Faculty
The following members of the Doctoral Faculty in Psychology contribute in various ways to the program, including as research mentors, instructors, supervisors, scholars, and in governance positions. These members are on the faculty at one of the CUNY campuses (see CUNY campus affiliations below).
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| Israel Abramov - Visual System: Psychophysics, Cognition, Brain and Behavior, Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience |
| Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith - Experiences of forced migrants; Impact of torture, human right abuses, armed conflict and displacement; vicarious trauma in service providers; HIV/AIDS risk and preventiative factors among African immigrants; and multicultural issues |
| Maureen Allwood - Child and Adolescent Trauma Including PTSD; Services for Minority, Refugee and Immigrant Youth |
| Alicia Alvero - Behavioral Workplace Safety; Performance Management and Workplace Training |
| Asohan Amarasingham - Systems, Statistical analysis of large-scale extracellular recordings, the study of neuronal circuits and their models, neural coding |
| Deidre Anglin - The social epidemiology of psychosis: the relationship between race/ethnicity and endorsement of psychotic-like symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical populations; the stigma of mental health service utilization in African American populations and explanations for underutilization. |
| Jesus Angulo - Biopsychology; Behavioral Neuroscience; Neurodegeneration; Neurochemical and molecular neuroscience |
| Igor Arievitch - Methods of Developmental Teaching and Learning; Factors and Components of Educability |
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| Luis Barrios - Latin American & Latino/os Studies; Qualitative-Participatory Action Research; Street and Prison Gangs; Liberation & Cultural Theology |
| Jeff Beeler - Dopamine, basal ganglia, corticostriatal plasticity, systems/circuit level investigation in awake-behaving animals, addiction, obesity, anorexia nervosa, mouse models |
| Sarah Berger - Relation between cognitive and motor development, specifically how changing motor expertise shapes problem-solving abilities in infancy and early childhood; Impact of sleep on motor problem solving in infancy |
| Markus Bidell - LGBT/Multicultural Clinical Competence; Professional Training; Healthcare Competency Scale Development; and, Health Disparities |
| Marom Bikson - Neural Engineering, Translational Neuroscience, Medical Device Design, Neuromodulation |
| Richard Bodnar - Behavioral pharmacology; Conditioned flavor preferences; food intake |
| Elisabeth Brauner - Social and Organizational Psychology; Group Research, Transactive Memory, Knowledge Management, Interaction Coding, Communication |
| Joshua Brumberg - Developmental Neuroscience, Cortical Circuitry, Sensory Deprivation, Barrel Cortex |
| Tamara Buckley - Racial Identity; Cultural Competency and Diversity in Organizations |
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| Cheryl Carmichael - Close relationships, adult romantic attachment, perceived responsiveness, emotion regulation, health, well-being |
| David Chapin - Video in Field Research; Design as a Mediator of People's Interaction with Place |
| Sheila Chase - Comparative Cognition; Animal Behavior and Conservation, Memory and Decision Processing |
| Preeti Chauhan - Policing, pretrial detention, case processing, misdemeanors |
| Melissa Checker - Environmental justice, urban sustainability in the United States, the social justice implications of the green economy and social movements |
| Martin Chodorow - Cognitive Psychology, Memory and Learning; Computational Linguistics |
| Elizabeth Chua - Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory and metacognition |
| Kandice Chuh - U.S. culture, politics, and law; Asian racialization; aesthetics; globalization; race, gender, and sexuality; colonialism and decoloniality; pedagogy and institutionality |
| Russ Clay - Social Attitudes, Emotional Biases, Cognitive Biases |
| Josh W. Clegg - Relational theory, Phenomenology and Dialogic selves |
| Shuki Cohen - Psychology of Terrorism, Violent Radicalization, Disinformation, Conspiracies, Coercive Persuasion, Extremist Cults, Coercive Group Dynamics, Coercive Control, Intimate Partner Aggression & Violence. |
| Angela Crossman - Deception in Children; Child Witness (Developmental Psychology) |
| Matthew Crump - Human learning, memory, attention and performance |
