About

Hello CinemaPsych fans! I’m a full professor of psychology at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. I love the combination of psychology and popular culture, so I’m honored to be a repeat guest on this fun podcast.

My areas of research are stigma for gender and sexual minorities and the prevention of relationship violence. I also firmly believe that every movie is about psychology.

Greetings. I’m a professor of psychology at the Community College of Baltimore County. I like to use films and film scenes in the teaching of psychology because they provide a fantastic analogue for real-life situations.

Students can relate to them and are often very receptive to breaking down film scenes to find the psychology in them. Giving them the opportunity to hear me and others do that with Alex on the CinemaPsych podcast has been very rewarding over the past several years.

Hi friends and fans of CinemaPsych! I’m a full professor of psychology at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri, where I run the Replication and Open Science Education (R.O.S.E.) Lab.

I’m a huge fan of using film—and really all sorts of art—when teaching about psychology, because the more connections we can make, the more we understand and remember.

Fondest greetings to the CinemaPsych Podcast Universe. I am currently a Senior Teaching Professor at Texas A&M University in beautiful Corpus Christi, Texas. One of my favorite things that I get to do is talk about the intersection of psychology and film.

I regularly get to enthrall my students with a Psychology and Film course, but about once a year, I get to have a conversation with Alex from his basement about a thoughtfully curated topic that endlessly entertains me both in researching it and in recording with him.

I am deeply indebted to Alex and each of his weekly co-hosts for enlightening and entertaining me—not to mention providing content that ultimately influences my teaching. I am the Quentin Tarantino of the CPPU: I steal from every episode ever recorded.

I’ve always loved the movies. Movies aren’t just an escape, though. They are a great way to examine, in a relatively short period of time, someone else’s way of looking at the world and what they have to say about it.

What a great tool for exploring psychological concepts in a classroom! The book might usually be better, but film is still my favorite art form, and I love finding ways to incorporate movies in my classes at Florida State University whenever I can.

It’s been a blast contributing to CinemaPsych with Alex, and I hope my episodes have given other instructors some ideas for their own classes.

Psychology is my passion, and exploring how we can use our understanding of psychology to grow as both people and a society is what I go to work for every day at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

I am proud to be part of the CinemaPsych endeavor to capture the link between psychology and film—it is a great way to connect the human experience with the psychology that underlies that experience.