PBS faculty and their trainees conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and are recognized as world-class contributors to their fields. In addition, we have numerous faculty and teaching assistants who have been recognized for excellence in mentoring and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. All of these efforts are supported by the outstanding staff and students who are key to the success of our department.

Most members of our department are present in this directory, which can be filtered by Research Areas, Center and Institute Affiliations, and/or Positions. To see groups of researchers with similar interests, regardless of their research areas, try entering relevant search terms below.

Lori Astheimer
Senior Lecturer
My research uses neuroimaging techniques to explore the relationship between attention and language processing across the life span.
Office: Tobin 539
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Culture, morality, historical psychology, cultural evolution, and computational text analysis.
Office: Tobin 636
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Associate Professor
Our lab focuses on understanding circuit functions for social behavior and social recognition throughout life.
Office: LSL N229
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in PBS is teaching large, small, and online undergraduate courses. I am a personality and social psychologist by training.
Office: Tobin 631
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
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Professor
I study various aspects of visual cognition, focusing on visual attention, visual search, and the interference between targets and distractors in complex visual scenes.
Office: Tobin 432
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Erik Cheries
Senior Lecturer, Honors Program Director
Early conceptual development; Infants' understanding of objects, agents, and the socio-moral behavior of other people.
Office: Tobin 538
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Andrew Cohen
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and computational modeling.
Office: Tobin 427
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Michael Constantino
Professor
Psychotherapy process, outcome, integration, implementation; patient, therapist, relational factors; patient-centered, measurement-based care; psychotherapy training; adult depression, anxiety
Office: Tobin 612
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Provost Professor
Prejudice and stereotyping; implicit social cognition; self-concept, STEM education.
Office: Tobin 635
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Matt Davidson
Lecturer
My teaching interests include the development of cognitive control and executive functions, and the factors that influence mechanisms underlying these abilities in both typical and atypical cases.
Office: Tobin 416
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Carolyn Davies
Lecturer
Office: Tobin 536
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor
Self-Regulation; Child/Adolescent Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development; Parenting and Adult Development; Developmental Psychopathology; Individual Differences
Office: Tobin 413 (on sabbatical, 2023-2024)
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Associate Professor
Office: Tobin 617
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Maria M. Galano
Assistant Professor
Early-life Exposure to Trauma and Violence; Developmental Psychopathology of PTSD; Culture and Mental Health; Intervention Adaptation and Evaluation
Office: Tobin 615
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Adam Grabell
Associate Professor
Early childhood psychopathology; normative vs. impaired emotion regulation; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; pediatric irritability; early childhood therapeutic interventions
Office: Tobin 614
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Senior Lecturer
Office: Tobin 529
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Linda Isbell
Feldman-Vorwerk Family Professor in Social Psychology
Affect and cognition; social cognition; stigma and mental illness; emotions and medical decision-making; diagnostic error in medicine
Office: Tobin 630
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Alexandra Jesse
Associate Professor
My research focuses on speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception.
Office: Tobin 433
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Office: Morrill 4 North N216
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Reward-based learning and decision making; Motor learning and performance; Developmental changes in adolescence; fMRI; EEG; EMG; eye tracking; hormone assays.
Office: Tobin 411
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
Cognitive aging in nonhuman primates, with particular interest in Alzheimer's disease, sex steroids and women's cognitive health
Office: Morrill 4 North N204
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Holly Laws
Senior Lecturer, Director of Methodology (CRF), Alumni
Office: Tobin 616
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Professor
Emotion, social cognition; intergroup relations, societal conflict and cooperation.
Office: Tobin 632
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Assistant Professor
Development of social cognition across human and nonhuman primates; cognitive bias; intergroup relations; race, gender, social status; stress and resilience
Office: Tobin 412
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
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Director of Psychological Services Center, Professor of Practice
Dr. Martell's scholarly activity has focused on the development of behavioral activation in the treatment of depression and on applying affirmative CBT with LGBT individuals.
Office: Tobin 137
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Jennifer M McDermott
Associate Professor
Learning and the development of attention and executive functions across early to middle childhood; self regulation, emotion processing, and the influence of early adversity on development; EEG; ERP.
Office: Tobin 618
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
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Assistant Professor
Close relationships and health across sociocultural contexts; Discrimination and health in ethnic minority and immigrant children and adolescents.
Office: Tobin 410
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science, Social Psychology
Christina Metevier
Associate Provost for Academic Programs at the Mount Ida Campus, Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in the department is teaching and advising. My background is in neuroscience and behavior.
Office: Tobin 527
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Cellular and network mechanisms of motivation, learning, and executive functions. Psychiatric diseases resulting from disruption of these neural systems.
Office: Morrill 4 North N208
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Associate Professor and Honors Faculty
Cognitive, neural (fMRI/EEG), and developmental mechanisms underlying the acquisition and emergence of uniquely human and culturally-transmitted abilities such as reading and mathematics.
Office: Tobin 414
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
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Associate Professor
Flexibility and Plasticity in Maternal Brain Circuitry across Postpartum
Office: Morrill 4 North N214
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Professor, Department Chair
Office: Tobin 611
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
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Associate Chair of Teaching and Advising
Office: Tobin 537
Rebecca Ready
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Dr. Ready earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Univ of Iowa. Internship and clinical neuropsychology fellowship were at Brown Univ. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Office: Tobin 609
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Allecia Reid
Associate Professor
Influences of social factors, including peers and stigma, on health behaviors and outcomes. Improving health promotion interventions.
Office: Tobin 628
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Luke Remage-Healey
Professor
We study hormone action and production in brain circuits using a variety of approaches.
Office: Morrill 4 North N212
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Heather Richardson
Professor
Office: Morrill 4 North N206
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor, Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Neurocognitive research on basic auditory perception, speech perception, and selective attention with the goal of helping listeners (including children and older adults) understand speech in noise.
Office: Tobin 415
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor
Physiology and cognitive functions of sleep in development and aging; learning and memory; sleep (polysomnography); activity monitoring (actigraphy).
Office: Tobin 419
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
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Professor
I explore human memory as it unfolds in time by applying computational models that predict both accuracy and response time data. I also investigate methods for improving statistical reasoning.
Office: Tobin 434
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Adrian Staub
Professor
Psycholinguistics, including lexical and syntactic processing in comprehension; eye movements in reading.
Office: Tobin 430
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Rebecca Stowe
Senior Lecturer, Alumni
Office: Tobin 139
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
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Professor
Prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, status inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination, collective action, social change, peace and reconciliation.
Office: Tobin 637
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Lecturer
Office: Tobin 535
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Ashley Woodman
Senior Lecturer, Program Director DDHS
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families
Office: Tobin 409
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science