The Faculty
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Dr. Kandy Stahl Ph.D., Chair/Professor Relationship Issues; Sexuality; Teaching Research activity is currently focused on teaching issues, such as frequency of testing and its effect on "learning." Other interests include issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity as well as relationship issues such as the differences between couples who meet face-to-face and those who meet on the internet. kstahl@sfasu.edu |
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Social Implicit and explicit racial attitudes and interracial interaction behavior; implicit and explicit sexuality attitudes; the influence of stereotypes on social memory; gender differences in reactions to infidelity heiderj@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Rhiannon Fante , Ph.D., Assistant Professor Industrial Organizational Current research interests include performance management, systems analysis, computer-based training, behavioral safety, and instructional design. fanterm@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Heinz Gaylord, Ph.D., Professor Physiological/Comparative and History of Psychology Comparative investigations of sensory systems across species, including transduction, coding, psychophysics and ethological aspects of various sensory systems with emphasis on vision and chemoreception. Research interests also include the relationships between nutritional/dietary factors as precursors to major neurotransmitters and possible consequent effects on behavior. Certain issues in the history of science with particular emphasis on the evolution of current concepts in Psychology are also of interest. hgaylord@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Theodore Joseph, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Social Current research interests are racial profiling in vehicle stops by police officers, stigmatization of disadvantaged groups, Americans response to terrorism, cross-cultural issues as in immigrants' adjustment behaviors, and positive psychology. josephtd@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Mark Ludorf, Ph.D., Professor Cognitive/Quantitative Areas of current research in Cognitive Psychology include selective and divided attention, assessment of meaning representation, and word recognition. Another cognitive area of interest is multicultural and age-related change in attention and memory. mludorf@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Radhika Makecha , Ph.D., Assistant Professor Comparative Research interests include comparative cognition and behavior, and more specifically, elephant cognition and behavior with an emphasis on tactile communication in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). I am also interested in applying research on comparative cognition to conservation and educational purposes. makecharn@sfasu.edu |
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Lauren F.V. Scharff, Ph.D., Professor Perception/Sensory Research interests in the field of visual perception include factors influencing readability of screen displays such as web pages, web site usability, binocular depth perception, and visual search. Faculty advisor for Psi Chi and Co-director of the SFA Teaching Excellence Center. lscharff@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Andrew Terranova , Ph.D., Assistant Professor Developmental/Clinical Research interests focus broadly on the factors that put youth and young adults at risk for adjustment difficulties. Most of my research to date has focused on factors that promote and discourage bullying in elementary and middle school youth. I am also interested in what, if anything, the chronic targets of bullying can do to reduce future victimization, and why some children defend the target of bullies while others encourage the bullies to pick on peers. terranova@sfasu.edu |
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Dr. Lisa Topp , Ph.D., Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Michael Walker, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor Clinical/Behavior Analysis/Performance Management General interests include behavior analysis and performance management assessment and enhancement with individuals and systems; General clinical interests include attention, memory, learning disabilities and trauma response. mwalker@sfasu.edu |
Visiting Assistant Professors
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Dr. Beth Bontempo , Ph.D.,
Visiting Assistant Professor Developmental bontempob@sfasu.edu |
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Ms. Patricia Foster , Ph.D. anticipated 12/08, Visiting Instructor Learning Research interest is focused on academic success of at-risk students. Also social and psychological factors affecting help-seeking behaviors of faculty and students. fosterpatri@sfasu.edu |
Adjunct Faculty
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Clinical jbrotzen@excite.com |
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Ms. Jana Tiefenwerth, M. S. |
Staff
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rhayter@sfasu.edu |
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bomare@sfasu.edu |
