Faculty Areas of Research Interest
ELSON BIHM, Ph.D.(Counseling Psychology) Texas Tech University
- Counseling Psychology; Mental Retardation; Behavior Analysis
BRIAN BOLTER, Ph.D. (Higher Ed. Administration) Michigan State University
- Sport Psychology; Cross-Cultural Issues in Personality, Education & School Relating to Identity Development
KURT BONIECKI, Ph.D. (Social Psychology) University of Florida
- Stereotype formation and activation; racism
SUZANNE BOOHER, M.S. (Counseling Psychology) University of Central Arkansas
- Juvenile Delinquency and Recidivism
RON BRAMLETT, Ph.D. (School Psychology) University of Cincinnati
- Child/Family Interventions; Assessment of Children/Adolescents; Predictors of School Success
JENNIFER BRINEGAR, Ph.D. (University of Montana) Experimental Psychology
- self-control choice studies & induced-exercise anorexia in rats, behavioral economics, risk-sensitive foraging theory, comparative psychology, and theories of human learning
SHAWN CHARLTON, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) University of California-San Diego
- Theories of Learning; Evolutionary Psychology; Human and Animal Behavior
KIM DIELMANN, Ph.D. (School Psychology) Oklahoma State University
- ADHD; Linking Assessments to Intervention; Teacher Behavior Management Training; Labeling Bias; Child Clinical Issues
JAMES “ART” GILLASPY, Ph.D. (Counseling Psychology) Texas A&M University
- Measurement Issues in Counseling Research; Addictions Counseling
NANCY HICKS, M.S.
- Creativity (the use of it in managing and expressing emotions, depression, anxiety, and cancer) and (transcending the self, living more fully in the moment); Positive psychology; Art therapy; Existential therapy with adolescents and adults; Psychoneuroimmunology; mindfulness based therapy
BILL LAMMERS, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) Bowling Green State University
- Teaching Techniques; Technology & Teaching; Psychobiology; Brain Function During Sleep; Human Memory
JOHN MURPHY, Ph.D. (School Psychology) University of Cincinnati
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; Childhood Resilience; Behavioral Consultation/Intervention
PAUL R. NAIL, Ph.D. (Social Psychology) Texas Christian University
- Social Influence; Social Response Models; Cognitive Dissonance Theory (individual differences); Prejudice
KEVIN ROWELL, Ph,D. (Counseling Psychology) Texas A&M University
- Mental Health of Elderly In Long-Term Care; Alcohol Problems
MIKE SCOLES, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) Northern Illinois University
- Drug Tolerance/Dependence/Reward; Aversive Control
JOAN SIMON, Ph.D. (School Psychology) University of Kansas
- Children with Disabilities; Family Involvement in Education; Hospital to School Transitions.
DAVID SKOTKO, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) Wayne State University
- Cognitive Development; Psycholinguistics; Private Speech
BILLY SMITH, Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) University of Mississippi
- Methods of Assessment
KEN SOBEL, Ph.D. (Cognitive Psychology) Vanderbilt University
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Working memory and visual search, perception of form and motion, the effect of emotion on cognition
FEMINA VARGHESE, Ph.D. (Counseling Psychology) Texas Tech University
- corrections, vocational development of offenders, and cultural diversity