All Faculty
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Princi Kovacs Ackerman
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Leah M Adams
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology: Psychosocial aspects of adapting to chronic disease and/or traumatic injury; HIV risk & prevention among high-risk groups; Health equity & reducing health disparities
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Afra Saeed Ahmad
Associate Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Diversity & inclusion in the workplace
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Alison J Athey
Adjunct Faculty
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Lydia Craig Aulisi
Adjunct Faculty
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Maggie Baisley
Adjunct Faculty
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Ralph Barocas
Emeritus Faculty
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Alok Bhupatkar
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Leadership Development Systems, Training, Skill Decay, Career Progression, Coaching and Mentoring
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Deborah A. Boehm-Davis
Emeritus Faculty
How human performance is helped or hindered by the design of tools that help us accomplish everyday tasks.
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Raymond Abraham Bradni
Instructor
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Jennifer Brielmaier
Associate Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders; behavioral phenotyping; behavioral neuropharmacology
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Louis C Buffardi
Emeritus Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Work and family issues, human error, individual differences.
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M Susan Burns
Professor
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
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Jenna Calton
Adjunct Faculty
Intimate partner violence survivors’ perceptions of justice, ally development
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Kimberly Campbell
Adjunct Faculty
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Lauren B Cattaneo
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology: empowerment, resilience, community-based learning, transformative education, civic engagement, intimate partner violence, survivor-centered services
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Tara Chaplin
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology: Emotion regulation and the development of psychopathology and substance use in adolescence; Parent-focused interventions; Bio-psycho-social models of emotion
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Linda Doss Chrosniak
Emeritus Faculty
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: learning and memory processes in both humans and animals
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Timothy W Curby
Interim Chair
Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Emotion-focused teaching; Early childhood education; Classroom quality and teacher–student interactions; Quantitative Methods.
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Reeshad S. Dalal
Professor
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.
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Doris Bitler Davis
Associate Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Animal behavior and cognition, especially communication, social hierarchy, and the effects of domestication; the teaching of psychology
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Mary Kathryn Deacon
Adjunct Faculty
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Susanne A Denham
Emeritus Faculty
Applied Developmental Psychology: Social and emotional development of children
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Sabine Doebel
Assistant Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Executive function, cognitive control, self-control, cognitive development, conceptual development
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Dennis Doverspike
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Main areas of research include testing and psychometrics, personnel selection, legal issues in the workplace, and the psychology of emerging technologies.
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Danielle Dufresne
Instructor
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Theodore Constantine Dumas
Associate Professor
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
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Christianne Esposito-Smythers
Professor
Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent substance abuse, development of cognitive behavioral prevention and intervention programs for adolescent mental health problems
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Sarah Fischer
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology: personality traits and psychosocial factors influencing the co-morbidity and maintenance of addictive behavior patterns
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Jane M Flinn
Associate Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The role of metals in learning and memory, including their role in Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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Peter Frecknall
Adjunct Faculty
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Susanne M Furman
Instructor
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Thalia R Goldstein
Associate Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Developmental Psychology; Social Cognitive Development; Social and Emotional Learning; Play, Pretend, Imagination; Theatre, Drama and The Arts
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Mandi D Gordon
Graduate Lecturer
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Pamela M. Greenwood
Emeritus Faculty
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Genetic modulation of cognitive and brain aging, interventions for cognitive aging (behavioral and non-invasive brain stimulation).
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Michelle Gryczkowski
Adjunct Faculty
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Darrell Harvey
Adjunct Faculty
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John Hawley
Adjunct Faculty
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William S Helton
Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance, Response Inhibition, Disaster and Emergency Response, Interaction of Cognitive and Physical Performance, Wearable Interfaces, Working Dogs
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Kristi Jeanne Herndon
Adjunct Faculty
the study of social and emotional competence, with a specific interest in preschoolers' emotion regulation
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Michael E Hurley
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Associate Professor
Financial decision-making, sport psychology, and humor.
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Eric Hutchison
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Organizational behavior and development, community involvement in public safety selection and promotion, change management, and personnel psychology and selection.
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Allison E Jack
Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Autism spectrum disorders, fMRI, cerebellum, sex differences, social perception
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Seth Kaplan
Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employee well-being; Emotions at work; Job attitudes; personality; Team performance; virtual work; metaperceptions; measurement and statistical issues
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Todd B. Kashdan
Professor
Meaning and purpose in life, psychological strengths, psychological flexibility, social relationships, stress management, and interventions to enhance well-being
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Hilah K Kaufman
Adjunct Faculty
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Olga Kornienko
Associate Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Adolescent Development, Peer Relationships, Friendships, Social Network Analysis, Psychological Adjustment, Ethnic-Racial Identity Development, Intergroup Peer Relationships, Biological Processes, which Underpin Stress, Social Status, and Immunity
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Lauren E. Kuykendall
Associate Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employee well-being; burnout; work-life balance; organizational work-life policies; leisure; meaningful work; career management and decision-making; gender and well-being.
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Daniel Kuyumcu
Adjunct Faculty
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Titus Lane
Adjunct Faculty
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Kate Ashley LaPort
Adjunct Faculty
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Raymond J Lattanzio
Adjunct Faculty
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Philseok Lee
Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Psychometrics, faking Issues in personnel selection, personality and individual differences, non-cognitive assessments development, machine learning and big data, technology-based assessments (e.g., game-based assessments) in I/O
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Yi-Ching Lee
Associate Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human factors in transportation and medical systems; social interactions; intelligent systems; intelligent virtual agents; multimodal interface
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Jack Peter Leeds
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: General and cognitive acuity theory development and validation, personnel selection, personality measurement, survey research.
