TARDIS Lab
The Team on Acculturation, Risk, and the Development of Identity and Self (TARDIS) at University of Texas at San Antonio is directed by Dr. Alan Meca (Pronouns: el, he, him).
The Sleep and Memory Computational Lab
The lab incorporates various empirical and theoretical techniques to investigate our research questions.
GROWTH Lab
The Growing Resilient Outcomes Within The Home (GROWTH) Lab advocates for children and families through research and community-engaged projects.
He Lab
The He Lab investigates how environmental factors, task demands and cognitive ability affect learning and decision-making during spatial navigation.
Research conducted at the UTSA Department of Psychology spans all of the major areas of experimental psychology.
Faculty research interests are listed below.
- Groups, teams, and multiteam systems
- Perceiving & leveraging expertise
- Social / workplace factors in substance use
- Workplace attitudes towards women
- Family Psychology & Health
- Adolescent Substance Use
- Primary Care Psychology
- Exercise Psychology & Behavioral Medicine
- Time Use Epidemiology
- Physical Activity Determinants
- Movement Behaviors and Health
- Mental Ability, Intelligence, & IQ
- Brain Aging & Cerebral Health Markers
- Academic Aptitude Test (SAT and ACT)
- Affect Science
- Psychosomatics
- Anger Assessment & Treatment
- Pain
- Spatial Cognition
- Attention and Working Memory
- Perception and Action
- Age-related Neurological Disorders
- Interpersonal Perception
- Belongingness & Authenticity
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Memory and Decision-making
- Virtual Reality
- Stress and Aging
- Cognitive Psychology and Quantitative Methods
- Cognitive Modeling
- Intersections between AI and Psychology, Visual Perception, Decision Making
- Cognitive & Socioemotional Development
- Child Maltreatment
- Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience of Memory & Learning
- Sleep Effects on Cognition & Emotion
- Social Perception
- Social Interaction
- Academic Success
Mary McNaughton-Cassill, Ph.D.
- Veteran Students’ Success
- College Student Adjustment
- Stress and Coping in the Modern World
- Identity development across a variety of domains (e.g., ethnic/racial identity, military identity, etc)
- Cultural Identity Development among ethnic/racial minorities
- Acculturation and cultural stress among immigrant populations
- Military Health
- Post-deployment Functional Recovery
- Trauma, Anxiety and Addictive Behaviors
- Smoking Cessation
- Test Construction & Validation
- Risk & Protective Factors for Mental Health
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Belongingness
- Attitudes About ADHD & Medication
- Self & Other Perception
- Quantitative Methods
- Couple & Family Psychology
- Health Disparities
- LGBTQ Populations
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Quantitative Methods
- Alcohol’s Role in HIV-Related Risk Taking
- Health Disparities Regarding HIV & Sexual Violence
- Sexual Assault
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Degree programs
147k+
Internship hours
4
Research centers
$4.8M
in grants awarded across 22 projects
