Faculty

Aileen Bailey, Associate Professor (1999). B.A., Beloit College (1994); M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia (1999). Behavioral Neuroscience: Neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of learning and memory, particularly higher cognitive processing. Learning deficits in Neurofibromatosis (Nf1). Concept use in nonprimate animals. Alzheimer Disease.  
Office: GH 126
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F. James Billings, Visiting Assistant Professor (2004). B.S., Lehigh University, M.S., Western Washington, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso (2004). Experimental Psychology: Cognition, Deception Detection, False Memory Syndrome, Eye Witness Testimony.  
Office: GH 102
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Anne Marie Brady, Assistant Professor (2004). B.A., St. Mary's College of Maryland (1993); M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University (1997, 2000). Behavioral Neuroscience: Neurobiology of psychiatric diseases, particularly schizophrenia and drug addiction.  Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavioral pharmacology of forebrain dopamine systems and relationships with learning, memory, and higher cognitive processes.  
Office: GH 137
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David Finkelman, Professor (1981). B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo (1972); Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1983). Clinical Psychology: Psychology and the law. History of psychology. Philosophical and theoretical issues in psychology.
Office: GH 104
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Laraine M. Glidden, Professor (1976) on Sabbatical AY 07-08. B.A., Mount Holyoke College (1964); M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois (1969, 1970). Developmental Psychology: Children with disabilities. Family adjustment to childrearing. Parental personality and religious beliefs and behavior. Adoptive families. 
Office: GH 24
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EricJ. Hiris, Associate Professor (2000). Department Chair. B.A., Oakland University (1990); M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (1992, 1995). Perception: Human vision; particularly motion perception, visual segregation, and visual illusions. Interactions of depth and motion information. Applications of information theory to human perception.  
Office: GH 122
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J. Roy Hopkins, Professor (1980). B.A., University of Virginia (1968); Ph.D., Harvard University (1974). Developmental Psychology: Adolescent and early adult development, especially social and cognitive development during the college years. Masculinity ideology: measurement, validation, and correlates. Qualitative data analysis techniques. 
Office: GH 141
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Wesley P. Jordan, Currently Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid. Professor of Psychology (1982). B.S., University of Puget Sound (1974); Ph.D., Dartmouth College (1979). Behavioral Neuroscience: Brain mechanisms of learning and memory, including contextual control of long-term habituation and behavioral sensitization to cocaine. Drug use patterns and attitudes about drugs among college students.  
Office: Admissions House
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Cynthia Koenig, Assistant Professor (2002). B.S., Kennesaw State University(1993); M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida (1999, 2002). Cognitive Psychology: deductive reasoning and analogical transfer in problem solving. Adult Development and Aging: personality and life transitions, successful aging, adulthood relocation, spirituality and dying well. Teaching: pedagogy and introductory psychology textbook analysis.  
Office: GH 133
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Janet M. Kosarych-Coy, Visiting Assistant Professor (1988). B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (1975, 1977, 1984). Counseling and Clinical Psychology: Rational-emotive therapy. Learning disabilities. 
Office: GH 139
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Debbie O'Donnell, Assistant Professor (2002). B.A., Bates College (1994); M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University (1999,2000,2002). Clinical Psychology: childhood trauma, correlates of risk and resilience, psychology of violence, relation between cultural context and child development.  
Office: GH 135
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Richard D. Platt, Associate Professor (1993) on Sabbatical AY 07-08. B.A., Bethel College (1985); M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida (1989, 1992). Cognitive Psychology: Deductive reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and human memory.  
Office: GH 114
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Roger D. Stanton, Assistant Professor (2007). B.A., Arizona State University (1999); Ph.D., Indiana University (2007). Cognitive Psychology: Categorization, old-new recognition, distinctiveness effects, theories of similarity, inductive reasoning, neurological bases of category learning, mathematical models in psychology.
Office: GH 131
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Kathleen A. Tallent, Visiting Assistant Professor (2006). B.A., University of Virginia (1992; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998, 2005). Developmental Psychopathology:  Cognitive functioning in individuals with severe mental illness, risk for psychopathology. Clinical Psychology.  
Office: GH 128
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Jennifer J. Tickle, Assistant Professor (2003). B.A., University of Virginia (1996); Ph.D., Dartmouth College (2002). Social Psychology: The effects of media on attitudes and behavior, particularly health behavior. Failures of self-regulation. Stigma and stereotyping.   Office: GH 124
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Elizabeth Nutt Williams, Associate Professor (1997) and Dean of the Core Curriculum and First Year Experience (2007). B.A., Stanford University (1989); M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland (1994, 1997). Counseling Psychology: Psychotherapy process, qualitative methods, women's issues, and feminist and multicultural counseling theories.  
Office: AA 201D
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Staff

Angela Draheim, Departmental Assistant (2004). B.A., St. Mary's College of Maryland (2003). Coordinator of St. Mary's Projects in Psychology, administrator of the research participant pool, department webmaster, manager of department facilities & assessmnt inventory.
Office: GH 125
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Jennifer St. Germain, Animal Caretaker & Departmental Technician (2002). B.A., St. Mary's College of Maryland (2001).
Office: GH 34b
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