Faculty Research Areas

Professor of Psychology

Research interests include cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on memory, and include topics such as eyewitness memory, face recognition biases, illusory/false memories, the effects of photographs on the acceptance of information, and the testing effect.

 CHSS 375

 (936) 294-3049

 jeff.anastasi@shsu.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests include the conceptualization, assessment, and diagnosis of personality disorders, with particular focus on the use of dimensional trait models in understanding personality psychopathology.

 CHSS 378

 (936)294-4745

 jla068@shsu.edu

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Clinical Training

Research interests include: adversarial allegiance in expert witness opinions, agreement among forensic evaluators, field reliability, and validity of procedures used in forensic assessment.

 CHSS 386

 (936) 294-1179

 boccaccini@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include borderline personality disorder etiology, personality disorder taxonomy, and the assessment of personality pathology in youth.

 CHSS 316

 (936)294-2434

 kec112@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include how social and cognitive principles are at play within the legal system. This includes eyewitness identification, jury decision-making, and deception detection.

 CHSS 311

 (936)294-3874

 dkc025@shsu.edu

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Director of the Psychological Services Center

Research interests include: forensic clinical psychology, risk assessment,and  civil commitment evaluations.

 (936) 294-3806

 maconroy@shsu.edu

Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: psychometrics, peer victimization, and the psychology of religion and spirituality.

 CHSS 290

 (936) 294-2202

 crosby@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: developing school-based preventive programs, such as the Mindful Ambassadors Program for college students; evaluating the acceptability, feasibility, and sustainability of mental health or educational programs; and incorporating spirituality and religiosity into clinical practice.

 CHSS 377

 (936) 294-4161

 gxe020@shsu.edu

Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training

Research interests include: family psychology. juvenile substance abuse treatment, college student alcohol use, exercise-based interventions, and advanced data analytic methodology.  

 CHSS 379

 (936)294-3601

 ceh003@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: cognitive and affective neuroscience, with an emphasis on emotion-cognition interactions. Topics include visual search and attention trainability, basic emotion theory, the influence of emotions on decision-making, positive-negative process interactions, and the translation of neuroscience findings into clinical interventions using behavioral and neuroimaging approaches. 

 CHSS 318

 (936)294-1176

 khu@shsu.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Chair

Research interests include developmental psychology, youth mental health, early life adversity, positive parenting practices, parent-child attachment, parental emotion socialization, gratitude, intimate partner violence, children’s eyewitness testimony, autobiographical memory, the development of prosocial behaviors/emotions, juvenile delinquency, and parenting interventions.

 CHSS 376

 (936)294-3260

 hxl022@shsu.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests center around health psychology, eating disorders, pain, and assessment psychology, with a particular focus on presurgical psychological assessment and how psychopathology predicts various medical and treatment outcomes.

 CHSS 309

 (936)294-3614

 rxm147@shsu.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the School Psychology Program

Research interests include: school psychology, autism spectrum disorders, and English language learners.

 CHSS 385

 (936)294-4310

 psy_rmn@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: sociocultural factors that influence sexual trauma recovery, with a focus on PTSD, health-related behaviors such as exercise and eating habits, and how survivor gender shapes experiences of stigma and victim blaming.

 CHSS 310

 (936) 294-4662

 Faith.Nomamiukor@shsu.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology

Research interests include health psychology, mindfulness meditation, and behavioral interventions to improve health and quality of life for medically ill patients.

 CHSS 310

 (936)294-4662

 cgr024@shsu.edu

Professor of Psychology
Master's Program Coordinator

Research interests include: Family systems, Attachment relationships throughout the lifespan, Trauma and Loss, Couple and Family Therapy.

 CHSS 380

 (936)294-1178

 sxr142@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include identifying systems change and reform efforts to implement multi-tiered systems of supports frameworks to enhance social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health services, as well as crisis prevention, intervention, and postvention initiatives and practices in schools.

 CHSS 317

 (936) 294-4709

 nls046@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include: clinical health psychology, behavioral medicine, well-being, and integrated health care at the individual and health-system levels.

 CHSS 307

 (936) 294-1180

 ghs003@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include learning disabilities and the neuropsychological correlates of academic achievement.

CHSS 323

(936)294-1177

 efv006@shsu.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Research interests include forensic assessment, psychometrics (especially of forensic assessment instruments), and the identification, assessment, and treatment of individuals with intellectual disability in criminal legal settings.

 CHSS 326

 (936)294-3377

 mew095@shsu.edu