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Faculty

Chairperson

Mahzad Hojjat

Professor / Chairperson

Psychology
Liberal Arts 362

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Research

Research interests

  • Transgression and Forgiveness in Friendship and Romantic Relationship
  • Interethnic Dating/Marriage
  • Resilience and Satisfaction in Close Relationships
  • Competition in Friendships

Faculty

Andrew Revell

Associate Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 367

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Research

Research interests

  • Cognitive aging
  • Neuropsychology
  • Remediation of cognitive decline and potential gene-environment interactions
  • Measurement of normal versus pathological changes with age and mental health
  • Developmental characteristics in parenting and healthy development

Assistant Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 390

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Research

Research interests

  • Health behavior change
  • Enhancing treatment outcomes for eating disorders and obesity
  • Clinical training
Brian Ayotte

Associate Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 391

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Research

Research interests

  • Health behaviors
  • Social support
  • Relationships
  • Health attitudes
Elizabeth Richardson

Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 384

508-910-6954elizabeth.richardson@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Adolescent & young adult health risk behaviors
  • Growth, resilience & wellness
  • Equine assisted learning
  • Mindful parenting
Heliosa Alves

Assistant Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 358

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Joshua Masse

Associate Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 387B

508-999-8334joshua.masse@umassd.edu

Research

Research interests

  • Externalizing Childhood Behaviors
  • Evidence-Based Treatments
  • Treatment Dissemination and Implementation
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kevin Holden

Part Time Lecturer

Psychology
Liberal Arts 357

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Assistant Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 396J

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Mahzad Hojjat

Professor / Chairperson

Psychology
Liberal Arts 362

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Research

Research interests

  • Transgression and Forgiveness in Friendship and Romantic Relationship
  • Interethnic Dating/Marriage
  • Resilience and Satisfaction in Close Relationships
  • Competition in Friendships
Mary Kayyal

Assistant Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 349

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Research

Research interests

  • Emotion Perception
  • Emotion and Moral Judgments
  • Development of emotion categories across cultures
Nicholas Zambrotta

Assistant Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 347

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Research

Research interests

  • Political Polarization
  • Motivated Reasoning
  • Social Support and Health Related Behaviors
  • Psychology of Peak Performance
  • Morality

Associate Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 388

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Assistant Teaching Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 360

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Research

Research interests

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Self-injurious behavior

Assistant Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 366

Research Website

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Robin Arkerson

Associate Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 363

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Research

Research interests

  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Emotional development
  • Affective physiology
  • Development of aggressive behavior
  • Social relationships in childhood
Trina Kershaw

Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 359

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Research

Research interests

  • Transfer in educational settings
  • Creativity in engineering design
  • Insight problem solving
  • Individual differences
  • Skill learning and transfer
Ted Powers

Professor

Psychology
Liberal Arts 361

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Research

Research interests

  • Personality
  • Motivation
  • Autonomy support