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Faculty Contact Information and Research Interests
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Anchin, Jack, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Beck, Gayle, Ph. D., Professor -- Contact
Panic disorder; anxiety disorders; post-trauma syndromes
Benedict, Ralph H.B., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Adjunct Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Neuropsychological impairment in multiple sclerosis, organic personality disorder, prediction of neuropsychological impairment with MRI, neuropsychological test development
Bozarth, Michael, A., Ph.D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory
Bunker, Barbara, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Planned organizational change; interpersonal and group processes; organizational development; managing diversity; trust
Capaldi, Elizabeth D., Ph. D., Professor -- Contact
Incentives and preference learning in animals and humans
Colder, Craig, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse
Collins, R. Lorraine, Ph. D., Research Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Drinking restraint; psychosocial factors in alcohol use; women's issues; smoking
Connors, Gerard J., Ph. D., Director, Research Institute on Addictions; Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Alcoholism treatment outcome evaluation; relapse prevention; secondary prevention of alcohol problems
Daniels, Derek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake
Dent, Micheal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals
DiPirro, Jean M., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Neuropeptidergic and monoaminergic regulation of pain, analgesia, maternal behavior and drug addiction
Epstein, Leonard H., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Research Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Fals-Stewart, William, Ph. D., Research Associate Professor -- Contact Marital/family therapy with drug-abusing patients; substance abuse treatment
Frone, Michael, Ph. D., Research Assistant Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Occupational health; workplace substance use; work-family interface; youth employment
Gabriel, Shira, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
The social self; gender differences in interdependence; minority group membership
Graziano, Anthony, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Hastrup, Janice L., Ph.D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Behavioral medicine; understanding genetic and other risk factors; methodological issues; epidemiology of stress-related disorders
Hawk, Larry, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Psychophysiology; emotion and attention in psychopathology and behavioral medicine
Houston, Rebecca J., Ph. D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Julian, James, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D., Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head -- Contact
Maternal behavior; opiate-mediated processes; feeding and drinking; taste-aversion learning
Leonard, Kenneth E., Ph. D., Research Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Alcohol abuse and Marital/family processes; parenting and infant development in alcoholic families; interpersonal aggression; bar violence; domestic violence
Levine, Murray, Ph. D., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Levy, Kenneth, Ph. D., Professor -- Contact
Univariate and multivariate data analysis
Luce, Paul A., Ph. D., Professor, Department Chair -- Contact
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics
Masling, Joseph, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Massetti, Greta, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Children at risk for learning and behavioral disorders; environmental and developmental influences on academic and social-emotional functioning; dissemination of evidence-based programs to school settings; educational policy impact on urban schools.
Mauner, Gail, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Sentence and discourse processing; reading; anaphora; language processing in neurogenically impaired populations.
Meacham, Jack, Ph. D., SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor -- Contact
Life-course developmental psychology; history of world civilizations; comparative religion; race and racism; multicultural education
Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory
Miller, Bruce, M. D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Murray, Sandra, Ph. D., Professor, Social-Personality Area Head -- Contact
Close relationships; self-esteem; motivated cognition
Ostrov, Jamie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Subtypes of aggression and victimization; developmental psychopathology; social dominance; interpersonal relationships; applied developmental psychology; prosocial and play behavior
Park, Lora, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
The self, self-esteem, contingencies of self-worth, motivation, interpersonal processes
Pelham, Brett W., Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Self-perception; implicit self-regard; social inference
Pelham, William E., Jr., Ph. D., UB Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry -- Contact
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; psychosocial, pharmacological, and combined treatments for ADHD; cognition and motivation in ADHD
Pfordresher, Peter Q., Ph. D., Assitant Professor -- Contact
Production and perception of complex sequences, including music and speech; the role of perceptual feedback during production; vocal imitation and "tone deafness"; music perception; mathematical modeling
Pruitt, Dean, Ph. D., SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Raynor, Joel, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Theory of personality functioning and change; sport and exercise psychology; alcoholism
Read, Jennifer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Social and individual-level factors in the etiology and treatment of alcohol misuse; affective and cognitive determinants of heavy drinking, PTSD-alcohol use disorder comorbidity
Richards, Jerry, Ph. D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Roles of dopamine and serotonin in control of impulsivity
Roberts, John, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Clinical Area Head -- Contact
Psychosocial factors in the onset, maintenance and recovery from depression; health behavior and psychological functioning among HIV+ individuals.
Salvy, Sarah J., Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics -- Contact
Social and environmental factors accounting for food choice and intake in children and adults; the interrelationship of eating, alternative activities and social contexts and how they relate to youths' weight status; social involvement as a lever for lifestyle changes.
Sandberg, David E., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Sawusch, James, Ph. D., Professor -- Contact
Speech perception; attention; auditory memory; computational modeling; psycholinguistics
Schmidt, William, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Visual perception and attention (illusory line motion, inhibition of return); cognitive neuroscience; internet survey methodology
Sechrist, Gretchen, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
Seery, Mark, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Stress and coping, the self, motivation, psychophysiology
Segal, Erwin, Ph. D., Associate Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Cognitive science; narrative and discourse comprehension; psycholinguistics; theory in psychology; human problem solving
Shucard, David W., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology -- Contact
Neural basis of cognition in normal and impaired infants, children, adults, and animals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsychology
Simms, Leonard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, item response theory applications to personality measures, and computerized adaptive testing
Smith, Charles James, Ph.D. , Associate Professor Emeritus -- Contact
Smith, J. David, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Contact
Animal cognition; categorization; metacognition and self-awareness; psychology of music and aesthetics
Thompson, Alexis, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Neural adaptations associated with increased vulnerability or expression of drug addicton, anxiety, and maternal behavior; behavioral regulation of pain and analgesia; neuropeptide regulation of monoamines.
Turkkan, Jaylan S., Ph. D., Professor -- Contact
Cardiovascular responses to environmental influences; conditioning factors in alcoholism
Walitzer, Kimberly, Ph. D., Research Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Treatment outcome evaluation; spouse involvement in treatment; secondary prevention of alcohol problems; gender differences
Wersinger, Scott, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Molecular aspects of reproductive behavior
Wojslawowicz Bowker, Julie, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Individual differences in socioemotional behaviors (e.g.,social withdrawal, aggression), peer relationships and friendships; internalizing problems
Wood, Beatrice, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology -- Contact
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Send comments to: psych@buffalo.edu | Last updated: November 29, 2006
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