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  • Mary Ballard

    Professor

    ballardme@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Aggression; media; video games; bullying. 

  • Doris Bazzini

    Professor

    bazzinidg@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Romantic attraction; beautiful-is-good stereotype; media's impact on body image in women; relationship-maintenance processes. 

  • Reagan Breitenstein

    Associate Professor

    breitensteinrs@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Sleep, temperament and self-regulation, academic achievement outcomes, health disparities, qualities of the home environment and family relationships, twin and behavior genetic designs,  and developmental psychology.  

  • Brooke B. Burrows

    Assistant Professor

    burrowsbe@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Social Change Processes, Intergroup Conflict and Conflict Resolution, and Transformative Politics

  • Chris Dickinson

    Chris Dickinson

    Associate Professor

    dickinsonca@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Visual cognition, visual memory, scene perception, eye movements during visual search and scene perception

  • Lisa Emery

    Associate Professor

    emerylj@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Developmental psychology; adult development and aging; emotion regulation; memory.

  • Amy T. Galloway

    Professor

    gallowayat@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Development of food preferences, picky eating, normal and disordered eating in children and adults; parent and child food interactions. Sustainable and community food system research.

  • Ashley Gilliam

    Ashley N. Gilliam

    Assistant Professor

    gilliaman@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: How culture and experience influences cognition, focusing on within-culture variation and the flexibility of culturally-influenced cognitive biases.

  • Chris Holden

    Associate Professor

    holdencj@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Personality and evolutionary psychology, romantic relationships, HEXACO model of personality, self-esteem, relationship-contingent self-esteem, mate retention behavior, open science.

  • Matthew Meier

    Matthew Meier

    Assistant Professor

    meierme@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Cognitive Psychology, Working Memory Capacity, Individual Differences, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering

  • Andrew Smith

    Program Director, Professor

    smithar3@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Judgment and decision making; social cognition; risk taking; risk perception; wishful thinking; social comparisons; comparative optimism.

  • Douglas Waring

    Douglas A. Waring

    Associate Professor

    waringda@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity.

  • Rose Mary Webb

    Rose Mary Webb

    Department Chair, Professor

    webbrm@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Perceptions of personality and competence; estimation and perception of quantity; development of intellectual talent. 

  • Stephen White

    Stephen W. White

    Assistant Professor

    whitesw@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Utilization of preclinical models of anxiety & depression for better understanding the etiopathology of mood disorders and evaluation of novel anxiolytics and antidepressants. Understanding the role of gut biota in the development of mood disorders. Animal models of nociception and analgesia.

  • Twila Wingrove

    Assistant Chair, Professor

    wingroveta@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Legal/forensic psychology; developmental psychology.

  • Katie Wolsiefer

    Assistant Professor

    wolsieferkj@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Implicit social cognition, prejudice reduction, the role of intergroup bias in health disparities. 

  • Mark C. Zrull

    Mark C. Zrull

    Assistant Chair, Professor

    zrullmc@appstate.edu

    Department Bio

    Research Interests: Experience, preference, interactive and stimulus-guided behavior, and neural plasticity in adolescent animals; mechanisms of sound-induced seizures; efficacy of undergraduate research.