Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

acculturation, immigration, intercultural competence, multicultural children’s literature, psychology, psychometric assessment, racial and ethnic identity development

Helen C. Boucher

Professor of Psychology

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning in life, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, psychology of social class, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

Victoria M. Bryan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Amy Bradfield Douglass

Whitehouse Professor of Psychology

eyewitness testimony, interviewing eyewitness, jury decision-making, memory, social influence, social psychology

Yunkyoung Garrison

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Asian American psychology, Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, immigrant and refugee mental health, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, the myth of meritocracy, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color

Todd A. Kahan

Professor of Psychology

attention, cognitive psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, psychological models of word reading, visual perception

Susan W. Langdon

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

body image, bullying, psychology, respect (definition and experiences), substance use (alcohol and psychostimulants)

Elena G. Maker Castro

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Adolescent Development, Critical consciousness, Emerging Adulthood, School contexts, Sociopolitical Development, Youth wellbeing

Susan A. Mangan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

developmental psychology, Diverse populations, Emerging Adulthood, Evaluation, Gratitude, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Positive Psychology Interventions, Purpose in Life, Survey Development, Well-Being

Katherine M. Mathis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

automaticity of lexical and semantic processing, bilingual memory representation, cognitive psychology, effects of implicit processing on preferences, object and scene recognition, object perception

Michael Sargent

Associate Professor of Psychology

implicit social cognition, intergroup cognition, political psychology, political psychology, social cognition, social psychology

Staff

Brian T. Pfohl

bpfohl@bates.edu

Assistant in Instruction
207-786-8314
Pettengill Hall, Room 357

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