Psychology

Undergraduate Level Courses:

• Multicultural Psychology
• Statistics
• Social Psychology
• Psychology of Women
• Research
• Positive Psychology
• Senior Seminars (4):
  • Interdisciplinary Animal Studies
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Climate Change and Dystopian Futures
  • Psychology of Religion & Spirituality
• Special topics:
  • Activism
  • Culture Shock
• Women/Gender Studies:
  • Introduction
  • Practicum

Graduate Level Courses:

• Psychology of Women
• Seminar in Social Psychology
• Research Report
• Thesis
• Individual Research
• Special Topics:
  • Activism
  • Positive Psychology
  • Culture Shock

My teaching and scholarship are grounded in social psychology and draw on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. I have particular expertise in narrative diary methods. I examine how environmental contexts, social norms, and broader structural conditions shape intergroup attitudes, individual well-being, and social action.

• Nagle, T. & Hyers, L. L. (In press). “I miss going out into the world”: A qualitative diary study of college student perspectives on activities outside the home during the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyEcology.
• Clerico, J., & Hyers, L. L. (2023). College students’ emotional responses to social distancing protocols during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative diary study. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1-16. 
• Walmer, J. & Hyers, L. L. (2022). The resilience of adolescent girls: An archival diary study of the protective advantages of ordinary adolescence in the Holocaust-era diaries of Anne Frank and Renia Spiegel. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 15(2), 375-389.
• Hyers, L. L. & Walmer, J. (2021). Ensuring the continued success of diary research in higher education. In X. Cao & E. Henderson (Eds.). Higher Education Diary Research, London: United Kingdom: Routledge.
• Hipple, E., Soltis, D., & Hyers, L. L. (2020). Queering study abroad: Web-based outreach to LGBTQ+ university students by study abroad programs, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 32(2), 175-186.
• Hyers, L. L. (2018). Diary methods: Understanding qualitative research. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. Available at: ds-9780190256692?cc=us&langhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/diary-metho=en&
• Sullivan, J., Hipple, E., & Hyers, L. L. (2017). Female disempowerment disguised as a Halloween costume. The Open FamilyStudies Journal, (9), 60-75.Available at: https://benthamopen.com/FULLTEXT/TOFAMSJ-9-60
• Joseph, R., Fernandes, S., Hyers, L. & O’Brien, K. (2016). Health literacy: A cross-disciplinary study in American undergraduate college students. Journal of Information Literacy, 10(2), 26-39.
• Chuck, C., Fernandes, S. A., & Hyers, L. L. (2016). Awakening to the politics of food: Politicized diet as social identity. Appetite, 107, 425-436.
• McMenamin, J. & Hyers, L. L. (2016). Review of Kevin Markwell’s (ed.) Animals and Tourism: Understanding Diverse Relationships, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 17 (1), 124-132.
• Okwumabua, T.M., Hyers, L. L., Watson, A. N., Walker, K., & Moreno, C. (2015). Supporting adolescent daughters as they come of age: Latina mothers’ recommendations, Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, (32), 1-10.
• Arellano, J., Rodriguez, J., & Hyers, L. L. (2015). Constructing queer and trans in psychology: A call for continued feminist progress, Association for Women in Psychology Newsletter, 2, 7-9.
• Hyers, L.L., Brown, E., & Sullivan, J. (2015). Social psychology of stigma. In J. D. Wright, (Ed.), International encyclopaedia of social & behavioral sciences 2^ndEdition, Vol 23. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Ltd., 461-466.
• Bean, N., Lucas, L., & Hyers, L. L. (2014). Mentoring in higher education should be the norm to assure success: Lessons learned from the Faculty Mentoring Program. West Chester University, 2008-2011, Mentoring & Tutoring, 22, 1-18.
• Hyers, L. L. & Shivde, G. (2013). Building a solid foundation for our majors with the introductory psychology course. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 12 (2), 147-158.
• Hyers, L.L. (2012, reprint). A Secondary Survey Analysis Study of African American Ethnic Identity Orientations in Two National Samples. In J. Goodwin (Ed.), SAGE Secondary Data Analysis. (Vol. 27, pp. 115 -145). London: Sage.
• Hyers, L. L. & Merskin, D. (2012). Minding animals: Feminism and animal studies. International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter, 23 (3), 32- 34.
• Hyers, L. L. (2012). Minding animals: Feminism and animal studies, International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter & Minding the individual: Compassionate conservation and the conservationists’ dilemma. International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter, 23 (3), 36.
