Contact Us
Department of Psychology
Univ. of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-1390
Phone: 407-823-4344
Fax: 407-823-5862
psyinfo@mail.ucf.edu

Faculty
UCF Department of Psychology

Robert Dipboye, Ph.D., Chair and Professor
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from Purdue University (1973)
Interests: Personality, employment discrimination, training, group behavior in organizations, leadership, and employee selection

Applied Experimental and Human Factors Ph.D. Program Faculty

Clint Bowers, Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (1987)
Interests: Use of technology to facilitate teamwork; virtual reality; training; stress, workload, and fatigue.

Richard Gilson, Professor and Program Director
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from Princeton University (1968)
Interests: Human sensory and information processing, particularly as they apply to human factors design and training in aviation and in aerospace operations.

Peter Hancock, Provost's Distinguished Research Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of Illinois (1983)
Interests: Stress, workload

Florian Jentsch, Associate Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of Central Florida (1997)
Interests: Aviation human factors, simulation, teams, driving, military psychology

Mustapha Mouloua, Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from Catholic University (1992)
Interests: Attention and human performance, cognitive aging, automation, and aviation psychology

Edward Rinalducci, Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of Rochester (1966)
Interests: Basic and applied aspects of vision and visual perception

Eduardo Salas, Trustee Chair and Professor of Psychology
Industrial/Organizational and Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from Old Dominion University (1984)
Interests: Team performance, training

Valerie Sims, Associate Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors (1996)
Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara
Interests: Computer interaction, human-animal interaction, and individual differences in spatial ability

Janan Smither, Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from John Hopkins University
Interests: Technology and aging

James Szalma, Assistant Professor
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of Cincinnati (1999)
Interests: signal detection theory, sustained attention, stress and workload, individual differences in performance and stress response.

Clinical Ph.D. Program Faculty

Jeffrey S. Bedwell, Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from University of Georgia (2004)
Interests: Neurocognitive and genetic aspects of schizophrenia and anxiety disorders

Deborah C. Beidel, Professor and Clinical Ph.D. Program Director
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh (1986)
Interests: Etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children.

Michael Dunn, Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (1995)
Interests: Alcohol and substance, development of prevention programs for children and college students, eating behavior, and body image

Stacey Dunn, Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (1994)
Interests: Body image and eating behavior

Charles Negy, Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (1994)
Interests: How Hispanic Americans adapt to the United States' culture and how that adaptation manifests itself on psychological and personality tests

Mark Rapport, Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from Florida State University (1991)
Interests: Children and developmental psychopathology

Kim Renk, Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (2000)
Interests: Infant mental health, clinical child psychology, and pediatric psychology

Clinical M.A. Program Faculty (Daytona Campus)

Steven Berman, Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from Florida International University (1996)
Interests: Identity development and interventions to reduce related distress and promote positive growth

Jeffrey Cassisi, Professor and Program Director
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from University of Florida (1986)
Interests: Psychophysiology, health psychology, pain rehabilitation, professional training, and cultural diversity in psychology.

H. Edward Fouty Jr.,Lecturer
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from University of New Mexico (1992)
Interests: Applied Neuropsychology

Bernard Jensen, Associate Professor and Assistant Vice President, Regional Campuses
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University (1981)
Interests: Marital dysfunction, self-efficacy and athletic performance, sports psychology interventions and variables associated with exercise behaviors

Margaret Kennerley, Lecturer
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from University of South Carolina (2001)
Interests: long-term retention, imagery-based mnemonics, and cognitive processing demands of text-to-speech computer-generated speech

Robert Kennerley, Lecturer
Clinical Psychology - Daytona Campus
Ph.D. from University of South Carolina (1999)
Interests: Substance Abuse - particularly co-occurring disorders, trauma, applications of motivational interviewing, and clinical supervision.

Industrial/Organizational Ph.D. Program Faculty

Leslie DeChurch, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from Florida International University (2002)
Interests: Team and multiteam system effectiveness, leadership, conflict & negotiations, and workĘ& family conflict

Robert Dipboye, Chair and Professor
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from Purdue University (1973)
Interests: Personality, employment discrimination, training, group behavior in organizations, leadership, and employee selection

Barbara Fritzsche, Associate Professor; Program Director
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (1993)
Interests: Decision making in job selection, personality predictors of job performance, diversity in the workplace, and prosocial personality in the workplace

Huy Le, Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from University of Iowa (2003)
Interests: Personnel selection, test construction and validation, cross-cultural issues, and quantitative research methods.

