Faculty Research
Rainer Diriwächter, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Professor of Psychology
Email: rdiriwae@callutheran.edu
Phone: 805-493-3442
Office: Swenson 207
Jodie Kocur, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Email: jkocur@callutheran.edu
Phone: (805)493-3441
Office: SWEN 240
Current Research Interests:
- The transition to post-secondary education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- The developmental origins of the experience and expression of anger in intimate relationships.
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Julie M. Kuehnel, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Email: kuehnel@callutheran.edu
Phone: 805 493-3454
Office: SWEN 237
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Andrea Sell, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Email: asell@callutheran.edu
Phone: (805) 493-3781
Office: SWEN 210
Current Research Interests:
- Incorporation of systems of perception and action-planning into higher-order cognition
- Role of the spatial and motor systems in grounding abstract thoughts
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Ariana Young, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email: ayoung@callutheran.edu
Phone: (805) 493-3267
Office: SWEN 239
Current Research Interests:
- Social nature of the self
- How surrogates (i.e., symbolic social bonds) including books, movies, and television shows affect how people think and feel about themselves.
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