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Marianna Carlucci, Ph.D.
Moderator, Psi Chi
Research interests center around the intersection between psychology and the law; investigated several areas of legal psychology including juries (sexual harassment), eyewitness identification, deception detection and memory conformity; interest in confessions (e.g., particular vulnerabilities) and interrogations (tactics, effectiveness, etc. |
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Theresa E. DiDonato, Ph.D.
Moderator, Psychology Club
Research focuses on cognitive processes that take place at the intersection of self and other; how individuals use self knowledge to understand unknown others (i.e., social projection); teaching interests include core psychology courses, such as introductory psychology, research methodology and social psychology, as well as specialized courses in social psychology including courses in social cognition, close relationships, self psychology and psycholgoy of gender |
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Clifford D. Evans, Ph.D.
Research focuses broadly on how belief systems affect the means by which we make evaluations and pursue important goals. Interested in how ideology influences the use of different types of evaluative information; how gender role traditionalism influences motivational approaches to gender-related goals; how expressions of positive intergroup emotions (specifically pride) affect how we evaluate social groups, and general beliefs about the importance of different types of evaluative information intersect with the means by which evaluations are made |
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Michiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Minority mental health, geropsychology, inter-racial marriages, family caregiving, long-term care, positive psychology and community outreach/participatory research |
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Adanna Johnson, Ph.D.
Recruitment and retenion of people of color in psychology programs and academia, traditional African healing practices, qualitative methodology |
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Katie J. Loomis, Psy.D.
Director, Undergraduate & Masters Field Education
Anxiety & stress managment, relaxation techniques, psychological distress and help-seeking behavior |
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Alison Papadakis, Ph.D.
The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence, gender roles, self-regulation, self-discrepancy, stress and coping, eating disorders |
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Jason M. Prenoveau, Ph.D.
Experimental fear conditioning, behavioral and psychophysiological correlates of fear and anxiety, and the structure, measurement, and longitudinal stability of fear, anxiety, and related affects |
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Colin Rhoades, Ph.D.
Predictors of Marital Functioning and Relationship Satisfaction, Substance Abuse and Motivational Interviewing, Psychometric Integrity of Religiousness and Spiritual Measures, Predictors of Priest Wellness |
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Dustin Sentz, Psy.D.
Clinical interests include adult psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, mood disorders, adjustment disorders, grief/bereavement, relationship issues and marital counseling, as well as personality and forensic assessment. Research interests include intrusions from implicit memory, effects of modality, phonetic and semantic similarity of information, as well as the differential effects of familiarity and proportion of unintentionally processed information on accuracy of explicit memory |
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Tamra A. Shockley, Psy.D.
Specialty areas are Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology. Clinical focus involves the adult assessment process, where teaching students to become more competent clinicians through keen inquisition, active examination of client history and presenting issues, fortification of test administration, case conceptualization, report writing, and thoughtful recommendations to address a variety of clinical issues, is my primary goal. Research interests include examination of changing norms in collegiate education, the relationship of medical dysfunction to cognitive difficulties, neurocognitive ability and incarceration, mental illness in the elderly, how affect relates to rehabilitation engagement and recovery, and the relationship of video gaming and development of self |
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Angelita M. Yu-Crowley, Ph.D.
Director, Doctoral Field Education
Psychotherapy, training, supervision |