32 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology, General at University of California, Merced.
- Martin Hagger, Distinguished Professor of Health Psychology; Graduate Group Chair h-index 100
Determinants of health behavior; theories of social cognition and motivation; theory integration; behavior change; meta-analysis Bio: Martin Hagger is Distinguished Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at UC Merced. He is
Notable: “Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: A meta-analysis.” (2010) · 2,264 citations
- Linda Cameron, Professor of Health Psychology h-index 55
Notable: “The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R)” (2002) · 2,962 citations
- Deborah Wiebe, Professor of Health Psychology; Director Health Sciences Research Institute h-index 46
Notable: “Children's Appraisals of Maternal Involvement in Coping With Diabetes: Enhancing Our Understanding of Adherence, Metabolic Control, and Quality of Life Across Adolescence” (2005) · 273 citations
- Jan Wallander, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 45
Professor Wallander is retired and no longer accept new graduate students to work with him. Health psychology focused on children and adolescents. Quality of life and wellbeing in childhood, especially in vulnerable groups due to chronic illness, poverty, and
Notable: “Effects of Pediatric Chronic Physical Disorders on Child and Family Adjustment” (1998) · 684 citations
- Heather Bortfeld, Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 33
Notable: “Disfluency Rates in Conversation: Effects of Age, Relationship, Topic, Role, and Gender” (2001) · 632 citations
- Jennifer Howell, Associate Professor of Health Psychology h-index 31
Notable: “Remote Oxidation of Aliphatic C–H Bonds in Nitrogen-Containing Molecules” (2015) · 216 citations
- Matthew Zawadzki, Associate Professor of Health Psychology h-index 31
Notable: “Rumination and anxiety mediate the effect of loneliness on depressed mood and sleep quality in college students.” (2012) · 229 citations
- Jack Vevea, Associate Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics h-index 29
Notable: “Fixed- and random-effects models in meta-analysis.” (1998) · 2,839 citations
- Jeffrey Gilger, Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 26
Notable: “Biomechanical correlates of symptomatic and asymptomatic neurophysiological impairment in high school football” (2012) · 293 citations
- Anna Song, Professor of Health Psychology; Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty h-index 24
Notable: “Perceptions of Smoking-Related Risks and Benefits as Predictors of Adolescent Smoking Initiation” (2008) · 232 citations
- Mayra Bámaca, Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 23
Notable: “The Central Role of Familial Ethnic Socialization in Latino Adolescents’ Cultural Orientation” (2009) · 240 citations
- Rose Scott, Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 22
Notable: “False-belief understanding in infants” (2010) · 1,036 citations
- Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Associate Professor of Health Psychology h-index 22
Notable: “Biological and Psychosocial Predictors of Postpartum Depression: Systematic Review and Call for Integration” (2015) · 745 citations
- Alexandra Main, Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 18
Notable: “Commonalities and Differences in the Research on Children’s Effortful Control and Executive Function: A Call for an Integrated Model of Self-Regulation” (2011) · 387 citations
- Eric Walle, Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 18
Emotion; Social Development; Developmental Transitions Bio: My research focuses on the study of social and emotional processes in interpersonal contexts. This research focuses on the development of these capacities in infancy and early childhood through two d
Notable: “Infant language development is related to the acquisition of walking.” (2013) · 265 citations
- Fan Jia, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics h-index 15
Notable: “A Comparison of Imputation Strategies for Ordinal Missing Data on Likert Scale Variables” (2015) · 91 citations
- Anna Epperson, Assistant Professor of Health Psychology h-index 14
Notable: “Natural American Spirit Brand Marketing Casts Health Halo Around Smoking” (2017) · 39 citations
- Kristina Backer, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences (affiliated) h-index 11
Notable: “An fMRI study of the prefrontal activity during the performance of a working memory task in premutation carriers of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene with and without fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS)” (2010) · 86 citations
- Yueqi Yan, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics h-index 11
Notable: “The Relationship Between Suicide Ideation, Behavioral Health, and College Academic Performance” (2016) · 164 citations
- Elif Isbell, Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology h-index 10
Notable: “Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition, and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers” (2013) · 331 citations
- Daniel Mello, Lecturer h-index 8
Notable: “Self- and Social-Regulation in Type 1 Diabetes Management During Late Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood” (2018) · 55 citations
- Jason Emory, Continuing Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness” (2016) · 212 citations
- Alexander Khislavsky, Continuing Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “Adaptive attention: how preference for animacy impacts change detection” (2016) · 99 citations
- Ross Avilla, Continuing Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “Factors Affecting Stigma Toward People with Schizophrenia and Video - Based Interventions for Stigma Reduction” (2017) · 3 citations
- Jason Isbell, Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychology h-index 1
Notable: “STATUS RELEVANT SOCIAL CONTEXT, GROUP MEMBERSHIP, AND FINGER LENGTH RATIO (2D:4D) AS PREDICTORS OF ONLINE SOCIOECONOMIC BEHAVIOR” (2017) · 1 citations
- Bobby Hutchison, Lecturer
Sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, public health education and promotion, and LGBTQ+ health. In 2022 he was appointed to a national leadership role in the APHA through 2025 on the Executive Committee on Bylaws. He is also a member of the APHA HIV Preve
- Darrin Tracy, Lecturer
- Haiyan Liu, Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics
- Meng (Chris) Qiu, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics
Bayesian Statistics; Bayesian Nonparametrics; Mixture Modeling; Causal Inference Bio: Dr. Meng Qiu is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of California, Merced. His research interests span the areas of
- Ren Liu, Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics
Psychometrics; Measurement Theory; Mixture Modeling; Machine Learning; Causal Inference Bio: Ren Liu, PhD is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Science Statistics at the University of California, Merced. His work centers on the development and application o
- Robert Yancey, Continuing Lecturer
- Sarah Depaoli, Professor of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics; Department Chair
Bayesian statistics, structural equation modeling, mixture models previousnextstart slideshow
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.