FACULTY RESEARCH LIST
The following document lists all of the research labs in the Department of Psychological
and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. These labs often need undergraduate
research assistants who may be working in the lab for credit via PSY-P493, PSY-P494,
PSY-P495, or PSY-P499 or as a volunteer. Each description contains the professor in
charge of the lab, the name of the lab with a link to a website (if available), a description
of the professor’s research interests, and contact information. Click on the research
topic you find most interesting to jump directly to the professors who work in that area.
Research Topics:
 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR/LEARNING
 BIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR/BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
 CLINICAL SCIENCE
 COGNITIVE PSCYHOLOGY
 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
 NEUROIMAGING
 SENSORY PSYCHOLOGY
 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Note: Not all faculty are listed. Only the faculty with research labs have been listed. For
a complete list of faculty (who may or may not be available for P495) please visit
http://psych.indiana.edu/facdirectory.php
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR/LEARNING
Jeffrey R. Alberts: Animal Behavior Lab
Developmental psychobiology, ontogeny of species-typical behavior, maturation of
sensory and physiological processes; development of learning and memory.
Office: Room 326; Phone: 855-3309. alberts@indiana.edu
Jonathon Crystal: Comparative Cognition Laboratory
Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian
rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's).
Office: MSBII 224; Phone: 856-2246. jcrystal@indiana.edu
Joseph Farley: No Lab Website
Sensory transduction, mechanisms of neural plasticity, especially molecular basis of
associative learning in invertebrates (Hermissenda crassicornis) and LTP in
hippocampus.
Office: MSBII 218; Phone: 855-6828. farleyj@indiana.edu
William Timberlake: Behavioral Systems and Learning Lab
Ecological and systems of analysis of learning and behavior, learning, regulation, and
timing in ingestion, circadian bases of behavior, and behavior theory.
Office: Room 324; Phone: 855-4042. timberla@indiana.edu
Meredith West: Animal Behavior Farm
Development of behavior in animals and humans with a particular interest in how
learning and species-typical experience affect ontogenetic and/or phylogenetic
processes. Specific topics of interest include the development of communication and
social behavior in the young and the development of parental behavior.
Office: Room 348; Phone: 855-9597. mewest@indiana.edu
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BIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR/BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Heather Bradshaw: Bradshaw Lab of Reproductive Neuroscience
Endogenous cannabinoids in uterine and vaginal neurophysiology; role of hormones in
neural response; reproductive pain.
Office: Room MSBII 116; Phone: 856-1559. hbbradsh@indiana.edu
Joseph Farley: No Lab Website
Sensory transduction, mechanisms of neural plasticity, especially molecular basis of
associative learning in invertebrates (Hermissenda crassicornis) and LTP in
hippocampus.
Office: MSBII 218; Phone: 855-6828. farleyj@indiana.edu
Preston E. Garraghty: No Lab Website
Neurobiology of plasticity in adult mammalian brain, physiological and anatomical
development of visual and somatosensory systems.
Office: Room 320; Phone: 855-9679. pgarragh@indiana.edu
Andrea G. Hohmann: No Lab Website
Functional roles of the brain’s own cannabis-like (endocannabinoid) system in the
nervous system; mechanisms of pain and analgesia; mechanisms of action of drugs of
abuse; novel therapeutics.
Office: Room MSBII 220; Phone: 856-0672. hohmanna@indiana.edu
Cary Lai: No Lab Website
Developmental neurobiology, the use of transgenic mouse models to study nervous
system function.
Office: Room MSBII 122; Phone: 856-4998. carylai@indiana.edu
Ken Mackie: No Lab Website
Regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid
production; Role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid
receptors.
Office: Room 363; Phone: 855-2042. kmackie@indiana.edu
Anne L. Prieto.: Cellular Molecular Neuroscience Lab
Research program in general area of developmental and molecular neuroscience.
Research topics include the role that growth factors and their receptors have in the
proliferation and differentiation and survival of neurons and glia in the cerebellum
hippocampus and cortex. For these studies we use cellular models as well as animal
models in which the genes of interest have been genetically inactivated.
Office: Room MSBII 124; Phone: 855-4642. aprieto@indiana.edu
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George V. Rebec: Preclinical Pharmacology Lab
Mechanisms of action of drugs of abuse, neuropharmacology, biochemical and
electrophysiological correlates of behavior, neurobiology of ascorbic acid.
Office: Room 361; Phone: 855-4832. rebec@indiana.edu
Dale Sengelaub: Sengelabs: Montoneuron plasticity, therapeutics, and development
Developmental neurobiology, comparative neuroanatomy, neuroethology.
