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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Psychology 830  

Psychology 830

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science,* Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Lee Jussim, Psychology Building, Busch Campus (732-445-2556)

Vice Chair, Graduate Studies: Professor George Wagner, Psychology Building, Busch Campus (732-445-2555)

Website: http://www.psychology.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

John R. Aiello, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Organizational psychology; privacy; interpersonal processes; nonverbal behavior

Clayton P. Alderfer, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Yale
Group and intergroup relations; organizational diagnosis; race relations; leadership

Richard D. Ashmore, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Intergroup relations; female and male relations; person perception; identity and personal problems

George E. Atwood, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Oregon
Theories of personality; psychobiography and psychotherapy

Sidney B. Auerbach, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Serotonin; biochemistry; electrophysiology and behavior

Marsha Bates, Associate Research Professor of Psychology, CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Neurocognitive functioning and alcohol

Nicholas J. Belkin, Professor of Library and Information Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., London
Information science and technology

Brenna H. Bry, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Missouri (Columbia)
Behavior analysis of adolescent substance use, including family variables

Gretchen Chapman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Medical decision making; physician reasoning; patient preferences and preventive health behavior

Brian Chu, Associate Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D.,Temple
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety and depression; effectiveness research and dissemination of evidence-based practice into community settings; psychotherapy process-outcomes research; and multicultural issues in help-seeking and health care access

George H. Collier, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
Ecological and nutritional analyses of learning, motivation, and regulation

Richard J. Contrada, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Psychosocial factors in physical disease; psychophysiology; stress, self-regulation

Richard De Lisi, Professor of Educational Psychology and Dean, GSE; Ph.D., Catholic
Cognitive development

Maurice Elias, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
School-based interventions; prevention; social-emotional intelligence

Elizabeth E. Epstein, Associate Research Professor, CAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Clinical psychology; alcohol studies

Yakov Epstein, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Effects of environment on behavior; communication patterns

Jacob Feldman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theory of categorization; computational vision

Hans Fisher, Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Illinois
Alcoholism and neurotransmitter metabolism

Jerry A. Fodor, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Psycholinguistics; cognition

Charles R. Gallistel, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Behavioral genetic approaches to the molecular basis of memory

Rochel Gelman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Concept acquisition; number, cause, kinds of animate and inanimate objects

Arnold L. Glass, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Semantic memory; psycholinguistics; computer models of syntactic parsing

Leonard W. Hamilton, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Brain and behavior relationships

Sandra L. Harris, Professor Emerita of Psychology, SAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Behavioral treatment of autism; impact of autism on family system

Jeannette M. Haviland, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Emotional development and the functions of emotion; adolescent emotion socialization

Judith Hudson, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Cognitive development; autobiographic memory development of planning skills

Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; stereotypes

Robert A. Karlin, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Hypnotizability; psychotherapy; psychopathology

Shalonda Kelly, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Michigan
Racial and ethnic impact on couple relationships; prevention, assessment

Eileen Kowler, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Eye movements; visual perception; cognitive control of movement; attention

Kenneth Kressel, Professor of Psychology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Mediation of conflict; interpersonal negotiations

Alexander W. Kusnecov, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Newcastle (UK)
Psychoneuroimmunology; immune effects on brain and behavior

James W. Langenbucher, Associate Professor of Alcohol Studies, CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Diagnosis and nosology; socioeconomics of alcohol and alcohol abuse

Richard R. Lau, Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Mass politics

Paul Lehrer, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Harvard
Respiratory psychophysiology; stress management; asthma; anxiety

Alan Leslie, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Oxford
Early cognitive development; object, number, and cause theory of mind; autism

Howard Leventhal, Board of Governors Professor of Psychology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Social psychology of health and illness; emotion theory, age, and illness

Michael Lewis, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Socioemotional and perceptual-cognitive development

Michael Leyton, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Group theory in perception, graphics, design, aesthetics, physics, and music

Joseph V. Martin, Professor of Biology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Southern California
Hormonal or drug modulation of GABAA receptor function in sleep and waking

Louis D. Matzel, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Binghamton)
Biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of memory induction and storage

Danielle McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Development and refinement of treatments to help people stop smoking cigarettes

Lorraine McCune, Professor of Education, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental and educational psychology

