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Mark Aber
Collaborative community-based intervention, participatory action research, community organization and development, contextual influences on individuals' understanding of race, racial equity in public schooling, school racial climate. 
Office: Room 725 | (217) 333-6999 | maber@uiuc.edu
Dolores Albarracin
Cognition, attitudes, emotion, and action (variations in movement and rest, desire to be active regarless of what activity is chosen; persuasion; language and effects of grammar and syntax on behavior; prediction and change of specific behaviors; influences of mood). Current methods include laboratory studies, fMRI, questionnaires, health intervention research, and meta-analysis. This diversity of methods is achieved through the contribution of multiple researchers in a true interdisciplinary approach. Dr. Albarracin will be accepting a new graduate student for the academic year 2010-2011. 
Office: Room 423 | (217) 244-7019 | dalbarra AT illinois.edu
Nicole E Allen
Processes and outcomes associated with community collaboration and the antecedents of safety for survivors of domestic assault. 
Office: Room 721 | (217) 333-6739 | allenne@illinois.edu
Renee Baillargeon
Infant cognition, including physical, psychological, and biological reasoning; and a wide range of related infancy issues, including object perception, categorization, object individuation, number, perspective-taking, and theory of mind. 
Office: Room 613 | (217) 333-5557 | rbaillar@illinois.edu
Diane M. Beck
Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual attention, awareness, and perception. 
Office: Room 531 | (217) 244-1118 | dmbeck AT uiuc DOT edu
Aaron S. Benjamin
Human learning, memory, and decision-making 
Office: Room 827 | (217) 333-6822 | asbenjam [at] uiuc [dot] edu
Howard Berenbaum
Experimental psychopathology, focusing on the experience, expression, and awareness of emotions in adults, and how different forms of psychopathology are associated with different types of emotional disturbances. 
Office: Room 727 | (217) 333-9624 | hberenba@uiuc.edu
Douglas A. Bernstein (Emeritus)
Former director of the department's introductory psychology program; current activities focus on enhancing undergraduate instruction in psychology through textbook writing and chairing program committees for both the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology and the American Psychological Society's Preconvention Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. 
Office: Room 308 | (217) 333-0631 | bernstn@uiuc.edu
J. Kathryn Bock
How people turn thoughts into speech, including: how the features of ideas affect language forms; what goes wrong when speakers make errors in selecting or arranging words; and the cognitive processes that control how words are arranged. 
Office: Room 811 | (217) 244-1121 | jkbock AT uiuc DOT edu
William F. Brewer
Cognitive psychology; cognitive science; knowledge representation; acquisition of knowledge; discourse; reading comprehension; psychology of science; and history of psychology. 
Office: Room 629 | (217) 333-1548 | wbrewer@uiuc.edu
Hua-Hua Chang
Psychometric Theory; Computerized Adaptive Testing; Cognitive Diagnosis; Large Scale Assessment; Test Equity 
Office: Room 430 | (217) 244-5194 | hhchang@uiuc.edu
Chi-Yue Chiu
Multicultural psychology, cultural identification, group processes and intergroup relations, communication and cognition 
Office: Room 417 | (217) 265-5352 | cychiu@uiuc.edu
Andrei Cimpian
Cognitive development; generic language; the influence of language on children's thinking and motivation; naive essentialism; word learning 
Office: Room 615 | (217) 333-0852 | acimpian at illinois.edu
Dov Cohen
Cultural continuity and change, including culture and different perspectives on the self, cultural syndromes of honor, dignity, and face; language use; the interactions of people, culture, and situations. 
Office: Room 413 | (217) 244-5830 | dcohen@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Neal J Cohen
Interdisciplinary, cognitive neuroscience study of human learning and memory, with a focus on identifying and characterizing the brain's multiple memory systems, particularly the hippocampal system, through the study of amnesia. 
Office: Room Beckman 2165 | (217) 244-4339 | njc@uiuc.edu
Michael Coles (Emeritus)
The utility of measures of brain activity, derived using non-invasive procedures, in understanding human cognitive function. 
Office: Room 509 | (217) 333-2122 | m-coles@uiuc.edu
Denise Cummins
Evolution and development of higher cognition in artificial and biological systems, particularly causal and social reasoning. 
Office: Room 625 | 333-0373 | dcummins@illinois.edu
James H. Davis (Emeritus)
 Judgment and decision making, group performance, models of group decision making and problem solving 
Office: Room 325 | (217) 333-0008 | j-davis@uiuc.edu
Gary S. Dell
Language production and comprehension; connectionist models of psycholinguistic phenomena. 
