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This psychology faculty member recently demonstrated that arginine vasopressin (AVP) enhanced face recognition in in primates, suggesting treatment for social impairments.
Catherine F. Talbot
This faculty member’s research on crisis leadership during COVID-19 challenges idealized leadership prototypes—like the superhero man or selfless superwoman—by showing that real crisis leadership doesn't always fit these gendered molds.
Liana Kreamer (Stock)
This faculty member’s research on jury decision-making reveals that confident, clear police testimony aligns with jurors’ prototypes of trustworthy and credible witnesses—especially for jurors who already hold positive views of police.
Julie S. Costopoulos
This faculty member’s research challenges the prototype that divorce is always harmful, showing instead that strong communication and cooperation—regardless of family structure—are key predictors of college students’ well-being and self-esteem.
Felipa Chavez
This faculty member studied how features of daily work—like autonomy, task variety, and complexity—affect both external interruptions and internal distractions like mind wandering, revealing how our work environment shapes cognitive focus and goal completion.
Patrick Converse
This faculty member’s cross-cultural study of parenting during COVID-19 showed that despite major disruptions to daily life, caregivers across Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. continued to follow stable parenting routines—challenging the prototype that crises always disrupt family dynamics.
Mariana Juras
This faculty member explored cross-cultural cognition by analyzing how underlying beliefs and traits—like aggressive masculinity, psychoticism, and doubt in authority—predict weapon tolerance across four countries, refining our understanding of what drives attitudes toward guns and knives.
Brandon May
This faculty member is advancing cognitive research by exploring how trust in AI teammates evolves over time.
Jessica Wildman (Wildones)
This faculty member developed a new measure focusing on how intolerance of uncertainty plays out specifically in social situations—highlighting the difference between general anxiety and social anxiety.
Brian Fisak