In this time of COVID-19 … While assuring everyone’s safety:
Teaching is continuing!, Learning is continuing!, and Student support is continuing through ESU’s Psychology Department!
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General Inquiry about Psychology at ESU
Kathy Perrine, Psychology Department Secretary, at kperrine@esu.edu . You can also leave a message for her at (570) 422-3355, she returns calls on Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
Anthony Drago, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, can be reached via
email at tdrago@esu .
Psychology Faculty
If you are interested in contacting psychology faculty, please contact them via email.
Psychology Faculty emails can be found on the department faculty page
If you are enrolled in a course, see course specific/faculty specific information
on D2L for directions on office hours or the best way to contact faculty.
Please check your emails for information on how to meet with your faculty to register
for Fall 2020 or you can reach out to your academic advisor through email.
Additional Questions and Answers Surrounding COVID-19 and ESU
Certainly, feel free to reach out to your faculty or Kathy for questions.
You can also find information updated regularly on the coronavirus page
Participating in Undergraduate Research
ESU has postponed all face to face data collection involving human participants.
Please reach out to your faculty mentor prior to engaging in any modification of IRB
approved data collection.
All students who have completed research but were unable to present their work can
do so in several venues in the future. Two examples include:
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) will have a call for proposals in Fall 2020
for their March 2021 meeting in Philadelphia. See easternpsychological.org for more information or talk with your faculty mentor. Speak to your faculty mentor
about the possibility of travel funding to EPA.
You will be permitted to present your work in the Spring of 2021 for ESU’s Research and Creative Activity Symposium . It is common for recent alumni to present their work in this venue.
In closing
Happy thinking!
Practice self-care to assure optimal mental health!
Advocate for your needs!
Stay safe!
Don’t be a vector!!!
The objectives of the Department of Psychology are to enrich your understanding of
the behavior and cognitive processes; to have you adopt a rational, objective, experiential
understanding of behavioral and psychological processes; and to develop the critical
thinking abilities that will permit you to distinguish between scientific and nonscientific
explanations of behavior.
The department adopts a biopsychosocial view, one that explains behavior as a function
of both organismic and environmental conditions.
You will be introduced to the current body of knowledge in psychology; its data, methods,
and theoretical formulations in the principle fields.
