Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Boston College

11 faculty and 67 courses in Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at Boston College.

Faculty

• Elizabeth Kensinger, Professor h-index 69
  Notable: “Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?” (2003) · 918 citations
• Liane Young, Professor h-index 59
  Notable: “Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements” (2007) · 1,561 citations
• Gorica Petrovich, Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “What is the amygdala?” (1998) · 1,350 citations
• Maureen Ritchey, Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour” (2012) · 1,467 citations
• Katherine McAuliffe, Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies” (2015) · 528 citations
• Sara Cordes, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers” (2001) · 445 citations
• Jennifer Drake, Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Taking a Leap of Faith: Redefining Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Through Project-Based Learning” (2014) · 200 citations
• Jaclyn Ford, Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Remembering what could have happened: Neural correlates of episodic counterfactual thinking” (2013) · 207 citations
• Gregg Sparkman, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Dynamic Norms Promote Sustainable Behavior, Even if It Is Counternormative” (2017) · 631 citations
• Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Professor (incoming) h-index 4
  Notable: “Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability” (2020) · 103 citations
• Kengthsagn Louis, Professor (incoming) h-index 3
  Notable: “Double isolation: Identity expression threat predicts greater gender disparities in computer science” (2019) · 47 citations

Courses

• Science of Emotion PSYC 1032
• Memory in Everyday Life PSYC 1072
• Thinking about Feelings PSYC 1091
• Brain, Mind, and Behavior PSYC 1110
• Self, Mind, and Society PSYC 1111
• Introduction to Neuropsychological Disorders PSYC 1113
• Introduction to Behavioral Stats and Research I PSYC 1120
• Introduction to Behavioral Stats and Research II PSYC 1121
• Introduction to Psychopathology PSYC 2234
• Social Psychology PSYC 2241
• Personality Theories PSYC 2242
• Health Psychology: Foundations for a Culture of Health Equity PSYC 2255
• Developmental Psychology PSYC 2260
• Cognitive Psychology PSYC 2272
• Sensation and Perception PSYC 2274
• Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 2285
• Comparative Psych: Study of Animal Behavior PSYC 2289
• Topics in Machine Intelligence: Biomedical Image Analysis PSYC 3317
• Religion and the Brain PSYC 3322
• Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination PSYC 3327
• Psychophysiology of Stress PSYC 3329
• Developmental Psychopathology PSYC 3331
• Topics in Developmental Psychopathology PSYC 3332
• Interpersonal Violence PSYC 3334
• Clinical Psychology PSYC 3336
• Psychology of Morality PSYC 3341
• Social Motivation PSYC 3345
• Close Relationships PSYC 3346
• Mind of a Dog: How Canine Cognition Informs Human Psychology PSYC 3362
• Poverty and Neurodevelopment PSYC 3364
• Social and Emotional Development PSYC 3366
• Infancy PSYC 3368
• Understanding the Social World: Social Cognition in Humans and Other Animals PSYC 3369
• Nudge Psychology PSYC 3370
• Cognitive Neuroscience: Mind and Brain PSYC 3371
• Learning and Motivation PSYC 3373
• Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognitive Aging PSYC 3374
• Psych and Neuroscience of Human Memory PSYC 3375
• Developmental Neuroscience PSYC 3376
• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 3377
• Experimental Design and Stats PSYC 5501
• Multiple Regression PSYC 5502
• Advanced Topics in Social Psych PSYC 5540
• Moral Emotions PSYC 5541
• Topics in Moral Psych PSYC 5543
• Psychological Insights from Caribbean and African Epistemologies PSYC 5544
• Advanced Topics in Social Neuroscience PSYC 5545
• Advanced Topics in Developmental Psych PSYC 5560
• Mathematical Cognition and Learning PSYC 5561
• Theories of Human Uniqueness PSYC 5562
• Origins of Virtue PSYC 5565
• Psychological Perspectives on the Good Life PSYC 5566
• Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 5571
• Neuroscience of Sensation and Perception PSYC 5574
• Advanced Affective Neuroscience PSYC 5575
• Methods in Human Brain Mapping PSYC 5576
• The Hippocampus PSYC 5577
• Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention PSYC 5578
• Building Memories: From Networks to Narratives PSYC 5579
• Molecular Basis of Learning and Memory PSYC 5583
• Brain Systems: Motivation and Emotion PSYC 5585
• Cellular Perspectives on Motivated Behavior PSYC 5587
• Behavioral Neuroimmunology: Immune Modulation of Brain and Behavior PSYC 5588
• Mathematics and Computation for Research in Psychology and Neuroscience PSYC 5595
• Graduate Programming Lab PSYC 6501
• Methods for Handling Missing Data PSYC 6503
• Structural Equation Modeling PSYC 6601

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.