Research Labs | Psychology Department

Lab	Director	Lab Location
Adolescent & Young Adult Health Risk Study	Lynne Cooper	124 Psychology Building
Alcohol Cognitions Lab Flyer	Denis M. McCarthy	201 Noyes Hall
Alcohol, Health, and Behavior Laboratory	Kenneth J. Sher
Attitude and Decision Making Lab	Laura Scherer	Psychology Building 202/204
Behavioral Neuroscience Investigating motivational circuits mediating drug and natural rewards, including feeding and exercise	Matthew J. Will	347 Bond Life Sciences Center
Brainstorm	Jason Craggs
Center for Translational Neuroscience Our laboratory studies Neuropsychopharmacology using animal models.	Dennis K. Miller	Center for Translational Neuroscience, 7th Floor, Medical Sciences Building
Child & Adolescent Therapy Research Group	Kristin M. Hawley	125 Psychology Building
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. Flyer	Steven A. Hackley	108 Psychology Building
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
Cognitive and Emotional Control Lab Research on the nature of cognitive and emotional control and their role in schizophrenia Flyer	John G. Kerns	208 Psychology Building
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
Conditioning and Neuroscience Associative Learning; Glutamate receptors and learning and behavior; Stimulus competition during associative and attributional processes Flyer	Todd R. Schachtman
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	324 Noyes Hall
Drug Motivation Laboratory	Thomas M. Piasecki
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
Existential Motivation Lab	Jamie Arndt
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. Flyer	Ashley Groh	408 Noyes Hall
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.	Charles M. Borduin	222 Psychology Building
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
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
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
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
Memory and Cognitive Aging Laboratory 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
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	113C Noyes Hall
Mindfulness of Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations Mindfulness and Intergroup Relations Lab flyer	Ann Bettencourt
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.	Amanda Rose	403 Noyes Hall
Perception and Cognition Lab We study human memory and information processing using statistical and mathematical modeling approaches (undergraduate research opportunities available).	Jeff Rouder	203 Psychology Building
Personality and Emotion Laboratory	Timothy Trull	219 Psychology Building
Personality Dynamics Lab Personality Dynamics Lab Flyer	Laura A. King	319 Noyes Hall
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
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. Flyer	Bruce D. Bartholow	121 Psychology Building
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
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