Psychology Faculty

Patricia Bach
Assistant Professor
Acceptance and commitment therapy; Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and the role of verbal behavior in psychopathology and problem behavior; disordered eating; stigma

Joyce Hopkins
Associate Professor
Attachment, socio-emotional development in high-risk infants, risk factors for behavioral and emotional disorders in young children

M. Ellen Mitchell
Professor and Dean of the College of Psychology
Social support, family marital therapy, personality, Internet use, human issues in technology

Robert C. Schleser
Professor
Developmental issues, educational evaluation

Michael Young
Professor
Cognitive models of depression, seasonal affective disorder, statistical modeling of psychopathology

Industrial/Organizational Psychology Faculty

Roya Ayman
Professor and Director of I/O Psychology Training Program
Leadership and team effectiveness, cross-cultural research, work and family interface, women and minorities in management, organizational climate, and work attitudes and behaviors

Kemp Ellington
Assistant Professor
Training evaluation and effectiveness, performance appraisal issues such as rater effects, contextual influences, and developmental feedback
Ron Landis
Nambury S. Raju Professor of Psychology
Quantitative research methods, measurement, philosophy of science, personnel selection, individual and team performance, and recruitment

Alan Mead
Assistant Professor
Methodological research areas, including applications of psychometric theory and the impact of technology; personality theory
Scott Morris
Associate Dean
Associate Professor
Personnel selection and discrimination issues such as sex bias and stereotyping, as well as quantitative and research methodology such as effect size
Jordan Stein
Assistant Professor
Examining organizational justice and related phenomena over time

Rehabilitation Psychology Faculty

Patrick Corrigan
Associate Dean of Psychology Research
Distinguished Professor
Psychiatric disabilities and rehabilitation, stigma and stigma change of disabling conditions
Glen O. Geist
Professor Emeritus
Private rehabilitation, job placement
Nicole Ditchman
Assistant Professor
School-to-work transition, sense of community, reciprocity in social relationships of individuals with disabilities, assessing meaningful community engagement
Chow S. Lam
Distinguished IIT Professor
Deficit awareness in traumatic brain injury, cross-cultural rehabilitation, stages of change and treatment matching intervention
Frank Lane
Assistant Professor and Head, Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology Programs
Assistive technology, attitudes towards people with disabilities, attitude measurement, hate crimes against people with disabilities, access to the criminal justice system by people with disabilities
Jon Larson
Assistant Professor
Psychiatric rehabilitation, employment for individuals with severe mental illness, mental illness stigma, evidence-based practice dissemination, staff burnout, and rehabilitation leadership
Eun-Jeong Lee
Assistant Professor
Cognitive vulnerability model of depression for people with disabilities, positive psychology and disability, psychosocial aspects of disability, research methodologies, and epilepsy rehabilitation

Other Specialties and Undergraduate Advisors

Jennifer Miller
Assistant Professor
Development of communication in complex social networks
Margaret Huyck
Professor Emeritus
Developmental psychology
Allen Wolach
Professor Emeritus
Statistical packages, learning models

Faculty of other programs advise undergraduate students as well.

Center for Research and Service

Bruce Fisher
Director, Center for Research and Service

Center for Disability Resources