Daniel W. Barrett, Ph.D.

I earned my Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Arizona State University and spent the two years prior to coming to WCSU as a post-doctoral fellow in health communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.   My primary research interests are persuasion, social influence, and cross-cultural psychology.  More specifically, I have been investigating how people assess the validity of persuasive messages (i.e., why do we accept or reject messages?), how norms impact behavior, and how cultural affects the social influence process.  I have published or am in the process of publishing research on these topics, and co-edited a book on social influence and culture called The Practice of Social Influence in Multiple Cultures with Robert Cialdini, Wilhelmina Wosinska, and Janusz Reykowski.
I teach or will soon be teaching Introduction to Psychology, Personality, Social Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, and the Psychology of Persuasion.

Norine L. Jalbert, Ph.D.

I have been teaching at WCSU since 1978. Courses I currently teach every year include Introduction to Psychology, Social Psychology, and Psychology of Women. Courses I teach every other year include Social Psychology and the Law and Advanced Personality-Social Psychology.

Research interests relate to attribution theory, especially work related to responsibility attributions in response to social stimulus variables such as gender, race, and attractiveness.

Tara Kuther, Ph.D.

My research examines how people make decisions about whether to engage in risky behaviors such as substance use, delinquent activity, and sexual activity. My most recent work focuses on alcohol use and social cognitive variables thought to play a role in drinking by adolescents and young adults. A second line of research concerns the effects of exposure to violence during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. A third area of work examines moral reasoning from a theoretical perspective, as well as its association with exposure to violence and risky activity. Ethics is a final area in which I have written, specifically, ethical issues that arise in practice and applied research with children, adolescents, and older adults, as well as ethical issues in teaching. Over the years I have worked closely with many WCSU students, inviting them to work on my research and scholarly activities, and helping them develop and test their own ideas.

I have written and edited several books including: The Psychology Major’s Handbook, Careers in Psychology: Opportunities in a Changing World, Graduate Study in Psychology: Your Guide to Success, and the Your Career in Psychology Series.

Bernard P. Gee, Ph.D.
I earned bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Biology at San Jose State University, and received my doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester. Courses routinely taught at WCSU are Introduction to Psychology and Brain and Behavior. My research focuses on investigating the brain circuits and cognitive processes related to vision. Specific studies address various aspects of visual experience, including perception, learning, memory, and eye movements.