Office: Room 372: Phone: 855-9149. sengelau@indiana.edu
Alex Straiker: Cannabinoid Physiology Lab
Physiology of cannabinoid receptors in neurons, cannabinoids in synaptic transmission,
cannabinoids in ocular health.
Office: MSBII 110; Phone: (206) 850-2400. straiker@indiana.edu
Cara Wellman: Wellman Lab
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington, 1993. Agerelated changes in neural plasticity and their relationship to cognition; neurochemical
and morphological correlates of uncontrollable and controllable stress; biology and
behavior.
Office: Room MSBII 202; Phone: 855-4922. wellmanc@indiana.edu
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CLINICAL SCIENCE
John E. Bates: Social Development Lab
Origins of children’s behavior problem vs. social competencies, parent-child
relationships, behavior therapy and family therapy.
Office: Room 146; Phone: 855-8693. batesj@indiana.edu
Joshua Brown: Cognitive Control Lab
Develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test
computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive
impairment in psychopathology, especially schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational
modeling.
Office: Room 336; Phone: 855-9282. jwmbrown@indiana.edu
Brian D’Onofrio: Developmental Psychopathology Lab
Developmental Psychopathology; behavior genetics; family systems, children’s
intellectual abilities.
Office: Room 134; Phone: 856-0843. bmdonofr@indiana.edu
Peter Finn: Biobehavioral Alcohol Research Lab
Risk for alcoholism personality, psychophysiological approaches to cognition.
Office: Room 156; Phone: 855-9548. finnp@indiana.edu
Julia R. Heiman: Sexual Psychophysiology Lab (Kinsey Institute)
Human sexuality, psychophysiological approaches to understanding sexual behavior
and sexual response.
Office: Morrison Hall 313; Phone: 856-7216. jheiman@indiana.edu
William Hetrick: Psychopathology and Neuropsychometry Lab
His major research interests are describing brain-behavior relationships that underlie
perceptual and attentional anomalies associated with schizophrenia using human brain
recording techniques.
Office: Room 154; Phone: 855-0298. whetrick@indiana.edu
Amy Holtzworth-Munroe: No Lab Website
Marital violence, marital distress, and marital therapy.
Office: Room 148; Phone: 855-8159. holtzwor@indiana.edu
Cara C. Lewis: Psychosocial Intervention and Implementation Sciences Lab
Cognitive behavioral therapy; adolescent and adult depression; comorbidity; treatment
outcome; predictors, moderators, and mediators of outcome; efficacy and effectiveness
research; dissemination and implementation science; methods and measurement of
implementation research.
Office: Room 162; Phone: 855-6952. lewiscc@indiana.edu
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Brian O’Donnell: No Lab Website
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1984. Event-related potential
abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances of early stage vision
in schizophrenia and affective disorders; psychophysiological correlates of emotional
and cognitive processes.
Office: Room 150: Phone: 855-4164. bodonnel@indiana.edu
Richard Viken: No Lab Website
Behavioral medicine, aggression and anti-social behavior, developmental
psychopathology, and observational methods.
Office: Room 152; Phone: 855-1697. viken@indiana.edu
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COGNITIVE PSCYHOLOGY
Bennett I. Bertenthal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Origins and early development of perception, action, and representation; Multimodal
communication; Prospective control and prediction of actions; Change blindness;
Connectionist modeling; Eye tracking; Electroencephalography (EEG).
Office: Room 371; Phone: 856-0958. bbertent@indiana.edu
Geoffrey Bingham: Perception/Action Lab
Human visual and haptic perception, motor control, dynamical systems models,
ecological psychology, event perception, perception/action coupling.
Office: Room 322; Phone: 855-4322. gbingham@indiana.edu
Joshua Brown: Cognitive Control Lab
Develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test
computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive
impairment in psychopathology, especially schizophrenia, using fMRI and compuational
modeling.
Office: Room 336; Phone: 855-9282. jwmbrown@indiana.edu
Jerome Busemeyer: Decision Research Laboratory
Dynamic, emotional, and cognitive models of judgement and decision making; neural
network models of function learning, interpolation, extrapolation; methodology for
comparing and testing complex models of behavior; measurement theory with error
contaminated data.
Office: Room 328; Phone: 855-4882. jbusemey@indiana.edu
Thomas Busey: Visual Perception and Electrophysiological Lab
Short-term visual information processing, picture memory, stereopsis, and stochastic
modeling of cognition and perception.
