教师 Department of Psychological Sciences

艾米J. 波西,Ph值.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Dr. 艾米·波西 received her B.S. from Missouri State University and her M.A. 和Ph值.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Kansas. She has been at Benedictine College since 1995, and is currently chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences. 近年来, she has worked with students on research projects involving gender and persuasive messages, conveying emotion through text messages, and the psychological consequences of perfectionism among college students. Dr. Posey resides in Kansas City with her husband, daughter, and dog. 联系艾米·波西

Eva Chian-Hui Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Eva (Chian-Hui) Chen received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2011 and joined Benedictine College as a faculty in the same year. She is committed to bringing diversity into our understanding of human development via undergraduate teaching, advising and mentoring, 也 as collaborative research.

She teaches General Psychology, Developmental Psychology I &II, Lifespan Development, Cultural Psychology, and Research Seminar. Collaborative learning is essential to her teaching philosophy as it makes the classroom a place where everyone can cooperate, 挑战, 贡献, 鼓励, and support one another. In her teaching, she strives to inspire students to be self-directed lifelong learners.

Her research seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach to studying human development in cultural contexts. One area of her research focuses on understanding Vietnamese-Taiwanese transnational marriage families in Taiwan. Another area of focus is on examining teaching effectiveness in developmental psychology. 联系陈伊娃

Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dr. Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez earned an MSc in Research Methods (2002) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology (2005) from The University of Bristol, 在英格兰. Upon graduation he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Bristol and then at Bangor University, 在威尔士. From 2012 to 2022 he was at The University of Southern Mississippi, most recently as a tenured associate professor in psychology. In 2019 he earned a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Ball State University. He joined Benedictine College in the fall of 2022. Dr. Stadthagen-Gonzalez’s main area of research is in the psychology of language, including work on bilingualism, language and emotion, 词识别, and categorization of meanings. More recently he has also started conducting research on the topic of financial infidelity. He teaches General Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biopsychology, and Research & Statistics in Psychology. 博士联系. Stadthagen-Gonzalez

莎朗·米. Houlahan, Ph值.D.

Assistant Professor

莎朗·米. Houlahan completed her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She went on to earn an M.A. in Clinical Counseling at The Citadel while serving in the United States Marine Corps. 她的米.A. in Pastoral Ministry 和Ph值.D. in Counseling Psychology are both from Boston College. She also completed an APA accredited pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology in remote Alaska before coming to Benedictine College in 2020. She currently teaches: General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Introduction to Counseling, 健康心理学, Tests and Measurement, and will be teaching a Research Seminar next year. Her research interests include exploring how spirituality, 能力, 文化, and housing status each impact mental health and identity.

J. 院长爱尔摩博士.D.

Associate Professor

院长爱尔摩 earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from the University of Alabama in 2017 and began working at Benedictine College in the fall of that year. 他得到了M。.A. from the University of Alabama, 也, and completed his undergraduate degree in Sociology-Psychology at Birmingham-Southern College. Dr. Elmore teaches General Psychology, Research and Statistics in Psychology, Psychology of Learning, and Environmental Psychology. His research interests are in the area of social psychology with a focus on psychological processes related to victimization and morality. 联系院长Elmore