Faculty Research Interests

ALLBRITTON, DAVID W., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Yale, 1992). Text Comprehension, Inference during Reading, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Applications of Technology to Learning.

ANDERSON, CHRISTINE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Loyola). The interaction of adult and infant characteristics on perceptions of infant attractiveness and on adult caregiving behaviors, Developmental Psychology.

BELL, SUZANNE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Texas A&M, 2004). Job Performance, Organizational Training, Feedback Acceptance, Team Selection, Training, and Conflict.

BUDD, KAREN, Ph.D., Professor (University of Kansas, 1975). Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Children and Families, Pediatric Psychology, Teenage and Other At-risk Parents.

CAMRAS, LINDA A., Ph.D., Professor (University of Pennsylvania, 1975). Social and Emotional Development, Cross Cultural Studies of Infant Expressive Behavior, Nonverbal Communications.

CELLAR, DOUGLAS, Ph.D., Associate Professor (University of Akron, 1985). Current research program focuses on trait and state motivational variables as related to coping, wellbeing and health indicators for people living with chronic hepatitis C and their caregivers. Issues related to employment, organizational support and social support are being investigated.

CHOPLIN, JESSICA M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor (UCLA, 2002). Judgments of price and other consumer-product attributes, food, personal attributes such as body size and skin color, and other magnitudes; decision making; numerical cognition.

CLELAND, JERRY, Ph.D., Professor (Loyola). Adult Perceptions of Infant Auditory Signals. Effects of Adult Perceptions of Infant Developmental Status on Evaluations of Infant Capabilities and Characteristics.

COTLER, SHELDON, Ph.D., Professor (Southern Illinois University, 1966). Socialization of Children and Adolescents, Child and Family Therapy, Evaluation of Community Interventions.

ERBER, RALPH, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean (Carnegie Mellon University, 1985). Self Regulation of Mood and Emotions, Ironic Processes in Mental Control, Interpersonal Relationships.

FERRARI, JOSEPH R., Ph.D., Professor (Adelphi University, 1989). Chronic Procrastination, Shame/Guilt, Attitudes and Persuasion, Self Handicapping and Attribution Process, Sense of Community, Community Service, Learning and Volunteerism, Recovery Homes for Substance Abusers.

GOMEZ, PABLO, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Northwestern University, 1999). Memory Models and Interaction Between Recognition and Recall, Lexical Decision Task, Time Courses of Processing, Dual Choice Task Modeling: Diffusion Models, Decision Stage in the LDT, Consumer Behavior on the Internet.

GRANT, KATHRYN, Ph.D., Associate Professor (University of Vermont, 1995). Stress and Psychological Symptoms Among Low Income Urban Youth, Gender Differences in Depression.

GREY, HARVETTE, Ph.D.
Executive Director, DePaul University Cultural Center

HALPERT, JANE, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Wayne State University, 1985). Personnel Selection, Decision-Making, Women in Management, Non-Profit Organizations.

HARPER, GARY, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor (Purdue University, 1993). HIV Sexual Risk among Homeless Adolescents, Community-based HIV Prevention for Gay/Bisexual Youth and Latina Female Adolescents, Effects of Negative Affect and Substance Use on Adolescent Sexual Risk, Collaborative Research with Community-based Organizations.

HEILIZER, FREDERICK H., Ph.D., Associate Professor (University of Rochester, 1958).

HENRY, P. J., Ph.D., Assistant Professor (UCLA, 2001). Prejudice and Racism, Status and Power Differences in Prejudice Processes, Conflict and Conflict Resolution.

HERNANDEZ, BRIGIDA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Northwestern University, 1999). Community-based Interventions Focusing on Promoting Disability Rights and Community Empowerment in Ethnic Minority Communities, Improving Outreach to People of Color with Disabilities and Fostering Empowerment Among this Group.

IWAMASA, GAYLE Y., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Purdue University, 1992). Mental health issues in culturally diverse populations across the lifespan, ethnic identity and acculturation, conceptualization of psychopathology.

JASON, LEONARD A., Ph.D., Professor (University of Rochester, 1975). Community Psychology, Public Policy, Sense of Community, Community Building, Primary Prevention, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Health Psychology, Chronic Health Conditions (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Smoking Prevention, Television Viewing Among Children.

KEYS, CHRISTOPHER B., Ph.D., Professor and Chair (University of Cincinnati, 1973). Advocacy and Empowerment of People with Disabilities from a Community Psychology Perspective, Developing and Evaluating Programs of Competence Development, Mentoring, Peer Mentoring, and Intensive Case Management for Youth of Color with Disabilities, Examining Attitudes toward Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.

LI, YAN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Duke University, 2007).Research on Social Development, Childhood Aggression, Peer Group Popularity, Social Network and Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors.

MCMAHON, SUSAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor (DePaul University, 1996). Building Competencies of Urban, At-risk Youth through School-based Interventions, Understanding Risk and Protective Factors, Enhancing the Educational System Through Creative Approaches to Teaching Reading, Violence Prevention, Program Evaluation.

POLO, ANTONIO, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (University of California, Los Angeles). Treatment of youth depression and the delivery of evidence-based interventions into community settings such as schools and mental health clinics; etiology and correlates of mental health problems across cultural groups in the United States, including among Latino and immigrant groups.

REYNA, CHRISTINE E., Ph.D., Assistant Professor (UCLA, 2000). Attributions and stereotypes; stereotypes as legitimizing ideologies; the influence of stereotypes on political decision-making; the use of stereotypes to convey identity; attributions and social justice; the influence of social goals on impression formation strategies; developing a cognitive model of implicit attitudes.

RIBORDY, SHEILA, Ph.D., Professor and Director, DePaul University Community Mental Health Center (University of Kansas, 1975). Clinical Psychology, Child and Family Therapy, Child Abuse, Social-emotional Development of Children, Impact of Community Violence.

ROBINSON, W. LAVOME, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor (University of Georgia, 1980). Minority Mental Health, Health Promotion, Adolescent Risk and Protective Behaviors, Adolescent Violence and Depression Prevention, School-based Interventions.

SANCHEZ, BERNADETTE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (University of Illinois-Chicago, 2002). Community Psychology; Ethnic minority youth; education & academic achievement; mentoring; social support; transition to adulthood; racial disparities in mental health; quantitative & qualitative methods.

STUHLMACHER, ALICE, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Purdue University, 1990). Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Decision-making, Safety, Performance Appraisal, Gender Issues in the Workplace, Computer-mediated Communication.

TOWLER, ANNETTE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Rice University, 2001). Employee Training and Development, E-Learning, Leadership Effectiveness and Leader Development, Motivation and Attitudes.

VIRTUE, SANDRA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (University of Minnesota, 2003). Neural Activity During Reading, The Role of the Hemispheres of the Brain in Language, Inference Generation During Text Comprehension.

WILSON, MIDGE, Ph.D., Professor (University of North Carolina, 1979). Social Psychology, Culturally Diverse Aspects of Physical Attractiveness and Impression Formation, Sexual Harassment, Gender Issues, Feminist Scholarship.