Assistant Professor- Career Track

Ph.D. University of Louisville, 2021

Email: lucas.huckaby@wsu.edu
Office: JT 213
Phone: (509) 335-4634

Classes Taught

• Fall 2022 PSYCH 470: Motivation
• Fall 2022 PSYCH 321: Personality

Research Interests

• Prejudice against Atheists
• Sexual and Gender Minorities
• Religion and Spirituality
• Forgiveness/Self-forgiveness
• Romantic Relationships
• Multicultural Psychology

Selected Publications

Current Publications:

• Valentine, J. C., Cheung, M. W. L., Smith, E. J., Alexander, O., Hatton, J. M., Hong, R. Y., … Huckaby, L. T., …  & Seely, H. D. (2022). A primer on meta-analytic structural equation modeling: The case of depression. Prevention Science, 23(3), 346-365.

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2006

Email: hsinya.liao@wsu.edu
Office: JT 353
Phone: (509) 335-0680
Lab Website: Culture, Assessment, & Well-being Lab

Vita

Classes Taught

• PSYCH 403: Multicultural Psychology
• PSYCH 444: Basic Clinical Skills
• PSYCH 539: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment
• PSYCH 552: Diversity Issues in Psychology

Research Interests

• Culture, Diversity, and Intergroup Relations
• Cross-Cultural Assessment
• Stigma and Help-Seeking
• Vocational Interests

My research centers on examining the role of culture and diversity on mental health service delivery and psychological well-being. My current project looks at stigma towards mental health and help-seeking, with an attempt to connect the stigma framework to indigenous cultural concepts. In a related project, I examine how status-based rejection sensitivity (i.e., sensitivity toward rejection due to their stigmatized group status) and ideological preference (e.g., malleable vs. fixed lay theory) would predict stigmatized individuals’ adjustment and well-being.

My second line of research involves examining vocational interest structures and assessments across cultures. Built on my prior work on the basic interest measures (Liao et al., 2008, also see https://labs.wsu.edu/caw/scales/), I explore the relations between vocational interests and other individual differences domains and examine the equivalence of interest structures across cultures. I also look at how well the interest congruence (aka, the person-environmental fit in interest) predicts academic performance, career success, and job satisfaction. Due to cultural variations in vocational interests, I advocate for a greater use of the indigenous interest measures than the imported ones.

Dr. Liao will be considering graduate student applications for Fall 2024 admission to the Clinical Psychology PhD Program.

Selected Publications

Buki, L. P., Liao, H.-Y., Montoya, Y., Sommer, R. K., Capielo Rosario, C., French, B. H., & McCaughey, T. (in press). Acculturation and breast cancer screening in Latina women: Unraveling reasons for mixed results over 40 years of research. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

DeCino, D. A., Strear, M. M., Chronister, J., Liao, H.-Y., Chou, C.-C., & Chesnut, S. (2021). A validation study of the Multicultural Counseling Inventory for school counselors. Journal of School Counseling, 19(15), 1-32. http:/www.jsc.montana.edu/articles/v19n15.pdf

Kim, T., Hutchison, A., Gerstein, L., Liao, H.-Y., Cheung, R. W.-L., Cinamon, R. G., Michael, R., Mastroianni, E., Bellare, Y. & Collins, R. M. (2020). Hong Kong women’s perception of their future. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 48(2), 168-182.

Bai, L., & Liao, H.-Y. (2019). The relation between interest congruence and college major satisfaction: Evidence from the basic interest measures. Journal of Career Assessment, 27(4), 628-644.

Su, R., Tay, L., Liao, H.-Y., Zhang, Q., & Rounds, J. (2019). Toward a dimensional model of vocational interests. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(5), 690-714.

Vogel, D. L., Heath, P. J., Engel K. E., Brenner, R. E., Strass, H. A., Al-Darmaki, F. R., Armstrong, P. I., Galbraith, N., Galbraith, V., Baptista, M. N., Gonçalves, M., Liao, H.-Y., Mackenzie, C., Mak, W. W. S., Rubin, M., Topkaya, N., Wang, Y.-F., & Zlati, A. (2019). Cross-cultural validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) scale. Stigma and Health, 4, 82-85.

Liao, H.-Y., Spanierman, L. B., Harlow, A., & Neville, H. A. (2017). Do parents matter? Examination of White college students’ intergroup experiences and attitudes. The Counseling Psychologist, 45(2), 193-212.

