Psychology Department Faculty
Program Faculty
Michael Addis, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School 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.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Minority mental health, prevention and treatment, depression
Tel: 1-508-793-7738
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James Córdova, 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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Maricela Correa-Chávez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Cultural-historical nature of cognition, especially attention and communication; organization of learning in communities with Indigenous North and Central American histories; tools and strengths children from Latin American immigrant families bring to school contexts
Tel: 1-508-793-7656
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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, Hiatt School 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.
Professor of Psychology
Cultural psychology, history of ideas
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Intergroup relations (in particular between minority groups); the social psychology of ethnopolitical conflict and cooperation; group-based victim consciousness; altruism and prosocial behavior; attributions in intergroup contexts; conceptual and methodological relations between social psychology and peace psychology
Tel: 1-508-793-7278
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Marianne Wiser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology; Chair, Hiatt School of Psychology
Cognitive development, especially concept acquisition
Tel: 1-508-793-7263
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Adjunct Faculty
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
Rachel Friendly, M.A.
Matt Syzdek, M.A.
William Warnken, Psy.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).
Tel: 1-508-793-7275
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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
Tel: 1-508-793-7458
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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
Caitlin Mahoney, Ph.D.
Emeriti Faculty
Roger Bibace, Ph.D.
Psychology and religion; morality, values and grading; risk governance; gender differences; changing behavior
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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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