Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social Psychology
CNS Faculty
* These faculty members are potentially accepting graduate students for Fall 2022
* Paul Atchley (Tampa campus): Attention and distraction; multitasking; technological influences
on human cognition; attention and driving
* Ruthann Atchley (Tampa campus): Cognitive neuroscience of language comprehension and emotion processing;
Impact of short and long-term changes in mental health on cognition
Jennifer Bosson (Tampa campus): Self and identity, stereotypes, targets of stigma, gender, social
roles
Judith Becker Bryant (Tampa campus): Language development, language socialization, gendered language
* Anthony Coy (Sarasota-Manatee campus): Social psychology, dyadic relationships, environmental
behaviors, person-pet interactions
David Diamond (Tampa campus): Physiology of behavior, psychology of learning, neurobiology of memory,
disturbance of brain and behavior by stress
* Chad Dubé (Tampa campus): Recognition memory, alpha oscillations in attention and memory, Signal
Detection Theory and ROC analysis, visual working memory, inductive and deductive
reasoning.
* Jamie Goldenberg (Tampa campus): Terror management theory, the body and sex, objectification of women,
health applications
* Cheryl Kirstein (Tampa campus): Behavioral neuroscience, neural substrate of addiction
* Ken Malmberg (Tampa campus): Representations in memory, mathematical and computational modeling,
aging and memory
* Jay Michaels (Sarasota-Manatee campus): Social psychology, psychology of religion
* Jennifer O'Brien (St. Petersburg campus): Attention and reward processing, age-related cognitive decline
and cognitive training
* Tiina Ojanen (Tampa campus): Social development during middle childhood, adolescence, and college
years
* Max Owens (St. Petersburg campus): Cognition and neuroscience; depression, cognitive control,
EEG, eye tracking
* Mark Pezzo (St. Petersburg campus): Social psychology; judgment and decision making, sensemaking
* Geoffrey Potts (Tampa campus): Executive systems and their involvement in personality and mental
illness; Event-related potentials
Doug Rohrer (Tampa campus): Learning and memory
* Wendy Rote (St. Petersburg campus): Developmental psychology; adolescent communication and relationships,
parental control
* Christine Ruva (Sarasota-Manatee campus): Psychology and law, jury decision making
* Kristen Salomon (Tampa campus): Social health psychology, cardiovascular psychophysiology, stress
and coping
Tom Sanocki (Tampa campus): Visual cognition and attention, object and scene perception, top-down
processing, aesthetics
* Sandra Schneider (Tampa campus): Judgment and decision making, framing, metacognition and task performance
* Elizabeth Schotter (Tampa campus): Eye movements & cognition; Language processing; visual processing;
reading
Toru Shimizu (Tampa campus): Comparative neuroscience, visual information processing, evolution
of brain and cognition
* Joe Vandello (Area Director) (Tampa campus): Social and cultural psychology, cultural influences
on violence