EAPS: The doctoral program in Experimental & Applied Psychological Science is designed to develop researchers with widely marketable skills. The program is highly flexible--students work with mentors to design programs of study that fit their needs and goals. Working with a mentor, students can focus their training in a variety of areas, including: cognition & development, environmental psychology, health psychology, social-development, and sensory processing. Beyond these, there are three areas of emphasis where the department has particular strengths and expertise: Behavior Analysis; Community Psychology, and; Research & Evaluation Methodology.
| The faculty of the REM emphasis area are committed to preparing highly qualified research-oriented professionals with expertise in research and evaluation techniques that will be marketable in a variety of occupations: evaluator, researcher, and academician. | The faculty of the Community Psychology emphasis area are devoted to training doctoral students to apply psychological principles, methods, and values of social justice in collaboration with community members to effect proactive social change at the community level. | The faculty of the Behavior Analysis emphasis area offers students the opportunity to obtain specialty training in Behavior Analysis. Training focuses primarily on basic research on learning and behavior and the role of conditioning in drug and alcohol abuse. |
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EAPS Program Faculty |
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| Name | Research Interests | |
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| Donal Sinex | don.sinex@usu.edu | Neural processing of complex sounds, Processing of human speech, Neural representation of simultaneous sounds |
| Scott Bates | scott.bates@usu.edu | Prevention, Environmental psychology, and higher education teaching and Learning |
| Jamison Fargo | jamison.fargo@usu.edu | Prevention of sexual victimization, behavioral epidemiology, classification and clustering algorithms, applied quantitative psychology |
| Tamara Ferguson | tjferguson@cc.usu.edu | Role of emotions (such as, guilt, shame, anger, and pride) in managing positive and negative features of one's individual identity and these emotions' impact on social relationships and behaviors (including moral behavior, bullying, victimization, conformity, and compliance) |
| Kerry Jordan | kerry.jordan@usu.edu | Cognitive development, Multisensory perception, Cognition, Numerical representation,Iinfancy, Nonverbal cognition, Attentional effects of video gameplaying, and object knowledge. |
| George Julnes | gjulnes@cc.usu.edu | Evaluation, Public Policy, Community Psychology |
| Amy Odum | amy.odum@usu.edu | Delay discounting/Impulsivity, Environmental Factors influencing the Development of Tolerance and Sensitization to Drugs of Abuse, Drug and Environmental Influences on Timing/Temporal Discrimination, Factors affecting Response Persistence and Resistance to Change |
| Kerstin Schroder | kerstin.schroder@usu.edu | Effects of a computer-assisted dieting intervention on diet quality and weight loss |
| Tim Shahan | tim.shahan@usu.edu | Basic principles of learning and behavior and their role in addiction. Behavioral momentum, choice, conditioned reinforcement, drug and alcohol self-administration.. |
| Karl White | karl.white@usu.edu | |