Faculty Research Interests

 

 

Faculty Member Research Interests
Bill Attenweiler
  • attitude and related construct development
  • employee surveys
  • factor analysis
  • structural equation modeling
Mark E. Bardgett
  • psychopharmacology
  • behavioral neuroscience
  • behavioral consequences of
    altered gene expression in animals
Robin M. Bartlett
  • child socio-emotional development (e.g., children and families)
  • law and psychology (e.g., factors influencing children’s eyewitness memory)
Paul D. Bishop
  • human sexuality
Kimberly Hanson Breitenbecher
  • risk factors for sexual assault
  • sexual assault prevention
Kathleen Fuegen
  • how gender and race stereotypes guide employment decisions (e.g., whom to hire and whom to fire)
Perilou Goddard
  • attitudes toward drug policy issues 
Heather Park Hatchett
  • utilization of mental health services by males
David Hogan
  • efficacy of diversity courses in reducing prejudice toward minority groups (particularly African Americans and homosexuals)
  • cognitive/affective underpinnings of academic procrastination in college students
Douglas Krull
  • first impressions
  • psychology of religion
Angela Lipsitz
  • late-adolescent sexual behavior
  • the image of psychology in film
George E. Manning
  • changing meaning of work
  • leadership development
  • coping skills for personal and social adjustment 
Cecile Marczinski
  • behavioral control and addictive behaviors
  • cognitive determinants and consequences of alcohol use
  • binge drinking in college students
Cyndi McDaniel
  • human learning and problem solving
  • the development of expertise and applications of computers. 
Philip J.  Moberg
  • social cognitive skills in leadership
  • computer-mediated video assessments
  • workplace bullying
  • interpersonal conflict
  • workplace motivation
Jessica L. Park
  • working memory
  • cognitive evolution
  • language acquisition 
Jeffrey M. Smith
  • social conflict over renewable resources (commons dilemma)
  • the effects of the physical environment on behavior and human factors.
James H. Thomas
  • development of vocational identity in college students (in the area of applied developmental psychology)
Juliann Bosko Young
  • cross-cultural adaptation
  • students in transition
  • student adaptation in novel learning environments