Dr. Mark Bowler
Assistant Professor
Email: bowlerm@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, Southern Methodist University
MA, St. Mary's University
PhD, University of Tennessee

ψ Area of Specialization: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
Dr. Bowler's research is focused in four primary areas: (1) The design, implementation, and evaluation of managerial assessment centers, (2) the development of conditional reasoning measures of personality and the interactions between these measures and traditional self-report measures of personality, (3) the impact of personality traits – particularly aggression – on team performance, and (4) utilizing Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate statistical and methodological techniques utilized by industrial/organizational psychologists.

Dr. Rosina Chia
Professor
Email: chiar@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BS, Taiwan University
MA/PhD, University of Michigan

ψ Area of Specialization: Social Psychology

ψ Research Interests
Dr. Chia's research interest is in the area of cross-cultural comparison in values and Attitudes.  Bring born and raised in China, her research work has been mainly the comparison of Chinese and Americans.  In the last decade seeing that only a small percentage of students from any country can afford to study abroad in another country, she and her ECU colleague Dr. Elmer Poe pioneered the global understanding project by bringing students from other countries onto one's own campus via synchronous, real time, virtual technology, using tools such as DVC, Centra, Skype, Wiki, etc.  Since 2004 this project has grown to include 28 institutions from 20 countries and continues to grow.  Its innovative approach in using state of the art technologies and cost-effectiveness approach has led to several national awards for this project.

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 Area of Specialization: Health Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
My Stress and Health Lab focuses on conducting stress reactivity, stress-management intervention, and psychophysiology studies where students can be involved in research.  Several research topics are studied in the lab: 1) psychological and physiological responses to stressors; 2) resilience factors that help protect against the negative effects of stressors and enable people to adapt favorably to stressors; and 3) interventions to protect against the negative effects of stressors and enhance resilient responses to stressors.

Dr. Marion A. Eppler
Associate Professor
Email: epplerm@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
MA, College of William and Mary
PhD, Emory University

ψ Area of Specialization: Developmental Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests

Dr. D. Erik Everhart
Associate Professor
Email: everhartd@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, University of Delaware
MS/PhD, Virginia Tech University

ψ Area of Specialization: Clinical & Health Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
Dr. Everhart is board certified in clinical neuropsychology (ABPP-CN) and uses electrophysiology (i.e., EEG and ERPs) to investigate relationships between variables such as emotion processing, personality attributes, neurophysiology, and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. He co-directs the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at East Carolina University with Dr. Ervin Davis. He also collaborates with Dr. Heath Demaree, who is at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Everhart is also certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine (CBSM) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and he 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. His primary collaborator is Dr. Daniel Lee, who is the medical director of the Sleep Center.

Dr. Cathy Hall
Professor
Email: hallc@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, Emory University
MEd/PhD, University of Georgia

ψ Area of Specialization: School Psychology 

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests

I have three primary areas of research:

1. One of my primary areas of research interest has been with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children. Some of the research I have explored in this area include: response time with ADHD and non-ADHD students, subcategories of ADHD, assessment/interventions with ADHD students, information processing, and social-emotional adjustment. I enjoy working with ADHD clients (children - adults) and find them to be highly creative and innovative individuals.
2. The second area of research interest includes 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.  Recently, I developed a scale (Hall Resiliency Scale – HRS) to measure resiliency in adolescent and adult populations to aid research in this area.  The manual for this scale has just been completed.
3. The third area has focused on 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.

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 Area of Specialization: Developmental Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
My area is Developmental Psychology which is the study of normal human development. Most of my research deals with young children. I am interested in the social development of preschoolers and interactions among children in cooperative learning groups, especially in mathematics classes. I am also interested in the development of identity and achievement motivation in college students. The goal of this research is to improve the quality of instruction in my undergraduate Developmental Psychology classes and help students relate the concepts presented in that class to their own developmental processes. Recently, I am involved in assessing the effects of service learning and community service on college students' personal growth and development.

Dr. Amy Lyndon
Assistant Professor
Email: lyndona@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, Appalachian State University
MA/PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

ψ Area of Specialization: Social Psychology

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.

Dr. Scott Methe
Assistant Professor
Email: methes@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA/MEd/PhD, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst

ψ Area of Specialization: School Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
Curriculum-based measurement, Tier II and III diagnostic assessment in numeracy and literacy, reading comprehension, interpersonal skill use in consultation, utility of psychoeducational evaluations, and the use of applied behavior analysis in school settings for students with mild to moderate learning disabilities.

Dr. Kathleen Row
Professor and Department Chair
Email: rowk@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
PhD, University of North Carolina

ψ Area of Specialization: Health Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

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.

Dr. Tuan D. Tran
Assistant Professor
Program Director, Neuroscience
Email: trant@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BS, Regis University
MA/PhD, University of South Carolina
NIAAA Postdoctoral Fellow, IUPUI

ψ Area of Specialization: Behavioral Neuroscience

ψ Personal Homepage

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 animal models of learning and memory, such as eyeblink classical conditioning in rodents, and quantitative neuroanatomy (i.e., stereology).

Dr. Cecelia R. Valrie
Assistant Professor
Email: valriec@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA, East Carolina University
MA/PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ψ Area of Specialization: Developmental & Health Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Laboratory

ψ Research Interests
Studying development and overall adjustment in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease with a focus on sleep, pain, academic and health functioning, and socio-cultural influences; general pediatric psychology, with a focus on children's sleep and influences on childhood chronic illness adjustment.

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 Area of Specialization: Social Psychology

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).

Dr. Derrick Wirtz
Assistant Professor
Email: wirtzd@ecu.edu

ψ Degrees:
BA/MA/PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

ψ Area of Specialization: Social Psychology

ψ Personal Homepage

ψ Research Interests
Dr. Wirtz conducts research in social and personality psychology on emotion and everyday beliefs, judgments, and choices—with an emphasis on happiness, or subjective well-being. His research interests include the influence of culture on well-being and conceptions of the good life, as well as the measurement of well-being.

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 Area of Specialization: Statistics and Research Design

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.