Camilla Benbow (Dean, Peabody College) - creativity and eminence, giftedness (academically talented children)

David Cole - (Department Chair for Psychology and Human Development) - developmental psychopathology and childhood depression

Judy Garber - developmental psychopathology, etiology and prevention of depression in children and adolescents

Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey  - role and influence of parents in children's and adolescents' educational and development outcomes

Amy Needham - Cognitive, motor, and perceptual development in infancy

John Rieser - perception, representation, and action together in a coordinated system

Bethany Rittle-Johnson - learning mechanisms that underlie knowledge development, specifically, how children learn problem solving strategies and key concepts in academic domains

Howard Sandler (Associate Provost for Special Projects) - philosophy of science and research methods, application of current thinking in philosophy to the development of systematic methods of inquiry for psychology

Megan Saylor - development of intentional understanding

James Steiger - factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and tests on correlations; evaluation of statistical models; confidence interval estimation and effect size estimation; quantitative models of human judgment

Georgene Troseth - children's symbolic development

Tedra Walden - early social and emotional development of young children

Lynn Walker - health psychology, biopsychosocial processes in pain