Faculty
Jodie Baird
Visiting Assistant Professor - Part Time
Psychology
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Frank Durgin
Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor
Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science
Psychology & Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
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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://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ3…
Youssef Ezzyat
Assistant Professor
Psychology & Neuroscience
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Interests: Cognitive neuroscience: human memory and learning; electrophysiological basis of memory; machine learning and computational methods.
Office Hours: By email appointment.
Wambura Fobbs
Assistant Professor
Psychology & Neuroscience
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Emily Foster-Hanson
Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Interests: I study concepts and cognitive development, from toddlerhood through adulthood. In my research, I ask questions about how people come to think and reason about the world and the different kinds of things in it —from animals and plants, to smartphones, to men and women. My research focuses on topics like concepts and categories, gender development, essentialism, biological reasoning, and social norms.
Office hours: By email appointment
Jane Gillham
Eugene M. Lang Research Professor
Psychology
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Additional Affiliations: Swarthmore Coalition on Well-Being
Interests: Clinical psychology, especially child and adolescent clinical psychology; prevention and treatment of depression in adolescence; well-being and mental health on college campuses; social and emotional well-being; resilience; positive psychology and positive education; school- and community-based interventions.
On sabbatical leave Fall 2025 and Spring 2026
Dan Grodner
Associate Professor
Psychology
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)
Tyler Jacobs
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Brian Metzger
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Cat Norris
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research
Psychology & Neuroscience
Provost Office
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Office Hours: By email appointment
Jedidiah Siev
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Psychology
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), cognition in anxiety and OCD, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychedelics.
Barbara Thelamour
Associate Professor
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
On Leave - Spring
Psychology
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
Abbey Wexler
Visiting Assistant Professor - Part Time
Psychology
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Emeriti
Kenneth Gergen
Gil and Frank Mustin Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Senior Research Professor
Psychology
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Jeanne Marecek
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita
Emeritus Psychology
Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Allen Schneider
Professor Emeritus
Psychology & 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.
Barry Schwartz
Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor Emeritus in Social Theory and Social Action
Emeritus Psychology
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<p><strong>Interests</strong>: Psychology and decision making, psychology and economics; the relation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; the nature of human values. </p>
Research Fellows
Paul Plonski
Research Fellow
Psychology
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Staff
Betsy Durning
Administrative Coordinator
Psychology
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Julia Linden-Chirlian
Research Manager & Administrative Assistant
Psychology
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