Faculty Listing


Our faculty are nationally recognized experts and dedicated teachers. Areas of strength include: behavioral neuroscience, pediatric psychology, OCD and social phobias, stress response systems, visual perception, memory, language and speech.

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Charly Abi Ghanem

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Sex differences
  • White matter damage
  • Oligodendrocytes
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Dementia
  • Myelin
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Meaghan Altman

Instructor

Psychology
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Christina Balderrama-Durbin

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Co-morbid psychological and intimate relationship distress particularly in response to acute stress and trauma
  • The development implementation and evaluation of couple-based prevention/intervention programs for high-risk populations
  • Couple-based assessment
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Christopher Bishop

Professor/Director of Undergraduate Integrative Neuroscience Program

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Drug Development
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Nicole Cameron

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Effects of early life stressors
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Mammalian physiology
  • Evolution and behavior
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Abbie Chapman

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
  • Neurovascular function in the hippocampus
  • Chronic hypertension and cerebral ischemic stroke
  • Healthy aging and age-related dementias
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Meredith Coles

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Nature and treatment of OCD and social phobia in adults and children
  • Factors involved in the etiology and maintenance of OCD
  • Role of sleep and circadian rhythms in OCD
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Stefania Conte

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Functional and structural brain development
  • Face processing
  • Attention
  • Typical and atypical developmental trajectories
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Terrence Deak

Professor

Psychology

Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School

Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost

Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School

Graduate School

Research Interests

  • Stress responsive systems
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neural-immune interactions
  • Alcohol
  • Developmental neurobiology and brain aging
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Marvin Diaz

Professor and Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Neurodevelopment
  • Prenatal drug exposure
  • Substance use disorder
  • Neural circuits
  • Sex as a biological variable
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Patricia DiLorenzo

Professor Emeritus

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Neural code for taste in the brainstem of lean and obese rats
  • temporal coding of sensation
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Michael Dulas

Assistant Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
  • PFC and hippocampal interactions
  • Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
  • Role of eye movements in memory and its usage
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Alice Friedman

Associate Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Clinical psychology
  • psychological adjustment in young children
  • behavioral medicine/pediatric psychology
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Peter Gerhardstein

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas
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Brandon Gibb

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase the risk for depression in infants, children, adolescents and adults
  • Understanding the risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis
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    Jennifer Gillis Mattson

    Professor

    School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Lifespan issues for neurodivergent and autistic individuals
    • Service provider and parent training, support and professional development
    • Dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based practices that benefit autistic individuals in limited-resource settings
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    Thomas Harding

    Lecturer/Director of the Psychological Clinic

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Teaching and Training
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Forensic and Disability Assessment
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    William Hayes

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Judgment and decision-making
    • Context effects
    • Computational modeling
    • Eye tracking
    • Hierarchical Bayesian models
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    J. David Jentsch

    Distinguished Professor and Chair

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Behavior genetics
    • Drug addiction and alcoholism
    • Impulsivity
    • Incentive motivation
    • Reinforcement and reward
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    Matthew Johnson

    Professor and Director of Clinical Training

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Changes in marriages and family functioning
    • Intimate partner violence
    • Psychological science impacting public policy
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    Anushree Karkhanis

    Associate Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Adolescent stress and drug exposure
    • Drug abuse vulnerability
    • Kappa opioid receptors
    • Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
    • Alcohol use disorder
    • Cocaine addiction
    • Opiate abuse
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    Celia Klin

    Dean of Harpur College

    Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

    Dean of Harpur College

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Psycholinguistics
    • Reading
    • Comprehension and memory for text
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    Deborah Kreiss

    Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor

    First-year Research Immersion Program

    Research Interests

    • Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
    • Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
    • Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents
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    Kenneth Kurtz

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Similarity and analogy
    • Neural network models of cognition
    • Knowledge representation
    • Education and transfer of learning
    • Machine learning
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    Matthew Lancaster

    Lecturer

    Psychology
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    Mark Lenzenweger

