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Susan Allen , Ph.D.,
Tiffany Chenneville, Ph.D.
Mark Durand, Ph.D.
Robert Fowler, Ph.D.
Vikki T. Gaskin-Butler, M.Div., Ph.D.
Meme Hieneman, Ph.D.
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Jordan Litman, Ph.D.
Hugh LaFollette, Ph.D.
James P. McHale, Ph.D.
Eric Odgaard , Ph.D.
Michiko Otsuki , Ph.D.
Mark Pezzo, Ph.D.
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Tiffany Chenneville, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., School Psychology, University of South Florida
Research Areas: Pediatric HIV; Law, policy, & ethics; Issues facing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth
Dr. Chenneville's primary program of research is in the area of pediatric HIV.She currently is studying the competency of children with HIV to participate in their medical treatment.She also is concerned with other areas related to HIV, including confidentiality and disclosure.Dr. Chenneville also is involved with research investigating the educational and other outcomes for youth who participate in gay-straight alliances during high school.
Representative publications:
Knox, M.D. & Chenneville, T. (2006).Prevention and education strategies.In F. Fernandez & P. Ruiz (Eds.), Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Chenneville, T. (2005). Confidentiality and the duty to protect clients.In G.P. Koocher, J.C. Norcross, & S.S. Hill, III (Eds.), Psychologists' desk reference, Second edition (pp.584-588). New York: Oxford University Press.
Chenneville, T. (2000). HIV, confidentiality, and duty to protect: A decision-making model. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 31 (6), 661-670.
Wodrich, D.L., Swerdlik, M.E., Chenneville, T., & Landau, S. (1999). HIV/AIDS among children and adolescents: Implications for the changing role of school psychologists. School Psychology Review, 28 (2), 228-441.
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V. Mark Durand, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Areas: Autism and related disorders, Severe behavior problems in children, sleep disorders
Major themes in Dr. Durand's research include developing models for understanding challenging behaviors in people with autism spectrum disorders as well as developing new treatments. Dr. Durand has published 10 books including an abnormal psychology textbook that is used at more than 500 universities world-wide.
Representative Publications:
Durand, V.M. (in press). Disorders of development. To appear in D.H. Barlow, (Ed.), Oxford handbook of clinical psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Durand, V.M. (in press). Functional communication training to reduce challenging behavior. To appear in P. Prelock and R. McCauley (Eds.), Treatment of autism spectrum disorders: Evidence-based intervention strategies for communication & social interaction. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
Durand, V. M., & Wang, M. (in press). Clinical trials. In J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.), Understanding research in clinical and counseling psychology. New York: Routledge.
Durand, V.M. & Barlow, D.H. (2010). Essentials of abnormal psychology (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
Durand, V.M. (2008). When children don't sleep well: Interventions for pediatric sleep disorders, Therapist guide. New York: Oxford University Press.
Durand, V.M. & Hieneman, M. (2008). Helping parents with challenging children: Positive family intervention, Facilitator’s guide. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Robert Fowler, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Tennessee
Research Areas: Statistical methodology, magnitude of experimental effects, meta-analysis.
The development of an operational definition of scientific significance using Cohen's benchmarks of standardized effect size. An examination of the empirical literature in applied psychology to measure compliance over time with APA Publication Manual recommendations for the reporting of effect sizes. A comparison of the accuracy of various methods used to calculate appropriate confidence limits on correlation ratio parameters.
Representative Publications:
Fowler, R.L., & Odgaard, E.C. (2009). Confidence intervals for correlation ratios in fixed-effects ANOVA and fixed-score regression: Accuracy versus simplicity in choosing a reporting method. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Odgaard, E.C., & Fowler, R.L. (2008). The reporting of appropriate effect sizes and their confidence intervals in four psychology journals from 1995 to 2007. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Fowler, R.L., Hilliard, V.D., Brett, J.W., & McLaughlin, K.V. (2003, March). Using confidence limits on correlation ratios for detecting scientific significance. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
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Vikki T. Gaskin-Butler, M.Div., Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Clinical & Health Psychology, University of Florida
M.Div., Emory University
Research Areas: Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Well-being of African Americans, Women, and Clergy
Dr. Gaskin-Butler's current research examines the effectiveness of spiritual formation as a vehicle for sexual ethics training for clergy. She also maintains interests in the academic success of disenfranchised Americans as it is impacted by biopsychosocial factors.
