The following professors serve as core faculty in the Psychology Graduate Program:
- Dr. Maryalice Citera
Research Interests: industrial/organizational psychology - Dr. Phyllis R. Freeman
Research Interests: health psychology; prenatal drug effects on behavior; post secondary pedagogy - Dr. Michael C. Gayle
Research Interests: affect-related cognition; semantic organization; risk-taking behavior; and social cognition - Dr. Glenn Geher
Research Interests: factors affecting mate selection; subjective interpretations of romantic partners;
role of motivation in partner perception; cognitive dissonance and physiology; self-monitoring and attitudes;
mating intellgence; measuring emotional intelligence - Dr. Giordana Grossi
Research Interests: human cognition; cognitive neuroscience; neural representation of language and pre-attentive visual processes - Dr. Tabitha Holmes (Director, Psychology Graduate Program)
Research Interests: parent-adolescent conflict; epistemological development; cultural influences on development; qualitative research - Dr. Alison Nash
Research Interests: social relationships in infancy; social networks; gender socialization - Dr. Douglas C. Maynard (Chair, Psychology Department)
Research Interests: overqualification and underemployment; youth employment issues; expectancies in organizations; pedagogy in psychology - Dr. Corwin Senko
Research Interests: Achievement motivation and goal-setting processes; intrinsic motivation; students' learning strategies - Dr. Carol Vazquez
Research Interests: linguistics; cognitive processes in normal and brain damaged populations - Dr. Greta Winograd
Research Interests: developmental psychopathology; longitudinal data analysis; predictors of mental health service use; early parenting influences on children's educational outcomes; interventions to reduce stigma towards individuals with mental illness
