Full-Time Faculty Research Interests
Anthony H. Ahrens, PhD
Gratitude, mindfulness and fear of emotion
Michele M. Carter, PhD, Director, Psychology MA program
Anxiety disorders, African-American issues, cognitive therapy, depression
Neural basis of learning and memory; biological and associative controls of energy and body weight regulation.
Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús, PhD
Impact of stressors on family processes
Bryan D. Fantie, PhD
Human neuropsychology, behavioral & cognitive neuroscience, brain dysfunction, cognition, emotion, head injury, behavioral genetics
Maria Gomez-Serrano, PhD
Neuroscience, basic physiology, immunoreactivity, epigenetic factors in drug abuse, maternal behavior in drug use and abuse
James J. Gray, PhD
Eating disorders, OCD, trichotillomania, cognitive behavior therapy, psychology of religion
Kathleen C. Gunthert, PhD
Stress and coping, depression, cognitive therapy, body image, anxiety
David A.F. Haaga, PhD
Cigarette smoking, depression, trichotillomania, assessment
Nathaniel Herr, Ph.D.
Interpersonal functioning, emotion regulation, and identity disturbance among individuals with borderline personality disorder and related affective problems.
Laura M. Juliano, PhD
Smoking, caffeine, drug expectancies, placebo effects, anxiety
David N. Kearns, PhD, Director, PhD program, Behavior, Cognition and Neuroscience
Learning, conditioned inhibition, stimulus control, drug self-administration
GiShawn Mance, PhD
Community-based participatory research (CBPR), depression, African-American youth, mental health disparities, stress and coping
Scott Parker, PhD
Psychophysics and related areas
Zehra Peynircioglu, PhD
Human memory and metamemory, cognition in general
Anthony L. Riley, PhD
Psychopharmacology, prenatal drug effects, drug addiction and abuse, drug interactions, taste aversions
Arthur G. Shapiro, PhD
Visual perception and cognitive neuroscience
Alan M. Silberberg, PhD
Learning theory and choice behavior, behavioral economics
Catherine Stoodley PhD
Neuroscience of cognitive development, the role of the cerebellum in learning and skill acquisition
Health risk behaviors among adolescents in treatment for substance abuse problems; brief motivational interventions for reducing sexual risk behavior and related risk behaviors.
Stanley J. Weiss, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Classical and operant conditioning, motivation, stimulus control, behavior and pharmacology
Carol S. Weissbrod, PhD, Director of Clinical Training and PhD Program in Clinical Psychology
Developmental-social, emotional behavior, child clinical issues, sports psychology
Brian T. Yates, PhD
Program evaluation (cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses) applied to almost any human service system (e.g., substance abuse treatment, supported housing, paraprofessional and consumer operated services)