Psychology at Santa Clara University

18 faculty and 40 courses in Psychology at Santa Clara University.

Faculty

• Thomas Plante, The Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor h-index 36
  Applied spirituality and health outcomes Clerical abuse and abuse prevention Psychological screening of Catholic and Episcopal clergy applicants Professional and personal ethics Books Published Plante, T. G. (2024). Health Behavior Change
  Notable: “Cultivating mindfulness: effects on well‐being” (2008) · 694 citations
• Tim Urdan, Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “The Development and Validation of Scales Assessing Students' Achievement Goal Orientations” (1998) · 809 citations
• Lang Chen, Associate Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “ERP signatures of subject–verb agreement in L2 learning” (2007) · 218 citations
• Patricia Simone, Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “Aminoglycoside Toxicity: Daily versus Thrice-Weekly Dosing for Treatment of Mycobacterial Diseases” (2004) · 268 citations
• Kieran Sullivan, Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “Problem-Solving Skills and Affective Expressions as Predictors of Change in Marital Satisfaction.” (2005) · 257 citations
• Jui Bhagwat, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “The use of receiver operating characteristic curves in biomedical informatics” (2005) · 847 citations
• Matthew Bell, Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “PAVLOVIAN CONTINGENCIES AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE IN A MULTIPLE SCHEDULE” (1999) · 58 citations
• Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Associate Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.” (2015) · 188 citations
• Michelle Rivers, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Metacognition About Practice Testing: a Review of Learners’ Beliefs, Monitoring, and Control of Test-Enhanced Learning” (2020) · 91 citations
• Kathryn Bruchmann, Professor h-index 10
  Es on how socially comparing with others can change people’s self-perceptions. Within this area, I am currently interested in how comparisons with others in person or on social media can influence body image disturbances. In a seconda
  Notable: “Knowledge matters: Anchoring effects are moderated by knowledge level” (2012) · 88 citations
• Giselle Laiduc, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Psychologically wise interventions to improve the experiences of historically minoritized students; diversity ideologies; educational equity; hidden curriculum; college transition; sociocultural factors in higher education; servingness For
  Notable: ““You Never Become Fully Independent”: Family Roles and Independence in First-Generation College Students” (2018) · 178 citations
• Kirsten Read, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Es on early language development, how most children become so fast and fluent in understanding and using language in just the first few years of life - no small task My most recent studies involve looking at how common kinds of language ex
  Notable: “The Impact of COVID-19 on Families’ Home Literacy Practices with Young Children” (2021) · 45 citations
• Tanya Gupta, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Adaptive behavior – how does the brain adjust its computations to change behavior when the environment changes? Interval Timing – what is the temporal structure of behavior? How does the brain track the passage of time and coord
  Notable: “Hyperactive MEK1 Signaling in Cortical GABAergic Neurons Promotes Embryonic Parvalbumin Neuron Loss and Defects in Behavioral Inhibition” (2020) · 23 citations
• Lisa Whitfield, Teaching Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Function as a criterion for the extension of new words” (2001) · 49 citations
• Barbara O'Brien, Lecturer
• Jennifer Frihauf, Lecturer
• Romina Sevilla Miller, Lecturer
• Steven Del Chiaro, Lecturer

Courses

• General Psychology: Biological, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches PSYC 1
• General Psychology I Honors: Biological, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches PSYC 1H
• General Psychology: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Approaches PSYC 2
• Statistics and Methods I PSYC 51
• Statistics and Methods II PSYC 52
• Statistics and Methods Practicum PSYC 53
• Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 65
• Writing in Psychology PSYC 102
• Motivation and Emotion PSYC 112
• Ethics in Psychology PSYC 114
• Psychopathology PSYC 115
• Health Psychology PSYC 117
• Sensation and Perception PSYC 120
• Psychology of Learning PSYC 130
• Cognitive Psychology PSYC 131
• Psychology of Education PSYC 134
• Psycholinguistics PSYC 137
• Human Memory PSYC 138
• Behavior Analysis PSYC 140
• Psychological Assessment PSYC 144
• Social Psychology PSYC 150
• Stigma and Health PSYC 152
• Psychology of Close Relationships PSYC 153
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology PSYC 157
• User Experience Research PSYC 158
• Media Psychology PSYC 159
• Personality and Affective Science PSYC 160
• Cultural Psychology PSYC 162
• Public Health Responses to Substance Use PSYC 163
• Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 165
• Human Neuropsychology PSYC 166
• Psychopharmacology PSYC 167
• Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 169
• Adolescent Development PSYC 172
• Identity PSYC 181
• Psychology of Gender PSYC 182
• Infancy PSYC 184
• Developmental Psychology PSYC 185
• Special Topics in Applied Psychology PSYC 190
• Special Topics in Psychology PSYC 191

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.