School of Natural and Social Sciences:
Psychology Faculty (Board of Study)

Linda Bastone
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Binghamton University, SUNY; Ph.D., City University of New York. SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and in Faculty Service. Personality and social behavior; emotions; the self; stereotyping and prejudice.
linda.bastone@purchase.edu

Yun Chu
Lecturer in Psychology (2008–09)
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Manoa. Cognition; general experimental psychology.
yun.chu@purchase.edu

Peggy De Cooke
Associate Professor of Psychology
A.B., University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Social and social-cognitive development; help seeking; perceptions of competence; out-of-school care.
peggy.decooke@purchase.edu

Ronnie Halperin
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S., City College of New York; Ph.D., City University of New York. SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. Biopsychology; psychopathology; social policy issues related to prisons; child welfare, education, and race; program evaluation.
ronnie.halperin@purchase.edu

Suzanne Kessler
Professor of Psychology and
Dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., City University of New York. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Social construction of gender.
suzanne.kessler@purchase.edu

Anthony Lemieux
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Boston College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Applications of social psychological principles to HIV prevention/intervention and health behavior change; music and influence; interg roup relations; social dominance; social, race, and category norms; medication adherence.
anthony.lemieux@purchase.edu

William Needham
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S., Boston College; M.L.S., University of Rhode Island; M.A., Ph.D., Northeastern University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Cognitive psychology: memory and learning, reasoning and problem solving, reading comprehension; sensation and perception.
bill.needham@purchase.edu

Paul Siegel
Assistant Professor of Psychology (part-time)
B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Adelphi University. Clinical psychology; unconscious processes in motivation/emotion and personality; effects of subliminal priming on phobic behavior; assessment of unconscious personality patterns.
paul.siegel@purchase.edu

Karen Singer-Freeman
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Cognitive development in preschool-aged children: analogical reasoning, memory, and language.
karen.singer-freeman@purchase.edu

Lynn Winters
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Cognitive psychology; history of psychology; research methods.
lynn.winters@purchase.edu

Nancy Zook
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., Manchester College; M.A., University of Northern Colorado; Ph.D., Colorado State University. Higher level cognitive functions; problem solving; fluid intelligence; aging.
nancy.zook@purchase.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Sybil Barten
Professor Emerita of Psychology
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Clark University. Developmental psychology; psychology and the arts.
sybil.barten@purchase.edu

John Handron
Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology
B.A., Iona College; M.A., Ph.D., St. John's University.

Updated June 26, 2008