Faculty

  • Mary Ballard

    Research Interests: Aggression; media; video games; bullying. 

  • Doris Bazzini

    Research Interests: Romantic attraction; beautiful-is-good stereotype; media's impact on body image in women; relationship-maintenance processes. 

  • Reagan Breitenstein

    Research Interests: Sleep, temperament and self-regulation, academic achievement outcomes, health disparities, qualities of the home environment and family relationships, twin and behavior genetic designs,  and developmental psychology.  Dr. Breitenstein will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2024.   

  • Chris Dickinson

    Chris Dickinson

    Research Interests: Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception

  • Lisa Emery

    Research Interests: Developmental psychology; adult development and aging; emotion regulation; memory.

  • Amy T. Galloway

    Research Interests: Development of food preferences, picky eating, normal and disordered eating in children and adults; parent and child food interactions. Sustainable and community food system research.

  • Chris Holden

    Research Interests: Personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, relationship-contingent self-esteem, mate retention behavior, open science.

  • Matthew Meier

    Matthew Meier

    Research Interests: Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory Capacity, Individual Differences, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering

  • Andrew Smith

    Research Interests: Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.

  • Kenneth Steele

    Kenneth M. Steele

    Research Interests: Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.

  • Douglas Waring

    Douglas A. Waring

    Research Interests: Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity. Dr. Waring will not be accepting students for Fall 2021.

  • Rose Mary Webb

    Rose Mary Webb

    Department Chair

    Research Interests: Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent. 

  • Twila Wingrove

    Experimental Psychology Program Director

    Research Interests: Legal/forensic psychology; developmental psychology.

  • Katie Wolsiefer

    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests: Implicit social cognition, prejudice reduction, the role of intergroup bias in health disparities.  Dr. Wolsiefer will be accepting one graduate student for Fall 2024.

  • Mark C. Zrull

    Mark C. Zrull

    Research Interests: Experience, preference, interactive and stimulus-guided behavior, and neural plasticity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research. Dr. Zrull will not be accepting students for Fall 2021.