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| Colette Daiute - Social, cognitive, and emotion development among children, youth and adults in Challenging Contexts, Including War, Post-War Transitions, Situations of extreme/increasing resource inequality, and Under-Funded Urban Schools; Narrative Inquiry; Uses of Verbal, Nonverbal, and Technology for Development; Adolescent and young adult social development in relation to contemporary globalization challenges and opportunities; Programs and institutions designed to support human developm |
| Jessie Daniels - Racism, new media and health, incarceration and health |
| Dana-Ain Davis - Poverty policy, feminist theory, public anthropology, urban political economy, US |
| Angelo DiBello - clinical trials funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Dr. DiBello is an applied social psychologist who researches intervention strategies to promote health behavior change in the context of addictive behaviors as well as the impact of substance use on romantic relationship processes. |
| Julie Dinh - Diversity, culture, interventions, training, teams, teamwork, health, well-being, health administration, health care, disparity, inequity |
| Jennifer Drake - Drawing and Emotion regulation; cognitive and perceptual skills in artists and artistically gifted children; aesthetic judgments; drawing and STEM learning |
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| Erin Eatough - Occupational Health, Occupational Stress, Employee Well-being, Deviance at Work |
| Jay Edelman - Sensory and neural control of eye movements. Sensorimotor Integration; Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Steven J. Ellman - Sleep and Dreams and the Neurophysiology of Pleasure Pathways |
| Joel Erblich - Cognitive and biobehavioral factors in addiction; Nicotine dependence; Smoking cessation |
| Adriana Espinosa - The role of identity, emotional intelligence, self-confidence, and parent-child relations on the health and adaptation of marginalized groups; the role of self-confidence in mathematics performance, and the impact of emotional intelligence on psychological well-being; the precursors of parental behaviors such as child abuse, and history of arrest linked to negative heath and adaptation of minority and immigrant children. |
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| Jin Fan - fMRI, attentional networks |
| Eric Fertuck - Cognitive neuroscience of social psychopathology. |
| Michelle Fine - Participatory Action Research and Studies of Social Injustice and Resistance; Urban Education |
| Nancy Foldi - Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging and Dementia |
| Mark Fondacaro - Juvenile Law, Law & Neuroscience, Criminal Responsibility, Procedural Justice, and Evidence-Based Reforms of the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems |
| Peter Fraenkel - Family therapy, family psychology, how families cope with time pressures; work/family balance; prevention of marital disorder. |
| Nicholas Freudenberg - Social Influences on Health, Health Policy, Social Movements and Health, Health of Young Adults; Reciprocal Relationships between Education and Health; Impact of Corporations |
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| Michele Galietta - Treatment of violence, self-harm and suicide in correctional, forensic & civil settings, stalking and interpersonal violence, palliative care in correctional settings, treatment of psychopathy, training and supervision |
| Yu Gao - Neuroscience of Behavior Disorders |
| Gwendolyn Gerber - Gender and Gender Stereotypes; Psychology of Policing, Sexual Assault |
| Stefano Ghirlanda - Behavior theory, associative learning, neural network models of behavior, stimulus generalization, architecture of behavior systems, mathematical modeling, cultural evolution |
| Demis Glasford - Intergroup relations; Prejudice; Injustice decision-making |
| Harold W. Goldstein - Staffing, Diversity and Inclusion, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Strategic Competency Modeling, Leadership and Managerial Development, Prediction of Performance in Professional Sports |
| Sarit Golub - Decision-Making; Risk perception; Stigma; HIV |
| Catherine Good - Social Psychology; Stereotype threat, gender, achievement motivation and learning |
| Renee Goodwin - Anxiety/mood/behavior disorders and physical health problems |
| William Gottdiener - Alcohol and other drug use disorders; behavioral addictions, psychoanalysis |
| Leigh Graham - Contentious politics, urban redevelopment, participation |
| Frank W. Grasso - Neural Systems for control and coordination of behavior: BioMimetic Robotics, Quantitative Animal Behavior, Biological and Artificial Neural networks architectures. |
