Department of Psychology People

Department Faculty

Gretchen Gimpel Peacock  //   Department Head


Office #: EDUC 487E
Phone Number: 435-797-0721
Email: gretchen.peacock@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Parenting, Behavior Disorders in Children





Carolyn Barcus  //   Clinical Assistant Professor (Emeritus)


Office #: EDUC 481
Phone Number: 435-797-1465
Email: carolyn.barcus@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Counseling Psychology, Multi-cultural issues





Scott Bates  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 480 / OM 162
Phone Number: 435-797-2975
Email: scott.bates@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Environmental psychology, prevention, and higher education teaching and learning





Susan L. Crowley  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 485
Phone Number: 435-797-1251
Email: susan.crowley@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Training, Supervision, Personality Assessment, Depression, Multivariate Statistics





M. Scott DeBerard  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 471
Phone Number: 435-797-1462
Email: scott.deberard@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Health related quality of life, psychosocial predictors of back surgery outcomes, psychological functioning





Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 425
Phone Number: 435-797-3059
Email: melanie.domenech@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Ethnicity and mental health, research ethics





Heath Earl  //   Associate Professor


Office #: West Instructional Building 242 (CEU Campus)
Phone Number: 435-613-5259
Email: Heath.Earl@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Clinical Neuropsychology, Child and Family Psychotherapy





Jamison Fargo  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 492
Phone Number: 435-554-1174
Email: jamison.fargo@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Homelessness prevention and intervention; social policy and homelessness; prevention of sexual abuse and violence.





Clint Field  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 473
Phone Number: 435-760-4132
Email: clint.field@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Functional analysis, applied behavior analysis, prevention of childhood conduct problems and behavior disorders, evaluation of interventions used with parents and children





Susan G. Friedman  //   Research Assistant Professor


Office #: ECERC 303
Phone Number: 435-797-3584
Email: sg.friedman@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Animal Behavior





Renee V. Galliher  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 479
Phone Number: 435-797-3391
Email: renee.galliher@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Communication processes in adolescent romantic relationships, dating agrgession, rural psychology





Christian Geiser  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 479
Phone Number: 435-797-8443
Email: christian.geiser@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Structural equation modeling, multitrait-multimethod analysis, longitudinal modeling, spatial abilities/mental rotation





Donna Gilbertson  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 494
Phone Number: 435-797-2034
Email: donna.gilbertson@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Applied behavior analysis, functional assessment, academic and behavioral interventions, consultation and minority equitable placement practices in special education





Kyle Hancock  //   Clinical Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 495
Phone Number: 435-797-1464
Email: kyle.hancock@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Pediatric and Clinical Child Psychology: bullying, parent-child interaction, childhood psychopathology; School Psychology: responsiveness to intervention, behavioral health in school psychology





Mark Innocenti  //   Associate Professor


Office #: HSRC 209
Phone Number: 435-797-2006
Email: mark.innocenti@usu.edu





Christopher Johnson  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: USU-Ephraim
Phone Number: 435-633-3211
Email: christopher.johnson@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Mindfulness meditation; metta (Lovingkindness) meditation; structural equation modeling; psychometrics; the application of technology (telemedicine, interactive voice response, and telephone/Internet assessment) to investigations of sexual risk-taking, health, and general well-being.





Kerry Jordan  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 473
Phone Number: 435-797-2797
Email: kerry.jordan@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Cognitive development, multisensory processing, nonverbal cognition, category and concept representation, object based attention, numerical cognition, temporal perception, comparative cognition





Ginger Lockhart  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 493
Phone Number:
Email: ginger.lockhart@usu.edu





Carrie Madden  //   Lecturer


Office #: EDUC 476
Phone Number: 435-881-8497
Email: carrie.madden@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

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Gregory Madden  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 498
Phone Number: 435-881-8467
Email: greg.madden@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Behavioral Economics





Gayle Morse  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 488
Phone Number: 435-797-5547
Email: gayle.morse@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Cultural identity, environmental toxins, American Indian health





Yolanda Flores Niemann  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 497
Phone Number: 435-797-7337
Email: Yolanda.fniemann@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Sterotypes, Tokenism, Overcoming obstacles to higher education





Camille Odell  //   Director, School Counseling Program


Office #: EDUC 482
Phone Number: 435-797-5576
Email: camille.odell@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Development and behavior in the child and adolescent population.





Amy Odum  //   Associate Professor


Office #: EDUC 493
Phone Number: 435-797-5578
Email: amy.odum@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Basic operant learning, self control and impulsivity, timing, behavioral pharmacology





Andrew Samaha  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 490
Phone Number: 435-797-1633
Email: andrew.samaha@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Autism, Assessment and Treatment of Severe Problem Behavior, Conditioned Reinforcement, Translational Research, Applied Behavior Analysis





Timothy A. Shahan  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 499
Phone Number: 435-797-5558
Email: tim.shahan@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Operant conditioning, attending,, conditioned reinforcement, behavioral persistence, drug self-administration, drug cues, quantitative analyses of behavior





Don Sinex  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 422
Phone Number: 435-797-8921
Email: don.sinex@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Auditory neuroscience, psychoacoustics, auditory scene analysis, hereditary hearing loss





David Stein  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 484
Phone Number: 435-797-3274
Email: david.stein@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Controls of eating, etilogy, assessment and treatment of eating disorders, addictive behaviors and health psychology, drug and alcohol prevention/treatment





JoAnn T. Tschanz  //   Professor


Office #: EDUC 423/ SER 131
Phone Number: 435-797-1457
Email: joann.tschanz@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, cognitive functioning and assessment in the elderly, adult general neuropsychology head injuries





Michael P. Twohig  //   Assistant Professor


Office #: EDUC 483
Phone Number: 435-797-1402
Email: michael.twohig@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Treatment mechanisms of action, acceptance and commitment therapy, clinical behavior analysis, anxiety disorders





Karl White  //   Professor


Office #: ECERC 302
Phone Number: 435-797-3013
Email: karl.white@usu.edu

Research Interests: 

Educational research, hearing loss, early intervention





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