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Graduate Program in Research Psychology Research Faculty |
 Dr. Rosina Chia
Professor
Email: chiar@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BS, Taiwan University; MA, PhD, University of Michigan
ψ Research Interests Attitude changes after taking a real life video conferencing global understanding course with students from other countries.
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 Dr. Christyn Dolbier
Assistant Professor
Email: dolbierc@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BS, Eckerd College; MS, University of Florida; PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at San Francisco ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
Psychological (cognitive appraisal, emotion, coping) and physiological (cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, immune) responses to stressful situations; chronic stress; prenatal stress; stress reactivity; stress-buffering factors
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 Dr. D. Erik Everhart
Associate Professor
Email: everhartd@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, University of Delaware; MS, PhD, Virginia Tech ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
• Neuropsychology of Emotion: Use of electrophysiology (i.e., EEG and ERPs) to investigate relationships between variables such as emotion processing, personality attributes, neurophysiology, and risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
• Sleep Medicine: Dr. Everhart is the Director of Research at the Sleep Center at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. The Sleep Center is actively involved in clinical trials and investigator initiated research. Dr. Everhart's specific interests include neurocognitive impairment associated with various sleep disorders (i.e., apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy), personality attributes that contribute to treatment compliance, and electrophysiological correlates of sleep disorders.
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 Dr. Cathy Hall
Professor
Email: hallc@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, Emory University; MEd, PhD, University of Georgia ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
• Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children - emphasis
on response time with ADHD and non-ADHD students, subcategories of ADHD, assessment/interventions with ADHD students, information processing, and social-emotional adjustment.
• Social-emotional adjustment of special populations. Research in this area has included adjustment issues with children of divorce, adult children of alcoholics, children of alcoholics, adult children with have dealt with traumatic events during childhood, and adjustment issues with learning disabled students. The focus has been on areas that may make certain children more at-risk for developing problems, and why certain children display more resiliency than others.
• Learning styles and strategies and their assessment. Research I have conducted has dealt with various measures of assessment (WISC-III, K-ABC and processing styles, gender differences in mathematical performance, and the Study Process Questionnaire). I have been working on my own scale to measure studying processes - Executive Process Questionnaire. Research with this scale has shown it to be a strong predictor in academic success. It has been shown to have concurrent and predictive validity with respect to college student grades in longitudinal studies.
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 Dr. Beverly L. Harju
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology MA Program Director
Email: harjub@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, Arizona State University; MA, PhD, California School of Professional Psychology
ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
Exercise Motivation, especially helping people who are interested in becoming regular exercisers. Based in a hospital wellness program, these people have included healthy people as well as people with significant health problems.
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 Dr. Elaine M. Ironsmith
Associate Professor
Email: ironsmithe@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, University of Kansas; PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
Achievment motivation and study skills in college students, and how Service Learning affects college students and recipients of community service.
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 Dr. Amy Lyndon
Assistant Professor
Email: lyndona@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, Appalachian State University; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
I specialize in predictors and perceptions of unwanted pursuit, relational stalking, and sexual aggression. I have three general lines of research. One area consists of examining the fuzzy boundaries between unwanted pursuit and stalking. When does an experience of unwanted pursuit become stalking? How do victims and lay persons interpret such pursuit, and does it depend upon factors such as gender roles and relationship histories? A second line of research examines the social cognitions of unwanted pursuit perpetrators. Do these individuals, for example, process social rejection cues differently than non-perpetrators? The third area of research examines sexual aggression, where I have investigated risk factors for sexual aggression, including the different strategies used to aggress.
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 Dr. Kathleen Row
Professor / Department Chair
Email: rowk@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: PhD, University of North Carolina ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Curriculum Vita
ψ Research Interests
Relationships between forgiveness, hostility and cardiovascular reactivity to stress; psychological predictors of health in older adults, especially spirituality and social support; coping strategies and reactivity.
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 Dr. Tuan D. Tran
Assistant Professor
Program Director, Neuroscience
Email: trant@ecu.edu ψ Degrees: BS, Regis University; MA, PhD University of South Carolina ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Curriculum Vita
ψ BA/BS Neuroscience Program ψ Research Interests
• Rodent Models of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Developmental Psychobiology - emphasis on neuroteratology / neurotoxicology across the lifespan.
• Behavioral Neuroscience - emphasis on eyeblink classical conditioning in rodents and quantitative neuroanatomy (i.e., stereology).
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 Dr. Cecelia R. Valrie
Assistant Professor
Email: valriec@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, East Carolina University; MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ψ Curriculum Vita
ψ Personal Homepage ψ Research Laboratory (under construction) ψ Research Interests
Examining the influence of sleep, development, and cultural factors on psychosocial and behavioral adjustment in children, adolescents, and young adults with a chronic illness.
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 Dr. Nathaniel Vietor
Teaching Assistant Professor
Email: vietorn@ecu.edu
ψ Degrees: BA, Miami University; MA, East Tennessee State University; PhD, University of Houston ψ Curriculum Vita
ψ Research Interests
Motivations in romantic relationships (with emphasis on conflict, sexual behavior, and/or interracial dating). Cross-cultural attitudes towards conflict. Road rage. Smoking cessation (dealing with failure).
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 Dr. Karl L. Wuensch
Professor of Psychology / ECU Teacher-Scholar
Email: wuenschk@ecu.edu ψ Degrees: BA, Elmira College; MA, East Carolina University; PhD, Miami University ψ Personal Homepage
ψ Research Interests
• Ethical Ideology and Attitudes to Animals
• Pedagogical Effectiveness of Online Instruction - recently completed a nationwide survey of students and faculty.
• Psychology of Trial by Jury - emphasis on effects of extralegal characteristics on juror's decisions Most anything that I find methodologically or analytically interesting.
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