DR. NADER AMIR
Research Interests: Experimental psychopathology with an emphasis on anxiety disorders.
Office or Lab: ALV-6386/301/8 Phone: (619) 229-3740 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: namir@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety
DR. DAVID ARMOR
Office or Lab: SSE-2307K Phone: (619) 594-8842 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: david.armor@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. CATHIE J. ATKINS
Research Interests: Behavioral and social epidemiology, health promotion/disease prevention, health outcome evaluation, predictors of health behavior change.
Phone: (619) 594-5142 Fax: (619) 594-3590
Email: catkins@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. SUSAN BRASSER
Research Interests: Physiological mechanisms of action of ethanol on the nervous system that regulate behavioral ingestion of the drug.
Office or Lab: ALV-6330/231 Phone: (619) 594-8652 Fax: (619) 594-1895
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: sbrasser@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Alcohol Sensory Processing
DR. DONNA CASTANEDA
Research Interests: The role of gender and ethnicity in close relationships; health promotion in Latina/o communities; and how characteristics of service delivery systems influence the provision of health and mental health services.
Office or Lab: Imperial Valley Campus, 720 Heber, Calexico, CA 92231-09021 and LS 24D Phone: (760) 768-5586
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: dcastaneda@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Marital Satisfaction and Mental Health Lab
Curriculum Vitae
DR. JEFF CONTE
Research Interests: Examining the measurement of various personality dimensions and how they are related to work and health outcomes.
Office or Lab: LS- 287 Phone: (619) 594-0706 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: jeff.conte@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Personality Measurement Lab
DR. ELIZABETH D. CORDERO
Research Interests: Eating disorders and body image, including cultural and familial contributions to these issues; resilience and promotion of mental and physical wellbeing in college students; quality of life and relationship with the body among cancer patients and survivors; and mental-health issues pertaining to Latinos, women, and individuals from lower socioeconomic statuses.
Office or Lab: Imperial Valley Campus , 720 Heber, Calexico, CA 92231-09021 and LS-24D On Campus Phone: 65610
Office Hours: W 4-6pm Faculty Offices East Room 137 Calexico
Email: ecordero@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Eating Disorders and Body Image
DR. TERRY CRONAN
Research Interests: Community interventions, community psychology, literacy development, multicultural issues, coping and chronic diseases, and health care utilization.
Office or Lab: Office Location: ALV 6505/110 Phone: (619) 594-6915 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: tcronan@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Health Outcomes Studies Lab
DR. THIERRY DEVOS
Research Interests: Issues related to social identity, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination and how attitudes and beliefs about self and social groups operate outside of conscious awareness or control.
Office or Lab: LS-273 Phone: (619) 594-6911 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment and Th 9-10:30am
Email: tdevos@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Intergroup Relations Laboratory
DR. ROGER M. DUNN
Research Interests: Associative learning. Specific areas of study include risky choice.
Office or Lab: LS-24L Phone: (760) 768-5616 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rdunn@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. AMY DRAHOTA
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Implementation of evidence-based practices in community settings; mental health services for children with autism spectrum disorders; use of evidence-based practices in community settings; intervention development and effectiveness for anxiety disorders; university-community collaborative partnerships.
Office or Lab: Child & Adolescent Services Research Center, 3020 Children’s Way MC 5033 San Diego, CA 92123-4282
Phone: (858) 966-7703 ext 3155 Fax: (858) 966-7704 Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: adrahota@projects.sdsu.edu
DR. MARK G. EHRHART
Research Interests: Leadership, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational justice, climate and culture, levels of analysis.
Office or Lab: LS-285 Phone: (619) 594-4439 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment and Th 12:30-1:30pm
Email: mehrhart@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Research on Organizational and Leadership Effectiveness (ROLE) Lab
Curriculum Vitae
DR. INNA FISHMAN
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Main research interests lie in the domain broadly described as social neuroscience. Particular interests include neural mechanisms underlying social cognition in typical and atypical development, and understanding how these mechanisms ultimately give rise to overt patterns of social behavior.
Office or Lab: 6363 Alvarado Court, Suite 200 Phone: 619-594-2299 Fax: 619-594-0659 Office Hours: by appointment
Email: ifishman@sciences.sdsu.edu
DR. MARGARET FRIEND
Research Interests: Basic processes of language learning and literacy development.
Office or Lab: Alv6505/101/19 Phone: (619) 594-0273 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: mfriend@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: The Infant and Child Development Lab
DR. LINDA GALLO
Research Interests: Psychosocial and behavioral processes in chronic disease risks and outcomes and on socioeconomic status and ethnicity-related health inequities.
