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Research Faculty (supervise graduate students)

The social psychology area has five full-time faculty. The research interests of these faculty are diverse and provide a spectrum of opportunities for students, ranging from experiences in theory-driven basic research to problem-driven applied research. The program enjoys intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary ties to other units in the psychology department (e.g., developmental, counseling) and on campus (e.g., marketing, advertising, criminology, law, dentistry). Students often seek out course work and research experiences in such complementary units to enhance their backgrounds in their chosen specialties.

Kate Ratliff (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2009). The effect of unintentional processes on thoughts, feelings, and behavior; impression formation, implicit attitudes.

James A. Shepperd (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1988). Managing threatening information; identity regulation and health; biases in self and social judgments and the implications for health.

Colin Smith (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2009). Implicit social cognition: changes in and consequences of implicit evaluations; Political psychology: predicting voting behavior; person by situation interactions based on political orientation.

Gregory Webster Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2006). Prosocial and aggressive behavior, self-esteem, judgment and decision making, methods and data modeling, dynamic systems, evolutionary psychology, social networks, and the psychology of science.

Erin Westgate Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2018). Emotion and social cognition, with focus on boredom, interest, and thinking (and why it’s so hard for so many of us).

Graduate Students

  • Akinnola, Ilerioluwa
  • Alaukik, Abhay
  • Avila, Jackelyn
  • Colvin, Victoria
  • Forsyth, Rachel
  • Garcia Ferres, Eva
  • Jin, Rui
  • Kernin, Liz
  • Krause, Ashley
  • LePine, Elisha
  • Lin, Yijun
  • Lofaro, Nicole
  • Ortiz, Anais
  • Perlin, Josh

Emeritus/retired Faculty

Barry R. Schlenker (Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1972). Impression management and self-presentation; self and identity; personal responsibility; the psychology of accountability; social anxiety; interpersonal influence.

Lawrence J. Severy (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1970). Reproductive health; couple contraceptive decision-making; program acceptability and evaluation.

Affiliate Faculty

Brian Cahill (Ph.D., Florida International University, 2015). Legal psychology, eyewitness identification.

Ron Chandler (Ph.D., Walden University, 2014). Psychology of sustainability, environmental psychology.

Michael F. Weigold (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1989). Advertising; impression management; negative political campaigning; accountability; risk taking. Primary affiliation: Department of Advertising, College of Journalism and Communications.

Recent Graduates

Orozco, Tatiana (2013), Research Scientist, Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL

Collisson, Brian (2013), Assistant Professor, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

Crosier, Ben (2014), Meta, San Francisco, CA

Crysel, Laura (2014), Assistant Professor, Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Gesselman, Amanda (2014), Associate Director for Research Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IL

Howell, Jenny (2015), Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced, CA

Newell, Steve (2015), Senior Legislative & Federal Affairs Officer, American Psychological Association, Washington DC

Klein, Richard (2017), Post-doctoral Fellow, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Conway, Morgan (2018),  Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC

Redford, Liz (2018), GitHub

Lipsey, Nicolette (2019), Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Mont Alto

Gabrielle Pogge (2019), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida, Gainesville

Joy Losee (2020), Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, OH

Christine Vitiello (2021), Research Psychologist at the Air Force Research Lab

Elsa Jiang (2021), Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

Liz Mahar (2021), Univeresity of British Columbia

Val Wongsomboon (2021), Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Chicago

Jessica Campbell (2021), Kinsey Institutem Bloomington, IL

Samantha Douglas (2022),

Louis Irving (2022),

Recent Postdoctoral Trainees

Gabrielle Pogge  PhD University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Wendi Miller, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Colin Smith, Ph.D., University of Virginia

Pictures from SPSP 2020