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Open Minds: An Exhibit of Psychology Department Faculty Publications Exhibit

Shown here is an image from the exhibit "Open Minds: An Exhibit of Psychology Department Faculty Publications," on display in the Bright Gallery on the second floor of Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. The exhibit features publications from faculty in the College of William and Mary's Department of Psychology. The exhibit is on display from March 26, 2012-January 18, 2013.

 

The following is a transcription of the label text presented in this case:

 

Peter Vishton

Associate Professor of Psychology

 

Swarthmore College, BA with High Honors in Psychology and Computer Science, 1991

Cornell University, PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Studies, 1996

 

Professor Vishton has been with William & Mary for seven years and has focused his research on infant and adult perception, cognition, and action control. He notably developed a BabyKart which enables a pre-crawling baby to “drive” around a room.

The system provides a way to test how the onset of self-produced locomotion promotes mental development and may provide a therapeutic tool for motor-delayed children. Professor Vishton enjoys interacting with students in the lab.

 

Catherine Forestell

Assistant Professor of Psychology

 

University of New Brunswick, BS with Honors in Psychobiology, 1995

Dalhousie University, MS in Experimental Psychology, 1997

Dalhousie University, PhD in Experimental Psychology, 2002

 

Professor Forestell has been with William & Mary since 2007, and her primary area of research is developmental psychology, especially health-related behavior in children and adults. She is currently researching several lab projects, among them the development of flavor preferences. In collaboration with local county schools, she is examining the effectiveness of the School Health Initiative Program.

 

Selections from a testing kit for the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

circa 1960

 

Lee Kirkpatrick

Professor of Psychology

 

Lynchburg College, BS in Psychology and Philosophy, 1980

University of Texas at El Paso, MA in General and Experimental Psychology, 1983

University of Denver, PhD in Social Psychology, 1988

 

Professor Kirkpatrick has been teaching at William & Mary for twenty years, and his areas of research include evolutionary psychology, psychology of religion, and statistics and research methods in psychology. His professorship at William & Mary has enabled him to not only pursue research of his interest, but has afforded him an opportunity to work with uniquely “bright, hard-working, highly motivated students.”

 

W. Larry Ventis

Professor of Psychology

 

University of Tennessee, BS, 1964

University of Tennessee, MA, 1966

University of Tennessee, PhD, 1970

 

Professor Ventis has been with William & Mary for his entire forty-two-year career. His research areas include the psychology of religion, psychology of humor, and stress. His recent research has involved presenting a “constructive progressive view of religion,” and studying the role of humor in fostering critical thinking. He finds his

work rewarding because he is able to teach and collaborate with students at a university devoted to quality education and freely pursue his own research interests.

 

Joanna Schug

Assistant Professor of Psychology

 

San Francisco State University, BA in Japanese, minor in Psychology, 2004

Hokkaido University, MA in Behavioral Science, 2008

Hokkaido University, PhD in Behavioral Science, 2011

 

Professor Schug is a recent addition to the William & Mary faculty and brings unique scholarship and experience in the areas of cross-cultural psychology and social psychology to the department. Schug, who is fluent in Japanese, is currently researching topics with students such as the impact of cultural norms on cooperation, trust and reciprocity, cross-cultural preferences regarding compensation, and cultural differences in friendship and close relationships.

 

Danielle Dallaire

Assistant Professor of Psychology

 

Pennsylvania State University, BA in Psychology, 1997

Temple University, PhD in Developmental Psychology, 2003

 

Professor Dallaire has been with William & Mary since 2006 and her research examines children’s social and emotional development in the context of risk. Her current research explores how children cope with parental incarceration, and she will be participating in a community project addressing the needs of pregnant women involved with the legal system.

 

From the Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. See swem.wm.edu/scrc/ for further information and assistance.

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