Networks

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Abney, Drew

Associate Professor & Assistant Department Head, 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

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Bauer, Brian

Assistant Professor, Psychology
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decision

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Burch, Elizabeth

Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law, School of Law
website | eburch@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Networks

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Clay-Warner, Jody

Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jclayw@uga.edu

Research Interests include justice, emotions, violence, and victimization

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Forrest, Jon

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | jrforrest@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Culture, Ethnography, Networks, Work and Occupations

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Geier, Charles

Associate Dean for Research & William P. Flatt 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

Goodie, Adam

Professor, Psychology and Associate Dean Franklin College of Arts & Sciences
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | goodie@uga.edu

Research Interests include decision-making, gambling, personality, and cognition

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Goulart, Pedro

Data Analyst, School of Social Work – CenHTRO
website | pedro.avila@uga.edu

Research Interests: Computational Methods, Conflict, Experimental Methods, Geographic Information Systems, International Relations, Networks, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

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He, Yimin

Associate Professor, Psychology
website | yiminhe@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Culture, Mental Health, Networks, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations

Himelboim, Itai

Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
Thomas C. Dowden Professor, Media Analytics
website | itai@uga.edu

Research Interests include social networks, social network analysis, political communication, and health communication

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Huang, Peng

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website |peng.huang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Immigration, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Networks, Survey Methods

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Outland, Neal

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | neal.outland@uga.edu

Research Interests include teams, artificial intelligence, networks, computational models, and agent-based modeling

Robinson, Dawn

Director of Faculty Development, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2021 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | sodawn@uga.edu

Research Interests include emotion, culture, group processes, and social networks

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Schecter, Aaron

Associate Professor, Management Information Systems
website | aschecter@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Experimental Methods, Networks, Organizations

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Slatcher, Richard

Gail M. Williamson Distinguished Professor, Psychology
website | richard.slatcher@uga.edu

Research Interests include social relationships, health and well-being, asthma, and psychoneuroimmunology