Psychology Department Faculty
Program Faculty
Michael Addis, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
Director of the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology and Education; Chair of Psychology; Men’s mental health, masculinity, help-seeking behavior, lay theories of psychopathology and treatment
Tel: 1-508-793-7266
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Michael Bamberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Language acquisition, narratives, discourse analysis, identity development
Tel: 1-508-793-7135
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Nancy Budwig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research
Language development, socialization, discursive psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7250
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Esteban Cardemil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Minority mental health, prevention and treatment, depression
Tel: 1-508-793-7738
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James Cordova, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Couples' relationship health and deterioration; couple's therapy research; intimacy, acceptance, depression, and motivating the adoption of relationship healthy practice; the Marriage/Relationship Checkup and Couples Therapy for Depression
Tel: 1-508-793-7268
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Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director, Peace Studies Program
Director of Peace Studies Concentration; The structure and function of different emotions, the relationships between emotion and action, the social psychology of non-violent action for peace and justice
Tel: 1-508-793-7259
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Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Modes of reasoning, personal epistemology and social location. Thought and societal discourses of knowledge. Feminist perspectives on mind, self, identity and development. Gender, self and thought. Psychology and society.
Tel: 1-508-793-7262
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Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Gender, family, and work; contextual influences on development and mental health (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class); gay and lesbian families; risk/resilience in adolescents
Tel: 508-793-7289
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Wendy S. Grolnick, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Motivation and development, self-regulation of emotion and behavior in infancy and early childhood, parent and teacher influences on children’s motivation and adjustment, child clinical psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7276
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Lene Jensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Moral development with a "cultural-developmental" approach, cultural identity development in the contexts of migration and global change; immigrant civic engagement
Tel: 1-508-793-7271
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James Laird, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Emotional experience, self-perception, attributions to others, structures of person awareness, world hypotheses as personality variables
Tel: 1-508-793-7272
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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.
Cultural psychology, history of ideas
Marianne Wiser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Cognitive development, especially concept acquisition
Tel: 1-508-793-7263
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Adjunct Faculty
Leslie Bourne , Ph.D.
Robert Ciottone, Ph.D.
Cathleen Crider, Ph.D.
Linda Kennedy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Physiology, neurobiology, sensory function, taste
Tel: 1-508-793-7476
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Part-Time Faculty
Lisa Comparini, Ph.D.
Research Faculty
Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D.
Media uses in adolescence, the psychology of globalization, responses to cigarette advertising, and anything involving “emerging adults”
(ages 18-29).
Elaine Reese, Ph.D.
Social origins of cognitive development
Penelope Vinden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Children’s understanding of mind and its sociocultural context; language, literacy, and mind
Tel: 1-508-793-7457
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Clinical Faculty
Kathleen Palm, Ph.D.
Clinical Coordinator/Research Assistant Professor
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Visiting Faculty
Denise Hines, Ph.D.
Intimate partner violence, stalking, child abuse and neglect, child sexual abuse, genetic and environmental influences on family violence, women who are aggressive
Abigail Mansfield-Marcaccio, Ph.D.
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Emeriti Faculty
Roger Bibace, Ph.D.
Relationships in educational, clinical and research contexts
David Stevens, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Taste and smell, psychophysics, research methods and analyses
Tel: 508-793-7656
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Nicholas Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Ethology
Animal behavior, evolutionary theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7261
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