Psychology at Southern Methodist University

19 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at Southern Methodist University.

Faculty

• Ernest Jouriles, Dale McKissick Endowed Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training h-index 58
  Clinical psychology State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1987 B.A.,Psychology, minor in Mathematics Indiana University, 1982. Biography and Areas of Research Dr. Jouriles served as Chair of the SMU Department of Psychology
  Notable: “Estimating the number of American children living in partner-violent families.” (2006) · 484 citations
• Thomas Ritz, University Distinguished Professor h-index 46
  Notable: “Gut microbiome–mediated bile acid metabolism regulates liver cancer via NKT cells” (2018) · 1,484 citations
• Alicia Meuret, Professor h-index 44
  Notable: “Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap” (2017) · 1,436 citations
• Renee McDonald, Professor, Senior Advisor to the Dean h-index 44
  Notable: “Estimating the number of American children living in partner-violent families.” (2006) · 484 citations
• Michael Chmielewski, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 42
  Notable: “An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results” (2019) · 1,038 citations
• David Rosenfield, Professor h-index 39
  Es on the application of recent advances in statistical methods to psychological research. New tools for statistical analysis allow us to answer questions we never could address before. In particular, I am interested in applying hierarchica
  Notable: “Children's exposure to intimate partner violence: A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations with child adjustment problems” (2016) · 389 citations
• Chrystyna Kouros, Professor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 32
  Notable: “Spillover between marital quality and parent–child relationship quality: Parental depressive symptoms as moderators.” (2014) · 203 citations
• Michael Lindsey, Lecturer h-index 29
  Notable: “Relation of Perioperative Deaths to Hospital Volume Among Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Resection for Malignancy” (1995) · 580 citations
• Austin Baldwin, Professor, Department Chair h-index 26
  Es on understanding the affective, cognitive, and motivational factors that influence individuals’ decisions to engage in and maintain health behaviors. In recent years, this work has focused largely in the domains of physical activit
  Notable: “The impact of self-efficacy on behavior change and weight change among overweight participants in a weight loss trial.” (2006) · 308 citations
• Nathan W. Hudson, Associate Professor h-index 26
  Es on how people's personalities change across time, as well as how individuals function in romantic relationships. His primary area of inquiry is volitional personality change —people's desires and attempts to chang
  Notable: “Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?” (2015) · 478 citations
• Akihito Kamata, Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth Endowed Professor h-index 21
  Psychometrics and educational and psychological measurement, focusing on development and implementation of item-level test data analysis methodology through various modeling framework, including item response theory, multilev
  Notable: “Item Analysis by the Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model” (2001) · 255 citations
• Holly Bowen, Associate Professor h-index 15
  Es on how affective states, specifically emotion and motivation, influence how we form memories and remember past experiences. She is also interested in how the links between emotion, motivation and memory are impacted by
  Notable: “NEVER forget: negative emotional valence enhances recapitulation” (2017) · 230 citations
• Sarah Kucker, Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Es on word learning, cognitive development, and the influence of digital media on infant and toddler’s language development. She takes a dynamic systems approach to studying developmental change and is particularly interested in how t
  Notable: “An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results” (2019) · 1,038 citations
• James Calvert, Senior Lecturer II h-index 4
  Notable: “Informed consent procedures with cognitively impaired patients: A review of ethics and best practices” (2015) · 104 citations
• Chris Logan, Senior Lecturer II, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Advisor
• Frank He, Assistant Professor
• Laura Eigel, Adjunct Lecturer, Director of Organizational Psychology Program
• Olivia Breedin, Lecturer
• Poonam Dubal, Clinical Assistant Professor, SMU Psychology Clinic Director

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.