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Castañeda, Edward

Dopamine neurochemistry of basal ganglia function; neurotransmitter release; compensation during neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease and following brain injury; behavioral and neurochemical sensitization related to stimulant drug addiction.


Cohn, Lawrence D.

Adolescent risk-taking; Stereotypic images of accident victims; Developmental changes in children's understanding of chance and uncertainty.


Cooper, Theodore V.

Disease prevention and health promotion. More specifically, the prevention and treatment of clinical health including: tobacco use and cessation, other addictive behaviors, cancer prevention, obesity and sedentary behavior, and sexual risk.

Crites, Stephen L., Jr.

Attitudes; Event-related brain potentials; Emotion; Cognitive processes; Motivation; Memory.

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Eno Louden, Jennifer

Criminal justice and mental health; Community Corrections; Stigma of mental disorder and criminal justice involvement.


Francis, Wendy S.

Bilingual language and memory organization; Implicit memory and transfer processes; Mathematical modeling of cognitive processes; Effects of language proficiency on memory processes.


Hosch, Harmon M.

Psychology and Law; Jury decision making; Impact of language of testimony on trial outcomes; Prosecutorial decisions; Alibis.


Lucker, G. William

Evaluation of physical activity programming; prevention of drunk driving among minority youth; cross-cultural issues in applied psychology.


Malpass, Roy S.

Legal Psychology: Eyewitness identification, memory, and decision making; Lineup construction and fairness evaluation; Science and public policy development; Assessment of the policy readiness of scientific domains. Cross-cultural Psychology: Knowledge production and research methodology; Intercultural social interaction and facial recognition; Individuation and stereotyping.

Meissner, Christian A.

Memory for human faces; eyewitness descriptions and lineup identification; human lie detection; interrogations and confessions.


Morera, Osvaldo F.

Behavioral decision theory, increasing patient participation in the medical decision making process; health psychology; applied measurement and psychometrics.


Moss, Donald E.

Drug treatment for Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type; Development of effective treatment of hyperkinetic motor disorders; Effects of tetrahydrocannabinol on brain function.

O'Dell, Laura E.

Neural mechanisms that mediate addiction to drugs of abuse.  Combine various neurochemical techniques with behavioral models to study the neural basis of addiction.


Schwartz, Ana I.

The cognitive nature of bilingual and multilingual language processing; The cognitive architecture of the bilingual lexicon; Individual differences in first and second language reading skill; Lexical suppression and its implications for reading speed; Preschool emergent literacy; Application of eye-tracking methodology towards understanding bilingual reading.


Scullin, Matthew H.

Psychology and the law; Preschool children's cognitive development and school readiness; Social and cognitive influences on children’s memory and suggestibility; Eyewitness accuracy; The interrelationships of intelligence test scores, schooling, and life outcomes; Sleep and preschool children’s cognitive and classroom functioning.


Sobin, Christina A.
Brain/behavior relationships in selected genetic and medical conditions of childhood; neurocognitive correlates of psychophysiologic phenomena; alertness, attention, working memory, and learning.

Wiebe, John S.
Psychosocial adjustment to severe chronic illness; adherence to medical self-care regimens; depression; end-of-life issues.

Wood, James M.

Suggestibility of children and adults in forensic interviews; effects of using between-language interpreters in forensic interviews and interrogatories; improving decision-making in child abuse cases and forensic evaluations.

Zárate, Michael A.

Cognitive processes underlying prejudice and stereotyping; Determinants of social categorizations; Stereotypic trait inferences; Racial, ethnic, and gender categorization and stereotyping.