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    Shelley Aikman, Ph.D. Mindfulness, wellbeing, attitudes, health-related attitudes and behaviors, and stereotypes.
    Kelly Cate, Ph.D. Various projects on sex hormones, human sexuality & women's issues.
    Diane Cook, Ph.D. Life-span development, late-life marriage and family relations, personality and religiosity.
    Bryan Dawson, Ph.D. Diversity in the workplace, transformational leadership, leadership and gender/race, the intersection of race and gender, discrimination in online gaming environments.
    John Dewey, Ph.D. Sense of agency and control, learning and memory in the classroom, social cognition.
    Susann Doyle-Portillo, Ph.D. The study of effective educational pedagogies in a college-level setting, the perception of reality, the cognitive content and structure of the self and its relationship to behavior, and the relationship between individual variables and behavior.
    Ralph Hale, Ph.D. Sensory science focusing on visual perception, illusions, visual search, figure/ground organization, color vision, and social gaze. Memory focusing on visual short-term memory, memory errors, imagery, attention, and multimodal memory.
    Amanda Halliburton, Ph.D. Empirically-supported, cognitive-behavioral treatments with adolescents and emerging adults, with a particular focus on mindfulness- and acceptance-based techniques. Social media and mental health, prevention of youth externalizing disorders, undergraduate students’ preparation for entering counseling-oriented careers, and the impact of COVID-19 on college students’ mental health and development.
    Tyler Harrison Memory, attention, intelligence, and, specifically, in individual differences in those cognitive abilities. Why do some individuals perform better on tests of memory than others? What are the physiological and/or genetic underpinnings of memory and other cognitive abilities? What is the best way to reliably and validly measure constructs like working memory capacity? Can we improve intelligence or memory through cognitive training?
    Michele Hill, Ph.D. PTSD and moral injury among combat veterans. Student mental health and wellbeing.
    Abby Meyer, Ph.D. The neurological mechanisms that underlie learning and memory.
    Connie Ringger, Ph.D. Juror decision-making, human sexuality, particularly gender and sexual diversity, and prejudice and discrimination.
    Chuck Robertson, Ph.D. Collaborative learning, natural changes in memory due to development, the science of teaching and learning, older adults and website usability, training older adults to use the internet.
    Wei-Lun Sun Behavioral effects and molecular mechanisms of drug addiction. Behavioral models of drug addiction in animals. The interaction of HIV TAT protein on dopamine transmission.
    Clayton Teem, Ph.D. Scholarship of teaching and learning via case study methods. Demographic, clinical and geospatial aspects of psychiatric admissions to the Georgia State asylum in the nineteenth century. Meta-analysis of clinical psychology topics areas.
    Efren Velazquez, Ph.D. Latinx adolescent and emerging adult risky health behaviors, tobacco use among African American families, and Latinx college student success.
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