Faculty and Staff

Chris Boyatzis

I'm a developmental psychologist interested in different aspects of children's social and cognitive development. My primary interests are in religious and spiritual development, especially from childhood through the college years.

Douglas K. Candland Professor Emeritus 

I am studying the ability of new and old world primates to understand number, numerosity, and arithmetic. We are extending our studies to disparate primate species in order to understand the evolution of these abilities. I am also working on various issues in the intellectual history of psychological topics, such as temperament and body-type.

Kimberly A. Daubman 

My research interests include the role of gender in self-concept formation and the relationship between broad world views and more specific attitudes.

David W. Evans 

My research interests are in the domain of developmental psychopathology. This area of research draws parallels between normative developmental theory (e.g., Piaget, Werner) and various kinds of psychopathology.

Bill Flack 

I’m a clinical psychologist, and am interested in emotion, trauma, and conflict both within individuals and during social situations. Occasionally, I am also the Co-Director of Bucknell in Northern Ireland, a short-term study-abroad program.

Owen Floody 

I am interested in the brain areas and mechanisms that mediate hormonal and other influences on animal reproductive behaviors. I also am interested in the mechanisms that underlie the recovery of behavior from brain damage.

Eugenia P. Gerdes

I have studied discrimination in hiring and stress for women in traditionally male work roles. Most recently, I have been interested in women in higher education and other topics concerning higher education and liberal education.

Andrea R. Halpern 

I study cognitive processes such as memory and thinking, especially for nonverbal materials. I am particularly interested in how musicians and nonmusicians understand and remember both actual and imagined music. I study this both behaviorally and via brain-imaging techniques. I also study the effect of normal and pathological aging on music perception and other cognition

Peter Judge 

My interests include behavioral studies of the conflict management strategies primates use in their groups and experimental studies of the social cognition necessary to perform those strategies.

Kevin Myers 

I am broadly interested in animal learning and motivation, especially the psychological experiences of pleasure and reward and their functions in Pavlovian conditioning.

J. T. Ptacek 

My interests, although diverse, tend to focus on adjustment to stress. Most recently, I have been working on research designed to examine coping and support issues in couples (married, dating, and same-sex friends).

Arthur Shapiro 

My research interests include color vision, low light level vision and sensory adaptation.

T. Joel Wade Chair 

My research interests include evolutionary theory, self / person perception race and gender / social cognition.