Research Labs

Directed at understanding and improving health behaviors among youth. Research focuses on reducing tobacco consumption, school violence, binge eating, dietary restraint, breastfeeding attitudes, and teen BMI.

Dedicated to exploring emotional and psychological risk and resilience with an emphasis on suicidality, evidence-based clinical interventions, and digital health innovations to improve treatment accessibility.

Investigates cultural, family, and behavioral factors promoting health in childhood chronic illness, focusing on pediatric type 1 diabetes adaptation, early childhood obesity, and eliminating health disparities.

Conducts NIH-funded clinical research addressing public health priorities in addiction. Focuses on brief motivational interviewing interventions and behavioral economics to reduce alcohol and substance abuse.

Focuses on psychotherapy processes, outcomes, and therapist-client interactions within Clinical Psychology. Actively involves undergraduate and graduate assistants in research projects.

Composed of the Gambling Clinic and Gambling Lab. Delivers clinical care, trains doctoral clinicians, and conducts empirical research on risk and protective factors for disordered gambling.

Studies psychological responses to traumatic events and interventions for PTSD and co-occurring substance abuse among military veterans (OEF/OIF), college students, and community survivors of violence.

Researches learning in multimedia environments to support STEM success. Applies cognitive science principles to design emerging learning technologies that foster motivational and cognitive engagement.

Investigates cognitive mechanisms of language semantics and behavior. Uses dynamic measurements—including eye-tracking and motion-tracking—to study language processing in complex environments.

Affiliated with the Institute for Intelligent Systems, researching learning and memory optimization, spacing of practice effects, testing effects, forgetting curves, and intelligent tutoring systems.

Explores diverse psycholinguistics topics, including discourse processing, pragmatics, nonliteral language (irony, sarcasm, exaggeration), and computer-mediated communication dynamics.

Provides practical, community-based solutions to reduce inequities in school systems, improve student social-emotional well-being, and evaluate cultural humility, diversity, and school safety climate.

Investigates oral and silent reading fluency across child development, assessment practices for early identification of reading disabilities, and interventions supporting proficient reading comprehension.

Examines evidence-based assessments in school psychology, investigates the persistence of low-value care, explores generative AI in practitioner workflows, and applies metascience methods.

Uses multi-disciplinary tools—genetics, molecular biology, computational biology, behavioral neuroscience, and neuropharmacology—to study Parkinson disease, dystonia, ataxia, tremor, and Huntington disease.