Psychology
Faculty
Alan
B. Cobo-Lewis, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, 1992)
Associate Professor of Psychology. Teaching Interests: perception,
quantitative psychology. Research Interests: visual perception,
language development, statistical and computational methods.
Alan.Cobo-Lewis@umit.maine.edu
Erika
K. Coles, Ph.D. (University at Buffalo, State University
of New York, 2006). Assistant Professor.Teaching Interests:
Behavior modification, developmental psychopathologyResearch
Interests: Behavioral and combined treatment for ADHD; parent
training, treatment effectiveness of school- and home-based
interventions for ADHD. Erika.Coles@umit.maine.edu
Rebecca E.Eilers,
Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle, 1972) Presidential
Professor. Teaching interests: child development, infancy, parenting
and cognitive and language development. Research interests:
language development, bilingualism, precursors to speech in
infancy, and parenting. Rebecca.Eilers@umit.maine.edu
Merrill
F. Elias, Ph.D. (Purdue University, 1963) M.P.H. (Boston
University, 1996), Professor. Teaching interests: biostatistics,
behavioral epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology. Research
interests: cardiovascular-epidemiology and cognition, relations
among aging, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular disease
risk factors and cognitive performance. mfelias@aol.com
Shawn Ell, Ph.D.
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003), Assistant Professor.
Teaching interests: statistics, research design and methodology,
brain & behavior, learning and memory, sensation and perception,
cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational
modeling. Research interests: neurobiology of learning and memory,
categorization, skill learning, implicit and explicit memory,
computational modeling, working memory, basal ganglia, cognitive
neuroscience.Shawn.Ell@umit.maine.edu
Cynthia
A. Erdley, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 1992), Associate
Professor, and Undergraduate Coordinator. Teaching interests:
child and adolescent psychology, social development. Research
interests: social cognition, children's peer relationships.
Cynthia.Erdley@umit.maine.edu
G. William Farthing, (University
of Missouri, 1969), Professor. Teaching interests: Evolutionary
psychology, motivation, cognition, general psychology. Research
interests: risk-taking behavior; decision processes; evolutionaryapproaches
to thinking and behavior.G.W.Farthing@umit.maine.edu
Thane
E. Fremouw, Ph.D.
(University of Utah, 1998), Assistant Professor. Teaching interests:
cognition, cognitive neuroscience, learning. Research interests:neural
mechanisms of auditory processing, category learning, memory
and attention.Thane.Fremouw@umit.maine.edu
Donald S. Hayes,
Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1975), Associate Professor and coordinator.
Teaching interests: child psychology, cognitive development.
Research interests: media effects in children, children's memory
functioning. Donald.Hayes@umit.maine.edu
Marie
J. Hayes , Ph.D. (Northeastern University, 1979),
Professor. Teaching interests: infancy and early childhood,
developmental theory, developmental psychobiology. Research
interests: behavior of human neonates, ontogeny of sleep and
arousal mechanisms, assessment of function in infancy. Marie.Hayes@umit.maine.edu
Jeffrey
E. Hecker, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1986), Professor,
Psychology Department Chair. Teaching interests: clinical psychology,
psychotherapy research. Research interests: anxiety disorders,
cognitive behavior therapy, juvenile sex offending. Jeff.Hecker@umit.maine.edu
Peter
J. LaFreniere, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1982),
Professor, and Director of the Child Study Center. Teaching
interests: ethology, emotional development, family and peer
relations. Research interests: developmental psychopathology,
anxiety and social withdrawal, cooperation and competition.
Peter.LaFreniere@umit.maine.edu
Shannon
McCoy, Ph.D. (University
of California, Santa Barbara, 2003),
Assistant Professor. Teaching interests: social psychology,
statistics, methodology. Research interests: social psychological
study of the self, social identity, and social stigma.
Shannon.McCoy@umit.maine.edu
Douglas
W. Nangle, Ph.D. (West Virginia University, 1993), Professor,
and Director of Clinical Training. Teaching interests: abnormal
psychology, advanced clinical assessment, child and adolescent
psychotherapy. Research interests: child and adolescent peer
relations; adolescent other-sex social interactions and competence;
social skills assessment and intervention.. Doug.Nangle@umit.maine.edu
Michael
A. Robbins, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1985), Research Associate Professor. Teaching interests: statistics and research methods, personality, environmental and health psychology. Research interests: relations of health behaviors and vascular disease risk factors with cognitive functioning and quality of life. Michael.Robbins@umit.maine.edu
Alan
M. Rosenwasser, Ph.D. (Northeastern University,
1980), Professor. Teaching interests: physiological psychology,
animal behavior. Research interests: psychobiology of biological
rhythms and motivated behavior. Alan.Rosenwasser@umit.maine.edu
Sandra
T. Sigmon, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina-Greensboro,
1989), Professor. Teaching interests: abnormal psychology, advanced
psychopathology, health psychology. Research interests: seasonal
affective disorder, depression, coping with stress and health-related
problems, gender issues in psychopathology. Sandra.Sigmon@umit.maine.edu
Laurence
D. Smith, Ph.D. (University of New Hampshire, 1982),
Associate Professor. Teaching interests: history of psychology,
philosophy of science, statistics. Research interests: history
and philosophy of psychology, psychology of science, graphical
perception. Larry.Smith@umit.maine.edu
Geoffrey
L. Thorpe, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, 1973), ABPP
Professor, . Teaching interests: abnormal psychology, behavior
therapy. Research interests: behavior therapy, anxiety disorders.
Geoffrey.Thorpe@umit.maine.edu
Associated Faculty
Craig Mason, Ph.D. Associate
Professor of Education & Applied Quantitative Methods. Teaching
Interests: statistics and methodology,. Research Interests:
developmental epidemiology, biobehavioral informatics.
April O'Grady,Ph.D. (University
of Maine, 2002), Director of Psychological Services. Clinical
Interests: cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety, mood and
obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and forensic assessment
Raymond C. Russ, Ph.D.
(University of Maine, 1977), Research Associate. Editor, Journal
of Mind and Behavior.Shihfen
Tu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Education & Applied
Quantitative Methods, Co-Coordinator of Research and Evaluation
at the Center for Community Inclusion. Teaching Interests: statistics,
cognition,. Research Interests: cognition.
Linda Yelland, Ph. D.
(University of Maine, 1993). Teaching interests: history and
systems of psychology, social psychology, learning, principles
of psychological research, and general psychology. Research
interests: beliefsystems and stereotype change.
Emeritus Faculty
Joel
A. Gold, Ph.D. (Colorado State University, 1966),
Research interests: attraction (love, equity), social memory,
attitude change.
Roger B. Frey, Ph.D. (University
of Maine, 1966), Research interests: animal psychophysics, biorhythms.
Gordon E. Kulberg, Ph.D.
(Vanderbilt University, 1965),. Research interests: abnormal
psychology, psychology and law.
Colin Martindale,
Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1970), . Research interests: aesthetics,
cognition, creativity.
Richard
M. Ryckman, Ph.D. (State University of New York at
Buffalo, 1968), . Research interests: competitive attitudes
and physical and mental health, physical self-efficacy,
body image and stereotyping, health psychology, sport psychology.
William F. Stone, Ph.D. (University of Florida, 1963), Research
interests: polital psychology.
