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Dr. Hartl is a Director of Process Development at SHL Medical Group (Scandinavian Health Limited), Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychology
- Professor
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- Is Director of Research Reports in the Office of Research and Institutional Effectiveness at Indian River State College
Dr. Richmond is Director of Research Reports in the Office of Research and Institutional Effectiveness at Indian River State College.
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- Professor
- Professor of Psychology
Marion, D., Laursen, B., Bergman, L. R., & Zettergren, P. (2013). Predicting life satisfaction during middle adulthood from peer relationships during mid-adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42 (8), 1299-1307. doi: 10.1007/s10964-013-9969-6
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Psychology
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Psychology
Committee member. Christine Strickland (2010). Animal shelter volunteer training for dog handling and basic obedience training affects volunteered hours . American College of Applied Science.
Dr. Hafen is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas, Virginia.
Dr. Hiatt is a Senior Data Analyst at Family Support Services of Suncoast Florida, Clearwater, Florida.
Dr. Dickson is taking a hiatus while he addresses medical challenges. We wish him a speedy recovery.
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- Associate Chair and Professor
- Professor of Psychology
David F. Bjorklund is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University where teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (since 2007). His books include The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini), Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis), Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development, Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrative Approach (with Carlos Hernández Blasi), Psychology (with Peter Gray), and Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (with Kayla Causey), now in its sixth edition. His current research interests include children's cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology.
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- Department of Psychology
- Professor
Committee member. Diane C. Wright (2017). Use of evidence-based methods to ameliorate or reduce reactions in canines with anxiety, fear, and conflict-based aggression . American College of Applied Science.
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- Co - Chaired With Robin Vallacher ) . Patterns of Friend Influence on School Engagement and the Moderating Effects of Maternal Affection.
- Senior Instructor
- Senior Instructor / Psychology
Dr. Marion is a Senior Instructor at the Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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- Director, Center for Complex Systems
- Professor and Acting Director
- Professor of Neuroscience
Dr. Perry is Professor of Neuroscience in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and is currently acting as the Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. He joined the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences and the Department of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University in 1989. He has taught extensively in the graduate and undergraduate programs at FAU and he has been involved in the development of several interdisciplinary graduate programs, initially the PhD program in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, as well as the joint graduate PhD program in Integrative Biology and Neuroscience with the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience. His research interests have included molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating neural development, neural regeneration, and neuroplasticity; and more recently the evolving field of Educational Neuroscience.
From May 1, 2014, through June 30, 2018, Dr. Perry served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at FAU following nine months as Interim Provost (2013-2014). As Provost, Dr. Perry served as the Chief Academic Officer for the University and led the Division of Academic Affairs, directing the development and delivery of all academic programs at FAU while overseeing the division's budget and personnel. The Division of Academic Affairs comprises FAU's 10 colleges that deliver more than 180-degree programs at the Bachelor's, Masters and Doctoral levels. Related areas, such as the University Registrar, the University Libraries, the Lifelong Learning Society, Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis, and the Office of Information Technology also came under the division's umbrella.
Prior to his appointment as Interim Provost, Dr. Perry served for seven years as Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science (2006-2013). As dean, he was the chief executive and administrative officer of the College and provided leadership and vision for the College, administered the affairs of the College, and served as the liaison between the college faculty and the Division of Academic Affairs. Previous to this, Dr. Perry had served as Dean for Graduate Studies (Interim) at FAU (2005-2006). In this role, he provided leadership in establishing the appropriate organizational structure and operational procedures necessary to enhance graduate education at FAU. This included graduate admissions, enrollment and progression, financial support, and graduate programs and policies while formalizing a University Graduate Council and a University Graduate Faculty at FAU.
Dr. Perry has also served in additional administrative roles in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (1999-2005), as Acting Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (1997-1998) and Acting Associate Dean and Chair for the Biomedical Science program (1998-1999). In this latter role, Dr. Perry was involved in the initial development of the Program for Quality Medical Education, a partnership between FAU and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. This program began as a "2+2 program" between FAU and UMMSM to train additional physicians in Southeast Florida, and in 2010 became the independent Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at FAU.