Vogel, D. L., Strass, H. A., Al-Darmaki, F. R., Armstrong, P. I., Baptista, M. N., Brenner, R. E., Gonçalves, M., Heath, P. J., Lannin, D. G., Liao, H-Y., Mackenzie, C., Mak, W. W. S., Rubin, M., Topkaya, N., Wade, N. G., Wang, Y-F, & Zlati, A. (2017). Stigma associated with seeking mental health services: Examination across ten countries/regions. The Counseling Psychologist, 45(2), 170-192.

Liao, H.-Y., Hong, Y-y., & Rounds, J. (2016). Perception of subtle racism: The role of group status and legitimizing ideologies. The Counseling Psychologist, 44(2), 237-266.

Yeh, C. J., Liao, H-Y., Ma, P-W. W., Shea, M, Okubo, Y., & Kim, A. B., & Atkins, M. S. (2014). Ecological risk and protective factors of depression and anxiety among low-income Chinese immigrant youth. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 5(3), 190-199.

No, S., Hong, Y.-y., Liao, H.-Y., Lee, K., & Wood, D., & Chao, M. M. (2008). Lay theory of race affects and moderates Asian Americans’ responses toward American culture. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 991-1004.

Spanierman, L. B., Neville, H. A., Liao, H.-Y., Hammer, J. H., & Wang, Y.-F. (2008). Participation in formal and informal campus experiences: Effects on students’ racial democratic beliefs. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 1(2), 108-125.

Liao, H.-Y., Armstrong, P. I., & Rounds, J. (2008). Development and initial validation of public domain Basic Interest Markers [Monograph]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 159-183.

Hong, Y.-y., Liao, H.-Y., Wang, R. Y. M., Chan, G., Chiu, C., Ip, G. W., Fu, H., & Hansen, I. G. (2006). Temporal causal links between outgroup attitudes and social categorization: The case of Hong Kong 1997 transition. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9(2), 265-288.

Liao, H.-Y., Rounds, J., & Klein, A. G. (2005). A test of Cramer’s (1999) help-seeking model and acculturation effects with Asian/Asian American college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52(3), 400-411.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Penn State University, 2019

Email: c.liu@wsu.edu
Office: JT 233D
Phone: (509) 335-4633
Lab Website: The Healthy Start Lab (Coming soon!)

Classes Taught

• Fall 2022 Psychology 518: Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Research Interests

• Maternal-Child Health Inequities
• Child Social-Emotional Development
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Childhood Obesity
• Research Methods (Dynamic System Approach; Behavioral Genetics Approach)

My research program centers on understanding the developmental processes and mechanisms leading to resilience vs. maladjustment in children and mothers, aiming to promote child health and well-being. My work integrates multiple levels of analysis, including prenatal adversities, genetic influences, and early parental hostility and efficacy in the study of risk and resilience within children and mothers over time. This has led to three lines of research. One line focuses on characterizing dynamic change processes for child social-emotional development and how parents and children co-regulate emotions during interactions. A second line of research examines how genes, prenatal environment (e.g., prenatal exposure to drugs), and postnatal environment work together to influence child emotional and behavioral regulation vs. maladjustment. A third line of research examines risk and resilience in minority children and mothers and how different contexts of development influence child emotional and behavioral regulation vs. maladjustment. Most of my previous work has focused on mental health outcomes. Most recently, I have become interested in examining the emergence of childhood obesity. Specifically, I have started to examine the impact of child temperament, genetic risks, and environmental exposures (e.g., prenatal exposure to drugs, neighborhood characteristics) on normative versus atypical development in child body mass index (BMI) over time.

Dr. Liu will be considering graduate student applications for Fall 2024 admission to the Clinical Psychology PhD Program.

Selected Publications

Recent Publications:

Liu, C., Zheng, Y., Ganiban, J.M., & Saudino, K.J. (in press). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Temperament Development across the Preschool Period. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Liu, C., Moore, G.A., Roben C.K.P., Ganiban, J.M., Leve, L.D., Shaw, D.S., Natsuaki, M.N., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J.M. (in press). Examining Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Constructs for Anger Expression and Regulation in Toddlers. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.

Kim, Y., Williams, A., Liu, C., & Zhou, Q. (2022). Dynamic Associations among Emotion Regulation, Expressed Affect, and Inhibitory Control in Preschoolers from Low-income Immigrant Families. Emotion.

Aris, I. M., Perng, W., Dabelea, D., Ganiban, J. M., Liu, C., Marceau, K., … & Wright, R. (2022). Analysis of Early-Life Growth and Age at Pubertal Onset in US Children. JAMA network open, 5(2), e2146873-e2146873.

