Faculty Directory
Faculty who may be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year are indicated by an asterisk (*).
Anchin, Jack, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology
*Bakshi, Vaishali, Ph. D. (begins Fall 2008)
Assistant Professor
Neural basis for cognitive filtering, attention, psychopharmacology, biological correlates of psychopathology
*Baldo, Brian, Ph. D. (begins Fall 2008)
Assistant Professor
Neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of ingestion
Beck, Gayle, Ph. D.
Professor
Panic disorder; anxiety disorders; post-trauma syndromes
Benedict, Ralph H.B., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Neuropsychological impairment in multiple sclerosis, organic personality disorder, prediction of neuropsychological impairment with MRI, neuropsychological test development
*Bowker, Julie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Individual differences in socioemotional behaviors (e.g.,social withdrawal, aggression), peer relationships and friendships; internalizing problems
Bozarth, Michael, A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory
Bunker, Barbara, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus
Planned organizational change; interpersonal and group processes; organizational development; managing diversity; trust
Burkard, Robert F., Ph. D.
Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Auditory evoked potentials, physiologic manifestations of auditory masking, auditory adaptation, acoustics and sound measurements, use of digital signal process for acquisition of auditory evoked potentials, comparative studies of hearing
Butera, Peter, Ph. D.
Research Professor of Psychology
Hormonal control of ingestive behavior and meal patterns, neural mechanisms of estrogen action, cytokines and disease anorexia
*Colder, Craig, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Clinical Area Head
Individual, family, and community influences on child and adolescent aggression and substance abuse
Collins, R. Lorraine, Ph. D.
Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Health Behavior, School of Public Health and Health Professions; Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Professor of Psychology
Drinking restraint; psychosocial factors in alcohol use; women's issues; smoking
Connors, Gerard J., Ph. D.
Director, Research Institute on Addictions; Professor of Psychology
Alcoholism treatment outcome evaluation; relapse prevention; secondary prevention of alcohol problems
*Daniels, Derek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake
*Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals
DiPirro, Jean M., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Psychology
Neuropeptidergic and monoaminergic regulation of pain, analgesia, maternal behavior and drug addiction
Frone, Michael, Ph. D.
Senior Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Occupational health; workplace substance use; work-family interface; youth employment
*Gabriel, Shira, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Social self; intimacy seeking and social comparison; need to belong
Graziano, Anthony, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
*Hastrup, Janice L., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health psychology and behavioral medicine; epidemiology and public health; health communication; community psychology; emotional development; environmental hazards; methodological issues
*Hawk, Larry, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
The role of motivation and cognition in psychopathology and treatment; clinical psychophysiology; ADHD; smoking
Houston, Rebecca J., Ph. D.
Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
Julian, James, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus
*Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head
Maternal behavior; opiate-mediated processes; feeding and drinking; taste-aversion learning
Leonard, Kenneth E., Ph. D.
Senior Research Scientist and Research Professor of Psychiatry; Research Institute On Addictions; Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Alcohol abuse and Marital/family processes; parenting and infant development in alcoholic families; interpersonal aggression; bar violence; domestic violence
Levine, Murray, Ph. D.
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Levy, Kenneth, Ph. D.
Professor
Univariate and multivariate data analysis
*Luce, Paul A., Ph. D.
Professor, Department Chair
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics
Masling, Joseph, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus
*Mauner, Gail, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Sentence and discourse processing; reading; anaphora; language processing in neurogenically impaired populations.
Meacham, Jack, Ph. D.
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Life-course developmental psychology; history of world civilizations; comparative religion; race and racism; multicultural education
*Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory
Miller, Bruce, M. D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Psychology
*Murray, Sandra, Ph. D.
Professor, Social-Personality Area Head
Close relationships; self-esteem; motivated cognition
*Ostrov, Jamie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Subtypes of aggression and victimization; developmental psychopathology; social dominance; interpersonal relationships; applied developmental psychology; prosocial and play behavior
*Park, Lora, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
The self, self-esteem, contingencies of self-worth, motivation, interpersonal processes
*Pelham, Brett W., Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Self-perception; implicit self-regard; social inference
*Pelham, William E., Jr., Ph. D.
UB Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; psychosocial, pharmacological, and combined treatments for ADHD; cognition and motivation in ADHD
*Pfordresher, Peter, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Cognitive Area Head
The way in which the mind organizes sequences of events in real time during production and perception
Pruitt, Dean, Ph. D.
SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Raynor, Joel, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Theory of personality functioning and change; sport and exercise psychology; alcoholism
*Read, Jennifer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Social and individual-level factors in the etiology and treatment of alcohol misuse; affective and cognitive determinants of heavy drinking, PTSD-alcohol use disorder comorbidity
*Richards, Jerry, Ph. D.
Research Scientist, Research Institute on Addictions; Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Drug abuse, animal and human models of impulsivity, behavioral neuroscience, and the experimental analysis of behavior.
*Roberts, John, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Mood disorders; life-stress; self-esteem; psychosocial functioning among HIV+ individuals
Salvi, Richard J., Ph. D.
Research Professor of Psychology
Tinnitus, Auditory Plasticity, Ototoxicity, Noise Induce Hearing Loss, Hair Cell Regeneration, Stem Cell Transplantation
Sandberg, David E., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
*Sawusch, James, Ph. D.
Professor
Speech perception; attention; auditory memory; computational modeling; psycholinguistics
*Sechrist, Gretchen, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
*Seery, Mark, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Stress and coping, the self, motivation, psychophysiology
Segal, Erwin, Ph. D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Cognitive science; narrative and discourse comprehension; psycholinguistics; theory in psychology; human problem solving
Shen, Roh-Yu , Ph. D.
Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Brain dopamine systems; alcohol craving; fetal alcohol syndrome
*Shucard, David W., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Neural basis of cognition in normal and impaired infants, children, adults, and animals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsychology
*Simms, Leonard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, item response theory applications to personality measures, and computerized adaptive testing
Smith, Charles James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
*Smith, J. David, Ph. D.
Professor
Animal cognition; categorization; metacognition and self-awareness; psychology of music and aesthetics
Thompson, Alexis, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Neural adaptations associated with increased vulnerability or expression of drug addicton, anxiety, and maternal behavior; behavioral regulation of pain and analgesia; neuropeptide regulation of monoamines
*Tiffany, Stephen T., Ph.D.
Empire Innovation Professor of Psychology
The psychopathology of addictive disorders in adolescents and adults including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; behavioral medicine
Walitzer, Kimberly, Ph. D.
Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Treatment outcome evaluation; spouse involvement in treatment; secondary prevention of alcohol problems; gender differences
Waschbusch, Daniel A., Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Center for Children & Families and the Departments of Pediatrics & Psychology
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*Wersinger, Scott, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Neural and hormonal regulation of social behavior, including reproductive behavior and aggression
Wood, Beatrice, Ph. D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Psychology