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Elyse Lehman
Emeritus Faculty
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Yijue Liang
Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Sexual harassment, bystander intervention, occupational well-being, leadership and teams
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James E Maddux
Emeritus Faculty
Clinical Psychology: Maddux's 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.
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Elpiniki Marchesini
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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
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Joanna Marino
Adjunct Faculty
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Alexandra Morgan Martelli
Adjunct Faculty
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Gerald Matthews
Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human-machine teaming; assessment of task stress, workload and fatigue; cognition and emotion; driver behavior; individual differences in human performance
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Craig McDonald
Associate Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive control, action monitoring, error monitoring, attention
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Patrick E McKnight
Associate Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Research methods and data analysis with a particular interest in measurement.
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Goldie Ann McQuaid
Research Assistant Professor
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Kathleen McQuillan
Adjunct Faculty
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Robyn Mehlenbeck
Director, Mason's Center for Community Health
Clinical Professor
Clinical Psychology: adolescent, medical, eating, diabetes
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Alison Heinhold Melley
Associate Professor
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Higher Ed, Accessible Classrooms, Open Educational Resources
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Katrina Piccone Merlini
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Organizational Leadership, Workplace Inclusion, and Employee Motivation.
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Jennifer Levitas Messac
Adjunct Faculty
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Shari Renee Metzger (Jurik)
Adjunct Faculty
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Jerry L Mize
Online Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Instructor
Trauma, anxiety and sex; Mental Health
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Belinda Morin
Adjunct Faculty
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Erin Quinlivan Murdoch
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Social Psychology: self-views, social construction of the self
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Lakshmi Narayanan
Adjunct Faculty
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Danielle Norman
Adjunct Faculty
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Tracy Palmer
Adjunct Faculty
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Matthew S. Peterson
Associate Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, brain plasticity, and cognitive training
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Elizabeth Phillips
Assistant Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Human-robot interaction, human-like robots, autonomous and adaptive systems, human-human teams, applications for augmented and virtual reality, diversity in robotics
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Lisa Pittman
Adjunct Faculty
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Samantha N Plourde
Adjunct Faculty
How peers affect each others' education and social and emotional competence
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Justin Ramsdell
Associate Professor
Forensic Psychology, Law Enforcement Crisis De-Escalation, Victim Experiences, Psychology of Criminal Behavior
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Keith D Renshaw
Instructor
Clinical Psychology: Anxiety, stress/trauma reactions, and interpersonal relationships; scalable solutions to promote mental health
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Monique Reynolds
Adjunct Faculty
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John H Riskind
Emeritus Faculty
Cognitive-behavioral research, treatment, and theory of anxiety, mood, and related disorders.
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Johannes Rojahn
Emeritus Faculty
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.
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Deborah E. Rupp
Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employment Discrimination; Adverse Impact; Corporate Social Responsibility; DEI and Personnel Practices; Organizational Justice; Emotional Labor; Job Analysis, Selection, and Assessment; Assessment Centers
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Amanda L Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology: Culturally responsive care; reducing mental health disparities; community-engagement, equity-informed implementation science
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Tyler H. Shaw
Associate Professor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance or sustained attention, Human-Computer interaction, trust in automation, team performance.
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Eric B Shiraev
Adjunct Faculty
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Jerome Short
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology: Well-being; exercise; sleep; physical health and longevity; social support; self-compassion; mental health apps; and help-seeking.
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Robert F Smith
Emeritus Faculty
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.
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Sybil Smith-Gray
Assistant Professor
Forensic evaluation and intervention services for court-involved juveniles
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Kevin Stagl
Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Kevin researches human performance, teamwork, multiteam performance, maximal performance, leadership, learning, and adaptation in high-stakes settings. He also studies the assessment, selection, training, and development practices and technology required to cultivate and sustain these phenomena.
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Lucia Stillerova
Adjunct Faculty
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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.
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June P Tangney
Distinguished University Professor
Clinical Psychology: * Moral Emotions and Cognitions, Self-Control, Helpful and Harmful Psychotherapy, Computer-Assisted Jail-based Interventions, Substance Misuse * 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
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Lois E Tetrick
Emeritus Faculty
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.
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James C Thompson
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.
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Rebecca Jean Thompson
Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Occupational Health and Well-being; Work-family dynamics; Personality and Individual Differences
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AJ Thurston
Adjunct Faculty
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Natasha A Tonge
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology: minority mental health disparities; trust; self-disclosure; anxiety; patient-provider interactions in adults
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Patricia B Wanschura
Emeritus Faculty
human development and statistics, with a particular interest in children's thinking and memory strategies
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Martin Wiener
Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing
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Angelique Williams-Pinnock
Adjunct Faculty
Diversity and inclusion; early childhood education; predictors and outcomes of STEM participation; leadership development
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Adam Winsler
Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Children's transition to school, development of self-regulation/executive functioning, private speech, bilingual language development, the arts and child development, long-term pre-K effects, advanced course placement, and educational success and equity for children of color and immigrant students.
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Stephen Zaccaro
Professor
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.
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Angela Zender
Adjunct Faculty