Psychology, General at University of Central Florida

40 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology, General at University of Central Florida.

Faculty

• Peter A. Hancock, Pegasus Professor, Provost Distinguished Research Professor h-index 82
  Notable: “A Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Trust in Human-Robot Interaction” (2011) · 1,936 citations
• Deborah C. Beidel, Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor h-index 82
  Highlights News Publications indicates a graduate student author from the UCF Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Beidel, D.C., Frueh, B.C., Neer, S.M., Bowers, C.A., Trachik, B., Uhde, T.W., Grubaugh, A. (2019). Trauma Management Therapy with virt
  Notable: “An empirically derived inventory to measure social fears and anxiety: The Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory.” (1989) · 885 citations
• Mark Ehrhart, Professor h-index 51
  Organizational climate and culture, organizational citizenship behavior, and leadership, and the application of these topics across levels of analysis and in behavioral and mental health settings. His recent work has focused on the
  Notable: “Organizational Climate and Culture” (2016) · 2,051 citations
• Clint Bowers, Professor h-index 44
  Es on the use of technology in the prevention and treatment of psychological disorders. This has included developing games to prevent anxiety disorders in the military and to prevent problem drinking in college students. I have also develop
  Notable: “Computer Gaming and Interactive Simulations for Learning: A Meta-Analysis” (2006) · 932 citations
• Nathan Bowling, Professor h-index 41
  Notable: “Workplace harassment from the victim's perspective: A theoretical model and meta-analysis.” (2006) · 1,291 citations
• Kimberly Renk, Professor h-index 39
  Notable: “Freshmen adaptation to university life: Depressive symptoms, stress, and coping” (2006) · 933 citations
• Michael E. Dunn, Professor h-index 38
  Es on alcohol and drug expectancies, alcohol and substance use in children and young adults, development of prevention and intervention programs, and cognitive processes related to alcohol, substance use, and sexual assault. Prevention and
  Notable: “Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure” (2020) · 929 citations
• Robert Dvorak, Professor h-index 36
  Include: (1) examining the role of cognitive, affective, and behavioral self-regulation in health-compromising behaviors (primarily substance use, eating pathology, and suicidal thoughts/behaviors), (2) assessing factors associated with hea
  Notable: “Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology” (2016) · 1,627 citations
• Jeffrey S. Bedwell, Professor, Program Director, Director of Clinical Training h-index 30
  Notable: “Progressive Cortical Change During Adolescence in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia” (1999) · 387 citations
• Steven L. Berman, Associate Professor h-index 30
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  Notable: “The impact of exposure to crime and violence on urban youth.” (1996) · 296 citations
• Charles Negy, Associate Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “Social Media Use and Mental Health among Young Adults” (2017) · 481 citations
• Florian Jentsch, Professor h-index 25
  Notable: “Analyzing Communication Sequences for Team Training Needs Assessment” (1998) · 210 citations
• Mark Neider, Professor, Department Chair h-index 25
  Es on understanding human perception and cognition in realistic contexts, and then using that understanding to develop training interventions and technological innovations for improving human performance in real world tasks and environments
  Notable: “Coordinating cognition: The costs and benefits of shared gaze during collaborative search” (2007) · 356 citations
• Jeffrey Cassisi, Professor h-index 25
  Notable: “Psychosocial Treatments for Schizophrenia” (2013) · 400 citations
• Barbara Fritzsche, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “E-Learning in Organizations” (2005) · 319 citations
• Mustapha Mouloua, Professor, Director of Ph.D. Program h-index 21
  Human performance evaluation, human-automation interaction, pilot-alerting systems interaction, automation and workload, pilot training and detection of automation failures, adaptive function allocation and human monitoring of syste
  Notable: “Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection.” (1994) · 558 citations
• Nichole Lighthall, Associate Professor, Interim Associate Dean h-index 18
  Notable: “Application of Graph Theory for Identifying Connectivity Patterns in Human Brain Networks: A Systematic Review” (2019) · 722 citations
• Daniel Paulson, Associate Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “A Meta-Analysis of Classroom-Wide Interventions to Build Social Skills: Do They Work?” (2011) · 163 citations
