Faculty

Name Contact Interests
Ajayi, Alex
Assistant Professor
N563 Elliott Hall
ajayi@umn.edu
Counseling psychology
Health and well-being
Stress and trauma
Diversity science
Identity development
Interventions to reduce disparities in health and education.
Samantha Anders
Lecturer
ande8552@umn.edu  
Eugene Borgida
Professor of Psychology and Law, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor
N387 Elliott Hall
612-625-3381
borgi001@umn.edu
Social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, political psychology
Juan Del Toro
Assistant Professor
S351 Elliott Hall
jdeltoro@umn.edu
Applied developmental science, ethnic/racial disparities, the achievement gap, the mental/physical health paradox, policing and the criminal justice system, longitudinal social survey methods, behavioral genetics
Colin DeYoung
Professor, Area Director for Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavior Genetics
N422 Elliott Hall
612-624-1619
cdeyoung@umn.edu
Personality structure, neurobiology of personality traits, cognitive abilities, the risk for mental illness.
Stephen Engel
Professor
S249 Elliott Hall
612-625-5571
engel@umn.edu
Cognitive neuroscience of human vision, combining functional MRI and behavioral data: perceptual learning, visual adaptation, color vision
Melissa Ertl
Assistant Professor
N565 Elliott Hall
mertl@umn.edu
Counseling psychology, health disparities, prevention and health promotion, substance misuse, sexual health
Christopher Federico
Professor of Psychology and Political Science
N385 Elliott Hall
612-626-0560
federico@umn.edu
Political psychology; intergroup relations and racial attitudes; the psychology of legitimacy; political expertise
Charles R. (Randy) Fletcher
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor
S255 Elliott Hall
612-625-6096
fletc002@umn.edu
Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension
Kurt Fraser
Assistant Professor
N246
kfraser@umn.edu
Behavioral and systems neuroscience, contextual control, motivation, reward, dopamine, acetylcholine
Patricia A. Frazier
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Co-Area Director for Counseling Psychology
N571 Elliott Hall
612-625-6863
pfraz@umn.edu
Counseling and social, coping with traumatic life events; PTSD and post-traumatic growth; perceptions of control over traumatic events
Nicola Grissom
Associate Professor
N249 Elliott Hall
ngrissom@umn.edu
Learning and memory, neurobiology of motivated behavior, autism models, outcome prediction, motivation, goal-directed learning, sex differences
Nathaniel Helwig
Associate Professor of Psychology and Statistics
N650 Elliott Hall
612-624-8363
helwig@umn.edu
Computational statistics, smoothing splines, semiparametric regression, multimode/tensor analysis, neuroimaging, psychometrics
Drexler James
Assistant Professor
S355 Elliott Hall
djames@umn.edu
Racism and health, psychological essentialism: biological racial essentialism, social and psychological determinants of health, internalized stigma (racism, heterosexism), health disparities and health equity
Daniel J. Kersten
Professor
S212 Elliott Hall
612-625-2589
kersten@umn.edu
Cognitive neuroscience, human vision, computational vision, neural networks, neuroimaging
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Professor
N412 Elliott Hall
612-626-4347
klimes@umn.edu
Developmental and neuroscience approaches to identifying disruptions in stress/emotion regulatory processes that precede, accompany and are a consequence of depression and suicidal behavior
Wilma Koutstaal
Professor
S247 Elliott Hall
612-626-1966
kouts003@umn.edu
Thinking, memory, and mental agility; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; aging
Robert Krueger
