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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 opportunities include basic research on learning and behavior, conditioning in drug and alcohol abuse, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, and autism.
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EAPS Program Faculty
Name Email Research Interests
Program Chair    
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..
Scott Bates scott.bates@usu.edu Prevention, Environmental psychology, and higher education teaching and learning
Kerry Jordan kerry.jordan@usu.edu Cognitive development, Multisensory perception, Cognition, Numerical representation,Infancy, Nonverbal cognition, Attentional effects of video gameplaying, and object knowledge.
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
Richard Roberts richard.roberts@usu.edu Community based interventions and service systems for high risk children/families, Participatory Action Research models.
Andrew Samaha andrew.samaha@usu.edu  
Kerstin Schroder kerstin.schroder@usu.edu Obesity and dieting, HIV/AIDS risk behavior research, substance use, social-cognitive predictors of health behavior, self-control and self-management skills, health behavior interventions; methodological research on the accuracy of behavioral self-reports.
Donal Sinex don.sinex@usu.edu Neural processing of complex sounds, Processing of human speech, Neural representation of simultaneous sounds
Karl White karl.white@usu.edu