Why Choose Graduate Study in Program Mission Psychology at the University of We offer Master’s programs in Experimental Dayton? Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Both are We are focused on enabling students to develop small, selective programs with the aim of their research skills so they can successfully gain facilitating our students’ admission into a Ph.D. entry into doctoral programs. To accomplish this program in psychology. As such, we provide goal, our programs possess the following features: extensive experience in statistics and research - Rigorous research and statistical coursework methods, and multiple opportunities for both collaborative and individual research projects. - The requirement of an empirical Master’s thesis A secondary goal specific to our Clinical - Strong faculty research programs spanning a Psychology M.A. program is to prepare students wide breadth of topics for jobs at the master’s level that do not require - Opportunities for publications and clinical licensure. For instance, previous students presentations under faculty mentorship have successfully obtained positions at community mental health agencies, research- Recent graduates have been accepted to Ph.D. based positions, psychological assessment programs at Colorado State, , positions, or in private practice under Penn State, Purdue University, Texas A&M, supervision. The State University, , University of South Carolina, University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University. Competitive graduate assistantships are available for the strongest students, and strong efforts are made to provide some type of funding to all students. Generous funding for Master’s thesis projects and travel to present at national psychological conferences. We provide students in our Clinical M.A. program with community placements where they receive experience in diagnostic interviewing, case management, psychological assessment, group psychotherapy, or individual psychotherapy.

DR. JULIE WALSH-MESSINGER Director of the Clinical M.A. Program [email protected] 937-229-1380 Jumpstart your DR. ERIN O’MARA KUNZ journey to a Ph.D. Director of the Experimental M.A. Program [email protected] 937-229-2161 in Psychology For more information, visit our website at udayton.edu/artssciences/academics/psychology/ index.php Research Themes Faculty Jackson Goodnight, Ph.D., University Interests: Youth conduct problems; temperament and Because of our large number of faculty with productive RESEARCH THEME: BIO = Biopsychology, personality; parent and peer influence; socio-contextual research programs, we are able to offer research Neuropsychology, or Health Psychology; CD = Child or disadvantage CLINICAL-CD opportunities organized by five distinct themes: Developmental; CP = Cognition and Perception; COM = Benjamin Kunz, Ph.D., University of Utah Community Psychology; SOC = Social Behavior and 1. Biopsychology, Neuropsychology, or Health Interests: Cognitive psychology and cognitive Personality Psychology neuroscience; visual sensation and perception; embodied 2. Child or Developmental Lucy J. Allbaugh, PhD., Miami University cognition; human factors; virtual reality and human- Interests: Interpersonal violence (childhood maltreatment, 3. Cognition and Perception computer interaction EXPERIMENTAL-CP intimate partner violence); resilience; safe, stable, and Erin O’Mara Kunz, Ph.D., University of Tennessee 4. Community Psychology nurturing interpersonal relationships; mindfulness-based Interests: Social Psychology; self & identity; social 5. Social Behavior and Personality interventions for survivors of trauma CLINICAL-SOC, cognition; self-enhancement; attraction and mate-choice; COM The availability of these research concentrations not only interpersonal relationships EXPERIMENTAL-SOC allows for students to work with multiple faculty members Jack Bauer, Ph.D., Catholic University of America Carolyn Roecker Phelps, Ph.D., in different research domains, but to develop expertise Interests: Personality and identity development; narrative Currently on administrative leave within a larger area of psychological research. These meaning-making, wisdom, and well-being; life stories; Interests: Children’s aggression and strategies for coping themes cut across the two programs, and therefore, mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative); self- with aggression by peers, sexual revictimization; family working with faculty outside of one’s chosen program is actualizing, authenticity, and self-authorship conflict; childhood psychopathology. CLINICAL-CD often possible. EXPERIMENTAL-CD, SOC Roger N. Reeb, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth Melissa Berry, Ph.D., University of University. Interests: Psychopathology; homelessness; Interests: Social psychology; forensic psychology; social clinical-community psychology; participatory community Admissions Standards cognition; causal attribution; counterfactual thinking; action research; stress, coping, and health CLINICAL- Admission is competitive and based on the quality of the health-related behaviors EXPERIMENTAL-CP, SOC COM, BIO overall application. If you are not an undergraduate Tracy Butler, Ph.D., University of Kentucky Dario Rodriguez, Ph.D., John Jay College of Criminal psychology major, a minimum of 15 semester hours of Interests: Neuroscience and behavior; environmental and Justice & The Graduate Center, CUNY undergraduate psychology coursework is required, physiological factors that predict high levels of alcohol Interests: Eyewitness identification evidence; juror including introductory psychology, statistics and research consumption in preclinical models; neurobiological decision-making; social cognition; false memories CP, methods in psychology (or a two-course sequence in consequences of alcohol and/or stress in male and female SOC research methods in psychology). An undergraduate grade subjects EXPERIMENTAL-BIO point average of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale is desirable (both Julie Walsh-Messinger, Ph.D., Long Island University Robert Crutcher, Ph.D., University of Colorado cumulative and in psychology), as is a minimum score Interests: Schizophrenia; neural processing of emotion; Interests: Cognitive psychology and cognitive GRE score of 300 for the combined verbal and olfaction; sex differences in psychopathology; neuroscience; human memory; language processes; quantitative sections. Successful applicants typically exceed the neuropsychology; cognitive and personality assessment; improving human memory and thinking skills; verbal minimum GPA and GRE requirements. psychometrics CLINICAL-BIO reports; computer applications and learning EXPERIMENTAL-CP, BIO Siman Zhao, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Interests: Social-emotional development; parenting; peer Lee Dixon, Ph.D., University of Tennessee influence; culture and social changes EXPERIMENTAL- Interests: Interpersonal relationships; forgiveness; self- CD forgiveness; commitment; relationship satisfaction; religious orientation; attachment style; relationship- Catherine Lutz Zois, Ph.D., Wayne State University contingent self-esteem CLINICAL-SOC Interests: Psychopathy and cluster B personality disorders; intimate partner violence; self-compassion CLINICAL- Greg Elvers, Ph.D., Purdue University SOC, COM Interests: Psychology of Felis catus (cats); human-animal interactions; perception. EXPERIMENTAL-CP Mary Fuhs, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Interests: Developmental psychology, cognitive development and early intervention EXPERIMENTAL- CD