Research Labs

Note: All department faculty direct active research laboratories; not every lab has a website.

Adolescent and Young Adult Health Risk Study
Lynne Cooper

Alcohol Cognitions Lab
This lab studies what people learn about alcohol and other drugs, factors that influence substance-related learning (e.g., personality traits, genetic differences), and how substance-related cognitions affect substance use and related behavior (e.g., drinking and driving).
Denis McCarthy
882-0426

Alcohol, Health, and Behavior Research Group
Kenneth J. Sher
882-1111

Behavioral Neuroscience Addiction Lab
Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying the addictive properties of drugs of abuse and food.
Matthew Will
884-3088

Behavioral Pharmacology Lab
Our laboratory is interested in the mechanisms responsible for drug-induced behaviors. We use behavioral and neurochemical techniques to characterize the effects of drugs on behaviors and to understand the mechanisms responsible for these drug effects.
Dennis Miller

Clinical Neuropsychology Lab
Neurodevelopmental disorders, early brain injury, cognitive development
Shawn Christ

Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Lab
Steve Hackley

Eating Disorder and Body Image Lab
This laboratory investigates pathways to eating disorders, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction, with a focus on psychosocial variables such as personality, self-efficacy, stress, and family environment.
Anna Bardone-Cone
884-0710

Family Assessment Lab
Multisystemic Therapy (a family- & community-based treatment for serious antisocial behavior in youth); systemic correlates and causes of child and adult psychopathology; developmental sequalae of child and adult maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect)
Charles Borduin
882-4740

Family Relationship and Adolescent Development Lab
Impact of parent-child and sibling relationships on adolescent social development.
Nicole Campione-Barr

Infant Cognition Lab
Infants’ understanding about agents; infants’ knowledge of physical objects and substances
Yuyan Luo
882-6683

Learning and Neuroscience Laboratory
This laboratory investigates the behavioral and neural mechanisms of learning in animals as well as human subjects research involving intrinsic/internalized motivation and values.
Todd R. Schachtman

MU Math Study
Dave Geary

Memory and Cognitive Aging Laboratory
Moshe Naveh-Benjamin

Peer Relations Lab
Development of friendships and peer relations; effects of relationships on social and emotional outcomes in youth
Amanda Rose
884-7387

Perception and Cognition Laboratory
Human cognition, perception, memory, statistical modeling
Jeff Rouder

Personality Labs
Tim Trull

Reflective Judgment Lab
Phillip K. Wood

Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
basic aspects of social cognition including person perception and aggression, and how these processes are affected by alcohol consumption
Bruce Bartholow

Working Memory Development Lab
Nelson Cowan

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Brain Imaging Center

MARC (Midwest Alcoholism Research Center)

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