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Department of Psychological Sciences

Faculty

Heather Bailey, PhD

Heather Bailey

Associate Professor

414 Bluemont Hall
hbailey@ksu.edu

Cognitive/Human Factors
Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP)

Event Cognition, Working Memory, Episodic Long-Term Memory, and Aging 

Christopher Barlett, PhD

Christopher Barlett

Assistant Professor

468 Bluemont Hall
cpb6666@ksu.edu

Social/Personality

Aggression, Cyberbullying, Violence Prevention, Individual Differences, 
Theory Development, Health-Behaviors

Natalie Barlett

Natalie Barlett
Teaching Assistant Professor

418 Bluemont Hall
ndb@ksu.edu


Social/Personality

Development (early childhood, emerging adulthood), Individual
Differences, Health, Identity

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Heather Bliss
Teaching Assistant Professor


477 Bluemont Hall
bliss1@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning     Affiliated: Cognitive/Human Factors

Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Teaching & Technology

Laura Brannon

Laura Brannon
Professor

419 Bluemont Hall
lbrannon@ksu.edu

Social/Personality     Affiliated: Cognitive/Human Factors

Persuasion (promoting positive physical & mental health), Positive
Psychology (promoting prosocial behavior)

G Brase

Gary Brase
Professor and Associate Department Head


496 Bluemont Hall
gbrase@ksu.edu
532-0609

Cognitive/Human Factors     Affiliated: Social/Personality
Adaptive Reasoning and Decisions Lab

Judgment and Decision Making & Social and Statistical Reasoning

Mary Cain

Mary Cain
Professor and Interim Graduate Program Director

424 Bluemont Hall
mecain@ksu.edu
532-6884

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning
Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP)

Neurobiology of addiction, differential rearing, novelty & individual 
differences

Maria Diehl

Maria Diehl
Assistant Professor

417 Bluemont Hall
mmdiehl@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning

Neural circuits of fear and avoidance, behavioral resilience, social 
interactions

 

J Hpavon

Julio C. Hernandez Pavon
Assistant Professor

421 Bluemont Hall
juliohpavon@ksu.edu 

Cognitive/Human Factors     Affiliated: Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning

Brain Stimulation, Clinical Neuroscience, Electroencephalography (EEG),
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Neuroplasticity

C Lane

Carrie Lane
Teaching Assistant Professor

478 Bluemont Hall
cjlane@ksu.edu


Social/Personality

Physical Contact, Attachment Styles, Social Influence, and Gender
Differences

Lee

Jin Lee 
Associate Professor

467 Bluemont Hall
jinlee@ksu.edu

Industrial/Organizational

Occupational Health Psychology, Ergonomics & Quantitative Research
Methods

 

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Lester Loschky
Professor

416 Bluemont Hall
loschky@ksu.edu
532-6882

Cognitive/Human Factors
Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP)

Visual Cognition, Human-Computer Interaction & Comprehension  

Sarina Maneotis

Sarina Maneotis
Teaching Assistant Professor

MIOP Director

471 Bluemont Hall
smaneotis@ksu.edu

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Prosocial Motivation and Behavior, Work/Non-Work Interface, and
Assessment         

Charles Pickens, PhD

Charles Pickens
Associate Professor

469 Bluemont Hall
pickens@ksu.edu


Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning
Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP)

Psychopharmacology, Drugs of Abuse, Learning, Conditioning,
Decision-Making

Bethany Plakke

Bethany Plakke
Assistant Professor

532-0525
413 Bluemont Hall

bplakke@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning

Multisensory and Audiovisual Processing, Learning and Memory,
Auditory Discrimination

Donald Saucier

Don Saucier
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Associate Director, Teaching & Learning Center (TLC)

411 Bluemont Hall
saucier@ksu.edu
532-6881

Social/Personality

Prejudice & Antisocial Behavior, Group Slurs & Humor, Masculine Honor,
Social Vigilantism

 

D Schmitt

David Schmitt
Professor and Department Head

491 Bluemont Hall
davidschmitt@ksu.edu
 

Social/Personality

Personality, Health, Well-Being, Cross-Cultural Intersections of Gender,
Sex, and Sexual Orientions

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Jennifer Smith
Teaching Assistant Professor

429 Bluemont Hall
jennifersmith@ksu.edu

Social/Personality

Family and Romantic Relationships and Technology Use, Contextualism

Dr. Tianjun Sun

Tianjun Sun
Assistant Professor

422 Bluemont Hall
tianjunsun@ksu.edu  

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Personnel Selection, Individual Differences, Research Methods,
Applied Psychometrics

Matthew Wisniewski

Matthew Wisniewski
Assistant Professor

412 Bluemont Hall
mgwisniewski@ksu.edu

Cognitive/Human Factors
Auditory Learning & Cognition Lab

Auditory Learning and Cognition, EEG

 

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Michael Young
Professor

473 Bluemont Hall
michaelyoung@ksu.edu

Cognitive/Human Factors

Judgment and Decision Making & Human-Computer Interaction

 

Research Assistant Professor

Alexandria Zakrzewski

Alexandria Zakrzewski
Research Assistant Professor
Director, Electroencephalography (EEG) Core
Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Core, CNAP

423 Bluemont Hall
aczakrzewski@ksu.edu
Auditory Learning & Cognition Lab

Learning, Metacognition, and Categorization

Emeritus Faculty

Mark Barnett

Mark Barnett
barn@ksu.edu

Social/Personality

Jerry Frieman

Jerome Frieman
frieman@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning

Clive Fullagar

Clive Fullagar
fullagar@ksu.edu

Industrial/Organizational

Richard Harris

Richard Harris
rjharris@ksu.edu

Cognitive/Human Factors

 

Stephen Kiefer

Stephen Kiefer
swkiefer@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning

Kimberly Kirkpatrick

Kimberly Kirkpatrick
University Distinguished Professor
kirkpatr@ksu.edu

Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning
Affiliated: Cognitive/Human Factors

Patrick Knight

Patrick Knight
knight@ksu.edu

Industrial/Organizational

 

 

Greg Monaco

Greg Monaco
gmonaco@ksu.edus

James Shanteau

James Shanteau
shanteau@ksu.edu

Cognitive/Human Factors

 

 

 

Charles Thompson
chuckt@ksu.edu

Instructors

 

Sandra Brase
sbrase@ksu.edu
Stuart Miller
ssmiller@ksu.edu
Jane Hansen
jkhansen@ksu.edu
Kate Tolle
ktolle20@ksu.edu
Rachel Kaufman
drkaufman7@ksu.edu
Matthew Wassom
mcwassom@ksu.edu
Diana McElwain
dedmonds@ksu.edu
Jessica Williamson
jessrwill@ksu.edu