Faculty & Staff


Areas:

All Areas
Clinical Psychology
Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology


Information Areas

Gordon A. Barr, Professor, Acting Chair

gbarr@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 611 N

Office Hrs.: Not teaching Fall 2007; at Hunter Tues / Wed / Fri

Phone: 212-772-5610

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychobiology:
Developmental neuropharmacology, pain perception, drug abuse, opiate analgesia, reward and withdrawal


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Christopher B. Braun, Associate Professor

cbraun@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 606 N

Office Hrs.: By appt.

Phone: 212-772-5554

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Sensory Psychology:
Sensory systems in animals, neural substrates of vibration and sound detection, sensory variation, ecology, and evolution


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Sheila Chase, MA Program Director, Professor

schase@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 608 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 2:00 -5:00 PM; Thu: 4:00 -7:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5617

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology

Experimental Psychology:
Animal cognition, memory and decision processes, computer models


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Martin Chodorow, Professor

martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 512 TH

Office Hrs.: Mon & Wed: 3:00-4:00 PM & 5:30-6:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5618
Fax: 212-650-3247

Cognitive Psychology

Experimental Cognition:
Models of memory, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics


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Darlene C. Defour, Associate Professor

ddefour@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 626 N

Office Hrs.: TBA

Phone: 212-772-5679

Social Psychology

Personality and Social Psychology:
Coping with stress, psychology of women, social networks, Black psychology, culture and psychology


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Tracy Dennis, Assistant Professor

tracy.dennis@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 636 N

Office Hrs.: Not teaching Fall 2006

Phone: 212-650-3878

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Clinical Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Clinical and Developmental Psychology:
Emotion regulation, developmental psychopathology, affective neuroscience, parenting and contextual influences


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Roseanne Flores, Assistant Professor

rflores@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 736 (B) N

Office Hrs.: Tues / Fri: 10:00 - 11:00 AM

Phone: 212-650-3537
Lab phone: 212-650-3538

Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Developmental Psychology:
Language acquisition, cognitive development, children and poverty, children and culture


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Robert Fried, Professor

rfried@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 738 N

Office Hrs.: By appointment

Phone: 212-772-5567

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Clinical Psychology

Psychophysiology:
Biofeedback behavior physiology, EEG


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James Gordon, Professor

jgordon@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 604 N

Office Hrs.: Tues: 8:00 - 9:00 AM; 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5619, 5569

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology

Sensory Psychology:
Color vision, visual neuropsychology, vision in infants


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Cheryl Harding, Professor

harding@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 631 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 2:00 - 4:00 PM & by appt.

Phone: 212-772-5047

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Behavioral Endocrinology:
Brain neurochemistry and learning, effects of bacterial infection and/or mold exposure on brain structure and function


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Rebecca Farmer Huselid, Associate Professor

rhuselid@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 621 N

Office Hrs.: Tues & Fri: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM or by appt

Phone: 212-772-5561

Social Psychology

Social Psychology:
Effects of social identity on health and academic achievement; Effects of race, gender, and immigration on stress, psychological adjustment, substance use and abuse.


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Shirzad Jenab, Associate Professor

sjenab@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 602 N

Office Hrs.: Tues: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 PM & by Appt

Phone: 212-772-5732
Fax: 212-772-4619

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Drugs of Abuse, gene expression, neurochemistry and neuropharmacology, CNS degenerative diseases


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Ellen Tobey Klass, Associate Professor

eklass@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 623 N

Office Hrs.: TBA

Phone: 212-650-3240

Clinical Psychology

Clinical Psychology:
Guilt, morality, honesty


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Michael J. Lewis, Professor

mlewis@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: HN 627B

Office Hrs.: Tues. 2:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment

Phone: 212-772-5280

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Behavioral Neuroscience: Neurobiology of motivation and substance abuse; alcohol dependence and eating disorder


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Victoria Luine, Distinguished Professor

vluine@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 629(A) N

Office Hrs.: Tue / Thu: 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-4223

