People


Margaret T. Owen, Ph.D.

Director

Robinson Family Professor of Psychological Sciences

Phone: 972-883-6867

Email: mowen@utdallas.edu

Bert S. Moore, Ph.D.

Dean, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Moller Distinguished Professor

Email: bmoore@utdallas.edu

Joanna K. Gentsch, Ph.D.

Assistant Director

Phone: 972-883-4179

Email: jgentsch@utdallas.edu

Adrienne Gidley

Project Coordinator

Phone: 972-883-4782

Email: ccf@utdallas.edu

Lyn Rodriguez Neisius, M.A., Ed.S.

Director, Infant Development Program

Phone: 214-502-6457

Email: lneisius@utdallas.edu

Ana-Maria Mata-Otero, Ph.D.

Developmental Specialist

Phone: 972-883-4782

Email: amba@utdallas.edu

Adriana Villa Baird

Community Liaison Specialist

Resource and Referral Program

Phone: 972-883-4827

Email: adriana.baird@utdallas.edu

Paula Knight

Developmental Specialist

Email: pxk101120@utdallas.edu

Robert Ackerman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Phone: 972-883-2346

Email: raa110030@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Influence of developmental factors in adult interpersonal relationships.

Denise Paquette Boots, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Phone: 972-883-6468

Email: deniseboots@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Youth violence and child abuse.

Thomas G. R. Bower, Ph.D.

Founders Professor

Retired

Research interests: Infant perception and cognition

Sherry Bryant, M.S.

Clinical Lecturer

Phone: 972-883-4476

Email: sherry.bryant@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Early childhood disorders for children ages birth to 5 years.

Shayla C. Holub, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: 972-883-4473

Email: sholub@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Attitudes and self perceptions of young children; childhood obesity.

Mandy Maguire, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: 214-905-3163

Email: mjm053000@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Neurocognitive development (using ERPs) and language.

Candice M. Mills, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: 972-883-4475

Email: candice.mills@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Development of social cognition and critical thinking

Jackie Nelson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Phone: 972-883-4478

Email: jackie.nelson@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Family interaction, family stress and children's social-emotional development.

Pamela R. Rollins, Ed.D.

Associate Professor

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Phone: 214-905-3153

Email: rollins@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Child language development and disorders; autism.

Noah J. Sasson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Phone: 972-883-2541

Email: nsasson@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to social dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Richard K. Scotch, Ph.D.

Professor

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Phone: 972-883-2922

Email: scotch@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Early childhood education, disabilities studies, human services.

Melanie Spence, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies

Program Head, Psychological Sciences Ph.D. Program

Phone: 972-883-2206

Email: mspence@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Infant learning and memory.

Marion K. Underwood, Ph.D.

Professor

Ashbel Smith Professor of Psychological Sciences

Email: undrwd@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Anger, aggression and gender and children's peer relationships.

Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D.

Professor

Callier Center Research Scholar

Phone: 214-905-3147

Email: annevk@utdallas.edu

Research interests: Preliteracy development, socialization, assessment, and intervention.

Deborah Wiebe, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Health Psychology

Phone: 214-648-5299

Email: djw062000@utdallas.edu