Eric A. Jacobs completed his graduate training in experimental psychology at the University of Florida in 1997. Upon leaving Florida , Dr. Jacobs completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont where he researched buprenorphine pharmacology as related to addiction treatment. Dr. Jacobs is currently an Assistant Professor in the Applied program and in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at Southern Illinois University. His research interests include human operant behavior, quantitative analyses of choice and decision making (e.g., delay discounting, "self-control", and "impulsivity"), behavioral economics, behavioral ecology, and behavioral pharmacology.

Steve Karau (Ph.D., 1993, Social Psychology, Purdue University) is a professor of management at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) and cross appointed to the Psychology department. His research focuses on group dynamics and social influence processes in interpersonal and organizational settings. Specific topics include individual motivation within groups and work teams, temporal and situational influences on group interaction and performance, and gender differences in leadership. Additional areas of interest include top management team dynamics and firm performance, ethical judgments of organizational change initiatives, employee attitudes toward organizational change, and consumer attitudes toward e-commerce. His research articles have appeared in a variety of top journals, including Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Business Research, Group and Organization Management, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Dr. Karau teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior, human resources, group dynamics, and research methodology. His additional interests include music (especially jazz and progressive rock), film (especially film noir and psychological drama), motorsports, nonfiction books, and spicy ethnic food. (see http://users.cba.siu.edu/karau/

Meera Komarraju received two Ph.D.s, one from the University of Cincinnati in Applied Social Psychology (1987) and the other from Osmania University, India, in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (1983).  Her teaching career has taken her to different countries ( India, Malaysia , Hong Kong, Singapore , Taiwan and the US ), different departments (psychology and management), diverse courses (introductory, social, child, personality, industrial-organizational, research methods, business statistics), and varied audiences (undergraduate, graduate, and business executives).  Dr. Komarraju currently teaches Introductory Psychology, Psychology of Employee Relations, and Advanced Industrial-Organizational Psychology and also serves as the Undergraduate Psychology Program Director. She occasionally teaches Managerial and Organizational Behavior for the EMBA program offered by the College of Business Administration.  Her research interests include Individual and Cross-Cultural differences in Student Academic Motivation and Preferred Teaching Styles, Cross-Cultural Differences in Work-Family Relations in Dual-Career Couples, Individual and Cultural differences in Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being as well as Spirituality as a Coping Mechanism.  She has published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Educational and Psychological Measurement Journal, and has a book chapter.  Meera is married and has two teenage sons.

Margaret (Peggy) Stockdale,  (Ph.D., 1990, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Kansas State University) is a professor of Psychology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), and Program Director for Applied Psychology.  Her primary research concerns gender issues in the workplace, primarily sexual harassment, and her secondary interests are in public health surveillance and evaluation.  Her research articles have appeared in Psychology, Public Policy and the Law, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, American Journal of Health Studies, and American Journal of Health Behavior among other peer-reviewed journals. In addition, she is co-author/editor of four books.  Peggy is also an active applied psychology consultant having conducted training programs for major corporations, local agencies, and businesses, and having conducted needs assessments and program evaluations for both private and public organizations.  Dr. Stockdale teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in workplace diversity, organizational behavior, industrial and organizational psychology, and applied social science research methods.  Peggy is married and has 3 children.  Among her hobbies (besides mothering) are jogging, swimming, dancing, and playing the piano.

Alan Vaux is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Born, raised, and educated in Dublin, Ireland, he earned PhDs at Trinity College (PhD 1979, Dublin University, Ireland) and in Social Ecology from University of California at Irvine (PhD 1981). Dr. Vaux has taught courses on Community Psychology, Research Methods in Clinical Psychology, Stress Coping & Social Support, and Violence. His research has addressed social and personal resources and liabilities involved in well-being, particularly social support and stress, but also social roles and depression; attachment; social network features, relationship inhibiting factors, and loneliness. Interest in the five-factor model of personality (and the NEO-PI) has led to a series of studies relating personality to diverse variables including movie preference, vocational interests, possible selves, and noxious relationship behavior. He is the author of Social support: Theory, research and intervention (Praeger, 1985), a Fellow of APA (Community Psychology and Psychological Study of Social Issues divisions) and APS, and has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Community Psychology . He served as the Psychology Department Chairperson from 1996-2004

Rebecca Weston, an associate professor in Applied, received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology at University of North Texas in 2001, with specializations in interpersonal relationships and quantitative methods. Her research interests include relationship development & dissolution, sexual and nonsexual victimization sustained by women, and the effects of victimization on women's physical and mental health. She has received funding from the National Institute of Justice to examine effects of relational violence on women's attitudes toward the justice system. Her courses include advanced multivariate statistics (e.g., SEM, HLM and growth curve analysis), psychological measurement, social psychology, and intimate relationships.

Jack McKillip (Emeritus).  Professional certification, Program evaluation, Needs assessment, Secondary data analysis.

Nerella Ramanaiah (Emeritus).  Personality assessment, Test theory, Quantitative methods.

Ronald Schmeck (Emeritus).  Learning, Teaching methods, Applied learning.