24 faculty and 58 courses in Psychology at Wellesley College.
- Paul Wink, Nellie Zuckerman Cohen & Anne Cohen Heller Professor Emeritus in Health Sciences & Professor Emeritus of Psychology h-index 34
Notable: “Two faces of narcissism.” (1991) · 837 citations
- Jeremy Wilmer, Professor of Psychology h-index 33
Notable: “Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments” (2012) · 716 citations
- Beth Hennessey, Professor Emerita of Psychology h-index 32
Notable: “Creativity” (2009) · 1,415 citations
- Jonathan Cheek, Professor of Psychology h-index 32
Shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations. Link to Personal Page Education B.A., George Washington University M.A., The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Current and upcoming courses Introduction t
Notable: “The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales” (1986) · 2,363 citations
- Margaret Keane, Denise Kellen '68 Professor Emerita in the Health Sciences & Professor Emerita of Psychology h-index 30
Notable: “Double Dissociation Between Memory Systems Underlying Explicit and Implicit Memory in the Human Brain” (1995) · 371 citations
- Jennifer Grossman, Senior Research Scientist h-index 29
Adolescent development, with a focus on sexual health and risk-taking and racial and ethnic identity. Wellesley Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA Social
Notable: “The role of perceived barriers and relational support in the educational and vocational lives of urban high school students.” (2003) · 304 citations
- Christen Deveney, James W. and Patricia T. Poitras DS '91 Associate Professor in the Natural Sciences and Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 27
Notable: “Neural Mechanisms of Frustration in Chronically Irritable Children” (2013) · 210 citations
- Linda Carli, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Psychology h-index 26
Es on the effects of gender on women's leadership, group interaction, communication, influence, and reactions to adversity. I teach courses in introductory and social psychology as well as advanced courses in the psychology of law, which ap
Notable: “The female leadership advantage: An evaluation of the evidence” (2003) · 1,691 citations
- Julie Norem, Margaret Hamm Professor of Psychology h-index 23
Es on the strategies people use to pursue their goals, with an emphasis on the strategy of defensive pessimism; and on the ways self-knowledge influences adaptation, performance, and social relationships, particularly among those who feel l
Notable: “Defensive pessimism: Harnessing anxiety as motivation.” (1986) · 547 citations
- Jennie Pyers, Professor of Psychology h-index 23
The relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, the psycholinguistics of sign languages, and the role of iconicity in language. My research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition. In particular, I
Notable: “Complements to cognition: a longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding” (2002) · 657 citations
- Tracy Gleason, Nellie Zuckerman Cohen & Anne Cohen Heller Professor of Health Sciences and Professor of Psychology h-index 23
Notable: “Internalization, autonomy, and relationships: Development during adolescence” (1997) · 139 citations
- Stephen Chen, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 21
Lie at the intersection of clinical, cultural, and developmental psychology. The overarching aim of my research is to examine how cultural and family processes influence mental health and development across the lifespan. I explore this ques
Notable: “Hypothalamic Neural Projections Are Permanently Disrupted in Diet-Induced Obese Rats” (2008) · 256 citations
- Margery Lucas, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences h-index 15
Were varied and interdisciplinary. Early in my career at Wellesley, I conducted research in psycholinguistics, with a focus on semantic aspects of sentence processing. More recently, my research focus was in decision-making, particularly wi
Notable: “Semantic priming without association: A meta-analytic review” (2000) · 410 citations
- Sally Theran, Professor of Psychology h-index 12
Es on risk and resilience factors that protect against developmental psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, with a specific emphasis on gender issues. Within this broad rubric, my current area of research examines factors that put gi
Notable: “The Social Networks of Women Experiencing Domestic Violence” (2004) · 207 citations
- Angela Bahns, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 11
Es on the dynamics of prejudice and intergroup relations with the goal of reducing prejudice. In one line of work I study stereotypes and threats as justifications of prejudice. The central aim of this work is to examine how and when the co
Notable: “Similarity in relationships as niche construction: Choice, stability, and influence within dyads in a free choice environment.” (2016) · 154 citations
- Nancy Genero, Associate Professor Emerita of Psychology h-index 11
Es on the social and cultural psychological issues that pertain to the lives of diverse groups of women, girls, and their families. In particular, I study the role of close relationships and their impact on identity development and psycholo
Notable: “Engaging Latino sexual minority men in PrEP and behavioral health care: multilevel barriers, facilitators, and potential implementation strategies” (2022) · 36 citations
- Robin Akert, Professor of Psychology h-index 7
Es on nonverbal communication, specifically, our ability to decode nonverbal cues in social interaction. One area on which I have focused is the methodological issues underlying the study of nonverbal decoding. While maximizing internal and
Notable: “Words and everything else: Verbal and nonverbal cues in social interpretation.” (1977) · 220 citations
- Craig Brinkman, Assistant Teaching Professor in Psychology h-index 4
That include romantic relationships, prejudice, and sport psychology. Close interpersonal relationships are among the most important aspects of many people’s lives. Close relationships (and romantic relationships specifically) can be the so
Notable: “The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable.” (2020) · 32 citations
- Wednesday Bushong, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences h-index 4
Notable: “Dynamic re-weighting of acoustic and contextual cues in spoken word recognition” (2019) · 26 citations
- Sheila Brachfeld-Child, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Psychology h-index 3
Notable: “Mothers' and fathers' speech to infants in a teaching situation” (1988) · 16 citations
- Kristen Poston, Assistant Teaching Professor in Psychology h-index 2
Es on identifying and describing the influence of individual and contextual factors that impact well-being outcomes for youth in school and out-of-school-time settings. I am also interested in the role of cultural context and gender in shap
Notable: “Before the School Bell Rings: How a Before-School Physical Activity Program Improves Executive Functions.” (2015) · 5 citations
- Afiya Mbilishaka, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Psychology
- Kyra Kulik-Johnson, Associate Teaching Professor in Psychology
- Lia Simon, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Psychology
Lie in the psychological process of learning and how it is influenced by self-efficacy, as well as social factors, such as societal images of groups and pressure from parents and friends. I am also interested in the importance of friendship
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.