CHAIR
Lydia Eckstein
Associate Professor; Department Chair
Social & political psychology; intergroup conflict, violence, and aggression; predictors and justification of unethical behavior
FACULTY
Megan Bertholomey
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience; drug-seeking (especially alcohol); behavioral pharmacology; influence of stress and sex hormones on mental illness

Monali Chowdhury
Associate Professor
(1) Developmental topics in college students including but not limited to (a) social media use, mobile phone use, dating behavior etc., (b) mental health wellness, stigma, and help seeking in college students; (2) Autism spectrum disorders and community support programs in Meadville for these populations

Rodney Clark
Professor
Behavioral pharmacology; operant behavior; drugs and society; biomedical ethics

Nancy Frambes
Visiting Assistant Professor
Drugs and human behavior; alcohol and cannabis use in college students

Juvia P. Heuchert
Professor Emerita
Clinical psychology; psychopathology; peace psychology

Jeff Hollerman
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Chair of Neuroscience Program
Neurophysiology and anatomy of motivational and cognitive systems

Stanislaw Kolek
Visiting Assistant Professor
Human Factors Psychology; Neuroanatomy; Attention; Perception; Learning; Psychology in sports; vulnerable road users; driver training; driving styles; hazard perception in driving; statistics and data reduction

Christopher Normile
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Law; Police interrogations and false confessions; perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees; juror decision-making; teaching and learning of statistics

Bavani Paneerselvam
Visiting Assistant Professor; Diversity Teaching Fellow
Human memory; testing effect; Metacognition; STEM motivation interventions

Lauren Paulson
Associate Professor
Eating disorders/disordered eating, and body image, exercise; supervision and professional development; rural issues and concerns; community counseling

Ryan Pickering
Assistant Professor
Social & sustainability psychology; human physiology; stereotype threat; disclosure of stigmatized identity; impact of current and childhood socioeconomic status

Sarah Stanger
Assistant Professor
Clinical and developmental psychology; child clinical and pediatric psychology; development of adaptive stress responses in children and adolescents, including role of parents and role of family socioeconomic status; dynamic systems methodology
