Full-Time Faculty

Mark Galizio, Department Chairperson & Professor. Primary interests: Substance abuse and behavioral pharmacology; conditioning, learning and memory. Special interests: Experimental and applied analysis of behavior.

Katherine E. M. Bruce, Professor. Primary interests: Comparative psychology; human sexuality; Special interests: Non-human mate choice; AIDS prevention.

Caroline Clements, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Clinical Psychology. Special interests: Cognitive processes in depression; control perceptions and hopelessness; individual differences in coping; domestic violence.

Dale J. Cohen, Professor. Primary interest: Visual perception. Special interest: Art and psychology.

Karen A. Daniels, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Cognitive psychology. Special interests: The control of mental processes; individual differences in working memory; training of memory and attention skills.

Alissa Dark-Freudeman, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Developmental psychology and aging. Special interests: Self-concept, health, and psychological well being.

Cameron Gordon, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Clinical Psychology. Special interests: Marriage and intimate relationships; marital adjustment during life transitions; highly satisfying relationships; positive psychology; personal expansion.

Robert L. Hakan, Associate Professor. Primary interests: Neural substrates of reward; substance abuse. Special interests: Behavioral pharmacology, electrophysiology.

Christine Hughes, Assistant Professor. Primary interests: Behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology. Special interests: Behavioral and pharmacological mechanisms of drug tolerance; choice and decision making.

Anne Hungerford, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Developmental psychology. Special interests: Early socioemotional development, parenting, & infant temperament.

Ruth Hurst, Assistant Professor. Primary Interest: Behavior analysis. Special interests: High functioning autism and Asperger’s disorder; animal behavioral models for understanding human psychopathology.

Lee A. Jackson, Jr., Professor. Primary interests: Social, community, and environmental psychology; Special interests: Mental health; interpersonal processes; small group performance.

James D. Johnson, Professor. Primary interest: Social cognition. Special interests: Perceptual biases due to stereotypes; modification of perceptions of sexual aggression.

Julian R. Keith, Professor. Primary interest: Cognitive neuroscience. Special interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory; philosophy of neuroscience.

Hayden Kepley, Assistant Professor. Primary Interest: Clinical child psychology. Special Interests: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across the lifespan; phenomenology and treatment of tic disorders; comorbidity; multivariate statistical analysis.

Joseph M. Kishton, Professor. Primary interest: Lifespan developmental psychology.; Special interests: Personality change in adulthood; ego development; psychobiography.

Len Lecci, Professor. Primary interests: Clinical and personality psychology. Special interests: Motivational underpinnings of mood and health related disorders; individual differences as predictors of adult mental health; juror bias.

Shanhong Luo, Assistant Professor. Primary interests: Social and personality psychology.           Special interests: Development of close relationships; attraction and partner selection; relationship maintenance; perceptual biases involved in relationships.

Sally J. MacKain, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Clinical psychology. Special interests: Schizophrenia; psychosocial rehabilitation; mental health treatment in correctional settings.

Bryan Myers, Associate Professor. Primary interests: Industrial, organizational, and legal psychology. Special interests: Sexual harassment; lie detection in the workplace and other settings; workplace health and safety; jury decision making; victim impact statements; false memories.

Jennifer Myers, Full-time Instructor. Primary Interests: Clincial and developmental psychology. Special interest: Marriage and family therapy.

Simone Nguyen, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Cognitive development in childhood. Special interests: Categories & concepts; inductive reasoning; naive theory of biology.

Nora E. Noel, Professor. Primary interest: Clinical psychology. Special interests: Substance abuse etiology and treatment; substance use in psychiatric populations.

Richard Ogle: Associate Professor. Primary interest: Clinical Psychology. Special interests: Motivational interviewing; addictions; alcohol and aggression; program development & evaluation.

William H. Overman, Jr., Professor. Primary interest: Physiological psychology. Special interests: Role of prefrontal cortex in decision-making, olfaction, and the development of adolescents and adults.

Carol A. Pilgrim, Professor. Primary interest: Experimental and applied behavior analysis. Special interests: Human operant behavior; stimulus control; early detection of breast cancer.

Raymond C. Pitts, Jr., Professor. Primary interests: Behavioral pharmacology; behavior analysis. Special interests: Behavioral & pharmacological mechanisms of drug action; choice and decision making.

Antonio E. Puente, Professor. Primary interest: Clinical biopsychology. Special interests: Neuropsychology; behavioral medicine; minority issues; psychology of consciousness.

D. Kim Sawrey, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Animal behavior. Special interest: Mammalian reproductive behavior and physiology.

Jeffrey P. Toth, Assistant Professor. Primary interests: Memory, attention, & aging. Special interests: Cognitive control & unconscious influences; subjective experience & judgment; cognitive training.

Carole M. Van Camp, Assistant Professor. Primary interests: Behavior analysis, intellectual disabilities, and behavioral interventions. Special interests: Child welfare & gerontology.

Wendy Donlin Washington, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Applied Behavior Analysis. Special interests: Substance abuse; experimental analysis of behavior; behavioral pharmacology; behavioral economics. 

Part-Time Faculty, Lecturers, & Research Staff

Carlos Aparicio

Beth Barton

Michael Bradley, Professor Emeritus

Robert Brown, Professor Emeritus

Jocelyn Buhain

Bridget D. Byrd

Janet L. Camp

Jim Dolan

James Travis Colwell

John Lothes

Michele (Myssie) Mathis

Nyaka NiiLampti

Tracy Peña

Laurel Brooke Poerstel

Rhiannon D. Thomas

Kathleen Rosa

Donna Vaught

Raquel Vilar-Lopez

Professors Emeriti

Dr. Joseph C. Awkard (deceased)

Dr. Michael Bradley

Dr. Robert Brown

Dr. Kathleen Kowal

Dr. C. Sue Lamb

Dr. Darwin Newton (deceased)

Dr. Carolyn Simmons

Dr. John Williams, Jr.

Office Staff

Sonya Kelly, Adminstrative Secretary.  Phone: 910-962-4298.

Pat Schimberg, Office Assistant.  Phone: 910-962-3370.

Rosemary Schmitt, Office Assistant.  Phone: 910-962-7467.

Departmental Documents

Psychology Department Policy Manual

Psychology Department Organizational Chart

Report on Program & Learning Outcome Assessment