PROGRAM IN PSYCHOLOGY

PRIMARY PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY

The Program in Psychology provides a variety of opportunities to work with faculty members in different areas. Many of our faculty have interests spanning more than one concentration.

For more information, click on the faculty member's name to access their personal webpage.

Arin Connell (Ph.D., Emory University), Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in internalizing problems and coping skills during adolescence.

Heath A. Demaree (Ph.D., Virginia Tech), Associate Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in cerebral and psychophysiological underpinnings of emotional processing.

Douglas K. Detterman (Ph.D., University of Alabama), Louis D. Beaumont University Professor and Director of the Experimental Training Program. Specializing in cognition and intelligence in adults, children, and the mentally retarded.

Anastasia Dimitropoulos (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University), Assistant Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in genetic mental retardation syndromes (e.g. Prader-Willi syndrome), compulsive behavior among individuals with cognitive delay.

Julie J. Exline (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook), Associate Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in social relationships, transgression and forgiveness, moral and religious issues.

Joseph F. Fagan III (Ph.D., University of Connecticut), Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in development and individual differences in memory, cognition, and perception.

Norah Feeny (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College), Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Grover C. Gilmore (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University), Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in perceptual development and again, pattern recognition, visual information processing, memory, and psychophysics.

Robert L. Greene (Ph.D., Yale University), Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in human memory, cognition, and information processing.

T.J. McCallum (Ph.D., University of Southern California), Assistant Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in older adults, caregiving, ethnicity, stress, coping and immunity, cognitive-behavioral stress reduction, chronic diseases and coping, religiosity and spirituality

James C. Overholser (Ph.D., Ohio State University), Professor and Director of Clinical Training specializing in depression, suicide, personality disorders, cognitive-behavioral therapy, the Socratic method.

Amy Przeworski (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University), Assistant Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders across the lifespan

Sandra W. Russ (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Professor and member of the core clinical faculty specializing in children's play, creativity, affective processes, personality assessment, play therapy

Elizabeth J. Short (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame), Professor and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in metacognitive and cognitive development in children, ADHD, neuropsychology, cognitive, emotional and social effects of BPD and cocaine-exposure

Lee A. Thompson (Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder), Professor, Chair of the Psychology Program, and member of the core experimental faculty specializing in behavior genetics, child development, and functional neuroimaging.

Click here for a list of our secondary and adjunct faculty