Psychology
Research
Faculty Research Areas
Dr. Michael Allen (Chair)
- Cardiovascular reactivity and stress
- Electrophysiology
Dr. Karen Christoff
- Social skills/competence, especially in children
- Violence against women
Dr. Paul Deal
- Public mental health systems
- Serious mental illness
- Mental retardation
- Student training
Dr. Carol Gohm
- Cognitive consequences of emotion
- Individual differences in the experience of emotion
- Association of meta emotion traits with the influence
of emotion on judgment
Dr. Alan Gross
- Clinical child
- Externalizing disorders in children
- Date rape and sexual violence
Dr. Scotty Hargrove
- Family systems
- Community psychology
- Serious mental illness
- Rural health and mental health
Dr. Laura Johnson
- Cultural competence in clinical training and mental
health programming
- Psychosocial and cultural adjustment of refugees,
immigrants and international students
- Program evaluation and outcome research, particularly
of community-based interventions
Dr. Thomas Lombardo
- Post-traumatic stress-disorders
- Behavioral pharmacology of nicotine and caffeine
Dr. Kenneth McGraw
Dr. Marilyn Mendolia
- Verbal and facial expression of emotion
- Self-regulation of emotion
- Comparison and reflection pocesses in personal
relationships
Dr. Nicolaas Prins
- Perception of visual texture
- Perception of motion
Dr. Matthew B. Reysen
Dr. Karen Sabol
- Methamphetamine neurotoxicity
- Drugs of abuse and aging process
Dr. Stefan Schulenberg
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Psychological assessment
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Test construction
and validation
- Meaning/life purpose
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Adolescent psychopathology
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Clinical/Disaster psychology
Dr. Kenneth Sufka
- Pain and analgesia
- Amimal modeling/drug discovery
- Philosophy of mind
Dr. Kelly Wilson
- New Wave Behavior Therapy, especially Acceptance
and Commitment Therapy
- Role of verbal processes in emotion and cognition
- Contextual-behavioral analyses of existential issues
- Treatment development and dissemination
- Integration of basic and applied research
Psychology
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