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Department of Psychology | University of Hawaii at Hilo |
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| Psychology Faculty | ||||||
| Full-time faculty | |||
| Name, title, position | Access information | Current courses | Current research |
| Susan
G. Brown, Ph.D. Professor Department Chair |
Office:
UCB 267 Phone: (808) 974-7374 E-mail: susanb@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate:
Statistics.
History of Psychology. Animal Psychology. Learning and
Motivation. Women and Health. Evolutionary Psychology. |
Animal behavior. Women's health and its relationship to menstrual cycle and intercourse |
| Dawna
K. Coutant, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Office:
UCB 265 Phone: (808) 933-0813 E-mail: coutant@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate:
Social
Psychology. Cross-Cultural Psychology. Research Methods.
Psychology of Sustainability. |
Culture, conflict, and health. |
| Paul W.
Dixon, Ph.D. Professor |
Office:
UCB
259 Phone: (808) 974-7456 E-mail: dixon@hawaii.edu. Website: www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~dixon/ |
Undergraduate: Sensation & Perception. Psycholinguistics. Survey of Psychology. Experimental Psychology. History of Psychology. | Psycholinguistics, analytic models of cognition. |
| B.
Christopher Frueh, Ph.D. Professor Social Sciences Division Chair |
Office:
UCB 309 Phone: (808) 974-7461 E-mail: frueh@hawaii.edu |
Graduate: Professional Identity, Ethics and
Legal Issues. Internship. |
Mental health services,
cognitive behavioral
therapy, posttraumatic stress disorder, telemedicine, mental health
economics
and public policy, racial disparities |
| Steve
Herman, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Office:
UCB 269 Phone: (808) 933-3284 E-mail: hermans@hawaii.edu |
Graduate:
Psychological Assessment. Counseling Skills. Group
Counseling. Practicum. Undergraduate: Personality. Child Abuse. |
Internet counseling. Forensic psychology. Behavioral medicine |
| Eric Heuer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
Office:
UCB 261 Phone: (808) 974-7402 E-mail: eheuer@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate: Cognitive Psychology. Measuring the Brain. | Aging, Alzheimer's disease and age-related
alterations in cognitive
function |
| Charmaine K. Higa-McMillan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
Office:
UCB 271 Phone: (808) 933-3166 E-mail: higac@hawaii.edu |
Graduate: Counseling Skills. Psychological
Assessment. Human
Development. Internship. Undergraduate: Abnormal Psychology. |
Internalizing developmental psychopathology. Child and adolescent assessment and evidence-based treatments for youth. Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments. Youth mental health services |
| Bryan S. K. Kim, Ph.D. Professor Director of Master's Program in Counseling Psychology |
Office:
UCB 273 Phone: (808) 974-7439 E-mail: bryankim@hawaii.edu Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~bryankim/ |
Graduate:
Social and Cultural Foundations. Counseling Theory and
Skills. Research Methods. Counseling Practicum. Undergraduate: Counseling Psychology. Asian American Psychology. |
Multicultural counseling psychology, instrument development, Asian American psychology, acculturation and enculturation |
| Sunyoung Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor |
Office:
UCB 266 Phone: (808) 933-3876 E-mail: sk47@hawaii.edu |
Graduate: Psychopathology, Internship. Undergraduate: Abnormal Psychology. Adult Behavior Therapy. |
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| Adam A.
Pack, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Office:
UCB 260 Phone: (808) 933-0827 E-mail: pack@hawaii.edu Website: www.dolphin-institute.org |
Undergraduate:
Statistics. Learning and Motivation. Marine Mammal Behavior and
Biology. Animal Cognition. |
Dolphin sensory perception, cognition, and communication. Behavior, communication, and biology of humpback whales and other marine mammals. |
| Cheryl
M.
Ramos, Ph.D. Associate Professor Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies and Distance Learning |
Office:
UCB 272 Phone: (808) 974-7438 E-mail: ramos@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate: Community Psychology. Practicum. Evaluation Research. I/O Psychology. | Well-being of cancer
survivors |
| Vladimir B. Skorikov, Ph.D. Professor |
Office:
UCB 270 Phone: (808) 974-7373 E-mail: skorikov@hawaii.edu. Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~skorikov/ |
Undergraduate: Statistics. Developmental Psychology. Adolescent Development and Mental Health. Career Development. | Career development, identity, adjustment and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood. |
| Errol Yudko, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Office:
UCB
268 Phone: (808) 933-3918 E-mail: errol@hawaii.edu. Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~errol/ |
Graduate:
Statistics. Undergraduate: Statistics. Research Methods. Physiological Psychology. Biopsychology. Testing and Measurement. Emotion. Clinical Psychopharmacology. |
Drug abuse |
| Affiliate Faculty | |||
| Name, Title, Position | Access Information | Courses | Research |
| Dyanne Affonso, Ph.D. Affiliate Professor |
Office: Phone: (808) 933-3330 E-mail: daffonso@hawaii.edu |
Currently none |
Community violence and mental health, perinatal depression. |
| Dan
Landis, Ph.D. Affiliate Professor |
Office: Phone: E-mail: danl@hawaii.edu Website: interculturalacademy.org/briefbio.htm |
Currently none |
Inter-cultural relations, cross-cultural training |
| Part-Time Faculty | |||
| Name, Title, Position | Access Information | Courses | |
| Melisa Secola-Nieft, Ph.D. Lecturer |
Office: Phone: E-mail: secola@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate:
Counseling Psychology. Practicum. |
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| Bertram K. Spain, Ph.D. Lecturer |
Office: Phone: E-mail: spain@hawaii.edu |
Undergraduate:
Survey of
Psychology. |
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