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Meme Hieneman, Ph.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Special Education, University of South Florida
Research Areas: Positive Behavior Support (PBS), Factors Affecting Outcomes of Community-Based Behavioral Intervention
Dr. Hieneman directs the Positive Family Intervention Project, a research study evaluating education in PBS plus optimism training for parents of young children with severe disabilities and problem behavior. Previously, she worked for the Division of Applied Research and Educational Support at FMHI. Her responsibilities included coordinating training and dissemination for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on PBS and directing Florida’s PBS Project.
Representative Publications:
Dunlap, G. & Hieneman, M. (2005). Positive behavior support. In M. Hersen, G. Sugai, & R. Horner (Eds.), Encyclopedia of behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy; Volume three: Educational Implications (pp. 1421-1428). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Hieneman, M. & Dunlap, G. (2000). Factors affecting the outcomes of community-based behavioral support: I. Identification and description of factor categories. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2(3), 161-169.
Hieneman, M., Childs, K. E., & Sergay, J. (2006). Parenting with positive behavior support: A practical guide to resolving your child’s difficult behavior. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.
Hieneman, M., Dunlap, G. & Kincaid, D. (2005). Positive support strategies for students with behavior disorders in general education settings. Psychology in the Schools, 42, 779-794.
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Hugh LaFollette, Ph.D.
Professor
Marie and Leslie Cole Chair in Ethics
Ph.D., Philosophy, Vanderbilt
Research Areas: Practical and Theoretical Ethics, Political Philosophy
Representative Publications:
Practice of Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
"Private Conscience, Public Acts," Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007.
Ethics in Practice (editor). Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
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Jordan Litman, Ph.D.
Visiting Researcher
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University of South Florida
Research Areas: Research Areas: Social-Personality, Motivation and Emotion, Metacognition, Gossip, Coping with stress
Dr. Litman’s research focuses on the nature and assessment of curiosity, and how individual differences in curiosity and metamemory contribute to the motivation of knowledge-seeking behavior. He is also interested in how these phenomena interact with seeking information to cope with stress.
Representative
Publications:
Litman, J. A., & Lunsford, G. D. (in press). Frequency of use and impact of coping strategies
assessed by the COPE inventory and their relationships to post-event health and well-being. Journal of Health Psychology.
Litman, J.A. (2008). Interest and deprivation dimensions of epistemic curiosity. Personality
and Individual Differences, 44, 1585–1595.
Litman, J.A. & Pezzo, M.V. (2007). Dimensionality of interpersonal curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1448–1459.
Litman, J.A. & Silvia, P. J. (2006). The latent structure of trait curiosity: Evidence for interest and deprivation curiosity dimensions. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86, 318-328.
Litman, J.A., Hutchins, T.L., & Russon, R.K. (2005). Epistemic curiosity, feeling-of-knowing, and exploratory behaviour. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 559-582.
Litman, J.A. & Pezzo, M.V. (2005). Individual differences in attitudes towards gossip. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 963-180.
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James P. McHale, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas: Family Theory and Research
Dr. McHale's research program examines the role of coparenting
and family group dynamics in families of infant, toddler, and
preschool-aged children. He also maintains active interests in
infant mental health, community psychology, family diversity,
and primary prevention.
To visit the Family Study Center homepage, click on this link:
www.stpt.usf.edu/fsc
Representative publications:
McHale, J. & Rotman, T. (2007). Is seeing believing? Expectant parents’ outlooks on coparenting and later coparenting solidarity. Infant Behavior & Development, 30, 63-81.
McHale, J. (2007). When infants grow up in multiperson relationship systems. Infant Mental Health Journal, 28, 1-23. McHale, J. (2007). Charting the bumpy road of coparenthood. Washington, D.C.: Zero to Three Press.
