Research Labs
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| Adolescent & Young Adult Health Risk Study | Lynne Cooper | 124 Psychology Building |
Alcohol Cognitions Lab Lab Flyer |
Denis M. McCarthy | 201 Noyes Hall |
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Alcohol, Health, and Behavior Laboratory Flyer |
Kenneth J. Sher | |
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Behavior and Addictions Research Lab Our lab aims to enhance understanding of how and why people change their health behaviors (e.g., addiction, sleep, nutrition). |
Mary Beth Miller | Missouri Psychiatric Center in the University Hospital |
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Behavioral Neuroscience Investigating motivational circuits mediating drug and natural rewards, including feeding and exercise |
Matthew J. Will | |
| Brainstorm | Jason Craggs | |
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Center for Translational Neuroscience Our laboratory studies Neuropsychopharmacology using animal models. |
Dennis K. Miller | Center for Translational Neuroscience, 7th Floor, Medical Sciences Building |
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Child & Adolescent Therapy Research Group Lab Flyer |
Kristin M. Hawley | 125 Psychology Building |
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Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Research at my lab deals with the neural basis of attention, awareness, and action. Event-related potentials (ERPs), startle-blink, and neuroimaging techniques are used to identify the locus and time course of relevant brain processes in normal and neurologically impaired adults. |
Steven A. Hackley | 108 Psychology Building |
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Clinical Neuropsychology Lab Research in the CNL lab focuses on neurocognitive development in children with and without neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g, autism, phenylketonuria). Methods utilized include behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, sMRI, DTI). |
Shawn E. Christ | 329 Noyes Hall |
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Cognitive and Emotional Control Lab Research on the nature of cognitive and emotional control and their role in schizophrenia Lab Flyer |
John G. Kerns | 208 Psychology Building |
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Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Our lab is currently involved in research on autism, dementia, cognitive effects of stress, the cognitive neuroscience of problem solving ability, functional neuroimaging, and pharmacological modulation of cognition. |
David Beversdorf | Thompson Center, Suite 110 |
| Davis-Stober Lab | Clintin P. Davis-Stober | |
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Developmental Cognition Lab Our lab investigates infants' and young children's early understanding of number, time, and space. We are interested in learning what infants know about the world around them and how their knowledge changes over time. Developmental Cognition Lab Flyer |
Kristy vanMarle | 100 McAlester Hall |
| Drug Motivation Laboratory | Thomas M. Piasecki | |
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Evolution and Cognitive Development Primarily, our lab does longitudinal research on development of mathematical cognition in children, and associated learning disabilities. Our studies in evolution currently focus on sex differences in vulnerability to stressors. Lab Flyer |
David C. Geary | 132 Psychology |
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Existential Motivation Lab Lab Flyer |
Jamie Arndt | |
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Family and Child Development Lab Research conducted in our lab focuses on the legacy of children's early experiences with parents for social and emotional development across the life course. |
Ashley Groh | 408 Noyes Hall |
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Family Assessment Lab Our lab has several lines of research focusing on youths and their social systems: development & dissemination of family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders; identification of risk factors for youth criminality; & sequelae of different forms of maltreatment in children and adolescents. Lab Flyer |
Charles M. Borduin | 222 Psychology Building |
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Family Relationships & Adolescent Development Lab We conduct research on parent-adolescent and adolescent sibling relationships and their interplay within the broader family system as well as their impacts on adolescent adjustment. |
Nicole Campione-Barr | 209 Noyes Hall |
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Gene-Brain-Behavior Relations Lab Research in the lab focuses on genetic contributions to the development of externalizing spectrum disorders such as substance dependence, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and antisocial behavior. |
Ian Gizer | |
| Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory | Wendy Slutske | |
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Infant Cognition Lab Our research examines what infants and young children know about the world around them. For example, what do they know about agents' intentions and perceptions? What do infants and young children know about social interactions? What do infants know about physical objects and substances? By finding out answers to questions like these, We hope to better understand how infants and preschoolers acquire knowledge and how this development influences cognition more generally. Flyer |
Yuyan Luo | 14 McAlester Hall |
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Medical Decision Research Lab (MDRL) We broadly seek to apply decision psychology and behavioral economics to inform practical problems in medical decision making. Recent work has focused on applications to Clinical Decision Support Systems and Patient Decision Aids. Medical Decision Research Lab flyer |
Victoria Shaffer | 220 Noyes |
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Memory and Cognitive Aging Laboratory ***NOTE - I will be considering doctoral applicants for the Fall 2020 academic year*** Research at our laboratory concerns fundamental issues regarding human memory processes and structures. One line of this research explores the interplay between attention and memory, and another line of research investigates the mechanisms responsible for the adult-age changes in episodic memory. |
Moshe Naveh-Benjamin | 9B McAlester |
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Memory and Neuroimaging Lab Research in the lab focuses on episodic memory and uses two non-invasive brain imaging techniques: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). |
Jeffrey Johnson | 126 Psychology Building |
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Mindfulness of Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations Lab Flyer |
Ann Bettencourt | |
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Neuroscience and Learning Laboratory The lab studies Alzheimer's disease and diet, spatial learning and conditioning, and competition between predictors during human judgments Flyer |
Todd R. Schachtman | |
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Peer Relations Lab The research conducted by the peer relations lab is aimed at learning about the friendships and other peer relationships of children and adolescence. There is a particular focus on gender differences in these relationships and on how these relationships impact psychological adjustment. Flyer |
Amanda Rose | 403 Noyes Hall |
| Personality and Emotion Laboratory | Timothy Trull | 219 Psychology Building |
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Personality Dynamics Lab Lab Flyer |
Laura A. King | 319 Noyes Hall |
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Positive Youth Development Lab The Positive Youth Development Lab focuses on the contributors to resilience and flourishing from late childhood to emerging adulthood. The lab's current research addresses parent-adolescent interactions and outcomes, as well as aspects of college adult reasoning and adjustment. Positive Youth Development Lab Flyer |
Jordan Booker | 205 McAlester |
| Psychometrics & Computing | Ed Merkle | |
| Rehabilitation Neuroscience Laboratory | Scott Frey | |
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Sheldon Motivation lab We study goals, motivation, well-being, priming, personality, materialism, and values (and that's just the short list!) |
Ken Sheldon | 102 Noyes |
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Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience Lab The Social Cognitive and Addiction Neuroscience Lab is focused on understanding the neurocognitive and affective mechanisms underlying cognitive control; its importance for social behaviors; its impairment by alcohol consumption; and its status as an endophenotype for alcohol use disorder. Lab Flyer |
Bruce D. Bartholow | 121 Psychology Building |
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Working Memory Laboratory We conduct research on auditory and visual working memory and attention, in children and adults. Working Memory Lab flyer |
Nelson Cowan | McAlester Hall Annex |
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Youth Anxiety and Depression Lab Our lab examines cognitive, behavioral and interpersonal experiences that may serve as risk or protective factors anxiety and/or depression in youth. |
Debora Bell |