• Hyers, L.L. , Swim, J.K., Mallet, R. M. (2012, reprint). The personal is political: Using daily diaries to examine everyday prejudice-related experiences. In J. Goodwin (Ed.), SAGE Biographical Research. (Vol. 2, pp. 213-233). Los Angeles: Sage.
• Hyers, L. L., Syphan, J., Cochran, K., & Brown, T. (2012). Disparities in the professional development interactions of university faculty as a function of their gender and ethnic underrepresentation. Journal of Faculty Development, 26 (1), 18-28.
• Hyers, L.L, Cochran, K. L., & Schaeffer, B. A. (2011). Fundamentalist demonstrations on the liberal arts campus: Observations and recommendations. Journal of College Student Development, 52(5), 598-609.
• Hyers, L. L. (2010). Choosing alternatives to silence in face-to-face encounters with everyday heterosexism. Journal of Homosexuality, 57, 539–565.
• Hyers, L. L. and Hyers, C. (2008). Everyday discrimination experienced by conservative Christians at the secular university. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 8,113-137.
• Swim, J. K. & Hyers, L. L. (2008). Sexism: Evidence and challenges to documenting its prevalence. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.) Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Hyers, L. L. (2008). Rediscovering the joy of body love. Off Our Backs: The Feminist News Journal, 37, 50-54.
• Hyers, L. L. (2007). Challenging everyday prejudice: The personal and social implications of women's assertive responses to interpersonal incidents of anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, and sexism. Sex Roles, 56, 1 – 12.
• Hyers, L. L. (2007). Myths used to legitimize the exploitation of animals: An application of Social Dominance Theory. Anthrozoos, 19, 194 - 210.
• Hyers, L. L., Swim, J. K., & Mallet, R.M. (2006). The personal is political: Using daily diaries to examine everyday prejudice-related experiences. In S. Hesse-Biber & P. Leavy (Eds.) Emergent methods in social research, New York, NY: Sage.
• Swim, J. K. & Hyers, L. L. (2006, reprint). Excuse me--What did you just say?!: Women's public and private reactions to sexist remarks. In D. T. Miller (Ed.), An invitation to social psychology: Expressing and censoring the self, a reader (p. 37). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. (Reprinted from Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, pp. 68 - 88, 1999).
• Swim, J. K., Hyers, L. L., Cohen, L. L., & Ferguson, M. J. (2005, reprint). Everyday sexism. In R. H. Lauer & J. C. Lauer (Ed.), Sociology: Windows on society, Fifth Edition (p. 301). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing. (Reprinted from Journal of Social Issues, 57, pp. 31-54, 2001).
• Suzuki-Crumly, J. & Hyers, L. L. (2004). The relationship between ethnic identification, psychological well-being, and intergroup competence: An investigation of two biracial groups. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 10, 137-150.
• Swim, J. K., Hyers, L. L., Cohen, L. L., Fitzgerald, D., & Bylsma, W. (2003). African American college students' experiences with everyday racism: Characteristics of and responses to incidents. Journal of Black Psychology, 29, 38-67.
• Hyers,. L., Ritz, S., & Suzuki, J. (2002). Perspectives on diversity and inequality. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 264-265.
• Hyers, L. L. (2001). An examination of the Cross African American identity model in a national sample. Journal of Black Psychology, 27, 139 -171.
• Swim J. K. & Hyers, L. L. (2001). The social psychology of stigma. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Ed.s) The international encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, pp. 15113-15115, Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, Ltd.
• Swim, J. K., Hyers, L. L., Cohen, L.L., & Fergusen, M. J. (2001). Everyday sexism: Evidence for its incidence nature and psychological impact from three daily diary studies. Journal of Social Issues, 57, 31-54.
• Shotland, R. L. & Hyers, L. L. (2000). Evidence for the Common Law as a hypothesis generating tool for conflict resolution: What is fair? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 2534-2557.
• Swim, J. K. & Hyers, L. L. (1999). Excuse me--What did you just say?!: Women's public and private reactions to sexist remarks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 68-88.
• Swim, J. K., Ferguson, M. J., & Hyers, L. L. (1999). Avoiding stigma by association: Subtle prejudice against lesbians in the form of social distancing. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 61-68.
• Hyers, L. L., & Swim, J. K. (1998). A comparison of the experiences of dominant and minority group members during an intergroup encounter. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1, 143-163.
• Swim, J. K., Cohen, L. L, & Hyers, L. L. (1998). Experiencing everyday prejudice and discrimination. In J. K. Swim, & C. Stangor (Eds.). Prejudice: The target's perspective. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.