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The psychological sciences faculty are interested in the dynamic processes of human development from infancy through adulthood, how these processes influence functioning of the individual, and the individual's relationships with others. Faculty research interests and ongoing research activities are focused in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and social/personality psychology.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Developmental research and course opportunities span topics in social-emotional, cognitive, and language development. Faculty research in social-emotional development includes the study of social relations in childhood and adolescence, childhood aggression, emotional regulation, children’s attitudes and behaviors related to food and weight, children’s self-perceptions, parent-child relations and family processes, intimate relationships in adolescence and adulthood, and social cognition in autism. Research in cognitive development includes infant perception, development of social cognition, cognitive processing during infancy and childhood, emotion regulation and aging, and neurocognitive development. Language development research includes the study of language acquisition, language disorders, preverbal communication, and infants’ and children’s speech and auditory processing.
Faculty Research Areas In Developmental Psychology
Name |
Research Area |
| Shayla Holub | Parenting, Socialization of Eating Behaviors and Weight Attitudes, Self-Perceptions |
| Susan Jerger | Multimodal Speech Processing, Lexical Development in Children with Normal Hearing or Hearing Loss |
| Mandy Maguire | Neurocognitive Development (Using ERPs) and Language |
| Candice Mills | Development of Social Cognition and Critical Thinking |
| Jackie Nelson | Parenting, Family Stress, Emotional Processes within the Family System; Children's Emotional Development |
| Margaret Owen | Parenting and Family Processes, Early Childcare, Self Regulation and School Readiness |
| John Santrock | Family Processes and Adolescent Development |
| Noah Sasson | Social Cognition in Autism |
| Melanie Spence | Developmental Psychology Infant Perception and Learning |
| Marion K. Underwood | Anger, Aggression, Gender and Children's Peer Relationships |
| Deborah Wiebe | Health Psychology |
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Research opportunities and supporting coursework in this area include topics in traditional cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Faculty research includes studies of visual, taste and face perception, memory, music cognition, text comprehension, and speech and discourse. Within the area of cognitive neuroscience, research is ongoing in neurolinguistics, aging, working memory, neurobiology of learning, memory and emotions, computational neural modeling, social attention and perception in autism, and functional brain imaging.
Faculty Research Areas In Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Name |
Research Area |
| Herve Abdi | Memory and Cognition, Quantitative Models, Neuroimaging, Genomics |
| Peter Assmann | Speech Perception and Psychoacoustics |
| James Bartlett | Memory and Cognition, Aging |
| Chandramallika Basak | Cognitive Aging and Plasticity |
| Jay Dowling | Memory and Cognition, Audition, Music Cognition |
| Francesca Filbey | Neurogenetics of Addictive Behavior |
| Cindy de Frias | Memory Compensation, Cognitive Neurogenetics and Aging, Longitudinal Analyses |
| Richard Golden | Quantitative Models in Cognition |
| Susan Jerger | Multimodal Speech Processing, Lexical Development in Children with Normal Hearing or Hearing Loss |
| Kristen Kennedy | Healthy Aging of Brain Structure, Function and Cognition |
| Daniel Krawczyk | Cognition and Neuroscience of Reasoning, Memory and Attention |
| Mandy Maguire | Neurocognitive Development (Using ERPs) and Language |
| Candice Mills | Development of Social Cognition and Critical Thinking |
| Alice O'Toole | Visual Perception, Quantitative Models |
| Karen Rodrigue | |
| Bart Rypma | Cognitive and Neural Bases of Working Memory and Aging |
| Noah Sasson | Social Cognition in Autism |
| Melanie Spence | Infant Perception and Learning |
| Gagan Wig |
SOCIAL/PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY
Research in this area spans social and personality psychology, with heavy connections to other areas in psychology. Research on interpersonal, group processes, and individual differences includes romantic attraction, relationship development, relationship maintenance, family dynamics, dyadic data analysis, personality assessment, and narcissism. Research on social cognition includes cultural and social-class differences in reasoning and social orientation, weight stigma, judgment and decision making in children, and social perception in adults and atypical populations.
Faculty Research Areas In Social/Personality Psychology
Name |
Research Area |
| Robert Ackerman | Individual Differences in Interpersonal Relationships |
| Shayla Holub | Prejudice and Self-Perceptions |
| Candice Mills | Development of Social Cognition and Critical Thinking |
| Bert Moore | School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
| Jinkyung Na | Cultural Differences in Social Orientation and Cognitive Style |
| Karen Prager | Intimacy Development, Marital Relations and Depression |
| Noah Sasson | Social Interest and Behavior in Autism |
| Deborah Wiebe | Health Psychology |
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