| Loisa Bennetto | Professor Bennetto’s research focuses on the neurocognitive bases of autism spectrum disorder. Her work examines the role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties and in everyday behaviors. |
| Patrick Davies | Professor Davies’s research interests lie in children's socioemotional adaptation and maladaptation within the context of close interpersonal relationships especially in family contexts. |
| David Dodell-Feder | Professor Dodell-Feder's research aims to understand social information processing, including its neural basis, its impairment in the psychosis-spectrum, and its improvement through intervention, such as real-time fMRI neurofeedback. |
| Andrew Elliot | Professor Elliot’s research focuses on approach and avoidance motivation, achievement motivation, social motivation, and well-being. |
| Marie-Joelle Estrada | Professor Estrada's research focuses on interpersonal relationships – specifically romantic relationship initiation and progression over time. Additionally, she also studies how relationships interact with gender, marketing, and health-related concerns. |
| Liz Handley | Professor Handley’s research focuses on understanding the impact of family adversity on development for individuals and families. Her research aims to identify the outcomes, mechanisms, and moderators associated with exposure to family adversity, such as child maltreatment and parent psychopathology, across the life course and across generations. |
| Cameron Hecht | Professor Hecht's research focuses on identifying psychological processes that contribute to societal issues and developing theory-based interventions to address them. He explores how identity, motivation, and persuasion shape individuals' experiences in social environments like schools and workplaces, aiming to improve these settings. |
| Isobel Heck | Professor Heck's research focuses on the development of social cognition, with a focus on how young children come to represent and think about societal hierarchies, political systems, and social group-based inequities. |
| Jeremy Jamieson | Professor Jamieson's research focuses on how stress influences emotions, decisions, and performance, and how emotions can be regulated to optimize stress responses. |
| Bonnie Le | Professor Le's research focuses on well-being in interpersonal relationships with a focus on the role of emotion and motivation. |
| Christopher Niemiec | Professor Niemiec is interested in human motivation, emotion, and personality in social contexts. His research uses self-determination theory to examine the nature and functional significance of autonomy in a variety of life's domains. |
| Jennie Noll | Professor Noll's primary research foci include the bio-psycho-social consequences of childhood sexual abuse, pathways to teen pregnancy and high-risk sexual behaviors for abused and neglected youth, the long-term adverse health outcomes abuse survivors, midlife reversibility of neurocognitive deficits in stress-exposed populations, the impact of high-risk internet and social media behaviors on teen development, and the primary prevention of sexual abuse. |
| Christie Petrenko | Professor Petrenko's research focuses on developing and empirically testing novel ways to increase access to care for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) across the lifespan. |
| Harry Reis | Professor Reis’s research interests involve social interaction and close relationships. |
| Ronald Rogge | Professor Rogge’s research focuses on understanding romantic relationships, from the early stages of dating to marriage, with a specific focus on mindfulness and psychological flexibility processes. |
| Karl Rosengren | Professor Rosengren's work focuses on cognitive and motor development and how these interact over the course of development. His work also focuses on how children reason about the world and how cognitive and motor factors influence how they act on the world. |
| Chad Shenk | Professor Shenk’s research focuses on creating advancements for estimating, explaining, and intervening upon the onset and course of common psychiatric disorders following exposure to pediatric trauma and adversity. |
| Judith Smetana | Professor Smetana’s research examines adolescent-parent relationships and development in cultural contexts; children's moral and social reasoning; and development of parenting beliefs. |
| Lisa Starr | Professor Starr's research focuses on the origins and consequences of depression and anxiety in adolescents and adults. Particular emphases include understanding the interface between psychopathology and the social environment and delineating complex, reciprocal, and interactive relationships between interpersonal, cognitive, and biological risk factors and internalizing symptoms. |
| Melissa Sturge-Apple | Professor Sturge-Apple’s research focuses on family processes, parental functioning, and child development guided by theoretical conceptualizations derived from developmental psychopathology, self-regulation frameworks, evolutionary developmental theories, and parenting process models. |
| Sheree Toth | Professor Toth is the Director of Mt. Hope Family Center. Her research interests are broadly focused in the field of developmental psychopathology. She is especially interested in the processes and mechanisms that contribute to the adaptation of children who are confronted by significant psychosocial adversity. In particular, her work addresses the development of children who have experienced maltreatment or who have been reared by a depressed caregiver. Dr. Toth is also committed to the evaluation of preventive interventions for high risk populations. |
| Nestor Tulagan | Professor Tulagan’s primary research examines the family factors that contribute to the development of academic motivation and achievement of adolescents from racially/ethnically minoritized backgrounds. |
| Miron Zuckerman | Professor Zuckerman's research concerns psychology of religion, economic and gender inequality, and topics related to well-being. |
