Name | Area | Research Question |
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Paul R. Abramson |
Interdisciplinary
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What is the interface between sexuality and the law? |
Howard S. Adelman |
Clinical Psychology
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How can schools best address barriers to learning and teaching and re-engage disconnected students? |
Avi Adhikari |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do interactions between brain regions modulate fear, anxiety and related behaviors? |
Robert Asarnow |
Clinical Psychology
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Bruce Baker |
Clinical Psychology
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What child, family, and school factors contribute to the heightened risk for psychiatric disorders in youth with developmental delays across childhood and adolescence? |
Carrie Bearden |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the risk factors that lead to the development of serious mental illness in adolescence? |
Jackson Beatty |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Steve Bennoun |
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What are the best strategies to support student learning? |
Peter M. Bentler |
Quantitative
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Can statistics for structural equations be improved? Are model-based reliability coefficients better? Can new Guttman scaling rival Rasch or 2PL IRT? Do bifactor rotations or trinary betas ever fail? |
Robert M. Bilder |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the biological bases of cognitive stability and flexibility, and how do the relevant systems interact to impact working memory, creative cognition, and psychopathology? |
James Bisley |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Understanding the neuronal mechanisms underlying the cognitive processing of vision |
Elizabeth Ligon Bjork |
Cognitive Psychology
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How can we optimize human learning, retention, and transfer, and how does forgetting play an adaptive role in remembering? |
Robert A. Bjork |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do we learn...and why don’t we understand how we learn? |
Jan Blacher |
Clinical Psychology
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What predicts successful school outcomes for young children with autism spectrum disorder? |
H. Tad Blair |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How are perceptions, memories, and behaviors encoded by the activity of spiking neurons in the brain? |
Aaron P. Blaisdell |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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What's inside the animal mind? |
Idan Blank |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do different parts of the mind/brain work together such that language "means something"? What mental structures constitute these meanings? How is language related to the rest of “thought”? |
Susan Bookheimer |
Cognitive Psychology
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Julienne Bower |
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology |
How do stressful experiences influence the body and physical health, and what types of psychological processes and interventions can protect against those effects? |
Thomas N. Bradbury |
Clinical Psychology
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Why do some relationships thrive where others falter? |
Tiffany N. Brannon |
Social Psychology
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How can positive aspects of identity (e.g., pride, a sense of connection) inform (a) solutions to social disparities experienced by negatively stereotyped groups and (b) processes that facilitate intergroup attitude change? |
Dean Buonomano |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How does the brain tell time? |
Li Cai |
Quantitative
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Broadly speaking, my methodological research agenda involves the development, integration, and evaluation of innovative latent variable models that have wide-ranging applications in social and behavioral sciences. |
Bridget Callaghan |
Developmental Psychology
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How do early experiences influence emotional, cognitive, physical, and brain development in ways that contribute to mental health and illness? |
Erica Cartmill |
Developmental Psychology
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Alan Castel |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do we remember and why do we forget, and how does this change across the lifespan? How and why do we selectively remember important information, and is this adaptive as we get older? |
Denise A. Chavira |
Clinical Psychology
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How can we optimize the development and delivery of evidence based interventions for underserved communities? |
Patricia Cheng |
Cognitive Psychology
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Why and how do we come to represent the world as we do? |
Bruce Chorpita |
Clinical Psychology
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How can we design systems and treatments that yield the greatest public health impact for children and families? |
Andrew Christensen |
Clinical Psychology
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What interventions are most cost effective in improving couple relationships? |
David Clewett |
Cognitive Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How do emotion and motivation influence attention and memory? |
Mark S. Cohen |
Cognitive Psychology
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Michelle Craske |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the biopsychosocial risk factors for anxiety and depression and how can they be targeted in order to optimize treatment effects? |
Han Du |
Quantitative
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Naomi Eisenberger |
Social Psychology
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Why do our social relationships have such a profound impact on our emotional and physical health? Why does being rejected feel painful, whereas being connected to others feels so good? |
Craig Enders |
Quantitative
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What is best way to analyze psychological data with missing values? |
Chris Evans |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Michael Fanselow |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do we learn, remember and express fear? |
Iris Firstenberg |
Cognitive Psychology
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Craig Fox |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do people make judgments and decisions under conditions of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity? |
Andrew J. Fuligni |
Developmental Psychology
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How do sociocultural experience and biobehavioral development interact during adolescence and young adulthood? |
Adriana Galván |
Developmental Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
What are the neural mechanisms underlying adolescent behavior? |
Tao Gao |
Cognitive Psychology
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Perceptually grounded intelligence |
R. Edward Geiselman |
Interdisciplinary
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Investigative Interviewing of victims and witnesses. |
Karen Givvin |
Developmental Psychology
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How can teachers help students learn math in a way that students can make sense of, remember, and apply? |
Noah Goldstein |
Social Psychology
