Faculty Research Interests

• attitude and related construct development
• employee surveys
• factor analysis
• structural equation modeling

• psychopharmacology
• behavioral neuroscience
• behavioral consequences of
  altered gene expression in animals

• child socio-emotional development (e.g., children and families)
• law and psychology (e.g., factors influencing children’s eyewitness memory)

• human sexuality

• risk factors for sexual assault
• sexual assault prevention

Gloria Carpenter

• community psychology and health disparities

• social, cognitive and personality factors in choice behavior, especially addictive behaviors

• how gender and race stereotypes guide employment decisions (e.g., whom to hire and whom to fire)

• attitudes toward drug policy issues 

• efficacy of diversity courses in reducing prejudice toward minority groups (particularly African Americans and homosexuals)
• cognitive/affective underpinnings of academic procrastination in college students

• first impressions
• psychology of religion

• late-adolescent sexual behavior
• the image of psychology in film

• changing meaning of work
• leadership development
• coping skills for personal and social adjustment 

• behavioral control and addictive behaviors
• cognitive determinants and consequences of alcohol use
• binge drinking in college students

• human learning and problem solving
• the development of expertise and applications of computers. 

• social cognitive skills in leadership
• computer-mediated video assessments
• workplace bullying
• interpersonal conflict
• workplace motivation

• social conflict over renewable resources (commons dilemma)
• the effects of the physical environment on behavior and human factors.

• development of vocational identity in college students (in the area of applied developmental psychology)

• cross-cultural adaptation
• students in transition
• student adaptation in novel learning environments