Faculty
| Name | Contact | Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Ajayi, Alex Assistant Professor |
N563 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
Counseling psychology Health and well-being Stress and trauma Diversity science Identity development Interventions to reduce disparities in health and education. |
| Samantha Anders Lecturer |
[email protected] | |
| Eugene Borgida Professor of Psychology and Law, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor |
N387 Elliott Hall 612-625-3381 [email protected] |
Social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, political psychology |
| Juan Del Toro Assistant Professor |
S351 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Personality structure, neurobiology of personality traits, cognitive abilities, the risk for mental illness. |
| Stephen Engel Professor |
S249 Elliott Hall 612-625-5571 [email protected] |
Cognitive neuroscience of human vision, combining functional MRI and behavioral data: perceptual learning, visual adaptation, color vision |
| Melissa Ertl Assistant Professor |
N565 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Cognitive and biological, cognition, text comprehension |
| Kurt Fraser Assistant Professor |
N246 [email protected] |
Behavioral and systems neuroscience, contextual control, motivation, reward, dopamine, acetylcholine |
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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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Computational statistics, smoothing splines, semiparametric regression, multimode/tensor analysis, neuroimaging, psychometrics |
| Drexler James Assistant Professor |
S355 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Cognitive neuroscience, human vision, computational vision, neural networks, neuroimaging |
| Bonnie Klimes-Dougan Professor |
N412 Elliott Hall 612-626-4347 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Thinking, memory, and mental agility; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; aging |
| Robert Krueger Distinguished McKnight University Professor |
N414 Elliott Hall 612-626-8541 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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
[email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Counseling psychology; cultural and ethnic minority psychology; international adoption |
|
Vanessa Lee
Distinguished McKnight University Professor |
Cognitive neuroscience of attention, memory, and perception.
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| Gordon Legge Distinguished Mcknight University Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor |
N257 Elliott Hall 612-625-0846 [email protected] |
Cognitive and biological, human visual perception, cognitive science |
| Shmuel Lissek Associate Professor |
N416 Elliott Hall 612-626-9918 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Behavior genetics, individual differences, quantitative psychology, aging, substance abuse |
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Liza Meredith
Assistant Teaching Professor |
S245 Elliott Hall 612-624-5002 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Health psychology, stress, hormones, and biopsychology |
| Penny Nichol Assistant Teaching Professor |
N382 Elliott Hall 612-624-6050 [email protected] |
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| Cheryl Olman Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Area Director for Cognitive and Brain Science |
N264 Elliott Hall 612-626-7607 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Auditory perception and cognition; computational models of hearing; hearing impairment and cochlear implants |
| Whitney Ringwald Assistant Professor |
N424 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
Psychopathology, personality, ambulatory assessment, measurement |
| Alexander J. Rothman Distinguished University Teaching Professor |
N321 Elliott Hall 612-625-2573 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
Personnel decision making, job performance, counterproductive behavior in the workplace, managerial potential |
| Aaron Schmidt Associate Professor |
N486 Elliott Hall 612-626-9142 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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 [email protected] |
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
[email protected] |
Cognitive neuroscience, sensorimotor decision-making, social decision-making, neuroeconomics, computational psychiatry |
| Scott Vrieze Professor |
N438 Elliott Hall 612-626-7569 [email protected] |
Clinical psychology, behavioral and statistical genetics, addiction and drug abuse, developmental psychopathology, wireless sensors as behavioral proxies, measurement, bioinformatics. |
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Niels Waller
Professor, Area Director for Quantitative and Psychometric Methods |
N657 Elliott Hall 612-626-8729 [email protected] |
Quantitative models of individual differences, psychometrics, factor analysis, taxometrics, item response theory |
| David J. Weiss Professor |
N660 Elliott Hall 612-625-0342 [email protected] |
Psychometric methods, counseling, computerized adaptive testing, latent trait measurement theory |
| Amanda Woodward Assistant Teaching Professor |
S246 Elliott Hall [email protected] |
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 |
[email protected] | Social, interpersonal attraction, close relationships, social perception and cognition, emotion |
| Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. | [email protected] | Individual differences, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology assessment, mental abilities, twin and adoption research |
| Thomas Brothen | [email protected] | 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 | [email protected] | Vision and neuroscience, function of retinal neurons, human psychophysics |
| James Butcher | [email protected] | Personality assessment, cross-cultural psychology |
| John Campbell | N478 Elliott Hall 612-625-9351 [email protected] |
Industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, performance modeling, prediction and selection models, decision-making processes, industrial training and development |
| René V. Dawis | [email protected] | Counseling, individual differences, industrial/organizational, psychometric methods, work adjustment, vocational assessment, vocational counseling, measurement of abilities, values, and work personality |
| Jonathan Gewirtz | [email protected] | |
| Marti Hope Gonzales | [email protected] | Applied social psychology, impression management and self-presentation, accountability, political psychology, medical compliance |
| Jo-Ida C. Hansen | N556 Elliott Hall 612-625-3873 [email protected] |
Counseling, vocational interest measurement and inventory construction, career development, cross-cultural interest measurement, leisure |
| William G. Iacono | N444 Elliott Hall 612-625-6078 [email protected] |
Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological markers of schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and development of psychopathology, lie detection |
| Gloria R. Leon | [email protected] | 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 | [email protected] | Cognitive and biological: stress, conditioning, learning, and memory in animals and humans, and their biological mechanisms |
| Gail Peterson | [email protected] | Radical Behaviorism; experimental and applied behavior analysis; general behavior theory |