Dr. Rebecca Allen-Burge’s research interests focus on clinical geropsychology, specifically in long-term and palliative care sittings.  She designs and evaluates interventions to improve caregivers’ stress. PY 211

Dr. Shelia Black’s primary research area is cognitive aging.  She is particularly interested in how memory and attentional processes change as a function of age. PY 101, PY 470, PY 491.

Dr. David Boles’ research investigates lateralized cognitive processes and their relationships to individual and group differences, multiple resources, and training. PY 413, PY 470, PY 491.

Dr. Stanley Brodsky conducts research on expert witness behavior and effectiveness, fear of litigation, psychology of men, and forensic psychology. PY 491.

Dr. Louis Burgio’s research is in the area of behavioral/environmental interventions for patients with dementia.  His research has involved both community and institutional caregivers.  He has developed motivational systems to assist nursing home caregivers in maintaining therapeutic skills. Graduate Only.

Dr. Carl Clements’ research activities include the assessment of youthful and adult offenders, forensic and correctional psychology, and the assessment of attitudes affecting justice and mental health decision-making. PY 105, PY 491, PY 495.

Dr. Frances Conners’ research interests center on cognitive aspects of intellectual and developmental disabilities, especially memory, learning, and reading, and implications for intervention. PY 355, PY 491.

Dr. Jamie DeCoster’s research investigates implicit learning, priming effects, and creativity from perspectives of dual process and connectionist models.  He also has broad interest in social psychology, including impression formation, stereotyping, and group behavior. Graduate Only.

Dr, James Hamilton’s research concerns the interface of social and health psychology.  He is particularly interested in applying constructs such as self-esteem and identity to understand why people exaggerate physical symptoms and over-utilize health care resources. PY 101, PY 358, PY 491.

Dr. Laura Klinger’s research is in the area of developmental psychopathology.  She is interested in early developing cognitive impairments (i.e., attention, memory, and implicit learning) that contribute to social impairments in children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome.  She also conducts research on the effectiveness of social skills groups for high functioning children with autism. PY 352, PY 491.

Dr. Mark Klinger’s research conducts research on unconscious cognition.  This includes work in unconscious perception and implicit memory with particular interest on the unconscious activation and use of stereotypes. PY Honors Program, PY 491.

Dr. Kenny Lichstein’s research interests include the investigation the mechanisms and treatment of sleep disorders from a behavioral sleep medicine perspective and the study of insomnia with an emphasis on insomnia in older adults. PY 101.

Dr. John Lochman’s research interest include social-cognitive processes of aggressive children, and the short- and long-term effects of treatment and prevention programs provided to high-risk aggressive children, and risk factors leading to adolescent Conduct Disorder, substance use, and delinquency. Graduate Only.

Dr. Ed Merrill’s research is concerned with describing and analyzing group differences in attention and semantic processing associated with age and intelligence. PY 101, PY 211, PY 356, PY 361, PY 491.

Dr. Prentice-Dunn investigates interventions to promote preventive health behaviors. Recent topics include skin cancer risk, breast self-examinations, advance health care directives, and dietary compliance in gastric bypass patients. PY 101.

Dr. Jerome Rosenberg’s major area of research concerns the Holocaust and genocide, dehumanization, human survival, and ethics and social issues. PY 491.

Dr. Beverly Roskos-Ewoldsen’s research involves visual-spatial cognition, including the representation and duse of spatial information and mental imagery.  She also conducts research on the cognitive base of creativity and on general memory processing. PY 211, PY 413, PY 491.

Dr. David Roskos-Ewoldsen has two research programs.  His first focuses on attitudes, and more specifically, on the interaction between attitudes and cognition.  His second research program concerns the influence of media on people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. PY 105, PY 372, PY 491.

Dr. Karen Salekin’s research interests fall broadly in the field of clinical forensic psychology and the interface between psychology and the law.  Specific areas of interests include mental retardation and legal competencies, forensic assessment, parental fitness, and mitigation. PY 352, PY 377.

Dr. Randall Salekin’s primary research and clinical interests are in the child forensic psychology.  Specifically, his interests are on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents who have come into contact with the law, juvenile transfers to adult court, culpability, and the treatment of youth diagnosed with Conduct Disorder. PY 358, PY 491.

Dr. Forest Scogin conducts research in the areas of clinical geropsychology, depression, psychotherapy, and police psychology. Graduate Only.

Dr. Beverly Thorn’s major research area involves psychological assessment and treatment of painful states, e.g., post-surgical pain, headache, cancer pain and low-back pain.  She also does laboratory analog research regarding pain. PY 101.

Dr. Thomas Ward focuses on the nature of concepts, including how they are acquired, structured, combined, and used in creative and noncreative endeavors. His most recent line of research examines the ways in which people apply existing knowledge to new situations, including tasks as diverse as imagining life on other planets and designing practical products. PY 470, PY 491.