Department Faculty

Beth Adelson, Associate Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests: conflict resolution and insight phenomena.

Mary Bravo, Associate Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests: visual processes involved in perceptual organization.

Leeja Carter, Part-time Lecturer.

Sean Duffy, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Major research interests: development of quantitative reasoning and representation in children, category use in reconstructive memory, and cultural variations in psychological processes.

Luis Garcia, Professor of Psychology, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies.  Major research interests: social cognitions about sexuality.

Daniel Hart, Distinguished Professor of Psychology; Chair of the Department of Childhood Studies, and Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies.  Major research interests: development of the sense of self; personality development; moral development and behavior.

Thomas Haworth, Part-time Lecturer.

Rita Johnson, Part-time Lecturer.

Joseph Joiner, Part-time Lecturer.

Barbara Leavy, Part-time Lecturer.

Charlotte Markey, Associate Professor of Psychology. Major research interests: development of eating-related behaviors; eating disorders; adolescents' behavioral health; relations between personality and health.

Naomi Marmorstein, Associate Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests:  internalizing disorders (depression, anxiety) in children and adolescents; the co-occurrence of internalizing disorders and externalizing disorders (e.g., conduct disorder) in youth.

Zissis Pappas, Instructor of Psychology.

Rob Piekarski, Part-time Lecturer.

Ira Roseman, Associate Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests: cognitive determinants of emotion; cross-cultural psychology; belief systems; political cognition; human motivation.

Ann Rosen Spector, Part-time Lecturer.

Karen Thierry, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Major research interests: development of young children's ability to discriminate the origins, or sources, of their memories and knowledge; does monitoring source (e.g., distinguishing between events that really happened and those that were merely imagined) enhance the accuracy and completeness of children's eyewitness testimony, particularly recall of allegations of sexual abuse.

Bill Tucker, Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests: ethics in science; the relations of social policy and psychological research; the nature of research on racial differences.

Bill Whitlow, Professor of Psychology.  Major research interests: noncontingent learning; implicit memory; cognitive bases of human and nonhuman animal memory; evolution of memory; computational models of learning and memory.

Michael Wogan, Emeritus.  Major research interests: clinical psychology with interest in the interface between Psychology and Law.

Tara Woolfolk, Instructor of Psychology.