Office: Room 330; Phone: 855-4261. busey@indiana.edu
Jonathon Crystal: Comparative Cognition Laboratory (no website)
Comparative Cognition, episodic memory, metacognition, time perception, circadian
rhythms, learning and memory, disorders of memory (e.g., Alzheimer's).
Office: MSBII 224; Phone: 856-2246. jcrystal@indiana.edu
Robert L. Goldstone: Percepts and Concepts Laboratory
Concept formation, analogical reasoning, learning, computational models of mental
processes, pattern recognition, and decision making and judgement.
Office: Room 338; Phone: 855-4853. rgoldsto@indiana.edu
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Karin James: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Neural mechanisms underlying visual-motor interactions, expertise acquisition, object
and letter recognition in adults and children. Uses psychophysical experimentation as
well as functional Magnetic Reasonance Imaging (fMRI) to explore research questions.
Office: Room 368; Phone: 856-0659. khjames@indiana.edu
Thomas W. James: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Research involves discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object
recognition and representation using a combination of experimental techniques,
including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. Exploration of
human perception through both the visual and tactile sensory systems.
Office: Room 158; Phone: 856-0841. thwjames@indiana.edu
Michael N. Jones: Cognitive Computing Laboratory
Language acquisition and statistical learning, computational models of memory and
language, categorization and concept formation, attention in reading and visual
navigation, automated learning technologies, application of cognitive models to search
problems, artificial intelligence—specifically swarm intelligence.
Office: Room 370; Phone: 856-1490. jonesmn@indiana.edu
John Kruschke: Personal Website
Cognitive and perceptual psychology; connectionist models; categorization.
Office: Room 336; Phone: 855-3192. kruschke@indiana.edu
Sharlene Newman: Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.
Office: Room 362; Phone: 856-0839. sdnewman@indiana.edu
Robert Nosofsky: Categorization and Memory Lab (Personal Webpage)
Categorization, similarity, mathematical psychology.
Office: Room 342; Phone: 855-2534. nosofsky@indiana.edu
David P. Pisoni: Speech Research Laboratory (link to: Speech Research Laboratory
Cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, speech perception, production, synthesis and
analysis, perceptual development, reading, word recognition and lexical access, spoken
language comprehension, voice technology, communication aids for the handicapped,
human factors, human-computer interaction.
Office: Room 366; Phone: 855-1155. pisoni@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
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Richard M. Shiffrin: Memory and Perception Lab
Memory and information processing, mathematical models, attention and automatism,
forgetting and perception.
Office: Room 350; Phone: 855-4972. shiffrin@indiana.edu
Linda B. Smith: Cognitive Development Lab
Classification and categorization in children and adults, children’s understanding of
relations and acquisitions of relational language.
Office: Room 122; Phone: 855-3991. smith4@indiana.edu
Olaf Sporns: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Focuses on utilizing biologically based computational models of the nervous systems to
better understand the relationships between neural and cognitive/behavioral states.
Another line of research involves attempts to link computer simulations of the nervous
systems to actual real world devices (robots) and study their autonomous behavior.
Office: Room 360; Phone: 855-2772. osporns@indiana.edu
Peter Todd: Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Lab
Simple heuristics for decision making, and how they capitalize on the structure of
information in environments; evolution of behavior (experimental approaches to
evolutionary psychology and computer simulations of simple organisms adapting to
different environmental structures, both physical and social); emergence of environment
structure through interactions of populations of agents following simple behavioral rules;
how people and other animals search for resources in time and space, from sequential
search for mates or jobs to foraging for prey or parking spaces; artificial life approaches
to music; making decisions about food and eating, and cognition of consumption.
Office: Room 369; Phone: 855-3914. pmtodd@indiana.edu
James Townsend: Mathematical Psychology Lab
Development of general mathematical approaches to, and experimentation in, human
information processing, cognitive psychology including visual pattern recognition,
memory scanning, decision theory and human factors.
Office: Room 334; Phone: 855-9598. jtownsen@indiana.edu
Stanley Wasserman: Personal Website
Quantitative Psychology: Research focuses on applied statistics (especially to the social
and behavioral sciences), with particular attention to network processes.
Office: 349; Phone: 856-0195. stanwass@indiana.edu
Chen Yu: Computational Cognition and Learning Lab
Language learning in children and adults, cognitive and computational models of
language and perceptual learning, grounding social interaction in multimodal
sensorimotor interaction (eye gaze, body movement and prosody in speech, etc.),
machine intelligence, human-computer interaction, virtual reality.