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Behavioral Endocrinology:
Neurochemistry of hormone-dependent sexual behavior, hormonal influences on age-related memory loss


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Regina Miranda, Assistant Professor

regina.miranda@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 734 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Phone: 212-772-4809

Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Clinical Psychology:
Adolescent depression and suicide, hopelessness, depressive future-event schemas, the social-cognitive process of transference in depression


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Peter Moller, Professor

pmoller@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 620 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 2:00 - 3:00 PM & by appt

Phone: 212-772-5197

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Animal Behavior:
Multisensory integration, electrolocation & electrocommunication in electric fish, behavioral physiology, behavioral endocrinology


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Helen M. Newman, Associate Professor

hnpsych@aol.com

Office: 624 N

Office Hrs.: Thurs 2:10-3:00 PM & 7:30-8:15 PM

Phone: 212-650-3241

Clinical Psychology

Intimate relationships, information-processing and social cognition, psychoanalytic theory, mind-body therapies


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Jeffrey T. Parsons, Professor

jeffrey.parsons@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 736 N

Office Hrs.: TBA

Hunter Phone: 212-772-5533
CHEST Ph.: 212-206-7919 x226
Fax: 212-206-7994

Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology

Adolescent development, risk taking, HIV/AIDS prevention, health psychology, gay/lesbian issues, substance abuse, sexual behavior


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Sandeep Prasada, Associate Professor, MA Program Director

sprasada@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 503 TH

Office Hrs.: Mon: 3:00 - 6:00 PM & Wed. 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Phone: 212-772-5677

Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology

Conceptual & lexical representation in mind and brain, Language acquisition


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Vanya Quiñones-Jenab, Professor

vquinon@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 602 N

Office Hrs.: By appt.

Phone: 212-772-4640

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Drug abuse effects on maternal behaviors and CNS / endocrine mechanism, ovarian hormones and pain pathways


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Vita C. Rabinowitz, Professor

vita.rabinowitz@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 611 N; 507(A) TH

Office Hrs.: Not teaching Fall 2006

Phone: 212-772-5552

Social Psychology

Gender issues in health, coping, justice and helping, health


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Diana Reiss, Professor

diana.reiss@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: HN 607

Office Hrs.: TBA

Phone: 212-650-3432

Biopsychology / Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology

Experimental Psychology:
Comparative cognition, animal behavior and communication; Marine mammal cognition


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Salomon Rettig, Professor

srettig@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 738(B) N

Office Hrs.: Mon & Thur: 12:00 -1:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5553

Social Psychology

Philosophy of science in psychology; Small groups (group therapy); Ethical decision making


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Michael Siller, Assistant Professor

msiller@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 634N

Office Hrs.: TBA

Phone: 212-772-4477

Developmental Psychology

Development of early social cognition and language; parent-child communication; children with autism


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Joyce Slochower, Professor

joyce.slochower@gmail.com

Office: 738 N

Office Hrs.: Not teaching Fall 2006

Phone: 212-772-5622

Clinical Psychology

Research interests: Psychoanalysis; Winnicott; clinical theory; relational theory


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Tricia Striano, Associate Professor

tricia.striano@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: TH507A

Office Hrs.: TBA

Phone: 212-772-5678

Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology

Infant development, autism, social cognition


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Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor

virginia.valian@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 510 TH

Office Hrs.: By Appt

Phone: 212-772-5557
Fax: 212-650-3247

Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology

First and second language acquisition, sex differences in cognition and achievement, gender equity


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Jason Young, Associate Professor

jason.young@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 738 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 12:30 - 1:30 PM; Wed: 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5566

Social Psychology

Attitudes and persuasion, political psychology, media influence, evolutionary psychology


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H. Philip Zeigler, Distinguished Professor

hzeigler@hunter.cuny.edu

Office: 626 N

Office Hrs.: Mon: 1:00 -3:00 PM

Phone: 212-772-5363

Biopsychology / Neuroscience

Neuroethology of movement. Sensory processing and motor control of active touch. Development of a mobile sensory system.


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