| John D. Greenwood - History of Psychology, Social Psychology, Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Social and Psychological Science |
| Jill Grose-Fifer - Developmental cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience of memory and decision making, neural correlates of psychopathy, neural correlates of emotional information processing, pedagogy. |
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| Louise Hainline - Cognitive and Social Factors Associated with Science Education/Learning, Particularly in Under-Represented Populations and Women; Behavioral Neuroscience, Vision |
| Benjamin Harris - Child Psychopathology and Treatment, Supervision & Consultation; Community Psychology; ADHD; Adolescent development; Role of colleagues in clinical training. |
| Roger Hart - Children's Development and the Quality of the Physical Environment; The Participatory Development of Communities |
| Maria Hartwig - Deception, Deception Making; Interviews/ Interrogations |
| Glen R. Hass - Cognitive Processing Mechanisms Related to Attraction to Members of the Opposite Sex |
| Darryl Hill - The influence of social, cultural, and historical context on gender and sexuality |
| Michael Hoyt - Biobehavioral processes related to adjustment and coping with chronic illness; Emotion regulation; Cancer survivorship; Gender; Evidence-based intervention |
| Tarry Hum - Urban Planning; Immigration; Culture and Community |
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| Joshua Jessel - Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism, Behavioral Intervention, Functional Assessment, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Problem Behavior |
| Matthew Barry Johnson - Interrogation and confession, wrongful conviction, mental status defenses, parental rights termination |
| Veronica Johnson - Workplace racial discrimination/harassment, Cultural competence in mental health service delivery, Racial/Ethnic mental health disparities, Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, Cultural Values |
| Elliot Jurist - Mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy; the relation between emotions and agency; addictions; ethics. |
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| Lana Karasik - Bidirectional effects of infant-mother interaction; within and cross-cultural studies of infants and mothers; perceptual-motor and social-cognitive development in infancy |
| Cindi Katz - Social Reproduction and Everyday Life; Security and the Environment |
| Simon Kelly - Neural systems of perception; Attention and decision making |
| Hosu Kim - Critical Disability Studies, Feminist STS, Critical/Global University Studies, Environmental Humanities, Transnational Adoption Research, Queer politics of mourning and repair. |
| Junghoon Kim - Traumatic brain injury, neurorehabilitation, executive function |
| Alan Kluger - Aging, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), longitudinal decline. and cognitive decline |
| Abraham Korman - Leadership, Work, Motivation, Alienation in the Work Setting |
| Margaret Bull Kovera - Psychology and Law; Social Psychology of Eyewitness Identification; Jury Decision Making |
| Yana A. Kuchirko - Cross-Cultural Psychology, Human Development, Contexts of Development, Parent-Child Interactions, Family Systems, Intersectionality, Gender Development |
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| Casey LaDuke - Forensic assessment; neuropsychology; brain, behavior, & law; criminal behavior |
| David C. Lahti - Animal behavior, Cultural evolution, communication systems |
| Robert Lanson - Human and Animal Psychophysics, Behavior Modification |
| Michael Leippe - Attitude change; Cognitive dissonance; Psychology and Law, including social influences on eyewitness confidence and memory, and motivational factors in jurors’ trial processing |
| Jonathan Levitt - Neuroanatomy/ Neurophysiology of Vision, Brain Development; Visual Perception |
| Setha Low - Anthropology of space and place; Ethnography and Qualitative Methodology |
| Joan M. Lucariello - Cognitive Development, Evidence-based instructional(teaching) practices;learning processes and development, cultural psychology |
| Wendy Luttrell - Childhood/ Youth Studies; Visual Ethnography; Gender; Race; Class and Sexuality Studies; Equality/ Social Justice Studies |
| Karen Lyness - Women in leadership positions; Careers; Work-life issues; Cross-cultural; Gender and Diversity issues in the workplace |
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| Itzhak Mano - Genetic and physiological analysis of glutamate signaling in C. elegans |
| Keith Markus - Causation, Causal Inference and Causal Modeling; Test Validity |
