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Faculty
Our faculty is comprised of individuals
from many different departments,
with a wide variety of specialties and areas of interest.
Click
on an
individual to discover more about his or her research focus.
Faculty
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Research interests
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Paul
Devereux
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Health
and well-being; specifically, social support and emotion
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Marta
Elliott
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Health,
mental illness |
William
Evans
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Adolescent
risk, resiliency, and developmental issues;
specific focus on youth violence and suicide |
Jennifer
Greer
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Media
effects, audience research, gender and diversity issues,
media content, political communication, and online
communication |
Markus
Kemmelmeier
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Culture,
intergroup relations, social judgment, group
dynamics, social issues, political psychology
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Karen
Kopera-Frye
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Social
relationships in the later adult years, broadly construed,
with particular interests in intergenerational relations.
Current
research includes projects in 1) custodial grandparenting
and 2)
well-being, lifestyle behaviors, and
health patterns among elders
of color (particularly Latinos and Native Americans). |
Monica
Miller
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Social psychology
and law: jury decision making; the role of
religion in the trial process; legal regulation of sex, procreation
and family; how social cognitive processes affect community
sentiment; courtroom stress; victim decision making;
Psychology of Amber Alert |
Colleen
Murray
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Life
experiences of adolescent females, social
construction of meaning in relation to the period of adolescence
and families, bereaved
parents and surviving siblings, methodological
issues in family research |
James
Richardson
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Social
Psychology and Sociology of Law: Litigation Research, focusing
on juries and judges, Social and Behavioral Science Evidence,
Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Sociology
of Religion and New Religious Movements, Law and Religion
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Yvonne
Stedham
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organizations
and business ethics, with special
attention to gender and cultural contexts |
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social
deviance, family, family violence and gender
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Judith
Sugar
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life-span
health, aging, research methodology, and higher
education issues |
Daniel
Weigel
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Interpersonal
relationships and communication; family
relationships; early literacy development of young children |
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| Adjunct
faculty |
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Roni Dahir
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roni@unr.nevada.edu |
Shirley Dobbin
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sdobbin@ncjfcj.org
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Sophie Gatowski
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sgatowski@ncjfcj.org |
Paul La Marca
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plamarca@doe.nv.gov |
Mara
Merlino
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mara@unr.nevada.edu |
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Emeritus/a faculty
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Research interests
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Deborah Ballard-Reisch
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Marital commitment, relationship maintenance and marital satisfaction; families coping with cancer, client/provider
interaction in health, women's health in Russia, perceptions of femininity and masculinity; narrative theory and the social
sciences. |
Ronald Dillehay
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Social psychology and law; attitude structure, function and
change; authoritarianism |
Gerald Ginsburg
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Social Psychophysiology, emotion, science and the law |
Laurie Larwood
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development and application of social psychological theory
regarding organizations and the management process
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