Faculty in the Department of Psychology at ETSU are engaged in a wide range of active research programs in all of our graduate training areas. In behavioral neuroscience, our faculty is evaluating animal models of psychopathology and recovery of brain function after brain injury. Within the context of rural mental health, our clinical psychology faculty focuses on a range of adult and child psychopathology (e.g., addictive behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and other important health behaviors (e.g., traffic safety and ultraviolet light exposure), assessment and treatment of violence in marital and dating relationships, suicide and reasons for living, and psychological measurement, assessment, and test development. We are searching for a new cognitive faculty member currently, and it is expected the person selected will continue their program of research upon arrival.  In developmental psychology, faculty are researching the effects of temperament on language acquisition in infants and the influence of prenatal hormones on physiology and behavior. Current research by social faculty includes such topics as the physiological/biological, behavioral, and affective reactions to social rejection and the stigma and identity consequences of intimate partner violence and trauma.

To learn more about current faculty research programs, review the Ph.D. program area of interest and the individual faculty profiles associated with that training area.

Research Page -Links

ETSU: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

    Home page (http://www.etsu.edu/research/)

    Funding opportunities at ETSU

        (http://www.etsu.edu/research/fundingopportunities.htm)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    Home page (http://www.nih.gov/)

    Institutes, Centers, and Offices that make up the NIH

        (http://www.nih.gov/icd/)

    Funding opportunities at NIH (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm)

National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)

    Home page (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/)

    Funding opportunities at NIMH

        (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/researchfunding/index.cfm)