Health
Legal
Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience
Health
| 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. |
| Lucker, G. William
Evaluation
of physical activity programming; prevention of drunk driving among
minority youth; cross-cultural issues in applied psychology. |
| Morera, Osvaldo F.
Behavioral
decision theory, increasing patient participation in the medical
decision making process; health psychology; applied measurement and
psychometrics. |
| Sobin, Christina A.
Genetics
in psychology, including the genetics of learning and neurocognition,
and genetic determinants of alertness, attention, and learning;
neurocognitive phenotypes associated with genetic syndromes and common
gene variants; environmental modifiers of genetic influences on the
development of alertness, attention and learning.
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| Wiebe, John S. Psychosocial adjustment to severe chronic illness; adherence to medical self-care regimens; depression; end-of-life issues.
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Legal
Crites, Stephen L., Jr.
Attitudes; Event-related brain potentials; Emotion; Cognitive processes; Motivation; Memory.
Hosch, Harmon M.
Psychology and Law; Jury decision making; Impact of language of testimony on trial outcomes; Prosecutorial decisions; Alibis.
Lucker, G. William
Prevention of drunk driving among minority youth; cross-cultural issues in applied psychology; productivity and personality attributes in the United States and Mexico.
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 August
Memory for human faces; eyewitness descriptions and lineup identification; human lie detection; interrogations and confessions.
Scullin, Matthew H.
Psychology and the law; Children’s eyewitness memory; 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.
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.
Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience
Crites, Stephen L., Jr.
Attitudes; Event-related brain potentials; Emotion; Cognitive processes; Motivation; Memory.
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.
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
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.
Sobin, Christina A.
Genetics in psychology, including the genetics of learning and neurocognition, and genetic determinants of alertness, attention, and learning; neurocognitive phenotypes associated with genetic syndromes and common gene variants; environmental modifiers of genetic influences on the development of alertness, attention and learning.
Zárate, Michael A.
Cognitive processes
underlying prejudice and stereotyping; Determinants of social
categorizations; Stereotypic trait inferences; Racial, ethnic, and
gender categorization and stereotyping.