Faculty

Teaching Faculty

David Bishop, Professor

(Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology)

Interests:

identity development, general intelligence,
evolutionary psychology, and psychometrics.

Teaching:

Developmental, Statistics,
Tests and Measurement, Research Methods.

Joseph Breitenstein, Associate Professor

(Ph.D., West Virginia University)

Interests:

clinical psychology, counseling techniques,
evolutionary psychology.

Teaching:

Abnormal Psychology,
Introduction to Counseling

Kristy Gould, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Nebraska)

Interests:

animal behavior, behavioral neuroscience,
spatial memory

Teaching:

Learning and Behavior, Animal Cognition

Richard Halverson, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Iowa)

Interests:

social psychology, health psychology,
history of psychology

Teaching:

Social Psychology, Health and Illness,
History of Psychology, Research Methods

David Njus, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago)

Interests:

social psychology, personality,
developmental psychology

Teaching:

Social Psychology, Developmental,
Theories of Personality, Research Methods,
Statistics

Loren Toussaint , Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Interests:

health psychology, stress, coping,
and happiness, forgiveness and health
and illness

Teaching:

General Psychology, Behavioral Statistics ,
Stress, Coping and Well-being Psychology
of Health and Illness, Forgiveness

Stephanie Travers, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Stony Brook University)

Interests:

memory, attention, cognitive aging, emotions and cognition

Teaching:

Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of
Aging, Research Methods

Emeriti Faculty

William Moorcroft, Professor Emeritus

(Ph.D., Princeton University)

Interests:

psychobiology, sleep and dreams

Madison Dengler, Professor Emeritus

(Ph.D., University of Denver)

Interests:

perception, color stereopsis

Werner Nitschke Professor Emeritus

(Ph.D., Northern Illinois University)

Interests:

learning, color stereopsis