Faculty and Staff

The psychology program has 11 experienced, full-time faculty engaged in active programs of teaching, research and service, and five instructional academic staff who teach a variety of courses.

Faculty

Quin Chrobak, PhD

Cognitive Psychologist

Office: CLOW W025
chrobakq@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
Tu – 2:00 to 3:40
W – 12:00 to 1:00
Via sign-up sheet outside of my office (Clow Faculty W25)

Area of Expertise
False memory, source monitoring, eyewitness suggestibility, and causal attribution

Note: Dr. Chrobak is not supervising new Masters students for the 2026-2027 academic year

Christopher L. Groves, PhD

Social Psychologist

Office: CLOW W022
(920) 424-2313
                                   grovesc@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
Tu – 1:00 to 3:00 (virtual via Teams)
Th – 1:00 to 3:00 (virtual via Teams)
Contact via email to arrange an in-person meeting

Area of Expertise
Media effects, media immersion and engagement, Internet Gaming Disorder, aggressive and helping behavior, use of generative AI among students

Phan Y. Hong, PhD

Clinical Psychologist

Office: CLOW W029
(920) 424-2302
hongp@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
Office hours are online and by appointment
M & W – 12:30 to 1:30
F – 9:15 to 10:00

Area of Expertise
Personality disorders, disorders of emotion regulation, mindfulness, invalidation of trauma and personal experiences, and manipulation; stigma and mental health seeking behaviors

Amy Knepple Carney, PhD

School of STEM Area Coordinator

Developmental Psychologist

Office: CLOW W023
                                   knepplea@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
Virtually via Teams
Tu – 10:00 to 11:30
W – 9:30 to 11:00
Contact via email for a link to sign-up for office hours

Area of Expertise
Individual and environmental contexts affecting health and well-being as we age, connectedness to nature, satisfaction with life and positive/negative affect, physical health

James Koch, PhD
Biopsychologist

Office: CLOW W020
(920) 424-2303
kochj@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
In person or virtually (Teams)
W – 3:30 to 4:30
Th – 1:30 to 3:00
or by appointment

Area of Interest
Behavioral Neuroscience; EEG and frontal lobe hemodynamics during cognitive and motor tasks

David A. Lishner, PhD

Social Psychologist

Office: CLOW W031
(920) 424-2301
lishnerd@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
Virtually via Zoom
Tu -12:15pm to 1:15am
Th – 12:15pm to 1:15am

Area of Expertise
Empathic processes, prosocial behavior, psychopathy, aggression, scientific method, and replication

Anca Miron, PhD

Social Psychologist

Office: CLOW W027
(920) 424-2328
mirona@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
W – 1:00 to 3:00
Please contact via email to arrange virtual meeting

Area of Expertise
Motivation and emotion, allyship, online activism, social identity processes, and social relationships

Alese Nelson, PhD

Health Psychologist

Office: CLOW W024
(920) 424-3468
nelsonam@uwosh.edu

 

Office Hours
M – 12:00 to 1:30 (virtually via Teams)
Tu – 11:30 to 1:00 (virtually via Teams)
Additional virtual or in-person meetings by appointment

Area of Expertise
Research specialties include social and psychological components of diet choice, diet information on social media, stress and coping

Justyna Olszewska, PhD

Cognitive Psychologist

Office: CLOW W026
(920) 424-7173
olszewsj@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
M – 12:30 to 2:30
and/or by appointment (online also possible) in Clow W026 or Clow S040 (basement)

Area of Expertise
False memory, semantic memory errors (DRM paradigm), modality effect and memory, the impact of individual differences on veridical and false memories

Kathy Phillippi-Immel, PhD

Clinical Psychologist

Fox Cities Campus, Room 1509
(920) 832-2663
                                       phillipp@uwosh.edu

Office Hours
M & W – 2:30 to 3:30
Tu – 1:00 to 2:00

Area of Expertise
Impact of mindfulness on preschoolers, teachers and parents; high impact practices and undergraduate research; student perceptions/expectations in introductory psychology