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Elena G. Maker Castro

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 370

emakercastro@bates.edu | 207-786-6307

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

Helen C. Boucher

Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 361

hboucher@bates.edu | 207-786-6395

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

Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

Pettengill Hall, Room 378

karonson@bates.edu | 207-786-6088

psychology, psychometric assessment

Michael Sargent

Associate Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 373

msargent@bates.edu | 207-786-6277

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

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 269 | Pettengill Hall, Room 269

ekane@bates.edu | 207-786-6192

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender