Emeritus Faculty

Our group is primarily interested in how reaching changes as infants grow, in how vision and touch aid in that development, and how older infants plan and coordinate their reaches to solve hidden object problems.

Elliot Blass emeritus

For many years, my research group studied the ways that hormones act in the brain to modify brain function and behavior and how the environment influences these processes.

Teaching on undergraduate statistics, Western philosophical and Eastern mystical approaches to Consciousness. Research activity is centered on creating visual representations of eye movements and pupil dilations during sentence processing and in the visual world paradigm.

Professor Emeritus

Donahoe, J. W. Unified reinforcement principle and its neural mechanisms. (2022). Barrett Behavior-Analytic Neuroscience Initiative at the Health Science Center of the University of North Texas. Audio-visual files of lectures available at https://barrettinitiative.org/video-gallery/

Harold D. Grotevant, Ph.D., holds the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, where he is the founding director of the Rudd Adoption Research Program. The work of this position connects adoption research with policy and practice through conferences, workshops, graduate and postdoctoral training, and stimulation of research activities.

Elizabeth (Lisa) Harvey is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests are in the early development of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders in preschool children and toddlers. Specific areas of interest include executive function, emotion regulation, parenting, parent psychopathology, fathers, gender, and culture. She seeks to understand these processes by studying the interplay between different levels of functioning including neural (using ERP), behavioral, emotional, individual, family, and

Jerry Meyer emeritus faculty

Paula Pietromonaco is a social psychologist and Professor Emerita, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her PhD in Psychology in 1983 from the University of Michigan, and her Bachelor's degree from UCLA. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Emotion, published by the American Psychological Association.

As a developmental psychopathologist, my research investigates the interaction of normal developmental processes and psychopathology in adolescents.