Clinical Psychology: HIV risk & prevention among high-risk groups; Psychosocial aspects of chronic disease and traumatic injury management
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: judgment and decision-making, job performance, cybersecurity incident response team effectiveness, and research methods.
Applied Developmental Psychology: teacher-student interactions, classroom quality, inclusive education, and behavior modifications.
Molecular Neuroscience Department: Description and generation of dendritic morphology, hippocampus, human memory, neuron classification, semantic maps
Biological Motion, Visual Perception, Spatial Navigation
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Transportation and Auditory research
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Driver Inattention, Mental Workload, and Perception
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Attention, sensory processes, performance monitoring, subjective confidence, neuroimaging techniques
Administrative Coordinator
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: narrative identity, motivation, and psychological well-being
Molecular Neuroscience Department: 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
Clinical Psychology: The psychometric properties related to data collection, validity, and analysis
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: How human performance is helped or hindered by the design of tools that help us accomplish everyday tasks.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: role of metals in Alzheimer's disease pathology, biomarkers of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, and circadian rhythm disturbance in Alzheimer's disease
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Clinical Psychology: Clinical psychology: offender rehabilitation, values and character strengths, psychopathy
Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, Eating Disorders
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Environmental factors contributing to the risk for psychiatric disorders
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Work and family issues, human error, individual differences.
Applied Developmental Psychology: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Applied Behavior Analysis, Relational Frame Theory, Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Translational Research
Clinical Psychology: the dissemination of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders, the etiology and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, and eating disorder prevention and early intervention
Clinical Psychology: The experience of victims of domestic violence
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
PTSD, Romantic Relationships, Health Psychology, Experience Sampling Methodologies
Clinical Psychology: PTSD and reactions to stress, suicide, military couples, social support, romantic relationships
Clinical Psychology: Intimate partner violence, client-centered services, empowerment, community-based learning, civic engagement
Clinical Psychology: Emotion regulation and the development of psychopathology and substance use in adolescence; Parent-focused interventions; Bio-psycho-social models of emotion
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Diversity and Discrimination in the workplace, Occupational Health Psychology, Cross-cultural issues at work
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: learning and memory processes in both humans and animals
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, and significance testing, as well as predictors and outcomes of emotions in the workplace.
Employee well-being, friendship, leisure
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Alzheimer's Disease (specifically tau pathology), & Traumatic Brain Injury in animal models
aggression, relational aggression, preventative interventions, assessment, clinical treatment
Classrooms as a context for student learning and development; Teacher–student interactions; Classroom quality and variability; Social-emotional teaching, Quantitative Methods.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Job performance, judgment and decision-making, work situations, personality, job attitudes and job-related mood/emotions, and psychological approaches to the study of cyber security.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Animal behavior and cognition, especially communication, social hierarchy, and the effects of domestication; the teaching of psychology
Clinical Psychology: Offender rehabilitation, program evaluation, implementation science
adolescence, suicide, self-regulatory processes, prevention and intervention
Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children
Clinical Psychology: psychopathological responses to trauma
Clinical Psychology: Depression, Well-being, Character strengths, Statistics
Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent alcohol and substance abuse, suicide prevention, risk factors for mental health issues in adolescence
teams, multiteam systems, team science, social network analysis, healthcare, emergency response
Neural substrates of memory, neural and cognitive development, stress and behavioral control, real-time brain activity focus in a multidisciplinary setting
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent substance abuse, development of cognitive behavioral prevention and intervention programs for adolescent mental health problems
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: attention, threat-perception, implicit biases, and anxiety
Psychological well-being, emotion regulation, positive psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Clinical Psychology: personality traits and psychosocial factors influencing the co-morbidity and maintenance of addictive behavior patterns
Industrial-Organizational Psychology: cross-cultural issues, teams dynamics, networks, communication / information sharing
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The role of metals in learning and memory, including their role in Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Clinical Psychology: offender rehabilitation, community connectedness, emotion regulation
Interruptions, Expertise, Cognitive Training, Supervisory Control, Video Games
Clinical Psychology: trauma, romantic relationships, health psychology, military and veteran populations
Clinical Psychology: interpersonal violence, violence against trans* women, empowerment
Clinical Psychology: social anxiety; emotion regulation; well-being
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: personality, research methods
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Genetic modulation of cognitive and brain aging, interventions for cognitive aging (behavioral and non-invasive brain stimulation).
Clinical Psychology: Trauma, Community Systems, Empowerment, At-risk populations
Clinical Psychology: Adolescent romantic relationships, risk behavior, psychopathology.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology: Social justice, violence against women and girls of color, intersectionality as it relates to trauma, survivor centered practice, and holistic health based prevention and interventions.
School Psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Applied Developmental Psychology: Brain-behavior relations utilizing EEG.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employee well-being; Emotions at work; Job attitudes; personality; Individual and team performance in crises and extreme environments; flexible work arrangements; telework; metaperceptions; measurement and statistical issues
Clinical Psychology: Anxiety, emotions, purpose in life, how personal strengths operate in everyday life, social relationships, and how to foster and sustain happiness and meaning in life.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Computational cognitive modeling, computational social science
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Dealing with and preventing discrimination in the workplace.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Effective management of teams; Strengthening the human side of work organizations.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The role of metals in Tauopathies and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Trust in Automation, Trust Repair, & Human-Automation Teams
Leader development, Leader identity, Systems thinking, Sport performance, Team processes, and Motivation
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: Social Cognition & Prosocial Behaviors
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Worker well-being; worker health; work-life issues; leisure; emotions; positive worker characteristics; work stress and stress management; gender and well-being.
