Psychology

Michael Addis, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Men’s mental health, masculinity, help-seeking behavior, lay theories of psychopathology and treatment
Tel: 1-508-793-7266
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Michael Bamberg, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology; Adjunct Professor, Department of English
Language acquisition, narratives, discourse analysis, identity development
Tel: 1-508-793-7135
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Nancy Budwig, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology; Associate Provost and Dean of Research
Language development, socialization, discursive psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7250
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Esteban Cardemil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Mental health care disparities, prevention and treatment, cultural adaptations, depression
Tel: 1-508-793-7738
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James Córdova, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Couples' relationship health and deterioration; couple's therapy research; intimacy, acceptance, depression, and motivating the adoption of relationship healthy practice; the Marriage/Relationship Checkup and Couples Therapy for Depression
Tel: 1-508-793-7268
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Maricela Correa-Chávez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Cultural-historical nature of cognition, especially attention and communication; organization of learning in communities with Indigenous North and Central American histories; tools and strengths children from Latin American immigrant families bring to school contexts
Tel: 1-508-793-7656
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Nicola Curtin , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
The role of social identity and individual differences in commitments to creating social change, with a particular interest in ally and coalitional activism.
Tel: 1-508-793-7261
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Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Modes of reasoning, personal epistemology and social location. Thought and societal discourses of knowledge. Feminist perspectives on mind, self, identity and development. Gender, self and thought. Psychology and society.
Tel: 1-508-793-7262
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Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Gender, family, and work; contextual influences on development and mental health (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class); gay and lesbian families; risk/resilience in adolescents
Tel: 508-793-7289
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Wendy S. Grolnick, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Motivation and development, self-regulation of emotion and behavior in infancy and early childhood, parent and teacher influences on children’s motivation and adjustment, child clinical psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7276
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Lene Jensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
One line of Dr. Jensen’s research is in the area of moral development. This work takes a “cultural-developmental” approach, addressing how moral reasoning is both culturally and developmentally situated. Her work has included members of diverse religious communities in India and the United States. A second line of research addresses cultural identity development in the contexts of migration and global change. A current project with adolescents and their parents who have immigrated to the United States from El Salvador and India, examines their cultural identity development as well as ties between cultural identity and engagement with civil society, school, and family.
Tel: 1-508-793-7271
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Laura McKee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Parent management training (therapy for parents with noncompliant and aggressive children) and work with children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events
Tel: 1-508-793-7552
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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology; Adjunct Professor, Department of English
Dr. Valsiner is a developmental scientist who is one of the core members of the Socio-Evolutionary-Cultural Psychology Graduate Program (SEC) within the department. He takes interest in the cultural organization of mental and affective processes in human development across the whole life span. Another domain of his research involves psychology's history as a resource of ideas for contemporary advancement of the discipline and in theoretical models of how human beings are carriers of culture.
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Group-based victimization; inclusive and exclusive victim consciousness; acknowledgment; prosocial behavior between groups (especially between minority and victim groups); psychology of genocide
Tel: 1-508-793-7278
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Marianne Wiser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Hiatt School of Psychology
Cognitive development, especially concept acquisition
Tel: 1-508-793-7263
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Robert Ciottone, Ph.D.
Clinical Program

Cathleen Crider, Ph.D.
Clinical Program--Adult and Child Assessment

Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D.
Media uses in adolescence, the psychology of globalization, responses to cigarette advertising, and anything involving “emerging adults” (ages 18-29).
Tel: 1-508-793-7275
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Geoffrey Brown, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Social and emotional development in infancy and early childhood; the father's role in child and family development; attachment relationships; self-concept development; coparenting and triadic family interactions
Tel: 1-508-793-8840
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Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
The structure and function of different emotions, the relationships between emotion and action, the social psychology of non-violent action for peace and justice
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Denise Hines, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Intimate partner violence, stalking, child abuse and neglect, child sexual abuse, genetic and environmental influences on family violence, women who are aggressive
Tel: 1-508-793-7458
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James Laird, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Emotional experience, self-perception, attributions to others, structures of person awareness, world hypotheses as personality variables
Tel: 1-508-793-7272
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Seana Moran, Ed.D
Research Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Life-span developmental approaches to: creativity, ethics of creativity, creative collaboration, youth purpose, prosocial contributions to institutions/communities beyond the self, wisdom
Tel: 1-508-793-7272
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Kathleen Palm Reed, Ph.D.
Rsearch Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Clinical Coordinator/Research Assistant Professor
Tel: 1-508-793-7277
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Igor Bascandziev, Ph.D.
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Diala Hawi, Ph.D.
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Elena Zaretsky, Ph.D.
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Roger Bibace, Ph.D.
Psychology and religion; morality, values and grading; risk governance; gender differences; changing behavior
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David Stevens, Ph.D.
Taste and smell, psychophysics, research methods and analyses
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Nicholas Thompson, Ph.D.
Animal behavior, evolutionary theory
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