52 faculty and 40 courses in Clinical Psychology at Loyola University Chicago.
- James Garbarino, Professor Emeritus h-index 56
My research focuses on issues in the social ecology of child and adolescent development. I have a long standing interest in a wide range of violence-related issues - war, child maltreatment, childhood aggression, and juvenile delinquency. I
Notable: “The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design” (1980) · 5,622 citations
- Grayson Holmbeck, Professor Emeritus h-index 56
Research Interests My research interests cover the following areas: pediatric psychology (e.g., adolescents with physical disabilities), family relations during adolescence and young adulthood, statistical applications in psychology, and re
Notable: “Toward terminological, conceptual, and statistical clarity in the study of mediators and moderators: Examples from the child-clinical and pediatric psychology literatures.” (1997) · 2,649 citations
- Fred Bryant, Professor Emeritus h-index 53
Within applied social psychology, my research interests include measuring and enhancing subjective life quality, meta-analyzing research on social interventions, and evaluating test validity. Related to this work, I have been involved in se
Notable: “Principal-components analysis and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.” (1995) · 1,155 citations
- Amy Bohnert, Professor h-index 43
Dr. Bohnert is a Professor in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Her work focuses on how various contexts may promote better outcomes among youth. Guiding themes of her research are emphasizing developmental transitions as points of reo
Notable: “Understanding differences between summer vs. school obesogenic behaviors of children: the structured days hypothesis” (2017) · 718 citations
- Norberto Grzywacz, Professor h-index 37
Our current research interests are on the Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of aesthetic emotions. Thus, the inquiries in our lab revolve around why people experience certain visual scenes and auditory pieces as beautiful or ug
Notable: “A computational theory for the perception of coherent visual motion” (1988) · 214 citations
- Maryse Richards, Professor Emerita h-index 36
The focus of my research has been on the daily experience and mental health and well being of adolescents with the extensive use of a time sampling technique called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). In the last decade my focu
Notable: “Changes in adolescents' daily interactions with their families from ages 10 to 18: Disengagement and transformation.” (1996) · 888 citations
- R. Scott Tindale, Professor Emeritus h-index 35
Most of my research involves issues of information processing and social influence in individual and group decision making. Specifically, my recent research has focused on how group members can share certain representations of a task (or ce
Notable: “The emerging conceptualization of groups as information processors.” (1997) · 1,430 citations
- Arthur Lurigio, Professor Emeritus h-index 34
My research interests are broad and interdisciplinary. I was trained in both clinical and social psychology and expressions of those specialty areas appear in my publications, presentations, and grantsmanship. Except for a few notable excep
Notable: “Sentencing goals, causal attributions, ideology, and personality.” (1987) · 258 citations
- Victor Camillo Ottati, Professor h-index 33
My research addresses basic theoretical questions within the area of social psychology; as well as interdisciplinary issues within the areas of political psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and the the psychology of communication. In exp
Notable: “Improving police response to persons with mental illness: A multi-level conceptualization of CIT” (2008) · 211 citations
- Catherine Haden, Professor h-index 32
Catherine Haden is an expert in cognition and development who studies children's learning and remembering. A specific focus of the work is on how museum-based practices that encourage families' narratives and storytelling can promote childr
Notable: “Elaborating on Elaborations: Role of Maternal Reminiscing Style in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development” (2006) · 945 citations
- Loretta Stalans, Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Risk Factors for Partner Violence Among a National Sample of Combat Veterans.” (2005) · 158 citations
- Robyn Mallett, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Investigating Variation in Replicability” (2014) · 1,254 citations
- Colleen Conley, Professor h-index 24
My research blends observational patterns, meta-analytic/systematic reviews, and intervention development and evaluation, with the goal of improving well-being, especially through critical life experiences and developmental transi
Notable: “A Meta-analysis of Universal Mental Health Prevention Programs for Higher Education Students” (2015) · 333 citations
- Robert G Morrison, Associate Professor h-index 23
I am interested in understanding how humans think. Questions of interest include: How does the brain recognize and use structure in information (e.g. analogical reasoning) and how is this impacted by differences in cognitive control