John P. McGann, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Neuroscience of smell; optical imaging; cellular/systems/behavioral

David Mechanic, University Professor and René Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences; Ph.D., Stanford
Decision making in medicine and psychiatry

Stanley Messer, Professor of Psychology and Dean, GSAPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Brief psychodynamic therapy; issues in psychotherapy integration

Eun Young Mun, Associate Professor of Psychology, CAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., Michigan State
Underage drinking and drug use; risk and resilience; program evaluation

Julien Musolino, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Psycholinguistics

Daniel Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Self-perception in interpersonal, work, and role-related contexts

Timothy Otto, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., New Hampshire
Neurobiology of learning and memory; single unit recording

Robert J. Pandina, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center of Alcohol Studies, GSAPP/CAS; Ph.D., Vermont
Alcohol and drug addiction; neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; life-span development

Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Visual perception; modeling and image processing

Larissa A. Pohorecky, Professor of Alcohol Studies, CAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Alcohol and stress in rats: behavioral and endocrine correlates

Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Saskatchewan (Canada)
Visual attention; theories of vision and imagery; cognitive architecture 

Mary L. Rigdon, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Arizona
Decision sciences; experimental and behavioral economics; principal-agent problems; trust; reciprocity

Shireen Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Washington
Borderline personality disorder; dialectical behavior therapy; treatments

Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Learning and memory; development processes in human infants; avian regulatory

Laurie A. Rudman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Social cognition; attitudes; stereotypes and prejudice 

Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Identity; stereotyping; close-relationships; self-determination

Louis A. Sass, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Schizophrenia; assessment; philosophy of psychology

Maggie Shiffar, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Visual analysis of human and objective movement

Tracey J. Shors, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Sex differences and effects of stress on memory formation; neurogenesis and learning

Manish Singh, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Formal and empirical study of visual object and surface representation

Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Artificial intelligence (logic programming, proof theory; probabilistic and decision-theoretic inference); linguistic theory

Karin J. Stromswold, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard
Cognitive and neural bases of language acquisition and processing

Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Colorado
Computational learning and parsing; optimality theory; phonology

Arthur Tomie, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado
Pavlovian conditioning; alcohol and drug abuse; psychopharmacology

Elizabeth B. Torres, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Cognitive psychology; motor memory

David Vicario, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Rockefeller
Sensorimotor processes involved in the acquisition and production of learned behaviors

George Wagner, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Neuropsychopharmacology of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia; neurotoxicology

Mark O. West, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Bowman Gray
Electrophysiology effect of dopamine system in rat models of drug abuse; Parkinsonism

David A. Wilder, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Social perception; intergroup relations; time

G. Terence Wilson, Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders

Robert L. Woolfolk, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Psychotherapy; stress; philosophical foundations of psychology

Jami Young, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Fordham
Treatment and prevention of adolescent depression; school-based mental health

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Beth Adelson, Associate Professor of Psychology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Harvard
Applied and theoretical issues in human problem solving; development of computational models; human-computer interaction-based software systems

Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages

James R. Bergen, Research Staff, Sarnoff Laboratories, Princeton; Ph.D., Chicago
Human visual processes and machine vision

Viviane M. Déprez, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntactic theory; Romance linguistics; language acquisition; Creole syntax

Nancy S. Fagley, Associate Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Utah
Decision making and cognitive processes of professional psychologists

Daniel B. Fishman, Professor and Director of Psychological Services, GSAPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Planning and evaluation of mental-health delivery systems

Michael A. Gara, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Personal identity; identity and psychopathology; person perception

William K. Hallman, Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., South Carolina
Risk perception; risk communication; individual and community responses to environmental hazards

Shigeto Kawahara, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Perceptual factors and phonological patterns; intonation; verbal art; symbolism

Sandra Leiblum, Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Illinois
Female sexuality; menopause; infertility

Kristen Syrett, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Language acquisition; psycholinguistics; cognitive science; semantics; pragmatics; syntax

James T. Walkup, Associate Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., New School
Serious mental illness; combined mental and physical disorders; disability

John Worobey, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania State
Socioemotional development; infant nutrition and behavior


*The department does not offer a terminal master's program, although a master of science degree must be completed as part of the program.

 
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