Primary Faculty
Philip Gable, Ph.D. Dr. Gable specializes in social and emotional neuroscience. He is the director of the Social Cognitive Emotive Neuroscience (SCEN) Lab, which is devoted to investigating affective processes and the interaction of these processes with cognition and perception. His research integrates multiple measures such as neurophysiology, personality, and behavior. In the lab, he utilizes neurophysiological measures such as electrical brain activity (EEG), facial muscle activation (EMG), and reflex physiology (e.g., PAR) to investigate the interplay of neural processes and behavior. Broadly, his research examines dimensions of emotion and how diverse emotional processes influence human perception, cognition, and performance.
Rosanna Guadagno, Ph.D. Dr. Rosanna Guadagno received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003. Her masters and dissertation examined persuasion via computer-mediated communication. To extend her knowledge of the impact of technology on social interaction, Dr. Guadagno spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied persuasion and non-verbal behavior in immersive virtual environments. Currently, she is the director of UA's Online Social Interaction Lab where she works with her graduate students on three major lines of research: 1) Social Influence and persuasion; 2) social media use; 3) Gender roles. In terms of teach interests, Dr. Guadagno teaches a variety of graduate courses, some of which are statistics (Structural Equation Modeling and Analysis of Variance) and some of which are social psychology-related (Social Influence and Advanced Social Psychology). At the undergraduate level, Dr. Guadagno teaches Social Psychology.
Jim Hamilton, Ph.D. Dr. Hamilton received his doctoral training in behavior therapy and behavioral medicine at Case Western Reserve University. His current research interests center on the motivational factors that contribute to unexplained medical symptoms, as observed in functional somatic syndromes, somatoform disorders, and especially factitious disorder. His graduate teaching responsibilities include supervision of the basic psychotherapy practicum, graduate courses in behavior therapy and behavioral medicine, and coordination of the internal medicine practicum experience.
Will Hart, Ph.D. Dr. Hart's research focuses on social cognition and
attitudes, with an emphasis on the cognitive and motivational processes
involved in gathering information about and responding to social
stimuli. This program of research involves analyzing how personality
interacts with social circumstances to determine action, how language
influences thought and action, and how information is sought and used
for judgment. Therefore, he examine topics that are of broad interest to psychologists such as attitudes, language, memory, motivation,
personality and person perception and topics that are often relevant to
improving human performance and decision making.
Affiliated Faculty
Joan Barth, Ph.D. Dr. Barth is a developmental social psychologist interested in social-emotional development, gender differences in science and math education experiences, adolescent risk behaviors, children’s decision making skills, education contexts, and neuro-cognitive development in young children. She is involved in the evaluation of a variety of education initiatives at ISSR. Dr. Barth earned a BS in psychology, an MS in social psychology, and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Debra McCallum, Ph.D. Dr. McCallum has served as the director of ISSR for 22 years and is responsible for projects conducted by the Capstone Poll. She is a social psychologist interested in social influence, social-psychological aspects of health behavior and outcomes, safety and well-being of children and youth, and evaluations of education and community intervention programs. Dr. McCallum earned a B.A. from Furman and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Steven Prentice-Dunn, Ph.D. Dr. Prentice-Dunn received his graduate training in experimental psychology and sociology at the University of Alabama. His research focuses on health and on teaching. Recently he has investigated interventions to promote preventive health behaviors such complying with dietary guidelines following gastric bypass surgery, reducing skin cancer risk, and increasing breast cancer awareness in young adults. He has also written articles on training graduate students to teach and on consultation with new instructors. Dr. Prentice-Dunn currently teaches graduate-level Teaching of Psychology and undergraduate-level Introduction to Psychology in traditional, honors, and online formats. He has received the College’s and University’s highest awards for teaching excellence and he has been a consulting editor for the journal, Teaching of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
