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Research Funding

Photo of pellet maker circa 1952When it comes to scholarship and research, we are an amazingly productive faculty. Our remarkable research productivity is reflected in the NRC rankings of quality, which are largely based on faculty performance. It is also reflected in our consistently high level of grant funding. Federal funding provides an indirect measure of the quality of faculty research as grant proposals undergo a rigorous peer review process.

Receipt of a federal grant indicates both that the research is important from a national perspective, and that it is of the highest quality. The high level of departmental grant funding signifies that our scientific community of peers has an extremely high regard for our faculty and their research programs.

Throughout the last decade, we have not only been one of the top psychology grant recipients in the country, we have also been one of the top Natural Science grant recipients in the College. For the last decade, we have been competing for first position in grant expenditures, neck and neck, with top research departments such as Physics and Chemistry, where grant sizes are often extremely large because of instrumentation needs.

Awards

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Group Identity and Prejudice: Implications for Diversity

Project Duration: 03/2008-03/2011
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award $: 323,583
Dept. Investigator(s): Cheryl Kaiser

Neurocognitive Effects of Stress

Project Duration: 12/2007-11/2012
Sponsor: NIH
Dept. Investigator(s): Jeansok Kim

Women's HIV Risk: Alcohol Intoxication, Victimization History & Partner Factors

Project Duration: 09/2007-08/2012
Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dept. Investigator(s): Kelly Davis, William George

Group Identity and Prejudice

Project Duration: 09/2007-09/2008
Sponsor: Royalty Research Fund
Award $: 39,923
Dept. Investigator(s): Cheryl Kaiser

Sound Source Localization by Fishes

Project Duration: 05/2007-04/2011
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award $: 250,798
Dept. Investigator(s): Joseph Sisneros

Self-control in the life course

Project Duration: 09/2006-09/2009
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dept. Investigator(s): Yuichi Shoda

Acquisition of a 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner for Functional Studies of the Human Brain

Project Duration: 09/2006-08/2008
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dept. Investigator(s): Theodore Beauchaine

Heterosexual HIV Risk: Effects of Men's Alcohol Use and Sexual Violence

Project Duration: 09/2006-08/2008
Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dept. Investigator(s): Kelly Davis, William George

Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention.

Project Duration: 06/2006-05/2008
Sponsor: NIH/NIDA
Dept. Investigator(s): G. Alan Marlatt

Mapping Executive Function to Brain Activity in Middle Childhood

Project Duration: 04/2006-08/2007
Sponsor: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Stephanie Carlson

Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Understanding Generational Differences in Asian American Immigrant Communities

Project Duration: 01/2006-08/2006
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award $: 22,622
Dept. Investigator(s): Janxin Leu

Racialized Explanations: Consequences for Intragroup and Intergroup Processes

Project Duration: 12/2005-11/2006
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dept. Investigator(s): Cheryl Kaiser

Development and Measurement of Executive Function in Preschoolers

Project Duration: 10/2005-06/2010
Sponsor: NICHD
Award $: 1
Dept. Investigator(s): Stephanie Carlson

Housing First: Evaluation of Harm Reduction Housing for Chronic Public Inebriates

Project Duration: 07/2005-07/2008
Sponsor: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundationís Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
Dept. Investigator(s): G. Alan Marlatt

Treatment Response and Psychophysiology of Preschool ADHD

Project Duration: 07/2005-06/2010
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Theodore Beauchaine

Role of psychopathology in adolescent problem drug use

Project Duration: 06/2005-03/2007
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): Robert McMahon

Developing an Antiretroviral Adherence Project in China

Project Duration: 04/2005-04/2008
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Award $: 618,000
Dept. Investigator(s): Jane Simoni

Central Nervous System Reward Processing in Adolescent Males with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Comorbid Conduct Disorder

Project Duration: 04/2005-03/2007
Sponsor: University of Washington Royalty Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Theodore Beauchaine

"Steroid-dependent Auditory Plasticity for the Encoding of Social and Reproductive-related Communication Signals"

Project Duration: 01/2005-01/2007
Sponsor: UW Royalty Research Fund
Award $: 32,521
Dept. Investigator(s): Joseph Sisneros

UW Collaborative Center for the Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Project Duration: 10/2004-10/2006
Sponsor: UW Provost Office
Dept. Investigator(s): Lori Zoellner

Psychometric and Genetic Assessments of Substance Use

Project Duration: 09/2004-08/2010
Sponsor: NIDA
Dept. Investigator(s): Brian Flaherty

Development and Evaluation of Context Tailored Training

Project Duration: 06/2004-03/2007
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): John Baer

Interpersonal Consequences of Attributions to Discrimination

Project Duration: 06/2004-05/2006
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Cheryl Kaiser

Minority stress in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations: Developing a culturally-sensitive tool for assessment

Sponsor: Society for the Psychological Study of Social IssuesAward $: 2,000Dept. Investigator(s): Kimberly Balsam

