Research Projects in Psychology

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Clinical Psychology

placeholder Joaquin Borrego

Research interests: parenting interventions, family violence (child physical abuse and domestic violence), the influence of culture on parenting and discipline practices, ethnic minority populations, and clinical behavior analysis.
James R. Clopton

Research interests: personality assessment, eating disorders
Lee Cohen

Research Interests: health psychology, behavioral and physiological mechanisms that contribute to addictive and unhealthy behaviors; in particular, cigarette smoking and problematic drinking
Kelly Cukrowicz

Research Interests: mood disorders and suicidal behavior, cognitive behavior therapy
Catherine Epkins

Research Interests: child assessment; social, cognitive, and family aspects of childhood depression and anxiety; child psychopathology
Stephanie Lewis Harter

Constructivist and narrative approaches to creativity, human change, psychotherapy, and recovery from abusive and traumatic experiences.
Gregory Mumma

Research Interests: Cognitive-behavioral assessment, case formulation, and treatment planning; idiographic assessment; multivariate time series models

Counseling Psychology

Stephen Cook

Research Interests: stress and coping, psychology and religion, gender issues
Shelia Garos

Research Interests: human sexual behavior, substance abuse, behavioral addictions, temptation bias, and women’s OB/GYN health
Erin Hardin

Research Interests: cultural differences in the self and implications for counseling, multicultural counseling, Asian Americans, career development
Robert Morgan

Research Interests: correctional mental health, forensic assessment, and training and professional development
Christine Robitschek

Research Interests: positive psychology, multicultural aspects of personal growth initiative, implications of personal growth initiative for health/illness and interventions

Experimental Psychology – Applied Cognitive Program

Roman Taraban

Research Interests: categorization, language learning, comprehension, study behaviors
Alice Young

Research Interests: psychopharmacology, discriminative and reinforcing effects of drugs and the  roles of receptor-mediated processes in the development of drug tolerance and dependence
Jessecae Marsh

Research interests: causal reasoning, categorization, reasoning about mental disorders in clinicians and laypeople
Michael Serra

Research Interests: Multimedia Learning, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Memory, Education

Experimental Psychology – Human Factors Program

Pat DeLucia

Research Interests: perception of collision, motion, depth, illusion, and applications for transportation safety, medicine, virtual reality, night vision goggles, and sport
Martina Inge Klein

Information coming soon.
Keith Jones

Research Interests: human-computer interaction, internet navigation and accessibility
 

Experimental Psychology – Social Program

Kenneth DeMarree

Research interests: Social cognition, automatic influences on judgment and behavior, attitudes and persuasion, the self, meta-cognition.
Jeff Larsen

Research Interests: attitudes, emotions, cognition and emotion, psychophysiology of affect
Darcy Reich

Research Interests: social cognition, interpersonal processes, bias correction, expectancy effects, attribution, the self

Experimental Psychology – General

Rosemary Cogan

Research Interests: dynamics and treatment of partner and stranger violence, violence and health, quantitative research in psychoanalysis