Faculty

Quantitative Faculty

Daniel J. Bauer, Associate Professor
E-mail: dbauer@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4020

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. Latent variable models, multilevel models, finite mixture models.

Bauer, D. J. (2003). Estimating multilevel linear models as structural equation models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 28, 135-167.
Bauer, D. J. & Curran, P. J. (2003). Distributional assumptions of growth mixture models: Implications for over-extraction of latent trajectory classes. Psychological Methods, 8, 338-363.
Bauer, D. J. & Curran, P. J. (2004). The integration of continuous and discrete latent variable models: Potential problems and promising opportunities. Psychological Methods, 9, 3-29.

Patrick Curran, Professor & Program Director, Quantitative Psychology
E-mail: curran@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-5235

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1994. Latent variable models, multilevel models, substance abuse in adolescents.

Curran, P.J. (in press). Have multilevel models been structural equation models all along? Multivariate Behavioral Research.
Curran, P.J., Bauer, D.J., & Willoughby, M.T. (in press). Testing and probing main effects and interactions in latent curve analysis. Psychological Methods.

Robert C. MacCallum, Professor
E-mail: maccallum@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4016

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974. Latent variable models, multilevel models, longitudinal data analysis, model fallibility and its implications.

MacCallum, R. C., Browne, M. W., & Sugawara, H. M. (1996). Power analysis and determination of sample size for covariance structure modeling. Psychological Methods, 1, 130-149.
MacCallum, R. C. (2003). Working with imperfect models.Multivariate Behavioral Research, 38(1), 113-139.

A. T. Panter, Professor
E-mail: panter@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4012

Ph.D. New York University, 1989. Evaluation methodology, measurement and testing, advanced quantitative methods, survey methodology. Content expertise related to personality, evaluation of HIV/AIDS service and educational programs, substance abuse, status of women, educational diversity, and professional advancement educational programs.

Sansone, C., Morf, C., & Panter, A. T. (Eds.). (2004). The Sage handbook of methods in social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., & Panter, A. T. (1998-2002).Knowledge base on HIV/AIDS Care. Online:www.TheMeasurementGroup.com/KB.htm.
Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Brown, V. B., Larson, T. A., & Panter, A. T. (Eds.) (2000). Evaluating HIV/AIDS treatment programs: Innovative methods and findings. New York: Haworth Press. [Also printed as a special issue of Drugs and Society.]
Panter, A. T., & Reeve, B. B. (2002). Assessing tobacco beliefs among youth using item response theory. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 8, 21-39.

David Thissen, Professor
E-mail: dthissen@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-5036

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976. Psychometrics, item response theory, statistical models for developmental data, graphical data analysis.

Thissen, D., Steinberg, L. & Wainer, H. (1993). Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models. In P. W. Holland & H. Wainer (Eds.),Differential item functioning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 67-113.
Wainer, H. & Thissen, D. (1993). Graphical data analysis. In G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 391-457.

Quantitative Faculty Emeriti

Lyle V. Jones, Research Professor, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus
E-mail: lvjones@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-2325

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1950. Evaluation and Measurement, Data Analysis.

Jones, L.V. (2007) Some lasting consequences of US psychology programs in World Wars I and II. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 42, 1-16.
Jones, L. V. & Olkin, I. (Eds.). (2004). The nation's report card: Evolution and perspectives. Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa International.
Jones, L. V., Lindzey, G., and Coggeshall, P. E. (Eds.). (1982). An assessment of research-doctorate programs in the United States (5 volumes). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Jones, L. V. & Tukey, J. W. (2000). A sensible formulation of the significance test. Psychological Methods, 411-414.

Cognitive Faculty

Jennifer Arnold, Assistant Professor
E-mail: jarnold@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-843-5737

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998. Psychological processes of language comprehension and production; language development.

Arnold, J. E., Tanenhaus, M. K , Altmann, R. J., & Fagnano, M. (2004). The old and thee, uh, new: Disfluency and reference resolution. Psychological Science, 15(9), 578-582.
Arnold, J. E., Wasow, T., Asudeh, A., & Alrenga, P. (2004). Avoiding attachment ambiguities: The role of constituent ordering. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(1), 55-70.

Peter C. Gordon, Professor
E-mail: pcg@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-2440

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984. Psychological process underlying use of natural language.

Gordon, P. C., Grosz, B. J., & Gilliom, L. A. (1993). Pronouns, names, and the centering of attention in discourse. Cognitive Science, 17, 311-347.
Gordon, P. C., Eberhardt, J. L., & Rueckl, J. G. (1993). Attentional modulation of the phonetic significance of acoustic cues. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 1-42.

Joseph Hopfinger, Associate Professor
E-mail: joehop@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-5085

Mark Hollins, Professor

E-mail: mhollins@email.unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-2441

Ph.D., Brown University, 1971. Sensory information processing.

Hollins, M., Faldowski, R., Rao, S., & Young, F. (1993) Perceptual dimensions of tactile surface texture: A multidimentional scaling analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 697-705.
Hollins, M., & Favorov, O. (1994). The tactile movement aftereffect. Somatosensory and Motor Research, 11, 153-162.

Neil W. Mulligan, Professor and Program Director, CognitivePsychology
E-mail: nmulligan@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-5038

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994.

Cognitive Faculty Emeriti

Dave Eckerman, Professor Emeritus
E-mail: david_eckerman@unc.edu

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966. Operant conditioning, learning theory, behavioral toxicology.

Eckerman, D. A. & Bushnell, P. J. (1992). The Neurotoxicology of Cognition: Attention, Learning, and Memory. In H. Tilson & C. L. Mitchell (Eds.) Neurotoxicology. New York: Raven Press. pp. 213-270.
Moy, S. S., Breese, G. R., & Eckerman, D. S., (in press). Altered activity patterns following neonatal 6-hyroxydopamine lesions to dopaminergic nearons: effect of SKF-38393, Brain Research.

Samuel Fillenbaum, Professor Emeritus
E-mail: sam_fillenbaum@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4002

Ph.D., University of California, 1956. Psychology of language.

Fillenbaum, S. (1986). The use of conditionals in inducements and deterrents. In E. Traugott, C. Ferguson, J. S. Reilly & A. ter Meulen (Eds), On Conditionals, Cambridge University Press, 179-195.
Fillenbaum, S., Wallsten, T. S., Cohen, B. L., & Cox, J. A. (1991) Some effects of vocabulary and communication task on the understanding and use of vague probability expressions. American Journal of Psychology, 104, 35-60.

Edward Johnson, Professor Emeritus
E-mail: ed_johnson@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4020

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1961. Human problem solving, spatial ability, cognitive sex differences.

Johnson, E. (1984). Sex differences in problem solving.Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 1359-1371.
Johnson, E., & Meade, A. (1987). Developmental patterns of spatial ability: An early sex difference. Child Development,58, 725-740.

Other Affiliated Faculty

Peter Ornstein, Professor, Developmental Psychology
E-mail: peter_ornstein@unc.edu
Telephone: 919-962-4138

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968. Cognitive development, development of memory and learning.

Ornstein, P.A., Larus, D. M., & Clubb, P. A. (1991). Understanding children's testimony: Implications of research on the development of memory. In R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of Child Development, 8, 145-160.
Ornstein, P. A., Gordon B. N., Baker-Ward, L., & Merritt, K. A. (in press). Children's memory for medical experiences. In D. Peters (Ed.), The child witness in cognitive, social and legal contexts. Amsterdam: Kluwer.