Psychology Faculty and Staff

Vincent J. Adesso, Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1971
Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Addictive Behaviors, Behavior Therapy, Learning Theory

Shawn P. Cahill, Assistant 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

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

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
Behavioral Neuroscience, Animal Learning, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Physiology of Pain and Analgesia, 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, Develpmental Psychology, Pediatric Neuropsychology, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Christine Larson, Assistant 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

Marcellus M. Merritt, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Howard University, 1997
Social Psychophysiology, Stress and Aging, and 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
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 and Chair
Ph.D., University of South Dakota, 1979
Clinical Psychology: Medical aspects of clinical work including neuropsychology, rehabilitation, learning disability, and forensic neuropsychology

Richard H. Passman, Professor
Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1972
Clinical Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychotherapy, Behavior Modification

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

Rodney Swain, Associate Professor
Associate Dean of the Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992
Behavioral Neuroscience/Psychobiology, Learning and Memory, Cerebellar Plasticity

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