Keith Crnic
Foundation Professor and Department Chair, clinical, Ph.D., University of Washington. Current research interests: Parent-child interaction, parenting, and family process predictions to emerging behavior problems in young children.  The nature of stress in parent-child relationships and its influence on child and family functioning. 

Office: PSY 237   Phone: 480-965-3326

Polemnia G. Amazeen
Associate Professor, cognitive systems. Ph.D., Univ. of Connecticut. Current research interests: The application of nonlinear dynamics to motor coordination: skill acquisition, symmetry principles in bimanual rhythmic coordination, and locomotor-respiratory coupling during manual wheelchair propulsion.

Office: PSYN 364B    Phone: 480-727-7075

Eric Amazeen
Associate Professor, cognitive systems. Ph.D., Univ. of Connecticut, Current research interests: Ecological and dynamical approaches to perception and action. Areas of investigation include weight perception and the size-weight illusion, visual control of catching, and visual attention in bimanual coordination.

Office: PSYN 364A    Phone: 480-727-7079

Manuel Barrera
Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Oregon. Current research interests: Prevention and behavioral treatment for type 2 diabetes, social support interventions, behavioral health interventions for Latino families.  Dr. Barrera is the Director of Clinical Training.

Office: PSY 292B    Phone: 480-965-3826

John Barton
Director, Clinical Psychology Center, clinical. PhD, Arizona State Univ. Current clinical interests: assessment and treatment of ADHD and LD children, adolescents, and adults - family adjustment to children with chronic illness - parenting difficult children – multidisciplinary approaches to the assessment and treatment of childhood obesity.

Office: PSY 289A    Phone: 480-965-4438

Heather Bimonte-Nelson
Assistant Professor, behavioral neuroscience PhD, University of Connecticut. Current research interests: characterize the cognitive and brain changes that occur during aging, as well as to develop behavioral, pharmacological, and dietary strategies to attenuate mnemonic and neurobiological age-related alterations using animal models.

Office: PSY 216    Phone: 480-727-0766

Sanford Braver
Professor, quantitative, social. PhD, Univ. of Michigan. Current research interests, quantitative: statistical approaches to mediation, time series, self-selection biases, experimental designs in field settings. Current research interests, social: Social psychology of the family, especially those experiencing conflict and divorce.

Office: PSYN 236   Phone: 480-965-5405

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Elizabeth Capaldi       

Provost and Professor

Felipe Castro

Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Washington. Current research interests: Health promotion and relapse prevention in Hispanic populations, with a focus on motivational aspects in the prevention of HIV infection, drug abuse, cancer, diabetes mellitus, and other chronic degenerative diseases.

Office: PSY 284    Phone: 480-965-4969

Laurie Chassin
Regents' Professor, clinical. PhD, Columbia Univ. Current research interests: Adolescent risk and resilience, and transitions from adolescence to adulthood. Adolescent risk and resilience and transitions to adulthood. Longitudinal studies of the intergenerational transmission of substance use disorders and cigarette smoking, adolescents in high-risk families, desistance among serious juvenile offenders. 

Office: PSYN 312    Phone: 480-965-1616

Robert Cialdini
Regents' Professor, social. PhD, Univ. of North Carolina. Current research interests: Persuasion and compliance, altruism, and the tactics of favorable self-presentation. He has been named Graduate College Distinguished Research Professor and Arizona State Univ. Regents' Professor.

Office: PSY 245A   Phone: 480-965-4971

Adam Cohen
Assistant Professor, social. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Current research interests: Cultural psychologist with interests in religion, moral judgment, forgiveness, and ethnic conflict.

Office: PSY 294A   Phone: 480-965-7345

Cheryl D. Conrad
Associate Professor, behavioral neuroscience. PhD, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Current research interests: Neuroendocrinology, neuroanatomy and behavior-- specifically, elucidating the mechanisms by which stress affects brain morphology and function. How the short-term and long-term secretion of adrenal steroids such as corticosterone or cortisol can alter the hippocampus and how these anatomical and/or biochemical changes alter cognitive function.

Office: PSY 292A   Phone: 480-965-7761

Mary C. Davis
Associate Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Current research interests: Situational, personality, and hormonal responses to stress and coronary heart disease in women.

Office: PSY 296B    Phone: 480-965-2057

Linda J. Demaine
Associate Professor of Law; Affiliated Professor of Psychology; Director, Law and Psychology J.D./Ph.D. Program. Ph.D., Arizona State University; J.D., University of Arizona. Current research interests: Law and psychology; persuasion.

