Full-time 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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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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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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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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Sabine Doebel
Assistant Professor
Applied Developmental Psychology: Executive function, cognitive control, self-control, cognitive development, conceptual development
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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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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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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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Michael E Hurley
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Associate Professor
Financial decision-making, sport psychology, and humor.
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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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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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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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Yijue Liang
Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Sexual harassment, bystander intervention, occupational well-being, leadership and teams
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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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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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Jerry L Mize
Online Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Instructor
Trauma, anxiety and sex; Mental Health
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Erin Quinlivan Murdoch
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Social Psychology: self-views, social construction of the self
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Natasha A Tonge
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology: minority mental health disparities; trust; self-disclosure; anxiety; patient-provider interactions in adults
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Martin Wiener
Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing
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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.