Faculty
Gabriella Alvarez, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Health Neuroscience, Health Inequities, Psychoneuroimmunology
Celia Brownell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Early Prosocial Development; Social/Emotional Understanding; Socialization
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
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
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
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
Peter J. Gianaros, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Neurobiology of Stress; Socioeconomic Status; Cardiovascular Disease Risk
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
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
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
Thomas W. Kamarck, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Stress, Relationships, & Cardiovascular Health; Ecological Assessment Methods
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
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
Klaus Libertus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Learning; Cognitive & Motor Development; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Infancy
Melissa Libertus, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Educational, Developmental, Cognitive Neuroscience; Mathematical Cognition
Emily Lindsay, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mindfulness interventions; Acceptance; Stress; Psychoneuroimmunology
Stephen Manuck, Ph.D.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Cardiovascular Disease; Gene-Environment Interactions; Personality & Temperament
Anna Marsland, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Psychology Program; Professor of Psychology
Psychosocial Factors on Immune Function; Risk for Immune-Related Disease
Andrea S. Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Poly-victimization, sexual harassment, community violence exposure, family, school, and neighborhood influences on development, resilience, Latino/as
Timothy Nokes-Malach, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Knowledge Transfer; Learning & Problem Solving; Motivation
Charles Perfetti, Ph.D.
Director, LRDC
Reading & Language Processes; Learning; Behavioral, ERP, & Neuroimaging Methods
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
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
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
Mark Strauss, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Psychology
Infant Development; Origins of Autism
Natasha Tokowicz, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Adult Second Language Learning; Bilingualism
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