Tag psychology/human behavior

Cecilia Ford

Professor Emerita, English and sociology

Expert on sociolinguistics, specializing in conversation analysis, gender and language, and the uses of language in spoken interaction

Adrian Treves

Professor of environmental studies

Coexistence between people and wildlife worldwide, especially wolves, bears and big cats. Constitutional and public trust protections for the environment.

Dominique Brossard

Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication

Expert on media, science and policy; science and social media; public understanding of science; risk communication; science and fake news

Dietram Scheufele

Taylor-Bascom Chair in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Life Sciences Communication

Expert on misinformation, social media, science and technology, AI

Joanne Cantor

Professor emerita, communication arts; director, Center for Communication Research

Expert on the psychological impact of the media on the emotions and thoughts of children and adults

Jenny Saffran

Professor, psychology; investigator, Waisman Center

Expert on infant learning, language acquisition, music perception

Diane Gooding

Professor, psychology and psychiatry

Expert on identification of risk factors for psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia, as well as media and mental illness

Seth Pollak

Professor, psychology

Expert on child development, human emotions, child brain and behavioral development; at-risk children and child health; effects of maltreatment, poverty

Jack Nitschke

Associate professor, psychiatry and psychology

Expert on anxiety, depression and neuroscience of emotion

Robert Enright

Professor, educational psychology

Social science study of forgiveness

Roseanne Clark

Associate professor, psychiatry

Expertise in postpartum depression, parent-child relationships, and emotional and behavioral disturbances in infancy and early childhood

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Vilas Research Professor & Sir Frederic Bartlett Professor of Psychology

Expert on cognitive neuroscience, human communication (typical, atypical, and Internet-based), and Internet-based higher education

Samuel Dennis Jr.

Associate professor, landscape architecture

Expert on landscape architecture, community design, children's environments, nature play, and the built environment and health

Michael Fiore

Professor, medicine

Expert on helping smokers to quit

Tracy Schroepfer

Associate professor, social work

Expert on end of life, aging, cancer health disparities, community-based participatory research, intervention with dementia-related behaviors,

Doug Maynard

Professor, sociology

Using audio and video recordings, I study the practices of talk and interaction in legal, medical and other settings

Kenneth Streit

Clinical associate professor (emeritus), law

Criminal justice systems, arrest statistics, prison, and jail

Dave Riley

Professor emeritus, human development and family studies

Expert on child development

Patricia McConnell

Adjunct associate professor, zoology; certified applied animal behaviorist

Expert on companion animal behavior and the biology and philosophy of human/animal relationships

Janet Hyde

Professor emerit, psychology, gender and women's studies

Expert on psychology of gun violence and psychology of women

Bruce Wampold

Professor and chair, counseling psychology; clinical professor, psychiatry

Expert on the effectiveness of psychotherapy, mental health services, placebo effects and statistical methods in the social sciences

Stephen Small

Professor, human development; director, Wisconsin IDEA Center on Families and Human Development

Expert on adolescent and adult development, parenting and prevention

David Williamson Shaffer

Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics, Educational Psychology; Data Philosopher, WCER

Professor Shaffer founded the field of Quantitative Ethnography. He uses artificial intelligence(AI), statistics, and qualitative tools to study equity in education and the social sciences.

Craig Albers

Associate professor, educational psychology; principal investigator, WCER; chair, prevention sciences Program

Expert on educating students classified as English language learners; expert on prevention and early intervention education programs

Karyn Riddle

Assistant professor, journalism and mass communication

Expert on effects of exposure to media violence, with a focus on children's reactions

Amy Bellmore

Professor, educational psychology

Expert on adolescent peer relationships

Martha Alibali

Professor, psychology

Expert on cognitive development, mathematics learning and gesture

Sung Kim

Associate professor, operations and information management

Expert on online consumer behavior, Internet habits and information privacy

B. Bradford Brown

Professor, educational psychology

Expert on social development, social transitions, and social media use during adolescence and young adulthood.

Lori DuBenske

Senior Psychologist/Department of Psychiatry, Cancer Psychology

Expert on cancer psychology, behavioral health, family caregivers, patient healthcare decision making

John Lee

Professor, industrial and systems engineering

Expert on driver distraction, trust in automation, human factors engineering, human error

Bilge Mutlu

Associate professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering

Expert in human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, computer interfaces, robotics

Lyn Turkstra

Professor, communicative disorders; faculty member, Neuroscience Training Program and Neurological Surgery

Expert on outcomes from traumatic brain injury and neurological disorders in adolescents and adults

Ei Terasawa

Professor, psychiatry

Expert on reproductive neuroendocrinology, mechanisms of the onset of puberty, physiology of GnRH neurons

Peggy Scallon

Clinical Associate Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Residency training director, child and adolescent psychiatry

David Noyce

Professor, transportation engineering; director, Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory, Wisconsin Driving Simulator

Expert on autonomous and automated vehicles, connected vehicles, vehicle crashes, traffic operations, traffic signals and signs, transportation safety, construction work zones, driver behavior, pedestrians, bicycles