Office: College of Law 214    Phone: 480-727-8571

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Nancy Eisenberg
Regents' Professor, developmental. PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley. Current research interests: Emotion-related regulation and relations with adjustment and socio-emotional competence; moral and emotional development: altruism, empathy: socialization and cultural factors in emotion regulation/ dysregulation, adjustment, social competence, and prosocial responding; developmental psychopathology.

Office: PSY 251B   Phone: 480-965-5217

Craig Enders
Assistant Professor, quantitative. Ph.D., University of Nebraska. Research interests involve methodological issues related to analyses with missing data, longitudinal modeling, and growth mixture modeling.

Office: PSY 294B  Phone: 480-727-0739

William Fabricius
Associate Professor, developmental . PhD, Univ. of Michigan. Current research interests: The development of younger and older children's theory of mind, and father-child relationships, especially in the context of parental divorce.

Office: PSY 288    Phone: 480-965-9372

Arthur Glenberg

Professor, cognitive. Ph.D. University of Michigan.  Current research interests: How do words, objects, and events become meaningful to us, the application of embodiment theories to enhance children's reading comprehension and mathematical problem solving.

Office: PSY 241      Phone: 480-727-7790

Stephen Goldinger
Professor, cognitive systems. PhD, Indiana Univ. Current research interests: Human memory, psycholinguistics and word recognition, and speech perception, representation, and production.

Office: PSY 220    Phone: 480-965-0127

Nancy Gonzales
Associate Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Washington. Current research interests: Cultural and contextual influences on adolescent and family development, minority mental health, and prevention.

Office: PSYN 213    Phone: 480-965-8402

Ronald Hammer   

Professor, behavioral neuroscience. PhD; UCLA

Office: Building ABC1, Room 424 Phone: (602) 827-2112

Donald Homa
Professor, cognitive systems. PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin. Current research interests: Visual perception of linguistic and form stimuli; retrieval and decision processes in long- and short-term memory; semantic memory and multidimensional scaling; and the learning of abstract categories.

Office: PSY 224A    Phone: 480-965-6363

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Paul Karoly
Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Rochester. Current research interests: Goal systems and self-regulation in physical health (e.g., chronic pain; exercise) and psychopathology.

Office: PSY 293   Phone: 480-965-5404

Douglas Kenrick

Professor, social. PhD, Arizona State Univ. Current research interests: Current research interests: Integrating models from evolutionary biology and cognitive science to study the effects of fundamental social motivations (e.g., self-protection, status, mate search) on basic cognitive processes (e.g., attention to, encoding of, memory for different people in a rapidly presented crowd).

Office: PSY 249    Phone: 480-965-7249

Peter Killeen
Professor, behavioral systems. PhD, Harvard Univ. Current research interests: Mathematical models of discrimination, instrumental responding and timing. He is currently developing a dynamic systems model of behavior and its motivation, and a general theory of perceptual relativity.

Office: PSY 210   Phone: 480-965-2555

George Knight
Professor, social, quantitative. PhD, Univ. of California at Riverside. Current research interests, social: acculturation and enculturation in Mexican American families, the development of ethnic identity among Mexican Americans, cross-cultural development, cooperative and competitive behavioral styles, prosocial behavior. Current research interests, quantitative: cross-ethnic and cross-race measurement equivalence, meta-analysis.

Office: PSY 228   Phone: 480-965-2590

Gary Ladd
Professor, developmental. PhD, University of Rochester. Current research interests: children’s peer relationships and social competence; risk and protective factors in children’s psychological and school adjustment; linkages between classroom and family processes and the development of children’s social competence.

Office: PSYN 326    Phone: 480-727-7594

Pat Langley

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. - Carnegie Mellon University.  Current research interests: artificial intelligence, adaptive user interfaces, cognitive architectures, computational models of human behavior, computational biology and ecology, computational scientific discovery, machine learning, problem solving and planning

Office: BYENG 590    Phone: 480-727-6592

Richard Lanyon
Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of lowa. Current research interests: Forensic psychology, personality assessment, and behavior therapy. Development of theory and method in assessing deception.

Office: PSY 298   Phone: 480-965-7675

Kathryn Lemery
Assistant Professor, developmental, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current research interests: Developmental behavior genetic approach; Individual differences in appropriate and inappropriate emotional responding—including temperament, internalizing, externalizing, and attentional disorders; Risk and resiliency; Parent and sibling influences; Context effects; Person-environment transactions. Behavioral and biological measures.

