Dr. Linda Baker – Chair: baker@umbc.edu (410-455-2415, MP 311).  Children's literacy development; motivation for reading; parental influences on cognitive development and educational achievement.

Dr. Shawn Bediako –bediako@umbc.edu (410-455-2349, MP 306). Seek to better understand the ways in which sociocultural factors shape psychological adaptation and adjustment to SCD pain. The particular focus will be concerned with the roles played by variables such as racial identity, spirituality, and communalism.

Dr. Thomas Blass – blass@umbc.edu (410-455-2428, MP 334).  Understanding how we perceive others and how we are influenced by them, and especially the question of obedience to authority.

Dr. John Borrero - jborrero@umbc.edu (410-455-2326, MP 337).Assessment and treatment of behavior disorders (descriptive and experimental analysis), quantitative modeling (matching), quantitative analysis (lag-sequential analysis), behavioral economics (unit price, stimulus value), discounting of delayed events.

Dr. Anne E. Brodsky – brodsky@umbc.edu (410-455-2416, MP 332).  Societal level risks (violence, war, sexism, racism, poverty, etc.) and resilience in the lives of women and women's communities in urban US and in Afghanistan. Psychological Senses of Community. Qualitative and mixed methods.

Dr. A. Charles Catania – catania@umbc.edu (410-455-2426, MP 328).  How elementary learning processes can be applied to human language.

Dr. Charissa Cheah – ccheah@umbc.edu (410-455-1059, MP330). The study of the interactions between individual, peer and family factors in the social, emotional development and health of children and the exploration of multiple pathways in which cultural factors contribute to social and emotional development.

Dr. Lynnda M. Dahlquist – dahlquis@umbc.edu  (410-455-2411, MP 335).  Developing effective psychological treatments for the pain and fear children experience during medical treatment; child and family adjustment to chronic illnesses, such as cancer.

Dr. Robert H. Deluty – deluty@umbc.edu (410-455-2420, MP 315).  How clinical psychologists address moral/ethical issues with their clients; religious beliefs and therapeutic orientations of clinical psychologists.

Dr. Marilyn E. Demorest – demorest@umbc.edu (410-455-3150, AD 1001B).  Assessing the communication and emotional problems of hearing impaired adults and children, and evaluating the benefits of rehabilitation programs.

Dr. Carlo DiClemente, – diclemen@umbc.edu  (410-455-2811, MP 340).  Addiction in general and drug abuse in particular; alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Health Behavior:  Predictors and Risk Factors to Health.

Dr. Stanley Feldstein – feldstei@umbc.edu (410-455-2363, SH 405).  The study of romantic couples, the purpose of which is to determine whether it can be predicted which couples will stay together and which will drift apart.

Dr. Jonathan Finkelstein – finkelst@umbc.edu (410-455-3712, PHYS 329).  How we are persuaded, and how our attitudes change; community involvement and community activism.

Dr. Lowell Groninger – groninge@umbc.edu (410-455-2413, MP 421).  Why we forget and how we remember.

Dr. David Huebner – huebner@umbc.edu (410-455-1574, MP327).  The physical and mental health consequences of discrimination.

Dr. Kenneth Maton – maton@umbc.edu (410-455-2209, MP 313).  Minority student achievement; Empowering community settings; Strengths-based research and policy; Community psychology of religion.

Dr. Lynanne McGuire. lmcguire@umbc.edu (410-455-3952, MP 339). Influence of psychosocial characteristics and stress on immune function and health outcomes in chronic illness, surgery, and pain populations.

Dr. Christopher Murphy – chmurphy@umbc.edu (410-455-2367, MP 324).  Physical and emotional abuse in intimate adult relationships and on the associations between patterns of marital conflict and children’s psychosocial development.

Dr. Steven Pitts – spitts@umbc.edu (410-455-2362, MP 323).  Development of substance use and abuse from adolescence through young adulthood, including intergenerational transmission of addictive behaviors, developmentally limited substance abuse/dependence, peer influence on normative vs. heavy drinking.

Dr. Robert R. Provine – provine@umbc.edu (410-455-2419, MP 331).  The biological bases of behavior; the development of the nervous system and behavior; prenatal behavior.

Dr. Bernard M. Rabin – rabin@umbc.edu (410-455-2430, MP 308).  How learning affects taste preferences and taste aversions.

Dr. David Schultz – dschultz@umbc.edu(410-455-2414, MP338). Young children's emotions and social cognition; development of agression and peer rejection.

Dr. Siggi Sigurdsson – sos@umbc.edu (410-455-2417, MP307). Organizational behavior management.

Dr. Susan Sonnenschein - sonnensc@umbc.edu (410-455-2361, MP 317). Language and literacy development in children from different sociocultural backgrounds, parents' and teachers' influences on children's cognitive and educational development, parental beliefs and practices.

Dr. Laura Stapleton –lstaplet@umbc.edu (410-455- 3704, MP 325) Measurement of attitudes and behavior; survey data collection and statistical modeling. (Will do statistics for coffee).

Dr. Shari Waldstein – waldstei@umbc.edu (410-455-2374, MP 329).  Influence of cardiovascular risk factors, cardiovascular reactivity, and cardiovascular diseases on neurocognitive performance and underlying brain structure and function. How biological, behavioral, psychological, and social factors influence cardiovascular reactivity and the development of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Zoe Warwick – warwick@umbc.edu (410-455-2360, MP 316).  Learned and unlearned controls of eating causes and consequences of consuming a high-fat diet.