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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Kathryn Bell Kathryn Bell
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 307
Phone: (815) 753-0778
E-mail: kbell9@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/bell.shtml
Research interests: Risk factors associated with interpersonal trauma, including intimate partner violence (IPV) andm adult sexual assault.

David BridgettDavid Bridgett
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 308
Phone: (815) 753-0774
E-mail: dbridgett1@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/bridgett.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/emotionreg/
Research Interests: Emotion regulation and temperament in infants, toddlers, and preschool aged children; early risk and protective factors for developmental psychopathology.

M. Anne Britt M. Anne Britt
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Cognitive/Instructional, Developmental, School (CIDS) Curricular Area
Cognitive and Instructional Psychology

Office: PM 363
Phone: (815) 753-7082
E-mail: britt@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/britt.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/~britt
Research interests: Comprehension, cognition, and memory; integration of information from multiple sources; enhancing learning and understanding through use of computer-aided instruction; argument comprehension and construction.

James V. Corwin James V. Corwin
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology
Coordinator of Neuroscience and Behavior Curricular Area
Neuroscience and Behavior

Office: PM 410
Phone: (815) 753-7088
E-mail: jcorwin@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/corwin.shtml
Research interests: Recovery of function from brain damage; prefontal cortex; neural mechanisms underlying attention and spatial behavior; the neglect syndrome.

Michelle K. Demaray Michelle K. Demaray
Associate Professor
School Psychology

Office: PM 357
Phone: (815) 753-7077
E-mail: mkdemaray@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/demaray.shtml
Research interests: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); measurement of perceived social support; the relationship between social support and children's adjustment.

Amanda Durik Amanda M. Durik
Assistant Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 414
Phone: (815) 753-7069
E-mail: adurik@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/durik.shtml
Research interests: Factors that promote optimal motivation (interest and performance) in achievement situations; achievement goals; the development of interest.

Lisa M. Finkelstein Lisa M. Finkelstein
Associate Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 571
Phone: (815) 753-0439
E-mail: lisaf@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/finkelstein.shtml
Research interests: Age and generational issues in the work place; mentoring relationship; obesity bias; humor at work

Angela Grippo Angela Grippo
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience and Behavior

Office: PM 357
Phone: (815) 753-7070
E-mail: angelagrippo@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/grippo.shtml
Homepage: www.grippo.weebly.com
Research interests: Interactions among behavior, cardiovascular function, and neuroendocrinology; animal models of psychological disorders and stress; investigations of social behavior, autonomic function, and endocrine function.

Michelle LillyMichelle M. Lilly
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 318
Phone: (815) 753-4602
E-mail: mlilly1@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/lilly.shtml
Research Interests: Understanding the mental health effects of interpersonal trauma, with a particular focus on intimate partner violence, including ways in which world views and coping affect outcome following trauma.

Mary C. Lovejoy Mary C. Lovejoy
Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training and Coordinator of Clinical Curricular Area
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 303
Phone: (815) 753-7095
E-mail: mlovejoy@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/lovejoy.shtml
Research interests: Parental social information processing; developmental psychopathology; parenting practices.

Amy LucknerAmy Luckner
Assistant Professor
School Psychology

Office: PM 359
Phone: (815) 753-0098
E-mail: aluckner@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/luckner.shtml
Research Interests: Social processes in the school environment; factors that enhance or impede students’ engagement in school; aggressive and playful relational behaviors and their relation to adjustment.

Joseph Magliano Joseph Magliano
Professor,
Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy (CISLL)
Cognitive and Instructional Psychology

Office: PM 361
Phone: (815) 753-0805
E-mail: jmagliano@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/magliano.shtml
Research interests: Understanding of narrative text and film; question asking and answering; individual differences; causal reasoning; learning and memory.

Christine K. Malecki Christine K. Malecki
Associate Professor, Director of School Psychology Program
School Psychology

Office: PM 312
Phone: (815) 753-1836
E-mail: cmalecki@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/malecki.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/~cmalecki/
Research interests: School psychology; social support perceived by children and adolescents; curriculum-based measurement; innovative school psychology delivery services.

Elise Frank Masur Elise Frank Masur
Professor
Developmental and School Psychology

Office: PM 367
Phone: (815) 753-7081
E-mail: efmasur@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/masur.shtml
Research interests: Parent-infant interaction; language and cognitive development in infants and young children; infant imitation; school psychology.

Leslie Matuszewich Leslie Matuszewich
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology
Neuroscience and Behavior

Office: PM 420
Phone: (815) 753-7072
E-mail: lmatusze@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/matuszewich.shtml
Research interests: Effects of chronic and acute stress on behavior and the brain; Neurotransmitter regulation of the stress response; Animal models of drug abuse; Neural regulation of sexual behavior in rats.

Keith K. Millis Keith K. Millis
Professor
Cognitive and Instructional Psychology

Office: PM 320
Phone: (815) 753-7087
E-mail: kmillis@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/millis.shtml
Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/index.htm
Research interests: Discourse comprehension; technology and instruction; experimental aesthetics; memory processes.