| John H. Martin - Motor systems; Motor System Repair; Movement Development, Movement recovery after brain/spinal cord injury |
| Jeff Maskovsky - Political anthropology; race and class politics; biopolitics, health, poverty, and urban governance; security and securitization; ethics and politics of care; populism and white nationalism; social movements, protest anthropology, urban political economy; US |
| Silvia Mazzula - Latinx Psychology; Bicultural efficacy and mental health; Race-based cultural experiences, stress and trauma; Racial and cultural competencies in psychology; Diverse academic and leadership pipeline development. |
| Laraine McDonough - Concept development, memory, categorization, language acquisition (English and Korean), nonverbal thought, memory and aging. |
| Karen E. McFadden - Research on parenting, child development, and contexts of early care and education |
| Robert Melara - Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention; Formal Models of Cognition |
| Douglas Mennin - Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Major Depression; Emotion Regulation; Psychophysiology; Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Treatment |
| Michael Menser - Participatory democracy and ecological sustainability |
| Glen Milstein - Culture and health; Religion and Mental Health; Immigration & Psychological Resillience |
| Regina Miranda - Adolescent Depression and Suicide; Social-Cognitive Process of Transference and Depression |
| Peter Moller - Electric fish, maze learning, endocrine disruptors |
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| Kevin Nadal - Microaggressions; racism; LGBTQ issues; intersectionalities; racial trauma; Asian American psychology; Filipino American psychology |
| Erika Y. Niwa - How cultural context, especially ethnicity and race, shapes the social, emotional, and cognitive development of ethnically diverse youth and adolescents |
| Yoko Nomura - Neurobiology and Developmental Psychopathology |
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| David O'Brien - Cognitive and Cognitive Development; Ethics and Human Research Protections |
| Sarah O'Neill - Predictors of symptom severity and adaptive functioning among children and adults with ADHD; how neuropsychological factors interact with environmental factors to affect trajectories of ADHD over time. |
| Susan Opotow - Psychology of Conflict and Injustice; Aggression, Violence and Hate |
| Eli Osman - Mechanisms of Hypnosis, Psychotherapy, and Perception |
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| Jaihyun Park - Social Cognition (Stereotyping and Prejudice, Emotion and Cognition; Psychology and Law (Jury Decision Making) |
| Bertram Ploog - Behavior Analysis, Behavioral Models, Autism, Attention, Comparative Cognition |
| Joshua Plotnik - Comparative cognition in elephants and other mammals; applications of animal behavior and cognition research to wildlife conservation; conservation education |
| Sandeep Prasada - Conceptual Representation, Cognitive and Developmental Neuropsychology; Lexical Development |
| Diana Punales Morejon - Clinical experience in the areas of: Multicultural/Latino psychology; Psychology of women; Immigration trauma and acculturation, Severe psychopathology and medical illness. |
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| Chitra Raghavan - Assessment of coercive control across intimate partner violence, sexual violence and sex trafficking; gender and cultural dynamics |
| Andre Ragnauth - Studying the Effects of Genetic Modifications Relevant to a Variety of Psychiatric and Psychological Disorders |
| Laxmi Ramasubramanian - Architecture & Planning; Children Youth & the City; Partipatory/ Advocacy Planning; GIS |
| Robert Ranaldi - Neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying drug addiction; neural mechanisms of reward and motivation |
| Theodore Raphan - Modeling Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation and Adaptation |
| Laura Reigada - Anxiety; depression; children; adolescents; psychosocial assessment and intervention; chronically illness; evidence-based treatments; cognitive processes; inflammatory bowel disease; multidisciplinary approaches; functional somatic symptoms |
| Diana Reiss - Marine mammal cognition and communication; Elephant cognition; Comparative cognition, Applied animal welfare; Evolution of intelligence |
| H. Jonathon Rendina - Social stress and health; HIV; LGBT health disparities; minority stress; quantitative methods; statistics |
| Tracey Revenson - Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness; Stress and Coping; Social Context; Health Disparities |
