Psychology at Colby College

13 faculty and 40 courses in Psychology at Colby College.

Faculty

• Christopher Soto, Chair, Professor h-index 40
  Notable: “Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.” (2008) · 2,569 citations
• Martha Arterberry, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “Recognition, discrimination and categorization of smiling by 5‐month‐old infants” (2003) · 200 citations
• Jennifer Coane, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “Test-enhanced learning of natural concepts: Effects on recognition memory, classification, and metacognition.” (2010) · 124 citations
• Jin Goh, Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Mini Meta‐Analysis of Your Own Studies: Some Arguments on Why and a Primer on How” (2016) · 1,027 citations
• Melissa Glenn, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Hippocampal Damage and Exploratory Preferences in Rats: Memory for Objects, Places, and Contexts” (2002) · 718 citations
• Erin Sheets, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Exercise and the Treatment of Clinical Depression in Adults” (2002) · 515 citations
• Derek Huffman, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature” (2017) · 191 citations
• Veronica Romero, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Evaluating the importance of social motor synchronization and motor skill for understanding autism” (2017) · 106 citations
• Elizabeth Seto, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Straying From the Righteous Path and From Ourselves” (2016) · 61 citations
• Ross Rogers, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Causal deviance and the ascription of intent and blame” (2019) · 22 citations
• Tarja Raag, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Preschoolers' Awareness of Social Expectations of Gender: Relationships to Toy Choices” (1998) · 88 citations
• Czarina Evangelista, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Michael Buccigrossi, Visiting Assistant Professor

Courses

• Introduction to Psychology PS111fs
• Memories and Memoirs PS120B
• Worlds of Childhood PS120Cs
• Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology I PS214f
• Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology II PS215s
• Social Identities PS223
• Cognitive Psychology PS232
• Biological Basis of Behavior PS233fs
• Principles of Learning PS234s
• Drugs, Brain, and Behavior PS236
• Health Psychology PS241s
• Psychoneuroimmunology PS242f
• Cognitive Neuroscience PS244f
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology PS245f
• Personality Psychology PS251f
• Social Psychology PS253fs
• Psychological Disorders PS254s
• Lifespan Development PS259fs
• Sensation and Perception PS272
• Environmental Psychology PS298s
• Seminar in Diversity Science PS332
• Seminar in Experimental Social Psychology PS336fs
• Seminar in Personality Psychology PS339s
• Seminar in Memory PS341
• Seminar in Emotion Theory and Research PS343
• Seminar in Human Movement PS345
• Seminar in Cognitive Development PS347f
• Seminar in Neural Plasticity and Behavior PS349f
• Seminar: Sexes and Genders PS352A
• Cognitive Aging Seminar PS352B
• Seminar on Mood Disorders and Creativity PS352C
• Seminar: Psychology of Prejudice PS352D
• Seminar: Neuroscience of Addiction PS352F
• Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience PS358s
• Advanced Quantitative Analysis of Psychological Data PS362
• Seminar: Psychology and Neuroscience PS374s
• Senior Empirical Research PS416
• Senior Integrative Seminar PS420fs
• Honors Research I PS483fj
• Independent Study PS491f

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.