Tenure-line Faculty

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

Lauren B Cattaneo

Associate Professor

Clinical Psychology: empowerment, resilience, community-based learning, transformative education, civic engagement, intimate partner violence, survivor-centered services

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

Timothy W Curby

Chair

Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Emotion-focused teaching; Early childhood education; Classroom quality and teacher–student interactions; Quantitative Methods.

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.

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

Sabine Doebel

Assistant Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology: Executive function, cognitive control, self-control, cognitive development, conceptual development

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

Christianne Esposito-Smythers

Professor

Clinical Psychology: adolescent suicide, adolescent substance abuse, development of cognitive behavioral prevention and intervention programs for adolescent mental health problems

Sarah Fischer

Professor

Clinical Psychology: personality traits and psychosocial factors influencing the co-morbidity and maintenance of addictive behavior patterns

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)

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

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

Allison E Jack

Assistant Professor

Applied Developmental Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Autism spectrum disorders, fMRI, cerebellum, sex differences, social perception

Seth Kaplan

Professor

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employee well-being; Emotions at work; Job attitudes; personality; Team performance; virtual work; metaperceptions; measurement and statistical issues

Todd B. Kashdan

Professor

Meaning and purpose in life, psychological strengths, psychological flexibility, social relationships, stress management, and interventions to enhance well-being

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

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.

Philseok Lee

Associate Professor

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Artificial Intelligence, large Language Models, 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

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

Yijue Liang

Assistant Professor

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Harassment, bystander, stress, and leadership

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

Craig McDonald

Associate Professor

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive control, error monitoring, human-AI interaction

Patrick E McKnight

Associate Professor

Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Research methods and data analysis with a particular interest in measurement.

Matthew S. Peterson

Professor

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience and Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, brain plasticity, and cognitive training

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, women in robotics

Keith D Renshaw

Professor

Clinical Psychology: Anxiety, stress/trauma reactions, and interpersonal relationships; scalable solutions to promote mental health

Eileen Roesler

Assistant Professor

Human Factors/Applied Cognition

Deborah E. Rupp

Professor

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Employment Discrimination; Corporate Social Responsibility; Fairness & Justice in Organizations; Emotional Labor; Job Analysis, Selection, and Assessment; Assessment Centers

Amanda L Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Clinical Psychology: Culturally responsive care; reducing mental health disparities; community-engagement, equity-informed implementation science

Tyler H. Shaw

Associate Professor

Human Factors/Applied Cognition: Vigilance or sustained attention, Human-Computer interaction, trust in automation, team performance.

Kimberly M Sheridan

Professor

informal/nonformal education, creativity, design thinking, STEM/STEAM education, arts learning, museum education, sociocultural perspectives

Jerome Short

Associate Professor

Clinical Psychology: Well-being; exercise; sleep; physical health and longevity; social support; self-compassion; mental health apps; and help-seeking.

June P Tangney

Distinguished University Professor

Clinical Psychology: Clinical, Social, and Personality Psychology: Moral Emotions (shame and guilt) and Criminogenic Cognitions, Helpful and Harmful Psychotherapy, Values and Virtues (e.g., humility, forgiveness, self-compassion), Self-Control, Emotion Regulation, Substance Misuse, Motivational Interviewing, Computer-Assisted Jail-based Interventions

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.

Natasha A Tonge

Assistant Professor

Clinical Psychology: minority mental health disparities; trust; self-disclosure; anxiety; depression; patient-provider interactions in adults; AI/ML in mental healthcare

Martin Wiener

Associate Professor

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing

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.

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.