| Timothy Ricker - My research investigates how information within the working memory system is maintained, forgotten, and how it influences decision-making. Working memory is the information kept active for use in ongoing tasks. This form of memory has been found to influence performance in a wide variety of cognitive processes, giving it a central role in cognition. |
| Tony Ro - Perception, attention, consciousness, multisensory integration, synesthesia |
| Margaret Rosario - Identity, particularly sexual and gender identities; their etiology, development, and consequences for mental and physical health and other adaptational outcomes; as well as the precipitating, moderating, and mediating factors essential for understanding the relations between identity and outcomes. |
| Martin Dale Ruck - Cognitive socialization at the intersection of race, ethnicity and social class; Children’s evaluations of social exclusion and intergroup relations; Children’s perceptions of human rights and social justice; Urban education; Youth civic engagement |
| Sasha Rudenstine - Manifestation of psychopathology over the life course with a particular focus on urban marginalized populations, psychological repercussions of cumulative trauma, patterns of psychiatric symptomatology, and how to apply a life course framework to clinical interventions. |
| Lesia Ruglass - Assessment and integrated treatment of PTSD and substance use disorders (SUDs); understanding the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying SUDs; reducing racial/ethnic disparities in health, mental health, and academic achievement; and HIV/AIDS prevention in racial/ethnic minority communities. |
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| Susan Saegert - Stress and inner city families; comprehensive community development neighborhoods and communities; Home Ownership Relating to Social Capital and Neighborhood Quality; Density and Environmental Stress |
| Gabrielle Salfati - Offender Profiling and Behavioral Crime Scene Analysis; Homicide and Sexual Assaults, Behavioral Consistency and Linking Serial Crimes |
| Glenn Schafe - Neurobiology of learning, memory, emotion and stress |
| Charles Scherbaum - Employee Selection, Cognitive ability testing, analytics, validation |
| Tamera Schneider - Stress resilience, psychophysiology, emotional intelligence, broadening participation in STEM |
| Irvin Sam Schonfeld - Occupational Health Psychology; Applied Statistics/ Qualitative Research; Psychopathology and Aggression in Youth |
| John Seley - Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Public Policy; Emergency Response; Nonprofits |
| Peter Serrano - Behavioral and molecular neuroscience of stress effects on learning and memory |
| Jacob Shane - Lifespan Development, Motivation, Opportunity, Perceived Control |
| Nicholas Sibrava - Anxiety and related disorders; cognitive mechanisms of anxiety and mood pathology; relationship between discrimination and mental health in minority populations; sociocultural barriers to treatment utilization. |
| Michael Siller - Development of Early Social Cognition and Language; Children with Autism |
| Brett Silverstein - Depression, Epidemiology, Gender; Increasing Diversity in Government Service |
| Ratna Sircar - Neurobiology of addiction; learning and memory in developing animals; neuropsychopharmacology |
| Joel Sneed - Geriatric Depression; Personality Disorder |
| Myriam Villalobos Solis - Cultural influences on adolescent healthy development, Puerto Rican adolescents, sexual reproductive health of Latino youth, and adolescent social and emotional outcomes. |
| Tyrel Starks - Hunter College’s Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) |
| Anna Stetsenko - The development of self, identity, agency and gender; culture and development; development in contexts of social institutions such as schools, daycare and welfare systems; sociocultural and cultural-historical theories; learning and development; the role of play in development; disability and child welfare policies. |
| Charles Stone - Social aspects of memory (and memory more generally), Autobiographical memory, Collective memory, Meta-cognitive judgements, Social media and memory, Jury decision making |
| Brett Stoudt - Privilege; oppression; participatory action research; critical theories |
| Deryn Strange - Cognitive and social factors that influence memory in children and adults; including false autobiographical memories, memory distortions from the media, collective false memory and co-witness memory distortions. |
| Christopher Stults - Intimate partner violence, consensual non-monogamy, and health disparities among sexual and gender minority populations. |