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
N414 Elliott Hall
612-626-8541
krueg038@umn.edu
Classification and etiology of psychopathology and substance use disorders, personality disorders, personality psychology, quantitative and molecular genetics, quantitative models of individual differences
Nathan Kuncel
Professor,
Marvin D. Dunnette Distinguished Chair in I-O Psychology
N464 Elliott Hall
612-624-1651
kunce001@umn.edu
Structure and prediction of performance in academic and work settings
Richard Landers
John P. Campbell Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
N478 Elliott Hall
612-626-0901
lande065@umn.edu
Novel technologies as they are and can be used in employee selection, employee training, and methodology (including both psychometric measurement and methods from data science).
James Lee
Associate Professor
N409 Elliott Hall
612-625-4980
leex2293@umn.edu
Mental abilities, individual differences, behavioral genetics, human evolution
Richard M. Lee
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Co-Area Director for Counseling Psychology
N556 Elliott Hall
612-625-6357
richlee@umn.edu
Counseling psychology; cultural and ethnic minority psychology; international adoption
Vanessa Lee 
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
N240 Elliott Hall
612-625-7003
jiang166@umn.edu
Cognitive neuroscience of attention, memory, and perception.
Gordon Legge
Distinguished Mcknight University Professor,
Distinguished Teaching Professor
N257 Elliott Hall
612-625-0846
legge@umn.edu
Cognitive and biological, human visual perception, cognitive science
Shmuel Lissek
Associate Professor
N416 Elliott Hall
612-626-9918
smlissek@umn.edu
The neurobiology and psychophysiology of human anxiety, classical and operant conditioning markers of clinical anxiety, generalization of conditioned fear, the neural antecedents of avoidance and other fear-related decisions
Monica Luciana
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor
N419 Elliott Hall
612-626-0757
lucia003@umn.edu
Neurochemical (dopaminergic and serotonergic) modulation of functions of the human prefrontal cortex; neurodevelopment of executive functions in adolescence using behavioral, molecular genetic and neuroimaging techniques
Angus MacDonald, III
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Area Director for Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research
N426 Elliott Hall
612-624-3813
angus@umn.edu
Basic cognitive and affective neuroscience using fMRI, the neural and genetic bases of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, and the psychometrics of measuring group differences
Traci Mann
Professor
S357 Elliott Hall
612-625-5838
mann@umn.edu
Health behavior change, particularly in the context of eating, dieting, and obesity; self-control; stress and eating; predictors of eating in everyday life
Katerina Marcoulides
Associate Professor
N658 Elliott Hall
612-626-8936 
kmarcoul@umn.edu
Data mining, longitudinal growth modeling, multilevel modeling, data fusion, structural equation modeling, item response theory
Matthew McGue
Regents Professor
N241a Elliott Hall
612-625-8305
mcgue001@umn.edu
Behavior genetics, individual differences, quantitative psychology, aging, substance abuse
Liza Meredith
Assistant Teaching Professor
S245 Elliott Hall
612-624-5002
mere0032@umn.edu 
College student mental health, academic interventions for improving mental health and performance, romantic relationships and social support, stress and trauma
Caprice Niccoli-Waller
Assistant Teaching Professor
N243 Elliott Hall
612-624-8363
nicco004@umn.edu
Health psychology, stress, hormones, and biopsychology
Penny Nichol
Assistant Teaching Professor
N382 Elliott Hall
612-624-6050
nich0185@umn.edu
 
