Faculty and Staff
The Faculty
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Kandy Stahl, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Relationship Issues; Sexuality; Teaching
Research activity is currently focused on teaching issues, such as frequency of testing and its effect on "learning." Other interests include issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity as well as relationship issues such as the differences between couples who meet face-to-face and those who meet on the internet.
Email:
kstahl@sfasu.edu
Website: http://www.faculty.sfasu.edu/stahlkandy/students.htm |
Jeremy Heider, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator
Social
Implicit and explicit racial attitudes and interracial interaction behavior; implicit and explicit sexuality attitudes; the influence of stereotypes on social memory; gender differences in reactions to infidelity
Email:
heiderj@sfasu.edu |
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Mark Ludorf, Ph.D.
Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator
Cognitive/Quantitative
Areas of current research in Cognitive Psychology include selective and divided attention, assessment of meaning representation, and word recognition. Another cognitive area of interest is multicultural and age-related change in attention and memory.
Email: mludorf@sfasu.edu
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Rhiannon Fante , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Industrial Organizational
Current research interests include performance management, systems analysis, computer-based training, behavioral safety, and instructional design.
Email: fanterm@sfasu.edu |
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Lora Jacobi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Industrial Organizational
The effects of appearance, obesity, and other extraneous variables on the perception of performance and personnel decisions, including hiring and promotion; understanding the effects of body image, body image dysphoria, and appearance satisfaction on the perception of self and others.
Email: jacobil@sfasu.edu |
Radhika Makecha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Comparative
Research interests include comparative cognition and behavior, and more specifically, elephant cognition and behavior with an emphasis on tactile communication in Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus). I am also interested in applying research on comparative cognition to conservation and educational purposes.
Email:
makecharn@sfasu.edu |
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Andrew Terranova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Developmental/Clinical
Research interests focus broadly on the factors that put youth and young adults at risk for adjustment difficulties. Most of my research to date has focused on factors that promote and discourage bullying in
elementary and middle school youth. I am also interested in what, if anything, the chronic targets of bullying can do to reduce future victimization, and why some children defend the target of bullies while
others encourage the bullies to pick on peers.
Email:
terranova@sfasu.edu |
Lisa Topp , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Legal
Current research interests include eyewitness memory and composite construction; more specifically, how the composite construction process can influence a witness’ memory for the culprit. Research interests also include eyewitness decision making, focusing on an examination of lineup identification methods and their influence on eyewitness decisions.
Email:
toppl@sfasu.edu
Website: http://faculty.sfasu.edu/toppl/ |
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Michael Walker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical/Behavior Analysis/Performance Management
General interests include behavior analysis and performance management assessment and enhancement with individuals and systems; General clinical interests include attention, memory, learning disabilities and trauma response.
Email:
mwalker@sfasu.edu
Website: http://psytech3.sfasu.edu/mwalker.htm |
Visiting Assistant Professors
Adjunct Faculty
Staff
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Rose Hayter
Departmental Administrative Assistant
Email:
rhayter@sfasu.edu |
Elizabeth “ Bit ” Johnson
Departmental Secretary & Research Coordinator
Email:
bomare@sfasu.edu |
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