Ganiban, J. M., Liu, C., Zappaterra, L., An, S., Natsuaki, M. N., Neiderhiser, J. M., Reiss, D., Shaw, D.S., & Leve, L.D. (2021). Gene × Environment Interactions in the Development of Preschool Effortful Control, and Its Implications for Childhood Externalizing Behavior. Behavior Genetics, 51, 448–462. doi: 10.1007/s10519-021-10073-9

Shewark, E.A., Ramos, A.M., Liu, C., Ganiban, J.M., Fosco, G., Shaw, D.S., Reiss, D., Natsuaki, M.N., Leve, L.D., & Neiderhiser, J.M. (2021). The Role of Child Negative Emotionality in Parenting and Child Adjustment: Gene-Environment Interplay. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13420

Bray, B., Liu, C., Roben C.K.P., Leve, L.D., Shaw, D.S., Ganiban, J.M., Reiss, D., Natsuaki, M.N., & Neiderhiser, J.M. (2020). Inherited and Environmental Moderators of Mother-Child Behavioral Contingency and Contingent Negativity at 27 Months. Infant Behavior and Development. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101478

Liu, C., Ji, L., Chow, S.M., Kang, B., Leve, L.D., Shaw, D.S., Ganiban, J.M., Natsuaki, M.N., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J.M. (2020). Child Effects on Parental Negativity: The Role of Heritable and Prenatal Factors. Child Development, 91: e1064-e1081. doi:10.1111/cdev.13404

Cree, R., Liu, C., Gueorguieva, R., Neiderhiser, J., Leve, L., Connell, C., Shaw, D.S., Natsuaki, M.N., Ganiban, J.M., Beekman, C., Smith M.V., & Reiss, D. (2020). Using an adoption design to test genetically based differences in risk for child behavior problems in response to home environmental influences. Development and Psychopathology, 1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0954579420000450

Williams, A., Srinivasan, M., Liu, C., Lee, P., & Zhou, Q. (2020). Why do bilinguals code-switch when emotional? Insights from immigrant parent–child interactions. Emotion, 20(5), 830–841. doi: 10.1037/emo0000568

Scholarly Associate Professor

Ph.D. Washington State University, 2008

Contact Information

Email: blythe_duell@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 315
Phone: (509) 335-5547

Classes Taught

• Psychology 201: Degrees and Careers in Psychology
• Psychology 230: Human Sexuality
• Psychology 320: Health Psychology
• Psychology 324: Psychology of Gender
• Psychology 550: Social Psychology

Research Interests

• Effective teaching and learning strategies
• Social dilemmas
• Environmental behavior
• Human Sexuality

Selected Publications:

Madewell, A. N., Anderson, J., Duell, B., & Kytola, K. (2017, Oct.). Panel discussion on reducing math anxiety: Cognitive and behavioral tricks of the trade. Presented at the Oklahoma Network for the Teaching of Psychology, Lawton, OK.

Day, K. & Duell, B. (2017, April). The effect of stereotype threat on Native American students. Poster to be presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Posey, D. Hughes, J. S., Morshead, L. L., Woods, K. R., & Duell, B (April, 2016). Using active learning strategies in statistics and research methods. Symposium presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Howard, N. R. & Duell, B. (April, 2016). The anxiety of cell phones and the benefits of nature. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Duell, B. (2014, February). Jigsaw classroom in a college course. Talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Teaching Pre-conference, Austin, TX.

Callicoat, R. & Duell, B. (2014, April). Warm hands, warm heart. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Joireman, J., Truelove, H., & Duell, B. (2010). Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes, and anchoring on belief in global warming. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 358-367.

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2010). The mortality muzzle: Effect of death thoughts on attitudes toward national security and a watchdog press. Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, 11, 185-202.

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2009). The thought of death, national security values, and polarization of attitudes toward freedom of information. Open Government, 5(1), peer-reviewed electronic journal available at www.opengovjournal.org.

Joireman, J., & Duell, B. (2007). Self-transcendent values moderate the impact of mortality salience on support for charities. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 779-789.

Joireman, J., Kamdar, D., Daniels, D., & Duell, B. (2006). Good citizens to the end? It depends: Empathy and concern with future consequences moderate the impact of a short-term time horizon on OCBs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 1307-1320.

Joireman, J. & Duell, B.  (2005). Mother Teresa vs. Ebenezer Scrooge: Mortality salience leads proselfs to endorse self-transcendent values (unless proselfs are reassured). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 307-320.

 Konty, M., Duell, B. & Joireman, J. (2004). Scared selfish: The culture of fear’s values in the age of terrorism. American Sociologist, 35, 93-109.

