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Department of Psychology
Faculty Research Interests –2009 - 2010

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Abeare, Christopher Clinical/Neuropsychology
(2231 - cabeare@uwindsor.ca)
1. Lateralized cognitive functions;
2. Handedness and cerebral lateralization;
3. Individual differences in neuropsychological functioning
4. Emotion and executive functioning.

Babb, Kimberley Clinical/Child
(2221 - kbabb@uwindsor.ca)
1. Development of children's coping strategies;
2. Parental socialization of emotion and coping;
3. Strategies for improving post-secondary student success and retention;
4. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Baird, Anne Clinical/Neuropsychology (on sabbatical)
(2234 - abaird@uwindsor.ca)
1. Understanding, maintaining, and improving abilities and real-world function in older adults with normal cognition and in those with neurological disorders, such as dementia and stroke;
2. Studying neuropsychological abilities and interventions in the last third of life in cultural subgroups;
3. Applying cognitive psychology to the facilitation of academic success in university students of diverse backgrounds;
4. Examining the effects of neurological and medical disorders and treatment on everyday life in adults of all ages.

Buchanan, Lori Clinical/Neuropsychology
(2246 - buchanan@uwindsor.ca)
1. Cognitive models of impaired and normal word recognition processes;
2. Cognitive models of impaired and normal memory processes;
3. Computational analyses of word characteristics.

Casey, Joseph Clinical/Neuropsychology
(2220 - jecasey@uwindsor.ca)
1. Assessment and classification of childhood disorders;
2. Neuropsychological and psychosocial features of developmental disorders, including learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorders;
3. fMRI and neuropsychological correlates of normal and abnormal reading development;
4. Outcomes of childhood neuropsychological disorders.

Chung-Yan, Gregory Applied Social
(4091 - gcy@uwindsor.ca)
1. Adaptability in the workplace;
2. Work stress;
3. Job insecurity and job search skills;
4. Workplace discrimination;
5. Job characteristics/design;
6. Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Cohen, Jerome Behaviour, Cognition & Neuroscience Program (Undergraduate)
(2236 - jcohen@uwindsor.ca) & Graduate (Department of Biological Sciences ) Program
1. Animal learning and cognitive processes.
2. Comparative Cognition;
3. Animal Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Cramer, Ken Applied Social
(2239 - kcramer@uwindsor.ca)
1. Personality psychology (e.g., personal control, evolution, state reversals);
2. Teaching effectiveness, classroom technology, and education (Maclean's rankings)
3. Social psychology (e.g., love, law, and social perception);
4. Health and exercise (e.g., risk perception and dependence).

Fritz, Patti Clinical/Child
(3707 - pfritz@uwindsor.ca)
1. Etiology, developmental course, and prevention and treatment of interpersonal aggression;
2. Partner aggression across time and partners, prevention and treatment initiatives;
3. Maintenance of healthy, violence-free relationships.

Gragg, Marcia Clinical/Child
(2227 - mgragg@uwindsor.ca)
1. Diagnosis and assessment in autism and related disorders (ability patterns, receptive language, misdiagnosis);
2. Behavioural interventions in autism and related disorders (followup study, anger management methods, social learning difficulties);
3. Dissemination of "best practices" in autism diagnosis and intervention in the community.

Hakim-Larson, Julie Clinical/Child (Graduate Program Chair)
(2241 - hakim@uwindsor.ca)
1. Developmental psychopathology; parent-child interaction;
2. Verbal and non-verbal communication of affect;
3. Emotion and families;
4. Mental health and culture.

Hart, Ken Clinical/Adult
(2225 - kenhart@uwindsor.ca)
1. Addictive disorders and their treatment (eg., alcohol misuse, gambling; 12-Step community grp tx of);
2. Existential models of health destructive behaviours (eg., Frankl's logotheory/logotx);
3. Social-Cognitive models of addiction (eg., transtheoretical model, HBM, TPB)
4. The Positive Psychology of addiction (eg., tx implications of quality of life satisfaction; meaning, purpose & goal pursuits in life; spirituality).

Hibbard, Stephen Clinical/Adult
(2248 - hibbard@uwindsor.ca)
1. Clinical assessment;
2. Conscious and unconscious processes;
3. Impulsivity and its roles in psychopathology.

Jackson, Dennis Applied Social (on sabbatical)
(2229 - djackson@uwindsor.ca)
1. Quantitative psychology/sample size in latent variable modeling;
2. Statistical Reporting Procedures;
3. Issues with developing surveys and analyzing & interpretting survey data.

