37 faculty and 33 courses in Psychology at University at Albany (SUNY).
- Gordon Gallup, Professor Emeritus h-index 69
Notable: “Chimpanzees: Self-Recognition” (1970) · 1,769 citations
- Mitch Earleywine, Professor h-index 49
Etiology and Maintenance of Problem Drug Use Measurement and Statistics Marijuana Policy Psychology Home Programs Research Faculty Department Office Diversity and Inclusion in Psychology Programs Student Resources
Notable: “Development and Validation of the Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale” (1993) · 685 citations
- Laurie Feldman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 41
Notable: “Lexical and conceptual representation in beginning and proficient bilinguals” (1984) · 674 citations
- Jeanette Altarriba, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences; Professor h-index 41
Notable: “The influence of lexical and conceptual constraints on reading mixed-language sentences: Evidence from eye fixations and naming times” (1996) · 347 citations
- John P. Forsyth, Professor h-index 40
My research interests focus broadly acceptance and mindfulness-based approaches in relation to psychological health and the alleviation of human suffering. More focally, we are interested in advancing the science and practice o
Notable: “Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model” (2004) · 2,132 citations
- Ronald S. Friedman, Professor and Undergraduate Director h-index 39
My primary area of interest is the psychology of music. This interdisciplinary field brings together scholars in the humanities as well as the social and natural sciences to address an intriguing issue: How is it that abstract patter
Notable: “Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride” (2001) · 1,503 citations
- Mark Muraven, Professor h-index 38
Motivation - how people deal with conflicting goals and how it drives growth Self-Control and Self-Regulation - including ego-depletion Theories of Emotions - especially the regulation of emotions and the role of emotions in d
Notable: “Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource?” (1998) · 4,869 citations
- James Boswell, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training h-index 38
Span two overlapping areas: (a) psychotherapy process and outcome, and (b) the integration of science and practice. My psychotherapy research program focuses on identifying important participant factors, technical factors, and relational pr
Notable: “The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders Compared With Diagnosis-Specific Protocols for Anxiety Disorders” (2017) · 831 citations
- Drew Anderson, Associate Professor h-index 38
Span the range of eating-related issues, from anorexia nervosa to obesity. My work on eating disorders has included basic research on vulnerability to eating disorders and binge eating as well as the development of assessment instruments fo
Notable: “Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4).” (2014) · 569 citations
- James H. Neely, Professor Emeritus h-index 35
My research interests fall into three different general areas: reading and word identification, memory, and visual attention. In reading, we use the semantic priming paradigm to study how semantic context influences how quickly peopl
Notable: “The English Lexicon Project” (2007) · 2,800 citations
- Bruce B. Svare, Professor Emeritus h-index 32
Hormonal Influences on Aggressive, Maternal, and Sexual Behavior Anabolic Steroid Abuse Sport and Society International Education Psychology Home Programs Research Faculty Department Office Diversity and Inclusion in Psychology Programs St
Notable: “Postpartum aggression in mice: Experiential and environmental factors” (1973) · 132 citations
- Elana Gordis, Professor h-index 31
My research examines the effects of exposure to interpersonal violence on later emotional functioning and behavior. My students and I are particularly interested in how physiological systems important in responding to stress play a role in
Notable: “The Effects of Family and Community Violence on Children” (2000) · 1,233 citations
- Julia Hormes, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research; Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Craving Facebook? Behavioral addiction to online social networking and its association with emotion regulation deficits” (2014) · 390 citations
- Edelgard Wulfert, Distinguished Service Professor h-index 30
My research interests focus on deficits in self-regulation, particularly in the area of pathological gambling and alcohol abuse. I conduct basic and applied work. My basic research focuses on the elucidation of the role of physiological ar
Notable: “TRANSFER OF A CONDITIONAL ORDERING RESPONSE THROUGH CONDITIONAL EQUIVALENCE CLASSES” (1988) · 367 citations
- Sarah Domoff, Assistant Professor h-index 26
Dr. Domoff also partners with schools to screen for problematic media use and to promote balanced and safe screen time in students. Learn more about Sarah Domoff's expertise through AP Campus Insights . Psychology Home Programs Research F
Notable: “Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media “addiction” in children.” (2017) · 244 citations
- Bruce C. Dudek, Professor h-index 25
Behavior Genetics Alcohol Neuropharmacology Psychopharmacology Psychology Home Programs Research Faculty Department Office Diversity and Inclusion in Psychology Programs Student Resources
Notable: “Genetics of Mouse Behavior: Interactions with Laboratory Environment” (1999) · 1,689 citations
- Kevin Williams, Professor h-index 23
Williams’ research and teaching interests focus on the application of psychology to organizational settings. His major areas of research are: Human motivation and performance, where he studies the self-regulatory processes that guide goal s
