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Learn more about the People in our Legal Psychology Ph.D. Program!
Steve L. Crites, Jr., Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
Email: scrites@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Crites is Associate Professor of Psychology, and Assistant Chair and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at UTEP. His research interests including using physiological measures such as EEG/ERPs to make inferences about preferences, cognitive processes, memories, and motives (e.g., attempts to conceal beliefs, intentions, or knowledge), and examining the impact of motivation on cognitive processes (e.g., the affect of hunger on food preferences). Click here to learn more about Dr. Crites' research.
Harmon M. Hosch, Ph.D. (New School for Social Research)
Email: hhosch@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Hosch is Professor of Psychology and Criminal Justice, and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts for Social and Behavioral Sciences at UTEP. His research interests include jury decision making, language and cultural factors in juror's perceptions of testimony. Professor Hosch was the Director of the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) from September, 1996 through August, 1998. To learn more about his research please visit the Center for Law and Human Behavior: http://clhb.utep.edu.
G. William Lucker, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)
Email: lucker@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Lucker is Associate Professor of Psychology at UTEP. His research interests include the development of prevention programs for young adults at high risk for drunk driving, program evaluation, evaluation of intervention strategies related to substance abuse and crime, other aspects of cross-cultural research. Click here to learn more about Dr. Lucker's research.
Roy S. Malpass, Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
Email: rmalpass@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Malpass is Professor of Psychology and Criminal Justice at UTEP. He has published extensively in the areas of face recognition, eyewitness identification, and cross-cultural psychology. His current interests including face recognition, cross-race recognition, eyewitness identification and memory, lineup procedures and fairness, culture and behavior. Dr. Malpass is a past President of the Psychology & Law Division of the International Association for Applied Psychology, and has served as Executive Director of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. To learn more about his research, please visit his Eyewitness Research Laboratory: http://eyewitness.utep.edu.
Christian A. Meissner, Ph.D. (Florida State University)
Email: cmeissner@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Meissner joined the Psychology and Criminal Justice Programs as an Assistant Professor in 2005. His research investigates the various cognitive and social psychological processes that underlie investigative interviewing and the gathering of human intelligence, including eyewitness testimony, detection of deception, and interrogations/confessions. To learn more about Dr. Meissner's research, please visit his Investigative Interviewing Research Laboratory: http://iilab.utep.edu.
Matthew H. Scullin, Ph.D. (Cornell University)
Email: mhscullin@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Scullin joined the Psychology Department in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. His research interests span cognitive and social psychology with a special emphasis on the interaction of individual differences, cognitive factors, and social influences. He has two main areas of research. In his studies of children’s memory and suggestibility, he examines how cognitive factors, such children’s ability to encode and retrieve information, are affected by a variety of social influences. He is especially interested in the implications of this research for the study of children’s eyewitness memory. In his other area of research, the study of intelligence, he examines how social factors influence the interrelationships of intelligence test scores, schooling, and life outcomes.
James M. Wood, Ph.D. (University of Arizona)
Email: jawood@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Wood is a Professor of Psychology at UTEP. His research interests include suggestibility of adult and child witnesses, the psychology of confessions, child sexual abuse interviewing, prediction of rehospitalization among the seriously mentally ill, and the misuse of the Rorschach and other projective tests in forensic settings. Click here to learn more about Dr. Wood's research.
Michael A. Zárate, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Email: mzarate@utep.edu.
Download curriculum vitae.Dr. Zarate is a Professor of Psychology at UTEP. His research focuses on the social cognitive processes that underlie person and group perception, and how those processes lead to prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. His primary line of research involves studies on how cerebral asymmetries in perception lead to different types of social representations. His research argues that our perceptual systems are biased to produce independent person and group representations of others. The factors that favor one system or another predict when people will stereotype others. In a second line of research, Dr. Zarate is investigating how a desire for group distinctiveness influences prejudice. This work addresses long standing issues regarding cultural assimilation and diversity, and how that influences attitudes towards immigrants. More recently Dr. Zarate has developed a new line of research investigating the effects of cigarette smoking on social perception, and has developed a new virtual reality laboratory that will allow he and his students to further test how these processes influence the propensity to aggress towards others. All of these research programs have direct applications to intergroup relations along the U.S. -Mexico border. Click here to learn more about Dr. Zarate's research.
Justin S. Albrechtsen
Email: jsalbrechtsen@utep.edu.Catherine R. Camilletti
Email: crcamilletti@utep.edu.Allyson J. Horgan
Email: ajhorgan@utep.edu.Kevin W. Jolly
Email: kwjolly@utep.edu.Jessica L. Marcon
Email: jlmarcon@utep.edu.Aimee Pizana-Longoria
Email: .Nicole Pruss
Email: npruss@utep.edu.Stephen J. Ross, M.A.
Email: sjross@utep.edu.Larissa A. Schmersal
Email: laschmersal@utep.edu.Brooke A. Smith
Email: basmith2@utep.edu.Kyle J. Susa
Email: kjsusa@utep.edu.Lisa D. Topp
Email: ldtopp@utep.edu.Elizabeth R. Uhl
Email: eruhl@utep.edu.Jessica L. Wildermuth, M.A.
Email: jlwildermuth@utep.edu.
