GRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Clinical-Child Track
BUDD, KAREN, Ph.D.
Professor (University of Kansas, 1975). Parent-child interactions and parenting competence; teacher-child interactions to prevent child social and behavior problems; legal and policy issues in child and family mental health; child abuse and neglect; cultural influences on parenting.
CARTER, JOCELYN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Child clinical and pediatric psychology; depression; adolescent development; family and peer relationships; stress and coping in chronic illness; prevention and intervention.
COTLER, SHELDON, Ph.D.
Professor (Southern Illinois University, 1966). 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 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.
GRANT, KATHRYN, Ph.D.
Professor (University of Vermont, 1995). The effects of stressful life experiences on the mental health of adolescents; the development of interventions for low income urban youth.
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). Child maltreatment; community violence; violence dynamics; socio-emotional development.
Clinical-Community Track
FOWLER, PATRICK, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Wayne State University, 2009). Mental health policy; prevention and intervention; developmental psychopathology; housing; emerging adulthood; mindfulness-based interventions.
HARPER, GARY, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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.
JASON, LEONARD A., Ph.D.
Research Professor (University of Rochester, 1975). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemiology and non-pharmacological interventions; recovery homes for substance abusers; youth access to tobacco.
KEYS, CHRISTOPHER B., Ph.D.
Department Chair, Professor (University of Cincinnati, 1973). Empowerment of People with Disabilities and their families; Attitudes toward Disabilities, participatory research methods; disability, socioeconomic status and ethnicity.
MCMAHON, SUSAN, Ph.D.
Professor (DePaul University, 1996). Youth, violence, agression, preventive interventions. creative apporaches to education, risk and protective factors, school environment and school transitions.
ROBINSON, W. LAVOME, Ph.D.
ABPP, Professor (University of Georgia, 1980). Minority Mental Health, Health Promotion, Adolescent Risk and Behavior (i.e., pregnancy, AIDS, school drop-out, substance abuse), School-based Interventions.
SANCHEZ, BERNADETTE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001). Latino and African-American youth; academic achievement; mentoring; social support; transition to adulthood; racial disparities in mental health; 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
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.
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.
Associate 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.
Associate 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
Associate 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
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