CSULB MASTER OF ARTS IN
RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGY

MA-Research Faculty (do not use this list for section D of the department application - use the faculty mentor list)

Courtney Ahrens
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Community; psychology of women; program evaluation.

James Amirkhan
Professor
PhD, UCLA
    Personality; stress and coping; health psychology; attribution theory; survey research methods.

Dan Chiappe
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
    Figurative language; reading; evolutionary psychology; attention; cognition.

Young-Hee Cho
Associate Professor
PhD, UC Irvine
  Decision making; alcohol research. 

Martin Fiebert
Professor
PhD, University of Rochester
    Clinical; personality; male sex roles; family therapy; transpersonal.

Dennis Fisher
Professor
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana
    Drug abuse; HIV prevention: health psychology.

Kenneth F. Green
Professor
PhD, University of Massachusetts
    Central mechanisms of pain inhibition; physiological psychology.

Ralph Hupka
Professor
PhD, University of Massachusetts
    Human emotions; motivation; cross-cultural differences in emotion; the language of emotions;
    situational and personality determinants of emotions with an emphasis on romantic jealousy.

Dale Jorgenson
Professor
PhD, University of Minnesota
    Social; environmental; social smiling; group decision-making in social traps; energy conservation;
    psychohistorical changes in social motives and values; attributional beliefs.

William Kelemen
Associate Professor
PhD, Baylor University
    Metacognition; prospective memory; cognition.

Diane Lee
Associate Professor
PhD, UC Berkeley
    Biological psychology; learning and memory.

Kevin MacDonald
Professor
PhD, University of Connecticut
    Developmental psychology; social and personality development; human sociobiology.

Lisa Maxfield
Professor
PhD, Syracuse University
    Cognitive and neural basis of selective attention; attention; memory.

William Pedersen
Associate Professor
PhD, USC
    Social; aggression.

Patricia Rozee
Professor
PhD, UC Davis
    Psychology of women; applied social psychology; cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
    approach to the study of rape.

Sara Smith
Professor
PhD, University of Illinois
    Psycholinguistics, memory; cognition; conversation.

Sherry Span
Associate Professor
PhD, USC
    Relationship between attention deficit disorders and substance abuse.

Thomas Strybel
Professor
PhD, University of Arizona
    Auditory-visual space perception; auditory-visual displays; multisensory interaction;
    human factors; human-computer interaction.

Dustin Thoman
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Utah
    Understanding the social nature of intrinsic motivation, the development of interests
    and integration of interests into identity, and how stereotypes and discrimination
    influence interest, motivation, and choices.

Robert Thayer
Professor
PhD, University of Rochester
    Personality; motivation; emotion; arousal states, mood, energy-tension as a function of
    exercise, nutrition, sleep; self-regulation of mood.

Guido Urizar
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Florida
    Psychosocial, behavioral, and physiological factors associated with mental and physical
    health outcomes.

Kim Vu
Assistant Professor
PhD, Purdue University
    Cognition, performance, human factors, human/computer interaction

Bianca Wilson
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Sexual health promotion and intervention development
    Ecology of lesbian, gay, bisexual health 
    HIV prevention among youth
    Culturally specific health research  
    Program evaluation
 

List of CSULB Psychology Faculty and Contact Information
 

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