Faculty and Staff
Professor of Psychology
Social Psychology
Personality Psychology
Research Methods
Heroes, Great Leaders, Legends, and Martyrs
Scott Allison is Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond. He received his B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 19...
Associate Professor of Psychology
Childen's friendships
Psychosocial adjustment in emerging adulthood
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Aggression and victimization by peers
Administrative Coordinator
Associate Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
Memory self-efficacy in adulthood and old age
Perceptions and stereotypes of aging and Alzheimer's disease
Measurement issues
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Object recognition
Cognitive and neural mechanisms of the development and loss of perceptual expertise across the
lifespan
Organization of semantic knowledge
Category specificity in cognitively intact and impaired individuals
Face recognition
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Implicit Self-Theories and Motivation
Interpersonal Forgiveness
Weight Management
Distinguished University Professor
Decision making
Higher education
Language processing
Associate Professor of Psychology
Cognition and emotion
Spatial categorization and memory
Professor of Psychology
Coordinator, Neuroscience Program
Brain, Hormones and Behavior
Sex Differences and Sexual Differentiation of the Brain and Behavior
Natural Selection
Evolutionary Principles
Memory, Aging and Cognition
Stress and Animal Behavior (and Relevance for Human Behavior)
Neuroscience
The neurobiology and neurochemistry underlying social behaviors in animals, particularly the effects of reproductive experience (pregnancy, lactation and exposure to offspring) on the maternal and paternal brain.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in adults
Metacognition and strategy use
Cognitive-behavioral intervention development
Dr. Laura Knouse is a clinical psychologist whose research and clinical expertise focus on the nature, assessment, and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in adults. One line of ongoing research is aimed at understanding the cogniti...
Assistant Professor of Psychology
High-level Cognition
Mathematical & Numerical Cognition
Psychology of Formal Reasoning
Perception and Action in High-level Cognition
University Professor
History and philosophy of psychology
The social, cultural, and conceptual context and impact of psychology
The relations between psychology and other disciplines
David Leary has been University Professor at the University of Richmond since 2002. For the previous 13 years, he was Dean of Arts and Sciences at Richmond, and before that he was Professor of Psychology, History, and the Humanities at the University...
Professor of Psychology
Dr. Andrew F. Newcomb joined the Richmond faculty in 1984 and has been an active teacher and scholar for over 25 years, serving as the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 2001-2011. During the course of his teaching career he has received nu...
Megacognition
The Remember/Know paradigm
Recognition memory
Memory in aging