Faculty and Staff
Full-time Faculty
- Richard L. Ogle, Department Chairperson & Professor. Primary interests: Motivational interviewing; addictions; alcohol and aggression; program development & evaluation.
- Melanie H. Bachmeyer, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Applied behavior analysis. Special interest: Common childhood behavior problems; pediatric feeding disorders.
- Katherine E. M. Bruce, Professor.
Primary interests: Animal behavior and comparative cognition; Special interests: Evolutionary psychology; non-human mate choice; AIDS prevention.
- Caroline Clements, 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, Associate 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.
- Maria G.
Espinosa-Hernandez, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Developmental
and cross-cultural psychology. Special interests: Sexuality, romantic
relationships, and psychological adjustment among Latino adolescents.
- Mark Galizio, Professor. Primary interests: Substance abuse and behavioral pharmacology; conditioning, learning and memory. Special interests: Experimental and applied analysis of behavior.
- Cameron Gordon, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Clinical Psychology. Special interests: Marriage and intimate relationships; positive psychology; gratitude; mindfulness.
- Robert L. Hakan, Associate Professor. Primary interests: Neural substrates of reward; substance abuse. Special interests: Behavioral pharmacology, electrophysiology.
- Christine Hughes, Associate Professor. Primary interests: Behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology. Special interests: Behavioral and pharmacological mechanisms of drug tolerance; choice and decision making.
- Anne Hungerford, Associate Professor. Primary interest: Developmental psychology. Special interests: Early socioemotional development, parenting, & infant temperament.
- Anne-Marie R. Iselin (formerly Leistico), Assistant Professor. Primary interests: Child clinical and forensic psychology. Special interests: Development and prevention of antisocial behaviors in adolescence, clinical interventions for juvenile offenders, and juvenile justice policy.
- Lee A. Jackson, Jr., Professor. Primary interests: Social, community, and environmental psychology; Special interests: Mental health; interpersonal processes; small group performance.
- Julian R. Keith, Professor. Primary interest: Cognitive neuroscience. Special interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory; philosophy of neuroscience.
- Joseph M. Kishton, Professor. Primary interest: Lifespan developmental psychology.; Special interests: Personality change in adulthood; ego development; psychobiography.
- Rachel A. Kohman, Assistant Professor. Primary interest: Behavioral Neuroscience. Special interests: Impact of neuroinflammation on learning/memory and factors (e.g., age, exercise, sex, and diet) that affect susceptibility to inflammation-associated behavioral and cognitive deficits.
- 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, Associate 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, Professor. Primary interest: Clinical psychology. Special interests: Schizophrenia; psychosocial rehabilitation; mental health treatment in correctional settings.
- Bryan Myers, Graduate Coordinator & 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.
- Kate B. Nooner, Assistant Professor.
Primary interest: Clinical child & adolescent psychology. Special interests: EEG & neurofeedback; child maltreatment; eating disorders; substance use; PTSD; ADHD.
- 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, Associate 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
Professors Emeriti
- Dr. Michael Bradley
- Dr. Robert Brown
- Dr. Kathleen Kowal
- Dr. C. Sue Lamb
- Dr. Carolyn Simmons
- Dr. John Williams, Jr.
Office Staff
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