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
Visting Lecturers: Kyra Kulik-Johnson, Kristen Fay, Katherine Steinmetz, Ryan Madigan, Helen MacDonald, Kristin Gainey, Jonathan Adler (http://faculty.olin.edu/
Administrative Assistant: Karen Blake
Research Coordinator: April Yeaney
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Brandon Abbs
Visiting Lecturer in PsychologyB.A., University of Maryland; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Researches prenatal insults on endocrine and neural systems development in schizophrena, verbal memory, and auditory perceptual dysfunction.
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Robin M. Akert
Professor of PsychologyB.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 PsychologyB.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Social psychologist doing research on the relationship between prejudice and threat, and attitude similarity among friends.
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Sheila P. Brachfeld-Child
Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Director, Medical Professions AdvisingB.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 PsychologyB.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 PsychologyB.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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Katherine Curhan
Visiting Lecturer in PsychologyB.A., M.A., Stanford University; M.Ed., Ed.D., Harvard University
Cultural psychologist exploring systematic cultural variation in ways to be well, both physically and mentally.
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Nancy P. Genero
Associate Professor of PsychologyA.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
Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought; Associate Professor of PsychologyA.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 PsychologyA.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 PsychologyA.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 SciencesB.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 PsychologyA.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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Jennie E. Pyers
Associate Professor of PsychologyB.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 PsychologyB.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 PsychologyB.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Research focuses on using individual differences to isolate functional organization, biology/development, and utility of visual function in humans.
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Paul M. Wink
Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics; Professor of PsychologyB.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.
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