GRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Clinical-Child Track
BUDD, KAREN, Ph.D.
Professor (University of Kansas, 1975). Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Children and Families, Pediatric Psychology, Teenage and Other At-risk Parents.
COTLER, SHELDON, Ph.D.
Professor (Southern Illinois University, 1966). Socialization of Children and Adolescents, Child and Family Therapy, Evaluation of Community Interventions.
GRANT, KATHRYN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (University of Vermont, 1995). Stress and Psychological Symptoms Among Low Income Urban Youth, Gender Differences in Depression.
POLO, ANTONIO, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (University of California, Los Angeles). Treatment of youth depression and the delivery of evidence-based interventions into community settings such as schools and mental health clinics; etiology and correlates of mental health problems across cultural groups in the United States, including among Latino and immigrant groups.
RIBORDY, SHEILA, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, DePaul University Community Mental Health Center (University of Kansas, 1975). Clinical Psychology, Child and Family Therapy, Child Abuse, Social-emotional Development of Children, Impact of Community Violence.
Clinical-Community Track
HARPER, GARY, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor (Purdue University, 1993). HIV Sexual Risk among Homeless Adolescents, Community-based HIV Prevention for Gay/Bisexual Youth and Latina Female Adolescents, Effects of Negative Affect and Substance Use on Adolescent Sexual Risk, Collaborative Research with Community-based Organizations.
HERNANDEZ, BRIGIDA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Northwestern University, 1999). Community-based Interventions Focusing on Promoting Disability Rights and Community Empowerment in Ethnic Minority Communities, Improving Outreach to People of Color with Disabilities, and Fostering Empowerment Among This Group.
IWAMASA, GAYLE Y., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Purdue University, 1992). Mental Health of Japanese American Older Adults, Cultural Issues such as Acculturation and Ethnic Identity of Sexually Aggressive Asian American Men.
JASON, LEONARD A., Ph.D.
Professor (University of Rochester, 1975). Community Psychology, Public Policy, Sense of Community, Community Building, Primary Prevention, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Health Psychology, Chronic Health Conditions (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Smoking Prevention, Television Viewing Among Children.
KEYS, CHRISTOPHER B., Ph.D.
Department Chair, Professor (University of Cincinnati, 1973). Advocacy and Empowerment of People with Disabilities from a Community Psychology Perspective, Developing and Evaluating Programs of Competence Development, Mentoring, Peer Mentoring, and Intensive Case Management for Youth of Color with Disabilities, Examining Attitudes toward Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.
MCMAHON, SUSAN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (DePaul University, 1996). Building Competencies of Urban, At-risk Youth through School-based Interventions, Understanding Risk and Protective Factors, Enhancing the Educational System Through Creative Approaches to Teaching Reading, Violence Prevention, Program Evaluation.
ROBINSON, W. LAVOME, Ph.D.
ABPP, Professor (University of Georgia, 1980). Minority Mental Health, Health Promotion, Adolescent Risk and Protective Behaviors, Adolescent Violence and Depression Prevention, School-based Interventions.
SANCHEZ, BERNADETTE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001). Community Interventions, Educational Experiences of Adolescents of Color, Mentorship, Adolescent Development, Program Evaluation.
Community
FERRARI, JOSEPH R., Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Adelphi University, 1989). Chronic Procrastination, Shame/Guilt, Attitudes and Persuasion, Self Handicapping and Attribution Process, Sense of Community, Community Service, Learning and Volunteerism,Recovery Homes for Substance Abusers.
HARPER, GARY, Ph.D.
M.P.H., See Clinical-Community Faculty
HERNANDEZ, BRIGIDA, Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
IWAMASA, GAYLE Y., Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
JASON, LEONARD A., Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
KEYS, CHRISTOPHER B., Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
McMAHON, SUSAN, Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
ROBINSON, W. LAVOME, Ph.D.
ABPP, See Clinical-Community Faculty
SANCHEZ, BERNADETTE, Ph.D.
