Core Experimental Psychology Faculty
Core Experimental Faculty & Research Areas
Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo
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Research and teaching interests include basic and applied topics in judgment and decision-making (Lens model analysis, calibration, mathematical models of judgments and choices, inter-temporal decisions, nutrition judgments and food studies); psychometrics and statistics. Dr. Gonzalez-Vallejo is not currently accepting new graduate students.
Katrina Hamilton
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Research interests include chronic pain, stress, cellular aging, biopsychosocial outcomes and community interventions. Dr. Hamilton is accepting a new Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Keith D. Markman
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Research interests include the areas of motivated social cognition and social judgment and decision-making, and counterfactual thinking - the generation of imagined alternatives to reality. Dr. Markman is currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
Brett Peters
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Research interests include stress, relationships, psychophysiology, and health. Dr. Peters is currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
Jeffrey B. Vancouver
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Research interests include the role of goals and feedback in motivation and learning, the role of beliefs in goal processes. Dr. Vancouver is not currently accepting new graduate students.
Ronaldo Vigo
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Research interests include cognitive research with focus on the development of mathematical and computational models of concept learning and categorization behavior. Dr. Vigo is currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
Gerald Young
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Research interests include social (e.g., social identity, social integration into groups) and affective (e.g., emotion regulation, emotion beliefs) processes as well as mental health and well-being among all people. Dr. Gerald Young is currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
Peggy Zoccola
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Research interests include rumination and worry, stress and coping, sleep, cortisol, and effects of interpersonal and cognitive processes on physiology and health. Dr. Zoccola is not currently accepting new graduate students.
Xian Zhao
Research interests include intergroup relations, peace, and justice, with an emphasis on topics such as international relations, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), race, gender, poverty, culture, human-robot interaction, and solutions to climate change. Dr. Zhao is not currently accepting new Ph.D. students.
Contributing and Emeriti Faculty
These faculty are not accepting graduate students.
Francis S. Bellezza
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Human cognition and memory, artificial intelligence, statistics.
Rodger W. Griffeth
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Research interests include organizational turnover and human resource systems.
G. Daniel Lassiter
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Research interests include the problem of how people come to organize and comprehend the information contained in another person's ongoing stream of behavior.
Danny R. Moates
Research interests spoken word recognition, vowel mutability, and the mental lexicon.