanville

    Adjunct Faculty

    School Psychology

  • Daniel Zapp

    Daniel Zapp

    Adjunct Faculty