See Clinical-Community Faculty
WILSON, MIDGE, Ph.D.
See Experimental Faculty
Industrial/Organizational
BELL, SUZANNE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Texas A & M University, 2004). Job Performance, Organizational Training, Feedback Acceptance, Team Selection, Training, and Conflict.
CELLAR, DOUGLAS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (University of Akron, 1985). Impact of Cognition and Personality Variables on Motivation and Performance, Training and Employee Development.
HALPERT, JANE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Wayne State University, 1985). Personnel Selection, Decision-Making, Women in Management, Non-Profit Organizations.
HAUSKNECHT, JOHN P., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Pennsylvania State University, 1999). Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment, Multi-Rater Feedback, Applicant Reactions and Personal Selection.
STUHLMACHER, ALICE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Purdue University, 1990). Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Decision-making, Safety, Performance Appraisal, Gender Issues in the Workplace, Computer-mediated Communication.
TOWLER, ANNETTE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Rice University, 2001). Employee Training and Development, E-Learning, Leadership Effectiveness and Leader Development, Motivation and Attitudes.
Experimental
ALLBRITTON, DAVID W., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Yale, 1992). Text Comprehension, Phenomena Related to Readers' Responses to a Narrative or Discourse, Applications of Technology to Learning.
CAMRAS, LINDA A., Ph.D.
Professor (University of Pennsylvania, 1975). Social and Emotional Development, Cross Cultural Studies of Infant Expressive Behavior, Nonverbal Communications.
CHOPLIN, JESSICA M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (University of California, Los Angeles, 2002). Judgment and Decision-Making, Attentional Processes in Magnitude Representation.
ERBER, RALPH, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair (Carnegie Mellon University, 1985). Self Regulation of Mood and Emotions, Ironic Processes in Mental Control, Interpersonal Relationships.
GOMEZ, PABLO, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Northwestern University, 1999). Memory Models and Interaction Between Recognition and Recall, Lexical Decision Task, Time Courses of Processing, Dual-Choice Task Modeling: Diffusion Models, Decision Stage in the LDT, Consumer Behavior on the Internet.
HEILIZER, FREDERICK H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor (University of Rochester, 1958). Personality, Conflict and Arousal in Relation to Personality, Characteristics of Anxiety.
HENRY, P. J., Ph.D
Assistant Professor (University of California, Los Angeles, 2001). Prejudice and Racism, Status and Power Differences in Prejudice Processes, Conflict and Conflict Resolution.
LI, YAN, Ph.D
Assistant Professor (Duke University, 2007). Research on Social Development, Childhood Aggression, Peer Group Popularity, Social Network and Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors.
REYNA, CHRISTINE E., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (UCLA, 2000). Impression Formation and the Consequences on Interpersonal Relationships, Achievement Striving, and Political Attitudes.
WILSON, MIDGE, Ph.D.
Professor (University of North Carolina, 1979). Social Psychology, Culturally Diverse Aspects of Physical Attractiveness and Impression Formation, Sexual Harassment, Gender Issues, Feminist Scholarship.
General Psychology
FERRARI, JOSEPH R., Ph.D.
See Community Faculty
Faculty Research Interests (2006-2007)
D. ALLBRITTON
Text comprehension, inference during reading, instructional technology, intelligent tutoring systems. One line of research examines inferences, which are examples of readers? responses to narrative. I am interested in particular in types of individual differences (such as background knowledge, motivation, etc.) that can make readers more or less likely to make inferences from a text. I am also interested in issues related to the use of technology in learning, including a project that is developing an intelligent tutoring system for psychology research methods.
C. ANDERSON
The interaction of adult and infant characteristics on perceptions of infant attractiveness and on adult caregiving behaviors. How experiences shape environmental attitudes and the relationship between environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior.
S. BELL
Predictors of job performance; organizational training; feedback acceptance; team selection, training, and conflict; and cross-cultural issues in the workplace. Most current projects are centered on developing strategies for effective workplace teams with specific interest in variables such as team design, composition, efficacy, conflict, innovation and viability.
