Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff

Associate Professor
lrbakerr@uncg.edu
Eberhart 291A
336-256-0001
Personal Website
Close relationships, including relationship maintenance and problem solving; self beliefs, including self-esteem, shyness, and social anxiety

Professor
jjboseov@uncg.edu
Eberhart 274
336-256-0015
Personal Website
Social cognition in early to late childhood; trait attributions; children's acquisition of knowledge from other people

Lecturer
emcarrig@uncg.edu
Eberhart 285
Language acquisition; effects of language deprivation in deaf & hard-of-hearing children; signed languages; language emergence in naturalistic settings; language & cognition; numerical cognition

Assistant Professor
bscassid@uncg.edu
Eberhart 280
Personal Website
Social neuroscience, face perception, the impact of stereotyping and prejudice on impressions, and social cognition in healthy aging

Assistant Professor
jmdejes2@uncg.edu
Eberhart 275
Personal Website
The development of social cognition; social categorization, attitudes, and biases; eating behavior across the lifespan

Professor
p_delane@uncg.edu
Eberhart 278
336-256-0010
Personal Website
Memory, planning, problem-solving, skill learning, and expertise.

Professor
kmedding@uncg.edu
Eberhart 279
336-256-0045
Personal Website
Adult depression, the role of motivation and self-regulation in emotional functioning, and psychotherapy process and outcome

Lecturer
sjestle@uncg.edu
Eberhart 267
(336) 334-4876
Early Intensive Behavioral Interventions, particularly in naturalistic settings; self-control and choice behavior.

Assistant Professor
maolivieri@uncg.edu
Parent-toddler emotional and verbal communication processes, especially in the context of socioeconomic or psychosocial risk; Role of these processes in early emotional and language development; Child effects on parenting

Academic Professional
jlhernd2@uncg.edu
1100 W. Market St., Office 260
336-256-0065
Integrated primary care, child clinical and pediatric psychology

Assistant Professor
mrjensen@uncg.edu
Eberhart 266
Personal Website
Adolescent mental health and risk taking; parent-adolescent interactions; technology-mediated communication; acculturation and enculturation; intensive longitudinal methods.

Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Arts & Sciences
johnston@uncg.edu
Eberhart 262
(336) 256-0019
Developmental systems theory; evolution and development of behavior; history of comparative psychology

Professor
mjkane@uncg.edu
Eberhart 263
Personal Website
Individual differences in executive control, attention, action, memory, and intelligence

Professor and Director of Clinical Training
spkeane@uncg.edu
Eberhart 273
336-256-0569
Personal Website
Childhood psychopathology and children’s social relationships; parent-child interaction; the etiology, assessment, and treatment of peer rejection and neglect.

Senior Lecturer
prladrow@uncg.edu
N/A (Available by e-mail)
336-256-0008
Biological psychology, particularly brain and behavior relationships associated with development and emotion//motivated behavior; Bio/psycho/social perspectives of health and behavior change.
Associate Professor
dwlevine@uncg.edu
Eberhart 276
336-256-2472
Research methodology and statistics; longitudinal research designs

Professor and Department Head
s_marcov@uncg.edu
Eberhart 296
336-256-0020
Personal Website
Cognitive development and conscious control of behavior in childhood and across the lifespan

Professor
jlmendez@uncg.edu
Eberhart 287
336-256-0036
Developmental impact of poverty, parent involvement in children’s education, risk and resilience, and clinical interventions for ethnic minorities

Assistant Professor
senancek@uncg.edu
Eberhart 269
Personal Website
Social cognition in early childhood; cognitive science; intuitive theories; science of possessions/ownership; beliefs about learning across the lifespan

Professor
r_nelson@uncg.edu
Eberhart 268
336-334-5817
Personality or temperament basis of adult psychopathology, with an emphasis on personality disorders, especially borderline personality disorder

Lecturer
vmbakerr@uncg.edu
Eberhart 272
Personal Website
Close relationships, including the implications of evolutionary and attachment processes for relationship outcomes, and examining contexts in which relationship processes traditionally viewed as "negative" can be beneficial and processes viewed as "positive" can be harmful.

Professor
p_silvia@uncg.edu
Eberhart 281
336-256-0007
Personal Website
Interest; aesthetics, creativity, and the arts; self-regulation and effort; experience sampling methods

Professor
glstein@uncg.edu
Eberhart 294
Personal Website
Latinx youth and families; Cultural values; Discrimination; Racial/ethnic socialization

Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
d_touron@uncg.edu
Eberhart 291
Personal Website
Cognitive functioning and skilled performance in older and younger adults; strategy use; skill learning; metacognition

Associate Professor
smschal2@uncg.edu
Eberhart 270
336-256-8538
Personal Website
Genetic, neuroendocrine, and cognitive mechanisms of life stress on depression

Assistant Professor
cnwahlhe@uncg.edu
Eberhart 277
Personal Website
Memory, event cognition, cognitive aging, metacognition, and category learning

Assistant Professor
rwwiley@uncg.edu
Eberhart 288
Personal Website
Learning and perception, neural plasticity, cognitive science and education

Associate Professor
bewisco@uncg.edu
Eberhart 261
336-256-0004
Personal Website
Cognitive biases and emotion regulation processes in emotional disorders, particularly depression and PTSD

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
e_zell@uncg.edu
Eberhart 271
Personal Website
Self-evaluation, social comparison, accuracy of social perception, and meta-analysis
Adjunct Faculty

Schizotypy and schizophrenia from experimental and developmental psychopathology perspectives
Emerita/Emeritus Faculty
Early development of human perception and learning from the prenatal period to the preschool years


Professor
rob_guttentag@uncg.edu
Eberhart 290
336-256-0005
Personal Website
Cognitive development, the development of memory, children’s understanding of complex emotions

History of psychology; history of sexuality; applications of psychology and biology to society in the early 20th century; animal communication

Professor
gfmichel@uncg.edu
Eberhart 280
336-256-0021
Personal Website
Neuropsychology of sensorimotor development in human infants (particularly handedness); neural and endocrine processes underlying parental care
Judgment and decision making; regret; information integration; social comparison
Assessing response strength; factors that determine the resistance to change of operant behavior (behavioral momentum)
Auditory perception and sensory processes in children and adults

Social psychology of sexual aggression, sexual victimization, social influence, and gender.