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
- Therese A. Kosten, Professor, Director of Developmental, Cognitive, & Behavioral Neuroscience h-index 94
- Elena L. Grigorenko, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor h-index 73
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kaylee Litson, Assistant Professor, Director of Interdisciplinary Quantitative Methods Collaboratory h-index 12
- 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
- Arturo E. Hernandez, Professor, Director of Laboratory for Neural Bases of Bilingualism h-index 1
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
- Abdo Elnakouri, Assistant Professor, Director of Worldviews in Motion Lab
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
- C. Raymond Knee, Professor and Department Chair, Director of SMaRT Lab
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
- Candice A. Alfano, Research Professor, Director of Sleep and Anxiety Center of Houston
- Clayton Neighbors, Moores Professor, Director of Social Psychology
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
- David J. Francis, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair, Director of TIMES
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
- Denise Reyes, Assistant Professor
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
- Hanako Yoshida, Professor, Director of Cognitive Development Lab
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
- James Campion, Professor Emeritus, Director of Interviewing Institute
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
- Jaye L. Derrick, Research Professor
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
- John P. Vincent, Professor, Director of Clinical Psychology Program and Center for Forensic Psychology
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
- Julia Babcock, Professor, Co-Director of Center for Couples Therapy
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
- 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
- Lynne Steinberg, Associate Professor
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
- Matthew W. Gallagher, Professor
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
- Michael J. Zvolensky, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor, Director of RESTORE Lab
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
- Michael W. Williams, Associate Professor, Director of MIND Laboratory
/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
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