L. BROWNING
Issues of perceived control, illusions of control, helplessness, and cognitive adaptation, especially as they apply to situations such as burnout, chronic illness (with a special interest in cancer), and use of alternative/complementary medicine.
K. BUDD
Parent training interventions, forensic issues in child and parent assessment, parent-child interactions, cultural views of parenting, teenage and other at-risk parents, child abuse and neglect, adjustment in nontraditional family arrangements (i.e., foster care, adoption), child behavioral medicine (i.e., behavioral aspects of pediatric health problems).
L. CAMRAS
Infants' and children's social and emotional development within the U.S. and across cultures; emotional communication and overall development of adopted Chinese children; development of emotional facial expressions and of children?s ability to recognize such expressions. Currently, I am seeking to understand the developmental origins of emotional communication by studying adopted Chinese children who are being raised in European American homes and comparing them to nonadopted European American, Chinese American, and mainland Chinese children. I am also studying the emotional responses of American, Chinese, and Japanese infants. In addition, I am interested in children?s understanding and beliefs about appropriate displays of emotion.
D. CELLAR
Cognitive theories of work motivation. Person perception and performance appraisal. Job design. Adverse impact and affirmative action.
J. CHOPLIN
Judgments of price and other consumer product attributes, food, personal attributes such as body size and skin color, and other magnitudes; decision making; numerical cognition.
J. CLELAND
Adult perceptions of infant auditory signals. Effects of adult perceptions of infant developmental status on evaluations of infant capabilities and desirability, e.g., attractiveness, irritability, soothability, etc.
S. COTLER
Children's perceptions of therapy/helping relationships. Family relationships. Children's social attributions. Socialization of children and adolescents. Children's learning and behavior disorders. Developmental psychopathology. Program evaluation and/or evaluation of community interventions with children and families. Parent-child interactions. Medical psychology and quality of life. Process and outcome factors in interventions with children, adolescents and families. Risk factors associated with child/adolescent development.
R. ERBER
The self-regulation of moods and emotions as a result of social constraints. Currently looking at mood regulation in intimate couples. Also interested in the cognitive underpinnings of self-deception, particularly the processes by which we come to believe the lies we tell others. Holocaust issues.
J. FERRARI
Overall interests: Personality-social psychological processes, and applied social-community psychology issues. Current Projects: (l) psychological sense of community and belongingness; effects of community service on student development; stress/satisfaction experiences as a caregiver or volunteer; impact of communal living in self-help, self-governed settings for alcohol and drug abusers; needs assessment of senior citizens; (2) individual differences in chronic procrastination, ego-identity status/style, imposter phenomena, and shame/guilt; examining the cognitive and social motives between indecisives and decisives; higher education and community psychology, community volunteer service, applied educational psychology issues.
P. GOMEZ
I am interested in the development and testing of mathematical models of cognitive processes. I am currently focusing on (1) human memory, specifically the interaction of recollection and recognition; (2) visual word recognition, in particular, the processing of letters and their positions during reading; and (3) the bilingual lexicon.
K. GRANT
(l) The relationship between stress and psychological problems in children and adolescents -- in particular, the search for mediating processes (e.g., family interactions, cognitive attributions, coping strategies) and moderating processes (i.e., protective factors in this relation). (2) Adolescent female development -- in particular, processes that explain the emergence of sex differences in depression. (3) The nature of depression -- in particular, the nature of depression among low-income urban youth faced with severe, chronic stress.
J. HALPERT
Conflict and negotiation; validity of retest scores; gender-related workplace issues.
G. HARPER
Psychosocial and contextual determinants of HIV sexual risk and protective behaviors among adolescents, with a focus on gay/bisexual males and urban African-American and Latino/a youth; use of qualitative research methods in adolescent sexuality research; evaluation of community-based HIV prevention programs for Mexican-American female adolescents; longitudinal examination of inner-city African-American adolescents? social cliques and their influence on sexual risk/protection; impact of substance use and peer relationships on medical adherence among adolescent females living with HIV; examination of collaborative partnerships between community-based organizations and universities.
