faculty
The program faculty consists of eleven core, full-time faculty (Full Professors Carlson, Fromme, Holahan, Meston, Ramirez, and Telch; Associate Professors Beevers and Lewis; and Assistant Professors Haley, Harden, and Neal). In addition, we have four affiliated faculty whose primary appointments are in other areas (Pennebaker and Swann--Social; Schallert--Behavioral Neuroscience; Schnyer--Cognition and Neuroimaging; Josephs--Social/Cognition), and two clinical faculty who make substantive contributions (Lopez is Director of Clinical Training and the Clinic Director; Tucker teaches and provides clinical and research supervision in Neuropsychology). Finally, a number of psychologists from the community (approximately fifteen) serve as outside supervisors for student practica.
Our faculty is an accomplished group. Of the thirteen core and clinical faculty, four are current or previous federal grant reviewers, either as regular study section (Fromme, Lopez, Telch) or ad hoc (Carlson, Lopez) members, and five have served on journal editorial boards (Carlson, Fromme, Holahan, Meston, Telch). Within the last several years, four have held office or served as an APA program chair (Carlson, Fromme, Lopez, and Meston). Five of the core faculty are Principal Investigators or co-PI's on federal grants (Beevers, Fromme, Holahan, Meston, and Telch) and one is a PI on a foundation grant (Meston). In addition, all four affiliated faculty members (Pennebaker, Swann, Schallert, and Schnyer) are PI's on active federal grants. Our faculty have been recognized by numerous awards, one of the most recent being Dr. Beevers' receipt of the New Investigator Award from the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapy. The research productivity of area faculty is also reflected by the high rates of publication in top-level journals. (Notices of Psychology Department faculty accomplishments and research news are available on the Department website's news page.)
Research Interests: Psychological training, insomnia, geropsychology
Research Interests: Etiology, maintenance, and treatment of unipolar depression in adults.
Research Interests: Positive psychology; well-being and life satisfaction.
Research Interests: Etiology and prevention of alcohol abuse and risk-taking behaviors (e.g., drugs, sex, aggression).
Research Interests: Aging, cognition, cognitive impairment, metabolic syndrome, neuropsychological assessment, neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI, MRS)
Research Interests: behavioral genetics, adolescent development, externalizing psychopathology
Research Interests: Health psychology, stress and coping, psychological stress, coping with cardiovascular illness.
Research Interests: Environmental and neurobiological mechanisms underlying stress and depression.
Research Interests: Molecular biology of Cronkhite Canada Syndrome.
Research Interests: Sexual psychophysiology in women, sexual dysfunction, relationships between sexual abuse and sexual function, influence of acculturation on sexuality.
Research Interests: Social and communication development in infants and young children; early identification of developmental delay in at-risk populations; autism
Research Interests: Writing about emotional experiences and physical health; Naturalistic language use and personality; How individuals, groups, and entire cultures cope with traumas.
Research Interests: Multicultural personality development and multicultural psychotherapy, dynamics of acculturation, cross-cultural psychology.
Research Interests: Psychopharmacology, physiological basis of motivated behavior, animal behavior, recovery of function after brain damage, experimental neurology, neurochemistry and behavior.
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory. Implicit, explicit and metamemory processing explored in normal and memory disordered populations utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging methodologies.
Research Interests: Eating disorders, substance abuse, body image, behavioral medicine, longitudinal data analyses.
Research Interests: The cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal consequences of social perceptions; development and maintenance of self-conceptions; identity fusion; depression and health.
Research Interests: Panic disorder, anxiety disorders, cognitive processes of behavior change, evaluation of psychotherapeutic outcomes, behavioral medicine
Research Interests: Clinical neuropsychology, brain- behavior relations, aging.