Psychology Research Interests and Areas
Faculty Research Interests
* indicates faculty currently accepting students to the Experimental master's program
*Angela Bell
Christina Byrne
*Anna Ciao
*Alex Czopp
Brianna Delker
My research group lab, the THRIVE Lab, focuses on interpersonal violence (IPV), or physical, sexual, and psychological abuse perpetrated within relationships. When IPV occurs, it tends to happen in relationships with power imbalances, and to reflect gendered inequalities in society, along with intersecting forms of privilege and oppression on the basis of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and so on. The lab takes a systemic perspective on trauma to better understand how individuals (survivors, harm-doers, bystanders) psychologically contend with structural forces that perpetuate IPV and invalidate survivors. In recent work, we address how and why it can be hard to "story" trauma in the midst of cultural stigma surrounding IPV. Ultimately, we wish for the lab's work to contribute to collective social efforts that affirm the dignity of survivors and support the pursuit of justice and healing.
*Jennifer Devenport
Psychology and law; factors influencing juror decision-making such as expert psychological testimony, cross-examination, eyewitness identification evidence.
Tina Du Rocher Schudlich
Lena Ericksen
Annie Fast
My research interests include interparental and family processes associated with developmental psychopathology in children. My current research investigates the development of normal and abnormal patterns of emotion regulation in response to high-conflict environments, and mechanisms that explain risk and resilience in these environments. Understanding reciprocal relations between mood disorders and families’ well-being is another focus. I incorporate multi-method approaches to my research and am especially fond of behavioral observations of couples’ and families’ interactions
Antonya Gonzalez
James Graham
Jeff Grimm
Diana Gruman
Ira Hyman
Kelly Jantzen
Josh Kaplan
Jeff King
*Barbara Lehman
*Kristi Lemm
Julie Major
Brent Mallinckrodt
*Michi Matsukura
*Jennifer McCabe
*Kate McLean
*Annie Riggs
*Jackie Rose
*David Sattler
*Christie Scollon
Aaron Smith
Shaun Sowell
Larry Symons
Adrian Villicana
Dr. Villicana’s research is generally in identity, social cognition, and social issues. He considers himself an identity researcher where he investigates how our social identities (like race, gender, sexual orientation) influence our thoughts, behaviors, and interpersonal as well as intergroup interactions. Moreover, a critical aspect of his approach is to consider intersections of identities. He applies the latter perspective to his work to contribute to the dismantling of the androcentric, ethnocentric, and heterocentric knowledge that is primarily represented in the psychological literature. Relevant Keywords to Describe Research Interests: identity, prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, social perception, intergroup relations, allyship, intersectionality, perceptions of neurodivergence (newer interest)
*Michael Warren
Faculty Research Areas
Clinical Psychology
Christina Byrne, Anna Ciao, Brianna Delker, Tina Du Rocher Schudlich, James Graham, Jennifer McCabe