Faculty Listing


Our faculty are nationally recognized experts and dedicated teachers. Areas of strength include: behavioral neuroscience, pediatric psychology, OCD and social phobias, stress response systems, visual perception, memory, language and speech.

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Christina Balderrama-Durbin

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Co-morbid psychological and intimate relationship distress particularly in response to acute stress and trauma
  • The development implementation and evaluation of couple-based prevention/intervention programs for high-risk populations
  • Couple-based assessment
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Jesse L. Boring

Lecturer

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Development and evaluation of online prevention programs.
  • Enhancing engagement in online prevention and intervention programs.
  • Prevention of the negative consequences of family disruptions.
  • Fostering adolescent coping skills as a prevention strategy.
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Abbie Chapman

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
  • Neurovascular function in the hippocampus
  • Chronic hypertension and cerebral ischemic stroke
  • Healthy aging and age-related dementias
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Meredith E. Coles

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Nature and treatment of OCD and social phobia in adults and children
  • Factors involved in the etiology and maintenance of OCD
  • Role of sleep and circadian rhythms in OCD
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Stefania Conte

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Functional and structural brain development
  • Face processing
  • Attention
  • Typical and atypical developmental trajectories
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Terrence Deak

Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School; Professor

Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; Graduate School; Psychology

Research Interests

  • Stress responsive systems
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neural-immune interactions
  • Alcohol
  • Developmental neurobiology and brain aging
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Michael Dulas

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
  • PFC and hippocampal interactions
  • Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
  • Role of eye-movements in memory and its usage
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Brandon E. Gibb

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase the risk for depression in infants, children, adolescents and adults
  • Understanding the risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis
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Jennifer Gillis Mattson

Professor

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering; Psychology

Research Interests

  • Lifespan issues for neurodivergent and autistic individuals
  • Service provider and parent training, support and professional development
  • Dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based practices that benefit autistic individuals in limited-resource settings
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Anushree Karkhanis

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Adolescent stress and drug exposure
  • Drug abuse vulnerability
  • Kappa opioid receptors
  • Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
  • Alcohol use disorder
  • Cocaine addiction
  • Opiate abuse
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Deborah Kreiss

Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor

First-year Research Immersion Program

Research Interests

  • Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
  • Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents
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Mark F. Lenzenweger

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Schizophrenia and schizotypy
  • Severe personality disorders
  • Personality neuroscience
  • Quantitative/statistical methods
  • Longitudinal research methodology
  • Operational psychology and selection
  • Insider risk detection
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Sung-Joo Lim

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Auditory cognitive neuroscience
  • Human speech perception and communication
  • Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
  • Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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Jennifer McGrath, PhD MPH

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Childhood preventive health: promoting health and well-being early in the life course
  • Psychosocial determinants of health: how environments influence child health disparities
  • Psychophysiology: using wearables to measure body signals and rhythms
  • Pediatric cardiovascular behavioral medicine: Understanding childhood risk trajectories
  • Data science: open-access methods for reproducible and transparent science
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Ralph Miller

Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
  • Memory and forgetting
  • Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
  • Pavlovian conditioning
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Raymond G. Romanczyk

Distinguished Service Professor; Co-Director

Psychology; Institute for Child Development

Research Interests

  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • attention deficit and learning disabilities
  • applied behavior analysis
  • behavior therapy
  • technology application to human services
  • large scale service delivery systems
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Jiyun Elizabeth Shin

Lecturer

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Ability-related beliefs
  • Individual and psychosocial factors associated with academic engagement
  • Interventions promoting academic achievement
  • Stereotyping and prejudice
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Sarah Solomon

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Semantic plasticity
  • Category learning and concept use
  • Structure learning and representation
  • Semantic generalization
  • Neural mechanisms underlying flexible
    semantic cognition in humans
  • Neuroimaging (fMRI)
  • Computational modeling
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Cyma K. Van Petten

Professor

Psychology; The Linguistics Program

Research Interests

  • Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
  • Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex
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Emily L. Zale

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Health psychology and behavioral medicine
  • Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
  • Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
  • Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
  • Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
  • Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
  • Translational research and intervention development
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