Clinical Psychology: Mood Disorders, Exercise interventions
Driver attention, emotion, and behavior; diagnostic driving; experiential learning; incentives and behavior change
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Work motivation,emotions,employee well-being,occupational health psychology, and research methods
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effects of zinc in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease; how graduate students/professors can improve student performance in the classroom
Clinical Psychology: Substance misuse and Borderline Personality Disorder among jail inmates
Clinical Psychology: Child and adolescent well-being; anxiety disorders
Clinical Psychology: My major scholarly interest is the interface of social, clinical, and health psychology, which is concerned with the ways that theory and research from social psychology can help us understand psychological adjustment, psychological disorders, and health-related behavior. My professional mission is to enhance well-being around the world through the promotion of psychological science.
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance, Social Robotics, Cognition
Industrial Organizational Psychology: Methodology, Work-family, Discrimination, Statistical Analyses
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Executive control, performance monitoring, selective attention
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Research methods and data analysis with a particular interest in measurement.
Applied Developmental Psychology: language development, early childhood
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology: adolescent, medical, eating, diabetes
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Applied Developmental Psychology
Applied Developmental Psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience
Clinical Psychology: PTSD and other trauma-related disorders; treatment-seeking behaviors following trauma
Clinical Psychology: Eating disorders in adolescents, barriers to recovery, interventions, treatment outcomes
Visual Cognition; Executive Control; Performance Monitoring; Brain Health; Age-Related Cortical Change; Binocular Dysfunction
Applied Developmental Psychology: Children and life span development- particularly helping children who lag in cognitive development catch up to their peers.
Applied Developmental Psychology
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, brain plasticity, and cognitive training
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: habits, productivity, self-control, individual differences, research methodology, crowdsourcing (Amazon Mechanical Turk), and Bayesian statistics.
Working Memory, EEG, Eye tracking, Pupillometry, Face Recognition, Memory
Clinical Psychology: Adolescent at risk behaviors and co-morbid psychopathology
Sustained Attention, Workload, Physiological Workload Measures
Clinical Psychology: Anxiety, stress/trauma reactions, and interpersonal relationships, with a particular focus on romantic relationships in which one partner has experienced a traumatic event.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology: Cognitive-behavioral research, treatment, and theory of anxiety, mood, and related disorders.
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Applied Developmental Psychology: Intellectual and developmental disabilities, especially [1] challenging behaviors and other forms of psychopathology (assessment, applied behavior analysis, epidemiology) and [2] socio-emotional development and social adaptation. For free access to the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01 and BPI-S) see below.
social-emotional development, the achievement gap, early childhood education
School Psychology: Areas of assessment and measurement with children.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Biological Motion. Emotion Recognition. Autism Spectrum Disorder. Neuroimaging.
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: neuroenhancement, cognitive training, non-invasive brain stimulation, individual differences in training, use of automation tools in training
Clinical Psychology; offender rehabilitation, jail-based interventions, self-control
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance or sustained attention, Human-Computer interaction, trust in automation, team performance.
Applied Developmental Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: leadership, creativity, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior, and work-family issues.
Clinical Psychology: implicit social cognition, interpersonal trauma, empowerment, multiculturalism
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Statistical and Meta Analysis, Teams, Leadership, Job Performance, Rewards and Motivation, and Decision Making.
Clinical Psychology: developing and evaluating mental health promotion programs for college students and older adults; social support; substance abuse prevention; and mental health policy
Applied Developmental Psychology: Patterning, Reading and Math Interventions for Children in Kindergarten
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Teams, Multi Team Systems, Leadership, Organizational Culture
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.
Clinical psychology: Psychological flexibility, distress tolerance, social anxiety disorder, positive psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Neuroanatomical changes associated with video game training in older adults
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.
Clinical Psychology: * Moral emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, empathy) * Values and virtues (e.g., humility, forgiveness, self-compassion) * Self control generally, and emotion regulation specifically * Borderline Personality Disorder * Brief interventions for jail inmates * Motivational Interviewing * Mindfulness-based Interventions * Values Affirmations * Restorative Justice-themed Interventions * Reducing Substance Misuse * Reducing HIV risk behavior
Applied Developmental Psychology: School Readiness, High-Stakes Testing in Elementary School, Academic Success of Migrant Children
Industrial/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.
Clinical Psychology: PTSD, couples, military psychology, interpersonal impacts of psychopathology
Cognitive mechanisms impacting social and emotional development; developmental disabilities; caregiver influences on development
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.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Discretionary problem solving in ill-defined social demains
Clinical Psychology: disordered eating, social comparison, body dissatisfaction, neuroimaging
Applied Developmental Psychology: social-emotional development, school readiness, at risk populations
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science
Clinical Psychology: Promoting health and well-being in older adults, interrelatedness and longitudinal predictors of physical and mental health.
Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Leadership, leader development, teams, military psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human-Automation Interaction, Teamwork, Trust, Social Robotics
Clinical Psychology: Adolescent mental health and risky behavior, suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation, intervention work for at-risk adolescents, assessment of service use
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Social Robotics and Embodied cognition in HCI
Clinical Psychology: Health risk behaviors (e.g. substance use, risky sexual behaviors), non-traditional interventions, adolescence, family and peer relationships, social media use in college students
Applied Developmental Psychology: Children's transition to school, development of self-regulation/executive functioning, private speech, bilingual language development, the arts and child development, and educational success and equity for children of color
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology: Impulsivity, Neuroimaging, Emotion Dysregulation,
Clinical Psychology: Social Anxiety as it functions in the context of romantic relationships; Factors that predict successful and meaningful romantic relationships
Clinical Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Steve has directed (or co-directed) funded research projects in the areas of multiteam systems, cyber security incident response teams, team performance, team mental models, leader-team interfaces, leadership training and development, leader adaptability, and executive coaching.
Well-being, leisure, recovery, counterproductive work behaviors
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human Factors