Jarry, Josée Clinical/Adult
(2237 - jjarry@uwindsor.ca)
1. Body image investment and satisfaction;
2. Attributional style in dieters and women with eating disorders;
3. Psychodynamic psychotherapy;
4. Obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Kuo, Ben C. H. Clinical/Adult
(2238 - benkuo@uwindsor.ca)
1. Multicultural counselling and psychotherapy practice, training, and research
2. Acculturation and cultural adaptation of ethnic Canadians, immigrants and international students
3. Psychotherapy and intervention for Refugee Survivors of Trauma and Torture
4. Cross-Cultural variability in coping and culture-based measure of coping
5. Help-seeking attitude and pattern for professional psychological and mental health services

Kwantes, Catherine Applied Social
(2242 - ckwantes@uwindsor.ca)
1. Cross-cultural organizational psychology;
2. Organizational culture;
3. International management issues;
4. Work motivation.

Lafreniere, Kathryn Applied Social (Undergraduate Program Chair)
(2233 - lafren1@uwindsor.ca )
1. Stress, coping, and help-seeking
2. Women's health and prevention issues
3. Personality and health; reversal theory
4. Perception of health risks

Menna, Rosanne Clinical/Child
(2230 - rmenna@uwindsor.ca)
1. Competence and coping in early childhood and adolescence;
2. Adolescent help-seeking and intervention efforts;
3. Aggressive preschoolers, parenting and parent-child interactions;
4. Early intervention.

Miller, Carlin Clinical/Neuropsychology
(2226 - cjmiller@uwindsor.ca)
1. Persistence/remittance of psychopathology;
2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other impulse control disorders;
3. Behavior problems in preschoolers;
4. Temperament and personality;
5. Learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia and reading disabilities;
6. Teen pregnancy.

Miller, Scott Clinical/Child
(4890 - smiller@uwindsor.ca)
1. Shyness;
2. Child and adolescent social development;
3. Family stress;
4. Parent-child relationship dynamics;
5. Organized group participation and child social development.

Orr, Robert Clinical/Child
(2222 - rrorr@uwindsor.ca)
1. Factors affecting use of computer-mediated communication;
2. The role of forgiveness in healthy development.

Page, Stewart Clinical/Adult/Applied Social
(2243 - page@uwindsor.ca) (Honours Thesis Coordinator)
1. Stigmatization and prejudice, media violence;
2. Studies in higher education.

Paivio, Sandra Clinical/Adult (Department Head)
(2223 - paivio@uwindsor.ca)
1. Psychotherapy process and outcome;
2. Emotion and emotional processes in psychotherapy;
3. Traumatic stress, anxiety and interpersonal and self-related disturbances; psychotherapy integration.

Pascual-Leone, Antonio Clinical/Adult
(4702 - apl@uwindsor.ca)
1. Emotion- How do people work through difficult emotions?
2. Psychotherapy- What makes psychotherapy work? What predicts good outcomes?
3. Individual differences- How do different people process emotions differently (risk/preventative factors)?
4. Emotional functioning & dysfunction- i.e. Gambling and emotional awareness; depressive processes...

Scoboria, Alan Clinical/Adult
(4090 - scoboria@uwindsor.ca)
1. Memory accuracy;
2. Phenomenology of remembering;
3. Memory recovery / false memory;
4. Autobiographcial belief formation;
5. Best practices in interviewing;
6. Metacognition;
7. "Don't know" responses to interview questions;
8. Theory, assessment, and treatment of post-traumatic disorders;
9. Stress, trauma, and memory.

Senn, Charlene Applied Social
(2255 - csenn@uwindsor.ca)
1. Violence against women (e.g., rape resistance, pornography, sexual coercion);
2. Sexuality and sexuality education;
3. Feminist methods in social science research (qualitative and quantitative).

Singleton-Jackson, Jill Applied Social
(4706 - jjackson@uwindsor.ca)
1. Academic Entitlement;
2. The first-year experience in higher education;
3. Use of technology in teaching and learning (with an emphasis on peer review);
4. Application of educational psychology in the classroom and the community;
5. Success in university teaching.

Sirois, Fuschia Applied Social (on sabbatical July-Dec. 09)
(2224 - fsirois@uwindsor.ca)
1. Self-perceptions and the self-system in adjustment to chronic illness;
2. Self-regulation and motivation in health and illness (e.g., procrastination, resilience, optimism);
3.; Self-perceptions and motivation in health-regulating behaviours and their outcomes;
4. Health and well-being;
5. On-line data collection.

Thomas, Cheryl Clinical/Adult
(2252 - cdthomas@uwindsor.ca)
1. Body image, eating behaviour, eating disorders;
2. Adoption, mixed race families;
3. Ethnic, racial, and cultural identity;
4. Clinical services to culturally diverse populations.

Towson, Shelagh Applied Social
(2223 - towson@uwindsor.ca)
1. Cultural diversity issues;
2. First Nations issues;
3. Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Voelker, Sylvia Clinical/Child
(2249 - voelker@uwindsor.ca)
1. Emotion development;
2. Developmental disabilities;
3. Objective assessment of child psychopathology.