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Psychology Faculty
Profiles

 
Julian Azorlosa
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., M.A., & Ph.D., University of Delaware
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Research and teaching interests in animal learning and behavior, psychopharmacology, conditioned drug withdrawal, and neural substrates of classical conditioning.

Arvid J. Bloom
Professor of Psychology
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University
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Research and teaching interests in optimal experience in the workplace, job stress, organization development and change, decision making, and service quality improvement.

Deanne Z. Bonifazi
Professor of Psychology
B.A., Bloomsburg University
M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University
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Research and teaching interests in eating disorders, body image, media, and clinical psychology.

Eleanor D. Brown
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Delaware
ECCEL Project
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Research, teaching and clinical interests in children's academic and social-emotional development, developmental risk related to poverty and oppression, and models of individual and social change.

Jennifer Bunk
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
B.A., Brandeis University
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Research and teaching interests in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, workplace mistreatment, work-family balance, and research methods/statistics.

Angela T. Clarke
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
   
Research and teaching interests in clinical/community psychology.

Phillip K. Duncan
Professor of Psychology
B.A., Wittenberg University
M.A., Western Michigan University
Ph.D., University of Florida
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Teaching and research interests in incentive pay systems, performance feedback, training evaluation, human performance analysis and engineering, self-managed work teams, behavior-based safety.

Susan E. Gans
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., New York University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Teaching and research interests in biological psychology, behavioral endocrinology, animal models of female sexual behavior, research methodologies, and statistics.

Lauri Hyers
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Chapman College
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
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Teaching and research interests in the experience of prejudice from the Target’s perspective, intergroup relations, group identity, gender/ethnicity-specific rites of passage. 

Vanessa K. Johnson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., University of Washington
M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
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Teaching and research interests in developmental psychopathology, including the role of family relationships in children's social and emotional development and the prevention of maladjustment in early childhood.

Sandra L. Kerr
Professor of Psychology and Chairperson
B.A., Boston College
M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Research interests in the perception, expression, and experience of emotion in various groups; hypnosis; psychopathology, including generalized anxiety disorder and schizophrenia.

V. Krishna Kumar
Professor of Psychology
B.S., Osmania University (India)
M.S., Indian Agricultural Research Institute
M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
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Teaching, research, and clinical interests in hypnosis, creativity, paranormal beliefs and experiences, learning and memory, educational psychology, sociometry and psychodrama, research design, statistics, and psychometrics.

Deborah Mahlstedt
Professor of Psychology
B.S., State University of New York at Rockport
M.Ed., Ph.D., Temple University
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Research and teaching interests in social psychology, small group processes, psychology of women, dating violence, models of social change.

Jasmin Tamahseb McConatha
Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Utah
M.S., Jacksonville State University
Ph.D, University of Georgia
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Research interests focus on social and cultural factors influencing well-being in middle and later and adulthood, life transitions, immigration, retirement, dealing with chronic illnesses, aging, self image, and identity.

Edward I. Pollak
Professor of Psychology
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut
epollak@wcupa.edu
Adcham Chameleon Information Center
Personal Home Page and Course Syllabi
Pollak's 10 Commandments of Paper Writing
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Research and teaching interests in physiological psychology, animal behavior, experimental hypnosis, sociobiology, behavioral endocrinology and psychopharmacology.

Jack Porter
Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D., Temple University
 
Areas of Specialization: Psychopathology, Psychotherapy, Personality, and Human Sexual behavior. Private Practice: Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Forensic Psychology.

Louis H. Porter
Professor of Psychology
B.A., Ohio University
M.A., Ph.D., Howard University
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Teaching and research interests in research methods and statistics, motivation, neural mechanisms of sensation and perception, thalamocortical mechanisms of temperature sensitivity.

 Loretta A. Rieser-Danner
Associate Professor of Psychology and Graduate Coordinator
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
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Research and teaching interests in social, emotional, and personality development in infancy and early childhood, including the role of individual differences in the developmental process.

Geeta Shivde
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of Oregon
 
Teaching and research interests in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. Research focuses on active processes in human memory, including working memory and retrieving information from long-term memory.

Thomas Treadwell
Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Charleston
M.S., University of Bridgeport
Ed.D., Temple University
Courses Page
Coral Research Page
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Research and clinical interests in group psychotherapy, psychodrama, sociometry, family therapy, collaborative learning & research over the Internet, sports psychology.

Stefani L. Yorges
Associate Professor of Psychology and Assistant Chairperson
B.A., Hastings College
M.S., Ph.D. Purdue University.
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Research and teaching interests in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, motivation and job satisfaction theories, charismatic leadership, stress.