Dr. John A. Calicchia came to Bridgewater in 1993 in the Department of Counselor Education where he served as a faculty member, Graduate Program Coordinator and Department Chair before joining the Psychology Department in the Fall of 2007. He has taught a variety of courses including applied pre-adolescent counseling, research methods, and legal and ethical issues. Over the past 20 years, his research and clinical practice have focused mainly on children and adolescence and Dr. Calicchia has an eclectic array of peer-reviewed articles, presentations, and a co-authored book. Dr. Calicchia is a Licensed Psychologist/Health Service Provider in the state of Massachusetts and has special training in child and adolescent psychology. He completed his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in clinical child psychology at McLean Hospital and served as a Child & Adolescent Psychologist at McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Englander has been teaching at BSC since 1993. She has taught ten different undergraduate courses, three of which she introduced to the Psychology curriculum. She also developed an internship program in Forensic Psychology. She has served as department chair and, during her time at BSC, has published five peer-reviewed articles, three editions of a book, and numerous other articles. She has presented her work at many conferences and has given numerous presentations and media interviews. She has been cited dozens of times in newspapers and has appeared on television and radio approximately two dozen times. She has received three external grants and several internal grants. She is the College's first Presidential Fellow, and received that grant and award for establishing and directing the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) at BSC. MARC works with upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in bringing help to K-12 schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; it assists these schools in anti-bullying programs and helps them cope with childhood aggression.  In 2005 she was awarded the Course of Distinction Award by Massachusetts Colleges Online and BSC's Distance Learning Award.  Dr. Englander has been appointed to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Safe School Initiative Task Force, has co-authored legislation with former State Senator Jarrett Barrios, and is currently working on a book about bullying.

Dr. Hannon has taught numerous courses in the Psychology Department since 1979. With faculty from Communication Studies and Social Work, she teaches Perspectives of the Holocaust an effort which has won the Presidential Award for Collaboration in Teaching and in 2007, the Action Teaching Award, Honorable Mention from the Social Psychology Network. Recently, Dr. Hannon designed a course, Service-Learning in Psychology in which BSC students study boys' development and work with a group of young boys from the Big Sisters/Big Brothers program in Brockton, MA. In 2001-2002 Dr. Hannon was a Visiting Scholar at the Centers for Women at Wellesley College where she designed a qualitative research program to study working families in Northern Ireland focusing on the effects of ongoing political violence on work-family life there. She has presented her work at three international conferences and several national and regional conferences. She has published on work-family issues and recently had a book review published in the Irish Journal of Psychology. Dr. Hannon has received multiple internal grants and most recently, won a federal Learn and Serve grant to establish service-learning courses at BSC. She has chaired the Psychology Department for several years and is active on multiple college committees including the Service-Learning Task Force.

Dr. Holmes received his Ph.D. in 1998, and joined Bridgewater in the fall of 2000. He has taught a variety of courses, including Introductory Psychology, Introductory Psychology honors sections, Statistics for Psychology, Research Methods, History of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biopsychology, and Psychology and Literature. Dr. Holmes' current research interests involve issues surrounding consciousness and cognition, and their intersection with philosophy, neuroscience, and the history of psychology. He has also completed research in the past on the phenomenology of false memories and children's theory of mind. He is currently working on an intellectual history of thinking about consciousness and the mind, starting with the Homeric literature and Ancient Greeks.

Dr. Jameson received her Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2004. She has taught a variety of courses including Cognitive Psychology, the Psychology of Aging and Introductory Psychology. At Bridgewater State College, Dr. Jameson has taught Research Methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Survey of Psychological Testing, Social Psychology and the Psychology of Learning. Dr. Jameson's research interests are in the area of cognitive neuropsychology, specifically the role of working memory in decision making, aging and disorders that affect the frontal lobes. Her publications have been included in peer-reviewed journals such as the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. Dr. Jameson is always interested in getting students involved in her research.

Dr. Johnson has been teaching at Bridgewater State College for more than thirty years. She has taught fourteen different undergraduate and three graduate courses, six of which she developed. She has served on a number of committees both inside and outside the department, and is involved in the piloting of First-Year Seminars, to be offered as part of the College's new curriculum. Her primary interest lies in the investigation of evolutionary psychology and its interface with developmental, social, and clinical fields. She has developed several new courses on the subject and has integrated the perspective into every course she teaches. Her research interest is in testing evolutionary hypotheses - for example, those on behavioral and psychological sex differences at all points in development - in order to develop effective pscyhoeducational interventions for couples and families experiencing relationship difficulties.

Dr. Morse received his Ph.D in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University in 2009. His research focuses primarily on psychometrics, and he uses statistical modeling techniques to investigate the effects that different approaches to measurement have on statistical tests. For instance, Dr. Morse's dissertation research extended a series of studies demonstrating that using simple mean or sum scores from a test or scale can drastically inflate the Type I error rate for interaction terms in moderated multiple regression models. However, the use of a modern psychometric technique known as item response theory to calculate individual scores demonstrated significant improvements under the same conditions. Dr. Morse teaches introductory psychology, statistics, and research methods at BSC, and is looking forward to working closely with students both in the classroom and on research projects.

