George Mason University

Psychology Department News (updated January 25, 2008)

Christianne Esposito-Smythers to join Clinical Faculty.

Dr. Esposito-Smythers will join the Clinical program at GMU in August 2008. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2000 and has worked as a research assistant professor at the Brown University Medical School. Dr. Esposito-Smythers’s research interests include the study of social cognitive processes associated with the development of adolescent suicidality, depression, and substance abuse. She is also interested in the design and application of cognitive behavioral treatment and prevention protocols for adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviors. Dr. Esposito-Smythers’s research has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS. Her papers have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, American Journal on Addictions, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and others. She is currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Reeshad Dalal joins IO Faculty.

Dr. Dalal joined the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at GMU in Fall 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. Dr. Dalal’s research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His major programs of research are: (1) employee performance, and its links with mood/emotions, job attitudes and individual differences, and (2) advice-giving and advice-taking from a decision-making perspective.

Carryl Baldwin joins HFAC Faculty.

Dr. Baldwin joined the Human Factors-Applied Cognitive Psychology program at GMU in Fall 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from the University of South Dakota. Dr. Baldwin's research is primarily concerned with the interaction of sensory and cognitive processes in advanced surface and air transportation environments. Her research explores the affects of varying auditory, visual, and multisensory display parameters, as well as age-related sensory and cognitive changes, on mental workload and behavioral and neurophysiological indices of performance in complex multi-task environments.