Thomas Bradbury (2nd from left)
UCLA
William Fals-Stewart (2nd from right)
SUNY-Buffalo

Dr. Bradbury is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts basic research on the longitudinal course of marriage and applied research on the prevention of marital dysfunction.

Dr. Fals-Stewart is a Senior Research Scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, New York. His primary research interests are in the areas of (1) marital and family functioning of individuals who abuse drugs and/or alcohol; (2) substance use and domestic violence; and (3) substance abuse by parents and its effects on their children.

 
Stephan Hamann (left)
Emory University

Dr. Hamann is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Emory University His Research focuses on explicit and implicit memory in normal and neuropsychological populations (amnesiac patients and patients with Alzheimer's disease) and the effect of emotion on memory. Other interests include application of neuroimaging techniques (PET, FMRI) to memory research, and perception of emotion in facial expression.

Larry Williams (2nd from left)
Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Williams is Professor of Management & Research and Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. His main research interests involve the application of structural equation methods to various substantive and methodological concerns. His substantive research has included studies of pro-social, citizenship, and helping behaviors in organizational settings, with a special focus on the predictive role of employee attitudes. In the research methods area, recent efforts have focused on problems related to the use of survey methods in organizational research and the application of advanced data analysis techniques to these problems.

Erica Spotts (right)
George Washington University

Dr. Spotts received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from George Washington University. Her interests focus on family research and behavior genetics, as well as genetic and environmental factors that play a role in marital relationships. While pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden she expanded her research on marital relationships to look at romantic relationships in an adolescent and elderly samples. She is also focusing on the transformation of romantic relationships from adolescence to emerging adulthood to full adulthood, as well as how interpersonal relationships impact mental health, and the role that friendships and sibling relationships play in adulthood.

Thomas McLellan (center)
University of Pennsylvania

A. Thomas McLellan, Ph. D. is a psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia. Dr. McLellan and his colleagues have been developing and evaluating treatments for alcohol and drug dependence as well as evaluation instruments such as the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and the Treatment Services Review (TSR). He and his colleagues are currently pursuing questions such as "What are the active and inactive ingredients of treatment" and "What is the appropriate duration and content of treatment for various types of patients."

Thomas Joiner (left)
Florida State University

About the Presenter: Thomas Joiner went to college at Princeton and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1993 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is The Bright-Burton Professor and Director, University Psychology Clinic, in the Department of Psychology at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Dr. Joiner’s work is on the psychology, neurobiology, and treatment of depression, suicidal behavior, anxiety, and eating disorders. Author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Joiner was recently awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and received the Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Shakow Award for Early Career Achievement from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association, the Shneidman Award for excellence in suicide research from the American Association of Suicidology, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions from the American Psychological Association, as well as research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and various foundations.