About our Faculty
Many of the members of the Department of Psychology have active research programs, and all have research interests. As the science of psychology is at the heart of our psychology major, student involvement in research is encouraged.The following is a list of select faculty members and their research interests:
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 and stress; work/nonwork interface; sexual harassment; attitudes toward affirmative action; labor union participation and 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 distractible 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, maintenance and effects of aggressive behavior across the life span; psychological and physical partner violence perpetrated by male and female partners; parenting styles and their relationship to children's aggressive and oppositional behavior
Paul LoCasto
Speech perception; cognitive psychology; psycholinguistics; cognitive neuroscience of language
Cornelius Meyer
Brain and behavior; steroid receptors and neural plasticity
Thomas Pruzinsky
Body image; psychological aspects of reconstructive plastic surgery; mindfulness based forms of intervention; positive psychology; Buddhist psychology
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
List of department faculty