Faculty
Justin Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Interests include: implementation science and using single case design methods to empirically examine the effectiveness of academic and behavioral interventions.
CHSS 323
(936)294-1177
Jeff Anastasi, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: a focus on cognitive psychology with an emphasis on memory and includes various topics such as eyewitness memory, face recognition biases, illusory/false memories, effects of photographs on acceptance of information, and the testing effect.
CHSS 375
(936) 294-3049
Jaime L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant 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
Marcus Boccaccini, Ph.D.
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.
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(936) 294-1179
Daniella Cash, Ph.D.
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.
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(936)294-3874
Mary Alice Conroy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Clinic Director
Research interests include: forensic clinical psychology risk assessment, civil commitment evaluations
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(936) 294-3806
James Crosby, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: psychometrics, peer victimization, and the psychology of religion and spirituality
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(936) 294-2202
Donna Desforges, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: social psychology, social cognition, group dynamics, cross-cultural psychology
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(936)294-1174
Dr. Laura Drislane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include psychopathy, impulse control (“externalizing”) disorders, dimensional models of psychopathology, psychophysiology, quantitative methods, scale development and psychometrics.
CHSS 308
(936)294-1507
Gulden Esat, Ph.D.
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 in clinical practice.
CHSS 377
(936) 294-4161
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Craig Henderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology/Interim Director of Clinical Training
Research interests include: family psychology. juvenile substance abuse treatment, college student alcohol use, exercise-based interventions, advanced data analytic methodology.
CHSS 379
(936)294-3601
Hillary Langley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: developmental psychology; the development of children's social, emotional, and cognitive skills during the preschool and elementary school years; examining the impact of parent-child conversations on children's autobiographical memory and prosocial behaviors/emotions, particularly gratitude.
CHSS 336
(936)294-3260
Adam P. Natoli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: 1) The psychological and physiological processes evoked by different methods of measurement and their involvement in multimethod assessment; 2) The dynamics underlying personality’s context-specific variability; and 3) Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches to conceptualizing and treating personality and psychopathology.
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(936)294-1176
Ramona Noland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, School Psychology Program
Research interests include: school psychology, autism spectrum disorders, and English language learners
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(936)294-4310
Chelsea Ratcliff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include health psychology, mindfulness meditation, behavioral interventions to improve health and quality of life for medically ill patients.
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(936)294-4662
Shelley A. Riggs, Ph.D.
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
Jared R. Ruchensky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include personality disorders (particularly psychopathy), the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, forensic psychology, psychological assessment of constructs relevant to forensic/correctional settings.
(936)294-2434
Tiffany D. Russell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Interests include: predicting the perpetration of general and sexual violence in males and females. I explore issues such as childhood maltreatment, juvenile delinquency, hostile masculinity/femininity, evolutionary drives, and substance use in the perpetration of violence. Additionally, I have lines of study focused on scale development, as well as applying the dimensional model of personality disorders in clinical settings, under-served populations (e.g., LGBTQ+ patients), and forensic populations.
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(936)294-3614
Temilola Salami, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar
Research interests include a focus on health disparities, and understanding how sociocultural, cognitive and interpersonal factors interact in the development of PTSD, depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
CHSS 307
(936)294-1180
Nicholas L. Scheel, Ph.D., NCSP
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: identifying systems change and reform efforts in implementing multi-tiered system 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
Diane Stoebner-May, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include anxiety disorders, depression, trichotillomania and logotherapy.
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(936)294-1720
Jorge G. Varela, Ph.D.
Department Chair/Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: cultural and linguistic (Spanish) diversity issues in forensic psychology, particularly forensic assessment. I also maintain professional interests in law enforcement psychology as well as military psychology
CHSS 390C
(936)294-3052
Stephen White, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include: the development, validation, and utilization of animal models of psychiatric syndromes for research, translational validity of animal models, pre-clinical drug discovery focusing on identifying novel antidepressants.
CHSS 306
(936) 294-1173