Faculty & Staff
Faculty: Robin Akert, Angela Bahns, Sheila Brachfeld-Child, Linda Carli, Jonathan Cheek , Nancy Genero, Tracy Gleason, Beth Hennesy, Margaret Keane, Margery Lucas, Julie Norem, Jennie Pyers, Sally Theran, Jeremy Wilmer, Paul Wink
Lecturer: Kyra Kulik-Johnson
Visting Lecturers: Jonathan Adler, Kristen Fay, Mark Prokosch
Administrative Assistant: Karen Blake
Research Coordinator: Evelyn Xing
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Robin M. Akert
Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Research in nonverbal communication: the ability to decode nonverbal cues in social interaction; also interested in the psychological analysis of advertising.
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Angela Bahns
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Social psychologist doing research on similarity and diversity in friendship networks and the justification of prejudice.
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Sheila P. Brachfeld-Child
Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Director, Medical Professions Advising
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Brandeis University
Interested in peer interactions in adolescence with a focus on social aggression, especially the representation of social aggression on television and in the movies. Teaches Adolescence and Introduction to Psychology. Has been Director of Medical Professions Advising since 1998.
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Linda Carli
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
B.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Interests include women leaders, social influence, gender differences in interaction and influence, and reactions to victimization.
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Jonathan M. Cheek
Professor of Psychology
B.A., George Washington University; M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Personality Psychology. Research interests include shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations.
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Christen Deveney
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Research explores how aberrant cognitive and emotion regulation processes contribute to the development of psychopathology in children and adults.
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Nancy P. Genero
Associate Professor of Psychology
A.B., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Interests include applied social psychology, community evaluation research, and basic and advanced statistics.
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Tracy R. Gleason
Professor of Psychology
A.B., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Developmental psychologist studying relationships, real and imagined, with a focus on young children's imaginary companions.
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Beth Ann Hennessey
Professor of Psychology
A.B., Brown University; M.Ed., Lesley College; Ph.D., Brandeis University
Former elementary school teacher, now researcher focused on motivation and creativity across cultures.
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Margaret Keane
Professor of Psychology
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interested in exploring the cognitive and neural bases of human memory capacities; teach courses in memory, cognition, and neuropsychology.
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Margery Lucas
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester
Studies psychology of choice and desire with focus on decisions about money and mating; evolutionary approach to behavior.
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Julie K. Norem
Margaret Hamm Professor of Psychology
A.B., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Teaches personality psychology and optimism & pessimism. Researches strategies people use to pursue goals and how self-knowledge influences adaptation, performance, & social relationships.
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Mark Prokosch
Visiting Lecturer in Psychology
B.S., University of New Mexico; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Davis)
Interests include evolutionary psychology, comparative psychology, brain evolution, and behavioral neuroscience.
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Jennie E. Pyers
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, and the psycholinguistics of sign languages.
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Sally A. Theran
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Bates College; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University
Licensed clinical psychologist investigating risk and resilience factors that protect against developmental psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.
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Jeremy B. Wilmer
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard University
My research probes how individuals think and see differently to illuminate principles of mind and brain and to inform applied work.
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Paul M. Wink
Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics; Professor of Psychology
B.A., M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Psychology Department chair; research interests include adult development; positive psychology; religion and spirituality; altruism; narcissism; wisdom; cross-cultural conceptions of the self.
