College of Liberal Arts

Department of Psychology

Experimental Program


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Celestina Barbosa-Leiker(Pullman- Adjunct)

Greg Belenky (Spokane - Adjunct)
Sleep and performance in humans

Tom Brigham
Applied Behavior Analysis; Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior (especially Self-Management)

Rebecca Craft
Physiological Psychology; Behavioral Pharmacology, Analgesic and Reinforcing Properties of Opiates

Armando Estrada (Vancouver)
Culture and Gender Influences on Workplace Harassment, Prejudice, and Discrimination; Models of Sexual Prejudice across Cultures; Role of Individual Differences in Predicting Sexual Prejudice

Lisa Fournier
Selective Attention and Visual Information Processing

John Hinson
Quantitative Models of Learning and Cognition, Decision Making, Working Memory

Randy Kleinhesselink (Vancouver)
Social Psychology; Interpersonal Attraction; Risk Perception; Self-Efficacy; Cross-Cultural Issues in Gender

Stephen Lakatos (Vancouver)
Auditory Cognition; Representation and Categorization of Complex Sounds; Cross-Modal Perception

Fran McSweeney
Habituation, Operant and Classical Conditioning, The Matching Law, Behavioral Contrast

Mike Morgan (Vancouver)
Pain Modulation, Tolerance to Opioids

Jaak Panksepp (Pullman - Adjunct)
Affective Neuroscience, Analysis of the Neuroanatomical and Neurochemical Mechanisms of Emotional Behaviors and Emotional Disorders

Craig Parks
Individual Differences in Cooperative Choice, Cognitive and Strategic Approaches to Social Dilemma Resolution

Robert Patterson
Visual Perception and Visual Neuroscience (binocular vision and motion processing), Human Factors Engineering

Tahira Probst (Vancouver)
Industrial/Organizational (I/O), Job Insecurity, Job Stress & Workplace Safety, Cross-Cultural I/O

Samantha Swindell
Undergraduate Director

Sarah Tragesser
Affective Instability, Interpersonal Problems, Alcohol Use Disorders, Electrophysiology, Substance Abuse Prevention, Cross-Cultural

Hans Van Dongen (Spokane - Adjunct)
Inter-Individual Differences in Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Performance 

Brendan Walker
Neurobiology of Motivation, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Negative Affect, Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Physiological Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Behavioral Pharmacology.

Paul Whitney
Working Memory & Executive Function, Cognition and Emotion, Impulsive Decision Making

John Wright
Physiological Psychology, Peptides, Memory Dysfunctions; Body Water and Blood Pressure Maintenance; Hypertension

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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