Meet the Faculty

Dr. Michael Figuccio
Chair

Dr. Marya Howell-Carter
First Year Experience Coordinator
Research interests: Biracial identity; Mindfulness; Anxiety (test, GAD, performance, social); Sleep and Sleep Problems; Student Advisement and Academic Success; Women's Issues; and Problems Related to Race and Discrimination.

Dr. Jennifer Gonder
Program Director
Research interests: Consumer Psychology, Performance Management, Pedagogical Research

Dr. Michael Goodstone
Professor

Dr. Marla Jorgensen
Chair of LAS/Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Children's moral reasoning, Parental fairness and domain theory, Parental lying and moral reasoning, Divorce and child outcomes (ie, parental bonding, relationship styles), Academic achievement and student advising.

Dr. Sy Islam
Associate Professor
Research interests: Cybervetting, social media usage in selection, college student experience and its effect on academic citizenship behaviors, text analysis, training and development

Dr. Barbara Pezzanite
Visiting Assistant Professor

Dr. Kathryn Hauschild
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Face and Object Processing; Categorization; Implicit Learning; Language Acquisition; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Eye-Tracking; EEG/ERP

Dr. MaryBeth Apriceno
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Meta-analysis of ageism reduction programs, descriptive study of mental health of first year college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, correlational study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes toward older adults/ageism

Dr. Brianna Gonzalez
Assistant Professor

Bindu Annie Dulock M.A.
Lecturer
Research Interests: Marital Conflict/Divorce and Child Functioning, Cognitive Restructuring, Stoicism and Anxiety, Personal Growth Initiative and Locus of Control

David Brocker M.A.
Lecturer
Research Interests: Person Perception, Impression Formation, Creepiness and Morbid Curiosity, Attractiveness Bias, Morality and Emotion

Collleen Farrell
Lecturer