Faculty Experts- Psychology
Name: Emily ChanTitle: Assistant professor
Office Phone: (719) 227-8202
E-mail: echan@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., psychology, Princeton University, 1997; M.A., social psychology, Princeton University, 2000; Ph.D., social psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to Psychology; Introduction to Social Psychology (interpersonal impressions, social reputations, prejudice and stereotyping marketing, judgment and decision making, cultural differences, and environmental conservation), The Psychology of Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination; The Psychology of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations; Attitudes, Persuasion, and Social Influence; Culture and Cognition; Negotiation
Areas of expertise: General psychology; social psychology; psychology of prejudice; marketing; culture
Major Publications: Chan, E. and Ybarra, O. (2002) Interaction goals and social information processing: Underestimating one’s partners but overestimating one’s opponents. Social Cognition, 20, 409-439. Ybarra, O., Chan, E. & Park, D.C. (2001). Young and old adults’ concerns with morality and competence. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 85-100. Chan, E., Ybarra, O., Park, D. C., Rodriguez, J., & Garcia, J. (In press). Trusting medical authorities: some cognitive aging and social vigilance considerations. In D. C. Park & L. Liu (Eds.) Social and Cognitive Perspectives on Medical Adherence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Name: Lori Driscoll, Ph.D. (On Sabbatical Fall 2009)
Title: Assistant Professor
Office phone: (719) 227-8201
E-mail: ldriscoll@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., Colorado College (1994) Ph.D., Cornell Univeristy (2003)
Came to CC in: 2003
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to Psychology Research Design in Psychology Neuroscience; Neuropharmacology
Areas of expertise: I am a neuroscientist interested in behavioral pharmacology and toxicology. I
can address issues on pharmacology (effects of drugs on behavior and the brain);
the effects of environmental toxicants (lead, pesticides, flame retardants,
etc.) on the development of the nervous system and cognitive functioning; and
developmental disorders (Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, etc.).
Major publications: Dufault, C., Poles, G., & Driscoll, L. L. (2005). Brief Postnatal PBDE Exposure Alters Learning and the Cholinergic Modulation of Attention in Rats. Toxicological Sciences, in press. Driscoll, L. L., Carroll, J. C., Moon, J., Crnic, L. S., Levitsky, D. A., & Strupp, B. J. (2004). Impaired sustained attention and error-induced stereotypy in the aged Ts65Dn mouse, a mouse model of Down syndrome and Alzheimer disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1196-1205. Morgan, R. E., Garavan, H., Smith, E. G., Driscoll, L. L., Levitsky, D. A., & Strupp, B. J. (2001). Early lead exposure produces lasting changes in sustained attention, response initiation, and reactivity to errors. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 23, 519-531.
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Instrumental music, vocal music, and glass flameworking.
Name: John M. Horner
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6597
E-mail: jhorner@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A,. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1980; Ph.D., Duke University, 1986
Came to CC in: 1987
Courses taught at CC: Natural History Introduction to Psychology: Bases of Behavior Introduction to Psychology: Enduring Ideas, AP:A Research Design in Psychology Learning and Adaptive Behavior Learning and Adaptive Behavior: Comparative Cognition Reading in Operant and Classical Conditioning Sensation and Perception Cognition Senior Seminar, Psychology History and Systems of Psychology Reading in the History of Psychology The Philosophy of Psychology Topics in Psychology: Information Processing Topics in Psychology: Vision Topics in Psychology: Parents and Children Remembering Advanced Research Topics Evolutionary Psychology ACM/Newberry Seminar in the Humanities 2004 Encountering Worlds: Human Views of Nature Computational Neuroscience
Areas of expertise: I like to say I work in empirical epistemology. What that means runs a wide
range of topics on how humans and non-human animals learn. In the past, my
research has involved human memory for common objects, animal choice/decision
rules, the allocation of behavior, spatial memory, and the evolution of
behavioral plasticity. Recently, I've become interested in neuro-computation (or
how the brain learns about and represents the world). On the philosophical end,
I'm interested in philosophy of science, especially as it pertain to
psychological problems of how individuals and science as a collective endeavor
come to understand the world. Forthcoming articles are on the cues people use to
visually discriminate among coins, and a philosophical discourse on what form
psychology should take at Peirce's proposed "end of inquiry."
Major publications: Horner, J. M. & Comstock, S. P. (in press). What are the important visual features for coin discrimination? Applied Cognitive Psychology. Horner, J. M. (2002). Information in the behavior stream. Behavioural Processes, 58(3), 133-147. Horner, J. M. (2006, Expected). The end of psychology: What can we expect at the limits of inquiry? In N. K. Innis (Ed.) Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J. E. R. Staddon. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Name: Bob Jacobs
Title: Associate professor; director of neuroscience
Office phone: (719) 389-6594
E-mail: bjacobs@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles
Came to CC in: 1993
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to Psychology; Neuroscience; Cognitive Ethology; Advanced Neuroscience Seminar; The Liberal Arts Brain; Emotion
Areas of expertise: Quantitative neuromorphology, neuroanatomy, language acquisition; cognitive ethology
Major publications: Jacobs, B., Creswell, J., Britt J. P., Ford, K.L., Bogen J. E., Zaidel, E.. "Quantitative analysis of cortical pyramidal neurons following corpus callosotomyh". Annals of Neurology.
Jacobs, B., Schall, M., Prather, M., Kapler, L., Driscoll, L., Baca, S., Jacobs, J., Ford, K., Wainwright, M., Treml, M. (2001). "Regional dendritic and spine variation in human cerebral cortex: A quantitative Golgi study". Cerebral Cortex. 11: 6, 558-571.
Jacobs, B., Driscoll, L., Schall, M. (1997). "Lifespan dendritic and spine changes in areas 10 and 18 of the human cortex: A quantitative Golgi study. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 386:4, 661-680.
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Hockey
Name: Tomi-Ann Roberts
Title: Catherine Winkler Herman Professor of Psychology
Office phone: (719) 389-6838
E-mail: troberts@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Smith College; Ph.D. Stanford University
Came to CC: 1993
Courses taught: Introduction to Psychology; Gender Differences and Similarities; Emotion, Introduction to Women's Studies; Feminist Research Methods; Senior Seminar in Psychology; Psychology of Morality and Social Conflict; Mind and Body.
Areas of expertise: Psychology of women; gender; the body; and emotion.
Major publications: "Lanahan Readings in the Psychology of Women"
Other areas of personal/professional interests: Parenting, fashion, and the media
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