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Charles I. Abramson, Ph.D.
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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Angela Andrade, Ph.D.
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.
 
 
Amanda Baraldi, Ph.D.
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.
Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Ph.D.
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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John M. Chaney, Ph.D.
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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Lucia Ciciolla, Ph.D., IMH®(III)
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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Ashley Cole, Ph.D.
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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Terrisa Elwood, M.A.
Speech Communications Faculty
Terrisa Elwood, M.A.
Teaching Instructor
 
 
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Juliana E. French, Ph.D.
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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DeMond M. Grant, Ph.D.
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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James W. Grice, Ph.D.
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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Sasha Hanrahan, M.S.
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.
 
 
Sayuri Hayakawa, Ph.D.
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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Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Ph.D.
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.
 
 
Evan Jordan, Ph.D.
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.
 
 
Shelia M. Kennison, Ph.D.
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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Kara L. Kerr, Ph.D.
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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Jaimie Arona Krems, Ph.D.
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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Jennifer Labrecque, Ph.D.
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. 
 
 
Thad R. Leffingwell, Ph.D.
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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Megan M. Linsenmeyer
Speech Communications Faculty
Megan M. Linsenmeyer
Teaching Instructor
 
 
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Kara Moore, Ph.D.
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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Amanda S. Morris, Ph.D.
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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Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt, Ph.D.
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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Larry L. Mullins, Ph.D.
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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Garrett Pollert, Ph.D.
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.
 
 
Celinda Reese-Melancon, Ph.D.
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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Joanna Shadlow, Ph.D.
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
 
 
Maureen A. Sullivan, Ph.D.
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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Daniel Sznycer, Ph.D.
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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David G. Thomas, Ph.D.
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.
Mary K. Walker, Ph.D.
Speech Communications Faculty
Mary K. Walker, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant Professor
 
 
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Kathryn Weinland, Ph.D.
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.
 
 
Tony Wells, Ph.D.
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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LaRicka R. Wingate, Ph.D.
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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Amy Wisniewski, Ph.D.
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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