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

Amy Bradfield Douglass

Professor of Psychology

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

Luke Douglass

Visiting Lecturer in Psychology

Yunkyoung Garrison

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, Critical Psychology, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Multicultural Psychology, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Social Justice and Mental Health, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color, Work/Career Psychology

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)

Kathryn G. Low

Professor of Psychology

abnormal and health psychology, body image, cardiovascular health and disease, psychotherapy, public health, sexual health, student mental health, women’s health

Elena G. Maker Castro

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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

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

Melissa A. St. Pierre

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Staff

Brian T. Pfohl

bpfohl@bates.edu

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

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