Psychology at Whitman College

11 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at Whitman College.

Faculty

• Thomas Armstrong, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 26
  Notable: “Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis” (2012) · 1,041 citations
• Erin Pahlke, Associate Professor of Psychology and Paul Garrett Fellow (on sabbatical, ) h-index 22
  Notable: “Highlights from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 2003. NCES 2005-005.” (2004) · 369 citations
• Melissa Clearfield, Laura and Carl Peterson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology h-index 17
  Ed on how socio-economic status impacts attention and executive function in infants. Clearfield, M.W. (2020). Play For Success: A novel intervention to boost visual attention in low-SES infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193
  Notable: “Number Versus Contour Length in Infants' Discrimination of Small Visual Sets” (1999) · 386 citations
• Pavel S. Blagov, Professor of Psychology h-index 15
  Notable: “Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election” (2006) · 498 citations
• Matthew W. Prull, Professor of Psychology (on sabbatical, ) h-index 14
  Focus on understanding adult age-related patterns of change and stability in mental abilities such as memory, language and the use of general knowledge. Much of his research is guided by dual-process conceptualizations of memory that distin
  Notable: “Functional Specialization for Semantic and Phonological Processing in the Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex” (1999) · 1,459 citations
• Walter Herbranson, Professor of Psychology and Herbert and Pearl Ladley Endowed Chair of Cognitive Science h-index 12
  Notable: “Are birds smarter than mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba livia) perform optimally on a version of the Monty Hall Dilemma.” (2010) · 82 citations
• Nancy Day, Associate Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of BB&C h-index 11
  Notable: “VoICE: A semi-automated pipeline for standardizing vocal analysis across models” (2015) · 67 citations
• Stephen Michael, Senior Lecturer of Psychology, Chair of Psychology h-index 10
  Notable: “Accusatorial and information-gathering interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: a meta-analytic review” (2014) · 230 citations
• Matthew D. Langley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 5
  /Interest Cognitive psychology, perception, perception-action, perceptual bias, spatial bias, object perception, scene perception, affordances, natural regularities. Ph.D. Cognitive Science Psychology Arizona State University May 2025 M.A.
  Notable: “Turning perception on its head: cephalic perception of whole and partial length of a wielded object” (2016) · 26 citations
• Erika B. Langley, Assistant Professor of Psychology
• Greg Harman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
  /Interest Biography Education Areas of Expertise/Interest Dr. Harman grew up in Bethesda, MD and Lake Forest, IL, and subsequently has lived in Baltimore,MD; Durham, NC; St. Paul, MN; Elmhurst, IL; and now Walla Walla. He was a teacher for

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.