    Distinguished Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Schizophrenia and schizotypy
    • Severe personality disorders
    • Personality neuroscience
    • Quantitative/statistical methods
    • Longitudinal research methodology
    • Operational psychology and selection
    • Insider risk detection
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    Sung-Joo Lim

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Auditory cognitive neuroscience
    • Human speech perception and communication
    • Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
    • Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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    Gabriela Manzano Nieves

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology
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    Nadine Mastroleo

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • behavioral interventions
    • brief motivational interventions
    • substance abuse
    • college student drinking
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    Richard Mattson

    Professor, Director of Undergraduate Program

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Communication processes in intimate dyads
    • Sexual consent and assault
    • Intimate partner violence
    • Gender and gender norms
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    Ian McDonough

    Associate Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Episodic Memory
    • Aging
    • Structural and Functional Neuroimaging
    • Biomarkers of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
    • Health Disparities
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    Jennifer McGrath

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Childhood preventive health: Promoting health and well-being early in the life course
    • Psychosocial determinants of health: How environments influence child health disparities
    • Psychophysiology: Using wearables to measure body signals and rhythms
    • Pediatric cardiovascular behavioral medicine: Understanding childhood risk trajectories
    • Data science: Open-access methods for reproducible and transparent science
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    Ann Merriwether

    Instructor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Sexual Socialization
    • Reproductive Health Attitudes
    • Body Image Development
    • Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making
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    Ralph Miller

    Bartle Distinguished Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
    • Memory and forgetting
    • Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
    • Pavlovian conditioning
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    Brittany Race

    Lecturer

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Eyewitness Testimony
    • Eyewitness Confidence
    • Police Interaction with Witnesses
    • Jury Perceptions of these variables
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    Raymond Romanczyk

    Co-Director

    Institute for Child Development

    Distinguished Service Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Autism spectrum disorders
    • attention deficit and learning disabilities
    • applied behavior analysis
    • behavior therapy
    • technology application to human services
    • large scale service delivery systems
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    Lisa Savage

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Disorders of Memory
    • Neurodegeneration
    • Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
    • Neurobiology of Reward
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    Jiyun Elizabeth Shin

    Lecturer

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Ability-related beliefs
    • Individual and psychosocial factors associated with academic engagement
    • Interventions promoting academic achievement
    • Stereotyping and prejudice
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    Sarah Solomon

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Semantic plasticity
    • Category learning and concept use
    • Structure learning and representation
    • Semantic generalization
    • Neural mechanisms underlying flexible
      semantic cognition in humans
    • Neuroimaging (fMRI)
    • Computational modeling
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    Victoria Tkacikova

    Lecturer

    Psychology
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    Cyma Van Petten

    Professor

    Psychology

    Professor

    The Linguistics Program

    Research Interests

    • Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
    • Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex
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    Lena Varlinskaya

    Research Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Alcohol
    • Social Interactions
    • Stress
    • Anxiety
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    Florence Varodayan

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Alcohol use disorder
    • Stress
    • Cognitive function
    • Synaptic transmission
    • Neuroimmune signaling
    • Sex differences
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    David Werner

    Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    Alcohol and anesthetic action,addiction,neuroplasticity,neuropharmacology,molecular genetics
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    Deanne Westerman

    Professor and Cognitive Area Coordinator

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Human memory
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    Emily Zale

    Assistant Professor

    Psychology

    Research Interests

    • Health psychology and behavioral medicine
    • Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
    • Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
    • Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
    • Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
    • Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
    • Translational research and intervention development
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    Adjunct Faculty

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    Lanora Duell

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Psychology
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    Joshua Peck

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Psychology


    Emeritus Faculty

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    Cynthia Connine

    Emerita Professor of Psychology and Linguistics

    Psychology
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    Albrecht Inhoff

    Emeritus Professor of Psychology

    Psychology
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    Stephen Lisman

    Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

    Psychology
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    Norman Spear

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus

    Psychology