Portrait of Thomas Ross, a smiling man with a ballcap and sunglasses in an outdoor setting.

Thomas P. Ross

Professor of Psychology

Education

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University

B.S. in Psychology and Anthropology, Michigan State University

Research Interests

My research program examines the reliability and validity of putative measures of executive functioning and the relationship between executive functions and other neuropsychological abilities (e.g., vocabulary, general intelligence, information processing speed).

Courses Taught

PSYC 221: Psychopathology
PSYC 387: Neuropsychology
PSYC 392: Scientific Foundations of Clinical Psychology

Selected Publications

Undergraduate student coauthors are marked with an asterisk.

Ross. L. T. & Ross, T. P. (2023). Distress, social support, and self-compassion: Relationships with mental health among college students. Psychological Reports, 1-23.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941231180445

Ross, T. P., *O’Connor, S., *Holmes, G., *Fuller, B., & *Henrich, M. (2019). The reliability and validity of the Action Fluency Test in healthy college students. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 34, 1175-1191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acz016

Ross, T.P., *Poston, A.M., *Rein, P.A., *Salvatore, D.N., *Wills, N.L., & *York, T.M. (2016). Performance Invalidity base rates among healthy undergraduate research participants. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 97-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acv062