Behar, Evelyn
Assistant Professor
BSB  1050B
(312) 413-5564
Email: behar@uic.edu

(Penn State University, 2005) Anxiety disorders (especially GAD, panic, PTSD); affective, physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal correlates of anxiety; comorbidity between anxiety and mood, sleep, and sexual disorders; psychotherapy treatment and process research.

Berkson, Gershon
Professor Emeritus
BSB 
(312) -
Email: gberkson@uic.edu

(George Peabody College, 1959). Developmental Mental retardation; autistic movements; animal behavior.

Birman, Dina
Assistant Professor
BSB  1062 A
(312) 413-2637
Email: dbirman@uic.edu

(University of Maryland, 1991). Acculturation, adaptation, and mental health of refugee and immigrant children, youth, and families, parent involvement in school, ethnic identity, and school-based mental health interventions.

Bottoms, Bette L.
Professor
BSB  1046B
(312) 413-2635
Email: bbottoms@uic.edu

(SUNY at Buffalo, 1992). Psychology and Law: Children's Eyewitness Testimony, Jurors' Perceptions of Child Victims and Offenders, Child Abuse and Neglect, Allegations of Repressed Memory.

Cervone, Daniel P.
Professor
BSB  1008
(312) 413-2632
Email: dcervone@uic.edu

(Stanford University, 1985). Cognitive processes in motivation and behavior change; self-efficacy; goal setting and performance; affect and cognition.

French, Sabine Elizabeth
Assistant Professor
BSB  1046D
(312) 355-2504
Email: sefrench@uic.edu

Ethnic identity development; mental health and academic achievement in ethnic minority adolescents; school transitions.

Goldman, Susan
Professor
BSB  1022 C
(312) 996-4462
Email: sgoldman@uic.edu

(University of Pittsburgh). Language and text processing, discourse psychology, learning from multimedia materials, redesign of learning environments (curriculum, instruction, and assessment), teacher learning, instructional technology.

Grimm, Larry
Emeritus Associate Professor and Director of Gradu
BSB  1050A
(312) 996-3037
Email: lgrimm@uic.edu

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979). The development of a multidimensional model of affect intensity; psychopathology.

Herbener, Ellen
Assistant Professor
BSB  1046A
(312) 413-2638
Email: herbener@uic.edu

(Harvard University, 1992) Schizophrenia; Psychosis; anhedonia and avolition; emotional processing, cognition-emotion integration, neuroimaging.

Kassel, Jon David
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Train
BSB  1018C
(312) 413-9162
Email: jkassel@uic.edu

(University of Pittsburgh, 1995). Co-Director of Clinical Training. Drug's effects on emotion and attention, individual differences in drug dependence, cognitive models of depression, anxiety and drug use, ecological momentary assessment.

Larson, James R., Jr.
Professor
BSB  1046 C
(312) 413-2642
Email: jlarson@uic.edu

(University of Washington, 1977). Group problem solving and decision making; group performance; work motivation.

Levine, Michael W.
Professor
BSB  1042 B
(312) 996-6133
Email: mikel@uic.edu

(Rockefeller University, 1972). Sensory processes; visual perception.

Maki, Pauline
Associate Professor
NPI  828
(312) 996-6941
Email: pmaki1@uic.edu

(University of Minnesota, 1994). Behavioral neuroscience of aging, hormone effects on cognition, neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, neuropsychology.

McKirnan, David J.
Associate Professor
BSB  1058 B
(312) 413-2634
Email: davidmck@uic.edu

(McGill University, 1978). Social Behavioral medicine; health psychology; AIDS-related behavior; sex roles and sexual orientation; social psychological aspects of alcohol and drug abuse/use; cognitive processes in motivation and behavior change; field research methodology.

Mermelstein, Robin J.
Professor
WROB  528
(312) 996-1469
Email: robinm@uic.edu

(University of Oregon, 1984). Behavioral medicine; adolescent health behaviors and smoking; smoking cessation; health psychology; cancer prevention; health promotion.

Morgan-Short, Kara
Assistant Professor
UH  1718
(312) 996-5215
Email: karams@uic.edu

(Georgetown University, 2007). Neurocognition of second language processing and acquisition; effects of explicit and implicit training and practice on second language acquisition; verbal protocols; event-related brain potentials.

Ohlsson, Stellan
Professor
BSB  1050 C
(312) 996-6643
Email: stellan@uic.edu

(University of Stockholm, 1980). Cognitive Psychology; special focus on the acquisition of complex knowledge; computer simulation; protocol analysis; educational and technological applications.

