Psychology Faculty's Research Interests
Many of the members of the Psychology Department have active research programs. We welcome discussions about our research and research interests. If you have an interest in research, you should check out this list and explore the possibility of working with a faculty member on a project in some way.
Gina Abbott
TBD
Adrienne Betz
Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; psychopharmacology; molecular
psychiatry; operant conditioning
Joan Bombace
Pavlovian Learning (animal and human); motivational variables in learning; behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs; animal models of behavioral effects of neuropharmacological mechanisms underlying associative learning
Carrie Bulger
Worker attitudes; occupational health & stress; work/nonwork interface; sexual harassment; attitudes toward affirmative action; labor union participation & leadership, self-efficacy
Anne Eisbach
Children's developing knowledge about how the mind works, especially how thinking works; children's growing understanding of ideas about diversity; children's recognition of the mind's distractable nature; children's knowledge of the strategies one can use to deal with distraction
Bertram Garskof
Memory; critique of empirical methods; day care; theatre; writing; psychology of positive social change
Michele Hoffnung
Feminist identity and its development; career and motherhood conflict and balance; transition to motherhood; adult women’s development
William Jellison
Positive social identity formation among members of stigmatized groups; functions served by negative attitudes towards stigmatized groups; impression management techniques among members of stigmatized groups
Penny Leisring
Development, maintainence, & effects of aggressive behavior across the lifespan; psychological and physical partner violence perpetrated by male and female partners; parenting styles & their relationship to children’s aggressive and oppositional behavior
Paul LoCasto
Speech perception; cognitive psychology; psycholinquistics; cognitive neuroscience of language
Thomas Pruzinsky
Body image; psychological aspects of reconstructive plastic surgery; mindfulness based forms of intervention; positive psychology; Buddhist psychology
Sandra Soucie
Factors affecting juror decision-making and the significance of scientific jury selection in the legal system; existence and impact of the CSI Effect; cognitive models of juror decision-making; impact of pre- and post-adoption contact on birth and adoptive families
Shar Walbaum
Prospective memory; metamemory; idiosyncratic memory strategies; practical aspects of memory; history of asylums; history of time
Angela Walker
Mentoring; workplace inequality; organizational diversity