DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

PRIMARY FACULTY

The Department of 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), clinical Assistant Professor specializing in internalizing problems and coping skills during adolescence.

Heath A. Demaree (Ph.D., Virginia Tech), experimental Associate Professor 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), experimental Assistant Professor 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), clinical Associate Professor specializing in social relationships, transgression and forgiveness, moral and religious issues.

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

Norah Feeny (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College), clinical Associate Professor specializing in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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

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

Bonnie M. Lawrence (Ph.D., Washington University), experimental Assistant Professor specializing in transformation of sensory signals into motor commands, the role of attention, response selection, and working memory.

T.J. McCallum (Ph.D., University of Southern California), clinical Assistant Professor 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), clinical 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), clinical Assistant Professor specializing in development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders across the lifespan

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

Elizabeth J. Short (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame), experimental Professor 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), experimental Professor specializing in behavior genetics, child development, and functional neuroimaging.

Click here for a list of our secondary and adjunct faculty