Current Research and Teaching Interests:

Dr. Smith's primary research interests are in the biological bases of personality and emotion, including the lateralized neural processing of emotion. He conducts principally psychophysiological research in these areas. Working from an arousal theory perspective, his laboratories record EEG, electrodermal activity, electromyography, and cardiovascular measures in ongoing studies involving biologically based personality dimensions and the neural processing of related emotions. Subject populations include college students, adults from the general population, and various patient groups.