Psychological & Brain Sciences

Richard Abrams, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Attention
- Motor control
- Perception

David Balota, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Visual word recognition
- Semantic memory
- Priming on implicit memory tests
- Attention systems that modulate performance
- Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Deanna Barch, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Effects of early adversity on early brain development and subsequent risk for mental health challenges
- Cognitive, emotional and neural bases of risk for development of schizophrenia and depression

John Baugh, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Sociolinguistics
- Language, Equity and Environmental Change
- Linguistic Profiling
- Econolinguistics

Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How genetic and environmental factors shape brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

Todd Braver, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory, attention, and controlled processing

Julie Bugg, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Top-down vs. stimulus-driven control mechanisms
- Environmental contingencies moderates use of top-down control
- Differential effects of normal aging on multiple levels of cognitive control

Andrew Butler, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How the process of retrieving memories: affects the content and phenomenological characteristics of those memories

Brian Carpenter, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Clinical psychology of aging
- Late-life family communication
- Alzheimer's disease knowledge in older adults
- End of life mental health issues

Rebecca Cox, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Sleep
- Circadian Rhythms
- Psychopathology

Ian Dobbins, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Interaction of Episodic Memory and Decision-Making

Tammy English, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Socio-cultural and situational influences on emotion regulation
- Adult development in emotion and emotion regulation
- Consequences of emotion regulation for social functioning, psychological well-being, and physical health

Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Etiology and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating

Leonard Green, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Choice and decision-making
- Self-control
- Behavioral economics
- Discounting of delaed and probabilistic outcomes

Sandra Hale, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Developmental changes in speed of information processing across the life span
- Role of age-related and other individual differences on other aspects of cognition

Denise Head, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Neural underpinnings of cognitive aging the contributing factors and effective intervention

Patrick Hill, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How individuals explore options for and ultimately commit to a purpose for life
- How having a sense of purpose predicts important life outcome

Derek Isaacowitz, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Aging and Attention to Emotional Content
- Aging and Emotion Regulation Processes
- Aging and Emotion Perception

Joshua Jackson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Development and assessment of personality

Wouter Kool, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Explores the interaction between cognitive control, decision-making and reinforcement learning

Calvin Lai, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Learning how implicit biases change
- Understanding the consequences of implicit bias for behavior
- Developing interventions to reduce the impact of implicit biases on behavior

Alan Lambert, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Cognitive and affective processes that underlie social and political judgment

Seanna Leath, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Identity development
- Gendered racism
- Community engagement
- Healing justice

Lori Markson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Social cognitive development in infancy and early childhood
- Development of bias and intergroup relations
- Cognitive development and education

Kathleen McDermott, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Human memory encoding and retrieval and how they interact

Joel Myerson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Behavioral economics
- Cognitive aging

Thomas Oltmanns, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Assessment of personality disorders, especially discrepancies between people’s descriptions of themselves and the ways in which they are described by others

Zachariah Reagh, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How we represent and remember experiences, and how this changes as we age

Mitchell Sommers, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Speech perception and auditory processing in young, elderly, and individuals with Alzheimer's disease

Michael Strube, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Self-knowledge
- Self-esteem
- Decision making

Jessie Sun, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Moral improvement
- Morality and Well-Being
- Social Interactions and Well-Being

Renee Thompson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Understanding the everyday emotional experience in individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder

Rebecca Treiman, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Language and language disorders
- Reading
- Spelling

Kristin Van Engen, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How linguistic experience shapes speech perception and processing
- How signal-intrinsic and signal-extrinsic factors interact to modulate the success of communication

Desirée White, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Pediatric neuropsychology
- Developmental disabilities

Emily Willroth, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Short-term Dynamics of Well-being
- Long-term Change in Well-being
- Well-being and Physical Health
- Well-being as a Protective Factor Against Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Jeffrey Zacks, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Event cognition
- Spatial reasoning
- Film perception