Amber Alliger
Doctoral Lecturer

Animal Behavior | Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Alliger's research is based on the studies of how the environment affects the neurophysiology of the brain.

Evelyn Behar
Associate Professor

Clinical Psychology
Dr. Behar's research has traditionally focused on anxiety disorders and transdiagnostic factors within those conditions. More recently, she has also begun investigating the differential role of anxiety and depression during the menopause transition in women.

Danielle Berke
Associate Professor

Clinical Psychology
Dr. Berke's research focuses on understanding psychological risk and resilience factors among women and sexual and gender minorities exposed to violence.

Christopher Braun
Professor

Animal Behavior | Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Braun's research aims to understand the diversity of sensory systems across the animal kingdom with particular emphasis on fish-the most diverse group of animals with backbones.

Nesha Burghardt
Associate Professor

Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Burghardt's research identifies the neural circuits that underlie the cognitive impairments and emotional symptoms associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

Darlene C. DeFour
Associate Professor

Social Psycohlogy
Dr. DeFour's research explores the various ways that stress and violence in the forms of racism and sexism as well as physical violence impact health; strategies for coping with bias.

Tracy Dennis
Professor

Behavioral Neuroscience | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology
Dr. Dennis' current projects focus on teen anxiety, neuro-cognitive and learning mechanisms in anxiety, mental health interventions, and the impact of digital technology on wellness.

Dawn Dugan
Doctoral Lecturer

Clinical Psychology
Dr. Dugan's research focuses on the impact of inter-parental conflict on parenting practices and communication, related research to the quality of parenting and subsequent development of adolescents and children.

Joel Erblich
Professor

Clinical Psychology
Dr. Erblich's research focuses on the interactions between emotional, cognitive, behavioral and genetic factors in addictive behaviors.

Roseanne Flores
Professor

Developmental Psychology
Dr. Flores' focus areas of study are health and educational disparities in early childhood, human rights and poverty.

Jennifer S. Ford
Professor

Clinical Psychology | Health Psychology
Dr. Ford's research is focused on psychosocial adjustment, coping and health behaviors with pediatric, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.

Sarit Golub
Distinguished Professor

Clinical Psychology | Health Psychology
Dr. Golub's research investigates the social, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence risk, decision-making, and health behavior.

Kirsty Graham
Assistant Professor

Animal Behavior
Dr. Graham studies how animals move their bodies to communicate, with a particular interest in primate gestures and language evolution.

Rebecca Farmer Huselid
Associate Professor

Social Psychology | Health Psychology
Dr. Huselid primarily studies the effects of young adults' social identities and their perceptions of discrimination on psychological adjustment and health-related behavior.

Joseph Lao
Doctural Lecturer

Developmental Psychology
Dr. Lao is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the areas of belief revision and on optimal parenting.

Julia Lechuga
Associate Professor

Health Psychology
Dr. Lechuga is a health psychologist with expertise in developing, implementing, and testing multi-level, community-based, behavioral interventions to improve reproductive health as well as reduce infectious disease risk and drug use harms.

Michael J. Lewis
Professor

Physiological Psychology
Dr. Lewis is a behavioral neuroscientist with an interest in the neurobiology of motivation. He investigates alcohol dependence, eating disorders, and substance abuse.

Amber Martin
Doctural Lecturer

Developmental Psychology
Dr. Martin's work aims to uncover the multiple ways that language acquisition and cognition can influence each other. These studies can help us understand both typical development and development in deaf children who experience language delays.

Ana Christina Minerly
Doctural Lecturer

Clinical Psychology
Dr. Minerly's research interests include the role of endocrine hormones in trauma and stress and establishing effective trauma-informed support for patients with mental health comorbidities.

Regina Miranda
Professor

Cognitive Psychology | Clinical Psychology | Health Psychology
Dr. Miranda's research seeks to understand suicide ideation in a way that can inform assessment, treatment, and prevention of suicide risk.

Joshua Plotnik
Associate Professor

Animal Behavior
Dr. Plotnik studies the evolution of cognition across species-with a particular interest in Asian elephants-to determine how similarities in physical and social intelligence evolve in evolutionarily distant taxa.

Sandeep Prasada
Professor

Cognitive Psychology | Developmental Psychology
Dr. Prasada's research investigates the basic mechanisms of lexical and conceptual representation and development.

Thomas Preuss
Professor

Animal Behavior | Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Preuss studies how social status modifies sensory processing and perception at the behavioral, neurophysiological and molecular level in African cichlid fish.

Diana Reiss 
Professor

Animal Behavior | Cognitive Psychology 
Dr. Reiss' research focuses on the cognitive and communicative abilities of dolphins and decoding vocal communication and creating systems that provide increased choice and control.

Tracey Revenson
Professor

Health Psychology | Social Psychology
Dr. Revenson brings a social-ecological perspective to the study of how stress coping, and social support processes affect psychological adjustment to chronic physical illness, and how these processes are influenced by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

Kimberly Robinson
Doctoral Lecturer

Health Psychology | Social Psychology
Dr. Robinson's research examines the effects of minority stress (such as discrimination) on psychological well-being and health behaviors.

Jennifer Savoie
Doctural Lecturer

Animal Behavior
Dr. Savoie's research focuses on the influence cerebral lateralization can have on behavior and is interested in the effect of arousal and experience on lateralized behaviors.

Glenn Schafe
Professor & Chair

Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Schafe's lab studies the neurobiological substrates of emotional learning and memory and the effects of chronic stress on emotional memory formation.

Stefan Schlussman
Doctural Lecturer

Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Schlussman 's research focused on the neurochemical and behavioral effects of drugs of abuse, in an animal model. Using different strains of mice, that differ in their responses to drugs of abuse (e.g., cocaine or heroin), his research attempted to understand what makes one individual more likely than another to develop an addictive disease. Unfortunately, Dr. Schlussman does not have an active research program at this time.

Peter Serrano
Professor

Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr. Serrano's research aims to identify how various signaling pathways are affected by stress, fear, developmental insults, pharmacological challenges, neural stimulation and cognition.

Tricia Skoler
Professor

Developmental Psychology
Dr. Skoler's research areas include entrepreneurship, creativity, neuroscience, infancy, autism, biophilic design, health and wellness, social-cognitive development. Applicants to her lab should read the book, Doing Developmental Research (Guilford Press) prior to applying and email inquiry following guidance in Chapter 1. Accepting students for 201 and 395 for Spring 2025 semester.

Tyrel Starks
Professor

Clinical Psychology | Health Psychology
Dr. Stark's research focuses on the development and testing of behavioral interventions to reduce drug use and improve sexual health outcomes among populations at high risk for HIV infection.

Ofer Tchernichovski
Professor

Animal Behavior | Cognitive Psychology | Social Psychology
Dr. Tchernichovski studies cultural evolution, social learning and vocal learning in birds and in humans.

Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor

Cognitive Psychology | Developmental Psychology
Dr. Valian currently investigates two-year-old's knowledge of syntax through computational methods, bilingualism, and gender in professional life. Students with computational skills are particularly welcome, as are students willing to work hard.

Jason Young
Associate Professor

Social Psychology
Dr. Young's active projects include research on fear of crime, including a Fulbright-funded project on perceptions of public safety by residents of Trinidad and Tobago; the influence of risk-taking perceptions on daily activities, such as how we spend and save money; and the role of unpredictability in our evaluation of entertainment, such as music.

Professors Emeriti

Sheila Chase

Martin Chowdorow

James Gordon

Cheryl F. Harding

Victoria Luine

Peter Moller

Salomon Rettig