Faculty & Staff

headshot of Dr. Laura E. Knouse
Professor of Psychology, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Chair, Department of Psychology
Faculty Director of the Richmond Scholars Program

Specialties:
  • ADHD in Adults
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Leadership in Personal Crisis
Contact:
(804) 287-6347
headshot of Dr. Scott T. Allison
University Professor Emeritus

Specialties:
  • Social Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Research Methods
  • Heroes, Great Leaders, Legends, and Martyrs
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headshot of Dr. Jane  Berry
Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Adult development and aging
  • Cognitive and metacognitive aging
  • Perceptions and stereotypes of aging
  • Support (and non-support) for the Black Lives Matter movement
Contact:
(804) 289-8130
headshot of Dr. Jessica  Bourdon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Addiction
  • Translational science
  • Psychiatric genetics
  • Alcohol and substance use disorder treatment
  • Science communication
  • Service utilization
  • Implementation methods
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headshot of Dr. Cindy  Bukach
Professor of Psychology
MacEldin Trawick Professor of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science

Specialties:
  • Face and object recognition in cognitively intact and impaired individuals
  • Development and loss of perceptual expertise across the lifespan
  • Factors underlying the way we categorize our world
  • Racial bias and other-race effects
  • PURSUE: Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM Using Electrophysiology (www.pursueerp.com)
Contact:
(804) 287-6830
Adjunct Lecturer of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Rehabilitation Psychology
  • Neuropsychology
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headshot of  Lauren A. Carter
Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant
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headshot of Dr. Allan  Collins
Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

Specialties:
  • Understanding the cognitive and neurological underpinnings involved with visual category learning
  • Mathematical/statistical modeling of reaction times and electroencephalogram data
  • Using models of decision-making to understand the decisional processes involved with categorization
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headshot of Dr. William E. Cooper
Distinguished University Professor

Specialties:
  • Decision making
  • Higher education
  • Language processing
Contact:
(804) 289-8632
headshot of Dr. Arella  Gussow
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science

Specialties:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language comprehension and production
  • Crosslinguistic differences in language processing
  • Serial ordering in language and motor action
Contact:
(804) 662-3080
headshot of  Olivia  Harding
Psychology Manager of Labs
Contact:
(804) 287-1915
headshot of Dr. Kitty  Hartvigsen
Trawick Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology

Specialties:
  • Neurobiology of emotional circuits
  • Cellular and molecular neurophysiology
  • Rodent ultrasonic vocalizations
  • Brain slice electrophysiology
  • Neuroscience & STEM Outreach & Development
Contact:
(804) 287-1218
headshot of Dr.  Crystal L. Hoyt
Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member

Specialties:
  • Beliefs Systems (e.g., Mindsets, Stereotypes, and Ideologies)
  • Stigma, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
  • Social Inequities
Contact:
(804) 287-6825
headshot of Dr. Karen Puccia Kochel
Associate Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Child and adolescent development
  • Peer and gender relationships
  • Psychological adjustment
Contact:
(804) 289-8131
headshot of  Karyn  Kuhn
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Contact:
(804) 289-8123
headshot of Dr. Kelly  Lambert
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
MacEldin Trawick Professor in Psychology
Co-coordinator, Neuroscience Program

Specialties:
  • Experience-based Neuroplasticity
  • Neurobiology of Parental Behavior
  • Neurobiological Impact of Natural-Enriched Environments
  • Effective Coping Strategies and Emotional Resilience
  • Comparative Animal Behavior
Contact:
(804) 289-8132
headshot of Dr. David E. Leary
University Professor Emeritus, Dean of Arts and Sciences Emeritus

Specialties:
  • History and philosophy of psychology
  • The social, cultural, and conceptual context and impact of psychology
  • The relations between psychology and other disciplines
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Adjunct Lecturer of Psychology
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headshot of Dr. Matthew  Lowder
Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Coordinator
Data Science Advisory Board Member

Specialties:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Lexical, syntactic, and semantic processing
  • Eye movements during reading
  • Individual differences in sentence processing
  • Mechanisms of memory and attention that support language comprehension
Contact:
(804) 662-3078
headshot of Dr. Kristjen  B. Lundberg
Associate Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Political psychology
  • Implicit social cognition
  • Prejudice, discrimination, status, and inequality
  • Quantitative methods
Contact:
(804) 289-8113
headshot of Dr. Andrew  Newcomb
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Emeritus
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headshot of Dr. Camilla  Nonterah
Associate Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Health disparities
  • Multicultural and cross-cultural aspects of mental and physical health
  • Psychosocial aspects of chronic illness
  • Solid organ transplantation
  • Positive psychology
Contact:
(804) 289-8128
headshot of Dr. Janelle  Peifer
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • College Student Development
  • Identity and Intercultural Competence
  • Trauma and Resilience
Contact:
804-287-6663
headshot of Dr. Arryn  Robbins
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Visual Attention and Memory
  • Eye Movements During Search
  • Applied Cognition
  • Safety Behavior
  • Computational Methods
Contact:
(804) 289-8127
headshot of Dr. Adam  Stanaland
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Specialties:
  • Social psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Norms
  • Gender
  • Policy
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Animal Care Specialist

Specialties:
  • Exotic Animals
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Labratory Animal Science
  • Animal Welfare
Contact:
(804) 287-6509
headshot of Dr. Kevin  Webster
Visiting Lecturer
Contact:
(804) 287-6623
Adjunct Lecturer of Psychology
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