Dr. Neargarder joined the Psychology Department at Bridgewater State College in the Fall of 1999. She primarily teaches courses in Statistics, Research Methods, Biopsychology, and Neuropsychology. She is also the Director of the Honors Program on campus and is a Senior Research Associate at Boston University's Vision and Cognition Laboratory (http://www.bu.edu/neuropsychology). Her research interests include (1) the investigation of how basic visual deficits affect the real-world functioning of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients, and (2) the neuropsychological profiles of patients with various mitochondrial disorders. Her research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Vision Research, the Journal of Gerontology, Cortex, Neuropsychology, and Clinical Nutrition.

Dr. Nicholas has been teaching at Bridgewater State College for nine years. During this time he has taught eight different courses (including web versions of Introductory Psychology) and has worked with three students on independent research projects. Since his employment in 1998, he has published one peer-reviewed research article, had another article rejected, and is currently working on a sample Research Methods textbook chapter for McGraw-Hill. He has presented his research findings at six national conferences, one international conference, and one regional conference. He has been very active on committees within the Psychology Department, and has performed several ad hoc service duties outside of the Psychology Department. He previously served as Psi Chi faculty advisor. His research interests include social influence, social judgments, and the role of emotion in interaction with the social environment. His research tends to focus on how these areas impact workplace behavior. He is also interested in research on effective teaching strategies. Additionally, Dr. Nicholas has served as an external evaluator for two FIPSE-funded distance learning projects and has worked to develop distance learning evaluation materials and instruments.

Dr. Olivares has been with the department of Psychology for eleven years. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has several years of corporate experience, as both an internal and external consultant. His areas of expertise are individual differences and human performance, organization culture and performance, and selection and validation. Dr. Olivares regularly teaches courses in Introductory Psychology, Statistics and Research Methods, Personality and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He also has taught Honors Social Psychology and Honors Introductory Psychology.  Dr. Olivares continues to provide corporate consulting services and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.  His articles have appeared in The Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Teaching in Higher Education, Excellence in College Teaching, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Issues in Educational Research, Radical Pedagogy, and Occupational Health and Safety.

Dr. Richards has been teaching in the Psychology Department at Bridgewater State College since 1976. He has taught a total of twenty-one different courses, seven of which he introduced to the Psychology curriculum. He served one term as Department Chair and has served on a number of committees, both within and outside of the Department. Dr. Richards' primary interest includes developing web-based interactive tutorials that are consistent with principles derived from research in learning and education. His other interests include behavior genetics, cross-cultural psychology, and the psychology of altruistic behavior. These interests have led to the development of new courses within the Psychology Department. In addition, Dr. Richards is responsible for the undergraduate Psychology Department continuing education program and currently is in charge of maintaining the Psychology Department Web Page.

Dr. Shyne received her PhD from Northeastern University in the fall of 2005. Since completing her dissertation she has taught six different undergraduate courses: Statistics, Research Methods, Introduction to Psychology, Nonverbal Communication, Animal Behavior, and a learning community course in Animal Behavior and Behavioral Economics. Her research is conducted at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, MA and focuses on zoo animal welfare. She recently published a comprehensive meta-analysis looking at the effects of environmental enrichment on stereotypic behavior in zoo mammals. She is currently interested in the effects of husbandry training on the behavioral time budgets of three species of big cats and hopes to get Bridgewater undergraduate students involved in the project.

Dr. Singer received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 2004 where she examined the role of social input on children's knowledge change. Dr. Singer focused primarily on the role of hand gestures in instruction and learning of mathematical problem solving. After completing her graduate training, she continued her work at The Learning Sciences Research Institute in Chicago investigating the role of hand gestures as well as other visual forms of representations on children's scientific reasoning using visual data. Dr. Singer will present this work at the National Communication Association Conference in Chicago as well as publish this work in the journal, Discourse Processes. Currently, Dr. Singer explores the ways in which gesture and other nonverbal representations shape the scientific and mathematical reasoning and learning of children, as well as the ways individuals construct meaning around these representations in both laboratory and applied settings. Dr. Singer will teach Child Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology, and Nonverbal Communication (with a specific focus on gesture).

Dr. Todd has been teaching in the Psychology Department at Bridgewater State College for more than thirty years. Dr. Todd is also a licensed acupuncturist. She has taught sixteen different undergraduate and four graduate courses, twelve of which she developed. In 1999, she developed and is still currently teaching the Exploring Consciousness Learning Community with a faculty member from Anthropology. In 2002, she developed a new model for teaching PSYC 320 Research Methods and PSYC 201 Statistics, teaching them as linked courses so that students could take them together within a single semester. In 1981, she developed a Departmental Concentration in Medical and Health Psychology and served as the coordinator of this Concentration until 2004. She developed and served as the coordinator for our graduate program in clinical psychology for fifteen years and served as the Department Chair for three years. She has served on numerous other committees both within and outside of the department and is a member of two professional societies. She has presented at numerous workshops and regional conferences and has presented at two national conferences. She has written a few articles and has developed a series of educational videos called "Navigating the Body." In 2001, she received a small grant from the Center of the Advancement in Research and Teaching to examine the role of self-regulation in learning, health care, and psychotherapeutic change. This research was recently presented in a poster session at the American Psychological Association and has also been published in a peer reviewed journal. She is currently working on developing CD-ROM based statistical tutorials for Psychology majors.