CSUB Psychology Faculty
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Barbara
Espinosa
Department Secretary
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Marianne
Abramson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Dr.
Abramson’s research focuses on the psychology of language,
specifically
the processes associated with reading and spoken word recognition. She
is currently working on studies about the role of auditory imagery in
silent reading and the memory representations activated during reading
and speech recognition. Recent publications include a study of vowel-
and consonant-length effects in visual word recognition. |
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Steve
Bacon, Ph.D.
Professor,
Chair of Department of Psychology
Dr.
Bacon’s research interests include Positive Psychology and
the
Evaluation of Psychotherapy. Currently he is working on a project to
develop and validate the Scale of Functional Ability Ratings. In
addition, he is investigating the relationship between psychological
symptoms and impairment. Finally, he has a project in which he is
classifying human strengths in terms of the virtues of focus versus
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Tanya
Boone, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor
Dr.
Boone’s research focuses on parent-adolescent relationships
and how
communication between parents and adolescents influences adolescent
sexual behaviors and drug/alcohol use. Her current research projects
include examination of mother-adolescent communication about health
topics including sexuality, drugs/alcohol, and nutrition and exercise.
She is also conducting a study examining the sources from which late
adolescents and young adults have received information about sex and
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Jess
F. Deegan II, Ph.D.
Professor;
Interim Associate Vice President
The
emphasis in Dr. Deegan’s lab is color vision. He uses both
psychophysical and electrophysiological methods in an effort to
understand color vision in both humans and animals. He encourages
graduate students who have a well defined physiological investigation
of neuronal processes to contact me to discuss possible collaboration.
Finally, there are a
number of studies that he would like
to
have completed, which are related to the visual systems of rats/mice
that a motivated graduate student might find interesting.
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Anne
Duran, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor
Dr.
Duran’s research interests include person perception, person
memory,
and decision making (including the underlying cognitive processes).
Her favorite areas of
research are theories of prejudice
and the
relationship between prejudice and discrimination. Currently, she is
working on a study examining our expectations for others about whom we
have a little information. In addition, one of her current projects
addresses the cognitive organization of prejudice. Finally, she is
examining the effects of perceived differences of morals for in-group
and out-group. |
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Allison Evans, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Dr. Evans joined the faculty in Fall 1999. Her duties have included
teaching, academic advising, coordinating the applied experiences,
advising the psychology club in AV, and conducting orientations. Her
areas of interest include social psychology and socio-cultural-medical
issues.
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Karen
Hartlep, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.
Hartlep has focused on topics related to cognitive development from
infancy through adolescence. Specifically, she has been interested in
research on children’s literature, children and TV effects,
language
development, and social referencing, particularly in infancy. |
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Ken
Ishida, Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor
Dr.
Ishida is a clinical psychologist interested in the interface between
brain functioning and behavior. He has an interest in evolutionary
psychology which uses Darwinian principles in explaining the shaping of
the major characteristics of human nature. This influence manifests
itself in cognitive brain sex differences, human mating
preferences, and cultural institutions such as politics and religion.
Finally, Dr. Ishida believes that these themes play themselves out
across the lifespan, including in later adulthood where he has training
in clinical geropsychology with on emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. |
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Matthew Leon,
Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor
Dr.
Leon received his Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience at the
University of California, Los Angeles. His areas of interest are
experimental
psychology and neuroscience.
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Horace
Mitchell,
Ph.D.
President
of California State University, Bakersfield
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Carol
Raupp, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.
Raupp’s research interests focus on human-animal
studies—the study of
peoples’ relationships with other animals. Currently she is
conducting
a study comparing responses to the terms “pet” and
“companion animal.”
She is also studying the extent to which taking a course about ethics
and other animals changes peoples’ attitudes and behaviors.
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Beth
Rienzi, Ph.D.
Professor; AVP
for Faculty Affairs
Associate Vice
President - Faculty Affairs.
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Isabel
Sumaya, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor; Director First Year Experience Center (FYE);
The
primary focus of Dr. Sumaya’s lab is the study of the
indoleamine
neurohormone, melatonin and its in
vivo behavioral effects in
animal models including Parkinsonism, Depression and Anxiety. Of
special interest is the effect of melatonin on the D2 dopaminergic
receptor system during extrapyramidal motor disturbances. Also studied
are the circadian effects of various D2 dopaminergic agonists and
antagonists which are used in clinical populations in the treatment of
Schizophrenia. |
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Steve
Suter, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.
Suter’s research focuses on human visual neuroscience. He is
interested
in the neural basis
of vision, in general using brain activity to explain visual processing
in humans. In his lab, they record brain activity from surface
recording electrodes while people look at stimuli on video monitors.
Currently, he is examining the brain activity needed to organize a
visual jumble into a coherent perception. In addition, he is conducting
a study on the brain mechanisms of backward masking in which stimuli
are rendered invisible by subsequent stimuli. |
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Luis
A Vega, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr.
Vega’s research focuses on social psychology, intergroup
relations,
social identity, and social influence. He is currently working on a
project examining perceived discrimination processes including
scapegoating and social identity. His current
research interests are on scaling of social psychological measures. |
Retired, Emeriti, and FERP Faculty
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Mary J. Allen,
Ph.D.
Professor;
Emerita.
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David C. Cohen,
Ph.D.
Professor;
Emeritus.
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Richard C. Noel,
Ph.D.
Professor;
Emeritus.
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Edwin H.
Sasaki,
Ph.D.
Professor;
FERP, Special Assistant to the Provost,
Interim Dean Humanities and Social Sciences |