P. J. HENRY
Status and power differences in prejudice processes; the language of oppression and social dominance; justice in intergroup relations; and conflict resolution. Other work focuses on measurement and philosophy of science issues, especially as they relate to the prejudice and intergroup conflict literature.
B. HERNANDEZ
Employment and the disability community; knowledge of and attitudes toward disability rights; empowerment and ethnic minorities; peer mentoring; and disability identity development.
G. IWAMASA
Multicultural mental health issues across the lifespan. Current research emphasizes an emic approach to examining the conceptualization of mental health and illness among Asian Americans in the community, with a specific focus on mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. Additional research interests include assessment of acculturation and ethnic identity, women?s issues, cognitive behavioral therapy with ethnic minority populations, and research mentoring.
L. JASON
Community psychology, public policy, sense of community, community building, primary prevention, alcohol and drug abuse, health psychology, chronic health conditions (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), smoking prevention, television viewing among children.
C. KEYS
My research focuses on the advocacy and empowerment of people with disabilities and their families from a community psychology perspective. My colleagues and I seek to promote the success of adolescents and young adults with disabilities in education, employment, and independent living. We develop and evaluate programs of competence development, mentoring, peer mentoring and intensive case management for youth of color with disabilities in middle schools, high schools, community colleges, and rehabilitation hospitals. We are also examining the nature of attitudes toward persons with intellectual disabilities in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Israel. Finally, we are interested in developing innovative participatory approaches to community research.
Y. LI
Research on social development, childhood aggression, peer group popularity, social network and parenting beliefs and behaviors.
S. MCMAHON
Focus on urban youth, school-based interventions, program evaluation, violence prevention, and improving the educational experiences of youth. Some specific interests include examining the influence of risk and protective factors, stress, social support, and aggression, school transitions, and school environment. Further, I am interested in using an ecological model as a theoretical framework to understand the impact of multiple levels of context (i.e., parent, peer, school, neighborhood, community, societal) on the psychosocial functioning of adolescents.
A. POLO
Treatment of youth depression and the delivery of evidence-based interventions into community settings such as schools and mental health clinics; etiology and correlates of mental health problems across cultural groups in the United States, including among Latino and immigrant groups.
C. REYNA
Social cognitive and motivational dynamics of stereotyping and prejudice; attributional processes in achievement striving; intergroup relations and political attitudes; impression formation and interpersonal relationships.
S. RIBORDY
All aspects of child abuse and neglect, especially sexual abuse. Family dynamics and systemic concepts. Self concept and self efficacy in inner city minority children. Children's exposure to violence. Bipolar disorder in youth. Program evaluation.
L. ROBINSON
Minority mental health disparities, African-American health promotion, adolescent risk and resiliency, adolescent depression prevention and treatment, adolescent violence prevention, adolescent smoking cessation, school- and community-based interventions.
B. SANCHEZ
Latino & African American youth; mentoring; social support; academic achievement; transition to adulthood; racial and ethnic disparities in mental health; program evaluation.
A. STUHLMACHER
Organizational Behavior particularly relating to gender issues, workplace conflict and negotiation, performance appraisal, training, and worker rights.
A. TOWLER
Employee training and development, E-learning, leadership effectiveness and leader development, motivation and attitudes.
S. VIRTUE
Neural activity during language comprehension, the role of the left and right hemispheres of the brain during reading, and the investigation of how readers generate inferences. I am also interested in examining how text factors (e.g., causal constraint, text difficulty, etc.) and reader characteristics (e.g., working memory capacity, goal or purpose for reading, etc.) influence neural processing during discourse comprehension.
M. WILSON
Gender, physical attractiveness (including culturally relevant aspects of appearance), humor, sexual harassment, social relations, and body image stereotypes. Most of my research has been in a laboratory, although I support qualitative and field approaches as well.
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