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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Larissa BarberLarissa Barber
Assistant Professor,
Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Office: PM 563
Phone: (815) 753-0740
E-mail: lbarber@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/barber.shtml
Research interests: My research interests are integrated with the common theme of self-regulation and occupational health. Other related topics of interest include emotion regulation at work (emotional labor) and self-regulated learning.

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,
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
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology
Professor,
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 575
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 social behavior, stress, and the heart; association of depression and heart disease; animal models of psychological disorders and stress.

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
Homepage: http://www.niu.edu/TMHRlab/index.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,
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
Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy (CISLL)
Professor,
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
Director of School Psychology Program
Associate Professor,
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
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology
Coordinator of Neuroscience and Behavior Curricular Area
Associate Professor,
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
Research interests: Discourse comprehension; technology and instruction; experimental aesthetics; memory processes.

Nina MountsNina Mounts
Director of the Collaborative on Early Adolescence
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.

Holly K. Orcutt Holly K. Orcutt
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault
Associate Professor,
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
Coordinator of Social and Industrial/Organizational Curricular Area
Associate Professor,
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 353
Phone: (815) 753-7079
E-mail: pillow@niu.edu
Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/pillow.shtml
Homepage: http://bradfordpillow.weebly.com/
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
Director of Clinical Training and Coordinator of Clinical Curricular Area
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://www.niu.edu/user/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://davidvalentiner.weebly.com/
Research interests: Anxiety disorders; emotional processes related to anxiety and coping; coping with stress; factors that impeded or facilitate natural recovery following trauma and during exposure based treatments for anxiety disorders; the development of anxiety conditions during adolescence; anxiety and academic performance; early identification and prevention of anxiety disorders; parapsychology and scientific anomalies; and  racism, antiracism, and learning about racism and antiracism.

Gregory A. Waas Gregory A. Waas
Department Chair
Associate Professor,
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
PSYC 102 Coordinator
Associate Professor,
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://wallacelab.weebly.com/
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
Coordinator of Cognitive/Instructional, Developmental, School (CIDS) Curricular Area
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
Associate Professor,
Clinical Psychology

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