| Celina Su - Public Policy; Participatory Community Development; Participatory Action Research; Participatory Democracy; Deliberation and Social Identity. |
| Nan Sussman - Cultural Psychology; Immigrant Acculturation, Culture and Health |
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| Vivien Tartter - Psycholinguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Factor |
| Steven Tuber - The assessment of representations of self and other, and the affects and defense mechanisms stimulated by such representations in children, adolescents and adults; the links between such assessments and the adaptive use of psychotherapy in clinical populations; the utility of projective methods, most especially the Rorschach Inkblot Method and the Thematic Apperception Test, to studies of psychotherapy outcome. |
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| Jason VanOra - Narrative, Study of Lives, Urban Education, Community College, Qualitative Research, Persons-in-Context |
| Deborah Vietze - Understanding and preventing racism and prejudice; cultural and ethnic identity; romantic experiences of young women; Service: Promoting the health and welfare of children and youth; Teaching and mentoring: Engaging students in diverse processes to strengthen the skills required to engage in scientific and logical scholarship that promotes their professional goals. |
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| Paul Wachtel - Integration of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential/emotion-focused approaches to therapy; applications of psychological theory and research to issues of race relations, materialism, inequality, and climate change; vicious/virtuous circles and reciprocal causal processes in personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy; implications of the findings of behavioral economics for understanding of personality dynamics. |
| Jennifer Wagner - Cognitive Development, Infancy, Social and Emotional Development, Numerical Cognition, Eye-tracking, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Wei Wang - Quantitative methods, computational modeling, social network analysis, applied psychometrics, big data analytics and technology, with their broad applications in psychological, educational, and managerial areas. |
| Roderick J. Watts - Youth sociopolitical development and activism, Youth community organizing and civic engacement, Men's development (especially African American men), Liberation Psychology, Social Identity and Action Research Methodology |
| Lissa Weinstein - The psychoanalytic process and psychoanalytic technique, specifically the measurement of changes in linguistic structures such as pronoun use, repetition, and metaphor as indicators of modifications in psychological structure during therapy. |
| Rebecca Weiss - Competency to stand trial evaluations (e.g., correlating demographic variables, quality of reports); Effect of group membership (e.g., culture, intellectual ability) on validity in forensic assessment; Cultural validity of psychiatric disorders. |
| Cathy Spatz Widom - Longterm Consequence of Child Abuse and Neglect; Crime and Violence, Psychopathy and Sex Roles |
| Bianca C. Williams - Race and Racialization; Black Feminisms; African Diasporic Relationships; Race, Gender, Emotional Wellness/Affect; Feminist Pedagogies; Transnational Feminisms; Black Feminist Leadership Studies; Tourism; Virtual Ethnography; U.S. and Caribbean |
| Daryl Wout - Stigma; Stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup relations; African American Racial Identity |
| James Wulach - Forensic Psychology and Law; Clinical Psychology |
| Peggilee Wupperman - Psychotherapy development and evaluation, mindfulness, emotion regulation |
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| Ann Marie Yali - Social/Health Psychology; Positive Psychology/ Social Disparities |
| Philip T. Yanos - Stigma and its impact on people with severe mental illness; the impact of housing and neighborhood factors on the community functioning of people with severe mental illness |
| Steven Young - Social Cognition, Face Perception, Motivation and Emotion |
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| Patricia Zapf - Clinical Forensic Psychology – Evaluation of Criminal Competencies (waive Miranda, plead guilty, confess, stand trial, be sentenced, be executed); Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility (Insanity); Forensic Assessment; Professional Training in Forensic Psychology; Online Learning |
| Zhiqing Zhou - Workplace Mistreatment, Employee Health and Well-Being, Work-Nonwork Interface, Illegitimate Tasks |