Undergraduate Program - Undergraduate Research
Overview
Providing research experiences for students has become a widely recognized and accepted goal of a college education. Through undergraduate research experiences, students in Psychology participate in a range of activities that draw them into the contemporary culture of psychological science and integrate them more fully into the practice of inquiry and research. The National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and others, recommend that all undergraduate students be encouraged to pursue research projects, and that they get involved in research as early as is practical in their school programs. This has been achieved, in part, by getting students to work on research projects in lab and field settings under the guidance of faculty mentors, beginning as early as their freshman and sophomore years.
Clinical Psychology
Joaquin BorregoResearch 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. CloptonResearch interests: personality assessment, eating disorders |
Lee CohenResearch Interests: health psychology, behavioral and physiological mechanisms that contribute to addictive and unhealthy behaviors; in particular, cigarette smoking and problematic drinking |
Kelly CukrowiczResearch Interests: mood disorders and suicidal behavior, cognitive behavior therapy |
Catherine EpkinsResearch Interests: child assessment; social, cognitive, and family aspects of childhood depression and anxiety; child psychopathology |
Stephanie Lewis HarterConstructivist and narrative approaches to creativity, human change, psychotherapy, and recovery from abusive and traumatic experiences. |
Gregory MummaResearch Interests: Cognitive-behavioral assessment, case formulation, and treatment planning; idiographic assessment; multivariate time series models |
Counseling Psychology
Stephen CookResearch Interests: stress and coping, psychology and religion, gender issues |
Sheila GarosResearch Interests: human sexual behavior, substance abuse, behavioral addictions, temptation bias, and women's OB/GYN health |
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Robert MorganResearch Interests: correctional mental health, forensic assessment, and training and professional development |
Christine RobitschekResearch Interests: positive psychology, multicultural aspects of personal growth initiative, implications of personal growth initiative for health/illness and interventions |
Experimental Psychology - Cognitive
Roman TarabanResearch Interests: categorization, language learning, comprehension, study behaviors |
Michael SerraResearch Interests: Multimedia (e.g., visual and verbal materials, comic books, video games) and Multimedia Learning (e.g., learning from text with diagrams, causal learning diagrams), Metacognition (thinking about thinking), Reading Comprehension, Memory, Education (learning and studying) |
Alice YoungResearch Interests: psychopharmacology, discriminative and reinforcing effects of drugs and the roles of receptor-mediated processes in the development of drug tolerance and dependence |
Experimental Psychology - Human Factors
Pat DeLuciaResearch Interests: visual perception (judgments about motion, depth and collisions) and applications for driving (e.g., rear-end collisions), healthcare (e.g., nursing and camera surgery), military (e.g., night vision goggles), and sport (e.g., batting, officiating). For more information see my research page. |
Martina Inge KleinResearch Interests: Subjective and physiological measures of stress and workload. Interestests also include human factors in medicine, (i.e., laparoscopic and robotic surgery, and errors in medicine). |
Keith JonesResearch Interests: human-computer interaction, internet navigation and accessibility |
Experimental Psychology - Social
Kenneth DeMarreeResearch interests: Social cognition, automatic influences on judgment and behavior, attitudes and persuasion, the self, meta-cognition. |
Darcy ReichResearch Interests: social cognition, interpersonal processes, bias correction, expectancy effects, attribution, the self |
Experimental Psychology - General
Rosemary CoganResearch Interests: dynamics and treatment of partner and stranger violence, violence and health, quantitative research in psychoanalysis |
Major/Minor in Psychology
Advising
Undergraduate Research
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