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In order to foster research and discussion on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of behavior, we offer the following resources:
Resources
Psychophysiology at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
Resources for SPR members working at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs).
Guidelines for writing papers
Previous Open Access Award Papers can be viewed here.
Teacher Resources and Materials
These resources are designed to facilitate the teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in psychophysiology. If you would like to submit materials to include on this site or make recommendations for further useful content, please contact the chair, Jason Moser at jmoser@msu.edu.
Get to Know a Lab
SPR members conduct cutting-edge research on a wide range of psychophysiological processes, from basic mechanisms of cognition, perception, and emotion to implications for relationships and behavior. Get to know some faculty members of SPR, and find out about the exciting research underway in their labs. What sparked these scientists’ research interests? What questions do their current studies address? What makes them tick, and drives their passion for their work? What is their vision for the future of psychophysiology?
Find out all this and more, expressed in our members’ own words.
Alfons Hamm, University of Griefswald
“I started my career doing Pavlovian Conditioning,” says Alfons Hamm , Professor of Physiological and Clinical psychology at the University of Griefswald. “This inherently involved measuring physiological responses.” But in 1987, Hamm went to the University of Florida at Gainesville to work as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Peter Lang, sparking Hamm’s interest in emotion research, but also setting the foundation for a decades-long collaboration. … Read More.
Johannes Hewig, University of Würzburg
Johannes Hewig first became interested in psychophysiology in 1998 while working as an undergraduate researcher for Ewald Naumann and Dirk Hagemann at the University of Trier (where he also completed his Ph.D.). “One of my main interests back then and now is human decision-making and individual differences,” he says. “Why does one person like certain things and will invest a lot of effort whereas someone else is not interested at all? I thought and still think that psychophysiology is a promising tool to answer these kinds of questions” … Read More.
David Sbarra, University of Arizona
“Right now, when I think about my own work, all I think about is blood,” says Dave Sbarra Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the department of psychology at the University of Arizona. “I’ve committed myself to learning enough immunology and functional genetics to communicate well with colleagues in immunology and genomics. Answers to my questions about psychology and health, I believe, rest in the blood, so I will attempt to drill down and learn what I need to know in order to become a battle-tested psychoneuroimmunologist. I am convinced there’s a way to do so while maintaining my psychophysiology roots.” … Read More.
Nicole Prause, Mind Research Network/ University of New Mexico
“Initially, sex was just sexy,” says Nicole Prause , of her early doctoral work in sex research at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she also collaborated with The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. “It is the only field I know of for which the journals had to be hidden behind the library counter, because people would steal the articles… Once I got over the fact that I was getting to monitor genital blood flow, there turned out to be many exciting ‘big science’ questions remaining in sexual functioning… Over time, this focus has naturally broadened into alcohol and approach motivation” … Read More.
Christine Larson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Though as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Christine Larson planned to be a high school social studies teacher, she noticed after a while that she kept finding herself in one psychology class after another. “I’ve always been absolutely fascinated by emotions and the impact they have on functioning in every area of life,” says Larson, though it wasn’t until she started working in Richard Davidson’s lab – first as an undergraduate, and then as a staff member – that her interest in affective neuroscience truly crystallized. “Once I got to be fully immersed in the research process and see the power of psychophysiological and neuroscience tools to understand normal and abnormal emotional processes, I was hooked,” she says … Read More.