Kimberly Smith-Jentsch, Assistant Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from University of South Florida (1994)
Interests: Mentoring, teamwork, leadership, assertiveness, training and development, and performance measurement.

Robert Pritchard, Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Ph.D. from University of Minnesota (1969)
Interests: Measuring and improving organizational performance, and motivation

Eduardo Salas, Trustee Chair and Professor of Psychology
Industrial/Organizational and Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from Old Dominion University (1984)
Interests: Team performance, training

Industrial/Organizational M.S. Program Faculty (Heathrow Campus)

Robert F. Goldsmith

Robert F. Goldsmith, Adjunct Faculty
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Heathrow Campus
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (1982)
Interests: selection and assessment, leadership, job analysis.

Edwin Shirkey, Lecturer, Retired Associate Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Heathrow Campus + Main Campus
Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interests: EEG biofeedback, brain mapping and other aspects of psychobiology

William Wooten, Professor and Program Director
Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Heathrow Campus
Ph.D. from University of Memphis
Interests: Job analysis methodology, selection placement, and performance appraisal, but also include the formation and measurement of racial attitudes and issues related to diversity management

Regional Campus Undergraduate Program Faculty

Eastern Regional Area Campuses

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Shahram Ghiasinejad, Lecturer
Undergraduate teaching: Eastern region
Ph.D. from University of Texas - Dallas
Interests: Cognitive psychology.

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Sandra Simpson, Lecturer
Undergraduate teaching: Eastern region
Ph.D. from Fielding Graduate Institution
Interests: Counseling psychology

Southern Regional Area Campuses

Erin Quinlivan Murdoch, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Cocoa Campus
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (2006)
Interests: social construction of the self, self-presentation, body image, and prejudice

Maria Lavooy, Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Teaching: Cocoa Campus
Ph.D. from Miami University (Ohio) (1988)
Interests: Internet as a teaching tool and diversity issues

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Karen Mottarella, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Palm Bay Campus
Psy.D. from Florida Institute of Technology (1993)
Interests: In-home counseling and outreach models, and psychological assessment, particularly assessment and intervention of learning disabilities in adults

Shannon Whitten, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Palm Bay Campus
Ph.D. from University of Memphis (2003)
Interests: Cognitive Psychology, discourse processes, and educational psychology

Western Regional Area Campuses

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Paula Reynoso, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Western Region at the Southlake(Clermont) and Ocala campus
Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine (1991)
Interests: Cognitive Psychology, with a focus on semantic memory and aging

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Steven Saunders, Lecturer
Undergraduate teaching: Western region
Psy.D. from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Interests: Clinical psychology, forensics psychology

Main Campus Undergraduate Program Faculty

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Cyrus Azimi, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from Michigan State University
Interests: Clinical Psychology

Jay Brophy, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (1969)
Interests: Computer applications to psychology, especially the utilization of the World Wide Web

Matthew Chin, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from the University of Califonia, Santa Barbara
Interests: Intergroup discrimination, social identity, and human-animal interaction.

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Karen Cox, Instructor and Director of the Advising Center
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
M.A. from the University of Central Florida

Randy Fisher, Adjunct
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University
Interests: Human sexuality, homophobia and its correlates, and attitudes towards censorship.

Alisha Janowsky, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University
Interests: Social/personality, social cognition, better than average perspective, morality as a function of social norms

Dan McConnell, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from Indiana University
Interests: Human factors, perception/action, vision, motor control

Jack McGuire, Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Sciences
Ph.D. from the George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Interests: Clinical psychology, ethics issues, confidentiality and informed consent, group process issues, and sports psychology

Christopher Sager, Lecturer
Undergraduate Teaching: Main Campus
Ph.D. from University of Minnesota
Interests: I/O psychology, job analysis, test evaluation, job performance measurement

Alvin Wang, Professor and Dean of the Burnnett Honors College
Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook (1980)
Interests: Individual differences in learning and retention; characteristics of successful web-based students

Emeritus Faculty

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David Abott, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts
Interests: Applied Experimental and Human Performance

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Wayne E. Burroughs, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. from University of Tennessee
Interests: Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Ben Morgan, Retired Senior Research Professor - Team Performance Laboratory, Professor Emeritus
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from University of Lousville (1968)
Interests: Team performance

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Jack Rollins, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. from University of Georgia

Margaret Thomas, Professor Emeritus
Applied Experimental and Human Factors
Ph.D. from Tulane University (1971)
Interests: Providing psychological services to a homeless population

Richard Tucker, Retired - Emeritus
Ph.D. from Emory University
Interests: Aging issues