Cheryl Olman
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Area Director for Cognitive and Brain Science
N264 Elliott Hall
612-626-7607
caolman@umn.edu
Biological basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging; modulation of low-level visual responses by scene perception
Deniz Ones
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Hellervik Professor of Industrial Psychology, Area Director for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
N472 Elliott Hall
612-625-4551
onesx001@umn.edu
Employee staffing, personality assessment, and research, measurement of individual differences at work, counterproductive work behaviors, psychometric meta-analysis, cognitive abilities, cross-cultural research, employees and environmental sustainability (green behaviors), use of wearable technologies to measure work-relevant variables.
Andrew J. Oxenham
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Associate Chair
N258 Elliott Hall
612-624-2241
oxenham@umn.edu
Auditory perception and cognition; computational models of hearing; hearing impairment and cochlear implants
Whitney Ringwald
Assistant Professor
 
N424 Elliott Hall
wringwal@umn.edu
Psychopathology, personality, ambulatory assessment, measurement
Alexander J. Rothman
Distinguished University Teaching Professor
N321 Elliott Hall
612-625-2573
rothm001@umn.edu
Message framing, initiation and maintenance of behavior change, interventions to promote healthy behavior, health judgment and decision making, health behavior theory, relationships and human behavior, environmental behavior change, research methodology
Paul Sackett
Richard Fink Distinguished Professor
N475 Elliott Hall
612-624-9842
psackett@umn.edu
Personnel decision making, job performance, counterproductive behavior in the workplace, managerial potential
Aaron Schmidt
Associate Professor
N486 Elliott Hall
612-626-9142
aschmidt@umn.edu
Employee motivation and self-regulation, including goal prioritization and time allocation, responses to actual and anticipated success, and applications of self-regulatory theory to individual and team training
Paul Schrater
Professor of Psychology and Computer Science
S211 Elliott Hall
612-626-8638
schrater@umn.edu
Statistical pattern recognition, human and computer vision, multi-modal sensory integration and motor control
Jeffry A. Simpson
Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department Chair
S354 Elliott Hall
612-626-0025
simps108@umn.edu
Social, interpersonal relationships, attachment, evolution and social behavior, personality and social behavior, social influence
Mark Snyder
Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology
N367 Elliott Hall
612-625-1507
msnyder@umn.edu
Personality and social behavior; self and identity; altruism and pro-social behavior; social perception and interpersonal behavior; social influence and attitude change; motivational foundations of individual and collective action
Mark Stellmack
Assistant Teaching Professor
S105 Elliott Hall
612-625-0501
stell006@umn.edu
Auditory perception; binaural and spatial hearing; teaching and assessment of student writing
Moin Syed
Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology
S348 Elliott Hall
612-626-4206
moin@umn.edu
Meta-science; history of psychology; methodology; theory development; racial/ethnic minority psychology; identity and personality development; narrative psychology
Iris Vilares
Assistant Professor
S251 Elliott Hall
idongavi@umn.edu
Cognitive neuroscience, sensorimotor decision-making, social
decision-making, neuroeconomics, computational psychiatry
Scott Vrieze
Professor
N438 Elliott Hall
612-626-7569
vrieze@umn.edu 
Clinical psychology, behavioral and statistical genetics, addiction and drug abuse, developmental psychopathology, wireless sensors as behavioral proxies, measurement, bioinformatics.
Niels Waller
Professor, Area Director for Quantitative and Psychometric Methods
N657 Elliott Hall
612-626-8729
nwaller@umn.edu
Quantitative models of individual differences, psychometrics, factor analysis, taxometrics, item response theory
David J. Weiss
Professor
N660 Elliott Hall
612-625-0342
djweiss@umn.edu
Psychometric methods, counseling, computerized adaptive testing, latent trait measurement theory
Amanda Woodward
Assistant Teaching Professor
S246 Elliott Hall
woodw284@umn.edu
Early social cognition, social exclusion, social evaluations, face processing, scholarship of teaching and learning 

Emeriti Faculty

Name Contact Interests
Ellen Berscheid
Regents' Professor of Psychology Emerita
bersc001@umn.edu Social, interpersonal attraction, close relationships, social perception and cognition, emotion
Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. bouch001@umn.edu Individual differences, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology assessment, mental abilities, twin and adoption research
Thomas Brothen broth001@umn.edu The use of course management systems and other technology to improve post-secondary student learning; teaching of psychology; history of psychology and educational interventions
Dwight Burkhardt burkh001@umn.edu Vision and neuroscience, function of retinal neurons, human psychophysics
James Butcher butch001@umn.edu Personality assessment, cross-cultural psychology
John Campbell N478 Elliott Hall
612-625-9351
campb006@umn.edu
Industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, performance modeling, prediction and selection models, decision-making processes, industrial training and development
René V. Dawis dawis001@umn.edu Counseling, individual differences, industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, work adjustment, vocational assessment, vocational counseling, measurement of abilities, values, and work personality
Jonathan Gewirtz jgewirtz@umn.edu  
Marti Hope Gonzales gonza001@umn.edu Applied social psychology, impression management and self-presentation, accountability, political psychology, medical compliance
Jo-Ida C. Hansen N556 Elliott Hall
612-625-3873
hanse004@umn.edu
Counseling, vocational interest measurement and inventory construction, career development, cross-cultural interest measurement, leisure
William G. Iacono N444 Elliott Hall
612-625-6078
wiacono@umn.edu
Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological markers of schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and development of psychopathology, lie detection
Gloria R. Leon leonx003@umn.edu Personality, stress and coping in extreme environments, psychosocial aspects in disaster response and management, psychosocial factors in space missions, thermal control of astronaut status
J. Bruce Overmier psyjbo@umn.edu Cognitive and biological: stress, conditioning, learning, and memory in animals and humans, and their biological mechanisms
Gail Peterson peter004@umn.edu Radical Behaviorism; experimental and applied behavior analysis; general behavior theory