41 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at University of Houston.
- Jack M. Fletcher, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Research Professor h-index 116
Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities: Classification and definition, cognitive and neurobiological correlates, intervention Pediatric Brain Injury: spina bifida, traumatic brain injury, plasticity and recovery of function Teaching PSYC
Notable: “Specific reading disability (dyslexia): what have we learned in the past four decades?” (2004) · 2,523 citations
- Therese A. Kosten, Professor, Director of Developmental, Cognitive, & Behavioral Neuroscience h-index 94
Notable: “Substance Use Disorders in Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Review of the Literature” (2001) · 1,039 citations
- Michael J. Zvolensky, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor, Director of RESTORE Lab h-index 90
Comorbidity of emotional disorders (anxiety, stress, depressive disorders) with substance use disorders Transdiagnostic processes underlying emotional disorder-substance use disorder comorbidity Mediating and moderating factors involved in
Notable: “Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model” (2004) · 2,132 citations
- David J. Francis, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair, Director of TIMES h-index 82
Quantitative Methods. He served as Chairman of the Department of Psychology from 2002 to 2014, and as Director of TIMES since its founding in 1999. He also served as Co-Director of the Texas Learning and Computation Center at the Univers
Notable: “Why IQ is not a covariate in cognitive studies of neurodevelopmental disorders” (2009) · 878 citations
- Clayton Neighbors, Moores Professor, Director of Social Psychology h-index 80
Alcohol and substance use Social norms and their application to prevention and brief intervention Self-determination and susceptibility to social influences Models of intimate partner violence and aggressive driving and applications to inte
Notable: “Targeting Misperceptions of Descriptive Drinking Norms: Efficacy of a Computer-Delivered Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention.” (2004) · 663 citations
- Elena L. Grigorenko, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor h-index 73
Notable: “FOXG1-Dependent Dysregulation of GABA/Glutamate Neuron Differentiation in Autism Spectrum Disorders” (2015) · 1,196 citations
- Steven Paul Woods, Professor, Director of Cognitive Neuropsychology of Daily Life Laboratory h-index 70
Neuropsychology from the Virginia Consortium (College of William & Mary, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk State University, and Old Dominion University) in 2000. He completed his clinical internship at the VA Connecticut Heal
Notable: “HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders persist in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy” (2010) · 2,320 citations
- Carla Sharp, John and Rebecca Moores Professor, Director of Developmental Psychopathology Lab h-index 66
Developmental Psychopathology and social cognition Personality pathology Interventions targeting social-cognitive function Measure development of diagnostic tools Teaching PSYC 6317: Psychopathology I (graduate) - past PSYC 7397: Developmen
Notable: “The Rupture and Repair of Cooperation in Borderline Personality Disorder” (2008) · 620 citations
- Paul T. Cirino, Professor, Director of Developmental Neuropsychology Lab h-index 52
Developmental Neuropsychology Math and Reading Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Attention, Executive Function, and Domain General Abilities Design, Measurement, and Methodology Teaching PSYC 7338: Cognitive Disorders and Lifespan Neur
Notable: “Why IQ is not a covariate in cognitive studies of neurodevelopmental disorders” (2009) · 878 citations
- Matthew W. Gallagher, Professor h-index 49
Transdiagnostic treatments (e.g. the Unified Protocol) for PTSD and anxiety disorders Mechanisms of change of empirically supported treatments How positive thinking (e.g., hope, optimism, self-efficacy) promotes well-being and provides resi
Notable: “Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans.” (2015) · 2,488 citations
- L. A. Witt, Professor h-index 42
Strategy-culture alignment Customer service Social and political skill Work performance (e.g., adaptive performance, core task performance, and counterproductive behavior) Personality Employee selection Organizational politics and support W
Notable: “Interactive Effects of Personality and Perceptions of the Work Situation on Workplace Deviance.” (2004) · 574 citations
- Arturo E. Hernandez, Professor, Director of Laboratory for Neural Bases of Bilingualism h-index 38
Cognitive Neuroscience Bilingual Language Processing Second Language Acquisition Laboratory for the Neural Bases of Bilingualism Teaching PSYC 8397/4397: Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 6397: Neural Bases of Language PSYC 3350: Intro to Cogniti
Notable: “Language Switching and Language Representation in Spanish–English Bilinguals: An fMRI Study” (2001) · 425 citations
- C. Raymond Knee, Professor and Department Chair, Director of SMaRT Lab h-index 38
Implicit theories of relationships are specific beliefs that people bring with them into their relationships. Destiny belief concerns the stability of one's impressions about relationships. Growth belief concerns the stability of problems i
Notable: “The role of need fulfillment in relationship functioning and well-being: A self-determination theory perspective.” (2007) · 732 citations
