Texas State University
 
Department of Psychology
Psychology 208
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666

Dr. Frank Barrios, Chair
Ph: (512) 245-2526
Fax: (512) 245-3153
info@www.psych.txstate.edu
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Faculty Research Interests

Dr. Rick Archer (Learn More About Dr. Archer)
- Intimate relationships
- Coping with children with disabilities
- Social interaction of people with disabilities
- Self disclosure
- Emotional empathy


Mr. David Carpenter (Learn More About Mr. Carpenter)
Mind/Body healing and health.


Dr. Natalie Ceballos (Learn More About Dr. Ceballos)
-neurophysiology of addiction and comorbid personality disorders
-brain maturation in adolescents at risk
-cognitive efficiency in chronic substance abusers
-cross cultural research


Dr. Maria Czyzewska (Learn More About Dr. Czyzewska)
- Implicit cognition in substance abuse & disordered eating
- Risk factors to obesity (Hispanic adolescents and college students)
- Health education & prevention
- Cross cultural research


Dr. John Davis (Learn More About Dr. Davis)
- Mental health of immigrants and refugees
- International studies of psychology
- Interpersonal attraction and predjudice
- Scholarship of learning and teaching
- Social psychology and health


Dr. Joe Etherton (Learn More About Dr. Etherton)
Psychological factors in chronic pain including pain catastrophizing, somatization, and pain-related malingering


Dr. Stan Friedman (Learn More About Dr. Friedman)
- Practicing therapist
- Enjoys being on thesis committees


Mrs. Marilyn Gibbons-Arhelger (Learn More About Mrs. Gibbons-Arhelger)
Statistics
Research Methods
Learning
Educational Achievement


Dr. Harvey Ginsburg (Learn More About Dr. Ginsburg)
- Gender and sex differences
- Impact of drug policy on public health
- Empathy and compassion in children


Dr. Reiko Graham (Learn More About Dr. Graham)
neuroanatomy of social and emotional processing


Dr. Kelly Haskard (Learn More About Dr. Haskard)
- Communication in health care interactions
- Patient adherence
- Health care disparities and communication
- Nonverbal communication


Dr. John Huber (Learn More About Dr. Huber)
- Minors adjudicated as adults
- Medication non-compliance
- Child custody evaluation


Dr. Roque Mendez (Learn More About Dr. Mendez)
- HIV Research and prevention
- Empathy
- Collectivism
- Cross-Cultural research


Dr. Alex Nagurney (Learn More About Dr. Nagurney)
- social support
- cardiovascular reactivity
- the effects of personality on health
- fibromyalgia


Dr. Crystal Oberle (Learn More About Dr. Oberle)
- Sports performance
- Perceptual illusions
- Learning and memory


Dr. Shirley Ogletree (Learn More About Dr. Ogletree)
-Gender and Media
-Attitudes toward engagement rings and weddings
-Social Development
-Free Will/Determinism Correlates


Dr. Randall Osborne (Learn More About Dr. Osborne)
- Student?s perceptions of legal systems
- Social approaches to health
- How people respond to public health messages
- Family characteristics that predict risky behavior
- Impact of identifying with the homeless on the use of services by the homeless


Dr. Paul Raffeld (Learn More About Dr. Raffeld)
- Assisting with data analysis and methodology
- Assisting with assessment
- Faculty evaluations and measurement


Ms. Robyn Rogers (Learn More About Ms. Rogers)
Cognitive Therapy; Reality Therapy/ Choice Theory; Behavior change


Dr. Ollie Seay (Learn More About Dr. Seay)
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Dr. Theron Stimmel (Learn More About Dr. Stimmel)
- Anger expression and psychopathology
- Cognitive and emotional perspectives of pain


Dr. G. Marc Turner (Learn More About Dr. Turner)
- Survey & Scale Construction
- Psychometrics
- Human Factors/Usability
- Human Computer Interaction
- Computer Assisted Learning/Instruction
- Assessment & Program Evaluation
- Student Evaluations of Teaching
- Workplace Stress, Coping and Satisfaction


Dr. Wade Wheeler (Learn More About Dr. Wheeler)
- Sexual harassment
- Faculty evaluations
- Attitudes toward sexual aggression