Meet the Faculty
Dr. Michael Figuccio
Chair
Dr. Marya Howell-Carter
First Year Experience Coordinator
Research interests: Biracial identity; Mindfulness; Anxiety (test, GAD, performance, social); Sleep and Sleep Problems; Student Advisement and Academic Success; Women's Issues; and Problems Related to Race and Discrimination.
Dr. Jennifer Gonder
Program Director
Research interests: Consumer Psychology, Performance Management, Pedagogical Research
Dr. Michael Goodstone
Professor
Dr. Marla Jorgensen
Chair of LAS/Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Children's moral reasoning, Parental fairness and domain theory, Parental lying and moral reasoning, Divorce and child outcomes (ie, parental bonding, relationship styles), Academic achievement and student advising.
Dr. Sy Islam
Associate Professor
Research interests: Cybervetting, social media usage in selection, college student experience and its effect on academic citizenship behaviors, text analysis, training and development
Dr. Barbara Pezzanite
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. Kathryn Hauschild
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Face and Object Processing; Categorization; Implicit Learning; Language Acquisition; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Eye-Tracking; EEG/ERP
Dr. MaryBeth Apriceno
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Meta-analysis of ageism reduction programs, descriptive study of mental health of first year college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, correlational study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes toward older adults/ageism
Dr. Brianna Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Bindu Annie Dulock M.A.
Lecturer
Research Interests: Marital Conflict/Divorce and Child Functioning, Cognitive Restructuring, Stoicism and Anxiety, Personal Growth Initiative and Locus of Control
David Brocker M.A.
Lecturer
Research Interests: Person Perception, Impression Formation, Creepiness and Morbid Curiosity, Attractiveness Bias, Morality and Emotion
psychology department
Knapp Hall, Room 48
934-420-2725
psychology@farmingdale.edu