Pellegrino, Jim
Professor
BSB  1018 B
(312) 355-3077
Email: pellegjw@uic.edu

(University of Colorado). Cognitive Division Chairperson. Aptitude and intelligence assessment; application of cognitive theory to the analysis, redesign and utilization of standardized test instruments; inductive reasoning and spatial ability; technology and instructional design.

Ragozzino, Michael
Associate Professor
BSB  1042 A
(312) 413-2630
Email: mrago@uic.edu

(University of Virginia, 1994). Behavioral Neuroscience Division Chairperson. Neurobiology of learning & memory, Neurochemistry underlying learning & memory in forebrain structures.

Raney, Gary E.
Associate Professor and Chair
BSB  1066 B
(312) 413-1314
Email: geraney@uic.edu

(University of Florida, 1990). Psychology Department Chairperson. Language processing and reading, organization of memory, bilingualism, metacognition, attention, eye movements and event-related brain potentials.

Reilly, Stephen
Professor
BSB  1042 D
(312) 413-2625
Email: sreilly@uic.edu

(University of York, 1985). Neural mechanisms of learning, memory and motivation, with an emphasis on conditioned taste aversion, reward comparison, and incentive learning.

Reyes, Karina Olga
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
BSB  1050 D
(312) 413-2627
Email: kreyes@uic.edu

(DePaul University, 1989). Director of Graduate Studies. Community and Prevention Research Minority education; community psychology; adolescence; resilience and protective factors in high-risk urban minority children and adolescents; the role of peer and other social support in academic adjustment; prevention of high-risk behaviors.

Riger, Stephanie
Professor
BSB  1062 C
(312) 413-2300
Email: sriger@uic.edu

(University of Michigan, 1973). Violence against women and in families, women and poverty.

Roitman, Mitchell
Assistant Professor
BSB  BSB 1042C
(312) 996-3113
Email: mroitman@uic.edu

(PhD University of Washington, 2001). Neurobiological basis of reward and aversion. Subsecond sampling of dopamine and single neuron activity during behavior. Systems serving adaptive (feeding) and maladaptive (drug-taking) motivation.

Ruderman, Audrey J.
Co-Director of OAPS
BSB  3010
(312) 413-2636
Email: ruderman@uic.edu

(Rutgers-The State University, 1981). Etiology and treatment of eating disorder; obesity; health psychology; behavioral medicine.

Shankman, Stewart
Assistant Professor
BSB  1062D
(312) 355-3812
Email: stewarts@uic.edu

(Stony Brook University, 2005) mood disorders; neurobehavioral processes that lead and relate to mood disorders; relation between mood and anxiety disorders; integration of clinical and neuropsychological/neuroscience approaches to the study of psychopathology.

Skitka, Linda J.
Professor
BSB  1055
(312) 996-4464
Email: lskitka@uic.edu

(University of California, Berkeley, 1989). Procedural and distributive justice, moral conviction, ideological belief systems, political reasoning.

Stenson, Herbert H.
Associate Professor Emeritus
BSB 
(312) -
Email: stens@uic.edu

Mailing Address:
Herbert H. Stenson
3930 N Pine Grove #1411
Chicago 60613

Sweeney, John A
Professor
912 S. Wood Street, Room 261  NPI-N
(312) 413-9205
Email: sweeneyj@uic.edu

(University of Syracuse, 1980). Neurocognitive assessment, neuroimaging and psychopathology; cortical control of eye movement.

Trickett, Edison J.
Professor
BSB  1054 C
(312) 996-2144
Email: trickett@uic.edu

(Ohio State University, 1967). Community & Prevention Division Chairperson. Cultural diversity and the ecology of immigrant adolescent/family/school relationships, collaborative models of university-community research relationships.

Weissberg, Roger P.
Professor of Psychology & Edu/President, CASEL
BSB  1008 A
(312) 413-1012
Email: rpw@uic.edu

(University of Rochester, 1980) Professor of Psychology and Education; President, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Community and Prevention Research, Clinical. School-family-community partnerships to promote positive youth development; Prevention of high-risk behaviors; urban children's mental health; educational leadership; assessment of social and emotional learning; social policy and children.

Wiley, Jennifer
Associate Professor
BSB  1054 B
(312) 355-2501
Email: jwiley@uic.edu

(University of Pittsburgh, 1996) Text comprehension and problem solving; the development of expertise and the application of cognitive principles to educational contexts.

Wirtshafter, R. David
Professor
BSB  2010
(312) 413-2631
Email: davew@uic.edu

(The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1982). Functional organization of the basal ganglia, Role of dopamine, serotonin and the midbrain raphe nuclei in motivation and learning, Gene expression and behavior.