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Nov 23, 2021 • Connor Fogel
On the second floor of Arcadia University’s Boyer Hall, Katelin Decker ‘22 and Michelle Frank ‘23 pull on rubber gloves and huddle at the biosafety hood in the compact Tissue Culture Lab. The Biology majors are growing cancer cells to test a promising compound—an early step on the road to...
Jul 27, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
By Katherine Haines '21, '22 Assistant Professors of Psychology Dr. Juan Duque and Dr. Logan Fields, Associate Professor of Psychology Dr. Katherine Moore, and Professor of Psychology Dr. Steve Robbins are collaborating this summer with students to conduct in-person laboratory research...
Jul 23, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
By Caitlin Joyce '20 While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape for internship opportunities, Psychology major and Global Public Health minor Emily Brown ’22 remains passionate about improving community health. This summer, Brown earned two highly competitive internships this...
Sep 13, 2017 • Jen Retter
Genetic Counseling’s Jessica Isaacs ’18M received a 2017 Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship (JEMF) Student Research Award for a project geared toward strengthening counselor-patient relationships. In her proposal, “Potential Methods to Strengthen the Counselor-Patient Alliance in a Genetic...
Mar 27, 2015 • jretter Retter
At the 86th Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Conference earlier this month, 24 Arcadia students and alumni presented on 15 topics ranging from the power of marketing for bottled water to drug interactions in the brain. Faculty members Dr. Steve Robbins, Dr. Christina Brown, ...
I received my B.A. in psychology from Haverford College in 1984 and my Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in experimental psychology in 1989. My research in graduate school focused on basic learning processes with nonhuman animals. In 1990 I began conducting research on learning processes involved in drug addiction and relapse following treatment at the University of Pennsylvania Treatment Research Center. I became an Arcadia faculty member in 1996. During my time at Arcadia, I have collaborated with students on research in a variety of areas including visual attention, nonconscious influences on behavior (priming), behavioral mechanisms underlying drug taking, art therapy treatment efficacy, and therapy relationship factors. i teach a variety of courses including Introductory Psychology, Learning and Cognition, and Research Methods.
learning and memory, nonconscious information processing, art therapy efficacy
Hometown
Philadelphia
Home Country
USA
Languages
English
Haverford College 1984
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Psychology
University of Pennsylvania 1989
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Experimental Psychology