Office: PSY 280   Phone: 480-727-6459

Barry Leshowitz
Associate Professor, cognitive systems. PhD, City Univ. of New York. Current research interests: Critical thinking, scientific reasoning about everyday life events, instructional effectiveness in science education, and auditory perception.

Office: PSY 216B   Phone: 480-965-4687

Linda Luecken
Associate Professor, clinical, PhD, Duke University. Current research interests: Health psychology; developmental, social, and cognitive predictors of cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to stress and vulnerability to stress-related illness. Childhood adversity and long-term health outcomes.

Office: PSYN 332   Phone: 480-965-6886

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David MacKinnon
Professor, quantitative, social. PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Current research interests, quantitative: Statistical methods, particularly as applied in health promotion and disease prevention research; mediation of intervention effects; categorical data analysis. Current research interests, social/cognitive: the role of social influence and cognitive factors in health behavior, effects of warnings, tobacco and drug prevention.

Office: PSYN 362    Phone: 480-727-6120

Michael K. McBeath
Professor, cognitive systems. Ph.D., Stanford Univ. Current research interests: Three kinds of pitch perception: Baseball, music, and spatial orientation (each with the central theme of modeling perceptual principles that reflect regularities of nature). Also interested in human/robot coupling in navigational and biomechanical applications.

Office: PSYN 317    Phone: 480-965-8930

Roger Millsap
Professor, quantitative. PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley. Methodological interests: Measurement Bias in psychological tests, latent variable models, methods for multi-trait-multimethod data, factor and component analysis, longitudinal data analysis. Substantive interests: groups differences in test performance, cognitive models in test performance, developmental research in personality, industrial/organizational psychology.

Office: PSY 286   Phone: 480-965-2584

Craig Nagoshi
Associate Professor, social. PhD, Univ. of Hawaii. Current research interests: Genetic and environmental influences on responses to alcohol, on alcohol use/abuse, on cognitive abilities, personality, and social attainment, rational and irrational cognitions/expectations about alcohol and other drug abuse, and mechanisms of assortive mating.

Office: PSY 252   Phone: 480-965-8073

Janet Neisewander
Professor, behavioral neuroscience. PhD, Univ. of Kentucky. Current research interests: Psychopharmacology and the neurobiology of drug abuse with emphasis on neurotransmitter systems and neural circuits involved in drug-seeking behavior and changes in neural systems as a consequence of drug self-administration.

Office: PSY 290   Phone: 480-965-0209

Steven Neuberg
Professor, social. PhD, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Current research interests:  Social values and stigma; prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination; motivation influences on cognition; evolutionary approaches to human sociality; religion and conflict

Office: PSY 250   Phone: 480-965-7845

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Morris Okun
Professor, developmental. PhD, The Pennsylvania State Univ. Current research interests: Social psychological aspects of aging, education, and health.  Currently, I’m investigating the determinants of volunteering and future self-enhancement effects (aging), the interplay among academic goals, motivation, and performance (education), and correlates of exercise, moderators of the social support-conflict relation, and adjustment among burn survivors (health).

Office: PSY 208   Phone: 480-965-9298

Michael B. Palmer
Senior Lecturer, clinical, PhD, Arizona State University. Current interest areas: integration of cognitive behavioral approaches and family systems in clinical intervention.

Office: PSY 203   Phone: 480-965-1868

Stanley Parkinson
Professor, cognitive systems. PhD, Univ. of California at Davis. Current research interests: Human memory, attention and information processing. His current research projects are in working memory and effects of mood on memory.

Office: PSY 204   Phone: 480-965-7846

Armando A. Piña
Assistant Professor, developmental. Ph.D., Florida International Univ. Current research interests: the study of intra-individual level risk factors in the development of anxiety disorders in youths and the evaluation of psychosocial interventions for use with this population. Dr. Piña’s work integrates Hispanic/Latino ethnocultural and child-adolescent anxiety research and is aimed at developing empirically informed, culture specific assessment and intervention services for the growing Hispanic/Latino population residing in the United States.

Office: PSY 226    Phone: 480-965-0357

Clark C. Presson
Professor, cognitive systems, clinical, PhD, Columbia Univ. Current research interests: Development of spatial knowledge and reasoning, the use of spatial symbols, applications of cognitive development to child and adolescent health psychology, and processes of initiation of cigarette smoking.

