Psychology at Tulane University

24 faculty and 33 courses in Psychology at Tulane University.

Faculty

• Bonnie K. Nastasi, Professor h-index 36
  Es on culturally appropriate health promotion and health risk prevention programming for child, adolescent and adult populations. Dr. Nastasi is currently accepting graduate students.
  Notable: “Discourse Patterns and Collaborative Scientific Reasoning in Peer and Teacher-Guided Discussions” (1999) · 464 citations
• Michael Hoerger, Associate Professor h-index 35
  Notable: “Effect of a Patient-Centered Communication Intervention on Oncologist-Patient Communication, Quality of Life, and Health Care Utilization in Advanced Cancer” (2016) · 317 citations
• Damian Murray, Associate Professor h-index 28
  Notable: “Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism” (2008) · 1,030 citations
• Laurie O'Brien, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “The Social Psychology of Stigma” (2004) · 3,060 citations
• Courtney N. Baker, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “The Experience of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Teachers’ Mental Health, Coping, and Teaching” (2021) · 274 citations
• Yo Jackson, Professor h-index 26
  Es on the development of models of the process of resilience for youth exposed to trauma with a specific focus on youth exposed to child maltreatment and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Her work includes observational and phys
  Notable: “Appraisal, Social Support, and Life Events: Predicting Outcome Behavior in School-Age Children” (2000) · 223 citations
• Kate Baker, Research Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “Behavioural Indicators of Anxiety: an Empirical Test in Chimpanzees” (1997) · 149 citations
• Michael Cunningham, Professor h-index 23
  Examining adolescent development in diverse contexts. Specifically, he examines resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents. Dr. Cunningham is not currently accepting graduate students this cycle. Selec
  Notable: “What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial physical attractiveness.” (1990) · 415 citations
• Janet B. Ruscher, Professor h-index 22
  Es primarily on stereotyping and prejudice in communication and language. Current work considers the role of metaphors in perception of disparaged outgroups, as well as perceptions of hate speech.
  Notable: “Dehumanizing representations of women: the shaping of hostile sexist attitudes through animalistic metaphors” (2017) · 97 citations
• Lisa Molix, Associate Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Social Stigma and Sexual Minorities’ Romantic Relationship Functioning” (2015) · 150 citations
• Christian Montanari, Research Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Nicotine e-cigarette vapor inhalation effects on nicotine & cotinine plasma levels and somatic withdrawal signs in adult male Wistar rats” (2019) · 50 citations
• Carrie L. Wyland, Senior Professor of Practice h-index 10
  Notable: “Finding the Self? An Event-Related fMRI Study” (2002) · 1,623 citations
• Matthieu Maroteaux, Research Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Opposing Patterns of Signaling Activation in Dopamine D1and D2Receptor-Expressing Striatal Neurons in Response to Cocaine and Haloperidol” (2008) · 619 citations
• Wendy Jung, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Motor Origins of Tool Use” (2012) · 91 citations
• Julie A. Alvarez, Senior Professor of Practice h-index 4
  Notable: “Executive Function and the Frontal Lobes: A Meta-Analytic Review” (2006) · 1,985 citations
• Lindsay H. B. Weixler, Research Assistant Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Helping Parents Navigate the Early Childhood Education Enrollment Process: Experimental Evidence From New Orleans” (2020) · 27 citations
• Alyssa DeLarge, Research Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “Atypical binding at dopamine and serotonin transporters contribute to the discriminative stimulus effects of mephedrone” (2017) · 19 citations
• Jacob Feiler, Professor of Practice h-index 2
  Notable: “Three pillars of educational neuroscience from three decades of literature” (2018) · 84 citations
• Taylor Marcus, Professor of Practice h-index 2
  Notable: “Individual differences in selective attention and engagement shape students’ learning from visual cues and instructor presence during online lessons” (2023) · 10 citations
• Alexandra Sims, Senior Professor of Practice
• Esther Calzada, Professor
• Ilianna Kwaske, Senior Professor of Practice
• Kimberly Sherman, Senior Professor of Practice
• Sarah A. O. Gray, Research Assistant Professor

Courses

• Introductory Psychology PSYC 1000
• Exploring Psychology & Lab PSYC 1100
• Intro To Personality PSYC 3010
• Univariate Statistics I & Lab PSYC 3090
• Experimental Psychology & Lab PSYC 3130
• Psychological Testing PSYC 3180
• Educational Psychology PSYC 3200
• Child Psychology PSYC 3210
• Infancy PSYC 3260
• Lifespan Development PSYC 3270
• Cognitive Psychology PSYC 3290
• Brain and Behavior PSYC 3300
• Clinical Science and Psychological Disorders PSYC 3330
• Developmental Psychopathology PSYC 3340
• Adolescent Psychology PSYC 3390
• Intro To Social Psychology PSYC 3430
• Positive Psychology PSYC 3450
• Psychology of Diversity PSYC 3470
• Introduction to Health Psychology PSYC 3530
• Evolution & Psychology PSYC 3700
• Psychology Applied to Work PSYC 3710
• Sensation & Perception PSYC 3770
• Behavioral Endocrinology PSYC 4060
• History & Systems PSYC 4180
• Methods for Functional MRI PSYC 4260
• Neurobiology of Learning & Memory PSYC 4330
• Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 4380
• Biological Psychology PSYC 4510
• Music and Brain PSYC 4513
• Psychopharmacology PSYC 4530
• Black Youth Development Psychology PSYC 4610
• Cognitive Development PSYC 4650
• Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment PSYC 4670

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.