- Julia Babcock, Professor, Co-Director of Center for Couples Therapy h-index 35
Center around couples’ relationships, couples therapy, and domestic violence. I am specifically interested in the role of emotion in functional as well as violent relationships. My students and I have built a psychophysiology and obse
Notable: “Does batterers' treatment work? A meta-analytic review of domestic violence treatment” (2004) · 1,312 citations
- Amanda C. Venta, Associate Professor, Director of Youth and Family Studies Lab h-index 31
The development of psychopathology in youth and the protective effect of attachment security, with additional interests in emotion dysregulation and social cognition. She has recently focused on the psychological functioning of recently
Notable: “Theory of Mind and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Adolescents With Borderline Traits” (2011) · 480 citations
- Lynne Steinberg, Associate Professor h-index 30
Applications of the psychometric methods of item response theory to personality and social psychological measurement issues, processes underlying responses to self-report questions, context effects in personality measurement, the developmen
Notable: “Quick and Easy Implementation of the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure for Controlling the False Positive Rate in Multiple Comparisons” (2002) · 983 citations
- Paras Mehta, Associate Professor h-index 27
Multilevel Structural Equations Modeling Growth Curve Modeling Applications of ML-SEM in Educational Research Applications of ML-SEM in Organizational Research Teaching Interests: Structural Equations Modeling Multilevel Modeling Selected P
Notable: “OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling Framework” (2011) · 1,203 citations
- J. Leigh Leasure, Professor, Director of Brain Health & Plasticity Lab h-index 27
Exercise-driven neuroplasticity Binge alcohol effects on brain and behavior Prevention and treatment of alcohol use disorder Teaching PSYC 2330: Biological Psychology PSYC 4308: Psychopharmacology PSYC 4354: Brain and Behavior PSYC 6344: Fu
Notable: “CNS plasticity and assessment of forelimb sensorimotor outcome in unilateral rat models of stroke, cortical ablation, parkinsonism and spinal cord injury” (2000) · 1,367 citations
- Jaye L. Derrick, Research Professor h-index 25
The influence of close relationships (and faux relationships) on self-regulation, well-being, health, health behaviors, and addictive behaviors; the influence of substance use on close relationship functioning and intimate partner aggressio
Notable: “Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies” (2020) · 302 citations
- Donald J. Foss, Professor h-index 25
Have been in cognitive psychology, specializing in language comprehension. He has published more than 50 refereed articles and book chapters on these topics, as well as co-written or co-edited seven books. More recently he has turned his at
Notable: “On the Role of Sentence Stress in Sentence Processing” (1977) · 268 citations
- Rodica Damian, Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair h-index 25
My research program is dedicated to understanding the precursors of career success and well-being, as well as the underlying developmental mechanisms. I have an integrative approach, looking at individual differences, life exper
Notable: “Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility” (2012) · 325 citations
- Johanna Bick, Associate Professor h-index 24
Early Adversity and the Developing Brain Early Childhood Neurodevelopment Childhood Maltreatment Parental Responsiveness Early Prevention and Intervention Selected Publications Bick, J., Charles Zeanah, Nathan A. Fox, Charles A. Nelson (in
Notable: “Early Adverse Experiences and the Developing Brain” (2015) · 535 citations
- Adam K. Fetterman, Associate Professor, Director of Personality, Emotion, and Social Cognition Lab h-index 24
Dr. Fetterman's research interests lie at the intersection of social, personality, and cognitive psychology. Utilizing methods from each of these fields, he focuses on the science of emotion, identity, understanding, and belief. The major a
Notable: “Neuroticism as a Risk Factor for Behavioral Dysregulation: A Mindfulness-Mediation Perspective” (2010) · 116 citations
- Luis D. Medina, Associate Professor, Director of CARMA h-index 23
Cultural Neuropsychology Cognitive Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Brain Health Equity Teaching PSYC 7339: Cognitive Disorders and Lifespan Neuropsychology III (graduate) PSYC 6308: Foundations
Notable: “Diffusion tensor imaging in preclinical and presymptomatic carriers of familial Alzheimer's disease mutations” (2007) · 297 citations
- Coleen D. Carlson, Research Associate Professor h-index 21
Early English and Spanish Literacy and Language Development and Second Language Acquisition Early Identification of Reading Disabilities Research Design and Statistics Modeling Individual Growth and Structural Equation Modeling Home and Com
Notable: “Kindergarten Prediction of Reading Skills: A Longitudinal Comparative Analysis.” (2004) · 832 citations
- John P. Vincent, Professor, Director of Clinical Psychology Program and Center for Forensic Psychology h-index 20
Forensic Psychology Assessment of Psychological Functioning in Civil Litigation Methodological Issues in Forensic Evaluations Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Disorders Families of Divorce Marital and Family Therapy Teaching PSYC 6392: Clinic
Notable: “AZD8055 Is a Potent, Selective, and Orally Bioavailable ATP-Competitive Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Kinase Inhibitor with In vitro and In vivo Antitumor Activity” (2009) · 795 citations