Office: PSY 216A   Phone: 480-965-1617

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John W. Reich, Emeritus
social. PhD, Univ. of Colorado.

Nancy Felipe Russo
Regents' Professor, social. PhD, Cornell Univ. Current research interests: Social development, sex roles and mental health, factors influencing women's educational and career achievements, ethnic minority women's issues, and population and environmental psychology.

Office: PSY 206   Phone: 480-965-0380

Edward Sadalla
Professor, social. PhD, Stanford Univ. Current research interests: Research on the residential environment, processes involved in the cognition of physical and social environments, and psychological consequences of urbanization.

Office: PSY 247   Phone: 480-965-7508

Delia Saenz
Associate Professor, social. PhD, Princeton Univ. Current research interests: Tokenism, inter-group processes, ethnic identity, and courtesy stigma. The antecedents and effects of social differentiation, and applications of laboratory-based theories to field settings, as in reducing intergroup discrimination among college students belonging to rival groups.

Office: PSY 251A   Phone: 480-965-3347

Micahel J. Saks
Professor, social, law and psychology (joint appointment in law). PhD, Ohio State Univ. MSL, Yale Law School.  Current research interests: empirical studies of the legal system, especially decision-making, the behavior of the tort litigation system, psychological foundations of evidence, and the law's use of science.

Office: 246A College of Law   Phone: 480-727-7193

Federico Sanabria

Dr. Sanabria will be joining ASU as a faculty member in the Psychology department in the fall of 2008. He is currently a post-doctoral research associate in the department here at ASU and is also teaching classes.

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Irwin Sandler
Regents’ Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Rochester. Current research interests: Development, evaluation and dissemination of programs to promote resilience of children following divorce, bereavement and other stressful events. Dr. Sandler is Director of the Preventive Intervention Research Center at Arizona State Univ., an NIMH-funded center for research in the development and evaluation of preventive mental health programs for children on high stress situations. The research of the Center focuses in children of divorce, bereaved children, ethnic minority children in transition to high school and children in poverty.

Office: PSYN 221 Phone: 480-727-6121

Michelle Shiota
Assistant Professor, social. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Current research interests: Multimethod approach to positive emotion differentiation, positive emotion and social bonding, and the role of positive emotion in emotion regulation; psychophysiological and long-term cardiovascular health aspects of emotion regulation.

Office: PSY 239   Phone: 480-727-8628

Susan Somerville
Professor, developmental. PhD, Australian National University. Current research interests: Cognitive development, language acquisition, children's drawings, and cognitive processes in children and adults.

Office: PSY 224   Phone: 480-965-1614

Greg Stone
Associate Professor, cognitive systems. PhD, Univ. of California at San Diego. Current research interests: Human cognitive psychology, especially word recognition, attention, semantic organization, and theoretical methods. His theoretical work includes the development of formal models such as parallel distributed processing systems and their application to cognitive phenomena.

Office: PSY 254   Phone: 480-965-6818

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Stephen West
Professor, quantitative, social. PhD, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Current research interests, quantitative: field research methods, structural equation modeling, multiple regression analysis, mediational analysis, graphics and exploratory data analysis, longitudinal data analysis. Current research interests, social: personality research, applied social, prevention-related issues in health, mental health.

Office: PSY 292    Phone: 480-965-7339

Sharlene Wolchik
Professor, clinical. PhD, Rutgers University. Current research interests: Identification of risk and protective factors for children who have experienced parental divorce or parental death; Development and evaluation of empirically-based preventive interventions to facilitate children's adjustment after parental divorce; Development and evaluation of empirically-based preventive interventions to facilitate children's adjustment after parental bereavement; Evaluation of the long-term effects of preventive interventions for children whose parents divorced or died; Transporting empirically-validated, efficacious preventive interventions into real world settings.

Office: PSYN 217  Phone: 480-727-6123

Marek Wosinski
Senior Lecturer. PhD, University of Warsaw (Poland). Current research interests: effectiveness of community-based counseling; psychology and spirituality; spiritual needs of GLB students; teaching of psychology.

Office: PSYN 344   Phone: 480-965-6253

Alex Zautra
ASU Foundation Professor, clinical. PhD, Univ. of Utah. Postdoctoral training: Psychiatric Epidemiology, Columbia University.  Current research interests: The study of resilience within people, in social relations, and in community settings.

Office: PSY 210    Phone: 480-965-0079