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
sex differences in psychopharmacology of drugs of abuse, particularly opioids and cannabinoids; gonadal hormone modulation of drug effects

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
Visual attention, perception, memory, and action

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

Sterling McPherson
Biostatistical analysis of health data, latent variable modeling, modern missing data (e.g., pattern and selection models), longitudinal analyses (GEE, latent growth)

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

Donelle (Dee) Posey (Tri-Cities)
Natural resource consumption, self-perception of personality traits in men and women 

Tahira Probst (Vancouver)
Occupational Health, Well-Being and Safety, Economic Stress and Job Insecurity, Organizational Safety Climate, Accident Under-reporting

John Roll

Robert Short

Samantha Swindell
Undergraduate Director

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

Susan Ingram (Vancouver)
Neural Mechanisms of Morphine Tolerance and Dependence

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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