Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human-Computer Interaction and Perception
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Mind perception, human-robot interaction, social cognition
Clinical Psychology: HIV risk & prevention among high-risk groups; Psychosocial aspects of chronic disease and traumatic injury management
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: individual differences in judgment and decision-making, work-nonwork decision-making, decision biases, job performance, situational influences
Applied Developmental Psychology: teacher-student interactions, classroom quality, inclusive education, and behavior modifications.
Neuroscience, Substance Use Disorders, Cognitive Impairment, Motor Degeneration
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Canine cognition & behavior and human-animal interactions
Molecular Neuroscience Department: Description and generation of dendritic morphology, hippocampus, human memory, neuron classification, semantic maps
Biological Motion, Visual Perception, Spatial Navigation, Social Perception
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
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
How human performance is helped or hindered by the design of tools that help us accomplish everyday tasks.
Clinical Psychology: Clinical psychology: offender rehabilitation, values and character strengths, psychopathy
Clinical Psychology: Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, Eating Disorders
Clinical Psychology: community resilience; ethnic minority help-seeking & service utilization; acculturative stress; immigrant communities; family conflict & violence
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Work and family issues, human error, individual differences.
Development and learning of young children (preschool through Grade 3); young children's approaches to learning, cognition, and language; Effective professional development for adult learners
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
Clinical Psychology: PTSD and reactions to stress, suicide, military couples, social support, romantic relationships
Clinical Psychology: empowerment, resilience, community-based learning, transformative education, civic engagement, intimate partner violence, client-centered services
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
Applied Developmental Psychology: Cognitive development, academic achievement, cross-culture, second language acquisition, socio-emotional competence, and education policy
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: learning and memory processes in both humans and animals
Employee well-being, career decision-making, 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
Applied Developmental Psychology: 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 cybersecurity.
Vigilance Tasks, Wearable Interfaces, Driving, and Human-Computer Interaction
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Animal behavior and cognition, especially communication, social hierarchy, and the effects of domestication; the teaching of psychology
Clinical Psychology: Forensic psychology, offender rehabilitation, program evaluation
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Cognitive training, stress resilience, vigilance, attention, working memory, simulation training, serious games, virtual environments
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: Anxiety, Depression, Well-being, Strengths, Quantitative Methods
teams, multiteam systems, team science, social network analysis, healthcare, emergency response
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: 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: visual perception, social cognition, social network analysis
Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent substance abuse, development of cognitive behavioral prevention and intervention programs for adolescent mental health problems
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: visual attention, eyetracking, threat-perception, implicit biases, race-based biases, and trait anxiety
Psychological well-being, emotion regulation, positive psychology
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
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Game-Based Assessment, Gamification, Applied Psychometrics, Item Response Theory, Non-cognitive Assessment, and Statistical Programming
Clinical Psychology: interpersonal violence, violence against trans women, empowerment
Clinical Psychology: PTSD, couples, military psychology, interpersonal impacts of psychopathology
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Applied Developmental Psychology: Developmental Psychology; Social Cognitive Development; Social and Emotional Learning; Play, Pretend, Imagination; Theatre, Drama and The Arts
Clinical Psychology: emotion-related impulsivity, adolescents, substance use, fMRI
Clinical Psychology: social anxiety; emotion regulation; well-being
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: personality, research methods
grade retention; delayed school entry; academic outcomes for low-income and minority populations
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Genetic modulation of cognitive and brain aging, interventions for cognitive aging (behavioral and non-invasive brain stimulation).
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Positive design, user experience, human systems integration
Clinical Psychology: Adolescent romantic relationships, risk behavior, psychopathology.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employee well-being, emotions at work, job attitudes, within-person methodologies, and individual and team performance in teams and multi-team systems
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.
Sustained Attention/Vigilance, Human Performance, Workload and Neuro-physiological Measures
Applied Developmental Psychology: culture, social-emotional development, mindfulness
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Counterproductive behavior, worker attitudes/emotions, decision-making, competence, and productivity
Clinical Psychology: health, community, and social equity
Applied Developmental Psychology: Gail's research has focused on adolescent development and well-being as well as the disparity of females studying and pursuing careers in science.
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.
Computational cognitive modeling, computational social science
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Effective management of teams; Strengthening the human side of work organizations.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effect of stress on the pathology of Traumatic Brain Injuries
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Trust in Automation, Trust Repair, & Human-Automation Teams
Leadership development, Leader identity, Systems thinking, Cross-Cultural psychology, Well-being
Applied Developmental Psychology: Child & Adolescent Development, Peer Networks, Peer Influence, Development of Ethnically Diverse and Immigrant Youth, Psychological Adjustment, Health-Risk Behavior, Social Network Analysis, Social Neuroendocrinology (Cortisol and Testosterone)
Human Rights in East and South East Asia with a focus on Human Trafficking of Children, Refugees and Displaced populations. Community Development and Fair Trade. International Relations between China, Japan, and Korea. Intersectionality of Fair trade, Environmental Sustainability and Human Trafficking.