Office or Lab: 6363 Alvarado Ct., Ste. 103/3; 9245 Sky Park Court, Suite 105/115 Phone: (619) 594-4833 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: lgallo@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Psychosocial Factors in Coronary Heart Disease Risks and Outcomes
DR. PAUL GILBERT
Research Interests: Cognitive, behavioral, and motor changes in older adults and individuals diagnosed with neurodegenerative disease.
Office or Lab: 6475 Alvarado Court, Suite 104 Phone: (619) 594-7409 Fax: (619) 594-3773
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: pgilbert.sdsu@gmail.com
Lab: Aging and Dementia
DR. DALE GLASER
Research Interests: Multivariate statistics and the application of such, especially in regards to structural equation modeling.
Office or Lab: LS 188c Phone: (619) 220-0602 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: glaserconsult@sbcglobal.net
Curriculum Vitae
DR. RICHARD G. GRAF
Research Interests: Decision making, probability theory, social phenomena, and sports psychology.
Office or Lab: LS-155 Phone: (619) 594-5364 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rgraf@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Decision Making, Probability Theory, Social Phenomena, Sports Psychology
DR. RACHEL HAINE-SCHLEGEL
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Developing and examining methods to increase parent active participation in child mental health services.
Office or Lab: Investigator, Child & Adolescent Srvcs Research Center (CASRC) at Rady Children’s Hospital- San Diego
3020 Children’s Way, MC 5033 San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: (858) 966-7703 ext. 3583 Fax: (858) 966-7704
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rhaine@projects.sdsu.edu
DR. KATE HATTRUP
Research Interests: Cross-cultural psychology and organizational behavior, job attitudes, psychological measurement, criterion theory and performance evaluation, personnel selection.
Office or Lab: LS-275 Phone: (619) 594-1876 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: T and Th 1:30-2:30
Email: khattrup@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Culture, Work Values, and Organizational Behavior
DR. LISA KATH
Research Interests: Training motivation and effectiveness, self-efficacy, organizational climate and change, women and minorities in the workplace.
Office or Lab: LS-293 Phone: (619) 594-8702 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: lkath@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: POWER Lab
DR. ELIZABETH KLONOFF
Research Interests: Tobacco research and cultural diversity-specifically: youth access to tobacco; tobacco-control policies; role of acculturation, gender/ethnic discrimination, segregation, and violence in smoking and morbidity; ethnic-minority health; women’s health
Office or Lab: Alv-6363/103/11 Phone: (619) 594-8642 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: eklonoff@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Tobacco Research, Cultural Diversity, and Health
DR. MARK LAUMAKIS
Office or Lab: SSE-2307N Phone: (619) 594-1933 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: Th 11-12 (online) and SSE 2307N Tues 11-2pm (in person)
Email: mlaumakis@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. ALAN LITROWNIK
Research Interests: Dr. Litrownik’s research is currently focused on identifying developmental pathways in children who have been maltreated. As part of a 20-year multi-site longitudinal project, Dr. Litrownik is examining factors (e.g., protective, risk) that result in adaptive (e.g., resilient) or maladaptive functioning.
Office or Lab: Alvarado 6363/103/7 Phone: (619) 594-2245
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: alitrownik@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. VANESSA MALCARNE
Research Interests: Adjustment to chronic illness in children and adults; beliefs about physical and mental illness; measurement of ethnic identity and acculturation; ethnicity and psychopathology.
Office or Lab: Alv-6363 Ste. 103 Phone: (619) 594-6495 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: vmalcarne@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Psychosocial, Medical, & Multicultural Aspects of Adjustment to Chronic Illness
DR. DAVID MARX
Research Interests: Research focuses on several aspects of social cognition including stereotypes, social comparison, and attention. One primary line of research centers on defining and refining stereotype threat.
Office or Lab: SSE 2307E Phone: (619) 594-8708 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: dmarx@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Threat, Emotions, and Stereotyping Lab (the TEST lab)
Curriculum Vitae
DR. GEORG E. MATT
Research Interests: Tobacco control, behavior-environment interaction, measurement, evaluation research, and the use of meta-analysis to probe the generalizability of causal associations.
Office or Lab: LS 110c Phone: (619) 594-6262 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: georg.matt@sdsu.edu
Lab: Measurement and Evaluation Research Group (MERG)
DR. SARAH N. MATTSON
Research Interests: Child Neuropsychology, Behavioral Teratology, and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Office or Lab: Alv 6330/100 Phone: (619) 594-7228 Fax: (619) 594-1895
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: sarah.mattson@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Alcohol Research Lab
DR. BARBARA MCDONALD
Research Interests: Applied Adult Development, influences of stress and trauma, dealing with death and bereavement.
