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 - Social epidemiology of clinical psychosis and the psychotic spectrum; Psychiatric misdiagnosis among African Americans; Stigma of mental illness and mental health service utilization; Racial discrimination |
| 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 - Behavioral Neuroscience, Basal ganglia, learning/motivation, dopamine |
| Sarah Berger - Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers; Motor Development in Infants and Toddlers |
| Richard Bodnar - Behavioral pharmacology; Conditioned flavor preferences; food intake |
| Elisabeth Brauner - Social and Organizational Psychology; Group Research, Transactive Memory, Knowledge Management, Interaction Coding, Communication |
| Bruce Brown - Pavlovian Conditioning; Timing and Temporal Control |
| Tamara Buckley - Racial Identity; Cultural Competency and Diversity in Organizations |
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| 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 - Neighborhood risk factors and crime, victimization and substance use; Race/ethnic disparities; and Policing |
| 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 neuroscience of memory and self; Metamemory |
| Josh W. Clegg - Relational theory, Phenomenology and Dialogic selves |
| 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 |
| Diana Diamond - Manualized Treatment of Severe Personality Disorders (Borderline and Narcissistic Disorder); Attachment and Sexuality |
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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 |
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| Jin Fan - fMRI, attentional networks |
| Alan Feigenberg - Using the Urban Environment as a Source for an Integrated and Constructivist Pedagogy |
| Eric Fertuck - Cognitive neuroscience of social psychopathology |
| Daniel M. Fienup - Acquistion of Academic Subject Matter for Individuals with Disabilities and Typically Developing Students; Translational Research on the Application of the Principles of Stimulus Equivalence to Teaching Academically Relevant Concepts |
| 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; Incarceration and Health, Social Movements and Health |
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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 - Assessment/ Testing and Racial Differences; Leadership and Managerial Development |
| 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 - Addictive disorders, personality disorders, psychosis, personality processes, psychotherapy effectiveness, and psychoanalysis |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Mark Hauber - Evolution of social recognition, recognition systems, brood parasitism, neuroethology |
| 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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| Matthew Johnson - Interrogation & Confession; Wrongful Conviction; Mental Status Defenses; Parental Rights Termination & Child Protection |
| Elliot Jurist - Psychoanalytic Theory; Theories of Affect and Affect Regulation; Ethics; Substance Abuse; History of Psychology and Philosophy |
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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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Andrea Li - Visual perception and psychophysics |
| 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 - Urban poverty, grassroots activism and political economic change in the United States. |
| Laraine McDonough - Concept development, memory, categorization, language acquisition (English and Korean), nonverbal thought, memory and aging. |
| 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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| Loren Naidoo - Leadership, Motivation, Emotions, Engagement, Burnout, Organizational Surveys, Performance Appraisal, Attitude Measurement |
| 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 - Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); physical exercise |
| 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) |
| Jeffrey Parsons - Intersection Between Sexual Risk Behaviors and Substance Use |
| Bertram Ploog - Behavior Analysis, Behavioral Models, Autism, Attention, Comparative Cognition |
| Sandeep Prasada - Conceptual Representation, Cognitive and Developmental Neuropsychology; Lexical Development |
| Diana Punales Morejon - Clinical expirience in the areas of: multicultural/Latino psychology; Women's issues; imigration and acculturation; severe psychopathology and medical illness |
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| Laura Rabin - Cognitive and Neurophysiological Changes Associated with Preclinical Dementia |
| Vita Rabinowitz - Experimental Social Psychology, Attribution Theory; Justice and Helping, Health Psychology |
| Chitra Raghavan - Intimate partner violence, sexual assault, 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 - Neurobiological Substrates of Drugs of Abuse and Learning-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 - Animal Cognition and Communication; Evolution of Intelligence |
| Tracey Revenson - Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness; Stress and Coping; Social Context; Health Disparities |
| Tony Ro - Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Perception |
| Margaret Rosario - Identity Development and Stress on Health Disparities; Gender and Sexual Orientation |
| Martin Dale Ruck - Cognitive Socialization; Children's Rights; Urban education; Juvenile Offenders' Perceptions of the Youth Justice System. |
| 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 |
| Herbert Saltzstein - Moral development and culture; children’s eyewitness testimony, parent-child relations across cultures |
| Glenn Schafe - Neurobiology of learning, memory, emotion and stress |
| Charles Scherbaum - Assessment/ Testing and Racial Differences; Employee Selection Quantitative Methods/Psychometric |
| 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 |
| Kristen Shockley - Occupational health psychology, work-family interactions, career development |
| 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 |
| Anna Stetsenko - Cultural-historical and activity theory perspectives on the development of self, cognition, and gender; learning and development. |
| Charles Stone - Autobiographical memory, collective memory, social aspects of memory, meta-cognitive judgments (e.g., confidence), decision-making within the judicial system, intergenerational transmission of both mundane and traumatic memories/events |
| 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. |
| Celina Su - Public Policy; Participatory Community Development |
| Nan Sussman - Cultural Psychology; Immigrant Acculturation, Culture and Health |
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| Vivien Tartter - Psycholinguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Factor |
| Steven Tuber - Psychodynamic assessment and treatment. I am also studying the progression of medical students through an investigation of the interplay between empathy, grit and tolerance for ambiguity as they progress as students. |
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| 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 and behavioral approaches to therapy; social and interpersonal anxiety; applications of psychodynamic thought to social issues; the psychology of money and materialism. |
| Jennifer Wagner - Cognitive Development, Infancy, Social and Emotional Development, Numerical Cognition, Eye-tracking, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 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 |
| Mariann Weierich - Neurobiological and behavioral mechanisms underlying stress and stress-related disorders |
| Lissa Weinstein - Psychoanalysis; Language; Learning Disabilities and Assessment Film and Literary Studies |
| Rebecca Weiss - The effect of group membership on validity in psychological assessment; the impact of culture on diagnosis; the impact of trauma on treatment and the development of aggression and substance use disorders |
| Brooke Wells - Sexual health behavior; gay and lesbian health; women's health; substance abuse |
| Cathy Spatz Widom - Longterm Consequence of Child Abuse and Neglect; Crime and Violence, Psychopathy and Sex Roles |
| 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 |
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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 |