Notable: “Children’s development of analogical reasoning: Insights from scene analogy problems” (2006) · 430 citations
- Denise Davidson, Professor h-index 23
Notable: “The Representativeness Heuristic and the Conjunction Fallacy Effect in Children's Decision Making.” (1995) · 129 citations
- Tracy DeHart, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Retrieving positive memories to regulate negative mood: Consequences for mood-congruent memory.” (2000) · 304 citations
- Linda Heath, Professor Emerita h-index 22
I have been involved in research on mass media effects since my graduate school days, when I collaborated on a time-series with switching replications study of the effects of the introduction of television on criminal behavior. I then pursu
Notable: “Impact of newspaper crime reports on fear of crime: Multimethodological investigation.” (1984) · 166 citations
- Patricia Rupert, Professor Emerita h-index 21
My research interests include professional burnout, self-care, work-family balance, and ethical issues related to managed mental health care, confidentiality, and professional relationships. Over the past decade, my lab has completed multip
Notable: “Work Setting and Burnout Among Professional Psychologists.” (2005) · 249 citations
- Rebecca Silton, Associate Professor h-index 21
The WELL lab program of research is guided by a salutogenesis framework that guides
Notable: “The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing” (2020) · 297 citations
- Scott Leon, Associate Professor h-index 21
Rooted in Ecological Systems Theory and the Convoy Model of Social Relations and infused with a strengths-based and multicultural perspective, my research in recent years has explored how natural support networks (e.g., extended family, nei
Notable: “Therapist effects in outpatient psychotherapy: A three-level growth curve approach.” (2007) · 236 citations
- Richard R. Fay, Professor Emeritus h-index 18
Notable: “Soundscapes and the sense of hearing of fishes” (2009) · 143 citations
- Christine Li-Grining, Professor h-index 17
Social Emotional Learning, Self-Regulation, School Readiness, and Academic Achievement Early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood Child Care, Early Childhood Education, and Intervention Risk and Resilience in the
Notable: “CSRP’s Impact on Low-Income Preschoolers’ Preacademic Skills: Self-Regulation as a Mediating Mechanism” (2011) · 756 citations
- Jeffrey Huntsinger, Associate Professor; Department Chair h-index 17
Dr. Huntsinger is a social psychologist who studies how social hierarchies shape attitudes and policies affecting disabled people. Grounded in Social Dominance Theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) , their research examines how beliefs
Notable: “How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought” (2007) · 875 citations
- James R. Larson Jr., Professor Emeritus h-index 17
My research is concerned with the behavior and performance of small interacting groups (usually 2 to 6 people) as they attempt to solve problems and make decisions. Currently, my efforts in this area are focused on developing agent-based mo
Notable: “Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment in Managed Care: the Massachusetts Medicaid Experience” (1995) · 223 citations
- Perla Gámez, Associate Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Syntactic priming in 3- and 4-year-old children: Evidence for abstract representations of transitive and dative forms.” (2007) · 150 citations
- Richard Bowen, Professor Emeritus h-index 15
Human vision and visual perception Graphic literacy and analysis Perceptual processing in dyslexia Assessment and evaluation in the teaching of psychology Culinary, cultural, and historical perspectives on the Chicago hot dog Publications/R
Notable: “Visual persistence: Effects of flash luminance, duration and energy” (1974) · 230 citations
- Stephan Steidl, Associate Professor h-index 15
My research is generally concerned with understanding brain systems that contribute to appetitively motivated behaviors. It is well established that the dopamine system is important in motivation and reward, but much remains to be learned a
Notable: “Midbrain pathways for prepulse inhibition and startle activation in rat” (2006) · 90 citations
- Nicholas Baker, Assistant Professor h-index 14
My research, I study how the mind perceives and recognizes shapes and objects from visual inputs. Inspired by classic work by the Gestalt psychologists, one of the central themes of my research is that abstract relations are more importa
Notable: “Deep convolutional networks do not classify based on global object shape” (2018) · 373 citations
- Stephanie Grella, Assistant Professor h-index 14
My research is focused on the mechanisms by which memories change across time and how they are updated to incorporate new information. Memories are stored in the brain as cellular ensembles activated during learning and then reactivated dur
Notable: “Artificially Enhancing and Suppressing Hippocampus-Mediated Memories” (2019) · 122 citations
