Psychology
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Department of Psychology
Heidi Perez: Department Chair
Mary Radeke: Assistant Chair of the Department
Debbie Thomas: Department Secretary Supervisor
Claire Bickel: Academic Advisor
Deanna Corsilles: Academic Advisor
Jayden Alexander: Academic Advisor
Full-Time Psychology Faculty
Christopher Beeman, Senior Lecturer: Behavioral neuroscience, biology of long term memory, teaching in psychology, neuroscience outreach.
Sara Bender, Associate Professor, Director of the Online Psychology Major: Clinical expectations as related to the process of recovery, the efficacy of online learning, counseling, cybersupervision, disparities in the provision of mental health treatment, and social determinants of mental health.
Cristina Bistricean, Senior Lecturer: Applied behavioral analysis, experimental psychology, high- functioning autism, anxiety reduction, transitional periods, PTSD.
Joshua Buchanan, Senior Lecturer: Psychology of video games, self-conscious emotion, emotion expression, judgment & decision-making.
Tonya Buchanan, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Experimental Psychology Program: Experimental psychology, social psychology, social justice, emotion/affective forecasting, nudges/default options, implicit/explicit attitudes.
Patrizia Chirco, Lecturer: Attitudes and behaviors due to demographic racial shifts, ethnocentrism, skin tone bias, and threats brought on by organizational pro-diversity efforts.
Kim Collucci, Senior Lecturer: Mental health counseling in correctional facilities, social psychology, cultural influences on human development, and memory and remembrance.
Kara Gabriel, Professor: General experimental, animal behavior, biopsychology, cognitive biases, academic assessment
Ralf Greenwald, Associate Professor, Cognitive brain dynamics, event-related potentials, teaching pedagogy, general cognitive psychology, working memory, music cognition, psychology of video gaming.
Susan Lonborg, Professor: Health psychology, substance abuse, clinical and research ethics, career development, gender, social networking.
Heath Marrs, Professor, Coordinator of the School Psychology Program: School psychology, educational psychology, RTI models in school psychology practice, gender issues in education.
Rich Marsicano, Associate Professor: Academic and behavioral interventions, intervention adherence, performance feedback, and response to intervention.
Megan Matheson, Professor: Nonhuman primate social behavior, evolutionary psychology, self- injurious behavior, comparative psychology.
Liane Pereira, Associate Professor: Youth mental health, school-based mental health, child and adolescent development, inequities in health and education.
Heidi Perez, Associate Professor, Department Chair: School psychology, response-to- intervention, efficacy of school-based interventions, social-emotional functioning and behavior in children.
Danielle Polage, Associate Professor: Memory research as it pertains to law, eye witness testimony, lying and jury deliberation.
Mary Radeke, Associate Professor, Department Assistant Chair: Use of facial cues in emotion and personality assessment, conversation development in young children, personality traits, technology in the classroom, primate communication, eye tracking and Facial Action Unit Coding laboratory.
Stephen Schepman, Professor: Organization development, work motivation, personality theories.
Wendy Williams, Associate Professor: General experimental psychology-human cognition including: determinants of eyewitness credibility, self-recognition effects on memory, facial expression effects on memory and on food rejection, adjustment issues for students with disabilities, gender typing of cis- and transgender individuals
Cynthia Engel, Senior Lecturer IDS/PSY
Alena Yastchenko, Senior Lecturer IDS/PSY: Mental health conditions, social psychology, research methods and statistical analyses, Motivational Interviewing, emotional intelligence, psychological first aid, critical incident stress management.
Part-Time Psychology Faculty
Michael Johansen, Lecturer
Sara Jones, Lecturer
Jennifer Kassing, Lecturer
Nicole Kern, Lecturer
Heidi Krumland, Lecturer
Heather LaBouy, Lecturer
Brandon Lagerquist, Lecturer
Elise La Rue, Lecturer
Idalia Montanez-Miranda, Lecturer
Molly Mortensen, Lecturer
Meaghan Nolte, Lecturer
Doug Periman, Lecturer
Miranda Phillips, Lecturer
Peggy Roberts, Lecturer
Annie Scanlon, Lecturer
Jeremy Simmons, Lecturer
Mark Soelling, Lecturer
Anthony Stahelski, Lecturer
Colleen Steward, Lecturer
Departmental Staff
Chris Buchanan, Engineering Tech III
Emerit Faculty
Terry DeVietti
Jim Eubanks
Marte Fallshore
Elizabeth Haviland
Eugene Johnson
Terrence Schwartz
Stephanie Stein
Elizabeth Street
Warren Street
Phil Tolin
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Psychology Department
CWU Psychology Building
Department Office 421
Hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.