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Krista M. Aronson

Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Faculty

Psychology, Dean of the Faculty’s Office

karonson@bates.edu | 207-786-6088

psychology, psychometric assessment

Helen C. Boucher

Professor of Psychology

Psychology Co-Chair

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

Amy Bradfield Douglass

Whitehouse Professor of Psychology

Psychology

adouglas@bates.edu | 207-786-6182

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

Ellen F. Finch

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology

efinch@bates.edu | 207-786-6186

borderline personality disorder, Clinical Psychology, emotion regulation, nonsuicidal self-injury, pathological narcissism, personality disorders, psychotherapy, stigma

Yunkyoung Garrison

Associate Professor of Psychology

Psychology, Asian Studies, American Studies

ygarriso@bates.edu | 207-786-6195

Asian American psychology, Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, immigrant and refugee mental health, Posttraumatic growth, Race and Racism, Refugee work and well-being, Social Class and Classism, the myth of meritocracy, The Myth of Meritocracy

Todd A. Kahan

Professor of Psychology

Psychology

tkahan@bates.edu | 207-786-6180

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

Susan W. Langdon

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology

slangdon@bates.edu

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

Elena G. Maker Castro

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology

emakercastro@bates.edu | 207-786-6307

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

Katherine M. Mathis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Psychology Co-Chair

kmathis@bates.edu

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

Jasmine A. Mena

Professor of Psychology

Psychology

jmena2@bates.edu

Michael Sargent

Associate Professor of Psychology

Psychology Co-Chair

msargent@bates.edu | 207-786-6277

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

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Brian T. Pfohl

bpfohl@bates.edu

Instructional Specialist
207-786-8314

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Faculty and staff excellence recognized

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