• Amie Newins, Associate Professor, Associate Chair h-index 16
  Notable: “Psychotherapy Targeting Depression and Anxiety for Use in Palliative Care: A Meta-Analysis” (2018) · 87 citations
• Lidia Meshesha, Associate Professor h-index 15
  Include: Behavioral interventions for addiction focusing on increasing alternative rewards Use of behavioral economic theory to understand etiology, maintenance, and treatment of addiction The use of mobile technology in addiction treatment
  Notable: “Buprenorphine Treatment for Hospitalized, Opioid-Dependent Patients” (2014) · 346 citations
• Daniel McConnell, Senior Lecturer h-index 14
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  Notable: “Investigating learning outcomes and subjective experiences in 360-degree videos” (2018) · 240 citations
• Matthew Chin, Senior Lecturer h-index 12
  Notable: “Examining the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal Beliefs, and Pseudoscience Acceptance Among a University Population” (2014) · 339 citations
• Martin Kocur, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Flexing Muscles in Virtual Reality: Effects of Avatars' Muscular Appearance on Physical Performance” (2020) · 97 citations
• Rachel Greenspan, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Focus on the development and downstream consequences of memory errors, particularly in the criminal legal system. Her current work examines how artificial intelligence is increasingly supplementing or replacing human memory in applied conte
  Notable: “Pandemics and infodemics: Research on the effects of misinformation on memory” (2020) · 61 citations
• Victoria Pace, Senior Lecturer, Faculty Fellow h-index 7
  Notable: “Three Avenues for Future Research on Creativity, Innovation, and Initiative” (2004) · 446 citations
• Karen Mottarella, Senior Lecturer, COS Faculty Fellow h-index 7
  Career readiness and the scholarship of teaching and learning. During over 25 years at UCF, she has been a two-time recipient of the COS Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award , the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Y
  Notable: “Does Virtual Intimacy Exist? A Brief Exploration into Reported Levels of Intimacy in Online Relationships” (2006) · 72 citations
• Chelsea LeNoble, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Es on issues at the intersection of work and societal resilience. Dr. LeNoble studies the implications of burnout in occupations critical to society, developing theory and interventions designed to advance human resilience in work and non-w
  Notable: “The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping” (2020) · 47 citations
• Mengzhen Lim, Lecturer h-index 4
  Notable: “Five Important Considerations for the Development of Anti-corruption Education in Malaysia for Young People” (2021) · 9 citations
• Martha Hubertz, Associate Lecturer h-index 3
  Notable: “Teaching and Learning with AI-Generated Courseware: Lessons from the Classroom” (2022) · 29 citations
• Alisha Janowsky, Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director h-index 1
  Notable: “Hypocrites or maligned cooperative participants? Experimenter induced normative conflict in zero-sum situations” (2010) · 32 citations
• Michael Chetta, Lecturer/Director of M.S. Program h-index 1
  Ed on hospitality, client satisfaction and qualitative analyses. He is also a co-founder and current managing partner at Talent Metrics Consulting, providing Human Capital Management solutions for many clients in both the public and private
  Notable: “Salvage Ultrasound-guided Targeted Cryoablation of The Perispermatic Cord For Persistent Chronic Scrotal Content Pain After Microsurgical Denervation Of The Spermatic Cord” (2019) · 19 citations
• Shahram Ghiasinejad, Senior Lecturer h-index 1
  Broadly concerned with understanding human language comprehension through a combination of experimental and computational modeling approaches. Recent Publications News
  Notable: “Modeling human coding of free response data” (2013) · 2 citations
• Ghislaine Atkins, Lecturer
• James Brophy-Ellison, Lecturer
  The effects of humor on stress, health, mood and the immune system. Dr. Brophy is also interested in computer applications to psychology, especially the utilization of the World Wide Web. Professor Brophy is also working on research pro
• Jason D. Chesnut, Associate Lecturer
• John Beltran, Lecturer
• Marisol Parra, Associate Lecturer
• Raymonde Neal, Associate Lecturer, Director MA Program
• Shawn Burke, Research Professor
• Shawn Davis, Lecturer
  Have involved computer-delivered health communication messaging, the impact of social media use on relationship development, the societal impact of rapid technological development, and the psychology behind the effectiveness of computationa

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.