I am a Professor in the Department of Psychology (Clinical and CNS Area Groups), core faculty member of the interdepartmental Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Doctoral Program and the Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC), and Director of the Affective and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Maryland. My work has been continuously supported by the NIH since 2016 and led to ~100 publications (h-index: 52).
Robert Dooling studies comparative aspects of hearing and acoustic communication and has published over 250 articles, chapters, and books on this topic. He received his Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from Saint Louis University and was an postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the Rockefeller University in New York before coming to the University of Maryland. He has received numerous awards over the years for his research including several Career development awards from NIH and an Alexander V. Humboldt Senior Scientist Award.
Gelfand is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and affiliate of the RH Smith School of Business and is a Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Social/ Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Gelfand's research focuses on cultural influences on conflict, negotiation, justice, and revenge; workplace diversity and discrimination; and theory and methods in cross-cultural psychology.
My Research Philosophy. As a graduate student, my advisor impressed upon me the importance of being fair to science. His view and one that I’ve carried with me throughout my career was that the process of doing science is more important than the results one obtains. This view, that “process trumps output” is ever more relevant in today’s research climate. As a believer in the value of transparency and integrity, it is my view that science should be subject to the checks and balances made possible through open and transparent processes.
Dr. Dougherty received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University. Dr. Dougherty is the Director of Clinical Training and the Director of the Big Emotions Across Development Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research is in the field of developmental psychopathology and broadly examines the phenomenology, etiology and course of depression from a developmental, lifespan perspective.
Dr. Herberholz received his PhD from the Technical University in Munich, Germany. His PhD work investigated the importance of mechanosensory signals during aggressive interactions in marine snapping shrimp. Following his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Research Scientist at Georgia State University where he combined single-cell electrophysiology with behavioral analysis to study the neurobehavioral underpinnings of escape in freshwater crayfish.
Jude Cassidy is professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she has been awarded designation as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. She also directs the Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory. Dr. Cassidy serves as co-Editor of the journal Attachment and Human Development, and is the co-Editor, along with Phillip Shaver, of the Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications (Guilford Press, 2008). Shortly after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, she received the Boyd R.
Dr. James A. Grand (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Associate Professor in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences program at the University of Maryland. His main research interests focus on the interplay of knowledge-building, decision-making, collaboration, and performance at the individual and team levels.