Seth Brown (Ph.D. University of New Mexico) Teaching interests are clinical training, empirically-supported treatment, and severe mental illness. General research interests include severe mental illness (particularly schizophrenia). Specifically, I'm interested in the experience and consequences of auditory hallucinations, mental illness stigma, and understanding self-harm behavior. My applied work involves psychological assessment and treatment.

e-mail: Seth.Brown@uni.edu

Adam Butler (Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Research interests include work-family issues, organizational problem solving and decision making, and organizational change. He is also interested in instructional technology and collaborative learning. Courses currently taught include organizational psychology and introduction to psychology.

e-mail: Adam.Butler@uni.edu

Catherine DeSoto (Ph.D. University of Missouri) Principal area of research involves investigating the influence of estrogen on both normal behavior and the expression of psychopathology. Broadly interested in how brain function affects behavior, she has done research involving various brain imaging techniques, including ERP's, optical imaging and MRI. Current research projects involve direct measurement of estrogen levels via radioimmunoassay and how this relates to borderline personality disorder. Secondary areas of interest include mathematical learning disabilities, neural investigations of the Stroop effect, language development, and adolescent traumatic brain injury. Current teaching interests are biological psychology, statistics, and general psychology. She serves on the editorial board of Evolutionary Psychology.

e-mail: Cathy.DeSoto@uni.edu

Michael Gasser (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) Teaching interests include personnel psychology, individual differences, and statistics. Current research interests include the performance of employees in a cross-cultural work setting and how pay expectations are formed and influenced.

e-mail: Gasser@uni.edu

Andrew R. Gilpin (Ph.D. Michigan State University) On the UNI faculty since 1974, he is now Professor of Psychology. His teaching areas include developmental psychology, psychological statistics, and computer applications. Most of his recent professional publications involve the development of microcomputer software directed at multivariate statistical analysis, some of which he has commercially distributed. His research interests also include empirical studies of socialization for child rearing, the cognitive basis of impulsive behavior, and perception of graphic figures.

e-mail: Gilpin@uni.edu

Jennifer Grossheim (M.A. University of Northern Iowa) Research interests include the intersection of art and psychology, specifically why do humans find an object or person attractive. Courses currently taught include psychology of adjustment and introduction to psychology.

e-mail: jennifer.grossheim@uni.edu
Helen C. Harton (Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University). Teaching interests include social psychology and research methods. Her primary research areas are attitudes and social influence. Specific research projects include the effects of information and discussion on attitude extremity, the social influence of opinion, and applications to attitudes toward relationship partners and immigrants. She is also interested in dynamical systems approaches to social behavior (especially catastrophe theory) and computer applications for both research and teaching.

e-mail: Harton@uni.edu

Carolyn Hildebrandt (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) Previously at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Teaching interests: developmental psychology, human development and education. Research interests: social and moral development, cognitive aspects of musical development, and constructivist theories of teaching and learning. Current research projects include (1) children's social and cognitive development in the context of cooperative and competitive games, (2) the development of children's invented songs, instruments, and notations, and (3) constructivist approaches to the education of young children. Dr. Hildebrandt has a joint appointment with the Regent's Center for Early Developmental Education in the College of Education.

e-mail: Hildebrandt@uni.edu

Robert Hitlan (Ph.D. University of Texas at El Paso). Research interests include the antecedents and consequences of workplace stressors. Two primary areas of interest include social ostracism and harassment including sexual, ethnic, and bystander harassment experiences. Teaching interests include organizational psychology, intergroup relations applied to the workplace, and statistics including structural equation modeling.

e-mail: Rob.Hitlan@uni.edu

Mary Losch (Ph.D. University of Iowa) Current teaching interests: psychology of gender differences. General research interests: attitudes, infant feeding decision-making, health behaviors of mothers during the perinatal period, pregnancy prevention, adolescent risk behaviors, health behavior assessment, and survey research methods. Dr. Losch has a joint appointment as the Assistant Director of the Center for Social and Behavioral Research.

e-mail: Losch@uni.edu

M. Kimberly MacLin (Ph.D. University of Nevada-Reno) Her research interests focus on criminal appearance stereotypes, the source of those stereotypes, and how those stereotypes impact memory and decision making in a variety of legal contexts. She is co-author of Experimental Psychology: A Case Approach, Cognitive Psychology, and is currently developing a textbook on Psychology and Law.

e-mail: Kim.MacLin@uni.edu

Otto MacLin (Ph.D. University of Nevada-Reno) Post Doctoral research in eyewitness identification completed at the University of Texas at El Paso. Current teaching interests are in Sensation & Perception, Conditioning & Learning, Advanced Statistics, and History & Systems. General research interests include cognitive and metacognitive aspects of face recognition as well as applied aspects of face recognition such as eyewitness identification. Specific research projects include comparing simultaneous vs. sequential lineup administration, suggestibility of show-ups, developing computer software to facilitate lineup administration, examination of the cross-race effect, and the examination of the perceptual dimensions underlying face recognition. He is a co-author of a books in the area of Cognitive Psychology, Psychology & Law and Computer Programming. He also serves as a psychological consultant to attorneys on cases involving eyewitness identification.

e-mail: Otto.MacLin@uni.edu

John Somervill (Ph.D., University of Arkansas). General research interests are depth perception as it relates to driving safety. Past research interest has involved social reactions to persons with disabilities. Teaching interests include introduction to psychology, abnormal psychology, and psychology of adjustment.

e-mail: John.Somervill@uni.edu

Joshua Susskind (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) Current teaching interests: life-span development, introduction to psychology, child and adolescent development, social psychology, and social development. General research interests: social development. Specific research interests: how children develop and use stereotypes, how students cope with academic stress, and computer applications in the classroom.

e-mail: Susskind@uni.edu

Linda L. Walsh (Ph.D. in Biopsychology University of Chicago) Current teaching interests: physiological psychology, drugs and behavior, neuroanatomy and neurology, introduction to psychology. Research interests include human food preferences and aversions; the role of the family, food experience and personality factors in shaping food attitudes/behavior; food neophobia. Additional research interests are drug education/drug knowledge and drug use patterns. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology and APA's Division 2 on the Teaching of Psychology. She is also a regular participant at national and regional associations focusing on the teaching of psychology.

e-mail: Walsh@uni.edu

John Williams (Ph.D. University of Mississippi). Teaching interests include personality and cognitive assessment, theories of personality, research design and methods, and statistics. General research interests are in the areas of psychological assessment, reliability and validity of assessment instruments, and computerized applications in psychology. Specific research focuses on computer- based test interpretations for personality assessment inventories.

e-mail: John.Williams@uni.edu

Jack Yates (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) Research centers on the nature of conscious thoughts and conscious knowledge. He is interested in conceptions of the physical and social worlds, and has undertaken a series of studies examining conceptions of specific physical, biological, and social situations. Also of interest are the structures and processes that underlie and support conscious knowledge, leading to studies of perception and attention designed to explore cognitive processes.

e-mail: Yates@uni.edu

Rowena Tan (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) Assistant Professor and CSBS Coordinator of Scholarships and Honors.

e-mail: Rowena.Tan@uni.edu