Faculty Expertise

abnormal and health psychology, body image, cardiovascular health and disease, psychotherapy, public health, sexual health, student mental health, women’s health

climate change and climate change policy, economic incentives, environmental and natural resource economics, fisheries, Himalayan and Andean glaciers, Maine, southwestern United States, valuation of the environment, water resources

developmental psychology, identity development, meaning, meaningful work, purpose

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, multicultural children's literature, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development

attention, cognitive psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, psychological models of word reading, visual perception

African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning in life, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, psychology of social class, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory