Psychology at Wake Forest University

25 faculty and 40 courses in Psychology at Wake Forest University.

Faculty

• William Fleeson, Hultquist Family Professor of Psychology h-index 52
  Notable: “Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states.” (2001) · 1,268 citations
• R. Michael Furr, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 41
  Notable: “Personality and Life Satisfaction: A Facet-Level Analysis” (2004) · 437 citations
• Lisa Kiang, Professor h-index 39
  Notable: “Activating stereotypes undermines task performance expectations.” (1998) · 210 citations
• Christian Waugh, Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “What good are positive emotions in crisis? A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001.” (2003) · 2,158 citations
• Eranda Jayawickreme, Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology, Associate Chair h-index 34
  Integrative Theories of Personality The Engine of Well-Being Character and Morality Intellectual Humility as a Component of Wisdom Post-Traumatic Growth and Wisdom Following Adversity Exemplar Interventions to Develop Character Welcome Ill
  Notable: “Whole Trait Theory” (2014) · 820 citations
• Terry Blumenthal, Research Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Committee report: Guidelines for human startle eyeblink electromyographic studies” (2005) · 1,189 citations
• Christy Buchanan, Professor and Chair of Department h-index 31
  Notable: “Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families.” (1993) · 2,570 citations
• Deborah Best, William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology, Emerita Research Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “Awareness and expression of sex stereotypes in young children.” (1975) · 178 citations
• Eric Stone, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “The Psychology of Windfall Gains” (1994) · 403 citations
• Janine Jennings, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 24
  Notable: “Age-Related Differences in Neural Activity during Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Positron Emission Tomography Study” (1997) · 829 citations
• Dale Dagenbach, Research Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Task-induced strategies and near-threshold priming: Conscious influences on unconscious perception” (1989) · 202 citations
• John Petrocelli, Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Hierarchical Multiple Regression in Counseling Research: Common Problems and Possible Remedies” (2003) · 373 citations
• E. J. Masicampo, Associate Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free Will Increases Aggression and Reduces Helpfulness” (2009) · 525 citations
• Wayne Pratt, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Corticostriatal-hypothalamic circuitry and food motivation: Integration of energy, action and reward” (2005) · 754 citations
• Catherine Seta, Research Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Category size effects in recall: The roles of relational and individual item information.” (1984) · 132 citations
• Stefon van Noordt, Assistant Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “Performance monitoring and the medial prefrontal cortex: a review of individual differences and context effects as a window on self-regulation” (2012) · 118 citations
• Lara Kammrath, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Mind-Reading and Metacognition: Narcissism, not Actual Competence, Predicts Self-Estimated Ability” (2004) · 237 citations
• Veronica Cole, Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Simplifying the Assessment of Measurement Invariance over Multiple Background Variables: Using Regularized Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis to Detect Differential Item Functioning” (2019) · 104 citations
• Shannon Brady, Associate Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale” (2016) · 494 citations
• S. Mason Garrison, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network” (2018) · 390 citations
• Brad T. Stilwell, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Feature-based statistical regularities of distractors modulate attentional capture.” (2019) · 126 citations
• Anthony Sali, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “The role of reward prediction in the control of attention.” (2014) · 97 citations
• Merve Balkaya-Ince, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being” (2022) · 96 citations
• Melissa Maffeo, Teaching Professor, Associate Director, Neuroscience Program h-index 2
  Notable: “Nicotine Exposure during Adolescence Induces a Depression-Like State in Adulthood” (2008) · 158 citations
• Heath Greene, Associate Teaching Professor

Courses

• Learning to Learn PSY 100
• Introductory Psychology PSY 151
• Methods in Psychological Research for the Minor PSY 210
• Research Methods I PSY 211
• Research Methods I Lab PSY 211L
• Research Methods II PSY 212
• Research Methods II Lab PSY 212L
• Biopsychology PSY 220
• Cognitive Psychology PSY 221
• Psychopharmacology PSY 222
• Social Affective Neuroscience PSY 223
• Topics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences PSY 237
• Brief Topics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences PSY 239
• Personality PSY 240
• Developmental Psychology PSY 241
• Social Psychology PSY 242
• Stereotypes, Prejudice, & Discrimination PSY 244
• Culture and Psychology PSY 246
• Parenting and Parent-Child Relationships PSY 247
• Topics in the Individual in Context PSY 257
• Brief Topics in the Individual in Context PSY 259
• Organizational Psychology PSY 261
• Science of Well-Being PSY 262
• Stress and Coping PSY 263
• Abnormal Psychology PSY 264
• Human Sexuality PSY 265
• Topics in Applied Psychology and Mental Health PSY 277
• Brief Topics in Applied Psychology and Mental Health PSY 279
• Seminar in Cognitive Psychology PSY 321
• Seminar in Developmental Psychology PSY 324
• Seminar in Perception PSY 325
• Seminar in Physiological Psychology PSY 327
• Seminar in Race and Ethnicity PSY 328
• Seminar in Gender and Sexuality PSY 330
• Seminar in History and Systems of Psychology PSY 332
• Seminar in Animal Behavior PSY 334
• Seminar in Honors PSY 336
• Seminar in Psychology PSY 339
• Research in Developmental Psychology PSY 341
• Research in Emotion PSY 342

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.