Psychology Faculty and Staff
Shawn P. Cahill, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY)
Adult anxiety disorders, with an emphasis on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic reactions
W. Hobart Davies, Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1992
Pediatric Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Pediatric Feeding Disorders, Pediatric Chronic Illness, Community Violence, Child Abuse
Marshall L. Dermer, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973
Affectionate Behavior, Writing, Research Methods, Educational Technologies
Kamran Diba, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University 2002
Memory consolidation, neural circuit dynamics and computation, large-scale neurophysiology, optogenetics
Ira Driscoll, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 2005
Brain changes as early predictors of cognitive deficits and dementia, and the role for hormones and genetic background as modulators of age-related cognitive decline
Raymond Fleming, Professor
Ph.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 1986
Psychophysiology of the Stress Response; the Role of Risk Perceptions in Stress; Mediators of the Stress Response and Learned Helplessness
Karyn Frick, Associate Professor
Ph.D., M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
Understand how aging, sex-steroid hormones, and environmental factors affect hippocampal function and hippocampal-dependent memory
Anthony J. Greene, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston College, 1997
Perceptual priming, declarative memory, relational learning
Deborah Hannula, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Cognitive Neuroscience, Memory, fMRI, Eye-Tracking, Neuropsychological Methods
Fred J. Helmstetter, Professor
Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 1989
Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Neural Plasticity, Brain Imaging
Jonathan Kanter, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington-Seattle, 2002
Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy Process and Outcomes, Behavior Analysis, Depression
Bonnie Klein-Tasman, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University, 2000
Child Clinical Psychology, Child Neuropsychology, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Christine Larson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Clinical Psychology; Affective Neuroscience: fMRI, EEG, and peripheral psychophysiology of affective processes, including individual differences in emotion linked to anxiety and depression, as well as investigations of properties of visual stimuli signaling emotion
Han Joo Lee, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Adult psychopathology of anxiety disorders and their related emotional and personality problems
Susan D. Lima, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1985
Cognitive Psychology
Krista M. Lisdahl, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2005
Clinical neuropsychology, assessment, psychopharmacology, effects of drugs on behavior.
Marcellus M. Merritt, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Howard University, 1997
Social Psychophysiology, Hypertension, Caregiver Stress, Health Disparities
John (Jay) C. Moore, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1975
Learning and Motivation, Systems of Psychology
Katie E. Mosack, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2001
Health Psychology, Health Care Delivery, Treatment Adherence, Sexual Health Decision-Making, Social Support, Relationship Violence
James R. Moyer, Jr., Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1992
Neurobiology of learning, Memory, and Aging, Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Aging, Neurobiological Mechanisms of Temporal Encoding
Devin Mueller, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), 2005
Behavioral Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Neurobiology of Addiction; Psychopharmacology
David C. Osmon, Professor
Ph.D., University of South Dakota, 1979
Clinical Psychology: Medical aspects of clinical work including neuropsychology, rehabilitation, learning disability, and forensic neuropsychology
Diane M. Reddy, Professor
Ph.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 1984
Health Psychology
Robyn C. Ridley, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1984
Clinical Developmental Psychology
Pamela M. Schaefer, Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1994
Rodney Swain, Associate Professor
Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992
Behavioral Neuroscience/Psychobiology, Learning and Memory, Cerebellar Plasticity
Jeffrey Tiger, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,University of Kansas 2006
Behavior Analysis, Developmental and Sensory Disabilties, Severe Behavior Disorders
Douglas Woods, Professor
Ph.D., Western Michigan University, 1999
Childhood behavior problems, assessment and treatment of tic disorders, trichotillomania, and OCD-spectrum disorders, HIV/AIDS prevention, behavior therapy, clinical behavior analysis