Military experiences, psychosocial functioning, and service utilization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender veterans

Project Duration: 05/2004-04/2005
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military
Award $: 500
Dept. Investigator(s): Kimberly Balsam

Effectiveness of PTSD Treatment: PE vs. Zoloft

Project Duration: 04/2004-12/2008
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Heath
Award $: 1,671,570
Dept. Investigator(s): Lori Zoellner

Lay Theories of Stability and Control

Project Duration: 03/2004-03/2005
Sponsor: UW Royalty Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Jason Plaks

Rod influence on human chromatic discrimination ability

Project Duration: 02/2004-02/2006
Sponsor: UW Royalty Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Steven Buck

Acceptance and Change in Marital Therapy: A Five-year Follow-up

Project Duration: 11/2003-10/2006
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): William George

Emotion Regulation in Suicidal Patients with BPD

Project Duration: 09/2003-06/2006
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): Marsha Linehan

Alcohol and Women's Cognitive Mediation of HIV Risk Taking

Project Duration: 09/2003-08/2008
Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dept. Investigator(s): William George

Development and prevention of substance use problems

Project Duration: 09/2003-08/2008
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): Robert McMahon

Value Sensitive Design: Integrating Values into the Design of Information and Computer Systems

Project Duration: 09/2003-08/2008
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dept. Investigator(s): Peter Kahn

Multisite prevention of adolescent conduct problems

Project Duration: 09/2003-07/2008
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Robert McMahon

Assessment and Treatment of Parasuicidal Patients

Project Duration: 09/2003-06/2008
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Marsha Linehan

Evaluation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Project Duration: 07/2003-04/2008
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): Marsha Linehan

Predictors of Treatment-Response in BPD

Project Duration: 07/2003-06/2005
Sponsor: Borderline Personality Disorder Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Marsha Linehan

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for BPD and eating disorders (ED)

Project Duration: 07/2003-06/2005
Sponsor: Borderline Personality Disorder Research Fund
Dept. Investigator(s): Marsha Linehan

Behavior and Diversity of Army Ants across a Latitudinal Gradient

Project Duration: 06/2003-06/2004
Sponsor: National Geographic Society
Dept. Investigator(s): Sean O'Donnell

Innovative Approaches to Modeling Alcohol Relapse

Project Duration: 05/2003-04/2005
Sponsor: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dept. Investigator(s): G. Alan Marlatt

Assessing the Distribution and Status of the Snow Leopard Population in Langtang National Park, Nepal

Project Duration: 02/2003-12/2003
Sponsor: International Snow Leopard Trust
Dept. Investigator(s): Randall Kyes

Plasticity of Vocal Control

Project Duration: 01/2003-12/2008
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Eliot Brenowitz

Effects of atypical neuroleptic drugs on normally developing young monkeys.

Project Duration: 12/2002-11/2007
Sponsor: NIMH
Dept. Investigator(s): James Ha, Gene Sackett

Brief Substance Abuse Treatment for Homeless Adolescents

Project Duration: 10/2002-06/2006
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dept. Investigator(s): John Baer

CNS and Salt Appetite

Project Duration: 09/2002-09/2005
Dept. Investigator(s): Douglas Fitts

Economic analysis of the Fast Track intervention

Project Duration: 09/2002-08/2007
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Robert McMahon

Youth Sport Social Systems

Project Duration: 09/2002-09/2010
Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
Dept. Investigator(s): Ronald Smith, Frank Smoll

Social, Ecological and Genetic Variables in a Model Learning System

Sponsor: National Science FoundationDept. Investigator(s): Michael Beecher

Molecular Basis for Drug Abuse Research Center

Sponsor: NIDADept. Investigator(s): Ilene Bernstein

Imitation and the development of understanding other persons in infancy and early childhood

Project Duration: 08/2002-07/2008
Sponsor: NICHD
Dept. Investigator(s): Andrew Meltzoff

Auditory Neuroscience Training Grant

Project Duration: 07/2002-06/2007
Sponsor: NIH-NIDCD
Dept. Investigator(s): Ellen Covey

Health Survey of Two-Spirited Native Americans

Project Duration: 07/2002-06/2007
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Jane Simoni

Conduct Disorder and Depression in Childhood

Project Duration: 06/2002-05/2008
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Theodore Beauchaine

Executive Function and Pretense in Development

Project Duration: 06/2002-06/2004
Sponsor: NICHD
Award $: 3
Dept. Investigator(s): Stephanie Carlson

Bi-directional Pathogen Transmission in Asia

Project Duration: 06/2002-06/2003
Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Dept. Investigator(s): Randall Kyes

Peer & Pager Support to Enhance Antiretroviral Adherence

Project Duration: 06/2002-05/2007
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Jane Simoni

WaNPRC Division of International Programs

Project Duration: 05/2002-04/2007
Sponsor: NIH-NCRR
Dept. Investigator(s): Randall Kyes

