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Faculty
Gabriella Alvarez, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Health Neuroscience, Health Inequities, Psychoneuroimmunology
Kevin Ashley
Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems
Heather Bachman, Ph.D.
Professor, Applied Developmental Psychology
School Readiness; Achievement; Home & Classroom Processes; Low-income Families
Scott Beach, Ph.D.
Director of Survey Research, UCSUR
Aging; Caregiver Stress; Elder Abuse; Technology for Aging/Disabled Populations
Dana H. Bovbjerg, Ph.D.
Director of Biobehavioral Oncology, UPCI
Biobehavioral Factors in Oncology; Mind, Brain & Cancer
Celia Brownell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Early Prosocial Development; Social/Emotional Understanding; Socialization
Lauren M. Bylsma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology
Affective disorders, transdiagnostic emotional processes, multi-method assessment of emotion, experimental psychopathology, neurobiology, psychophysiology, ambulatory assessment
Susan B. Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Psychology
Socio-Emotional Development; Parent-Child Relationships; Behavior Problems
Sophia Choukas-Bradley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Adolescent Mental Health; Social Media; Body Image; Self-Objectification; Disordered Eating; Depression; Gender; Sexuality; LGBTQ+ Youth; Intersectionality
Melinda Ciccocioppo
Teaching Associate Professor, Psychology
Social-Cognitive Processes within Romantic Relationships; Gender
Jeffrey Cohn, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
• Multimodal communication; Emotion; Affective Computing; Internalizing Disorders
Michelle Colvin, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant Professor, Psychology
Sentence Comprehension, Reading
Jennifer Cousins, Ph.D.
Teaching Associate Professor, Psychology
Social & Biological Changes of Sleep During Development; Emotion Regulation
Marc Coutanche, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory, Learning & Perception; Neuroimaging Analysis Methods
Kasey Creswell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Addictive behaviors; self-regulation; alcohol use and misuse; cigarette craving
David Creswell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology, CMU
Stress; Self-Affirmation; Mindfulness; Emotions; Consciousness; Neuroscience
Marie Cross, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant Professor, Psychology
My program of research focuses on the connections between positive facial expressions and physical health. In addition, I am interested in best practices in the measurement of facial expressions.
Jill M. Cyranowski, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Psychology Center
Depression/Anxiety Treatment; Physiology of Stress & Depression in Relationships
Mary Amanda Dew, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Epidemiology Program
Behavioral Medicine; Health Psychology; Research Methodology
Michael Walsh Dickey, PhD
Associate Professor, SHRS
Aphasia; Grammatical Language Processing; Semantic & Discourse Comprehension; Aphasia Treatment
Kirk Erickson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Psychology
Cognitive Aging Methods; Exercise; Improving Cognition
Julie Fiez, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Cognitive & Educational Neuroscience of Reading, Language, Math, & Learning
Erika Forbes, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Adolescence; Developmental Psychopathology; Neural Reward Systems
Amanda Forest, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Close Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Emotional Expressivity and Self-Disclosure; Support Provision and Support-Seeking; Goal Pursuit and Instrumentality; Self-Esteem
Scott Fraundorf, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Experience & Language Comprehension; Metacognition & Learning
Melinda Fricke, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bilingual Language Processing; Speech Perception; Speech Production; Corpus Psycholinguistics
Brian Galla, PhD
Associate Professor, Applied Developmental Psychology
Mindfulness; Mental Health; Educational Psychology; Adolescence; Emerging Adulthood
Avniel Ghuman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurobiology, Psychology, and Psychiatry
Computational neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience of reading, object recognition, face perception, and social and affective perception
Peter J. Gianaros, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Neurobiology of Stress; Socioeconomic Status; Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Tina R. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Early-onset mood disorders, pediatric bipolar disorder, risk prediction and psychosocial interventions for youth mood disorders and suicidality
Martin Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Victimization; Social Influence, Comparison & Support; Cognition & Affect
Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Anxiety; Cognition-Emotion Interactions; Worry; Experimental Psychopathology
Jamie L. Hanson, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology
Reward & Decision Making; Development & Psychopathology; Stress & Emotion
Brant Hasler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Sleep and circadian rhythms in regulating affect and motivation
William Hawthorne, Psy.D
Teaching Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mindfulness and Health Self-Efficacy, Third Generation Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions, Socio-cultural factors in intervention and assessment.
Daphne A. Henry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and academic development; Family, school, and neighborhood influences on development; Parental ethnic-racial socialization; Academic resilience
Shirley Y. Hill, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Genetics; Development; Psychological & Biological Antecedents of Alcoholism
Jennifer Hirsch
Teaching Assistant Professor, Psychology
Close relationships, emotion, and the need to belong
Ruth Hofrichter, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor, Psychology
Social cognitive processes and their development.
