Faculty, Staff & Ph.D. Students

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

Clinical Psychology; Mental Health and Well Being

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.

Latent Variable Modeling; Longitudinal Data Analysis; Intensive Multivariate Dynamics; Research Design and Methodology

Health Communication, Health Campaign Design, Health Psychology, Research Methods & Statistics

Autism spectrum disorder; adolescents and young adults; adult outcome, transition; employment; college/university; mentoring

Health psychology, psychophysiology, victimization & women's health

Social Psychology

Behavior analysis, behavioral health; instructional design; applied behavioral pharmacology; developmental disabilities; diversity

Applied Behavior Analysis

Pediatric health psychology; childhood chronic conditions; asthma; sleep; pain; behavior genetics; ecological momentary assessment

Applied Behavior Analysis

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