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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.
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.

Bertram K. Spain, Ph.D.
Lecturer		 Office:
Phone:
E-mail: spain@hawaii.edu		 Undergraduate: Survey of Psychology.


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