Psychology Faculty...

 
Michael Casey
Michael B. Casey - Associate Professor
(330) 263-2460 / mcasey@wooster.edu

B.A. Michigan State 1982; M.S., Ph.D. Virginia Tech 1993, 1995.

My area of expertise is in early childhood development, particularly the effects of sensory and motor experience on nervous system development. I also specialize in the study of how children use toys and the role of individual development in evolution.
Susan Clayton

Susan Clayton - Whitmore-Williams Professor
(330) 263-2565 / sclayton@wooster.edu

B.A. Carleton 1982; M.S., Ph.D. Yale 1984, 1987.

As a social psychologist, I focus on a variety of topics, including affirmative action, environmental concerns, racial issues, and women�s rights, as well as justice, discrimination, and prosocial behavior.

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Susan Clayton

Amber L. Garcia - Assistant Professor
(330) 263-2629 / agarcia@wooster.edu

B.A. St. Mary�s, California 1996; M.A. Claremont 2000; Ph.D. Purdue 2005.

My areas of expertise include social psychology (with an emphasis on multicultural ideology), prejudice and discrimination, intergroup emotions, and impression formation.

Gary Gillund
Gary Gillund - Associate Professor
(330) 263-2370 / ggillund@wooster.edu

B.S. North Dakota State 1977; Ph.D. Indiana 1982.

My area of expertise is in memory, including computer stimulation of memory, and eyewitness memory and cognition. I received a post-doctoral grant from the Center for Research in Human Learning from the University of Minnesota and won the Esther L. Kinsey Ph.D. Dissertation Award from Indiana University.
 
John Neuhoff

John G. Neuhoff - Associate Professor
(330) 263-2475 / jneuhoff@wooster.edu

B.A. Baldwin-Wallace 1991; M.A., Ph.D. Kent State 1994, 1996.

My research examines cognitive and physiological processes associated with auditory perception, cognition, and action.
I am particularly interested in perception and action from an evolutionary perspective. My interests are quite diverse, and my investigations have overlapped significantly with evolutionary theory, animal cognition, music, development, emotion, memory, and gender studies. I use behavioral, psychophysical, physiological, and neuroimaging techniques.

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Amy Jo Stavnezer
Amy Jo Stavnezer - Associate Professor
(330) 263-2215 / ajstavnezer@wooster.edu

B.S. Allegheny 1994; M.S., Ph.D. Connecticut 1998, 2000.

My research interests include neuroscience, rodent learning, sex differences in spatial ability, and any brain-behavior relationship. Using a variety of water-based mazes, as well as activity monitoring systems, I have assessed the learning of normal male mice, normal female mice, and female mice who carry a Y chromosome.

Claudia Thompson - Associate Professor

Department Chair
(330) 263-2461 / crt@wooster.edu

B.A. Delaware 1975; Ph.D. Brown 1981.

My research interests lie in animal learning and cognition, primate behavior, comparative psychology of cognition and memory, neuroscience, and the history of psychology.

Susan Clayton

Virginia B. Wickline - Walter D. Foss Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
(330) 263-2632 / vwickline@wooster.edu

B.A. Anderson 1998; M.A., Ph.D. Emory 2002, 2006.


Trained as a clinical psychologist, my research interests lie in the
domains of international student cultural adjustment, nonverbal communication, and their interaction (i.e., does "reading" emotion in faces and voices make it easier to fit in when one moves to a new country?). I also dabble in community psychology and have performed research on ethnic minority mental health, academic achievement/self-esteem, and emotion recognition.

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Emeritus Faculty:

Gordon D. Collins, Professor Emeritus since 2000. B.A. Tarkio 1957; M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State 1960, 1965.

William B. Scott - Associate Professor Emeritus since 2008
wscott@wooster.edu

B.A. Franklin and Marshall 1970; M.A. Simon Fraser 1972; Ph.D. McGill 1979.

An expert on a variety of anxiety disorders, Dr. Scott has done extensive research on the fear of flying and is considered a national source on the subject

 

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