- Elizabeth Wakefield, Associate Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Gesture helps learners learn, but not merely by guiding their visual attention” (2018) · 103 citations
- Jared Ruchensky, Assistant Professor h-index 10
My primary research interests focus on the assessment and conceptualization of personality pathology, particularly the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). I also study commonly used psychological instruments, including the P
Notable: “Integrating the HEXACO model with the Triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy” (2017) · 23 citations
- Will Beischel, Assistant Professor, Social Psychology h-index 9
My research focuses on gender/sex and sexual diversity. I am interested in developing new ways of thinking about both majority (e.g., cisgender, heterosexual) and minority (e.g., LGBTQ+) experiences to build more complete psychological theo
Notable: ““A little shiny gender breakthrough”: Community understandings of gender euphoria” (2021) · 163 citations
- Ryan Leach, Senior Lecturer h-index 9
As my job primarily involves teaching, I am generally interested in ways to improve retention ability for both younger and older adults. Specifically, I study paradigms known to lead to memory improvements, such as the self-generation effec
Notable: “Transcranial direct current stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during encoding improves recall but not recognition memory” (2017) · 80 citations
- Lidia Monjaras Gaytan, Assistant Professor h-index 7
My research focuses on the mentoring and educational experiences of adolescents and emerging adults marginalized by society, primarily focusing on the experiences of students of color. In my research I use multiple methods to explore the an
Notable: “Act, Talk, Reflect, Then Act: The Role of Natural Mentors in The Critical Consciousness of Ethnically/Racially Diverse College Students” (2021) · 23 citations
- Sungha Kang, Assistant Professor h-index 5
My program of research broadly aims to address mental health disparities among children and families systemically oppressed by institutional racism. I am particularly interested in the processes by which children’s externalizing or di
Notable: “Racial Differences Between Black Parents’ and White Teachers’ Perceptions of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Behavior” (2019) · 46 citations
- Adrienne Bohl, Administrative Assistant
- Amanda Dennis, Office Manager
- Anne Sutter, Professor Emerita
My research, I use what is known about the basics of visual processing to figure out how the brain might go about perceiving objects in the world. I am particularly interested in the way texture information is used by the visual system.
- Courtney Clark, Instructor
- Eric Gobel, Senior Lecturer
My research focuses broadly on the psychology and neuroscience of memory: how the brain stores information by adaptively changing as a result of experience (neuroplasticity), with the potential to influence future behavior. More speci
- Guadalupe Lopez Hernandez, Assistant Professor
My research agenda intends to understand and address issues related to the social belonging of Latinx immigrant-origin adolescents in the context of families, schools, and communities. My current scholarship qualitatively explores how threa
- Jane Neal, Advanced Lecturer
Dr. Neal does not currently maintain a laboratory at Loyola and thus is not accepting students to work with her on research at this time. Courses Taught PSYC 101 General Psychology PSYC 306 Research Methods in Psychology Jane Neal Advanced
- Janene Cielto, Lecturer
- Jason Pych, Lecturer
- John D. Edwards, Professor Emeritus
- Kim Morris Lee, Instructor
While my primary role in the department is teaching, I have a general interest in the development of emotional intelligence and its impact on goal achievement as well as inclusive collaboration in the workplace. Courses Taught PSYC 275 Soci
- Lisa Sandberg, Advanced Lecturer
- Margaret Guy, Associate Professor
- Mario Baldassari, Instructor
I generally work on research topics in applied memory, more specifically eyewitness memory. Many projects are on the go, one of which focuses on the effects of eyewitness testimony on confidence of investigators, specifically the abilities
- Raymond Dye, Professor Emeritus
My research is predominately in the area of human auditory information processing, with an emphasis on binaural hearing and sound localization. At the center of my research program is the question of how the auditory system, when operating
- Steven Davis, Advanced Lecturer
While my teaching load precludes much research involvement, I am broadly interested in college student development (especially identity development) and adjustment. I also have interests in prevention program development and evaluation, and
- Susan Wilson, Advanced Lecturer
I am interested in racial-ethnic identity development in young adults. I am also interested in how racial-ethnic socialization influences racial-ethnic identity, cross-ethnic peer relationships, and psychological adjustment. Courses Taught
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.