Psychology at Lafayette College

14 faculty and 34 courses in Psychology at Lafayette College.

Faculty

• Michael Nees, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Acceptance of Self-driving Cars” (2016) · 137 citations
• Susan Wenze, Assistant Department Head, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “Use of ecological momentary assessment in mood disorders research” (2010) · 208 citations
• Jennifer Talarico, Department Head, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Psychology h-index 16
  Memory for personally experienced events, particularly the relationship between event features (like emotion or importance) and memory characteristics (like vividness or confidence that the memory accurately represents what occurred)”? Laf
  Notable: “Confidence, Not Consistency, Characterizes Flashbulb Memories” (2003) · 631 citations
• Lisa Gabel, Dean of Natural Sciences, Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience h-index 12
  Synaptic plasticity; epilepsy; neurodevelopmental disorders; Brain-Computer Interface Lafayette College Plan a Visit
  Notable: “Visual Experience Regulates Transient Expression and Dendritic Localization of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein” (2004) · 101 citations
• Lauren Myers, Associate Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Baby FaceTime: can toddlers learn from online video chat?” (2016) · 185 citations
• Susan Hannan, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Prospective Trajectories of Posttraumatic Stress in College Women Following a Campus Mass Shooting” (2014) · 122 citations
• Luis Schettino, Associate Professor & Chair of the Neuroscience Program h-index 10
  Sensorimotor control in humans, particularly the control of grasping behavior; the detailed analysis of behavior through movement tracking techniques in healthy and patient populations as a means to infer the neural bases of complex motor
  Notable: “Effects of object shape and visual feedback on hand configuration during grasping” (2003) · 137 citations
• Abbey Mann, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Stigma and suicide risk among the LGBTQ population: Are anxiety and depression to blame and can connectedness to the LGBTQ community help?” (2019) · 150 citations
• Chu Chu, Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Person-occupation fit; vocational interest measurement; AI-tools for psychological measurement; individual difference development and change. Lafayette College Plan a Visit
  Notable: “What Do Interest Inventories Measure? The Convergence and Content Validity of Four RIASEC Inventories” (2022) · 17 citations
• Caitlin Madison, Assistant Professor
• Deja Simon-Jennings, Assistant Professor
  How social biases (e.g., pertaining to race or skin tone) influence memory and judgments of others Lafayette College Plan a Visit
• Jessie Greenlee, Assistant Professor
• JJ Togans, Assistant Professor
  Guilty pleasures, attitudes and persuasion, emotion, cross-cultural psychology Lafayette College Plan a Visit
• Kevin O'Connor, Visiting Assistant Professor

Courses

• Introduction to Psychological Science PSYC 110
• Quantitative Methods in Psychology PSYC 120
• Design and Analysis I PSYC 203
• Second Language Acquisition PSYC 210
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology PSYC 211
• Cross-Cultural Psychology PSYC 219
• Physiological Psychology I PSYC 223
• Psychopharmacology PSYC 225
• Lifespan Development I PSYC 230
• Personality PSYC 231
• Psychological Diagnoses PSYC 232
• Social Psychology I PSYC 235
• Psychological Treatments PSYC 237
• Tests and Measurement PSYC 239
• Health Psychology PSYC 240
• Educational Psychology PSYC 242
• Sensation & Perception PSYC 245
• Psychology of Gender PSYC 248
• Cognitive Psychology I PSYC 256
• Family Psychology PSYC 261
• Sports Psychology PSYC 270
• Design and Analysis II PSYC 304
• Learning PSYC 321
• Physiological Psychology II PSYC 323
• Social Psychology II PSYC 327
• Lifespan Development II PSYC 328
• Clinical Psychology PSYC 329
• Cognitive Psychology II PSYC 330
• Human Factors and Engineering Psychology PSYC 331
• Mood Disorders PSYC 334
• Practicum in Psychology PSYC 342
• Community Health PSYC 349
• Capstone Course in Psychology PSYC 490
• Thesis PSYC 495

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.