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Psychology Faculty

Department of Psychology
Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984

Kaye Cook

Kaye V. Cook
Department Chair
Professor

Psychology

 

B.A. Georgia College
M.A., Ph.D. University of North Carolina


Kaye Cook is interested in moral and spiritual development and, with the help of psychology majors interested in doing research, is currently using interview studies to explore the everyday understandings of morality by Cambodian Buddhists and Christians. She is also working on a project exploring Christian college students' spirituality and how spirituality is affected by the shifts in social networks that occur with graduation. Kaye has led the youth ministry in her church and is active in the Association for Moral Education and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. She was most recently a visiting professor at Dartmouth College.


Bryan Auday

Bryan C. Auday
Professor
Psychology



B.A. Biola University
M.A. California State University, Los Angeles
Ph.D. Colorado State University 

Dr. Auday joined the Gordon faculty in 1986. His primary research and teaching interests are in neuroscience and cognitive psychology with a particular passion for trying to understand what brain waves (EEG) can tell us about memory and linguistic processing. In 2001 he started a neuroscience minor that offers an interdisciplinary study in psychology, biology, and kinesiology. He received the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award in 1994 and the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award in 2003.


Jonathan Gerber

Jonathan Gerber
Assistant Professor
Psychology

BPsych (Hon I) The University of Sydney
Ph.D Macquarie University

Dr. Gerber has newly arrived from Australia where he received a Ph.D for experimental work on interpersonal rejection. He is interested in the ways that repeated exposure to a social situation influences immediate and long-term perception. He also conducts meta-analyses of social psychological phenomena. He is teaching social psychology, personality, research methods and statistics, and introductory psychology.

In the past he has worked on a federally funded project addressing doctor shortages in rural Australia. 


Bert Hodges

Bert H. Hodges
Professor
Psychology

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Dr. Hodges teaches courses in cognitive, social, and theoretical psychology, as well as introductory and cross-cultural psychology. He has been on the faculty since 1972 and received the Senior Distinguished Faculty Award in 1997. He also serves as Senior Research Scientist at the University of Connecticut.

His research is both empirical and theoretical, focusing particularly on developing an ecological account of values, and exploring its implications for social psychology, perception & action, and language. His current work focuses on the role of trust and truth in social interaction; the social and moral pragmatics of conversing; the integration of various physical dimensions (e.g., weight, time) in perception; the effect of language on color perception; and the nature of carefulness in perception-action tasks. Student research assistants are a vital and rewarding part of these efforts. For selected publications see http://faculty.gordon.edu/ss/py/Bert_Hodges/index.cfm.

Dr. Hodges has been a visiting professor or scholar at the University of California Santa-Barbara, Southampton University (UK), University of Portsmouth (UK), and Rutgers University. His work has been recognized by the Templeton Foundation and the National Science Foundation.


Suzanne Phillips

Suzanne M. Phillips
Professor
Psychology



B.A. Gordon College
M.A., Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo

Dr. Phillips is a clinical psychologist interested in communitarian and interpersonal theories of mental disorder. Many American ideas about mental illness stem from the individualism in our culture; when we take a less individualistic view, a view more consistent with Scripture, then we may have new ideas about what mental illness is and how to address it. Dr. Phillips recently completed a sabbatical during which she worked in a communitarian setting serving adults with mental illness. She looks forward to taking lessons learned on the sabbatical back into the classroom, particularly into her courses on psychopathology and community psychology.

Dr. Phillips joined the Gordon faculty in 1997, after teaching in the University of Pittsburgh system for seven years. She received the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award in 2001.