Faculty
Jane Gillham
Professor and Chair
Psychology
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Interests: Clinical psychology, especially child clinical; prevention and treatment of depression in childhood and adolescence; social and emotional well-being; school- and community-based interventions.
Office Hours: By appointment through the Office Hours Scheduler
John Blanchar
Asst Professor - Psychology
Psychology
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Interests: Social and political psychology; status quo preference and change; psychological underpinnings and consequences of ideology; motivated reasoning; judgment and decision making; and prejudice and stereotyping.
Office Hours: By appointment.
Stella Christie
Associate Professor (On Leave 2019 - 2020 Academic Year)
Psychology and Cognitive Science
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Interests: Cognitive development: analogy and comparison learning; effects of language on cognition in development; cross-linguistics and multilingual acquisition.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Frank Durgin
Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor of Psychology
Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
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Interests: Human visual cognition and perceptual learning; eye-movements and attention; adaptation; depth perception; representation of number; computer modeling and simulation of cognitive processes.
Office Hours: Students can schedule appointments with Professor Durgin through Google Calendar at: https://goo.gl/tjvvBj
Youssef Ezzyat
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Interests: Cognitive neuroscience: human memory and learning; electrophysiological basis of memory; machine learning and computational methods.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Molly Flaherty
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Interests: Signed and spoken language acquisition, language emergence, numerical cognition, cognitive development, effects of variation in early childhood language environment
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Daniel Grodner
Associate Professor
Psychology and Cognitive Science
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Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.
Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1).
Beth Krause
Leave Replacement - Psychology
Psychology
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Interests: Emotion regulation, coping strategies, and gender in the development and maintenance of internalizing disorders (depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress); development of intervention and prevention programs for girls and women that can be administered through community settings, such as primary care and schools.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Cat Norris
Associate Professor
Psychology and Neuroscience
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Office Hours: By email appointment.
Michele Reimer
Assistant Professor (part-time)
Psychology
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Interests: Development of self-conscious emotions; gender differences in emotion and developmental psychopathology; clinical-developmental psychology, especially family system influences on resilience; school-based intervention.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Allen Schneider
Centennial Professor of Psychology (On Leave Spring 2020)
Psychology and Neuroscience
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Interests: Physiological basis of learning and memory; drug tolerance; recovery from brain damage.
Office Hours: Drop-in office hours are Wednesdays from 2:00-4:00pm. Students can also e-mail aschnei1 to set up an appointment.
Jedidiah Siev
Assistant Professor (On Leave 2019-2020 Academic Year)
Psychology
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Interests: Clinical psychology; anxiety disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorder; scrupulosity (moral or religious OCD); “unacceptable thoughts” in OCD (e.g., sexual, religious, and violent obsessions); body dysmorphic disorder; cognition in anxiety and OCD, including information processing (e.g., attention), meta-cognition (thinking about thinking), and judgment and decision-making; cognitive-behavioral therapy; treatment outcome research.
Barbara Thelamour
Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Interests: My research interests are developmental and cultural in focus. Specifically, I am interested in how interpersonal relationships with parents and peers influence various outcomes in Black immigrant adolescents and emerging adults, including identity development and academic achievement and engagement. In this line of research, I am also interested in how various contexts (e.g., schools and national contexts) shape these processes.
Andrew Ward
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology (On Leave Spring 2021)
Psychology and Peace & Conflict Studies
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Interests: Social psychology: self-control of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; bargaining and negotiation; social perception.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Emeriti
Kenneth Gergen
Gil and Frank Mustin Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Senior Research Professor
Psychology
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Jeanne Marecek
William R. Kenan Professor Emerita of Psychology<br/>Senior Research Professor
Psychology
Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Barry Schwartz
Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action
Emeritus Psychology
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Interests: Psychology and decision making, psychology and economics; the relation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; the nature of human values.
Research Fellows
Peiyao Chen
Research Fellow
Psychology
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Staff
Kim Ngan Hoang
Research Manager & Academic Assistant
Psychology
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Kathryn Timmons
Administrative Coordinator
Psychology
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