CMU
Department of Psychology Faculty
Anderson, John, R.
My primary interest is the
modeling of complex cognitive processes within the ACT theory.
The ACT theory models human cognition as an action-driven production
system operating on a declarative memory. Within the
ACT theory, we have been working on detailed cognitive simulation models of
human memory, problem solving, skill acquisition, strategy selection, concept
acquisition, working memory limitations, and visual attention.
Behrmann, Marlene
Marlene studies a variety
of visual phenomena in both unimpaired and brain-damaged individuals with
visual agnosia (occipito-temporal
lesions) and hemispatial neglect (occipito-parietal
lesions). She is interested in the different brain
regions that underlie visual processing.
Carpenter, Patricia A.
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Carver, Sharon
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Clark, Magaret S.
Peggy is primarily
interested in close relationships and emotion. She is
currently involved in two large-scale studies. The
first study, which is currently ongoing, examines the changes in couples'
behavior and relationship satisfaction that occur after marriage and the role
their stable relationship orientations play in dertermining
these changes. The second study, which will begin in
the fall, will examine whether marital quality influences physical health.
Cohen, Sheldon
Much of his work focuses
on the possibility that our psychological states and traits may influence our
immune systems in a manner that might alter out bodies'abilities
to fight off infectious disease. The core of this work
is the identification of the behavior and biological pathways that can account
for relations between psychosocial factors and susceptibility to infectious
illness. However, a numberof
projects focus more generally at the roles of stress, social support, socialstatus, and personality in behavioral, immune and
endocrine response.
Feeney, Brooke
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Hayes, John R.
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Helgeson, Vicki S.
One aspect of my work
examines how the way men and women are socialized might influence their health. In particular, I am interested in the effects of two
personality characteristics; unmitigated agency (focus on self to exclusion of
others) and unmitigated communion (focus on others to exclusion of self). I also am interested in adjustment to chronic illness. I am looking at the role of cognitive distortions on
adjustment to heart disease and have developed two kinds of support
interventions to facilitate adjustment to breast cancer.
Holt, Lori
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Just,
Marcel A.
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Klahr, David
David's research focuses
on (1) discovering what children know and (2) explaining how they came to know
it. He has explored these processes in several domains
including scientific reasoning, number concepts, and problem solving skills. Recently, Klahr has been working
on a project that connects basic research with instructional practices in order
to improve elementary science education.
Klatzky, Roberta
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Kotovsky, Kenneth
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Lovett, Marsha
Marsha's research focuses
on how people learn to solve problems. Two particular
questions motivating her work are: How do people learn to choose appropriate
problem-solving strategies? And, how can solving
certain problems improve people's ability to transfer what they have learned to
new situations? She has addressed these questions
through laboratory research, computational modeling, and classroom studies.
MacWhinney, Brian
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McClelland, James
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Plaut, David
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Rakison, David H.
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Reder, Lynne M.
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Scheier, Michael
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Siegler, Robert S.
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