The Faculty in the Department of Psychology are involved in a variety of ongoing research projects and programs. Take a look at what we are doing!
If you would like to know more, please feel free to visit the faculty member's Web page and or contact them via email.

	Anita Blanchard	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/alblanch
	How do people develop and maintain relationships in online groups.
	Art Blume	Email:
	The cognitive and contextual factors that may influence addictive behavioral change.
	Kim Buch	Email:
	The processes of learning, development, and change at the individual, group, and organizational levels, with a special interest in formal change programs promoting employee involvement and quality improvement.
	Lawrence Calhoun	Email:
	Predictors, correlates, and consequences of posttraumatic growth, i.e., the experience of positive change that can emerge from the struggle with a highly stressful event. (with Richard Tedeschi) Posttraumatic Growth Web Page http://www.ptgi.uncc.edu/
	Arnie Cann	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/acann
	One research program looks at humor, sense of humor, and the positive and negative effects of differences in humor on personal well-being and relationship satisfaction. The second research program, in collaboration with Drs. Calhoun and Tedeschi, looks at the processes involved in posttraumatic growth, the experience of positive change as the result of dealing with highly stressful life events.
	James Cook	Email:
	The use of data and evaluation research to guide system change, program refinement, and service delivery. (with Ryan Kilmer)
	George Demakis	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/gdemakis
	Neuropsychological correlates of Parkinson's Disease, recovery from traumatic brain injury, and meta-analysis.
	Mark Faust	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/mefaust
	Do we have the ability to completely stop mental processes associated with a task when we switch to perform a new task?
	Paul Foos	Email:
	The benefits of aging for memory and cognition; older is often better.
	Jane Gaultney	Email:
	Cognition and behavior in children with sleep disorders; the effect of sleepiness on children.
	Virginia Gil-Rivas	Email:
	The role of cognitive, emotional, and social factors on individuals' psychological adjustment and quality of life following exposure to major stressful events (e.g., disasters, loss of a loved one, chronic illness). Factors associated with health-behavior change and maintenance among adolescents and adults.
	Paula Goolkasian	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka
	Perception and Cognition Research. Recent projects include effects of presentaton format on memory, visual perception and attention, and cognitive factors in chronic pain syndromes. Publications are available from the following Web site www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka
	Nakia Gordon	Email:
	The neuronal influences and relationship between pain and emotion and the cognitive influences on pain.
	Douglas Grimsley	Email:
	Research looks at whether people who prefer to have information presented visually do better at controlling skin temperature and other biofeedback modalities than people who prefer information presented through the auditory system.
	Eric Heggestad	Email:
	Faking or response ditortion in personality assessment
	Mason Haber	Email:
	Development and evaluation of programs of community-based support for youth with serious emotional disturbances in transition to adulthood; Tailoring of evidence-based interventions to developmental needs of youth transitioning to adulthood; Reducing risk of homelessness in late adolescence and young adulthood; Secondary prevention and early intervention to reduce risk behavior problems of adolescents and young adults.
	Susan Johnson	Email:
	Neuropsychology of Multiple Sclerosis, efficacy and prevalence of alternative and complementary medicine, and biopsychosocial approaches to unexplained illness.
	Ryan Kilmer	Email:
	Risk and resilience (i.e. effective coping and adaptation in the face of major life stress) among siblings of children diagnosed with severe emotion disturbances, with an emphasis on factors that foster healthy development under risk conditions (with Jim Cook).
	Jo Ann Lee	Email:
	Can you have it all: Work and Family? Factors affecting workers' capabilities to juggle work and family.
	Richard McAnulty	Email:
	Problems, including infidelity, in college students' dating relationships. Factors that predict self-reported infidelity in intimate relationships.
	Amy Peterman	Email:
	To improve quality of life for people with chronic health conditions like cancer and multiple sclerosis, we must develop and refine meaningful measures of the individual impact of illness and treatment. Current projects include an examination of ways in which multiple sclerosis (and its treatment) interferes with peoples' personal goals; the relationship between cancer treatment side effects, goal interference, and global quality of life; and the use of item banking and item response theory to develop and evaluate comprehensive measures of HRQL in adults and children with neurological conditions.
	Charlie Reeve	Email:
	Application of the quantitative methods of the science of mental abilities to better understand how religiosity and health are positioned within the g-nexus. For example, it is well documented that IQ predicts health and mortality within and across population groups. However, it remains unclear exactly how intelligences comes to influence health and mortality, or wide a range of psychological and physical health outcomes are influenced by differences in g.
	Steven Rogelberg	Email:
	The health and well-being of employees doing "dirty work" - that is, work that is mandated, yet morally stigmatized by society, for example, animal shelter workers who have euthanasia responsibilities. Examining the proliferation of meetings in organizations - - work on meeting burnout, meeting culture and meeting effectiveness.
	Linda Shanock	Email:
	Employee-employer relationships, including predictors and outcomes of perceived organizational support; supervisor job attitudes and their influence on treatment of subordinates, job stress and employee well-being. For more information on perceived organizational support including the measure, please visit: http://pos.psych.udel.edu
	Sue Spaulding	Email: Website: www.psych.uncc.edu/sspauldi
	Adapting teaching methods, strategies, and technology to improve learning, especially in large classes.
	Richard Tedeschi	Email:
	Predictors, correlates, and consequences of posttraumatic growth, i.e., the experience of positive change that can emerge from the struggle with a highly stressful event (with Lawrence Calhoun).
	William Scott Terry	Email:
	Individual differences that affect the experience of "seeing yourself" in your memories, such as anxiety, obsessiveness, dissociative tendencies, and body image. Gender and spatial cognitive performance.
	Lori VanWallendael	Email:
	Factors affecting the reliability of eyewitness memory and the likelihood of false conviction resulting from mistaken eyewitness memory (with Brian Cutler).
	Jennifer B. Webb	Email:
	Her research program is interested in identifying biopsychosocial risk and resilience factors (e.g., body image, ethnic identity, stress, positive emotionality, emotion regulation style, eating behavior) for weight gain among ethnically diverse women at important developmental transitions (e.g., during college and pregnancy). Research is also concerned with exploring how Eastern-based therapeutic technologies (e.g., mindfulness meditation, acceptance) may positively impact weight, eating, appetite and metabolism among overweight and obese individuals.