Giorgio Ascoli

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

Susan Bachus

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience

Carryl Baldwin

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

Applied Developmental Psychology: Adult and elderly development

Doris A Bitler

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

Avrama Kim Blackwell

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

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.

Louis C Buffardi

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

Ann B. Butler

Eminent Scholar

Lauren B Cattaneo

Clinical Psychology: intimate partner violence, client-centered services, empowerment

Linda Doss Chrosniak

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

Rachel Cohen

Applied Developmental Psychology

Jose M Cortina

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

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

Reeshad S Dalal

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.

Jessica Lynn De Feyter

Applied Developmental Psychology

Susanne A Denham

Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children

Christianne Lee Esposito-Smythers

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

Jane M Flinn

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The role of metals in both behavior and physiology

Grover C Foehlinger

School Psychology

Karl Fryxell

Pamela M Greenwood

Human Factors/Applied Cognition: The genetic modulation of cognitive and brain change in midlife by measuring effects of neurotransmission and neurotrophic SNPs, including the Alzheimer susceptibility gene APOE.

Michael E Hurley

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Psychology

School Psychology

Seth Kaplan

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

Todd B Kashdan

Clinical Psychology: 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.

Eden B King

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Dealing with and preventing discrimination in the workplace.

Frank Krueger

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

James E Maddux

Clinical Psychology: The ways that theory and research from social psychology can help us understand psychological adjustment and psychological disorders. Dr. Maddux is retired from George Mason University and therefore will no longer be accepting new doctoral students.

Craig McDonald

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Understanding the factors that determine the salience of ecologically relevant visual and auditory stimuli.

Patrick E McKnight

Clinical Psychology: Research methods and data analysis with a particular interest in measurement.

Robyn Mehlenbeck

Director- GMU Center for Psychological Services

Clinical Psychology

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

Raja Parasuraman

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

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

Matthew S Peterson

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

Elisabeth Ploran

Human Factors/Applied Cognition: The use of a variety of neuroimaging techniques including the use of fMRI and event related potentials.

Keith D Renshaw

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

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

Johannes Rojahn

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

School Psychology: Areas of assessment and measurement with children.

James F Sanford

Tyler H. Shaw

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

Jerome Short

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

Chair, Psychology

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

Maren Strenziok

Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Neuroanatomical changes associated with video game training in older adults

Jeffrey B Stuewig

Clinical Psychology: Developmental psychopathology, the moral emotions of shame and guilt, family violence, evaluation, and more generally centering around the topic of risk and antisocial behavior.

June P Tangney

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.

Lois E Tetrick

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Occupational health and safety, occupational stress, and the work- family interface.

Dawna M Thompson

School Psychology

James C Thompson

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.

Patricia B Wanschura

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

Adam J Winsler

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

Robert J Youmans

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.

Stephen Zaccaro

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.