Faculty Backgrounds & Research Interests
Experimental Psychology
| Social |
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| Thomas Brinthaupt (also Health Psychology) | Social personality, psychology of self, group dynamics |
| Glenn Littlepage (also I/O psychology) | Group dynamics, group performance |
| John Pennington | Personality, social judgment processes, identity regulation |
| Greg W. Schmidt | Close relationships, attribution |
| Harold D. Whiteside | Social persuasion, sports psychology |
| Developmental |
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| Janet Belsky | Life span development, adulthood, aging, clinical gerontology |
| Michelle Boyer-Pennington | Language development, memory development |
| Teresa L. Davis | Child development, social cognitive development |
| Dennis Papini (also Dept. chair) | Adolescent psychosocial development |
| Cognitive |
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| Stuart Bernstein | Reading and spelling cognition |
| William Langston | Psycholinguistics and cognition |
| Stephen R. Schmidt | Memory and cognitive processes |
| Donald (Skip) Kendrick (see also Animal Learning) | Bird and fish vision, animal learning & memory, research design & analysis |
| Behavioral Neuroscience/Neuropsychology |
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| Richard Bauer | Cognitive deficits |
| Cyrille Magne | Psycholinguistics |
| Alan D. Musicant | Auditory-spatial perception, biopsychology |
| Sensation-Perception |
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| Sharon Guttman | Visual perception, cross-modal perception |
| Alan D. Musicant | Auditory-spatial perception, biopsychology |
| Donald (Skip) Kendrick (see also Animal Learning) | Bird and fish vision, animal learning & memory, research design & analysis |
| Animal Learning |
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| Donald (Skip) Kendrick | Bird and fish vision, animal learning & memory, research design & analysis |
Health Psychology
| William Compton (also Clinical Psychology) | Positive psychology, east/west psychology |
| Cathy Crooks | Mediation and health, stress management |
| Gloria Hamilton (also Clinical Psychology) | Behavioral medicine, psychology of addictive behavior, trauma |
Clinical Psychology
| Bill Compton | Positive psychology, east/west psychology |
| Paul Foster | Neuropsychology, memory changes due to Alzheimers and Parkinson’s disease |
| Mary Ellen Fromuth | Child sexual abuse, child psychopathology |
| Gloria Hamilton | Behavioral medicine, psychology of addictive behavior, trauma |
| Jerden Johnson | Personality, abnormal, critical theory |
| David Kelley | Psychotherapy, personality assessment, abnormal |
| J. Chris Tate | Addiction, drug abuse, personality assessment |
| Corey Teague | Provisional development trauma disorder, diagnosis, assessment administration and development, and DSM IV V Codes and distress/diagnosis |
| Belinda Traughber | Behavioral rehabilitation, gerontology, child development |
| Kim Ujcich Ward | Behavior analysis, autism, parenting, eating disorders |
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
| Beverly Burke | Testing, surveys, ethics |
| Mark Frame | Performance appraisals, assessment centers, management/executive coaching, and occupational health psychology |
| Mike Hein (also Quantitative Psychology) | Selection, training, group processes, leadership |
| Steve Jones | Group performance and organizational change |
| Glenn Littlepage (also Social Psychology) | Group dynamics, group performance |
| Patrick McCarthy | Organizational diagnosis and development, leadership, motivation, work-family balance |
| Rick Moffett | Leadership, training, employee involvement, group processes |
| Judy Van Hein | Employee selection and organizational justice |
Quantitative Psychology
| Dana K. Fuller | Quantitative methods |
| Mike Hein (also I/O Psychology) | Selection, training, group processes, leadership |
| Jwa Kim | Psychometrics |
School Psychology
| Aimee Holt | Learning disabilities, child abuse |
| Seth Marshall | Neuropsychological aspects of attention in children; executive function in children |
| James O. Rust | Psychological testing, child development |
| Monica Wallace | Academic and behavior interventions |