Psychology at Centre College

7 faculty and 30 courses in Psychology at Centre College.

Faculty

• Jennifer Goetz, H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Psychology; Chair of Division III h-index 16
  Notable: “Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review.” (2010) · 2,182 citations
• Drew Morris, Associate Professor of Psychology; Chair of Psychology Program; Director of the Institutional Review Board h-index 16
  Involve the perception and judgment of art, especially the role of knowledge and attention in the valuation of paintings. He is also interested in the interaction between sleep and cognition. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS Human
  Notable: “Neural correlates of personally familiar faces: Parents, partner and own faces” (2008) · 135 citations
• Brian Cusato, Dean of Student Success; Director of Centre Learning Commons; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience h-index 9
  And the integration of biological, comparative, and evolutionary approaches to the study of learned behavior. Cusato’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, and findings from his experiments have been published i
  Notable: “Learning with arbitrary versus ecological conditioned stimuli: Evidence from sexual conditioning” (2004) · 70 citations
• Aaron J. Godlaski, Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience; Health Professions; Pre-Dentistry Advisor h-index 5
  The psychophysiological effects of interacting with nature, and the role of personality and individual difference factors in the experience of hypo-egoic phenomena (awe, humility, gratitude). He is also interested in pedagogical inn
  Notable: “Men and women, alcohol and aggression.” (2009) · 127 citations
• McAllister Stephens, Visiting Instructor of Psychology h-index 2
  Focus on research investigates the mechanisms underlying concurrent choice behavior, focusing on how contextual or environmental shifts alter the relative value of competing options. Specifically, how these dynamics influence decision-makin
  Notable: “An ultrasonographic scoring method for transabdominal monitoring of ascarid burdens in foals” (2015) · 30 citations
• Morgan Cope, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 2
  Notable: “Putting me back together by getting back together: Post-dissolution self-concept confusion predicts rekindling desire among anxiously attached individuals” (2020) · 15 citations
• Jan Wertz, Professor of Psychology

Courses

• Introduction to Psychological Science PSY 110
• Survey of Psychological Science PSY 111
• Introduction to Research Methods PSY 205
• Experimental Psychology PSY 210
• Introduction to Research PSY 250
• Physiological Psychology PSY 295
• Cognition PSY 300
• The Psychology of Learning PSY 305
• Personality PSY 310
• Health Psychology PSY 315
• Applied Psychology PSY 317
• Abnormal Psychology PSY 320
• Animal Behavior PSY 330
• Psychology of Cults PSY 333
• Cultural Psychology PSY 335
• Psychometrics PSY 340
• Work and Design Psychology PSY 345
• Advanced Research Topics PSY 350
• Psychology of Sexuality PSY 355
• Social Psychology PSY 360
• Law and Human Behavior PSY 365
• Motivation and Emotion PSY 370
• Life-Span Developmental Psychology PSY 380
• Psychology of Race and Ethnicity PSY 385
• Psychology of Women PSY 390
• The Roots of Mindfulness PSY 451
• Bhutan: Happiness in the Land of Enlightenment PSY 454
• Senior Seminar PSY 500
• + 2 more courses

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.