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Scroll through the listings or simply click on the name of the person you wish to find out more about:

Faculty

   Helen Boucher
   Amy Bradfield Douglass
   Rebecca Fraser-Thill
   Todd A. Kahan
   John E. Kelsey
   Nancy S. Koven
   Susan Langdon
   Kathryn Graff Low
   Georgia N. Nigro
   Michael Sargent, Department Chair
   Krista Scottham

Staff

   Sylvia Deschaine
   Brian Pfohl

(For more details about each faculty member's research interests, please visit the Faculty Research Interests page.)


Helen Boucher

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: My work broadly concerns social influences on the self. Specific projects include the role of culture in self-knowledge, self-evaluation, and the pursuit of uniqueness in identity; the role of important others in self-regulation; and the effect of mortality salience on aspects of self-knowledge.

Telephone: 207-786-6395
Email: hboucher@bates.edu


Amy Bradfield Douglass

Associate Professor of Psychology
Interests: Social psychology with specific interests in the interface of psychology and law, specifically eyewitness testimony. Also interests in how social influence variables cause distortions in memory.

Telephone: 207-786-6182
Email: adouglas@bates.edu

Resources for students interested in pursuing psychology and law

Psychology 218 Home Page


Rebecca Fraser-Thill

Lecturer in Psychology
Interests: Autism, parent and sibling coping when a family member has an illness or psychopathology, infant development

Telephone: 207-786-6395
Email: rfrasert@bates.edu

Click here for my webpage.


Todd A. Kahan

Associate Professor of Psychology
Interests: Cognitive psychology, with specific interests in semantic memory, word recognition processes in reading, implicit and explicit memory, selective attention, and object recognition.

Telephone: on leave for 2007-08
Email: tkahan@bates.edu

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John E. Kelsey

Professor of Psychology
Interests: Physiological psychology with major research interests in amnesic disorders and drug addiction.

Telephone: 207-786-6184
Email: jkelsey@bates.edu


Nancy S. Koven

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: neurobiological correlates of cognitive and affective functioning; neuropsychological processes involved in emotion regulation and self-control; personality individual differences in cognition-emotion interactions in the context of mood disturbance and thought disorder

Telephone: 207-786-6426
Email: nkoven@bates.edu


Susan Langdon

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: Conceptualizing respect; lifespan development- especially adolescence; psychological and social aspects of sport and exercise; diverse perspectives including gender issues and culture.

Telephone: 207-786-6974
Email: slangdon@bates.edu


Kathryn Graff Low

Professor of Psychology
Interests: Clinical health psychology, women's health, psychotherapy, and cardiovascular disease.

Telephone: 207-786-6186
Email: klow@bates.edu


Georgia N. Nigro

Professor of Psychology
Interests: Developmental psychology, with specific interests in children's memory, psychology and law, and gender.

Telephone: 207-786-6183
Email: gnigro@bates.edu


Michael Sargent

Associate Professor of Psychology, Department Chair
Interests: I am an experimental social psychologist whose work, broadly speaking, focuses on social cognition. In other words, I study people’s judgments and thoughts about themselves and others. My specific interests are in (a) implicit social cognition, (b) cognitive style, and (c) the ways in which people’s social category memberships (e.g., their race) affect how others use information when forming judgments about them.

Telephone: 207-786-6277
Email: msargent@bates.edu


Krista Scottham

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: I am interested in both the process of racial identity formation, and the relationship between race-related attitudes and important life outcomes.

Telephone: 207-786-6088
Email: kscottha@bates.edu



Sylvia Deschaine

Area Coordinator for Psychology and Education

Telephone: 207-786-8297
Email: sdescha2@bates.edu


Brian Pfohl

Assistant in Instruction for Psychology
Interests: Statistics, experimental design, web development, graphics design, (travel, computer games, racquetball).

Telephone: 207-786-8314
Email: bpfohl@bates.edu

Click here for my webpage.


 
 
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