Department of Psychology People
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 RodrÃguez // 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