Office: Room 833 | (217) 244-1294 | gdell@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Carol Diener (Emeritus)
Interface of psychology and law: issues affecting children and families, especially child abuse, custody issues and juvenile justice. 
Office: Room 713 | (217) 333-8545 | cdiener@uiuc.edu
Ed Diener
Subjective well-being and life satisfaction; measuring well-being; cross-cultural differences in subjective well-being; personality and well-being. 
Office: Room 415 | (217) 333-4804 | ediener@uiuc.edu
Florin Dolcos
Neural correlates of affective-cognitive interactions in healthy and clinical populations. We use functional neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI, ERP) in conjunction with electrophysiological (e.g., skin conductance) and behavioral (e.g., performance in cognitive tasks, personality questionnaires) measurements. 
Office: Room TBA | | fdolcos@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Emanuel Donchin (Emeritus)
 Professor Donchin is currently Professor in the University of South Florida Department of Psychology. 
Office: Room PCD4116 | (813) 974-0466 | edonchin@uiuc.edu
Fritz Drasgow
Development, application, and evaluation of quantitative methods in industrial/organizational psychology; and the use of multimedia technology to assess social and interpersonal skills. 
Office: Room 219D | (217) 333-2739 | fdrasgow@uiuc.edu
Donelson E Dulany (Emeritus)
Experimental analysis and theory of intentional action, causal reasoning, and implicit learning; mentalistic metatheory. 
Office: Room 421 | (217) 333-2971 | ddulany@uiuc.edu
Chryle Ann Elieff
Dr. Elieff teaches developmental courses in the Department of Psychology. She also assists Sandy Goss-Lucus, Sarah Grisom, and Lisa Travis with the new TA orientation for the department. 
Office: Room 631 | (217) 333-5809 | celieff@uiuc.edu
Charles Eriksen (Emeritus)
 Reading, visual selective attention, information processing 
Office: Room 308 | (217) 333-0631 |
Monica Fabiani
Memory; cognition and aging; neuroimaging; optical imaging; cognitive neuroscience. 
Office: Room 517 | (217) 244-1117 | mfabiani@illinois.edu
Kara D. Federmeier
Neurobiological basis of meaning, including how world knowledge derived from multiple modalities is organized in the brain, how it is used during language comprehension, and how it is accessed and used by the two cerebral hemispheres. 
Office: Room 831 | (217) 333-8303 | kfederme AT illinois DOT edu
Martin Fishbein (Emeritus)
 Relations between belief, attitude, intention, and behavior in laboratory and field settings; attitude measurement; health psychology 
Office: Room 308 | (217) 333-0631 | mfishbei@uiuc.edu
Cynthia Fisher
First language acquisition; psycholinguistics; phonological learning; syntax and word learning. 
Office: Room 619 | (217) 333-3545 | clfishe at uiuc.edu
Louise Fitzgerald
Psychology of women; women and the workplace, especially sexual harassment; and sexual victimization. 
Office: Room 219 | (217) 244-8320 | lfitzger@uiuc.edu
R. Chris Fraley
Attachment theory and close relationships; personality development and organization; social cognition and affect; evolutionary psychology. 
Office: Room 409 | (217) 333-3486 | rcfraley AT uiuc.edu
Michael Gabriel (Emeritus)
 Neural mediation of learning and memory processes, multi-array recording of brain cellular activity, psychopharmacology, and neuroanatomy 
Office: Room 635 | (217) 244-3463 | mgabriel@uiuc.edu
Roberto Galvez
Analysis of learning induced neocortical plasticity and the underlying mechanism(s) throughout development and in neurological disorders. 
Office: Room 2351 Beckman Institute | (217) 244-0391 | rgalvez@illinois.edu
Susan M. Garnsey
Language processing; resolution of syntactic and lexical ambiguity and context effects on that resolution; the effect of prosody on disambiguation; on-line techniques for measuring language comprehension; word recognition; and language/brain relationships. 
Office: Room 810 | (217) 244-1120 | sgarnsey@psych.illinois.edu
Paul E. Gold
Cellular, molecular, and systems regulation of learning, memory and neural plasticity in rodents, including in models of aging, stress, and mental retardation. 
