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/jadler)

Administrative Assistant: Karen Blake

Research Coordinator: April Yeaney

  • Brandon Abbs

    Visiting Lecturer in Psychology

    B.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 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

    Angela Bahns

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    B.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 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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  • Katherine Curhan

    Katherine Curhan

    Visiting Lecturer in Psychology

    B.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 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

    Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought; Associate 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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  • 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 Wilmer

    Jeremy B. Wilmer

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    B.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 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.

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