Undergraduate Program Faculty and their Interests

Beck, Gayle, Ph. D., Professor  --  Contact
Panic disorder; anxiety disorders; post-trauma syndromes

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

Colder, Craig, Ph. D., Associate Professor --  Contact
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse

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

Gabriel, Shira, Ph. D., Assistant Professor --  Contact
The social self; gender differences in interdependence; minority group membership

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

Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D., Professor --  Contact
Maternal behavior; opiate-mediated processes; feeding and drinking; taste-aversion learning

Luce, Paul, Ph. D., Professor --  Contact
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics

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

Murray, Sandra, Ph. D., Professor --  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 --  Contact
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; psychosocial, pharmacological, and combined treatments for ADHD; cognition and motivation in ADHD

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

Roberts, John, Ph. D., Associate Professor --  Contact
Psychosocial factors in the onset, maintenance and recovery from depression; health behavior and psychological functioning among HIV+ individuals.

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

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, 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 --  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

Wersinger, Scott, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Contact
Molecular aspects of reproductive behavior