Faculty Research Interests
Raymond M. Bergner
- Descriptive Psychology
- Clinically useful conceptualizations of psychopathologies
- Psychotherapy
- Research on love and sexuality
- Psychotherapy integration
John F. Binning
- Assessing person-job fit
- Affective determinants of voluntary employee turnover
- Factors affecting the employment interview process
- Conceptual and technical requirements for test validation
- Personnel selection and training methodologies
Gregory S. Braswell
- Children's museums
- Literacy and Play in early childhood
- Adult beliefs about children
Salvatore J. Catanzaro
- Dynamics of mood states and mood regulation
- Stress, coping, and health across the life span
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior
- Measurement of personality and psychopathology
- Cognitive-social learning theories of personality
Gary L. Cates
- Data-based decision making
- Prevention and remediation of academic skills deficits
- Applied behavior analysis in educational settings
- Curriculum based assessment/measurement
Gary L. Creasey
- Attachment
- Intimacy and romantic relationships
- Relationships and school competence
- Family influences on development
- Emotional regulation
Thomas S. Critchfield
- Human learning
- Choice and decision
- Stimulus class formation and concept learning
- Theories of punishment and negative reinforcement
- Small-N research method
Stephen F. Croker
- Development of scientific reasoning
- Children's knowledge and understanding of health and illness
- Development of temporal visual attention
- Magical thinking
J. Cooper Cutting
- Psycholinguistics
- Language production
- Quantitative methods in psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Figurative language
Eros R. DeSouza
- Personality and culture (cross-cultural research)
- Multiculturalism and diversity issues
- Prejudice and discrimination based on gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability
- Workplace incivility and sexual harassment
- Reaction to governmental aggression and abuse
Karla J. Doepke
- Suicide assessment and prevention
- Treatment outcome research with children
- Autism
Valeri A. Farmer-Dougan
- Experimental and applied analysis of behavior
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Disequilibrium models of reinforcement
- Canine cognition and behavior
- Developmental disabilities
Paul A. Garris
- Parkinson's disease
- Drug abuse
- Dopamine signaling
- Microsensor instrumentation development
Byron A. Heidenreich
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Neuropsychopharmacology of monoamine neurotransmitters
- Neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse and psychotherapeutic medications
- Extracellular electrophysiology
- Anatomical techniques including immunocytochemistry
Matthew S. Hesson-McInnis
- Covariance structure modeling/factor analysis
- Sexual harassment and sexual orientation
- HIV prevention with women at risk
- Adult/adolescent attachment styles and conflict resolution
- Multiple inference models of attributions in social cognition
Alvin E. House
- Asperger's syndrome
- Executive functions in children
- Mindfulness
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Postive psychology
Alycia M. Hund
- Cognitive development
- Spatial memory and language
- Wayfinding
- Cognitive flexibility
- Executive functioning
Alexandra Ilie
- Occupational health psychology (stressor-strain relationship, employee well-being, violence and aggression)
- Counterproductive work behaviors
- Unethical pro-organizational behaviors
- Cross-cultural psychology
Dan Ispas
- Job performance/personnel selection
- Career and employment issues
- Understanding and improving survey research
- Test adaptation and validation
Patricia A. Jarvis
- Life span social development
- Parent-adolescent/child social interactions and parenting
- Relationships between stress, coping, and attachment: Parents and children/adolescents
- Adolescent part-time work experiences
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
J. Scott Jordan
- Human interaction dynamics
- Perception and action
- Spatial perception
- Consciousness
Jeffrey H. Kahn
- Emotional expression and emotion regulation
- Self-disclosure and well-being
- Professional help seeking behaviors
- Scientific training in applied psychology
- Social-cognitive models of educational and career outcomes
Steven E. Landau
- Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Children's disturbed peer relations
Dawn M. McBride
- Prospective memory
- Implicit/automatic memory
- False memory
- Explanations of the picture superiority effect
- Forgetting
Adena B. Meyers
- Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood
- Child maltreatment
- Family, community, and school-based interventions
- Graduate training in psychology
Margaret M. Nauta
- Career development
- Women's vocational experiences
- Educational retention and persistence
- Role model influences
- Family-work conflict
Karen S. Pfost
- Women's issues and gender issues
- Feminist therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression
- Existential psychotherapy
- Personality assessment
John B. Pryor
- Social cognition
- Sexuality
- Attitudes
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Stigma
Glenn D. Reeder
- Mind reading and perceiving the motives of other people
- Impression formation and attribution processes
- Prejudice and stigma
Marla J. Reese-Weber
- Sibling and dating violence
- Adolescent development
- Development of conflict resolution skills
- Family processes
- Romantic relationships during adolescence
Rocío Rivadeneyra
- Media influences on adolescents' self-concept, achievement, and attitudes
- Media portrayals of ethnic, racial, and gender stereotypes
- Role of media on adolescent sexuality
- Role of stereotypes on the academic achievement and motivation of minority youth
- Latino/Latina youth
Kimberly T. Schneider
- Sexual and ethnic harassment
- Job stress
- Organizational climate and culture
- Organizational withdrawal
- Job attitudes and job behaviors
W. Joel Schneider
- Individual differences in cognitive abilities and personality
- Psychological Assessment
- Statistics
Susan K. Sprecher
- Compassionate love
- Mediators of attraction
- College students' sexuality
- Social network influence on romantic relationships
- Internet match-making
Michael J. Stevens
- International psychology
- Ethics
- Terrorism
- Existential psychology
- Behavioral medicine
Mark E. Swerdlik
- Alternative service delivery systems/response to intervention
- Reintegration of combat veterans: Impact on children and families
- Psychological assessment
- Student support teams/interdisciplinary team functioning
- School law as it relates to special education
- Supervision in school psychology
- Professional training issues in school psychology
Renée M. Tobin
- Emotion regulation
- Personality and social development
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs
- Linking research to practice
Jeffrey B. Wagman
- Perception-action; ecological psychology
- Haptic perception and tool use
- Perceptual learning
- Perception of affordances
Eric D. Wesselmann
- Social influence
- Ostracism/exclusion
- Stigma
- Religion/Spirituality
- Harassment and anti-social behavior
Corinne Zimmerman
- Development of scientific reasoning
- Scientific literacy
- Students' understanding of scientific concepts
- Assessment in science