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Gerald M. Goodman |
Clinical Psychology
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Are the key variables for intimate conversation similar to the variables for maintainig close realtionships?, Are uncommon honesty, acceptance, and expressed empathy preictors of durable, satisfying relationships? |
Patricia M. Greenfield |
Interdisciplinary
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How does culture affect human development? How can we integrate psychology with the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, communication studies, political science, and ethnographic arts to answer this question? |
Carlos V. Grijalva |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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William Grisham |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do sex differences in brain and behavior develop? What digital teaching tools are effective in neuroscience education? |
Elisheva Gross |
Developmental Psychology
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How can an understanding of early development improve educational practices, parenting, and policy? |
Constance Hammen |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the risk factors for onset and course of depression, particularly stress, family, interpersonal, and genetic predictors and how they work together? |
Jesse Harris |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do language users incorporate different sources of information to produce sufficiently rich representations? How do linguistic and extra-linguistic information constrain interpretation during sentence processing? |
Martie Haselton |
Social Psychology
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What can evolutionary thinking tell us about our intimate relationships? |
Hal Hershfield |
Social Psychology
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How can we help move people from who they are now to who they’ll be in the future in a way that maximizes well-being? |
Tiffany Ho |
Clinical Psychology
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What is the role of stress in shaping brain development and how do these neurodevelopmental changes influence the etiology, course, and treatment of depression? |
Eric W. Holman |
Quantitative
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What information about cognitive processes can be gleaned from statistical analyses of large data sources such as classifications and languages? |
Keith Holyoak |
Cognitive Psychology
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What is special about human intelligence? |
Yuen J. Huo |
Social Psychology
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What are the psychological barriers to positive social relations and well-being in diverse groups? |
Michael R. Irwin, MD |
Behavioral Neuroscience
Health Psychology |
What are the psychological, behavioral, and biological factors that contribute to healthy aging, and what strategies can be delivered to reverse adverse biological mechanisms (i.e., inflammation) and prevent chronic diseases of aging? |
Alicia Izquierdo |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How does the brain compute past experience, or reward history, to contribute to decision making at the present time? How does this change in addiction? |
Kerri Johnson |
Social Psychology
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How do we form first impressions of other people from only a glimpse of their face or body? How are multiple identities integrated to yield a single impression of another person? |
Scott Johnson |
Developmental Psychology
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How do infants construct representations of the physical and social environment? |
Jaana Juvonen |
Developmental Psychology
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How do school contextual factors (e.g., ethnic composition, organizational structure) affect peer relationships and student well-being? What psychosocial benefits are associated with diversity (and for whom)? |
Katherine H. Karlsgodt |
Clinical Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
What can neuroimaging tell us about differences in brain structure and function in individuals with schizophrenia? How do such differences relate to cognition and neurodevelopment? |
Benjamin Karney |
Social Psychology
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How do intimate relationships succeed or fail? |
Danielle Keenan-Miller |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the most effective practices in clinical supervision? |
Phil Kellman |
Cognitive Psychology
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How do we visually perceive and represent objects, shapes, scenes, and events, and how do these processes interact with thinking and learning? |
Pamela Kennedy |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do drugs of abuse modify brain cells and circuits to support addictive behaviors? |
Barbara Knowlton |
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology |
How does learning occur in the brain? |
Franklin B. Krasne |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do synaptic changes result in learning, as studied in an invertebrate? How are do mammalian fear-learning circuits work, as studied with computational neural models? |
Anna S. Lau |
Clinical Psychology
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How well do evidence-based treatments, developed and tested in research settings, work in community mental health settings serving diverse and disadvantaged families and children? |
Steve S. Lee |
Clinical Psychology
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What factors predict, mediate, and moderate outcomes of children with ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders? |
Matthew Lieberman |
Social Psychology
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Why are our brains wired to be social? |
Falk Lieder |
Cognitive Psychology
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How can we motivate and enable people to embark on highly impactful altruistic projects and pursue them effectively? |
Zili Liu |
Cognitive Psychology
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Why does the world look the way it is, and with many visual illusions? Why does the percept make sense, from an information processing perspective? |
Hongjing Lu |
Cognitive Psychology
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What are the computational mechanisms underlying human perception and reasoning? How might intelligent machines emulate them? |
Donald G. MacKay |
Cognitive Psychology
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Vickie M. Mays |
Clinical Psychology
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Albert Mehrabian |
Interdisciplinary
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David J. Miklowitz |
Clinical Psychology
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What are the roles of family risk and protective processes and family interventions in the course and treatment of bipolar disorder and psychosis? |
Gregory A. Miller |
Clinical Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How does brain function go awry in schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, and what cognition, emotion, and brain connectivity phenomena help us understand this? |
Martin M. Monti |
Cognitive Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
(i) How does consciousness emerge from neural activity? (ii) What is the relationship between language and thought? |
Amanda Kay Montoya |
Quantitative
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How do we account for dependencies in data when exploring questions of how, when, and their combination? Can repeated-measures designs assist in reducing reproducibility issues? What strengths and weaknesses do these designs have? |
Hector Myers |
Clinical Psychology
Health Psychology |
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Lauren C. Ng |
Clinical Psychology
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What are effective, accessible, and sustainable ways to improve the wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities around the world who have been affected by trauma? |
Keith H. Nuechterlein |
Clinical Psychology
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What is the nature and role of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and how can we remediate them to improve the course of this disorder? |
Melissa Paquette-Smith |
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How do we optimize learning across the lifespan? |
Carolyn Parkinson |
Social Psychology
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How do our brains track and encode information about the structure of our social networks? How does social network position impact cognition and behavior? How do we understand and mentally traverse social, spatial, and temporal distances? |
Letitia Anne Peplau |
Social Psychology
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Efrén Pérez |
Social Psychology
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When and why do social identities become politicized—and with what consequences for mass politics in diversifying nations, like the United States? |
Lara Ray |
Clinical Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How does addiction progress and what treatments best target each stage? |
Steven Paul Reise |
Quantitative
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Do psychological traits apply to all members of a diverse population, or is there important qualitative variation? |
Rena Repetti |
Clinical Psychology
Health Psychology |
How do daily stressors and emotions shape the fabric of family life and, over time, the health of parents and children? |
Dario Ringach |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Jesse Rissman |
Cognitive Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How does the brain create and retrieve memories, and how do we regulate these processes to achieve our goals? |
Theodore Robles |
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology |
How does the quality of our closest relationships (marital and family) affect our health, and what biological mechanisms explain those effects? |
Catherine M. Sandhofer |
Developmental Psychology
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How do children learn and how does the learning environment contribute? |
Philip Sayegh |
Clinical Psychology
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How do culture and other factors affect care-seeking, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment adherence in ethnically diverse individuals with neuromedical illnesses? How do infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C impact neurocognitive function? |
Tara Scanlan |
Social Psychology
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What creates the psychological commitment to persist in developing one's talent? What are the consequences of developing one's talent? |
Stan Schein |
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology |
What new kinds of molecular cages -- important in biology (endocytosis, viruses), chemistry (fullerenes), materials science (nanotubes), mathematics (polyhedra) and architecture (space frames) -- can we discover? |
Christine Dunkel Schetter |
Health Psychology
Social Psychology |
What makes for healthy pregnancy, birth and offspring? Is stress related to adverse outcomes and how? |
David O. Sears |
Social Psychology
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How do race and ethnicity affect American politics -- both in promoting partisanship among ethnic minorities and in eliciting prejudice from whites? |
Ladan Shams |
Cognitive Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How does interaction between the senses affect how we perceive the world, ourselves, and how we learn? How can these interactions be used to improve perception and learning? |
Melissa Sharpe |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How does our brain construct models of our environment on the basis of our unique experience? And how does this process change in psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia? |
Margaret Shih |
Social Psychology
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Alcino Silva |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Molecular, cellular, circuit mechanisms of learning and memory |
Jennifer Silvers |
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology |
How does early adversity impact neurodevelopment? How do children and adolescents regulate their emotions and make decisions? |
Annette L. Stanton |
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology |
What factors promote or impede psychological and physical health in adults undergoing chronically stressful experiences, such as living with a cancer diagnosis, and how can they be targeted in effective interventions? |
James W. Stigler |
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology |
How do people learn things that are hard to learn? Things that are learned over weeks, months, or years? What kinds of teaching methods facilitate deep learning in complex domains? |
Jennifer Sumner |
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology |
How do the experiences of stress and trauma contribute to accelerated aging and risk for chronic disease? |
Nanthia Suthana |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How does the brain support learning and memory? |
Shelley E. Taylor |
Health Psychology
Social Psychology |
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James P. Thomas |
Cognitive Psychology
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A. Janet Tomiyama |
Health Psychology
Social Psychology |
Why do we eat? |
Yalda T. Uhls |
Developmental Psychology
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How do traditional and newer media impact the social behavior of preadolescent and adolescents? |
Miguel Unzueta |
Social Psychology
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Kate Wassum |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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What are the neurochemical mechanisms of motivation and decision making? |
Jill M. Waterman |
Clinical Psychology
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What factors lead to positive outcomes for families adopting children from foster care, and which therapeutic interventions enhance these factors? |
Bernard Weiner |
Social Psychology
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Andrew Wikenheiser |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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How do neural representations subserve behavior? |
Patrick Wilson |
Health Psychology
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How psychological processes and socio-contextual factors interact with one another and relate to health behaviors and outcomes in vulnerable populations? |
Nancy Woolf |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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Cindy Yee-Bradbury |
Clinical Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience |
How do interactions between cognition, emotion, and stress contribute to risk for psychoses and dysfunction in schizophrenia, and do they suggest pathways for intervention? |
Dahlia W. Zaidel |
Behavioral Neuroscience
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