ABOUT THE PROFESSOR
I attained my Bachelor of Arts
from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Doctor of Philosophy from
Cornell University. I have taught at Cornell University and at the
University of Toledo. I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri. While there, I taught a course on social
gerontology and conducted research on stereotyping, health compliance, and
attainment of health goals in the aging population. Presently, I am a
professor in the Department of Psychology at Shippensburg
University.
My
current research interests are in the areas of patient-illness perception
and attainment of health goals. I am presently investigating how health
perceptions form, how these perceptions change across the life span, and
how they affect judgment, decision making, and medical compliance. Another
area of interest is relationships.
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