20 faculty and 40 courses in Psychology at George Washington University.
- Jody Ganiban, Professor h-index 45
Ed upon the contributions of parent-child attachment relationships and child temperament to development within groups of children that differed in their genetic, temperamental, or environmental risks for emotional and behavioral problems, s
Notable: “Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1a gene ( AVPR1A ) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans” (2008) · 458 citations
- Stephen Mitroff, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Video game players show more precise multisensory temporal processing abilities” (2010) · 240 citations
- Sharon F. Lambert, Professor h-index 39
Developmental and quantitative psychology. Her primary research interests are understanding the nature and course of internalizing problems in urban and African American adolescents, and understanding how the different contexts of develo
Notable: “A measure of positive and negative affect for children: Scale development and preliminary validation.” (1999) · 1,136 citations
- Sarah Calabrese, Associate Professor h-index 37
Es on sexual health promotion among racial and sexual minorities and other socially marginalized groups. A key component of this work is identifying and addressing barriers to HIV prevention, including stigma and inequities in access t
Notable: “How Stigma Surrounding the Use of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Undermines Prevention and Pleasure: A Call to Destigmatize “Truvada Whores”” (2015) · 303 citations
- Dwight Kravitz, Associate Professor h-index 33
Notable: “A new neural framework for visuospatial processing” (2011) · 1,360 citations
- Carol Sigelman, Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Black Candidates, White Voters: Understanding Racial Bias in Political Perceptions” (1995) · 419 citations
- Michelle Stock, Associate Professor h-index 30
Es on the application of dual-processing models, in particular the Prototype-Willingness model (Gibbons, Gerrard, & Lane, 2003), to provide a framework for understanding the cognitive (both heuristic and reasoned) constructs and situati
Notable: “A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model” (2008) · 710 citations
- Sarah Shomstein, Professor h-index 28
Es primarily on the behavioral and neural correlates of spatial and object-based selection as human observers analyze incoming information. The second question concerns the computations involved in the selection per se and this research inv
Notable: “Parietal cortex and attention” (2004) · 640 citations
- Fallon Goodman, Assistant Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Different types of well-being? A cross-cultural examination of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.” (2015) · 569 citations
- John W Philbeck, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Comparison of two indicators of perceived egocentric distance under full-cue and reduced-cue conditions.” (1997) · 268 citations
- Huynh-Nhu (Mimi) Le, Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Review of screening instruments for postpartum depression” (2005) · 398 citations
- Tonya Dodge, Associate Professor h-index 22
Es on understanding factors in the social context that affect attitudes and decision making related to health. Current studies related to this line of work investigate the role of physical activity in shaping attitudes and decision making r
Notable: “Peer Influences on Risk Behavior: An Analysis of the Effects of a Close Friend.” (2005) · 393 citations
- Sherry Molock, Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Cultural considerations in adolescent suicide prevention and psychosocial treatment.” (2008) · 519 citations
- Cynthia Rohrbeck, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Peer-assisted learning interventions with elementary school students: A meta-analytic review.” (2003) · 601 citations
- Christina B. Gee, Associate Professor h-index 18
On father involvement and coparenting in low-income and ethnic minority parents. A second line of research examines culturally relevant barriers to professional mental health service use among Asian and Asian American emerging adults. A
Notable: “Emotional Skillfulness in Marriage: Intimacy As a Mediator of the Relationship Between Emotional Skillfulness and Marital Satisfaction” (2005) · 212 citations
- Ellen Yeung, Associate Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Volunteering by older adults and risk of mortality: A meta-analysis.” (2013) · 210 citations
- Gabriela Rosenblau, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “An integrative neural model of social perception, action observation, and theory of mind” (2015) · 276 citations
- Stephen C Dopkins, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Lexical ambiguity and eye fixations in reading: A test of competing models of lexical ambiguity resolution*1” (1992) · 119 citations
- Myeong-Ho Sohn, Associate Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Effects of repetition and foreknowledge in task-set reconfiguration.” (2000) · 96 citations
- Phillip J Moore, Associate Professor
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.