Nina Mounts Nina Mounts
Associate Professor,
Developmental Psychology

Office: PM 316
Phone: (815) 753-6968
E-mail: nmounts@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/mounts.shtml
Research interests: Social development of children and adolescents across diverse ethnic groups; linkages between parent and peer contexts; parent-child relationships including parenting style and parental management of peers; peer relationships including peer influence and friendship formation.

George A. Neuman George A. Neuman
Associate Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 139
Phone: (815) 753-0740
E-mail: gneuman@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/neuman.shtml
Research interests: Race, cognitive ability and selection; selection for work teams; the use of personality tests for employee selection; integrity tests.

Holly K. Orcutt Holly K. Orcutt
Associate Professor,
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 305
Phone: (815) 753-5920
E-mail: horcutt@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/orcutt.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/~horcutt/
Research interests: Post-traumatic stress disorder; traumatic stress and its consequences; sexual risk-taking behavior; experiential avoidance; structural equation methodologies; forgiveness; prevention science.

Christopher P. Parker Christopher P. Parker
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Social and Industrial/Organizational Curricular Area
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 557
Phone: (815) 753-0734
E-mail: cparker@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/parker.shtml
Research interests: Psychological climate and organizational climate/culture; attitude theory and job satisfaction; perceptions of organizational politics; leadership recognition.

Bradford H. Pillow Bradford H. Pillow
Associate Professor
Developmental Psychology

Office: PM 359
Phone: (815) 753-7079
E-mail: pillow@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/pillow.shtml
Research interests: Social-cognitive and metacognitive development; Children's perspective-taking abilities; children's ability to reflect on their own mental states; children's conceptions of cognitive processes; children's explanations of others' behavior.

Laura D. Pittman Laura D. Pittman
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 314
Phone: (815) 753-2485
E-mail: lpittman@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/pittman.shtml
Research interests: Developmental psychopathology; family process; extended family; parenting practices; poverty; cultural diversity; and transition to college.

Alan Rosenbaum Alan Rosenbaum
Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 313
Phone: (815) 753-7084
E-mail: arosenbaum@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/rosenbaum.shtml
Research interests: Developmental psychopathology and physiological factors in intimate partner, and generalized, aggression; treatment of intimate partner aggression; female aggression; anger management.

Brad J. Sagarin Brad J. Sagarin
Associate Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 416
Phone: (815) 753-7067
E-mail: bsagarin@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/sagarin.shtml
Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/~tj0bjs1/
Research interests: Attitude change; resistance to persuasion; deception, jealousy and infidelity; evolutionary psychology; human sexuality; statistical approaches to missing data and non-compliance.

Alecia SantuzziAlecia M. Santuzzi
Assistant Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 561
Phone: (815) 753-7096
E-mail: asantuzzi@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/santuzzi.shtml
Research Interests: Interpersonal appraisals and evaluations; metaperceptions (knowing what others think of you); social stigma in work-related situations; social interaction in face-to-face and virtual groups; virtual organizations.

John J. Skowronski John J. Skowronski
Professor
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 418
Phone: (815) 753-7073
E-mail: jskowron@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/skowronski.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/~jskowronski/
Research interests: Processes and structures involved in judgment and memory about others and the self: how we draw conclusions about the internal characteristics (traits, motives, goals) of people, and why we remember certain things about people and forget others.

David P. Valentiner David P. Valentiner
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 422
Phone: (815) 753-7086
E-mail: dvalentiner@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/valentiner.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/DPV/valentinerhome.shtml
Research interests: Anxiety disorders; coping with stress; emotional processes related to anxiety and coping.

Gregory A. Waas Gregory A. Waas
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Developmental and School Psychology

Office: PM 411
Phone: (815) 753-7065
E-mail: gwaas@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/waas.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/~gwaas/
Research interests: Social cognition; peer relations; children's perception of peer deviance; peer harassment/victimization.

Douglas G. Wallace Douglas G. Wallace
Associate Professor, PSYC 102 Coordinator
Neuroscience and Behavior

Office: PM 309
Phone: (815) 753-7071
E-mail: dwallace@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/wallace.shtml
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/user/tj0dgw1
Research interests: Rodent models Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; topographical disorientation; neuro-ethology.

Karen J. White Karen J. White
Director of the Psychological Services Center

Office: PM 52
Phone: (815) 753-8090
E-mail: kwhite1@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/white.shtml
Research interests: Developmental psychopathology; teachers' and peers' perceptions of behavior problem children; social problem solving of aggressive, delinquent adolescents; child and adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Katja Wiemer-Hastings Katja Wiemer
Associate Professor
Cognitive and Instructional Psychology

Office: PM 569
Phone: (815) 753-5227
E-mail: katja@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/wiemer-hastings.shtml
Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/~tj0kwh1/
Research interests: Concepts and categories; abstract concepts; determinants of similarity; perceptual bases of cognition; embodied cognition; metacognition; semantics; natural language processing; maladaptive cognitions in mood disorders.

Kevin Wu Kevin D. Wu
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology

Office: PM 311
Phone: (815) 753-1605
E-mail: kevinwu@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/wu.shtml
Research interests: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; personality; personality disorders; relations between the mood and anxiety disorders.