Faculty

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Charles I. Abramson, Ph.D.

Regents Professor

Lawrence L. Boger Professor of International Studies

Boston University

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Comparative psychology. Studies include mathematical models of the learning process, influence of agrochemicals and metals on learning, development of a social insect model of ethanol induced behavior, molecular mechanisms of learning, development of inquiry-based science activities, comparative analysis of behavior.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Teaching Faculty

Angela Andrade, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor

Oklahoma State University

Current courses include Introductory Psychology, Statistical Methods in Psychology, and Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. Research interests: Social psychology, issues of social inequality based on race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Recent publications appear in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, the Journal of Social Psychology, and Social Cognition.

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Amanda Baraldi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Arizona State University

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Missing data analyses, methods for assessing mediation, longitudinal growth modeling, and health and prevention research. Recent publications appear in Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, and Appetite.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Missouri

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Psychobiology of the stress response including sex differences, developmental and life history factors, with a focus on female sociality as it relates to evolutionary psychology more broadly. Recent publications appear in Psychoneuroendocrinology, Physiology and Behavior, and Hormones & Behavior.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

John M. Chaney, Ph.D.

Regents Professor

University of Missouri

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Emotional adjustment in pediatric chronic illness populations, particularly juvenile rheumatic diseases and inflammatory bowel disease.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

Lucia Ciciolla, Ph.D., IMH®(III)

Assistant Professor

Associate Director of Clinical Training

Arizona State University

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Risk and resilience in early child development within the context of the parent-child relationship and in association with maternal psychopathology, developmental risk factors, and social/environmental risk factors.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

Ashley Cole, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Oklahoma State University

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Dr. Cole's current research examines health disparities and health behaviors in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations from both resilience and risk perspectives.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Speech Communications Faculty

Terrisa Elwood, M.A.

Teaching Instructor

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

Juliana E. French, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Florida State University

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Biological and evolved mechanisms underlying romantic attraction, long-term relationship maintenance and dissolution, and intrasexual competition with a focus on modern environmental disruptions. Recent publications appear in Psychological Science and Evolution & Human Behavior.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

DeMond M. Grant, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Buffalo - SUNY

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The role of repetitive negative thought (e.g., worry, rumination) on cognitive processes associated with anxiety disorders, using information processing tasks, event-related potentials, and peripheral psychophysiology.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

James W. Grice, Ph.D.

Professor

University of New Mexico

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Social-Personality Track. Observation Oriented Modeling, Quantitative Methods, Personality Theory, Psychology of Religion, and Idiographic Assessment of Personality. Recent publications appear in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, and the Journal of Personality.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Speech Communications Faculty

Sasha Hanrahan, M.S.

Coordinator of SPCH Area, Teaching Instructor

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Examining racial consciousness among white students at a PWI, developing and examining anti-racist and feminist pedagogy and incorporating into various communication curriculum.

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Sayuri Hayakawa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Chicago

Relationship between language, cognition, and behavior, with a particular focus on how bilingual co-activation and experience shapes judgment and choice. Recent publications appear in Cognition, Brain & Language, International Journal of Bilingualism, and Applied Linguistics.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Speech Communications Faculty

Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Dr. Hollingsworth's research interests include rhetorical communication for social justice, civic and community engagement, and critical pedagogy.

Teaching Faculty

Evan Jordan, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Oklahoma State University

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Current courses include Psychology of Human Sexuality and Psychology of Mass Media. Recent Publications appear in Psychology of Learning and Teaching and Archives of Psychology.

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Shelia M. Kennison, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Cognitive science with a broad focus including topics in cognition related the communication and social processes, especially those involving bilingualism and trilingualism. New research focuses on biological basis of behavior, especially involved in risk-taking in children and adults.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

Kara L. Kerr, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Tulsa

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Current Research: Neurobiology of psychiatric disorders during adolescence. Specifically, interactions between environment and biology that may contribute to risk and resilience to adolescent internalizing disorders and applying neuroscientific findings to prevention and intervention efforts.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

Jaimie Arona Krems, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Arizona State University

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Social-Personality Track. Friendship; Female social psychology and behavior (cooperation, competition); Stereotyping and prejudice (e.g., fat stigma). Recent publications appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and Evolution & Human Behavior.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Teaching Faculty

Jennifer Labrecque, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor

University of Southern California

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Current Research: Habit formation and change, consumer and health behavior change, social intelligence effects on group performance, social network analysis. Recent publications appear in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Health Psychology Review.

