Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Sara Algoe
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Jennifer E. Arnold
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
Director of the Cognitive Psychology Program
Current WOWS Scholar
https://jenniferarnold.web.unc.edu
Dr. Arnold studies the cognitive mechanisms involved in using language. She is especially interested in how people use language appropriately in context, which involves integrating information from the linguistic signal itself with inferences about the discourse, context, and their interloctutor’s mental state. Her current projects examine the role of experience and statistical learning in the use of discourse cues to pronoun comprehension.

Anna Bardone-Cone
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Bowman & Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Director of Clinical Psychology
Former WOWS Scholar
https://bardonecone.web.unc.edu
Her research program focuses on eating disorders and body image. She studies etiology and maintenance of eating disorders with particular interests in the roles of perfectionism, self-efficacy, and stress; sociocultural factors, including race, ethnicity, family, and media, in relation to body image and eating disorders; and how to most meaningfully define recovery from an eating disorder.

Charlotte Boettiger
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor

Regina Carelli
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Stephen B. Baxter Distinguished Professor
Former WOWS Scholar
Vicki Chanon
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
Carol Cheatham
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Jessica R. Cohen
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Assistant Professor

Shauna Cooper
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Stacey Daughters
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor

Amanda Elton
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Research Assistant Professor
Sylvia Fitting
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Barbara Frederickson
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Trained as a social psychologist, Dr. Frederickson’s current scholarly work contributes to both affective science and positive psychology. Her research centers on positive emotions. In particular, she studies how subtle and fleeting states like joy, gratitude, interest, and love alter people’s thinking patterns, social behavior, biological processes, and physical health. Her ultimate goal is to understand how positive emotions accumulate and compound to transform people’s lives for the better.

Monica Gaudier-Diaz
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
Kathleen Gates
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Karen Gil
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Pederson Distinguished Professor
Kelly Giovanello
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
Desiree Griffin
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Associate Professor
Andrea Hussong
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
Deborah J. Jones
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
Former WOWS Scholar
https://deborahjones.web.unc.edu

Jennifer Kirby
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Clinical Professor
Beth Kurtz-Costes
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Zachary Taylor Distinguished Term Professor
Director, Doctoral Program in Developmental Psychology
Rosa Li
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
Kristen Lindquist
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Jeannie Loeb
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Professor
Keely Muscatell
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
She is originally from the Pacific Northwest, so she has an obligatory affinity for craft beer, hiking, and riot grrrl jams. Being a scientist is the best job she could possibly imagine. It’s hard, and she constantly wonders about her ability to do it well, but she loves it.

Montserrat Navarro
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Research Associate Professor
Abigail Panter
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor
Natasha Parikh
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
Rachel Penton, PhD
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
She is passionate about inspiring others to learn about neuroscience and psychology. She has always been interested in the intersection of the two subjects. When she’s not nerding out over neurons and neurotransmitter receptors, she is painting abstract art in her home studio.

Kathryn Reissner
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Sabrina Robertson
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Teaching Assistant Professor
Viji Sathy
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience & Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Teaching Associate Professor
Special Projects Assistant to Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
She is engaged in numerous activities on campus to promote student success, with emphases on: modernizing student support, facilitating broader participation in high impact educational practices, evidence-based approaches to teaching, access and equity for first generation and transfer students, and STEM participation. She is the lead Program Evaluator of the Chancellor’s Science Scholars (CSS), a program aimed at increasing representation of underrepresented students in STEM PhDs modeled after the highly successful Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She helped in the development and deployment of a data dashboard (My Course Analytics Data; MCAD) that allows instructors to see aggregate data on the demographics of students in their courses as well as their grade distributions by many characteristics (i.e., first generation, underrepresented minority, gender, etc.). She has co-developed with ITS a classroom attendance app that relies on proximity to a bluetooth beacon to check in to class, enabling instructors to quickly visually see who is absent from the class and follow up with student services staff. Lastly, she is involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and has a forthcoming chapter in a book on Teaching Statistics that shares the findings of a quasi-experimental study of implementation of the flipped classroom for her statistics course as well as writing a book for a teaching series press on Inclusive Teaching. Her work with Dr. Hogan has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and they recently wrote an advice guide for them that has been distributed widely.

Margaret Sheridan
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Eva Telzer
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Dr. Telzer has authored over 100 publications, and has received numerous awards for her work, including a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship, an Early Career Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association Division 7, and was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Jacobs Foundation, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Mental Health. In her free time she enjoys drawing biological illustrations, hiking with her dog, and reading.