Office: Room 346; Phone: 855-0838. Chenyu@indiana.edu
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Bennett I. Bertenthal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Origins and early development of perception, action, and representation; Multimodal
communication; Prospective control and prediction of actions; Change blindness;
Connectionist modeling; Eye tracking; Electroencephalography (EEG).
Office: Room 371; Phone: 856-0958. bbertent@indiana.edu
Joshua Brown: Cognitive Control Lab
Develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test
computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive
impairment in psychopathology, especially schizophrenia, using fMRI and compuational
modeling.
Office: Room 336; Phone: 855-9282. jwmbrown@indiana.edu
Karin James: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Neural mechanisms underlying visual-motor interactions, expertise acquisition, object
and letter recognition in adults and children. Uses psychophysical experimentation as
well as functional Magnetic Reasonance Imaging (fMRI) to explore research questions.
Office: Room 368; Phone: 856-0659. khjames@indiana.edu
Thomas W. James: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Research involves discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object
recognition and representation using a combination of experimental techniques,
including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. Exploration of
human perception through both the visual and tactile sensory systems.
Office: Room 158; Phone: 856-0841. thwjames@indiana.edu
Sharlene Newman: Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.
Office: Room 362; Phone: 856-0839. sdnewman@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
Olaf Sporns: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Focuses on utilizing biologically based computational models of the nervous systems to
better understand the relationships between neural and cognitive/behavioral states.
Another line of research involves attempts to link computer simulations of the nervous
systems to actual real world devices (robots) and study their autonomous behavior.
Office: Room 360; Phone: 855-2772. osporns@indiana.edu
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
John E. Bates: Social Development Lab
Origins of children’s behavior problem vs. social competencies, parent-child
relationships, behavior therapy and family therapy.
Office: Room 146; Phone: 855-8693. batesj@indiana.edu
Bennett I. Bertenthal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Origins and early development of perception, action, and representation; Multimodal
communication; Prospective control and prediction of actions; Change blindness;
Connectionist modeling; Eye tracking; Electroencephalography (EEG).
Office: Room 371; Phone: 856-0958. bbertent@indiana.edu
Brian D’Onofrio: Developmental Psychopathology Lab
Developmental Psychopathology; behavior genetics; family systems, children’s
intellectual abilities.
Office: Room 134; Phone: 856-0843. bmdonofr@indiana.edu
Karin James: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Neural mechanisms underlying visual-motor interactions, expertise acquisition, object
and letter recognition in adults and children. Uses psychophysical experimentation as
well as functional Magnetic Reasonance Imaging (fMRI) to explore research questions.
Office: Room 368; Phone: 856-0659. khjames@indiana.edu
Susan S. Jones: Infant Communication Lab
Social and emotional development in infancy, facial expressions, biological bases of
human social behavior.
Office: Room 344; Phone: 855-8182. jones1@indiana.edu
Linda B. Smith: Cognitive Development Lab
Classification and categorization in children and adults, children’s understanding of
relations and acquisitions of relational language.
Office: Room 122; Phone: 855-3991. smith4@indiana.edu
Chen Yu: Computational Cognition and Learning Lab
Language learning in children and adults, cognitive and computational models of
language and perceptual learning, grounding social interaction in multimodal
sensorimotor interaction (eye gaze, body movement and prosody in speech, etc.),
machine intelligence, human-computer interaction, virtual reality.
Office: Room 346; Phone: 855-0838. Chenyu@indiana.edu
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
NEUROIMAGING
EEG
Bennett I. Bertenthal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Origins and early development of perception, action, and representation; Multimodal
communication; Prospective control and prediction of actions; Change blindness;
Connectionist modeling; Eye tracking; Electroencephalography (EEG).
Office: Room 371; Phone: 856-0958. bbertent@indiana.edu
Thomas Busey: Visual Perception and Electrophysiological Lab
Short-term visual information processing, picture memory, stereopsis, and stochastic
modeling of cognition and perception.
Office: Room 330; Phone: 855-4261. busey@indiana.edu
Thomas W. James: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Research involves discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object
recognition and representation using a combination of experimental techniques,
including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. Exploration of
human perception through both the visual and tactile sensory systems.
Office: Room 158; Phone: 856-0841. thwjames@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
fMRI
Joshua Brown: Cognitive Control Lab
Develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test
computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive
impairment in psychopathology, especially schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational
modeling.
Office: Room 336; Phone: 855-9282. jwmbrown@indiana.edu
Karin James: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Neural mechanisms underlying visual-motor interactions, expertise acquisition, object
and letter recognition in adults and children. Uses psychophysical experimentation as
well as functional Magnetic Reasonance Imaging (fMRI) to explore research questions.
