NIU Psychology Department

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	M. Anne Britt Associate Professor Cognitive and Instructional Psychology Office: 363 Psychology Phone: 815-753-7082 E-mail: britt@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/britt.shtml 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 Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology Coordinator of Neuroscience and Behavior Curricular Area Neuroscience and Behavior Office: 410 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor, School Psychology Program Director School Psychology Office: 357 Psychology Phone: 753-7077 E-mail: mkdemaray@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/demaray.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/324/ Research interests: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); measurement of perceived social support; the relationship between social support and children's adjustment.
	Amanda M. Durik Assistant Professor Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 414 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor, Coordinator of Social and Industrial/Organizational Curricular Area. Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 571 Psychology Phone: 753-0439 E-mail: lisaf@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/finkelstein.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/~tj0lmf1/ Research interests: Age and generational issues in the work place; mentoring relationship; obesity bias; humor at work
	Mary C. Lovejoy Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training and Coordinator of Clinical Curricular Area. Clinical Psychology Office: 303 Psychology Phone: 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.
	Joseph Magliano Professor Cognitive and Instructional Psychology Office: 361 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology School Psychology Office: 312 Psychology Phone: 753-1836 E-mail: cmalecki@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/malecki.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/psychology/tj0ckm1/public/ Research interests: School psychology; social support perceived by children and adolescents; curriculum-based measurement; innovative school psychology delivery services.
	Elise Frank Masur Professor Developmental and School Psychology Office: 367 Psychology Phone: 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 Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Behavior Office: 420 Psychology Phone: 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.
	Charles E. Miller Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 411 Psychology Phone: 753-7065 E-mail: cmiller@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/miller.shtml Research interests: Group decision making and group performance; reward allocation; social dilemmas; bargaining and negotiation; coalition formation.
	Keith K. Millis Professor Cognitive and Instructional Psychology Office: 320 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor Coordinator of Cognitive/Instructional, Developmental, School (CIDS) Curricular Area Developmental Psychology Office: 316 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 139 Psychology Phone: 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 AssociateProfessor Clinical Psychology Office: 305 Psychology Phone: 753-5920 E-mail: horcutt@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/orcutt.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/psychology/Orcutt/ 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 Associate Professor Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 557 Psychology Phone: 753-0734 E-mail: cparker@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/parker.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/~tj0cpp1/ Research interests: Psychological climate and organizational climate/culture; attitude theory and job satisfaction; perceptions of organizational politics; leadership recognition.
	Bradford H. Pillow Associate Professor Developmental Psychology Office: 359 Psychology Phone: 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 Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology Office: 314 Psychology Phone: 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.
	Corey E. Ray-Subramanian Assistant Professor School Psychology Office: 318 Psychology Phone: 753-0778 E-mail: cray@niu.edu Profile: Homepage: Research interests: Assessment and instructional support for English language learners; children's social-emotional development; relationship between social competence and academic achievement.
	Alan Rosenbaum Professor Clinical Psychology Office: 313 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 416 Psychology Phone: 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.
	John J. Skowronski Professor PSYC 102 Coordinator Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Office: 418 Psychology Phone: 753-7073 E-mail: jskowron@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/skowronski.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/~tj0jjs1/index.html 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 Associate Professor Clinical Psychology Office: 422 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor Developmental and School Psychology Office: 310 Psychology Phone: 753-3508 E-mail: gwaas@niu.edu Profile: http://www.niu.edu/psyc/faculty/waas.shtml Homepage: http://www3.niu.edu/psychology/ISPA/waas.html Research interests: Social cognition; peer relations; children's perception of peer deviance; peer harassment/victimization.
	Douglas G. Wallace Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Behavior Office: 309 Psychology Phone: 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 Director of Psychological Services Center Office: 52 Psychology Phone: 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 Associate Professor Cognitive and Instructional Psychology Office: 569 Psychology Phone: 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 D. Wu Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology Office: 311 Psychology Phone: 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.

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