Office or Lab: LS 24K Phone: (619) 594-6293 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: bamcdonald.psych@gmail.com
DR. ROBERT F. MC GIVERN
Research Interests: Organizational and activational influences of sex steroids on cognitive sex differences in humans and animals.
Office or Lab: ALV 6367/204 Phone: (619) 594-1894 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rmcgivern@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Cognitive Sex Differences
DR. PAMELA MOSES
Research Interests: Brain and spatial cognitive development in typically developing children and children with perinatal brain injury. Magnetic resonance-based neuroimaging methods to study brain function and structure in typical and atypical pediatric populations.
Office or Lab: ALV-6363/200/10 Phone: (619) 594-8675 Lab: (619) 594-8681
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: pmoses@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Brain and Spatial Cognitive Development in Children
DR. RALPH-AXEL MULLER
Research Interests: Functional and anatomical brain development in neurotypical children and those with developmental disorders (especially autism).
Office or Lab: 6363 Alvarado Ct., #200 Phone: (619)-594-5276 Lab: (619)-594-0176 Fax: (619)-594-8707
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rmueller@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Brain Development Imaging
DR. CLAIRE MURPHY
Research Interests: The relationship of the brain to behavior.
Office or Lab: 6363 Alvarado Court, Suite 101 Phone: (619) 594-4559 Fax: (619) 594-3773
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: cmurphy@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Life-Span Human Senses
DR. SADIA NAJMI
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Information-processing in anxiety disorders
Office or Lab: ALV-6386/301 Phone: (619) 229-3740 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: sadia.najmi.phd@gmail.com
Lab: nas.psy.sdsu.edu
DR. JOSEPH M. PRICE
Research Interests: Understanding the parameters of the social-environmental conditions necessary for normal development, the consequences for individual development when social-environmental conditions fall outside the species-normal range, and how best to develop and implement intervention programs for children whose social-environmental conditions fail to provide the conditions necessary for normal development.
Office or Lab: Alv-6363 Ste. 103/6 Phone: (619) 594-5241 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment and W 2:15-3:15pm
Email: jmprice@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Developmental Psychopathology
DR. RADMILA PRISLIN
Research Interests: Social influence and social change, group dynamics in the aftermath of social change, attitudes and persuasion, and the evaluation of public health programs.
Office or Lab: LS-277 and SSE 1410 Phone: (619) 594-3321 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: rprislin@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. STEPHEN K. REED
Research Interests: Studying cognitive processes involved in problem solving and in using research results to design effective instruction.
Office or Lab: ALV 6475/206 Phone: 619-594-6608 Fax: 619-594-1581
Office Hours: M, W: 9:30-9:50 in LS 24 C
Email: sreed@mail.sdsu.edu
Center: Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education
DR. JUDY REILLY
Research Interests:
Office of Lab: Alv 6330/208 Phone: (619) 594-2840 Fax:
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: reilly1@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. EDWARD P. RILEY
Research Interests: Prenatal exposure to alcohol and its affect on the developing embryo and fetus and any alterations in the normal development of brain and behavior.
Office or Lab: Alv 6330/100 Phone: (619) 594-4566 Fax: (619) 594-1895
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: eriley@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Behavioral Teratology
DR. SCOTT C. ROESCH
Research Interests: Trait-state models of stress and coping; coping with physical illness, and particularly cancer; cultural, ethnic, and acculturation differences in stress and coping; cross-ethnic measurement equivalence; structural equation modeling, meta-analysis.
Office or Lab: LS-162 Phone: (619) 594-2652 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: scroesch@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Stress and Coping
Curriculum Vitae
DR. MELODY SADLER
Research Interests: Category differentiation and inter-group evaluative bias, the formation of stereotyping and prejudice in groups and the implications for information processing.
Office or Lab: SSE-2307G Phone: (619) 594-1580 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: msadler@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Stereotype and Emotions Laboratory
DR. SHAWNA SAPONJIC
Office or Lab: LS-24E Phone: (619) 594-4173 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: T and Th 11-12pm
Email: saponjic@mac.com
DR. THOMAS R. SCOTT
Research Interests: To investigate the neural code through which the sense of taste carries out its subsequent tasks of (1) orchestrating reflexes to reject or to swallow, (2) analyzing the quality and intensity of each chemical, and (3) imbuing this analysis with an emotional tone of pleasure or disgust.
Office or Lab: LS 170 Phone: 619-594-5020
Office Hours: T, TH 3:30-5pm
Email: tom.scott@sdsu.edu
DR. MAGGIE SYME
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Aging and sexuality, including sexual consent capacity in cognitively compromised older adults; sexual quality of life in cancer survivors; particularly aging survivors; psychological well-being of older adults; and culturally competent care for older adults.