Kiera James
Research Assistant Professor
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors; Non-suicidal self-injury; Social processes and influences; Social-cognitive-affective neuroscience; Childhood; Adolescence
Richard Jennings, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry
Health Neuroscience; Brain Influences on the Heart in Health & Disease
Thomas W. Kamarck, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Stress, Relationships, & Cardiovascular Health; Ecological Assessment Methods
William Klein, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychology
Social Psychology; Risk Perception; Decision-Making
Andrew Koffmann, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor Emeritus, Psychology,
Psychotherapy Trajectory; Statistical Approaches to Assessment
Barbara Kucinski, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor, Psychology
Principles of Learning; Biopsychological Processes; Pedagogy
Joel M. Le Forestier, PhD
Assistant Professor
Intergroup Relations; Stereotyping and Prejudice; Discrimination; Prejudice Reduction; Self and Identity; Stigma; Identity Management; Identity Concealment; Social-Psychological Interventions; Health Disparities
Alan Lesgold, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Education
Complex Learning; Intelligent Systems; Impasses in Learning; Argumentation
Michele D. Levine, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry, Psychology and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Health behavior change during and after pregnancy, Perinatal mental health; Eating behavior; Perinatal health equity
John Levine, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Small Group Processes; Learning in Social Contexts; Online Social Support
Diana Leyva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Family Processes; Minority Families; Early language & Literacy; Early Math
Melissa Libertus, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Educational, Developmental, Cognitive Neuroscience; Mathematical Cognition
Klaus Libertus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Learning; Cognitive & Motor Development; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Infancy
Emily Lindsay, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mindfulness interventions; Acceptance; Stress; Psychoneuroimmunology
Beatriz Luna, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Normative Neurocognitive Development from Adolescence to Adulthood
Stephen Manuck, Ph.D.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Cardiovascular Disease; Gene-Environment Interactions; Personality & Temperament
Marsha Marcus, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Psychiatry
Obesity in Adults & Children; Eating Disorder Interventions
Anna Marsland, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Psychology Program; Professor of Psychology
Psychosocial Factors on Immune Function; Risk for Immune-Related Disease
Karen Matthews, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Psychiatry
Life Span Development & Cardiovascular Health
Andrea S. Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Poly-victimization, sexual harassment, community violence exposure, family, school, and neighborhood influences on development, resilience, Latino/as
Brooke Molina, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Disruptive Behavior & Substance Use Disorders
Judith K Morgan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Developmental Mechanisms of Risk for Affective Disorders; Multimodal imaging
Audrey J. Murrell, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, CBA
Mentoring; Career Development; Gender; Diversity; Management; Social Identity
Timothy Nokes-Malach, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Knowledge Transfer; Learning & Problem Solving; Motivation
Robert B. Noll, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry
Behavioral Science; Pediatric Oncology; Children & Caregivers
Charles Perfetti, Ph.D.
Director, LRDC
Reading & Language Processes; Learning; Behavioral, ERP, & Neuroimaging Methods
Kenneth Perkins, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Effects of Nicotine & Smoking on Persistence of Dependence; Cessation Treatments
Michael F. Pogue-Geile, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Schizophrenia; Genetics; Neuropsychology; Development
Rebecca G. Reed , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Psychoneuroimmunology; Aging; Stress; Emotion Regulation; Biological Aging
Lauren Resnick, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Learning & Development; Scientific Understanding in Children; Shared Cognition
Kathryn A. Roecklein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Mood; Circadian Biology; Sleep; Behavioral Genetics; Seasonal Affective Disorder
Benjamin M. Rottman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology
Causal Learning & Reasoning; Experience-Based & Medical Decision Making
Michael Sayette, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Psychological Theories of Alcohol Use & Abuse; Cigarette Craving; Social Psychological Processes in Addiction
Walter Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Brain Imaging; Traumatic Brain Injury; Connectivity Mapping; Learning
Richard Schulz, Ph.D.
Director, UCSUR
Social Psychological Theories on Adult Development & Aging; Late Life Disease
Karina Schumann, Ph.D.
Social Program Chair, Psychology
Interpersonal Conflict Resolution; Political Conflict; Apologies; Forgiveness; Revenge; Empathy; Intellectual Humility; Religion; Morality; Wise Interventions; Misinformation; Dehumanization; Close Relationships
Daniel S. Shaw, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Child Conduct & Emotional Problems; Interventions; Gene/Environment Interactions
Saul Shiffman, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Psychology
Cigarette Smoking & Nicotine Dependence
Jennifer Silk, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Anxiety; Depression; Childhood; Adolescence; Neurobiological & Social Influences; Suicidality & Social Media
Jennifer Steel , Ph.D.
Director, Center for Excellence in Behavioral Medicine
Psychoneuroimmunology; Chronic Illness Interventions
Mark Strauss, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Psychology
Infant Development; Origins of Autism
Rebecca Thurston, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry
Women's Health; Cardiovascular Disease; Health Disparities; Trauma
Natasha Tokowicz, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Adult Second Language Learning; Bilingualism
Timothy Verstynen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology, CMU
Neuroscience of Action Planning & Skill Learning; Computational Modeling
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Psychology
Poverty; Race/Ethnicity; Socioeconomic Disadvantage; Urbanicity; Children
Tessa Warren, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Sentence Comprehension; Syntactic, Semantic, & Referential Processing; Reading
Staff
Graduate Students
Qianjin Guo
I am interested in the early home learning environments, family interventions, and early childhood outcomes.
