Director
Clayton Neighbors, Ph.D. Dr. Neighbors' work focuses on social and motivational influences in etiology, prevention, and treatment of health and risk behaviors. Outcomes of interest include alcohol and substance abuse, problem gambling, and intimate partner violence. Support for this research has been provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Mental Health, the Department of Defense, and the National Center for Responsible Gaming. Research Interests:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clayton_Neighbors Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citationsuser=Blhrmp8AAAAJ&hl=en |
Affiliated Assistant Professor
Chelsie M. Young, Ph.D. Background: B.A., Psychology, Eastern Illinois University, 2010 M.A., Experimental Psychology, College of William and Mary, 2013 Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Houston, 2016 Academic Positions: Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Houston, 2016-2018 Assistant Professor, Rowan University, 2018-Present Research Interests:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chelsie_Young Website: ChelsieMYoung.com Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mary M. Tomkins, Ph.D. Background: B.S. Psychology, Abilene Christian University M.S. Psychology, Abilene Christian University Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Houston Research Interests: Mary Tomkins is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Social Influences and Health Behaviors lab. Her main research interest is social connectedness, specifically its association with well-being and prosocial behaviors and how it can be enhanced. She is also interested in interventions that can be developed to encourage virtue-based behavior and factors associated with moral behavior. In her spare time, she works on projects focused on religiousness, specifically how it is related to alcohol use and how it can be incorporated into brief alcohol interventions, the effects and buffers of ostracism, belongingness interventions, and the ways in which religion can be healthy or unhealthy. ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary_Tomkins |