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, fi
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

Charles Snowdon
Professor emeritus, psychology
Expert on primate social, reproductive, cognitive and communication behavior

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


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


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


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, psychology, gender and women's studies
Expert on psychology of women and human sexuality

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


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 assistant professor, 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

Robert McGrath
Psychologist Emeritus, University Health Services
Psychologist with expertise in Health Psychology, Living with Vitality and Resilience, and Mind/Body Wellness. Member of UW Speakers Bureau

Dean Krahn
Professor, medicine and psychiatry
Expert on mental health and veterans, alcohol dependence and abuse treatment; systems of care delivery for mental health

Kris Eiring
Director of Clinical and Sport Psychology for Student Athletes
Expert on psychological aspects of health and disability; special training in sport psychology and work with athletes & performance