Faculty


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Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks
Professor and Chair, Psychology

Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 54
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: x3600

Office Location
CG 307

Ph.D.: University of Texas, Austin, 1995

Areas of expertise:  Infant/child/adolescent development; Parent-child attachment; Foster care

Current research: Lessons learned from The Children's Ark: An innovative approach to foster care; Attachment, caregiving, and loss in Zambia

Teaching: Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Educational Psychology, Seminar: Attachment across the Lifespan; Seminar: Infant Development; Applied Child Psychology in Zambia


 
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Monica Y. Bartlett, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Psychology

AD Box 54

Phone: x3918

Office Location
CG 341B

Ph.D.:  Northeastern University, 2006; Social Psychology

Research interests:

Understanding how specific emotions (e.g., gratitude, process of savoring) affect our social decision-making and behavior. Particularly how positive emotions affect outcomes such as willingness to trust others, to cooperate, and to engage in relationship strengthening or building endeavors.

Teaching interests:

Foundations of Hatred: An interdisciplinary course taught with faculty from the School of Business, Sociology, Criminal Justice and History

General Psychology
Human Flourishing
Personality
Research Methods
Social Psychology

 
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Mark Bodamer
Associate Professor, Psychology

Gonzaga University
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258-0056

Phone: x3918
 
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Sam Leigland
Professor of Psychology

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: x6751

Office Location
AD 306D

Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Experimental and Applied Psychology, Behavior Analysis, Philosophy of Psychology
Research Projects and Interests:
Experimental analysis of naturally-occurring verbal behavior; functional analysis of ordinary-language terms/concepts; methodological development in the analysis of human/verbal behavior; scientific systems in psychology.

 
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Michael McBride
Associate Professor, Psychology

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: x6775

Office Location
AD 306B

Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Social Psychology
Research Projects and Interests:
Attitude change and gender issues related to study habits.

 
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Thayne McCulloh
Assistant Professor of Psychology

502 E. Boone Ave
AD Box 87
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: x4049

Office Location
AD 126

Ph.D., Oxford University
Social and Experimental Psychology
Research Projects and Interests:
Gender stereotypes; date rape; alcohol use; mentor relationships.

 
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Anna Marie Medina
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Gonzaga University
Psychology Dept
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 3952

Ph.D:  University of Southern California; Clinical Psychology

Areas of expertise: Correlates of Family Violence; Developmental Psychopathology

Research/Teaching interests Family Processes, Development under adversity, Influence of emotion on cognition

 
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Michael D. Nelson, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Gonzaga University
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258-0054

Phone: 3093

Office Location
CG 306C

Ph.D.:  Dartmouth College, 2000; Experimental Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience

Areas of expertise:  Vision, Visual Attention, Eye Movements, Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests:  Visual Attention, Eye Movements, Probabilistic Modeling of Information Processing Systems

Teaching:  General Psychology, Research Methods, Cognition, Sensation & Perception


 
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Gary Thorne
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Gonzaga University
AD Box 54
Spokane, WA 99258-0056

Office Location
CG 306A

 
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Nancy L. Worsham, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 56
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: x6773

Office Location
CG 320

Ph.D. Clinical psychology, University of Vermont

M.S. Educational psychology, University of Utah

Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, health psychology, community psychology

Research/Teaching interests: Mindfulness meditation/Buddhist psychology; high-risk mother-child dyads; attachment to companion animals

 
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Dr. Kent Hoffman
FES Psychology

AD Box 56

Courses Taught:  Psychology of Intimacy, Psychology of Transcendence

 
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Doris Langevin, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

AD Box 56

Courses Taught:  Psychology of Addiction

 
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Sean Smitham, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

AD Box 56

Courses Taught:  Psychopathology

 
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John Wolfe, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

AD Box 56

Courses Taught:  Forensics, Aging, Ethics in Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology