Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | Charles.Geier@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Research Scientist, Psychology
website | lauren.luther@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognitive processes; Emotions
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | niyantri.ravindran@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Parent-child interactions; Emotion socialization; Emotion regulation; Physiological responses to stress; Dynamic methods
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | thania.galvan@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Mental health disparities; Latinx youth & families; Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glenna.read@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Video surveillance; Video interpretation bias; Media effects; Social representation; Message processing; Decision-making
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Rising Star Award Recipient
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | drew.abney@uga.edu
Research Interests include sensorimotor development, human interaction, emotion regulation, time series analysis, and language development
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
website | ashley.harrison@uga.edu
Research Interests include atypical emotional and social attention in childhood psychopathology, information-processing framework to examine the differential developmental trajectory of social attention among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and identifying ways to more effectively treat attention impairments
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu
Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu
Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition
