Psychology Research Facilities and Opportunities
Research Laboratories
The UW Department of Psychology maintains top-rate research programs for faculty,
graduate students, and undergraduate students interested in a variety of topics.
Learn more by perusing this section of our website!
Undergraduate students interested in participating in studies can view opportunities
through the SONA system
Principal Investigator: Dr. Alison Looby
- College student substance use (e.g., prescription stimulants, alcohol, marijuana)
- Cognitive mechanisms (e.g., expectancies, motives) underlying substance use
- Prevention and intervention
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joshua Clapp
- The impact of trauma exposure on emotion regulation and interpersonal functioning
- Issues related to the conceptualization and assessment of trauma-related psychopathology
- Lay theories of trauma and its consequences
- Patterns of response to psychosocial intervention
Principal Investigator: Dr. Cynthia Hartung
- Evaluating treatments for ADHD in college students
- Providing school-based support for secondary student with ADHD
- Establishing developmentally sensitive criteria for ADHD in emerging adults
- Understanding bystanders' behaviors in response to bullying
Principal investigator: Dr. Erin Harrington
- Prospective memory
- Cognitive aging
- Predictors of everyday memory & cognition (e.g., age, gender, psychosocial experiences)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Bartsch
- Conceptual development (theory of mind, theory-theory, recognition of learning)
- Development of social cognition (application to persuasion)
- Moral development (moral reasoning and environmental issues)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kyle De Young
- Eating behaviors, particularly as they are relevant to eating disorders
- Weight management, and physical activity
Principal Investigator: Dr. Benjamin Wilkowski
- Goal self-regulation
- Emotion
- Personality
Principal Investigator: Dr. Christine McKibbin
- Oral health among adults with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Delivery of mental health services to rural adults with SMI
- Physical and mental health treatment knowledge and preferences among older adults
- Knowledge and confidence of Certified Nursing Assistants for the management of behavioral
disturbances in nursing home settings
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sean McCrea
- Anticipatory thought processes in self-handicapping
- Constructual level effects on procrastination
- Effectiveness of planning in the reduction of self-protective behavior
- The role of expertise in probability judgements
- Motivational benefits and costs of counterfactual thinking
Principal Investigators: Dr. Narina Nunez
- Jury decision-making
- Emotions and decision making
- Police and judicial legitimacy
- Social cognitive processes in juror decision making
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hannah Phalen
- Race and Gender in the Legal System
- Visual Evidence
- Emotion and Legal Decision-Making
Principal Investigators: Dr. Kayla Burd
- Juror perceptions of forensic science evidence
- The impact of verdict procedures and reasoning on jury decision-making
- Racial biases in police shooting decisions and investigations
- Writing interventions aimed at improving shooting decisions and investigations
- Racial biases in juvenile probation officer decisions
Principal Investigator: Dr. Meredith Minear
- Spatial Cognition
- Virtual & Augmented Reality
- Neural Correlates of Cognition using EEG
Principal Investigator: Dr. Carolyn Pepper
- Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
- Suicide in the Mountain West
- Functions of non-suicidal Self-injury (NSSI)
- Perfectionism, rumination and depressed mood
Principle Investigator: Dr. Matt J. Gray
- Sexual assault prevention development and evaluation
- Correlates and consequences of rape myths and rape supportive beliefs
- Partner violence etiology and intervention
- Emotional consequences of trauma exposure and perpetration
