Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
2014-2015 Grant Development Program Participant
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu
Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition
Professor, Advertising Public Relations
Co-director, Grady College Center for Health & Risk Communications
website | gnowak@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, infectious and vaccine preventable disease communication
Professor and Associate Vice President for Research, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | jlm@uga.edu
Research Interests include risky behaviors, adolescents, young adults, and tobacco use
Associate Professor & Interim Associate Dean for Research, Social Work
website | omowbray@uga.edu
Research Interests include mental health, substance use, and criminal justice
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Science
website | kalsea.koss@uga.edu
Research Interests include stress, adversity, puberty, developmental psychopathology, epigenetics, and resilience
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Public Relations
website | yanjin@uga.edu
Research Interests include crisis, risk, conflict, misinformation, emotion, and social media
Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | jlgay@uga.edu
Research Interests include physical activity, social environment, physical environment, and coastal resilience
Professor, Educational Theory and Practice
website | cfields@uga.edu
Research Interests include family involvement, sociocultural context of teaching and learning, multicultural education, homeschooling among African American families, and African American educational history
Meigs Professor, Sociology
website | jimcov@uga.edu
Research Interests include sociology of work and organizations, work-hour reforms and surgical work
Professor, Psychology
website | ashaffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include parenting, emotion regulation, measurement, and emotion socialization
