Faculty Directory

Research Interests: Substance use in medical (HIV, cancer) and psychiatric (depression, serious mental illness) comorbidities; cannabis use for symptom management; serious illness communication

Research Interests: Individual differences in socioemotional behaviors (e.g.,social withdrawal, aggression); peer relationships and friendships; internalizing problems

Research Interests: Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory

Research Interests: Language development; acoustic variability; word learning; statistical learning; bilingualism

Research Interests: Psycholinguistics; language production and comprehension; prosody; computational modeling

Research Interests: Social psychology; lay theories of prejudice; prejudice confrontations; allyship behavior; stigma

Research Interests: Social psychology; stigma and health; identity disclosure; concealable identities; health disparities; LGBTQ+

Research Interests: Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse

Research Interests: Attitudes; metacognition; listening; self; emotion

Research Interests: The effects of age, sex, and noise on acoustic communication in mice

Research Interests: Social self; intimacy seeking and social comparison; need to belong

Research Interests: Smoking and vaping; cessation; treatment mechanisms; psychophysiology; reinforcement; cognition and motivation/emotion

Research Interests: Memory; pattern separation; cognitive neuroscience

Research Interests: Behavioral pharmacology and neural circuitry of motivated behavior; polysubstance abuse; obesity and overeating

Research Interests: Neural and cognitive plasticity; computational neuroscience; comparative bioacoustics and cognition; autism spectrum disorder

Research Interests: Behavioral and neurophysiological responses to food- and drug-associated stimuli

Research Interests: Close relationships; self-esteem; motivated cognition

Research Interests: Hierarchical models of personality; measurement of personality; assessment of interpersonal relationships, particularly dating and marital relationships

Research Interests: Subtypes of aggression and victimization; developmental psychopathology; applied developmental psychology

Research Interests: Self/identity; contingencies of self-worth; motivation; well-being; interpersonal processes

Research Interests: Women’s substance use and misuse; victimization; drinking contexts

Research Interests: Neuroendocrine regulation of reproductive and social development; biological rhythms; sex differences

Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration in sequence production; singing accuracy; the role of auditory feedback in production; the relationship between music and language

Research Interests: Prosocial motivation; meaning; physical and psychological adjustment to stress and trauma

Research Interests: Multimodal imagery; vocal imitation; music and language sensorimotor processes; psychophysiology of performance

Research Interests: Prejudice, discrimination, and stigma; social identity; stress and coping; international students

Research Interests: Contributors and consequences of harmful drinking; intersection of trauma (including sexual trauma) and substance use; PTSD-alcohol use disorder comorbidity

Research Interests: Narrative identity; ethics; ego integrity; self-transcendence; gerontology

Research Interests: Psychosocial and cognitive processes in risk for depression; impact of physical environment including green space, air pollutants and ambient temperature on mental health

Research Interests: Social context and peer socialization of depression, self-injury, and suicide; interpersonal behavior; ethics and professional training issues

Research Interests: Stress and coping; the self; motivation; psychophysiology

Research Interests: Neural basis of attention, cognition, and cognitive control in healthy and impaired individuals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsycholgy

Research Interests: Applied and basic psychological assessment; dimensional models of personality and psychopathology; item response theory applications to personality measures and computerized adaptive testing

Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments for children; parenting; child maltreatment; disruptive behavior disorders

Research Interests: Substance abuse; maternal behavior; pain behavior

Research Interests: Taste; feeding; food choice

Research Interests: Comparative behavioral endocrinology; sex differences in the brain and behavior; STEM education