Office: Room 368; Phone: 856-0659. khjames@indiana.edu
Thomas W. James: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Research involves discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object
recognition and representation using a combination of experimental techniques,
including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. Exploration of
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
human perception through both the visual and tactile sensory systems.
Office: Room 158; Phone: 856-0841. thwjames@indiana.edu
Sharlene Newman: Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab
fMRI of language processes, problem-solving and planning.
Office: Room 362; Phone: 856-0839. sdnewman@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
TMS
Thomas W. James: Perception and Neuroimaging Lab
Research involves discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object
recognition and representation using a combination of experimental techniques,
including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. Exploration of
human perception through both the visual and tactile sensory systems.
Office: Room 158; Phone: 856-0841. thwjames@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
ERP
Brian O’Donnell: No Lab Website
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1984. Event-related potential
abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances of early stage vision
in schizophrenia and affective disorders; psychophysiological correlates of emotional
and cognitive processes.
Office: Room 150: Phone: 855-4164. bodonnel@indiana.edu
Aina Puce: Social Neuroscience Lab
Social Cognition; Non-verbal communication; Multisensory processing; Functional MRI;
Electroencephalography (EEG); Eye tracking; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Office: Room 144; Phone: 856-0417. ainapuce@indiana.edu
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012
SENSORY PSYCHOLOGY
Geoffrey Bingham: Perception/Action Lab
Human visual and haptic perception, motor control, dynamical systems models,
ecological psychology, event perception, perception/action coupling.
Office: Room 322; Phone: 855-4322. gbingham@indiana.edu
Rowen T. Candy: Visual Development Lab (School of Optometry)
Her research involves studies of normal and abnormal visual development in human
infants. She is developing an infant clinic at the School of Optometry where she
supervises optometry students as they learn to work with infant patients.
Phone: 855-9340. rcandy@indiana.edu
Jason Gold: Vision Lab
Experimental psychology, specifically visual psychophysics, research interests include:
pattern identification, perceptual grouping & completion, encoding efficiency and
information use, ideal observer theory, & visual attention.
Office: Room 352; Phone: 855-9596. jgold@indiana.edu
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Edward R. Hirt: Hirttlab: Social Psychology of Motivation and Performance
Affect and cognition interface; cognitive heuristics; decision making under uncertainty;
eyewitness testimony; human judgement processes; hypothesis testing and information
seeking; mood effects; reconstructive memory; self-enhancement and self protective
processes, particularly self-handicapping; social cognition; sports psychology.
Office: Room 340; Phone: 855-4815. ehirt@indiana.edu
Alan Roberts: No Lab Website
Risk factors for the development of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction;
personality, ethnicity, and interpersonal processes.
Office: Room A300C; Phone: 855-9782. alarober@indiana.edu
B. J. Rydell: Social Cognition Lab
Social Cognition; Attitude Formation, Representation, and Change; Impression
Formation; Stereotype Threat.
Office: Room 351; Phone: 855-7608. rjrydell@indiana.edu
Steven J. Sherman: Sherman Social Cognition Research Laboratory (no lab website)
Social psychology, especially attitude formation and change, social cognition and
adolescent smoking initiation.
Office: Room 358; Phone: 855-8163. sherman@indiana.edu
Eliot R. Smith: Socially Situated Cognition Lab
Social cognition; person perception and stereotyping; prejudice and intergroup relations,
especially the role of emotions; implications of embodiment for social cognition.
Office: Room 354; Phone: 856-0196. esmith4@indiana.edu
Peter Todd: Adaptive Behavior & Cognition Lab
Simple heuristics for decision making, and how they capitalize on the structure of
information in environments; evolution of behavior (experimental approaches to
evolutionary psychology and computer simulations of simple organisms adapting to
different environmental structures, both physical and social); emergence of environment
structure through interactions of populations of agents following simple behavioral rules;
how people and other animals search for resources in time and space, from sequential
search for mates or jobs to foraging for prey or parking spaces; artificial life approaches
to music; making decisions about food and eating, and cognition of consumption.
Office: Room 369; Phone: 855-3914. pmtodd@indiana.edu
Stanley Wasserman: Personal Website
Quantitative Psychology: Research focuses on applied statistics (especially to the social
and behavioral sciences), with particular attention to network processes.
Office: 349; Phone: 856-0195. stanwass@indiana.edu
Updated by Psi Chi April 2012