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Eric Odgaard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology,
with an emphasis on Quantitative Methods, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Research Areas: Cross-modal Sensation & Perception, Methods and Statistics
Dr. Odgaard's research foscuses on questions of cross-modal sensation and perception. Specifically, he is interested in the ways in which supposedly separate modalities interact. Dr. Odgaard's recent work has focused on three such instances: cross-modal binding, sensory substitution in plotting two-dimensional space, and the origins of synesthesia. He also has several current projects underway studying the use of effect size estimates and confidence intervals in conjunction with (rather than as an alternative to) significance testing.
Representative Publications:
Marks, L.E., & Odgaard, E.C. (2005). Developmental constraints on theories of synaesthesia. In L. Robertson and N. Sagiv (eds.) Synesthesia: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Odgaard, E.C., Arieh, Y., & Marks, L.E. (2004).
Brighter noise: Sensory enhancement of perceived loudness by
concurrent visual stimulation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 127-132.
Odgaard, E.C., Arieh, Y., & Marks, L.E. (2003).
Cross-modal enhancement of perceived brightness: Sensory interaction
versus response bias.
Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 123-132.
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Michiko Otsuki , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of California Riverside
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Behavioral Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: Child and adolescent health with a focus on pediatric asthma and health risk behaviors
Dr. Otsuki’s primary research interests focus on identifying factors that promote or hinder adherence to preventive asthma therapy and asthma outcomes among youths, and translating this knowledge to develop and evaluate intervention strategies in the community settings. Another line of her research examines psychosocial predictors of health risk behaviors such as smoking, heavy drinking, and delinquency among adolescents and young adults. Attention to the roles of culture/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and development is central to her research.
Publications/Manuscripts
Otsuki, M., Eakin, M. N., Rand, C. S., Butz, A. M., Hsu, V. D., Zuckerman, I. H., Ogborn, J., Bilderback, A., & Riekert, K. A. (in press). Medication adherence feedback to improve asthma outcomes among inner-city children: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics.
Otsuki, M., Eakin, M. N., Rand, C. S., & Riekert, K.A. (in press). A longitudinal relationship between caregiver depressive symptoms and asthma morbidity among inner-city African American children. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
Otsuki, M. (2009). Social connectedness and smoking behaviors among Asian American college students: An electronic diary study. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 11, 418-426.
Otsuki, M., Tinsley, B. J., & Chao, R. K., & Unger, J. (2008). An ecological perspective on smoking among Asian American college students: The roles of social smoking and smoking motives. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 514-523.
Otsuki, M., Clerisme-Beaty, E., Riekert, K. A., & Rand, C. S. (2008). Measuring adherence with medication regimens in clinical care and research. In S. Shumaker, J. K. Ockene, & K. Riekert (Eds.), The Handbook of Behavior Change, 3rd edition. New York: Springer.
Otsuki, M. (2002). Issue brief: Youth suicide. In L. Knox (Ed.), Connecting the dots to prevent youth violence: A training and outreach guide for physicians and other health professionals (pp.127-132). Chicago: American Medical Association.
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Mark Pezzo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Ohio University
Research Area: Social Psychology
Dr. Pezzo's research focuses on judgmental biases. He examines the interface between motivational and cognitive processes (i.e., self-presentation vs sensemaking)in a number of areas, including hindsight bias, planning fallacy, numerosity judgments, perceptions of offensiveness, and the spread of rumors. His most recent work has been moving toward more applied settings, including medical judgments.
Link to Dr. Pezzo's homepage here.
Representative Publications:
Pezzo, M.V., & Beckstead, J. (2006). A multi-level analysis of rumor transmission: Effects of anxiety and belief in two field experiments. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 91-100.
Pezzo, M.V., & Pezzo, S.P. (2006). Physician evaluation following medical errors: Does having a computer decision aid help or hurt in hindsight? Medical Decision Making, 26, 48-56.
Pezzo, S.P., Pezzo, M.V., & Stone, E.R. (2006). The social implications of planning: How public predictions bias future plans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 221-227.
Litman, J.L., & Pezzo, M.V. (2005). Individual differences in attitudes toward gossip. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 963-980.
Pezzo, M. V. (2003). Surprise, Defense, or Making Sense: What removes the hindsight bias? Memory, 11, 421-441.
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