Faculty Directory

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Department of Psychology Faculty

Bowker, Julie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Individual differences in socioemotional behaviors (e.g.,social withdrawal, aggression), peer relationships and friendships; internalizing problems

Bozarth, Michael, A., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory

Colder, Craig, Ph.D.

Professor
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse

Daniels, Derek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head
Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake

Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals

Gabriel, Shira, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Social self; intimacy seeking and social comparison; need to belong

Associate Professor
Health psychology and behavioral medicine; epidemiology and public health; health communication; community psychology; emotional development; environmental hazards; methodological issues

Hawk, Larry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
The role of motivation and cognition in psychopathology and treatment; clinical psychophysiology; ADHD; smoking

Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D.

Professor
Physiological bases of motivated behavior (especially reproduction and ingestion); neural and endocrine basis of maternal behavior in mammals; functions of the hypothalamus; opioid systems and maternal behavior, parturition, and antinociception.

Luce, Paul A., Ph.D.

Professor
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics

Mauner, Gail, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Sentence and discourse processing; reading; anaphora; language processing in neurogenically impaired populations.

Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory

Meyer, Paul, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and neurophysiological responses to food- and drug-associated stimuli.

Murray, Sandra, Ph.D.

Professor, Social-Personality Area Head
Close relationships; self-esteem; motivated cognition

Ostrov, Jamie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Subtypes of aggression and victimization; developmental psychopathology; social dominance; interpersonal relationships; applied developmental psychology; prosocial and play behavior

Pailler, Megan E., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Director, Psychological Services Center
Clinical training, psychosocial oncology, behavioral medicine

Park, Lora, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
The self, self-esteem, contingencies of self-worth, motivation, interpersonal processes

Pfordresher, Peter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Cognitive Area Head
The way in which the mind organizes sequences of events in real time during production and perception

Poulin, Michael J., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Prosocial motivation; meaning; physical and psychological adjustment to stress and trauma

Raynor, Joel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Theory of personality functioning and change; sport and exercise psychology; alcoholism

Read, Jennifer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Social and individual-level factors in the etiology and treatment of alcohol misuse; affective and cognitive determinants of heavy drinking, PTSD-alcohol use disorder comorbidity

Roberts, John, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Mood disorders; life-stress; self-esteem; psychosocial functioning among HIV+ individuals

Sawusch, James, Ph.D.

Professor
Speech perception; attention; auditory memory; computational modeling; psycholinguistics

Seery, Mark, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Stress and coping, the self, motivation, psychophysiology

Simms, Leonard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Clinical Area Head
Applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, item response theory applications to personality measures, and computerized adaptive testing

Smith, J. David, Ph.D.

Professor
Animal cognition; categorization; metacognition and self-awareness; psychology of music and aesthetics

Tiffany, Stephen T., Ph.D.

Empire Innovation Professor of Psychology, Department Chair
The psychopathology of addictive disorders in adolescents and adults including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; behavioral medicine

Affiliated Faculty

Anchin, Jack C., Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Psychotherapy integration and unification; interconnections among self, interpersonal, and affective processes in personality and psychopathology; biopsychosocial systems metatheory; ontological and epistemological issues in clinical psychology.

Benedict, Ralph H.B., Ph.D.

Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Neuropsychological impairment in multiple sclerosis, organic personality disorder, prediction of neuropsychological impairment with MRI, neuropsychological test development

Burkard, Robert F., Ph.D.

Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Auditory evoked potentials, physiologic manifestations of auditory masking, auditory adaptation, acoustics and sound measurements, use of digital signal process for acquisition of auditory evoked potentials, comparative studies of hearing

Butera, Peter, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Psychology
Hormonal control of ingestive behavior and meal patterns, neural mechanisms of estrogen action, cytokines and disease anorexia

Clark, Stewart, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Research Assistant Professor of Psychology
Biological fucntions of novel neuropeptide systems

Collins, R. Lorraine, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Health Behavior, School of Public Health and Health Professions; Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Professor of Psychology
Drinking restraint; psychosocial factors in alcohol use; women's issues; smoking

Connors, Gerard J., Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions
Alcoholism treatment outcome evaluation; relapse prevention; secondary prevention of alcohol problems

DiPirro, Jean M., Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Neuropeptidergic and monoaminergic regulation of pain, analgesia, maternal behavior and drug addiction

Epstein, Leonard H., Ph.D.

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Psychology

Frone, Michael, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Occupational health; workplace substance use; work-family interface; youth employment

Houston, Rebecca J., Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology

Leonard, Kenneth E., Ph.D.

Director, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Professor of Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Alcohol abuse and Marital/family processes; parenting and infant development in alcoholic families; interpersonal aggression; bar violence; domestic violence

Miller, Bruce, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Psychology

Quinton, Wendy, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor
Antecedents and consequences of attributions to discrimination; the role of psychosocial factors in chronic pain and its management

Salvi, Richard J., Ph.D.

Research Professor of Psychology
Tinnitus, Auditory Plasticity, Ototoxicity, Noise Induce Hearing Loss, Hair Cell Regeneration, Stem Cell Transplantation

Shen, Roh-Yu , Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Brain dopamine systems; alcohol craving; fetal alcohol syndrome

Shucard, David W., Ph.D.

Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Neural basis of cognition in normal and impaired infants, children, adults, and animals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsychology

Simms, Ericka, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor

Hierarchical models of personality, measurement of personality; assessment of interpersonal relationships, particularly dating and marital relationships

Temple, Jennifer, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Motivation to eat, gender differences in the effects of caffeine in adolescents, and the role of sensory system processing in food reward and intake.

Testa, Maria, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Research interests are intimate partner violence, sexual aggression and victimization, and college drinking.

Thompson, Alexis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Neural adaptations associated with increased vulnerability or expression of drug addicton, anxiety, and maternal behavior; behavioral regulation of pain and analgesia; neuropeptide regulation of monoamines

Walitzer, Kimberly, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Treatment outcome evaluation; spouse involvement in treatment; secondary prevention of alcohol problems; gender differences

Waschbusch, Daniel A., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Center for Children & Families and the Departments of Pediatrics & Psychology
Interest areas:

Wersinger, Scott, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Neural and hormonal regulation of social behavior, including reproductive behavior and aggression

Wood, Beatrice, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Psychology

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