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Psychological Science Concentration Faculty

Core Faculty

Amy Brausch, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois University, 2008), Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Non-suicidal self-injury, adolescent and young adult suicide, disordered eating and body image, risk-taking behaviors, women's self-objectification, self-esteem, and gender socialization.

Lance Hahn, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin, 1994), Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Computational neuroscience, reading, visual perception, and dynamic distributed systems.

Patrick Ledwidge, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska), Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences. Research interests: cognitive neuroscience approaches to sports injury prevention and rehabilitation, concussion, traumatic brain injury, cognitive-motor integration, mobile EEG

Elizabeth Lemerise, Ph.D. (New School for Social Research, 1988), University Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Social and emotional development, peer relations, and social information processing.

Diane Lickenbrock, Ph.D. (The University of Notre Dame, 2010), Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Social and emotional development, the development of emotion regulation and parent-child relationships, physiological regulation, and fathers. 

Kelly Madole, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin, 1992), Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Infant cognition and the development of object and social categories.

Andy Mienaltowski, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008), Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Cognitive aging and adult development, especially emotion perception and age differences in emotion categorization.

Sharon Mutter, Ph.D. (George Washington University, 1984), University Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Associative processes in learning and memory, causal learning and judgment, neural correlates of learning and memory, and cognitive aging.

J. Farley Norman, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 1990), University Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Adult human visual perception, cognitive representations of 3-D shape, and object recognition.

Matthew Shake, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 2009), Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Cognitive aging, language processing and comprehension, and adult development.

Jenni Teeters, Ph.D. (The University of Memphis, 2017), Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: young adult substance use, substance use interventions, and technology based interventions.

Aaron Wichman, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University, 2005), Professor of Psychological Sciences - Research interests: Social cognition and the effects of psychological threats on metacognition and motivation.

Matthew Woodward, Ph.D. (The University of Memphis, 2017), Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences-Research interests: Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, risk factors and therapeutic interventions for PTSD including the role of social support. 

 

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Have questions? Contact the Psychological Science concentration coordinator: Dr. Diane Lickenbrock

 

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 Last Modified 12/5/23