Dr. Perry has made significant contributions to help establish Southeast Florida as a new Life Science Hub in the US, including work on cooperative agreements between FAU and The Scripps Research Institute - Scripps Florida and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, both located in Jupiter, FL; and the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies located in Port St. Lucie, FL. He was a founding member of the South Florida Bioscience Consortium, now incorporated as part of BioFlorida.
Dr. Perry received his primary and secondary education respectively at Purford Green and Brays Grove Schools (1957-1970) in Harlow, Essex, England, and at the latter served as Deputy then Head Boy (1969-1970). Dr. Perry is a graduate of the University of London (B.Sc., Honours, 1973) and the University of Manchester (M.Sc., 1975 & Ph.D., 1977) in the UK. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1977-1978), he held research faculty appointments at the Leaonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Miami, FL (1978 -1981 & 1984 -1989) and the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York, NY (1981-1984) before joining FAU in 1989.
M. Aleman, M.P. DeYoung, M. Tress, P. Keating. G.W. Perry, and R. Narayanan. Inhibition of Single-Minded 2 gene expression mediates tumor-selective apoptosis and differentiation in human colon cancer cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA), 102: 12765-12770 (2005).
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- Associate
- Scientist
- Associate Scientist / Department of Psychology
Barnhardt, T. M. & Geraci, L. (2008). Are awareness questionnaires valid? Investigating the use of post-test questionnaires for assessing awareness in implicit memory tests. Memory & Cognition, 36, 53-64.
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- Research Director
- Director Marine Mammal Research / Psychology Department
Gerstein, E.R., Blue, J.E., and Forsythe, S.E. (2002) Near-surface sound propagation: a key to alerting right whales of approaching ships. DoD / NUWC contract report N6660-01-M-4765.
Gerstein, E.R. (1994). The manatee mind: Discrimination training for sensory perception testing of West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus). Marine Mammals Public Display and research (1) 10-21.
Chair. Elise Higashi (2012). Evaluating the effects of a variety of enrichment treatments on the wellbeing of domestic cats (Felis catus) living in a shelter environment . American College of Applied Science.
Erika Hoff directs the Language Development Lab which comprises several projects aimed at identifying the human abilities and human experiences that contribute to language development. Our main focus is a NICHD-funded longitudinal study of English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children from the age of 2 ½ to 10 years. We are looking for evidence of factors in children's early language experiences and early language development that predict successful oral language and literacy outcomes
Dr. Guimond is an Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada.
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Psychology
Dr. Pursell is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware.
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- Department of Psychology
- Research Professor / Boca Raton
Norman, J., Hock, H.S., & Schöner, G. (2014). Contrasting accounts of direction and shape discrimination in short-range motion: Counterchange compared with motion energy detection. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 1350-1370.
Kelso is an elected Fellow of APA, APS, SEP and AAAS and has received a number of honors and awards for his work, including the MERIT, Senior Scientist and Director's Innovations Awards from the U.S. National Institute of Health, the Distinguished Alumni Research Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the Docteur Honoris Causa degree from the Republic of France and the University of Toulouse (est. 1228). In 2007 he was named Pierre de Fermat Laureate and in 2011 he was the recipient of the Bernstein Prize for his fundamental work on how the brain controls movement. In 2016, Kelso was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (Hon. MRIA) an honor given to only 38 scientists around the world.
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- Department of Psychology
- Senior Instructor
Committee member. Jocelyn P. Strassel (2015). The effects of "Feliway" on stress behaviors in domestic cats (Felis catus) in a shelter environment . American College of Applied Science.
Dr. Mooney is a Lecturer of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo.
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- Department of Psychology
- Professor
- Senior Instructor
Katherine Hughes is interested in how psychopharmacological variables contribute to the formation of drug addiction and its subsequent treatment. Currently, she is assessing the cognitive deficits associated with the brain damage known to occur with MDMA (Ecstasy) drug use in humans. The effects in recreational and chronic drug users are also being compared. The effects of polydrug (amphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, heroin) use on these proposed deficits will also be examined. Most MDMA drug users are unaware of the negative effects that may persist long after the drug has cleared their body. Future studies would involve tracking drug taking behavior in subjects who have experienced these deficits during an experimental manipulation. She is also interested in the role of behavioral contingencies and personal motivation in the treatment of drug addiction.
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- Psychology Department Staff Member
- Coordinator, Academic Support Services
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- Instructor
- Instructor & Communications Coordinator / Department of Psychology / Faculty Advisor
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- Psychology Department Staff Member
- Secretary
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- Student in Experimental Psychology
Dr. Huey is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York.
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Psychology
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- Associate Chair and Professor
- Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology / Department of Psychology
Mónica Rosselli heads the Neuropsychology laboratory at FAU. The topics under investigation in her neuropsychology laboratory are: (1) the neuropsychology of normal and abnormal aging; (2) the influence of cultural factors and bilingualism in neuropsychological assessment; (3) differences in Event Related Potentials (ERPs) due to specialized experience such as bilingualism and musical training; (4) the neuropsychology of cognitive development, and (5) abnormal aging and driving.
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- Psychology Department Staff Member
- Computer Coordinator
Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., & Zochowski, M. (2005). Dynamics of social coordination: The synchronization of internal states in close relationships. Interaction Studies, 6, 35-52.
Winkielman P., Nowak, A., (2005) Dynamics of cognition-emotion interface: Coherence breeds famimliarity and liking, and does it fast . Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28:2 223-223
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- Psychology Department Staff Member
- Senior Secretary
Dr. Altman is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Anderson University, Anderson, South Carolina.
Vertes, R.P. and Linley S.B. No cognitive processing in the unconscious, anesthetic-like, state of sleep. J. Comp. Neurol. 529:524-538, 2021.
Dolleman-van der Weel, M.J., Griffin, A.L., Ito, H.T., Shapiro, M.L., Witter, M.P., Vertes, R.P. and Allen, T.A. The nucleus reuniens of the thalamus sits at the nexus of a hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex circuit enabling memory and behavior. Learn Memory 26:191-205, 2019.
Linley, S.B., Hoover, W.B. and Vertes, R.P. Pattern of distribution of serotonergic fibers to the obitomedial and insular cortex in the rat. J. Chem. Neuroanat. 48: 29-45, 2013.
Vertes, R.P., Hoover, W.B. and Rodriguez, J.J. Projections of the central medial nucleus of the thalamus: node in cortical, striatal and limbic forebrain circuitry. Neuroscience 219: 120-136, 2012.
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- Associate Vice President for the Jupiter Campus and Professor / Department of Psychology
- Professor, Associate Vice President
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- Department of Psychology
- Professor
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- Research Scientist, Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children 's Hospital
Dr. Adams is a Research Scientist, Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Committee member. Sandra L. Fornes (2015). Environmental enrichment to prevent and resolve fearful, stereotypical and agonistic behaviors in long-term shelter dogs . American College of Applied Science.
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- Associate Professor
- Department of Psychology
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- Visiting Assistant Professor / Department of Psychology
Voultsidou, M., Dodel, S., & Herrmann, J. M., (2007). Feature evaluation in fMRI data using random matrix theory. Computing and Visualization in Science, 10(2):99-105.
Dodel, S., (2002). Data driven analysis of brain activity and functional connectivity in fMRI. PhD thesis, Göttingen.
Chair. Tammy Ege (2015). The role of feeding enrichment on the behavior of indoor group-housed domestic cats . American College of Applied Science.
Dr. Williams is a Professor of Psychology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia.
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Psychology Faculty
Dr. Burk is an Associate Professor) at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.