Office or Lab: 6363 Alvarado Court, Ste 250 Phone: 619-594-0180
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: msyme@projects.sdsu.edu or maggie.mai.29@gmail.com
DR. B. CHARLES TATUM
Research Interests: To develop programs for improving productivity and work motivation.
Office or Lab: LS 24B Phone: (619) 226-7726 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment or 30 minutes before or after class
Email: ctatum13@cox.net
Curriculum Vitae
DR. MICHAEL TAYLOR
Research Interests: To apply magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and other novel neuroimaging techniques to the study of diseases impacting the CNS in order to evaluate treatment efficacy and/or disease progression.
Office or Lab: ALV 6464/102 Phone: (858) 642-3101 Fax: (858) 552-7432
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: mjtaylor@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. KATHERINE TURNER
Office or Lab: LS-173 Phone: (619) 594-5129 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: katherine.turner@gmail.com
DR. JENNIFER THOMAS
Research Interests: Behavioral Teratology, developmental neuroanatomy and psychobiology, neurobiology of learning and memory, animal learning and cognition.
Office or Lab: Alv 6330/100 and LS 110B Phone: (619) 594-0681 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: thomas3@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Behavioral Teratology
DR. JEAN TWENGE
Research Interests: How culture affects individuals — particularly how the young generation is different and why.
Office or Lab: LS-289 Phone: (619) 594-4437 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: jtwenge@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Generations Lab
Curriculum Vitae
DR. EMILIO ULLOA
Research Interests: Social Psychology. Dating violence and violence against women prevention, social distinctiveness, ethnic, bicultural, and social identification, and undergraduate student success.
Office or Lab: LS-105B Phone: (619) 594-3110 Fax: (619) 594-1332
Office Hours: by appointment by calling 619-594-5412
Email: emilio.ulloa@mail.sdsu.edu Advising Email: psychology.advising.sdsu@gmail.com
Lab: SDSU Youth Violence Prevention Lab
Curriculum Vitae
DR. SARA UNSWORTH
Research Interests: Culture, cognition and cognitive development, discourse processing, concept formation and knowledge organization, folkbiological thought, science education research, motivation toward sustainable living.
Office or Lab: LS-279 Phone: 619-594-1327
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: sunsworth@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Culture and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at SDSU
DR. ALLISON VAUGHN
Research Interests: Social relationships and health- a variety of social relationships are studied at various stages. Variables include impacts to mental health, physical health and work-related areas. Also examined are the stereotypes of and prejudice toward lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals.
Office or Lab: LS-175 Phone: 619-594-5536 Fax: 619-594-1332
Office Hours: W 12-1pm and by appointment
Email: avaughn@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Social Relationships and Health Lab
DR. V. ROBIN WEERSING
Research Interests: Psychotherapy effectiveness, anxiety and depression, developmental psychopathology.
Office or Lab: ALV-6363/200 Phone: (619) 594-8892 Fax: (619) 594-8913
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: robin.weersing@mail.sdsu.edu
Lab: Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Program (ChAAMP) Website
DR. KRISTEN WELLS
Research Interests:
Office or Lab: ALV-6363/103 Phone: (619) 594-1919 Fax:
Office Hours: M 10-11am
Email: kwells@mail.sdsu.edu
DR. MAY YEH
Research Interests: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Lab - Research in this lab involves mental health services delivery for children, with particular interests in cultural issues, cultural competence, school involvement in services, and adapting efficacious treatments for culturally diverse populations.
Office or Lab: ALV 6363/103/5 Phone: (619) 594-2838 Fax: (619) 594-6780
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: myeh@mail.sdsu.edu
Emeritus Faculty
BORGES, Marilyn A.
BRYSON, Jeff B.
DEFRAN, R. H.
DICKEN, Charles F.
FENSON, Larry
FRANZINI, Louis R.
GALLO, Philip S.
GRAHAM, William K.
HARARI, Herbert
HILLIX, W.A.
HORNBECK, Frederick W.
HUNRICHS, William A.
KAREN, Robert L.
KASS, Norman
KOPPMAN, Jerry W.
LECKART, Bruce T.
LEE, Raymond
LYNN, Elizabeth
MARSHALL, Sandra P.
MCCORDICK, Sharon M.
MCDONALD, Roy D.
MOLLENAUER, Sandra
PENN, Robert
PLOTNIK, Rod
PRICE, Judy M.
PSOMAS, Timothy
RODIN, Miriam
SATTLER, Jerome M.
SCHULTE, Richard H.
SCOLLAY, Patricia A.
SEGAL, Evalyn F.
SMITH, John R.
SPINETTA, John J.
STEVENS, Walter R.