Office: Room 529 | (217) 244-0673 | pgold@illinois.edu
Brian D. Gonsalves
Functional MRI & ERP investigations of human memory. 
Office: Room 530 | 244-1713 | bgon AT uiuc DOT edu
Sandra Goss Lucas
College teaching, undergraduate education in introductory psychology. Developer of Psychology Department TA Orientation and Retired Director of Introductory Psychology. 
Office: Room 633 | (217) 333-8123 | gossluca@uiuc.edu
Gabriele Gratton
Gabriele Gratton's interests are in cognitive neuroscience and attention and performance. 
Office: Room 519 | (217) 244-1019 | grattong@uiuc.edu
William T. Greenough (Emeritus)
Cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory and other brain information storage processes; genetic and environmental sources of mental retardation; psychobiology of mammalian development; quantitative anatomy; effects of exercise on the brain; MRI and spectroscopy in brain; and the roles of astrocytes in brain function. 
Office: Room 530 | (217) 333-4472 | wgreenou@uiuc.edu
Sarah Grison
Investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual selective attention processes and their association with memory; Applying principles of cognitive psychology to the scholarship of instruction to inform best practice, improve learning, develop programs, and create pedagogically appropriate texts and supplements 
Office: Room 635 | (217) 333-1094 | sgrison@uiuc.edu
Joshua Gulley
Neurobiology of drug and alcohol addiction, with an emphasis on behavioral and physiological analyses of brain reward pathways in animal models of drug taking and repeated drug exposure. 
Office: Room 731 | (217) 265-6413 | jgulley@uiuc.edu
Wendy Heller
My research investigates the role of the brain in emotion, personality, and psychopathology, particularly anxiety and depression. 
Office: Room MC 715 | (217) 244-8249 | w-heller@uiuc.edu
Sungjin Hong
Multi-way factor/component analysis; Factor analysis of sequential data (shfited and warped factor analyses); Image component analysis; Resampling and randomization; Measurement equivalence 
Office: Room 429 | (217) 244-8296 | hongsj@uiuc.edu
Ying-Yi Hong
culture and cognition, social identifications and intergroup relations, and achievement motivation. 
Office: Room 419 | (217) 333-0344 | yyhong@uiuc.edu
Lawrence J. Hubert
Data analysis methods in psychology and the behavioral sciences generally with particular emphasis on representation techniques; strategies of combinatorial data analysis including exploratory optimization approaches and confirmatory nonparametric methods. 
Office: Room 433 | (217) 333-6593 | lhubert@uiuc.edu
Charles L. Hulin (Emeritus)
Organizational and individual antecedents and behavioral consequences of job attitudes. Applications of latent trait theory to problems in I/O psychology. Computational modelling of organizational, work, and job withdrawal behavior patterns 
Office: Room 219 | (217) 333-3798 | chulin@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
John E. Hummel
Relational processing in perception and cognition. Neurocomputational origins of relational (i.e., symbolic) thought. 
Office: Room 825 | (217) 265-6090 | jehummel AT illinois DOT edu
Carla D Hunter
Mental health, well-being, and race-related stressors in persons of African descent with attention to the role of identity, interdependence, and worldviews. 
Office: Room 733 | (217) 244-0671 | chunter1@illinois.edu
David E. Irwin
Visual perception, visual cognition, memory, and language. 
Office: Room 315 | (217) 333-0632 | irwin@uiuc.edu
Lawrence E. Jones (Emeritus)
  
Office: Room | | ljones04@psych.uiuc.edu
Janice M. Juraska
The effects of sex, hormones (especially gonadal) and the environment on the development of brain structure and of behavioral abilities in rats across the lifespan. 
Office: Room 735 | (217) 333-8546 | jjuraska@illinois.edu
Donna L Korol
Neural mechanisms of learning, memory, and forgetting in rodents with an emphasis on life-span changes in modulation of synaptic plasticity by exercise and hormones. 
Office: Room 525 | (217) 333-3659 | dkorol@illinois.edu
Michael Kral
Cultural-community psychology and psychiatry; medical and psychological anthropology; idioms of distress and well-being; suicide; history & theory; community-based participatory action research; collective agency; indigenism; Arctic/Nunavut; Native North America 
Office: Room 709 | (217) 244-0951 | mkral@illinois.edu
Arthur F. Kramer
Cognitive neuroscience, cognition & aging, selective attention, skill acquisition and training, human factors. 
