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Core Facutly of the Behavioral Science Program, 2007-08
The faculty listed below comprise the core faculty of the behavioral science program. In addition to interests of individual faculty members described here, the Department has organized four interest areas that involve faculty and graduate students from all three of our Ph.D. programs. Students in Behavioral Science are encouraged to affiliate with at least one of these interest areas, which represent special strengths of the Department. Very brief descriptions are provided following the list of faculty members.
Please refer to the Psychology Department listing for contact information and listings of faculty in School and Clinical Psychology programs.
Su L. Boatright-Horowitz, Ph.D. The City University of New York. Director of the Undergraduate Program in Psychology; Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Self-perception, social priming, primate learning and cognition, animal behavior.
Jerry Cohen, Ph.D. University of Illinois. Professor; Research Interests: Social motivation, methodology, cognition.
Charles Collyer, Ph.D. Princeton University. Professor, Research Interests: General psychology; cognitive psychology, psychology of peace, conflict, violence, and non-violence.
Kathleen Gorman, Ph.D. University of Maryland. Associate Professor; Research Interests: Infant and child development, malnutrition and behavior, risk and resilience in the context of poverty.
Lisa Harlow, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles. Professor; Research Interests: Evaluating attitudes and performance in "friendly science" classes, structural equation modeling, multivariate statistics, research facilitation, psychoexistential functioning, and health psychology.
Robert LaForge, Sc.D. John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Professor; Research Interests: behavioral epidemiology with specific emphasis in harm reduction approaches to substance abuse, biostatistical methods, survey research and cancer epidemiology. Grants in college student drinking and alcohol harm reduction in the general public.
*Albert Lott, Ph.D. University of Colorado. Professor Emeritus; Research Interests: Social and men's studies.
*Bernice Lott, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Emerita; Research Interests: Social and feminist psychology; social learning, interpersonal discrimination, social class/poverty, multicultural issues. (Joint appointment in Women's Studies)
*Peter Merenda, Ph.D. University of Wisonsin. Professor Emeritus; Research Interests: Statistics and methodology.
Kathryn Quina, Ph.D. University of Georgia. Behavioral Science Program Director. Professor; Research Interests: Gender Studies, HIV risk and sexual abuse, research with incarcerated women. (Joint appointment in Women's Studies)
Joseph Rossi, Ph.D. University of Rhode Island. Professor; Research Interests: Behavioral statistics, research methods, measurement development, health promotion, disease prevention, transtheoretical model of behavior change.
*Albert Silverstein, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Professor Emeritus; Research Interests: Human learning & memory, acquisition of motives, history of scientific thought in psychology.
Nansook Park, Ph.D. George Peabody College of Vanderbilt. Behavioral Science. Cross-cultural assessment of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, happiness, individual versus collective thinking, and ADHD.
*Nelson Smith, Ph.D. Princeton University. Professor Emeritus; Research Interests: Conditioning processes, behavior change through multimedia.
John Stevenson, Ph.D. University of Michigan. Professor; Research Interests: Personality and social psychology, substance abuse prevention in community settings, program evaluation research.
*Dominic Valentino, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside. Department Chairperson; Professor; Research Interests: Physiological psychology, cognitive neuroscience, measurement and structure of attention.
Wayne Velicer, Ph.D. Purdue University. Professor; Research Interests: Statistics and methodology, measure development and health psychology.
Theodore Walls, Ph.D. Boston College. Assisstant Professor; Research Interests: Statistical methodology for social science, developmental and educational psychology, prevention and intervention science.
Mark Wood, Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia. Associate Professor; Research Interests: Etiology of alcohol use and misuse, early interventions to reduce alcohol misuse, alcohol-related aggressive behavior, and research methodology.
* NOTE: Emeritus Faculty: These individuals have retired from active teaching, but may be available for consultations.
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