Psychological Sciences Faculty Labs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Dr. Chris Newland
Program: CABS
Description: The Psychopharmacology and Neurotoxicology Laboratory investigates the effects of drugs and environmental contaminants that act on the nervous system.

Director: April Smith, Ph.D.
Program: Clinical
Website: redslab.org
Description: The Research on Eating Disorders and Suicidality (REDS) Laboratory examines how biological and psychological risk factors contribute to disordered eating and suicidal behavior. Additionally, our lab’s research explores the high rates of suicidality and self-injury among individuals with eating disorders. Our lab incorporates multiple methodological approaches (e.g., implicit cognition, psychophysiological assessment) and experimental and correlational methods to approach these questions.

Director: Dr. Gargi Sawhney
Program:
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.

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.