Psychology at Macalester College

11 faculty and 36 courses in Psychology at Macalester College.

Faculty

• Joan Ostrove, Professor of Psychology h-index 25
  Notable: “Socioeconomic Status and Health: What We Know and What We Don't” (1999) · 1,658 citations
• Eric Wiertelak, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience h-index 25
  Notable: “Characterization of cytokine-induced hyperalgesia” (1994) · 503 citations
• Jaine Strauss, Professor h-index 22
  Ed on strategies and interventions that promote emotional wellbeing. Her projects included investigations of anxiety mindsets, mindfulness, and attitudes about uncertainty as well as explorations of “body talk” conversations, self-control s
  Notable: “Part III. Speculations on the Processes That Underlie Schizophrenic Symptoms and Signs” (1974) · 575 citations
• Steve Guglielmo, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 13
  Notable: “A Theory of Blame” (2014) · 627 citations
• Cari Gillen-O'Neel, Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology h-index 12
  Es on social identities—identities derived from our membership in groups, including demographic groups (e.g., race/ethnicity) and institutional groups (e.g., school). These identities can provide us with community and pride, but at the same
  Notable: “Sense of Belonging and Student Engagement: A Daily Study of First- and Continuing-Generation College Students” (2019) · 245 citations
• Ariel James, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 5
  Notable: “A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production” (2016) · 335 citations
• Brian Rood, Assistant Professor of Psychology
• Brooke Lea, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science Concentration
  Theories of discourse comprehension, models of human logical competence, the interaction between culture and cognition, and comprehension processes involved in reading poetry. He serves on the editorial board of Psychological Bullet
• Darcy Burgund, Professor of Psychology, Director of Neuroscience Program
• Jamie Atkins, Introductory Psychology Lab Instructor and Animal Facilities Manager
• Jean-Marie Maddux, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Courses

• Introduction to Psychology PSYC 100
• Psychology in the Material World PSYC 172
• Topics Course PSYC 194
• Research in Psychology I PSYC 201
• Educational Psychology PSYC 220
• Principles of Learning and Behavior PSYC 240
• Cognitive Psychology PSYC 242
• Psychological Anthropology PSYC 243
• Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 244
• Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 248
• Developmental Psychology PSYC 250
• Distress, Dysfunction, and Disorder: Perspectives on the DSM PSYC 252
• Social Psychology PSYC 254
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology PSYC 258
• The Psychology of Gender PSYC 264
• Psychology of Sustainable Behavior PSYC 270
• Health Psychology PSYC 272
• Psychology and/of Climate Change PSYC 273
• Research in Psychology II PSYC 301
• Intelligence PSYC 342
• Race in Developing Lives PSYC 350
• Lives in Context: Psychology and Social Structure PSYC 364
• Psychology of/and Disability PSYC 368
• Clinical and Counseling Psychology PSYC 374
• Moral Psychology PSYC 377
• Psychology of Language PSYC 378
• Community Psychology and Public Health PSYC 380
• Mind Reading: Understanding Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging PSYC 385
• The Neuroscience of Reward PSYC 388
• Directed Research in Psych PSYC 401
• Clinical Science Capstone PSYC 402
• Research in Hemisphere Asymmetries PSYC 450
• Behavioral and Experimental Economics Capstone PSYC 490
• + 3 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.