Scroll through the listings or simply click on the name of the person you wish to find out more about:
Faculty
Helen BoucherMichael Burman
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 DeschaineBrian 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,
including:
The social influences I am currently examining are:
Telephone:
207-786-6395
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Michael Burman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology |
Interests: Biological
Psychology and Animal Behavior with a focus on the biology of learning, memory
and emotion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between memory
and time: including memory formation over development, memory for temporally
discontiguous events (working memory) and the biological changes that occur as
memories age. Furthermore, I am interested in the intersection between emotion
and memory, especially the memory for emotional events. Telephone: 207-786-6184 |
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
(I am on leave for the 2008-09 academic year.) |
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
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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: 207-786-6974
Click here for my webpage. |
John E. Kelsey
Professor of Psychology |
Interests: Behavioral Neuroscience with major interests in animal models of drug addiction, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia. Telephone: I am on leave for the 2008-09 academic year. |
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
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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
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Kathryn Graff Low
Professor of Psychology |
Interests: Clinical
health psychology, women's health, psychotherapy, and cardiovascular disease.
Telephone: 207-786-6186
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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
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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
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Krista Scottham
Assistant Professor of Psychology |
Interests: I am a Personality Psychologist whose research focuses on how we make sense of complex social concepts like race and class, with a particular emphasis on how individual, family and community characteristics influence the development of attitudes and beliefs during childhood, and the development of self-concept during adolescence. Telephone: 207-786-6088
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Sylvia Deschaine
Area Coordinator for Psychology and Education|
Telephone: 207-786-8297
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Brian Pfohl
Assistant in Instruction for Psychology |
Interests: Statistics, experimental design, web development, graphics design,
(travel, computer games, racquetball).
Telephone: 207-786-8314
Click here for my webpage. |