- Hanako Yoshida, Professor, Director of Cognitive Development Lab h-index 20
Early attention and language development Teaching Foundation of Cognition and Developmental Science Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Emergence of Intelligence Language and Thought Selected Publications Perkovich, E., Mire, S., Laakman
Notable: “What's in View for Toddlers? Using a Head Camera to Study Visual Experience” (2008) · 217 citations
- Michael W. Williams, Associate Professor, Director of MIND Laboratory h-index 19
/Areas of Expertise Psychological Assessment Clinical Neuropsychology Rehabilitation Neuropsychology Functional Outcomes/ Recovery Traumatic Brain Injury Acquired Brain Injury Pain Teaching PSYC 2330: Biological Psychology (undergraduate) P
Notable: “Inter- and intrarater reliability of the Ashworth Scale and the Disability Assessment Scale in patients with upper-limb poststroke spasticity” (2002) · 258 citations
- Isaac Sabat, Associate Professor, Director of Cougar PRIDE Lab h-index 18
Identifying workplace barriers associated with sexual orientation, race, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, disability, neurodiversity, and intersectional stigmas Developing strategies to remediate various forms of workplace
Notable: “A Convenient Solution: Using MTurk To Sample From Hard-To-Reach Populations” (2015) · 191 citations
- James Campion, Professor Emeritus, Director of Interviewing Institute h-index 15
Most of my research has been concentrated on the reexamination of personnel selection methods in light of fair employment issues. An initial and continuing research interest has been the use of work samples and content analytic methodology
Notable: “THE EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW: A SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH1” (1982) · 547 citations
- Bradley Brummel, Professor, Director of Industrial/Organizational Psychology h-index 15
Training and Development Professional Ethics Leadership Cyber Security Awareness & Hygiene Narrative Coaching Simulations & Role Plays Program Evaluation Employee Engagement and Well-being Job Satisfaction and Job (in)Securi
Notable: “Examining workplace mindfulness and its relations to job performance and turnover intention” (2013) · 559 citations
- Benjamin Tamber-Rosenau, Assistant Professor h-index 15
How does the human brain allow us to react adaptively to a wide variety of situations and tasks? And why does this extremely flexible system fail in seemingly simple situations? Everyday examples of these limits include our inability to pay
Notable: “Avoiding non-independence in fMRI data analysis: Leave one subject out” (2009) · 276 citations
- Denise Reyes, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Revolve around leadership and training. Reyes was selected as the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology’s 2019 Joyce & Thayer Graduate Fellow, demonstrating exceptional research in training and development. Her other research
Notable: “Leadership training design, delivery, and implementation: A meta-analysis.” (2017) · 566 citations
- Jason W. Griffin, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Autism Spectrum Disorders Face Processing Social Cognition Electrophysiology Quantitative Methods Evidence Synthesis Selected Publications Griffin, J.W. (2024). Eyes are windows to the brain: Capturing eye movements to better understand fac
Notable: “A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.” (2020) · 129 citations
- Chelsea Ratcliff, Associate Professor h-index 12
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions, particularly for individuals with medical conditions Increasing access to mental health interventions Risk and protective factors related to mental health and quality of li
Notable: “A randomized trial comparing live and telemedicine deliveries of an imagery‐based behavioral intervention for breast cancer survivors: reducing symptoms and barriers to care” (2014) · 109 citations
- Kaylee Litson, Assistant Professor, Director of Interdisciplinary Quantitative Methods Collaboratory h-index 12
Notable: “Analyzing person, situation and person × situation interaction effects: Latent state-trait models for the combination of random and fixed situations.” (2014) · 70 citations
- Jeremy Borjon, Assistant Professor, Director of Developing Systems Lab h-index 11
Cognitive Development Sensorimotor Development Autonomic Nervous System Dynamics Language Production Learning Social Interactions Selected Publications A complete list of published work can be found on Dr. Borjon’s Google Scholar page. http
Notable: “The developmental dynamics of marmoset monkey vocal production” (2015) · 236 citations
- Abdo Elnakouri, Assistant Professor, Director of Worldviews in Motion Lab h-index 7
Human Kinetics and Minor in Psychology, University of Ottawa M.S. in Social Psychology, University of Waterloo Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Waterloo Research Interests My research program examines how people form and c
Notable: “Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility” (2022) · 224 citations
- Candice A. Alfano, Research Professor, Director of Sleep and Anxiety Center of Houston
- Keke Lai, Assistant Professor
Statistics for the social and educational sciences Latent variable models Multilevel/Longitudinal data analysis Missing data Model evaluation & selection Robust statistics Bayesian statistics Quasi-experiments & Practical issues in
- Kelly T. Cosgrove, Assistant Professor
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