Psychological Sciences Faculty Labs
- Applied Behavior Analysis Intervention Lab
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Director: Dr. John Rapp
Program Applied Behavior Analysis
Description: The Applied Behavior Analysis Intervention Lab evaluates behavioral interventions for increasing eye contact and compliant behavior and decreasing stereotypical behavior displayed by children with autism spectrum disorders and related intellectual disabilities.
- Assessment and Intervention Lab
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Director: Dr. Steven K. Shapiro
Program: Clinical
Website: cla.auburn.edu/shapiro
Description: The Assessment and Intervention Lab conducts research on assessment and intervention strategies applicable to a variety of issues and settings impacting children and adolescents.
- Auburn University Brain Imaging and Ethanol Lab (AUBIE)
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Director: Dr. Sara Blaine
Program: CaBS
Website: https://www.aubielab.com/
Description: The AUBIE Lab uses MRI, laboratory stress and cue paradigms, ecological momentary assessment, and genetic analyses to study to development of alcohol use disorders.
- Biobehavioral Research on Addiction and INternalizing Syndromes (BRAINS) Lab
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Director: Dr. Richard J. Macatee
Program: Clinical
Website: https://thebrainslab.weebly.com/
Description: The BRAINS lab conducts research within a translational biobehavioral framework to better understand the etiology and treatment of co-occurring internalizing and substance use disorders.
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
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Director: Dr. Jennifer Robinson
Program: CABS
Website: AU CAN Lab
Description: The Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Lab (CAN Lab) uses psychophysiological measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the interplay between emotions/stress and cognitive processes, such as memory.
- Comparative Cognition Laboratory
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Director: Dr. Jeffrey Katz
Program: CABS
Website: https://cla.auburn.edu/psychologylabs/comparative-cognition-laboratory/
Description: Comparative Cognition Laboratory research uses a multi-species, multi-method, converging operations approach to explore general processes of cognition.
- Drugs and Behavior Research Lab
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Director: Dr. Chris Correia
Program: Clinical
Description: The Drugs and Behavior Research Lab is interested in understanding factors related to substance use and addictive behaviors among college students.
- Individual Differences, Training, and Assessment Lab
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Director: Dr. Jinyan Fan
Program: I/O
Description: The Individual Differences, Training, and Assessment Lab examines how to apply psychology to the workplace, such as personnel selection, training and development, etc.
- Juvenile Delinquency Laboratory
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Director of Research: Dr. Kelli Thompson
Program: Clinical
Description: The Juvenile Delinquency Laboratory's interests include assessment and treatment of problems resulting from trauma, violence and victimization in children and adolescents.
- Laboratory for Integrative Decision Science
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Director: Dr. Ana Franco-Watkins
Program: I/O
Website: http://cla.auburn.edu/lids/
Description: LIDS focuses on using psychological theories and methodologies to elucidate decision making processes that address basic and applied research questions with real-world implications.
- Language, Attention, and Memory Lab
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Director: Dr. Susan Teubner-Rhodes
Program: CABS
Website: https://cla.auburn.edu/lamlab/
Description: The Language, Attention, and Memory Lab (LAM Lab) combines behavioral and neuroimaging approaches to study how cognitive processes, such as attention and memory, influence speech and language processing across the lifespan.
- Dr. Lazarte's Lab
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Director: Dr. Alejandro Lazarte
Program: CABS
Description: Dr. Alejandro Lazarte's lab is focused on working memory and reading strategies in relation to reading comprehension.
- Parent-Child Research Lab
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Director: Dr. Elizabeth Brestan-Knight
Program: Clinical
Website: Auburn PCIT Lab
Description: The Parent-Child Research Lab research team evaluates Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) training workshops, PCIT treatment fidelity, and implementation of the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System.
- Psychopharmacology and Neurotoxicology Laboratory
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Director: Dr. Chris Newland
Program: CABS
Website: Dr. Newland's Website
Description: The Psychopharmacology and Neurotoxicology Laboratory investigates the effects of drugs and environmental contaminants that act on the nervous system.
- Research and Interventions for Stress-Related Conditions Lab
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Director: Dr. Brian Albanese
Program: Clinical
Website: https://therisclab.weebly.com/
Description: The RISC lab is interested in uncovering reliable, transdiagnostic neurobehavioral mechanisms for a number of internalizing conditions, with a particular interest in traumatic stress and suicide.
- Stress, Health, and Research Methods Lab
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Director: Dr. Gargi Sawhney
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Description: We broadly investigate topics that include occupational safety, occupational stress, coping, recovery, and employee health and well-being. A secondary interest of this lab is development and validation of psychological measures. Within this sub-area, we explore the role of individual and contextual factors that influence psychometric properties of survey measures.
- Suicidal Behavior and Psychopathology Laboratory
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Director: Dr. Tracy Witte
Program: Clinical
Website: www.auburn.edu/~tkw0005/
Description: The Suicidal Behavior and Psychopathology Lab research focuses primarily on suicidal behavior as explained by Joiner's interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide.
- Translational and Applied Behavioral Science Lab
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Directors: Dr. Corina Jimenez-Gomez and Dr. Chris Podlesnik
Program: Applied Behavior Analysis and CABS
Website: https://www.tabs-labs.com
Description: Basic behavioral science meets clinical practice. Members of the TABS lab are fascinated by understanding basic behavioral processes, the application of behavioral frameworks to understanding human conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, and applying our findings to improve clinical practice.
- Trauma and Anxiety Research Lab
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Director: Dr. Joseph Bardeen
Program: Clinical
Website: Auburn TARL
Description:The Trauma and Anxiety Research Lab is broadly interested in information processing and emotion regulation in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology.
- Work-Life and Organizational Effectiveness Lab
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Director: Dr. Jesse Michel
Program: I/O
Website: cla.auburn.edu/jmichel
Description: The Work-Life and Organizational Effectiveness Lab conducts research on work-life dynamics, personality and individual differences in the workplace, and scale development and validation.
Last Updated: April 10, 2020