Clinical Psychology Faculty

Thad R. Leffingwell, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Washington

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Motivation and ambivalence in the behavior change process, including clinical interventions (motivational interviewing) for resolving ambivalence and promoting behavior change-currently focused on health risk behaviors including substance use.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Speech Communications Faculty

Megan M. Linsenmeyer

Teaching Instructor

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

Kara Moore, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas

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The role of attention and memory in the legal system. Specifically, (1) children's and adults' use of metacognitive strategies to prevent false memories and (2) the role of memory and attention in the search for missing and wanted persons. Recent publications appear in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Child Development, and Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Does not anticipate accepting a student in 2023.

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

Amanda S. Morris, Ph.D.

Regents Professor

George Kaiser Family Foundation

Endowed Chair in Developmental Neurosciences

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Social and emotional development in children and adolescents, with a focus on risk and resilience processes and factors that influence early brain development and parent-child relationships. Recent publications appear in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, and American Psychologist.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt, Ph.D.

Professor

Director of Clinical Training

University of Kentucky

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The clinical applications and utility of personality models within the personality disorder nomenclature. Extensions of personality models to constructs not described in a diagnostic manual (e.g., successful psychopathy) and maladaptive behavior patterns (e.g., nonsuicidal self-injury).

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

Larry L. Mullins, Ph.D.

Regents Professor

Vaughn Vennerberg Chair of Psychology

University of Missouri

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Child and family adjustment to pediatric chronic illness, with an emphasis on identifying factors that predict both resilience and adjustment difficulties in children and their parents. Randomized trials with parents of children with a chronic illness. Research is underway in populations of children with cancer, disorders of sexual development, sickle cell disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Teaching Faculty

Garrett Pollert, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor

Director, Psychological Services Center

University of Arkansas

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Disordered eating, binge eating, dietary restraint and restriction. Cognitive components influencing eating and weight management behaviors and success. Emotion dysregulation broadly, as well as beliefs and attitudes related to emotion.

Experimental Psychology Faculty

Celinda Reese-Melancon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Associate Department Head

Louisiana State University

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Memory and memory aging, especially factors that influence prospective memory performance, metamemory, and collaborative cognition.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Teaching Faculty

Joanna Shadlow, Ph.D.

Teaching Professor

University of Kansas

Courses include Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, Issues in Clinical Psychology. Research interests: Native American health and health disparities, specifically what mechanisms contribute to the Native American pain disparity (e.g., diabetes risk, structural racism/discrimination). Recent publications appear in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Pain, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and Ethnicity and Health

Clinical Psychology Faculty

Maureen A. Sullivan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

State University of New York - Stony Brook

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Effective parenting strategies and child misbehavior in early childhood, including among American Indian families. Children and their families' adjustment to natural disaster.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Experimental Psychology Faculty

Daniel Sznycer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Social-Personality Track. Evolutionary–functional research on emotion, valuation, morality, and institutions. Recent publications appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Evolution & Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Human Behavior.

Will be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Emeriti Faculty

David G. Thomas, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

University of Denver

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Supervises graduate instructors teaching Introductory Psychology.

No longer accepting students.

Speech Communications Faculty

Mary K. Walker, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor

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Speech Communications Faculty

Kathryn Weinland, Ph.D.

Teaching Associate Professor

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Current courses include Introduction to Speech Communication, Developmental Psychology, and Intercultural Communication. Dr. Weinland is passionate about student success and implements empathy and whole person education, creative teaching methods, and differentiated instruction to empower students inside and outside of the classroom. She is the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in General Education Teaching Award.

Clinical Psychology Faculty

Tony Wells, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Interim Department Head

University of Texas at Austin

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Suicidal thinking and behavior with a focus on implicit cognitive processes. Improving suicide screening and risk prediction.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Clinical Psychology Faculty

LaRicka R. Wingate, Ph.D.

Professor

Florida State University

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Black/African American mental health, suicide behavior, positive psychology, and race specific risk and protective factors.

Will NOT be reviewing Fall 2023 applications.

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Affiliated Faculty

Amy Wisniewski, Ph.D.

Research Professor

The Johns Hopkins University

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Amy Wisniewski received her BA in Neuroscience from Oberlin College in 1994 and her PhD in Experimental Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1999. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Endocrinology in 2002 from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Amy’s research examines behavioral, medical and surgical outcomes of children and adults affected by disorders of sex development (DSD).

Is not reviewing nor accepting students.

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