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Peiyao Chen

Dan Scheibe

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Claudia Thompson

Alyssa Clark

Degrees B.A., Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University M.S., Developmental Psych, Illinois State University Ph.D., Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Connecticut

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Meredith Hope

Focusing on the relationship between race and religious identity, Hope serves as an assistant professor of psychology.

Bryan Karazsia

Bryan T. Karazsia

Karazsia studies topics in clinical and pediatric psychology and works to better the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults by contributing to the scientific understanding of their behavior.

Nathan Foster

Nathan Foster

Interested in cognitive psychology, Foster studies human memory, metacognition, concept learning, and intentional forgetting to answer important questions about the ways that students learn.

Michael Casey

Michael Casey

Interested in prenatal, child, and adolescent development, Casey studies topics within developmental psychology including attachment, development of laterality, and temperament.

Amber Garcia

Amber Garcia

Garcia works with undergraduate students to investigate the psychology of gender, personality, and prejudice. She has presented at conferences across The United States on various topics within social psychology related to diversity and prejudice.

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Mary Spencer

Susan Clayton

Susan Clayton

Known for her work with the American Psychological Association on the psychological impacts of climate change, Clayton studies social justice and sustainability through a psychological lens.

Grit Herzmann

Grit Herzmann

Working with undergraduate students, Herzmann studies memory and cognition relating to facial recognition. Herzmann is especially interested in “the other race effect,” a phenomenon that describes the increased facial recognition of people of the same race as oneself.

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Amy Jo Stavnezer

Stavnezer is interested in behavioral neuroscience and works with students to investigate the role of sex in the completion of complex tasks and the effect of environmental factors on learning and memory in mice and rats.