Faculty
Daniel Grodner
Associate Professor and Chair
Psychology and Cognitive Science
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Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.
Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1)
Deon Benton
Visiting Assistant Professor- Psychology
Psychology
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Interests: Cognitive development; causal learning in infants; causal reasoning in children; mechanisms of developmental change; associative learning; and computational modeling.
Office Hours: Students can schedule office hours with Dr. Benton here: https://calendly.com/drbenton
John Blanchar
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Psychology
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Interests: Social and political psychology; status quo preference and change; psychological underpinnings and consequences of ideology; motivated reasoning; judgment and decision making; and prejudice and stereotyping.
Office Hours: By appointment
Frank Durgin
Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor of Psychology
(On leave Spring 22)
Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
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Interests: Human visual cognition and perceptual learning; eye-movements and attention; adaptation; depth perception; representation of number; computer modeling and simulation of cognitive processes.
Office Hours: Students can schedule appointments with Professor Durgin through Google Calendar at: https://goo.gl/tjvvBj
Jane Gillham
Professor
Psychology
(On leave Fall 2021 and Spring 2022)
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Interests: Clinical psychology, especially child and adolescent clinical psychology; prevention and treatment of depression in childhood and adolescence; social and emotional well-being; school- and community-based interventions.
Office Hours: By appointment through the Office Hours Scheduler
Beth Krause
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Interests: Emotion regulation, coping strategies, and gender in the development and maintenance of internalizing disorders (depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress); development of intervention and prevention programs for girls and women that can be administered through community settings, such as primary care and schools.
Office Hours: By email appointment
Cat Norris
Associate Professor (on leave 2020-2021 academic year)
Psychology and Neuroscience
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Office Hours: By email appointment
Allen Schneider
Professor
Psychology and Neuroscience
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Interests: Physiological basis of learning and memory; drug tolerance; recovery from brain damage.
Office Hours: Drop-in office hours are Wednesdays from 2:00-4:00pm. Students can also e-mail aschnei1 to set up an appointment.
Jedidiah Siev
Associate Professor
Psychology
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Interests: Clinical psychology; anxiety disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorder; scrupulosity (moral or religious OCD); “unacceptable thoughts” in OCD (e.g., sexual, religious, and violent obsessions); body dysmorphic disorder; cognition in anxiety and OCD, including information processing (e.g., attention), meta-cognition (thinking about thinking), and judgment and decision-making; cognitive-behavioral therapy; treatment outcome research.
Barbara Thelamour
Assistant Professor
(On leave Fall 2021)
Psychology
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Interests: Multicultural and Educational Psychology: Racial-ethnic socialization via parents and peers, School contexts, Identity development, Acculturation, Black immigrant adolescents and emerging adults' academic and socioemotional outcomes.
Andrew Ward
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology
Psychology and Peace & Conflict Studies
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Interests: Social psychology: self-control of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors; bargaining and negotiation; social perception.
Office Hours: By email appointment
Benjamin Zinszer
Visiting Assistant Professor - Psychology
Psychology
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Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, language learning, category representation, bilingualism, statistical learning, computational and neuroimaging methods.
Emeriti
Kenneth Gergen
Gil and Frank Mustin Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Senior Research Professor
Psychology
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Jeanne Marecek
William R. Kenan Professor Emerita of Psychology<br/>Senior Research Professor
Psychology
Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Barry Schwartz
Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action
Emeritus Psychology
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Interests: Psychology and decision making, psychology and economics; the relation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; the nature of human values.
Research Fellows
Peiyao Chen
Research Fellow
Psychology
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Staff
Betsy Durning
Administrative Coordinator
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