Applied cognition, applications of memory and metacognition to educational, business, legal, and training environments; Aging and cognition, memory changes associated with aging and Alzheimer's disease; Metacognition, assessments of self and other knowledge; Self-perception and aging.
Adult development & aging, adolescence, personality, cross-cultural psychology, the psychology of gender & research methods, service learning
Child Maltreatment, Psychology & Law, Memory for Trauma, Child Eyewitness Testimony, Prevention Science
Community psychology, workplace diversity and interpersonal dynamics
Clinical & community psychology; Immigrant psychology & families; Diversity; Feminism
Human sexuality, research methods, & online learning
Youth participatory action research, Critical community psychology, Conflict transformation and peacebuilding, Northeast India/South Asia
Research methods, statistics, adolescent psychopathology, emerging adulthood
Educational equity; anti-bias and culturally responsive interventions; school mental health; social-emotional and behavioral development; prevention and implementation science; community partnerships.
Health Communication, Health Campaign Design, Health Psychology, Research Methods & Statistics
Workplace Diversity, Stereotyping and Discrimination.
Autism spectrum disorder; adolescents and young adults; adult outcome, transition; employment; college/university; mentoring
Health psychology, psychophysiology, victimization & women's health
Social Psychology
Applied Behavior Analysis
Pediatric health psychology; childhood chronic conditions; asthma; sleep; pain; behavior genetics; ecological momentary assessment
Applied Behavior Analysis in the treatment of autism; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; auditory & visual discrimination learning; simulation in distance-learning applications.
Psychological issues of migration, qualitative research methods, narrative analysis
Psychology and Law, Eyewitness Memory, Plea-Bargaining, Repeated Testing, Decision-Making Biases
Development of children and youth: Disability and individual differences; family and school; foster care and adoption; basic mechanisms in autism and other developmental disorders; sibling relationships among children with autism; school-to-prison pipeline.
Berkowitz’s graduate & undergraduate teaching (“Teaching is a first love”) has focused on community and social psychology.
Personality, human development, & on-line teaching. Faculty Advisor Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology
Lifespan development, applied developmental psychology, cross-cultural development & psychological assessment
Teaching, Learning, and Cognition. The implications of embodied cognition for teaching and learning. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education and the Arts (STEAM). Women in computing occupations.
Cognitive psychology, statistics, psychology of consciousness, abnormal psychology
Sensation and perception, research methods and statistics, portals of consciousness, computer applications in psychology, neuropsychology, and chaos and nonlinear dynamics applications in psychology
Developmental psychology, especially language development, narrative, and life stories
Community psychology and women's studies