Kelly Campbell, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Interpersonal chemistry in friendships and romantic relationships
- Impact of being ‘in love’ on performance across domains (e.g., academics, athletics, creativity)
- Couple rituals, infidelity, and the meaning of marriage
- Health disparities related to race, income, and sexual orientation
David Chavez, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Disenfranchised populations including ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation and mental health
- Developmental psychopathology
- Violence in families and children
Laura Kamptner, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Attachment
- Parenting and parent training
- Sibling relationships
- Personal possessions and their meaning in childhood.
- Early childhood development and education
- Issues in human development.
Jason Reimer, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Language and memory development
- Visual word recognition in children and adults
- Reading acquisition
- Development of cognitive inhibition
Robert Ricco, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Development of deductive and inductive reasoning
- Reasoning, language, and social processes involved in argumentation
- Dual process theories of cognition
- Development of metacognition and epistemic thinking
- Parent beliefs, goals, and expectations regarding children’s learning and development
Amy van Schagen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Quality learning environments for young children
- Early childhood education (ECE) and development
- Teacher development and work environments
- Access to high quality ECE for marginalized groups
- Race, income, and culture in relation to ECE and child development
Sharon Ward, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Creativity in children as it relates to extra-curricular activities
- School psychology
- Assessment of young children especially functional analysis of disruptive behaviors
- Depression in early adolescence
- Peer rejection and social skills in middle childhood.
Amanda Wilcox, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Contextual influences on children's development with particular emphasis on early childhood classroom influences
- Teacher's verbal interactions with young children
- Congruence between teacher's beliefs and behaviors
- How teachers move from novice to expert
- Impact of various training techniques on teacher practices in early childhood education.
Eugene Wong, Ph.D., Professor
Research interests:
- Relations among perceived competence, academic coping, motivation, and academic performance for regular education and special education students
- Teaching effectiveness at the university level
- Use of cognitive training to enhance the working memory and executive functions of students with attention and learning disorders