Notable: “The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Double-Minority Status on the Test Performance of Latino Women” (2002) · 466 citations
- Robert A. Rosellini, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus h-index 23
Associative Learning Processes in Invertebrates (Drosophila Melanogaster) Animal Learning and Behavior Controllability and Predictability of Stress Animal Models of Psychopathology and Addiction Psychology Home Programs Research Faculty De
Notable: “Learned helplessness in the rat: Time course, immunization, and reversibility.” (1975) · 286 citations
- Cynthia Najdowski, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Child Sexual Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Substance Use: Predictors of Revictimization in Adult Sexual Assault Survivors” (2009) · 231 citations
- Heather Sheridan, Associate Professor h-index 20
Reading is a complex skill that provides a rich domain for studying language, attention, vision and memory. By studying reading, I hope to understand how visual expertise develops, individual differences in performance, the lin
Notable: “Direct lexical control of eye movements in reading: Evidence from a survival analysis of fixation durations” (2012) · 166 citations
- Sylvia Roch, Professor h-index 19
Two of which I have spent many years studying and a new one. Early in my career, I also focused on team processes but now I mostly investigate teams in either performance appraisal or organizational justice contexts. Recent
Notable: “Class Attendance in College” (2010) · 624 citations
- Gregory Cox, Assistant Professor h-index 19
Notable: “A dynamic approach to recognition memory.” (2017) · 87 citations
- Dev Dalal, Associate Professor h-index 18
Applied Judgment and Decision Making; Personnel Psychology Issues; and Measurement Theory, Research, and Quantitative Methods. Within the JDM area, I explore applied personnel judgments (e.g., performance judgments) and decision making
Notable: “Some Common Myths About Centering Predictor Variables in Moderated Multiple Regression and Polynomial Regression” (2011) · 465 citations
- Andrew Poulos, Associate Professor h-index 15
The Neural Systems of Emotion and Memory Lab focuses on identifying neural pathways that form circuits responsible for adaptive and maladaptive fear related behaviors. To do this, we combine neuroanatomical, developmental, molecular biologi
Notable: “The Neuroscience of Mammalian Associative Learning” (2004) · 676 citations
- Gaurav Malhotra, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Deep problems with neural network models of human vision” (2022) · 165 citations
- Betty Lin, Associate Professor h-index 13
Es on clarifying how ecological factors (e.g. stress, poverty, minority status) influence children's social and emotional development beginning as early as the prenatal and early childhood years. I am especially interested in understanding
Notable: “Intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation: Part I. Psychopathology, self-injury, and parasympathetic responsivity among pregnant women” (2019) · 71 citations
- Kristin Christodulu, Clinical Professor h-index 12
The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities ( CARD ) specializes in research, education, and training on topics associated with autism spectrum disorders, sleep disturbances, challenging behavior, parenting, and inclusio
Notable: “Providing Education on Sexuality and Relationships to Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Parents” (2015) · 90 citations
- Ryan Hubbard, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Primarily focused at the intersection of prediction, language comprehension and memory, and he studies these processes using novel behavioral paradigms and large-scale online experiments, in conjunction with eye-tracking, pupillome
Notable: “Why Education Matters” (2003) · 217 citations
- Brendan O'Connor, Associate Professor h-index 9
Imagination, memory, future thinking, social decision-making, prosocial behavior, moral cognition Psychology Home Programs Research Faculty Department Office Diversity and Inclusion in Psychology Programs Student Resources
Notable: “How Imagination and Memory Shape the Moral Mind” (2022) · 41 citations
- Anna Reiman, Associate Professor and Graduate Director h-index 6
My research examines how prejudice, stigmatization, and other group-based biases develop and persist. More specifically, I study individual-level psychological processes associated with intergroup behavior and decision-making, moral
Notable: “When group members dissent: A direct comparison of the black sheep and intergroup sensitivity effects” (2022) · 21 citations
- Marcia Sutherland, Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Black Faculty in White Academia: The Fit Is an Uneasy One.” (1990) · 25 citations
- Eugene Son, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Can Cooperation Help Explain the Demographic Diversity–Business Performance Relationship?” (2017) · 2 citations
- Christie Seiler, Full-time Instructor
- Damian Zuloaga, Associate Professor
The overarching goal of our lab is to determine how disruption of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function contributes to mood, addiction, and cognitive disorders.
- Ewan C. McNay, Associate Professor Emeritus
My work has evolved from an early interest in the modulation of cognitive processes by glucose (given either in the form of a drink, to humans, or via injection into rodents) to a current set of related foci on the cognitive and neur
- James R. Stellar, Professor
After spending nearly 20 years as a behavioral neuroscience professor doing basic lab bench work on dopamine systems, reward, and motivation brain mechanisms in laboratory animals, and then after spending nearly another 20 years as a
- Thad Meeks, Lecturer I
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.