Richard Amernick

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

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

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

Assistant Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Adult and elderly development

Nicole Beadles

Assistant Professor

School Psychology

Brandon Beltz

Adjunct Faculty

Human Factors/Applied Cognition

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.

Angela C Boone

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

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.

Sarah D'Elia

Adjunct Faculty

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.

Kimberly S Dechman

Adjunct Faculty

Susanne A Denham

University Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children

William Aaron Deutsch

Adjunct Faculty

Applied Developmental Psychology

Dana Dunleavy

Adjunct Faculty

Eric M Dunleavy

Adjunct Faculty

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

Sarah Fischer

Assistant Professor

Clinical Psychology

Jane M Flinn

Associate Professor

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

Grover C Foehlinger

Associate Professor

School Psychology

Peter Frecknall

Adjunct Faculty

Karl Fryxell

Associate Professor

Megan Merlock Gliniecki

Adjunct Faculty

Sharon Harrell

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

John Hawley

Adjunct Faculty

Kristin Hockensmith

Adjunct Faculty

Stella Hongola

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

Michael E Hurley

Assistant Professor

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Psychology

Marilou Hyson

Adjunct Faculty

Seth Kaplan

Associate Professor

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

Todd B. Kashdan

Associate Professor

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.

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

Jerome Lard

Adjunct Faculty

Jennifer Levitas

Adjunct Faculty

Sandra Llera

Adjunct Faculty

The emotional sequelae of chronic worry in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

Amanda Jean Mahoney

Adjunct Faculty

Marcella Stephens Marcey

Adjunct Faculty

Joanna Marino

Adjunct Faculty

Elana Maurin

Adjunct Faculty

Craig McDonald

Assistant Professor

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

Hugh McIntosh

Adjunct Faculty

Marcia J McKinley

Adjunct Faculty

Katherine McKnight

Adjunct Faculty

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

Belinda Morin

Adjunct Faculty

Vilma Nadal

Adjunct Faculty

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

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

Adjunct Faculty

William A Perez

Adjunct Faculty

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

Assistant Professor

Elizabeth L Purnell

Adjunct Faculty

Mittie T Quinn

Adjunct Faculty

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.

Tamara Gabrielle Salamon

Adjunct Faculty

Alexei V Samsonovich

Assistant Professor

James F Sanford

Associate Professor

Human Factors/Applied Cognition

Mary Schumann

Adjunct Faculty

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

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

Tyler H. Shaw

Assistant Professor

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

Eric B Shiraev

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

Peter Noonan Squire

Adjunct Faculty

Human-Robot interaction and cognitive process using various neuroimaging

Norman J Stanhope

Adjunct Faculty

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

Adjunct Faculty

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

Adjunct Faculty

Dawna M Thompson

Assistant Professor

School Psychology

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

Adjunct Faculty

Patricia B Wanschura

Associate Professor

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

Cedric Wilson

Adjunct Faculty

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

Rachel M York

Adjunct Faculty

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.

Holly Alyse Zanville

Adjunct Faculty

School Psychology

Daniel Zapp

Adjunct Faculty