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: Clinical Psychology: Mood Disorders, Exercise interventions
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Psychometrics, Faking Issues in personnel selection, Personality and individual differences, Non-cognitive assessments development, technology-based assessments (e.g., game-based assessments) in I/O
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: 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
Clinical Psychology: Substance misuse and borderline personality disorder among formerly incarcerated individuals
Early childhood education, Patterning instruction and Cognitive intervention in student learning.
Clinical Psychology: assessment; social support; social rejection; self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
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: Trust, Vigilance, Social Robotics, Cognition
Applied Developmental Psychology: assessments in educational decision-making; whole-school improvement via multi-tiered service delivery models; collaboration between special and general educators; benefits of social-emotional teaching on a variety of student outcomes
Industrial Organizational Psychology: Methodology, Work-family, Discrimination, Statistical Analyses
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive control, action monitoring, selective attention
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Distribution of Visual Attention, Cognitive Aging, and Cognitive Training using EEG and MRI
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Research methods and data analysis with a particular interest in measurement.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology: adolescent, medical, eating, diabetes
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Perception of canine behavior, canine cognition and learning, neuroscience of human-animal interaction, and the animal adoption decision-making process
Applied Developmental Psychology
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Robotics
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Learning & development, selection, measurement, personality
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Applied Developmental Psychology: Applied Developmental Psychology
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Traumatic brain injury; chronic traumatic encephalopathy; therioepistemology; statistics
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual Attention and Search, Perception, Visuo-spatial Cognition, Augmented/ Virtual Reality
Clinical Psychology: Parenting, prevention of adolescent risk behaviors, promotion of adaptive parenting in low-income communities
Clinical Psychology: PTSD and other trauma-related disorders; post-trauma functioning; treatment-seeking behaviors; resilience and coping factors
Clinical Psychology: Eating disorders in adolescents, barriers to recovery, interventions, treatment outcomes
Applied Developmental Psychology: Children and life span development- particularly helping children who lag in cognitive development catch up to their peers.
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, brain plasticity, and cognitive training
Applied Developmental Psychology: How peers affect each others' education and social and emotional competence
Working Memory, EEG, Eye tracking, Pupillometry, Face Recognition, Memory
Sustained Attention, Workload, Physiological Workload Measures
Forensic Psychology, Law Enforcement Crisis De-Escalation, Victim Experiences, Psychology of Criminal Behavior
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
advanced course selection, access to gifted programs, tracking, educational outcomes for low-income and minority populations
Clinical Psychology: Cognitive-behavioral research, treatment, and theory of anxiety, mood, and related disorders.
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
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual Attention, Attentional Blink, User Experience
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Usability, Human Computer Interaction, Human Performance, and Affect and Performance
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: neuroenhancement, cognitive training, non-invasive brain stimulation, individual differences in training, use of automation tools in training
Clinical Psychology: Clinical Psychology; offender rehabilitation, jail-based interventions, self-control
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: computational psychiatry, neuroimaging, reward processing
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance or sustained attention, Human-Computer interaction, trust in automation, team performance.
Applied Developmental Psychology
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: Well-being; exercise; sleep; physical health and longevity; mental health apps; social support; and help-seeking.
Applied Developmental Psychology: Relationship between Executive Functioning and Weight Management in Early Childhood; Educational Trajectories of Children with Emotional Disability (ED)
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Teams, Multi Team Systems, Leadership
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Time Perception, Attention, Memory, Psychophysics
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Well-being, worker well-being, curiosity, work-life balance,
Teacher professional development, psychology, developmental psychology, classroom quality
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.
Mechanisms impacting social and emotional development; pretend play; measurement
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: Industrial and Organizational Psychology: leadership, team dynamics, and multiteam systems (MTSs)
Human Factors/Applied Cognition
Clinical Psychology: disordered eating, problem drinking, motives and expectancies around eating and drinking, impulsivity, 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: Well-being and associated biological, psychological and personality factors; time dynamics; idiographic data
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: embodied cognition, human-technology-interfaces, predictive coding
Clinical Psychology: Adolescent mental health and risky behavior, suicidal 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), preventative interventions, adolescent development, family and peer relationships and influence, evidence-based treatments, social media use and influence
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
Clinical Psychology: Impulsivity, Neuroimaging, Emotion Dysregulation
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: job crafting, older workers, cross-cultural issues, well-being
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.
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human Factors