SUNY Cortland Psychology Department Faculty Highlights

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1 SUNY Cortland Psychology Department Faculty Highlights -Faculty in varied areas: normal and abnormal development, social/personality psychology, behavioral neuroscience, cognition, and emotion, as well as several areas of applied psychology such as counseling, educational and school psychology, forensic psychology, health psychology, and psychopharmacology. -Active labs with undergraduate RAs involved in planning studies, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting/publishing findings -Recent faculty publications include scholarly books as well as peerreviewed articles in such journals as: Brain Research Psychopharmacology Journal of Attention Disorders Adolescent Research Review Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Identity Infant Behavior and Development

2 Michael Berzonsky Distinguished Professor Ph.D. University of Toronto M.A. Bucknell University B.A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania Adolescent Psychology Research Methods Senior Seminar Social-cognitive development in adolescence and young adulthood. Recent research has focused on identity formation, identity processing styles, selfprocesses, and college student development.

3 Ph.D. Syracuse University M.S. Syracuse University M.A. Boston College B.S. Lehigh University Katherine Bonafide Assistant Professor Abnormal Psychology Applying Research Methods in Psychology Introduction to Clinical Practice Clinical Health Psychology Health promotion and disease prevention Sexual risk reduction interventions

4 Raymond Collings Associate Professor Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California, Davis Ph.D. University of California, Davis B.S. California State University in Fullerton Statistical Methods for Psychology Cognitive Psychology Developmental Psychology Research Methods My students and I study the role that attention plays in cognitive and social development. For example: we have examined how attention is impaired during cell phone conversations, how inlab assessments of attention relate to the way individuals attend to things in real-world, and how induced mindfulness might affect specific attention abilities.

5 Karen Davis Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sam Houston State University M.A. Sam Houston State University B.A. University of Kentucky Forensic Psychology Psychology of Criminal Behavior Applying Research Methods in Psychology Forensic evaluation (e.g., insanity at the time of the offense, termination of parental rights, and risk assessments) and psychopathy. Recent interests have included the utility of personality assessment with sexual offenders and the impact of labeling a defendant as psychopathic.

6 Leslie G. Eaton Associate Professor Ph.D. University of California, Riverside M.A. University of California, Riverside B.A. University of California, Riverside Introductory Psychology Statistical Methods for Psychology Theories of Personality Psychology of Human Emotion Social Psychology Emotional experience in daily life; social judgments and person perception.

7 Kaitlin M. Flannery Assistant Professor Educational History Ph.D. University of Connecticut M.A. University of Connecticut B.S. University of Delaware Courses Taught Developmental Psychology Statistical Methods for Psychology Applying Research Methods in Psychology Scholarly Interests Friendship and friendship dissolution in adolescence Social-cognition, gender, and social media use Adolescent adjustment

8 David Kilpatrick Associate Professor Ph.D. Syracuse University B.A. SUNY Cortland Course Taught Children with Exceptionalities Educational Psychology Learning Disabilities Learning to read Dyslexia

9 Ph.D. - Princeton University M.A. - Princeton University B.S. - Union College Melvyn King Associate Professor Introductory Psychology Child Psychology Advanced Developmental Psychology Senior Seminar Educational Materials for psychology Object permanence in infants Mouse killing by rats

10 Kimberly Kraebel Jackson Professor Ph.D. - Binghamton University M.A. - Binghamton University B.A. - Edinboro University Applying Research Methods in Psychology Child Psychology The Cortland Experience Pet Therapy The SUNY Cortland Infant Learning and Memory Project is designed to increase our understanding of how infants learn and remember, examine differences in learning as a function of age, and to examine the role of sensory information in infant learning and memory.

11 Ph.D. University of Oklahoma B.A. St. Johns University Counseling Psychology Theories of Personality Abnormal Psychology Psychopharmacology John Lombardo Professor Behavioral and neurophysiological effects of exposure to environmental toxins, including animal models of hyperactivity and impulsiveness, and addictive behavior; also stress and behavioral medicine, hormone-behavior relationships.

12 Benjamin J. Lovett Associate Professor Ph.D. - Syracuse University M.S. - Syracuse University B.A. - Pennsylvania State University Applied Behavior Analysis Applying Research Methods in Psychology Psychology of Children with Exceptionalities Learning Diagnosis of learning and attention problems Testing accommodations for students with disabilities Conceptual issues in psychiatric diagnosis

13 Michie Odle Associate Professor Post-doctoral Fellow - Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Ph.D. University of Tennessee B.S. Tennessee Technological University Introductory Psychology Applying Research Methods in Psychology Motivation Senior Seminar Developmental neuroscience, motivation, and self-regulation.

14 Judith A. Ouellette Associate Professor Postdoctoral Fellow - Iowa State University Ph.D. Texas A&M University M.S. Texas A&M University B.A. University of Central Florida Course Taught Statistics for Psychology; Applied Statistics Social Psychology Health Psychology Habits in everyday life; health beliefs, attitudes and health behavior.

15 Joshua Peck Assistant Professor & Chair Ph.D. - CUNY The Graduate Center M.S. - Queens College B.S. - SUNY Cortland Applying Research Methods in Psychology Learning Neuroscience Statistics Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying the relapse of drug-taking and drug-seeking.

16 Jeffrey Swartwood Associate Professor Post-doctoral Fellow The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Kennedy Krieger Institute Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville M.S. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga B.A. University of Florida Learning Educational Psychology Positive Psychology Senior Seminar Executive function and attention in children and young adults; mindfulness based approaches to education.