Department of Psychology
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

John Berman, Professor (On leave Spring '08)
Ph.D. Northwestern University
TLC 150
580-5317
jberman@skidmore.edu

Virginia Murphy-Berman, Visiting Professor
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Dana 357
580-5545
vberman@skidmore.edu

Youngon Choi, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Duke University
TLC 146
580-5307
ychoi@skidmore.edu

Clint Cooper, Instructor
University of Connecticut
TLC 206B
580-5315
ccooper@skidmore.edu

Denise Evert, Associate Professor (On leave 07-08)
Ph.D. Princeton University
TLC 149
580-5303
devert@skidmore.edu

Hugh Foley, Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
TLC 101
580-5308
hfoley@skidmore.edu
http://www.skidmore.edu/~hfoley

Mary Ann Foley, Professor, Chair, and
Class of 1948 Chair for Excellence in Teaching
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
TLC 142
580-5302
mfoley@skidmore.edu

Beth Gershuny, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia
TLC 145
580-5304
gershuny@skidmore.edu

Holley Hodgins, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Rochester
TLC 154
580-5309
hhodgins@skidmore.edu

Rebecca Johnson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
TLC 151
580-5306
rjohnso1@skidmore.edu
http://www.skidmore.edu/~rjohnso1

Echo Leaver, Visiting Assistant Professor
Dana 355
580-8308
eleaver@skidmore.edu

Carol Lloyd, Secretary
TLC 140
580-5300
clloyd@skidmore.edu

Hassan López, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara
TLC 156
580-5314
hlopez@skidmore.edu

Anita Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Dana 354
580-8307
amiller@skidmore.edu

Andrew Molteni, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio University
Dana 356
580-8309
amolteni@skidmore.edu

Robert M. Oswalt, Professor
Ph.D. Louisiana State University
TLC 152
580-5311
moswalt@skidmore.edu

Flip Phillips, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Ohio State University
TLC 155
580-5313
flip@skidmore.edu
http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip

Sheldon Solomon, Professor and
Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies
Ph.D. University of Kansas, Lawrence
TLC 153
580-5312
ssolomon@skidmore.edu

Emeritus Professor

Joan Douglas, Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany
jdouglas@skidmore.edu

JOHN BERMAN
John Berman is a Professor of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University. He taught for many years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he served as Department Chair for over a decade. His research interests are in cross-cultural psychology, especially perceptions of fairness and applied social science methodology. At Skidmore he teaches courses in Applied Psychology and Introductory Psychology.

VIRGINIA MURPHY-BERMAN
Virginia Murphy-Berman is a Visiting Professor of Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Northwestern University. Before coming to Skidmore, she was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln where she taught a variety of courses and served as Research Director of a multidisciplinary Research Policy Center. Her research interests are in cross-cultural psychology, especially as it applies to perceptions of fairness, children's rights and construals of the self. At Skidmore she teaches courses in Cross-cultural Psychology and in Psychological Perspectives on Social Justice.

YOUNGON CHOI
Youngon Choi, an Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Duke University. She also completed her post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research interest lies in understanding how the ability to process and comprehend language develops over time and how such ability in turn affects language learning. She particularly adopts a cross-linguistic approach in studying these issues, such as comparing children learning English with those learning Korean. She currently teaches Introduction to Child Development and Statistical Methods in Social Sciences, but will soon offer seminars focusing on Language Development and Language and the Mind.

DENISE EVERT
Denise Evert, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University. She also completed post doctoral work in neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of attentional and emotional processing, with a particular emphasis on lateralization of function in the brain. Her courses contribute both to the Psychology major and the Neuroscience program and include introductory neuroscience, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience.

HUGH FOLEY
Hugh J. Foley is a Professor who got his degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was on the faculty at Union College for ten years prior to joining the Skidmore faculty. He teaches courses in perception (and is co-author of a textbook in that area) experimental psychology, and introductory and advanced statistics. His general research interests are in perception and memory, with specific interests in context effects on judgment, object perception and recognition, and the role of effort in memory.

