Psychology Graduate Program Student Handbook
1. Getting Started

1.1 Academic Advising

All graduate students are advised either by their Graduate Program Director or, in some cases by the college’s academic advising office. Your advisor can and should assist you in developing a course of study and selecting courses to fit your academic goals. 

1.2 MAGP Faculty

The UNF Department of Psychology strives to maintain a faculty that is diverse in interests, expertise, and backgrounds.  MAGP students should try to meet all the faculty; to this end, the Department offers colloquia as well as various social and professional functions.  All faculty are (or in the case of new faculty, soon will be) members of the UNF Graduate Faculty.  As such, they are qualified to serve as advisors for graduate students and to teach graduate courses.  Listed below are the full-time faculty and their areas of professional interest:

	Allen, Ashley	Self-compassion; Self-presentation; Acceptance and Rejection
	Alloway, Tracy	Learning; Working memory; Learning disabilities; Classroom strategies
	Fisak, Brian	Clinical psychology/developmental psychopathology; Child anxiety disorders; Evidence-based treatment; mindfulness and psychotherapy; Internalizing disorders
	Gűss, Dominik	Cognitive psychology; Complex problem solving and dynamic decision making; Cross-cultural psychology; Disaster management
	Iversen, Iver	Experimental analysis of behavior; Operant learning; Primate learning
	Karylowski, Jurek	Social cognition; Social judgments; Cognitive representations of self and others.
	Lange, Lori (Director MAGP Program)	Health psychology; Psychophysiology; Symptom perception and illness experience; Social Connectedness
	Leding, Juliana	False memory and memory errors; Memory processes; Social influences on memory errors.
	Leone, Christopher	Attitudes (including prejudice); Persuasion; Personality and individual differences in motivation.
	Marcon, Rebecca	Developmental psychology; Early childhood; Head Start.
	Nicholson, Jody	Developmental psychology; Environmental neurotoxin exposure prevention/intervention; Adolescent mothers and their children
	Perez, Susan	Sociocultural influences (e.g., cultural, social, and familial) on complex cognitive skills; Individual differences in development of planning and problem-solving skills; Socioemotional development in academic success.
	Richard, Dan	Social psychology; Social judgment; Quantitative methods.
	Toglia, Michael  (Department chair)	Cognitive psychology; Human memory often approached from a developmental perspective with emphases on eyewitness testimony/memory, eyewitness identification, and false memory.
	Truelove, Heather	Social psychology of environmental behavior; Agricultural adaptation among farmers in Sri Lanka; Perceptions of nuclear energy; Climate change beliefs and risk perceptions
	Wang, Debbie	Basic and applied aspects of information processing and human performance, including: Human factors: Stimulus-response compatibility effects; Attention theory; Multiple-task information processing