Faculty Research Areas

Professor of Psychology

Research interests include cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on memory, and include topics such as eyewitness memory, face recognition biases, illusory/false memories, the effects of photographs on the acceptance of information, and the testing effect.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests include the conceptualization, assessment, and diagnosis of personality disorders, with particular focus on the use of dimensional trait models in understanding personality psychopathology.

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Clinical Training

Research interests include: adversarial allegiance in expert witness opinions, agreement among forensic evaluators, field reliability, and validity of procedures used in forensic assessment.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include borderline personality disorder etiology, personality disorder taxonomy, and the assessment of personality pathology in youth.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include how social and cognitive principles are at play within the legal system. This includes eyewitness identification, jury decision-making, and deception detection.

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Director of the Psychological Services Center

Research interests include: forensic clinical psychology, risk assessment,and  civil commitment evaluations.

Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: psychometrics, peer victimization, and the psychology of religion and spirituality.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: developing school-based preventive programs, such as the Mindful Ambassadors Program for college students; evaluating the acceptability, feasibility, and sustainability of mental health or educational programs; and incorporating spirituality and religiosity into clinical practice.

Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training

Research interests include: family psychology. juvenile substance abuse treatment, college student alcohol use, exercise-based interventions, and advanced data analytic methodology.  

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: cognitive and affective neuroscience, with an emphasis on emotion-cognition interactions. Topics include visual search and attention trainability, basic emotion theory, the influence of emotions on decision-making, positive-negative process interactions, and the translation of neuroscience findings into clinical interventions using behavioral and neuroimaging approaches. 

Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Chair

Research interests include developmental psychology, youth mental health, early life adversity, positive parenting practices, parent-child attachment, parental emotion socialization, gratitude, intimate partner violence, children’s eyewitness testimony, autobiographical memory, the development of prosocial behaviors/emotions, juvenile delinquency, and parenting interventions.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests center around health psychology, eating disorders, pain, and assessment psychology, with a particular focus on presurgical psychological assessment and how psychopathology predicts various medical and treatment outcomes.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the School Psychology Program

Research interests include: school psychology, autism spectrum disorders, and English language learners.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: sociocultural factors that influence sexual trauma recovery, with a focus on PTSD, health-related behaviors such as exercise and eating habits, and how survivor gender shapes experiences of stigma and victim blaming.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests include health psychology, mindfulness meditation, and behavioral interventions to improve health and quality of life for medically ill patients.

Professor of Psychology
Master's Program Coordinator

Research interests include: Family systems, Attachment relationships throughout the lifespan, Trauma and Loss, Couple and Family Therapy

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include identifying systems change and reform efforts to implement multi-tiered systems of supports frameworks to enhance social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health services, as well as crisis prevention, intervention, and postvention initiatives and practices in schools.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: clinical health psychology, behavioral medicine, well-being, and integrated health care at the individual and health-system levels.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include learning disabilities and the neuropsychological correlates of academic achievement.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include forensic assessment, psychometrics (especially of forensic assessment instruments), and the identification, assessment, and treatment of individuals with intellectual disability in criminal legal settings.