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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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Deborah Davis
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psychology and law, social psychology of aging, attachment and relationship behaviors |
Paul
Devereux
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Health
and well-being; specifically, social support and emotion |
Marta
Elliott
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Health,
mental illness |
Mariah Evans
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social statistics, survey design and methods, culture (especially the social psychology of biotechnologies) social stratification, comparative methods and demography |
William
Evans
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Adolescent
risk, resiliency, and developmental issues;
specific focus on youth violence and suicide |
Gwen Hullman
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Methodological issues related to measuring communication
competence and motivation, the use of varied message
structure in health-related communication events and
campaigns, and the impact of varied message structure on
request message compliance.
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Markus
Kemmelmeier
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Culture,
intergroup relations, social judgment, group
dynamics, social issues, political psychology |
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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Grief and loss in adolescents, families and media; the
application of theory; integration of social psychology of
justice/law and health; integration of social psychology of
justice/law and the developmental social psychology of
adolescence; gender; culture; intimate relationships; research
methodologies
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Clayton Peoples
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Social class/stratification, politics/law, and ethnic
conflict/relations; social structure and personality, power/social
influence, and distributive justice; social network analysis. My
recent and current research projects have examined the impact
of class and values on voting behavior; social influence on
decision making in the political sphere (legislative decisions,
jury decisions); and the impact of discrimination/remediation on
global ethnic conflict |
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 |
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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veronicad@crda.unr.edu |
Sophie Gatowski
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sgatowski@ncjfcj.org |
Paul La Marca
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plamarca@washoe.k12.nv.us |
Mera Merlino
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mara.merlino@kysu.edu |
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Emeritus/a faculty
*not currently accepting advisees
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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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