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.
PHASE Lab
The Psychophysiology, Health, and Stress Evaluation Laboratory (PHASE Lab) focuses on understanding the role of stress and psychosocial factors in influencing both physical and psychological health outcomes.
The Sleep and Memory Computational Lab
The lab incorporates various empirical and theoretical techniques to investigate our research questions.
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).
Research conducted at the UT San Antonio 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
- Mental Ability, Intelligence, & IQ
- Brain Aging & Cerebral Health Markers
- Academic Aptitude Test (SAT and ACT)
- Adolescent development and well-being
- Psychological and personality assessment
- Delinquency and justice system involvement
- Substance misuse
- Health disparities, access to behavioral healthcare, and effective community-based interventions
- 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
- Stress, Learning and Decision-making
- Gene-Environment Interaction on Cognition and Health
- Spatial Navigation 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
- Non-cognitive individual differences
- Personnel selection and assessment
- Research Methods
- Social Perception
- Social Interaction
- Academic Success
- 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
- Physiological responses to acute psychological stress
- Impact of psychosocial factors and individual differences on psychological and physiological stress responses
- Stress physiology and its relationship to physical health outcomes
- 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
- Trauma and Anxiety Related Disorders
- Military and First Responder Health
- Psychological Treatment Outcomes
- Clinical Trials and Biostatistics
- Social psychology
- Natural language processing
- Psychology of language
- Police-community interactions
- Use-of-force
- Police training
- 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