Office: Room 515 | (217) 333-9532 | akramer@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Patrick R. Laughlin
Individual and group problem solving and decision making. 
Office: Room 229 | (217) 333-4296 | †plaughli@uiuc.edu
Alejandro Lleras
Interplay between visual awareness, attention and memory systems; between perception and action; and embodied cognition. 
Office: Room 523 | (217) 265-6709 | AlejandroLleras @ gmail.com (remove spaces)
Mikhail Lyubansky
Factors and conditions associated with changes in social identity and beliefs about race, ethnicity, and nationalism, especially in immigrant and minority populations. 
Office: Room 723 | (217) 333-7740 | lyubansk@illinois.edu
Joseph G. Malpeli (Emeritus)
Neurophysiology of the mammalian visual system. 
Office: Room 530 | (217) 265-6207 | jmalpeli@uiuc.edu
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
Social and emotional development in infancy and early childhood; infant-caregiver attachment, temperament, and individual differences in emotion regulation. Early family interaction. 
Office: Room | | smangels@uiuc.edu
Jason S. McCarley
Basic and applied aspects of attention, visual cognition, and eye movements. 
Office: Room 808 | (217) 244-5766 | mccarley@uiuc.edu
Roderick P. McDonald (Emeritus)
  
Office: Room 429 | (217) 333-3486 | rmcdonal@s.psych.uiuc.edu
Gregory A Miller
I am interested in understanding mechanisms relating cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects of normal and abnormal human behavior, using the methods of clinical, cognitive, and affective psychophysiology / neuroscience. 
Office: Room 711 | (217) 333-4507 | gamiller@uiuc.edu
Peggy J Miller
I am interested in socialization and the acquisition of culture in early childhood, with an emphasis on the role that everyday talk plays in these processes. 
Office: Room 609 Psychology | (217) 333-2683 | pjm@uiuc.edu
Daniel A. Newman
Race disparity in personnel selection (adverse impact); Time, job attitudes, personality, and work performance (dynamic models, role engagement); Social networks and levels of analysis (group agreement, climate emergence); Research methods (missing data in longitudinal/multilevel models, survey nonresponse, Bayesian meta-analysis) 
Office: Room 227 | (217) 244-2512 | d5n AT uiuc.edu
Eva Pomerantz
The development of children's motivational and emotional functioning. The role of parents in such development, with an emphasis on the influence of culture. 
Office: Room 611 | (217) 244-2538 | pomerntz@illinois.edu
Jesse Preston
Interests include causal thinking and explanation, religious beliefs, perception of agency in self and others, and cognitive processes in judgment and decision making. 
Office: Room 235 | (217) 333-4921 | jlp at illinois dot edu
Jorge I. Ramirez Garcia
Ethnocultural factors and community mental health services; Ethnocultural factors and family psychology 
Office: Room MC 716 | (217) 265-8514 | JRamirez@Illinois.Edu
Julian Rappaport (Emeritus)
Interests span the broad domain of community psychology and include prevention, empowerment, self and mutual help especially for the seriously mentally ill, narrative theory and identity, collaborative and qualitative research. 
Office: Room 733 | (217) 333-8547 | rappapor@uiuc.edu
Michel Regenwetter
Behavioral Social Choice; Probabilistic Measurement Theory; Mathematical Models of Individual and Collective Decision Making; Axiom Testing in Decision Making by Individuals, Groups and Electorates; Distribution-Free Random Utility Theory. 
Office: Room 435 | (217) 333-0763 | regenwet at uiuc dot edu
Justin S. Rhodes
Physiological, cellular and molecular mechanisms of motivation for natural and drug rewards using mice as a model organism; behavior genetics of exercise and effects of exercise on cognition and brain function. 
Office: Room 3315 Beckman Institute | (217) 265-0021 | jrhodes@illinois.edu
Brent W. Roberts
Dr. Roberts's primary line of research is dedicated to understanding the patterns of continuity and change in personality across the decades of adulthood and the mechanisms that affect these patterns. 
Office: Room 411 | (217) 333-2644 | broberts AT cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Neal Roese
 
Office: Room | |
Glenn I. Roisman
Dr. Roisman's interests concern the legacy of early relationship experiences as an organizing force in social, cognitive, and biological development across the lifespan. 
Office: Room 621 | (217) 333-1529 | roisman@uiuc.edu
Karl S. Rosengren
My research is in the area of cognitive and perceptual motor development. 
