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| Administration | ||
| Faculty Name | Program | Research Interests |
| James C. Denniston Department Chair |
General Experimental |
Elementary Information Processing in Animals |
| Kenneth M. Steele Assistant Chair |
General Experimental | Learning in Nonhumans and Humans; Visual and Auditory Perception; Activity Anorexia; Music Perception; the "Mozart Effect" |
| Denise M. Martz Graduate Programs Coordinator |
Clinical Health | Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine; Fat Talk; Integrative Medicine |
| Faculty | ||
| Stanley Aeschleman | General Experimental | Behavior Analysis; Superstitious Behaviors |
| Verne R. Bacharach | General Experimental | Intelligence; Cognitive Development; Psychometrics |
| Mary Ballard | General Experimental, Clinical Health |
Aggression; Media |
| Doris Bazzini General Experimental Program Director |
General Experimental | Romantic attraction; Beautiful-is-good Stereotype; Media's impact on body image in women Relationship-maintenance processes |
| Hall P. Beck | General Experimental | Human-computer interaction; College student retention; Decision-making |
| Shawn Bergman | Industrial-Organizational | Statistical and quantitative methods, person-environment fit, and vocational choice |
| Joshua Broman-Fulks | Clinical Health | Anxiety Disorders; Anxiety Sensitivity |
| Will Canu | Clinical Health | Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Social adjustment and psychological disorders; Child clinical psychology |
| Lisa Curtin Clinical Health Program Director |
Clinical Health | Rural mental health services, addictive behaviors, psychotherapy outcome and process, social factors and body image |
| James R. Deni | School Psychology | Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Biofeedback, Consultation |
| Chris Dickinson | General Experimental | Visual Cognition, Visual Memory, Scene Perception, Eye Movements during Visual Search and Scene Perception |
| Lisa Emery | General Experimental | Cognitive Aging, Emotion Regulation, Affect & Cognition |
| Jamie Fearrington | School Psychology | Curriculum-based measurement, consultation, response to intervention, learning disabilities, academic and behavioral interventions, and prevention of school failure |
| Paul Fox | General Experimental | Psychology and law; tort reform, jury issues, applied behavior analysis |
| Sandra G. Gagnon | School Psychology | Preschool Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence; Child Temperment |
| Amy T. Galloway | General Experimental | Development of Food Preferences; Eating Behavior in Human and Non-human Animals |
| Perfectionism: Measurement and Interpersonal Characteristics; Interpersonal Theory; Personality | ||
| Timothy J. Huelsman Industrial-Organizational/ HRM Program Director |
Industrial-Organizational | Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Assessment; Program Evaluation |
| John Paul Jameson | Clinical Health | Rural Mental Health Services; Empirically Supported Psychotherapies; Community/Academic Partnerships |
| Pamela Kidder Ashley School Psychology Program Director |
School Psychology | Impact of High Stakes Accountability Programs, Factors Contributing to Students' Competence and Resilience, Giftedness, Religious Orientation |
| Timothy D. Ludwig | Industrial-Organizational | Organizational Behavior Management; Behavioral Analysis; Employee Performance; Occupational Safety |
| Lindsay Masland | School Psychology | Academic Engagement, Achievement Motivation, Peer Relations, Classroom Assessment, Motivating Teaching Strategies |
| Todd McElroy | General Experimental | Social Judgment; Social Cognition; Decision-making; Framing effects; Regret; Laterality Influences |
| Kurt D. Michael | Clinical Health | Child and adolescent psychopathology; depression and anxiety; meta-analysis; substance use disorders; psychotherapy outcome |
| Lynn Mosteller Director of Undergraduate Advising |
Undergraduate Advising; Careers in Psychology | |
| Courtney Rocheleau | General Experimental, Clinical Health |
Organ donation behavior, religious orientation, fat talk (normative self-derogation of the body), breast self-examination, testicular self-examination, scholarship of teaching & learning |
| Andrew Smith | General Experimental | Social Cognition; Social Comparison; Decision-making; Anchoring effects; Wishful Thinking; Risk Perception |
| Douglas A. Waring | General Experimental | Cognitive/Evolutionary; role of working memory and prior knowledge in comprehension, memory, persuasion, conformity, reciprocity, etc. |
| Rose Mary Webb | General Experimental | First impressions of personality and competence; Estimation and perception of quantity; Development of intellectual talent |
| Twila Wingrove | General Experimental | Legal psychology; Procedural justice; Legal decision-making; Children/adolescents and the law |
| Mark C. Zrull | General Experimental | Neural Plasticity and Mechanisms of Sound-induced Seizures; Uni- and Multimodal Stimulus-guided Behavior; Efficacy of Undergraduate Research |
| Adjunct Faculty |
| Matt Fearrington |
| Randy Palmer |
| Lucinda O. Payne |
| Richard Wilson |
| Staff |
| Carol M. Anderson |
| Gail Day |
| Mission Statement |
| The Department of Psychology is the sole agency at Appalachian State University charged with the responsibility for developing, maintaining, and delivering undergraduate and graduate curricula in psychology. The Department is dedicated to the ideal that an understanding of psychological science contributes to a liberal education and forms the foundation for careers in psychology and for other endeavors. Departmental faculty promote intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and a culture of learning through meaningful educational, scholarly, and service experiences. In support of this mission, the faculty of the Department provide mentoring and collaborative educational experiences, engage in scholarship, and serve the discipline, the university, and the community. |
Phone: (828) 262-2272 Fax: (828) 262-2974
Department Chair: James C. Denniston dennistonjc@appstate.edu
Administrative Assistant: Carol M. Anderson andersncm@appstate.edu
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