Meet the Faculty

Current research: Mindfulness interventions for sleep and stress in college students.

Research interests: Biracial identity; Mindfulness; Anxiety (test, GAD, performance, social); Sleep and Sleep Problems; Student Advisement and Academic Success; Women's Issues; and Problems Related to Race and Discrimination.

Current research projects: Customer perceptions of quality service across industries; Effectiveness of hybrid and online instruction.

Research interests: Consumer Psychology, Performance Management, Pedagogical Research  

Current research projects: Children’s Oral Reading And Language (CORAL) Study

Research interests: Reading Development, Language Development, Music Development. Home Literacy, Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Current research projects: Adult children of divorce and the relationship to attachment style, self-esteem; Parental lying and moral reasoning

Research interests: Children's moral reasoning, Parental fairness and domain theory, Parental lying and moral reasoning, Divorce and child outcomes (ie, parental bonding, relationship styles), Academic achievement and student advising, Conspiracy beliefs, celebrity worship, and political perspectives

Current Research Projects: The effect of religious headgear on perceptions of LinkedIn profiles

Research interests: Cybervetting, social media usage in selection, college student experience and its effect on academic citizenship behaviors, text analysis, training and development

Current Research Projects: Examining the effects of pandemic-induced isolation on the mental health of adolescents with ASD; Optimizing Prediction of Social Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Research Interests: Face and Object Processing; Categorization; Implicit Learning; Language Acquisition; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Eye-Tracking; EEG/ERP

Current Research Projects: Meta-analysis of ageism reduction programs, descriptive study of mental health of first year college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, correlational study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes toward older adults/ageism, and a quasi-experimental study on how political affiliation impacts perceptions of vigilantism.

Current Research Projects: Perceptions of Creepiness, Morbid Curiosity and Anxiety Reduction, The Effect of Attractiveness on Causal Attribution

Research Interests: Person Perception, Impression Formation, Creepiness and Morbid Curiosity, Attractiveness Bias, Morality and Emotion