Program Faculty
| Name | Research Interests | |
|---|---|---|
| Scott C. Bates |
scott.bates@usu.edu | Prevention, environmental psychology, and higher education teaching and learning |
| Carl D. Cheney |
cd.cheney@comcast.net | Peer tutoring, taste aversion, and diet selection. |
| Jamison Fargo |
jamison.fargo@usu.edu | Dr. Fargo's research applies psychometric and taxometric modeling techniques (e.g., latent class and latent trait models, mixture models, Meehlian taxometric methods, and other clustering algorithms) to research questions in the psychosocial epidemiology of adult sexual victimization. |
| Tamara J. Ferguson |
tjferguson@cc.usu.edu | Research interests include the 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, infancy, 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 | Research interests are in basic behavioral phenomena, such as response persistence, sensitivity to delayed outcomes, conditional discriminations, and environmental influences on drug effects. |
| Richard Roberts |
richard.roberts@usu.edu | |
| Kerstin Schroder |
kerstin.schroder@usu.edu | Currently, Dr. Schroder's research and planned projects focus on dieting interventions for overweight and obese individuals. |
| Tim Shahan |
tim.shahan@usu.edu | Dr. Shahan's research focuses on basic principles of learning and behavior using laboratory animals (i.e., rats and pigeons) as subjects. Much of this research focuses on behavioral momentum, choice, and conditioned reinforcement. In addition, some of my research is directed at understanding the contribution of basic behavioral processes to drug abuse. |
| Donal Sinex |
don.sinex@usu.edu | Dr. Sinex's lab focuses on the neurophysiology of the auditory system. We are currently conducting research in three areas. Our primary interest is in the neural processing of complex sounds. In the past, my lab has examined the processing of human speech, and other non-speech complex sounds, by neurons in the auditory system. More recently, we have focused on the neural representation of simultaneous sounds. |
| Karl White |
karl.white@usu.edu | In addition to his teaching and mentoring of graduate students, Dr. White has conducted numerous research projects and has published extensively about the issues and evidence related to implementing and improving the efficacy of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs. Projects currently underway at NCHAM are focused on developing more effective hearing screening and intervention programs through research, improving public health information systems, training and technical assistance, and information dissemination. |
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.
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