Research Labs | Department of Psychology

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Clinical Psychology

Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: adolescence, romantic relationships, multidisciplinary research, developmental psychopathology, culture, health, stress physiology

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

Developmental Psychology

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stress, military, children stress, parenting, family wellness

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Neuroscience

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Keywords: drug addiction; psychostimulants; opiates; alcohol; glutamate; behavioral pharmacology; optogenetics; preclinical models

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: adolescence; transition to college; stress physiology; sleep; health behaviors; ecological momentary assessment

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

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Keywords: collective learning, associative learning, time perception, response inhibition, choice, decision making, animal behavior, computational models of behavior.

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

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Keywords: alcohol, college, subjective response, prevention, self-control, personality, expectancies, context, comorbidity

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Neuroscience

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Keywords: aging, learning; memory; behavior; estrogen; progesterone; hormone; menopause; maze

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Neuroscience

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Keywords: stress; corticosterone; spatial and working memory; rodent behavior; hippocampus; amygdala, prefrontal cortex; depression; anxiety; PTSD

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Clinical Psychology

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Keywords: Body Project; body acceptance; body dissatisfaction; eating disorders; minorities; childhood obesity; prevention; eating

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Yes

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Developmental Psychology

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epigenetics, genes, social experiences, psychedelic-assisted therapy

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

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Keywords: dog; wolf; human-dog interaction; behavior; welfare; cognition, Going to the Dogs

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: computational approaches, developmental psychopathology, behavioral genetics and epigenetics, emotion and temperament, plasticity and change

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

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Keywords: culture; context; prevention; family; development; children & youth; mental health; achievement; health disparities

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: anxiety; children; adolescents; prevention; treatment; culture; diversity; minority; ethnicity

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Social Psychology

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Keywords: self; culture; social psychology; personality; anthropomorphism; cyberpsychology; sustainability

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Yes

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Social Psychology

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Culture; social class; cultural change; neuroscience; ecology; evolution

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Social Psychology

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Keywords: Culture, Adaptation, Religion, Morality, Anthropomorphism

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Cognitive Science

Neuroscience

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Keywords: cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; reward; decision-making; learning

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Clinical Psychology

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Alcohol, cannabis, intensive longitudinal data, subjective experience, contextual influences

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Yes

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Cognitive Science

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Keywords: perception, action, cognition, team coordination, motor coordination, postural control, heaviness perception, learning, attention, dynamical systems analysis, complex systems, ecological psychology

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Cognitive Science

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Games for learning, STEM education, cognitive change, Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR), Extended Realities (XR), Nutrition science, Efficacy related to XR experiences, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Yes

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Developmental Psychology

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In our lab, we investigate how infants and young children learn about the world around them. Current projects in the lab explore the development of curiosity, social cognition, and communication from 5 months to 7 years

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Clinical Psychology

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Keywords: chronic pain; resilience; mindfulness; well-being

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Clinical Psychology

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Engaging Families Lab (Kim)

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Social Psychology

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Keywords: stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination; stigma; fundamental social motives; social cognition; religion and conflict; evolutionary approaches to social behavior; ecology and culture; life satisfaction; overweight/obesity; person perception; social exclusion

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Yes

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Social Psychology

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Evolutionary Psychology; Behavioral Ecology; Motivation; Aggression; Prejudice; Mating; Culture

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Yes

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: gene-environment interplay, substance use, family relationships, adolescence, young adulthood, ethnic/racial minority, health disparities

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

Developmental Psychology

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childhood adversity, cortisol, health, family, self-regulation, mother-child interactions, school, puberty, biological influences on healthy development, body composition

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Yes

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Social Psychology

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Stress, resilience, emotions

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Developmental Psychology

Social Psychology

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Stereotyping and prejudice, Intergroup relations, Self and identity, Intervention science, Emotions

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Yes

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Cognitive Science

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Keywords: embodied cognition; language comprehension; embodied reading comprehension intervention (EMBRACE); cognitive neuroscience; joint action and mirror neuron system

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

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Drug addiction; opioids; negative affect (e.g., anhedonia, fear; anxiety); individual differences; epigenomics; social transmission of affective states

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: cognitive development, word learning, attention, language acquisition, statistical learning, bilingualism

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Yes

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: resilience to major life stressors; psychosocial and health development; healthy aging; midlife; longitudinal research methodology

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Yes

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Quantitative Psychology

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Keywords: Longitudinal data analysis, data mining, structural equation modeling, mixture modeling

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

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military, sexual trauma, sexual functioning, relationships, distress/PTSD, suicide risk

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Quantitative Psychology

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Cognitive Science

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Quantitative Psychology

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Cognitive Science

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Keywords: knowledge acquisition; reading comprehension; writing; strategies; self-explanation; writing assessment; intelligent tutoring systems; tutoring; games; computational linguistics; learning analytics

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Yes

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Social Psychology

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Keywords: emotion, emotion regulation, close relationships, nonverbal expression, social cognition, health behavior, substance use disorder

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

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Keywords: cannabis/marijuana; substance use; psychosis; retinal imaging

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Social Psychology

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Keywords: evolution of cooperation; human sharing; cancer evolution; genetic conflict; microbiome and behavior

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Yes

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Clinical Psychology

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Yes

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Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Neuroscience

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keywords: cerebellum, social, development, cognition, autism, aging, addiction

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Yes

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Developmental Psychology

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Keywords: theory of mind; social cognitive development; divorce; fathers; parent-child relationships

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Yes

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Cognitive Science

Neuroscience

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visual perception and working memory, decoding visual information from EEG signals

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Clinical Psychology

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youth development; socioecology; prevention and intervention; youth and families