Program Faculty
Over 20 faculty from both the Department of Psychology and Department of Graduate Psychology contribute to the Psychological Sciences program. The program operates on a mentorship philosophy, where students enter the program based on the fit with a particular faculty member who serves as the student's research advisor. Below is a list of faculty members accepting students in Fall 2007. Additional faculty members who teach courses, serve on committees, and work with students in the program in a variety of capacities also are listed.
Faculty Taking Students in Fall 2008:
JoAnne Brewster, (Ph.D., McMaster University ). Police and forensic psychology
Steven W. Evans, (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University ).Treatment outcome, ADHD, clinical child & adolescent psychology, and school based mental health
Sara Finney, (Ph.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln ). Practical issues in structural equation modeling, instrument development, validity, and statistics education
Michael Hall, (Ph.D., SUNY - Binghamton ). Auditory perception and cognition, speech perception, music perception, attention
Gregg Henriques, (Ph.D., University of Vermont ). Theoretical unification of psychology and well-being
Jessica Irons, (Ph.D., Auburn University ). Behavior Analysis; behavioral pharmacology, psychological mechanisms of addiction and behavioral interventions for substance abuse; scholarship of teaching and learning
Dena Pastor, (Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin ). The application of hierarchical and latent variable modeling to study measurement issues as well as college student learning and development
Sheena Rogers, (Ph.D., Royal College of Art , London ). Perceptual processes in our experience of painting, photography and film; perception of a 3-D world
Bryan Saville, (Ph.D., Auburn University ) - Experimental analysis of human
social behavior, self-control and impulsivity, teaching of psychology, behavior analysis, and research methods
Sherry Serdikoff, (Ph.D., West Virginia University ). Behavior analysis; laboratory models of psychopathology; behavioral pharmacology; stimulus control; behavioral approaches to judgment & decision making and; instructional design, assessment, & program evaluation
Rich West, (Ph.D., University of Michigan ) Judgment, decision making, and critical thinking; why even bright people are susceptible to cognitive illusions and biases
Tracy Zinn, (Ph.D., Auburn University ) - Behavior analysis, industrial/organizational psychology, organizational behavior management, teaching/training, and the university environment
Additional Faculty and Associate Faculty (NOT accepting students in Fall 2008):
Kenn E. Barron, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison ). Motivation, goal setting, well being, program evaluation, research methodology and statistics
Monica Reis-Bergan, (Ph.D., Iowa State University ). Health psychology: health risk behaviors (e.g., perceived risk and tanning behaviors) and health promotion behaviors (e.g., attitudes and exercise); teaching of psychology
Donna Sundre, (Ed.D., University of North Carolina - Greensboro ). Examinee motivation, measurement issues and theory, construct development, program evaluation, educational research and assessment
Associate Faculty (NOT accepting students in Fall 2008):
Robin Anderson, (Psy.D., James Madison University). Validation of assessment and program evaluation procedures
Pam Gibson, (Ph.D., University of Rhode Island ). Environment and health/chemical sensitivity, women's mental and physical health, alternative/holistic health, diversity issues
Christine Harmes, (Ph.D., University of South Florida ). Computer-based testing, innovative item design and development, usability testing and, item response theory
Arnie Kahn, (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University ). Psychology of gender, social psychology, psychology of women, violence against women
Patrick Meyer, (Ph.D., University of South Carolina .) Statistical analysis of mixed groups, item mapping, differential item functioning, finite mixture models, and NAEP research .
Michael Stoloff, (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University ) The Psychology Major curriculum, effective college teaching, and program assessment
Steve Wise, (Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign). Psychological measurement, assessment