Office: Room 305 | (217) 265-6994 | krosengr@uiuc.edu
Brian H. Ross
Cognitive psychology issues in learning, memory, problem solving and categorization. In particular: problem-solving and learning in complex domains, categorization, learning, and use of concepts. Remindings and the use of memory. 
Office: Room 835 | (217) 333-8745 | bhross@uiuc.edu
Jim Rounds
Vocational interests and how they change over the life span; the structure of interests and how this develops and changes over the life course; career development in adulthood, assessment of personality traits and work values; health psychology. 
Office: Room 188r Education Bldg | | jrounds@uiuc.edu
Karen D. Rudolph
Antecedents and consequences of anxiety and depression during childhood and adolescence, specifically how children's characteristics and environments interact to heighten vulnerability to psychopathology. 
Office: Room 617 | (217) 333-8624 | krudolph@illinois.edu
Deborah E. Rupp
Organizational Justice; Emotion in the Workplace; Corporate Social Responsibility; Assessment Centers; The Use of Technology to Enhance Assessment and Development 
Office: Room 225 | (217) 390-3048 | derupp AT uiuc.edu
Ibrahim Senay
Decision making, risk perception, memory as well as motivational, emotional and social factors involved in processing healthcare information and subsequent intentions for health-protective behavior change. 
Office: Room 623 Psychology Building | (217) 333-4724 | senay@illinois.edu
Edward J. Shoben (Emeritus)
  
Office: Room 512 CBC, UNLV | (702) 895-0193 | eshoben@cyrus.uiuc.edu
Daniel J. Simons
Visual cognition, perception, attention, and memory. Much of my research focuses on successes and failures of visual awareness, including change blindness and inattentional blindness. 
Office: Room 807 | (217) 333-7628 | dsimons AT uiuc DOT edu
Jesse Spencer-Smith
Prof. Spencer-Smith studies the geometric structure and dynamic properties of psychological spaces. Emotional facial expressions is one area in which he studies and models people*s perceptions using these mathematical tools. 
Office: Room 425 | (217) 265-5493 | jbspence@uiuc.edu
Thomas K. Srull
Memory and social cognition, including mapping the representation of information about individuals and groups in memory and understanding how people cognitively construct representations of themselves in the future. 
Office: Room | | t-srull@uiuc.edu
Lisa L. Travis
 
Office: Room 627 | 333-8086 | lltravis@uiuc.edu
Harry C. Triandis (Emeritus)
 Links of attitudes, norms, roles, and other elements of subjective culture to behavior, in different kinds of cultures, such as individualistic cultures, found in Europe and North America, and collectivist cultures found in most other parts of the world 
Office: Room 329 | (217) 333-1894 | triandis@uiuc.edu
Edelyn Verona
Biosocial and emotional processes involved in externalizing psychopathology, including aggression, antisocial behavior, psychopathic personality, and impulsive suicide. Gender differences and female antisociality and violence. 
Office: Room 719 | (217) 265-6708 | everona@uiuc.edu
Ranxiao Frances Wang
Principles used by humans and other animals to solve various perceptual and spatial problems and how to implement these principles in artificial systems; and the reference systems and processes underlying human navigation, space perception, object and scene recognition, and visual perception of self-motion. 
Office: Room 533 | (217) 244-3664 | francesw@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu
Yongmei Michelle Wang
Structural and functional neuroimage analysis and measurement; Statistical inference, modeling, and learning for biomedical imaging and computation with applications to neuroscience; Analysis and modeling of fMRI time series; Multi-modal integration of neuroimaging data. 
Office: Room 427 | (217) 333-3325 | ymw AT uiuc DOT edu
Duane Watson
Language production, comprehension, prosody and disfluencies 
Office: Room 829 | (217) 333-0280 | dgwatson AT uiuc DOT edu
Christopher Wickens (Emeritus)
Applied cognitive psychology, specifically how humans interact with complex systems, particularly airplanes (pilots and controllers) and ground vehicles. 
Office: Room 511 | (217) 333-6195 | cwickens@uiuc.edu
Robert E. Wickesberg
To discover the cues that are used to recognize speech, we examine how speech is encoded in the peripheral auditory system. 
Office: Room 535 | (217) 333-1147 | wickesbe@illinois.edu
Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (Emeritus)
 Social cognition, cognitive mediators of inferences and beliefs about people and events 
Office: Room 333 | (217) 333-6617 | r-wyer@uiuc.edu
  
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