Phenotypic similarity of identical twin monkeys produced by embryo splitting

Project Duration: 05/2002-04/2007
Sponsor: NCRR
Dept. Investigator(s): James Ha, Gene Sackett

MURI project for weather forecasting

Project Duration: 01/2002-01/2007
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Dept. Investigator(s): Susan Joslyn

Parallel Auditory Pathways in the Brainstem

Project Duration: 12/2001-11/2006
Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Dept. Investigator(s): John Cassedy, Ellen Covey

Alcohol Myopia, Sexual Arousal & HIV/AIDS Risk-Taking

Project Duration: 09/2001-08/2007
Sponsor: National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Dept. Investigator(s): William George, Jane Simoni

Neural mediation of conditioned taste aversion

Project Duration: 09/2001-08/2005
Sponsor: NINDS
Dept. Investigator(s): Ilene Bernstein

Dominance and polyethism in bumble bees

Project Duration: 06/2001-03/2003
Sponsor: NSF-IBN (Animal Behavior panel) ROA program
Dept. Investigator(s): Sean O'Donnell

Augmented reality of the natural world and its psychological effects: A value-sensitive design approach

Project Duration: 05/2001-04/2004
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dept. Investigator(s): Peter Kahn

Functional Subdivisions of Auditory Brainstem

Project Duration: 12/2000-11/2005
Sponsor: NIH-NIDCD
Dept. Investigator(s): Ellen Covey

Subcontract on Ethnicity and Sexual Aggression

Project Duration: 09/2000-08/2003
Sponsor: National Institute for Mental Health
Dept. Investigator(s): William George

Intergenerational influence of substance use on children

Project Duration: 09/2000-06/2005
Sponsor: NIDA
Dept. Investigator(s): Robert McMahon

Comparative Studies of Vocal Control

Project Duration: 04/2000-03/2005
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Dept. Investigator(s): Eliot Brenowitz

Consistency in social behavior

Project Duration: 12/1999-11/2009
Sponsor: NIMH
Dept. Investigator(s): Yuichi Shoda

Dominance and division of labor

Project Duration: 10/1999-03/2003
Sponsor: NSF-IBN (Animal Behavior panel)
Dept. Investigator(s): Sean O'Donnell

Visual memory

Project Duration: 05/1999-04/2004
Sponsor: NIH
Dept. Investigator(s): Geoffrey Loftus

Electrophysiology of language processes

Project Duration: 04/1999-03/2005
Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Dept. Investigator(s): Lee Osterhout

Implicit Social Cognition

Project Duration: 05/1998-01/2004
Sponsor: NIMH
Dept. Investigator(s): Anthony Greenwald

Implicit and Unconscious Cognition

Project Duration: 04/1998-03/2004
Sponsor: NIMH
Dept. Investigator(s): Anthony Greenwald

Investigations of Unconscious and Implicit Cognition

Project Duration: 09/1997-04/2003
Sponsor: NIMH
Dept. Investigator(s): Anthony Greenwald

Development of instructional networks in science and mathematics

Sponsor: National Science FoundationDept. Investigator(s): Earl Hunt

Development of INFACT tool for analyzing email conversations

Sponsor: NSFDept. Investigator(s): Earl Hunt

Mentor, Fragmentation and Disorganization in PTSD (PI: Michele Bedard)

Sponsor: NRSA F31 MH74225Dept. Investigator(s): Lori Zoellner

Mentor, Exploring Autobiographical Memory Specificity in PTSD (PI: Sally Moore)

Dept. Investigator(s): Lori Zoellner

Moving PTSD Treatment to the Real World

Sponsor: Anxiety Disorders Association of AmericanDept. Investigator(s): Lori Zoellner

Positive intergroup feedback as a threat to ingroup belonging

Sponsor: UW Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United StatesAward $: 5,573Dept. Investigator(s): Cheryl Kaiser

NICHD R01, Low Income, Family Disruption, and the Development of Effortful Control ($1,400,000 total direct costs, Jun. ’07–May ’12).

Dept. Investigator(s): Liliana Lengua

UW Center for Mind, Brain, & Learning, Early Child, Family and Contextual Predictors of the Development of Self-regulation ($118,371 total direct costs, Apr.’01–Sep ’02).

Dept. Investigator(s): Liliana Lengua

NIMH R29 (FIRST Award), Temperament and Environmental Risk: Test of an Ecological Model ($349,770 total direct costs, Jun ’99 – May 04).

Dept. Investigator(s): Liliana Lengua

NIDA R01, Motivation in context: Risk for early substance use (June ’06-May ’11). PI: Craig Colder.

Dept. Investigator(s): Liliana Lengua

NIDA R01, Problem behavior, peers and motivational aspects of temperament in substance use (Sep ’06-Aug ’11). PI: Craig Colder.

Dept. Investigator(s): Liliana Lengua

NIMH R34, Domestic Violence: An Emotion Coaching Parenting Intervention (Feb ’07-Jan ’10). PI: Lynn Katz.

Dept. Investigator(s): Lynn Katz, Liliana Lengua