Michael D Anderson

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

Carryl Baldwin

Associate Professor

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.

Charles Barrett

Hideko Hamada Bassett

Assistant Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology

Marjorie Battaglia

Assistant Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Adult and elderly development

Nicole Beadles

Assistant Professor

School Psychology

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

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.

Jennifer Brielmaier

Assistant Professor

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Environmental factors contributing to the risk for psychiatric disorders

Louis C Buffardi

Associate Professor

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

Lauren B Cattaneo

Associate Professor

intimate partner violence, client-centered services, empowerment

Linda Doss Chrosniak

Associate Professor

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

Rachel Cohen

Associate Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology

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

Assistant Professor

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

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

Associate Professor

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

Susanne A Denham

University Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children

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

John R Fedota

Sarah Fischer

Assistant Professor

Clinical Psychology

Jane M Flinn

Associate Professor

The role of metals in learning, including fear conditioning and Alzheimer's disease.

Grover C Foehlinger

Associate Professor

School Psychology

Karl Fryxell

Associate Professor

Katy "Marinka" Gadzichowski

Assistant Professor

Pamela M Greenwood

Associate Professor

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

Assistant Professor

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Psychology

Seth Kaplan

Associate Professor

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

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

Assistant Professor

Eden B King

Associate Professor

Dealing with and preventing discrimination in the workplace.

Frank Krueger

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

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

Andres Martinez

Clinical Psychology

Craig McDonald

Assistant Professor

Understanding the factors that determine the salience of ecologically relevant visual and auditory stimuli.

Patrick E McKnight

Associate Professor

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

University Professor

Director, Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and 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

Professor

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

Matthew S Peterson

Associate Professor

Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, aging, brain plasticity, cognitive training

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

Professor

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

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

Assistant Professor

School Psychology: Areas of assessment and measurement with children.

James F Sanford

Associate Professor

Human Factors/Applied Cognition

Tyler H. Shaw

Assistant Professor

Vigilance or sustained attention and automation and team performance.

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

Professor

Chair, Psychology

The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.

Maren Strenziok

Postdoctoral Fellows

Neuroanatomical changes associated with video game training in older adults

Jeffrey B Stuewig

Associate Professor

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

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.

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.

Dawna M Thompson

Assistant Professor

School Psychology

James C Thompson

Associate Professor

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

Associate Professor

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

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

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.

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.