Psychology Faculty and their Interests
Faculty who may be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year are indicated by an asterisk (*).
- Behavioral Neuroscience Faculty
- Clinical Faculty
- Cognitive Faculty
- Social-Personality Faculty
- Undergraduate Faculty
Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program
Core Faculty
Bozarth, Michael, A., Ph.D.
Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory.
Daniels, Derek, Ph.D.
Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake.
Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.
Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals.
Hastrup, Janice L., Ph.D.
Health psychology and behavioral medicine; epidemiology and public health; health communication; community psychology; emotional development; environmental hazards; methodological issues.
Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D.
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.
Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph. D.
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory.
Meyer, Paul, Ph.D.
Behavioral and neurophysiological responses to food- and drug-associated stimuli.
Thompson, Alexis, Ph.D.
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.
Affiliated Faculty
Burkard, Robert F., Ph.D.
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.
Hormonal control of ingestive behavior and meal patterns, neural mechanisms of estrogen action, cytokines and disease anorexia.
Clark, Stewart, Ph.D.
Biological functions of novel neuropeptide systems
DiPirro, Jean M., Ph.D
Neuropeptidergic and monoaminergic regulation of pain, analgesia, maternal behavior and drug addiction.
Salvi, Richard J., Ph.D.
Tinnitus, Auditory Plasticity, Ototoxicity, Noise Induce Hearing Loss, Hair Cell Regeneration, Stem Cell Transplantation.
Shen, Roh-Yu, Ph.D.
Brain dopamine systems; alcohol craving; fetal alcohol syndrome.
Shucard, David W., Ph.D.
Neural basis of cognition in normal and impaired infants, children, adults, and animals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsychology.
Temple, Jennifer, Ph.D.
Factors that influence motivation to eat, gender differences in the effects of caffeine in adolescents, and the role of sensory system processing in food reward and intake.
Wersinger, Scott, Ph.D.
Neural and hormonal regulation of social behavior, including reproductive behavior and aggression.
Clinical Psychology Graduate Program
Core Faculty
Bowker, Julie, Ph.D.
The roles that peer relationships, particularly friendships, play in social and emotional development during late childhood and early adolescence
Colder, Craig, Ph.D.
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse.
Hawk, Larry, Ph.D.
The role of motivation and cognition in psychopathology and treatment; clinical psychophysiology; ADHD; smoking.
Ostrov, Jamie, Ph.D.
Subtypes of aggression and victimization; developmental psychopathology; social dominance; interpersonal relationships; applied developmental psychology; prosocial and play behavior.
Pailler, Megan E., Ph.D.
Clinical training, psychosocial oncology, behavioral medicine
Raynor, Joel, Ph.D.
Theory of personality functioning and change; sport and exercise psychology; alcoholism.
Read, Jennifer, Ph.D.
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.
Psychosocial factors in the onset, maintenance and recovery from depression; health behavior and psychological functioning among HIV+ individuals.
Simms, Leonard, Ph.D.
Applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, item response theory applications to personality measures, and computerized adaptive testing.
Tiffany, Stephen T., Ph.D.
The psychopathology of addictive disorders in adolescents and adults including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; behavioral medicine.
Affiliated Faculty
Anchin, Jack C., Ph.D.
Benedict, Ralph H.B., Ph.D.
Neuropsychological impairment in multiple sclerosis, organic personality disorder, prediction of neuropsychological impairment with MRI, neuropsychological test development
Collins, R. Lorraine, Ph.D.
Drinking restraint; psychosocial factors in alcohol use; women's issues; smoking
Connors, Gerard J., Ph.D.
Alcoholism treatment outcome evaluation; relapse prevention; secondary prevention of alcohol problems
Epstein, Leonard, 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
Houston, Rebecca J., Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Leonard, Kenneth E., Ph.D.
Alcohol abuse and Marital/family processes; parenting and infant development in alcoholic families; interpersonal aggression; bar violence; domestic violence
Levine, Murray, Ph. D.
Levy, Kenneth, Ph.D.
Univariate and multivariate data analyzing techniques.
Meacham, Jack, Ph.D.
Life-course developmental psychology; history of world civilizations; comparative religion; race and racism; multicultural education.
Miller, Bruce, M.D.
Pelham, William E., Jr., Ph.D.
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; psychosocial, pharmacological, and combined treatments for ADHD; cognition and motivation in ADHD.
Simms, Ericka, Ph.D.
Hierarchical models of personality, measurement of personality; assessment of interpersonal relationships, particularly dating and marital relationships.
Walitzer, Kimberly, Ph.D.
Treatment outcome evaluation; spouse involvement in treatment; secondary prevention of alcohol problems; gender differences
Wood, Beatrice, Ph.D.
Cognitive Psychology Graduate Program
Core Faculty
Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.
Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals.
Luce, Paul, Ph.D.
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics.
Mauner, Gail, Ph.D.
Sentence and discourse processing; reading; anaphora; language processing in neurogenically impaired populations.
Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph.D.
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory.
Pfordresher, Peter, Ph.D.
The way in which the mind organizes sequences of events in real time during production and perception.
Sawusch, James, Ph.D.
Speech perception; attention; auditory memory; computational modeling; psycholinguistics.
Smith, J. David, Ph.D.
Animal cognition; categorization; metacognition and self-awareness; psychology of music and aesthetics.
Social-Personality Psychology Graduate Program
Core Faculty
Gabriel, Shira, Ph.D.
Social self; intimacy seeking and social comparison; need to belong.
Murray, Sandra, Ph.D.
Close relationships; self-esteem; and motivated cognition.
Park, Lora, Ph.D.
The self, self-esteem, contingencies of self-worth, motivation, interpersonal processes.
Poulin, Michael J., Ph.D.
Prosocial motivation; meaning; physical and psychological adjustment to stress and trauma
Seery, Mark, Ph.D.
Stress and coping, the self, motivation, psychophysiology.
Affiliated Faculty
Quinton, Wendy, Ph.D.
Antecedents and consequences of attributions to discrimination; the role of psychosocial factors in chronic pain and its management.