Faculty

Teaching Interests - Psychology of Parenting, Gender and Communication, Psychology of Gender, and Child Development
Research Interests - Gender Development and the Media, Psychological Perspectives on Parenting, Child Development, and History, Systems, and Culture in Psychology
Current/Recent Scholarship -
- Developing Postmodern Developmental Perspectives
- Crowley, K. (In Press). Where the twain meets: Sex similarities in communication. PsychCRITIQUES.
- Crowley-Long, K. (2000). Which approach: The psychology of women or the psychology of gender? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24(4), 378-379.

Nancy Dorr, Ph.D.

Teaching Interests - Health Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, Psychometrics, I/O Psychology
Research Interests - Social and Personality Aspects of Health and Well-Being, Stress Reductive Properties of Interactions with Dogs, Repressive Coping as a Predictors of Health and Well-Being
Current/Recent Scholarship -
- Dorr, N., Brosschot, J.F., Sollers, J.J., & Thayer, J.F. (In Press). Damned if you do, damned if you don't: The differential effect of expression and inhibition of anger on cardiovasccular recovery in Black and White males. International Journal of Psychophysiology.
- Robinson, J., Cooper, H., & Dorr, N. (2005). Conducting a meta-analysis. In F.T.L. Leong & J.T. Austin (Eds.). The psychology research handbook: A guide for graduate students and research assistants (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Bettencourt, B.A., Dorr, N., Charlton, K., & Hume, D.L. (2001). Status differences and intergroup bias: A meta-analytic examination of the effects of status stability, status legitimacy and group permeability. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 520-542.

Robert Flint, Ph.D. (Web Page)

Teaching Interests - Physiological Psychology, Learning, Human Neuropsychology, Sensation & Perception, Forgetting & Amnesia, Introduction to Psychopharmacology
Research Interests - Behavioral Characteristics and Neurobiological Substrates of Learning, Memory, and Amnesia
Current/Recent Scholarship - (*denotes student co-author)
- Flint, R.W., Jr., *Valentine, S., & *Papandrea, D., Jr. (2007). Reconsolidation of a long-term spatial memory is impaired by cycloheximide when reactivated with a contextual latent learning trial in male and female rats. Neuroscience, 148, 833-844.
- Flint, R.W., Jr. & *Marino, C.L. (2007). Cycloheximide impairs reconsolidation of a contextually reactivated memory in a conditioned taste aversion paradigm. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121(2), 433-438.
- Flint, R.W., Jr., Bunsey, M.D., & Riccio, D.C. (2007). Epinephrine-induced enhancement of memory retrieval for inhibitory avoidance conditioning in preweanling Sprague-Dawley rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 49,303-311.
- Flint, R.W., Jr., *Papandrea, D., Jr., & Dorr, N. (2006). Effects of aging and D-glucose on locomotor activity, spontaneous alternation, and plasma glucose levels in preweanling Sprague-Dawley rats. Developmental Neuroscience, 28(3), 209-215.

Jay Hamer, Ph.D.

Teaching Interests - Introduction to Psychotherapy, Clinical Seminar, Abnormal Psychology
Research Interests - Counseling Process and Outcomes, Shyness/Social Anxiety, Interpersonal Approaches to Psychotherapy, Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Current/Recent Scholarship -
- Hamer, R.J. & Bruch, M.A. (1997). Personality factors and inhibited career development: Testing the unique contribution of shyness. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 50, 382-400.
- Bruch, M.A., Hamer, R.J., & Heimberg, R.G. (1995). Shyness and public self-consciousness: additive or interactive relation with social interaction? Journal of Personality, 63, 47-63.
- Hamer, R.J. (1995). Counselor intentions: A critical review of the literature. Journal of Counseling and Development, 73, 259-270.

Donna Reittinger, Ph.D.

Special Training - Certificate of Thanatology, National Center for Death Education, Mount Ida College
Teaching Interests - Developmental Thanatology, Kids & Teens Life & Death, Human Sexuality, Developmental Psychology: Childhood, Developmental Psychology: Adolescence and Adulthood
Research Interests - Pediatric Palliative Care, Family Issues During the Terminal Illness of a Child
Current/Recent Scholarship -
- Death, Dying and Bereavement Annual Editions - Editorial Advisory Board (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishers)
- Reittinger, D. (1998). A different kind of love: Attachment and loss in human-companion animal relationships. Invited workshop at the National Center for Death Education (with J. Catherine Adsit, DVM).
- Reittinger, D. & Palmer, T. (1996). Lessons learned from using supplemental instruction: Adapting instructional models for practical application. Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 13(1), 57-68.

Ann Zak, Ph.D.

Teaching Interests - Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Theories of Personality, Psychology of Love, Infidelity
Research Interests -Love, Trust, and Intimacy in Romantic Relationships
Current/Recent Scholarship - (*denotes student co-author)
- Zak, A., *Coulter, C., *Giglio, S., *Hall, J., *Sanford, S., & *Pellowski, N. (2002). Do his friends and family like me? Predictors of infidelity in intimate relationships. North American Journal of Psychology, 4, 287-290.
- Zak, A., *Armer, E., *Edmunds, K., *Fleury, T., *Sarris, M., & *Shatynski, B. (2001). Age-discrepant relationships: do these romances fare well? North American Journal of Psychology, 3, 119-122.
- Zak, A., *Brewer, E., *Clark, K., *DeAngelis, R., *Nielsen, M., & *Turek, C. (2000). Once bitten, twice shy: The effects of past partner experiences on current love and trust. North American Journal of Psychology, 2, 71-74.

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