| Loisa Bennetto | Professor Bennetto’s research focuses on the neurocognitive bases of autism spectrum disorder. Her work examines the role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties and in everyday behaviors. |
| Patrick Davies | Professor Davies’s research interests lie in children's socioemotional adaptation and maladaptation within the context of close interpersonal relationships especially in family contexts. |
| David Dodell-Feder | Professor Dodell-Feder's research aims to understand the processes that contribute to healthy and disordered social functioning, and their improvement, with a particular focus on schizophrenia spectrum disorders. |
| Andrew Elliot | Professor Elliot’s research focuses on approach and avoidance motivation, achievement motivation, social motivation, and well-being. |
| Marie-Joelle Estrada | Professor Estrada's research focuses on interpersonal relationships – specifically romantic relationship initiation and progression over time. Additionally, she also studies how relationships interact with gender, marketing, and health-related concerns. |
| Jeremy Jamieson | Professor Jamieson's research focuses on how stress influences emotions, decisions, and performance, and how emotions can be regulated to optimize stress responses. |
| Bonnie Le | Professor Le's research focuses on well-being in interpersonal relationships with a focus on the role of emotion and motivation. |
| Christopher Niemiec | Professor Niemiec is interested in human motivation, emotion, and personality in social contexts. His research uses self-determination theory to examine the nature and functional significance of autonomy in a variety of life's domains. |
| Christie Petrenko | Professor Petrenko's research focuses on developing and empirically testing novel ways to increase access to care for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) across the lifespan. |
| Harry Reis | Professor Reis’s research interests involve social interaction and close relationships. |
| Ronald Rogge | Professor Rogge’s research focuses on understanding romantic relationships, from the early stages of dating to marriage, with a specific focus on mindfulness and psychological flexibility processes. |
| Karl Rosengren | Professor Rosengren's work focuses on cognitive and motor development and how these interact over the course of development. His work also focuses on how children reason about the world and how cognitive and motor factors influence how they act on the world. |
| Judith Smetana | Professor Smetana’s research examines adolescent-parent relationships and development in cultural contexts; children's moral and social reasoning; and development of parenting beliefs. |
| Lisa Starr | Professor Starr's research focuses on the origins and consequences of depression and anxiety in adolescents and adults. Particular emphases include understanding the interface between psychopathology and the social environment and delineating complex, reciprocal, and interactive relationships between interpersonal, cognitive, and biological risk factors and internalizing symptoms. |
| Melissa Sturge-Apple | Professor Sturge-Apple’s research focuses on family processes, parental functioning, and child development guided by theoretical conceptualizations derived from developmental psychopathology, self-regulation frameworks, evolutionary developmental theories, and parenting process models. |
| Sheree Toth | Professor Toth is the Director of Mt. Hope Family Center. Her research interests are broadly focused in the field of developmental psychopathology. She is especially interested in the processes and mechanisms that contribute to the adaptation of children who are confronted by significant psychosocial adversity. In particular, her work addresses the development of children who have experienced maltreatment or who have been reared by a depressed caregiver. Dr. Toth is also committed to the evaluation of preventive interventions for high risk populations. |
| Miron Zuckerman | Professor Zuckerman's research concerns psychology of religion, economic and gender inequality, and topics related to well-being. |
