Greg Townley, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair | gtownley@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3910 | Community Psychology | Community inclusion of individuals with serious mental illnesses. Homelessness and housing interventions. Development and evaluation of alternative first response programs (e.g., Portland Street Response) | Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative |
Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | karlyn@pdx.edu
(503) 725-2389 | Applied Developmental Psychology | Intersection of academic achievement motivation and adolescent development by attending to how early adolescents’ identities are negotiated in social interactions | Identity in Sociohistorical Context Research Team |
Susana Beltrán-Grimm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | susanab@pdx.edu | Applied Developmental Psychology | Leveraging asset-based frameworks to investigate the home math environment, the use of children's digital media and tools, and the cultural and contextual factors of Latiné families | RAICES (Research-based Approaches to Improving Children’s Educational outcomeS) Lab |
Todd E. Bodner, Ph.D.
Professor | tbodner@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3902 | Applied Quantitative Psychology | Evaluation of statistical methods commonly used by practicing researchers, including generalized linear mixed models, structural equation models, meta-analytic methods, and methods for handling missing data | |
Tori Crain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | tcrain@pdx.edu | Industrial/Organizational Psychology | Topics related to occupational stress, safety, and health, with a specific emphasis on understanding the interplay among the three domains of life: work, nonwork, and sleep | Researching Employee Sleep, Equity, and Time Lab |
Tessa Dover, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | tdover@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3914 | Applied Social Psychology | The psychological, biological, and behavioral effects of group-based fairness and unfairness | Stigma, Resilience, Inequality, Identity, and Diversity Lab |
Bill Griesar, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant Professor | griesar@pdx.edu | Interdisciplinary Neuroscience | Community outreach, undergraduate mentoring, arts integration in STEM (STEAM), public policy implications of neuroscience research | NW Noggin |
Kimberly Kahn, Ph.D.
Professor | kimbkahn@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3972 | Applied Social Psychology | Contemporary forms of subtle bias and prejudice, specifically hidden forms of bias such as stereotype threat, phenotypic racial stereotypicality bias, masculinity threat, and implicit bias | Gender, Race, and Sexual Prejudice Lab |
Keith L. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Professor | kaufmank@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3984 | Community Psychology | Prevention of sexual violence in organizational settings such as college campuses and youth-serving organizations | |
Eric Mankowski, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair | mankowskie@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3901 | Applied Social & Community Psychology | The relationship between individual, group, and community functioning, especially in areas of mental health with a particular focus on understanding how masculinity is socially constructed and its connection to violence, substance abuse, and other health and social problems | Gender and Violence Intervention Research Team |
Andrew Mashburn, Ph.D.
Professor | mashburn@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3995 | Applied Developmental Psychology | Identify, develop, and test new approaches to promote children’s school readiness | Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness
Research Team |
Cynthia Mohr, Ph.D.
Professor | cdmohr@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3981 | Applied Social Psychology | Psychosocial influences on subjective well-being and physical health and in particular the processes by which positive and negative facets of interpersonal relationships and emotions exert effects on health | Daily Affect, Drinking, and Interpersonal Context Health Lab |
Jason Newsom, Ph.D.
Professor | newsomj@pdx.edu
(503) 725-5136 | Applied Quantitative Psychology | Applied statistics, in particular structural equation modeling and longitudinal data analysis, mental and physical health effects of social relationships among older adults, and health behaviors among older adults | |
Yue Ni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | niyue@pdx.edu | Applied Developmental Psychology | Examining how we can describe, explain, and maximize positive development among youth from diverse backgrounds with a particular interest in youth's contribution to civil society in various contexts and how it can affect their well-being | |
Jensine Paoletti-Hatcher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | jensine@pdx.edu | Industrial/Organizational Psychology | The way work-life experiences affect self-reported wellbeing, biological processes associated with quality of life, and diseases of older adulthood, specifically positive and/or stressful work-life experiences and associated interpersonal processes | Healthy Balance Lab |
Jason Randall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | jasonran@pdx.edu | Industrial/Organizational Psychology | Work-related learning and motivation, specifically training and development (e.g., e-learning, informal learning), self-regulation (e.g., mind wandering, mindfulness), and personnel selection (e.g., retesting, bias, adverse impact) | Talent Assessment, Learning & Engagement Lab |
Marcus Sharpe, Psy.D. Senior Instructor II
| msharpe@pdx.edu | | | |
Ellen Skinner, Ph.D.
Professor | skinnere@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3966 | Applied Developmental Psychology | Life-span developmental psychology. Developmental systems theory; dynamics of motivational development during childhood and early adolescence; development of coping; study of how self-system processes promote engagement and become motivational resources for children's coping with obstacles and setbacks; special focus on how social contexts and close relationships make it easier (or harder) for children to cope adaptively; interest in theory development and measurement construction | |
Liu-Qin Yang, Ph.D.
Professor | lyang@pdx.edu
(503) 725-3960 | Industrial/Organizational & Quantitative Psychology | How employees manage their motivation and stress at work, with the ultimate goal of enhancing employees’ and organizations’ well-being and productivity; examining the interplay of individual characteristics (e.g., emotions, self-identity, personality), and psychosocial environment (e.g., leader behavior, organizational climate, cultural values) with a focus on understanding the dynamic employee stress and motivation processes and their implications for employee health and productivity; expertise in quantitative psychology includes measurement, multilevel analysis, survey design, and daily diary methods | Motivation, Mistreatment, Measurement, and More Lab |