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
jlstark@uncg.edu
Eberhart 270
Peer behaviors in early childhood (e.g., peer conflict resolution), in relation to executive function, moral reasoning, and temperament; children's learning in informal environments (e.g., museums and science centers)
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
Lecturer
y_chang5@uncg.edu
Eberhart 286
Dual processes of memory and its implications in various social judgment settings such as truth judgments of general knowledge, information from social media, and stigma related information. Cognitive processes and/or fallacies in courtroom decisions.
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 and Undergraduate Program Director
p_delane@uncg.edu
Eberhart 278
336-256-0010
Personal Website
Memory, planning, problem-solving, skill learning, and expertise.
Professor and Director of Clinical Training
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
Assistant Professor
maolivieri@uncg.edu
Personal Website
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
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 and Associate Department Head
mjkane@uncg.edu
Eberhart 263
Personal Website
Individual differences in executive control, attention, action, memory, and intelligence
Professor
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.
Associate Professor
dwlevine@uncg.edu
Eberhart 276
336-256-2472
Research methodology and statistics; longitudinal research designs
Professor
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
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 and Department Head
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
Associate 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 Graduate Program Director
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.
