Cognition, Neuroscience, and Social Psychology
CNS Faculty
** These faculty members may be interested in admitting graduate students into their research groups for Fall 2025
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.
Juliana French ** (St. Petersburg campus): Social psychology; Romantic relationship formation and satisfaction;
Hormonal contraceptives and relationships
Jamie Goldenberg ** (Area Director) (Tampa campus): Terror management theory, the body and sex, objectification
of women, health applications
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
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
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 ** (Tampa campus): Social and cultural psychology, cultural influences on violence