Robert Levenson, Ph.D.                  Professor and Director,
                                                       Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic

Emotion. Autonomic nervous system and facial expressive components, cultural influences, empathy, emotional control, emotional changes with aging, dementing disorders, and brain pathology. Marital interaction across the life span: emotional and physiological signs and predictors of marital distress.

Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D.                 Associate Professor

Adult psychopathology, especially sleep disorders. Cognitive processes of thought (worry/rumination). Attention, memory and reasoning; comorbidity; transdiagnostic approaches; cognitive therapy; interactions between cognitive, emotional and biological processes and adult psychopathology.

Stephen P. Hinshaw, Ph.D.            Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology

Childhood behavior disorders, developmental psychopathology. Attention deficits and hyperactivity; aggres¬sive behavior, peer relations, family interactions, and neuropsychological risk factors; psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for children with ADHD; process and outcome research in child interventions; assessment, diagnosis, and classification of child disorders; definitions of mental disorder; stigma associated with mental disorder.

Sheri L. Johnson, Ph.D.                  Professor

Basic and treatment research on bipolar disorder. Neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social triggers of mania, with a focus on the reward system. Psychosocial parallels in the triggers of bipolar and unipolar depression. Psychosocial interventions to prevent mania. Serotonin and processes involved in emotion regulation.

Ann M. Kring, Ph.D.                        Professor

Psychopathology: Emotional features of schizophrenia, assessment and psychosocial treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion and other cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia. Emotion: Individual differences in emotional expression, gender and emotion, the relationship between social context, personality, and emotion.

Qing Zhou, Ph.D.                            Assistant Professor

Developmental psychopathology, with an emphasis on the roles of temperament, emotion-related processing, and family socialization in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology and competence; cultural influences on socio-emotional development.