MARY ANN FOLEY
Mary Ann Foley, Professor, holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is also the Chair of the Department. Her research interests focus on the study of cognitive processes in a variety of contexts. Most recently, these research interests have led to the study of children's memory confusions, the role of imaginal processing in remembering, factors influencing face recognition, and the study of perceptual closure processes. She teaches experimental psychology, cognition, and a seminar on autobiographical memory.

BETH GERSHUNY
Beth S. Gershuny, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. in psychology from Skidmore College and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. She completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and she was a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University prior to her appointment at Skidmore. Her primary research interests lie in the broadly defined domains of anxiety and trauma-related psychopathology. She is particularly interested in the etiology, pathogenesis, underlying mechanisms, and treatment of general anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She teaches abnormal psychology, psychology of women, personality, introductory psychology, statistics, and a seminar course related to clinical psychology.

HOLLEY HODGINS
Holley Hodgins, Associate Professor, received a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Rochester with a dissertation that investigated biases in social cognition. She has taught at Skidmore since the fall of 1992. Her current research focuses on motivational orientation and various social behaviors, including social interaction, perceptions of other people and responses to social predicaments. Motivation and emotion, introductory psychology, and seminars on nonverbal communication are among the courses she teaches.

REBECCA JOHNSON
Rebecca Johnson, Assistant Professor, received her doctorate with specialization in cognitive psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her primary research interests focus on the cognitive processes underlying reading in normal and skilled readers and individuals with stroke-induced reading disorders. She teaches Psycholinguistics and Experimental Psychology and will be offering additional courses on reading and language processing.

HASSAN LÓPEZ
Hassan López, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. in psychology from Harvard University in 1995.  He went on to receive his doctorate in psychology, with an emphasis in behavioral neuroscience, from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).  He joined the psychology department at Skidmore in 2005, and is responsible for teaching several courses within the neuroscience program, including Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology, and Hormones & Behavior.  Broadly, his scholarly interests center on the biological basis of sexual attraction, motivation, and courtship behavior in both males and females.  He explores these issues using both rodent models and human participants.

ANITA MILLER
Anita Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology. She earned her B.A. from Bucknell University and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. She completed her APA clinical neuropsychology internship at Allegheny General Hospital and her NIMH child psychiatry post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Her research focuses on psychophysiology, emotion, and depression across the lifespan. She teaches introductory psychology, human sexuality and the brain, and research methods.

ANDREW MOLTENI
Andrew Molteni is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology who received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Ohio University. He has been a practicing clinical psychologist for over 25 years directing clinical programs in Health Psychology and Eating Disorders Services as well as maintaining his own private practice. His scholarly and clinical interests include psychological and neuropsychological assessment, psychosomatic and psychophysiological disorders, eating disorders,dissociative disorders and psychotherapy research. He teaches Theories of Personality, Abnormal Psychology and Health Psychology.

ROBERT M. OSWALT
Robert (Mac) Oswalt is a Professor of Psychology who holds a doctoral degree from LSU. He is a clinical psychologist whose teaching includes courses in abnormal and clinical psychology, testing, and seminar and Liberal Studies courses on Sigmund Freud. He is an active participant in blood donor recruitment and has done considerable research and publication on blood donor motivation, which extends to the motivation and recruitment of organ donors. He has also done research on the desensitization of traumatic memories by eye-movement, and sexual behavior among college students, including AIDS and date-rape.

FLIP PHILLIPS
Flip Phillips is an Associate Professor who joined this department in 1998. He possesses a somewhat heterogeneous background, including stints as a professional musician and as an animator & technical director at Pixar. Having received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology from The Ohio State University, he covers such courses as quantitative and experimental psychology, perception, and computational neuroscience. Currently, his research centers on the perception of solid shape, perception of texture, and the psychology of aesthetics.

SHELDON SOLOMON
Sheldon Solomon is a Professor of Psychology who earned his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College and his doctoral degree from the University of Kansas, where his training focused on experimental social psychology. His current research is primarily concerned with the psychological functions of self-esteem and the effects of specific political and economic institutions on mental health. He taught in Skidmore's Liberal Studies Program and is currently involved in the Scribner Seminars (Human Dilemmas). His departmental teaching includes the introductory course, as well as courses in personality, advanced personality and evolutionary psychology.

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