Professor

Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2003

Contact Information

Email: susan.collins@wsu.edu
Spokane Office (Primary): 103 E. Spokane Falls Blvd, Office 414C
Phone: (206) 832-7885

Vita

Classes Taught

I am teaching the clinical and community class in the spring semester.

Research Interests

• Substance use assessment and treatment development and evaluation
• Community-based participatory research
• Methods in clinical psychology
• Harm reduction interventions for people who use substances

“I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University. I also hold affiliate faculty positions in both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington where I also codirect of the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center at UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center. I have been involved in substance use research, assessment and treatment for over 2 decades and have disseminated this work in over 60 book chapters, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles. Using a community-based participatory research approach, I work with multidisciplinary research and clinical teams, community-based agencies, traditional Native health professionals, and people who use substances to codevelop, evaluate and implement interventions that aim to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life for people who use substances and their communities. I am also a mother, a wife, a sister and a daughter embedded within families affected by the intergenerational experience of trauma, addictive behaviors and substance use disorder. I attended my first 12-step meeting when I was 16, and my families’ and my own lived experiences drive my desire to reduce the stigma of addictive behaviors and meet people where they are at in all aspects of my work.”

Recent Publications:

Collins, S. E., Nelson, L. A., Stanton, J., Mayberry, N., Ubay, T., Taylor, E. M., . . . the HaRT-S Community Advisory Board. (in press). Harm reduction treatment for smoking (HaRT-S): Findings from a single-arm pilot study with smokers experiencing chronic homelessness. Substance Abuse.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Nelson, L. A., Stanton, J., Goldstein, S. C., Taylor, E. M., . . . Jackson, T. R. (2019). Randomized controlled trial of Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol (HaRT-A) for people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder. International Journal of Drug Policy, 67, 24-33.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Stanton, J., The LEAP Advisory Board, Straits, K. J. E., Gil-Kashiwabara, E., Rodriguez Espinosa, P., Nicasio, A. V., Andrasik, M. P., Hawes, S. M., Miller, K. A., Nelson, L. A., Orfaly, V. E., Duran, B. M., & Wallerstein, N. (2018). Community-based participatory research (CBPR): Towards equitable involvement of community in psychology research. American Psychologist, 73, 884-898.

Collins, S. E., Orfaly, V. E., Wu, T., Chang, S., Hardy, R. V., Nash, A., Jones, M. B., Mares, L., Taylor, E. M., Nelson, L. A., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2018). Content analysis of homeless smokers’ perspectives on established and alternative smoking interventions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 51, 10-17.

Grazioli, V. S., Collins, S. E., Paroz, S., Graap, C., & Daeppen JB. (2017). Six-month outcomes among socially marginalized alcohol and drug users attending a drop-in center allowing alcohol consumption. International journal on drug policy, 41, 65-73.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L. & Lonczak, H. (2017). Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD): Program effects on recidivism. Evaluation and Program Planning, 64, 49-56. doi: 1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.008

Clifasefi, S. L., Collins, S. E., Torres, N. I., Grazioli, V. S., & Mackelprang, J. L. (2016). Housing First, but what comes second? A qualitative study of resident, staff and management perspectives on single-site Housing First program enhancement. Journal of Community Psychology, 44, 845-855.

Collins, S. E., Jones, C. B., Hoffmann, G., Nelson, L. A., Hawes, S. A., Grazioli, V. S., Mackelprang, J. S., Holttum, J., Kaese, G., Lenert, J., Herndon, P., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2016). In their own words: Content analysis identifying pathways to recovery among homeless individuals with alcohol use disorders. International Journal of Drug Policy, 27, 89-96.

Collins, S. E., Duncan, M. H., Smart, B. F., Saxon, A. J., Malone, D. K., Jackson, T. R., & Ries, R. K. (2015). Extended-release naltrexone and harm reduction counseling for chronically homeless people with alcohol dependence. Substance Abuse, 36, 21-33. doi: 1080/08897077.2014.904838

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Dana, E. A., Andrasik, M. P., Stahl, N. E., Kirouac, M., et al. (2012). Where harm reduction meets Housing First: Exploring alcohol’s role in a project-based Housing First setting. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23, 111-119. doi: 1016/j.drugpo.2011.07.010.

Collins, S. E., Malone, D. K., Clifasefi, S. L., Ginzler, J. A., Garner, M. D., Burlingham, B., et al. (2012). Project-based Housing First for chronically homeless individuals with alcohol problems: Within-subjects analyses of two-year alcohol-use trajectories. American Journal of Public Health, 102, 511-519. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300403