Core Faculty
Dr. Kathleen Casto - Hormone, brain, behavior mechanisms underlying social competition and motivation with implications for mental health conditions associated with hormonal transitions (e.g., premenstrual dysphoria).
Graduate Courses In Social-Health Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Psychology of Risk Communication
- Health Behavior and Health Behavior Change
- Psychological Perspectives on Well-Being
- Psychosocial Aspects of Health Psychology
- Psychobiological Aspects of Health Psychology
Research Training
The social-health psychology program is designed to train students in conducting and communicating high-quality psychological research. As a graduate student in the social-health psychology program, you will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with one or more faculty members in ongoing research projects, from conception to publication. Our program uses a mentorship model in which a graduate student works closely with one of the faculty members.
Recent Cognitive/Cognitive Development Graduates
Ashley Abraham, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University
Heather Bailey, Assistant professor, Kansas State University
Michael Baranski, Assistant Professor, California University of Pennsylvania
Blair Braun, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
Stephen Brusnighan, Psychometrician at Measurement Incorporated
Angela C. Canda, Associate Professor, John Carroll University
Nola Daley, Research Scientist, ACT
Graduate Courses In Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Memory and Cognition
- Reading Processes
- Seminar: Cognition and Education
- Seminar: Cognition of Learning and Memory
- Seminar: Development of Mathematical Cognition
- Seminar: Language Comprehension Processes
- Seminar: Metacognition
- Seminar: Working Memory
Emeriti Faculty
Dr. John Dunlosky - Cognitive aging, metacognition, and education. Linking theory to applications aimed at improving student learning and achievement.
Dr. William Merriman - Children's language, memory, and thought.
Dr. Katherine Rawson - Text comprehension, how reading processes become automatic, how to improve student learning, and metacognition.
Faculty With Related Interests
Dr. John Gunstad (Assessment) uses neuropsychological tests to study factors that limit test validity and the effects of age and disease on cognition.
Dr. John Updegraff (Social-Health) studies cognitive and emotional processes involved in well-being and adjustment to stress; how to present health information in ways that effectively promotes health behavior change.
Core Faculty
Dr. Jill Folk - Skilled reading and spelling, reading and spelling disability, and cognitive neuropsychology.
Dr. Phillip Hamrick - Language, learning, memory, consciousness, and computational modeling.
Dr. Clarissa Thompson - Mathematics education interventions, representational change, development of learning and memory.
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Research Training
The cognitive/cognitive development program is designed to train students in conducting and communicating high-quality psychological research. As a graduate student in the cognitive/cognitive development program, you will have an opportunity to collaborate closely with one or more faculty members in ongoing research projects, from conception to publication. In the first year, students begin a research project under the supervision of one of the cognitive/cognitive development faculty.