Kathleen M. Cain

Address
McCreary Hall Room 321
300 North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

Phone
(717) 337-6177

Campus Box 0407

Contact

Joseph Nathalie Goubet
Chairperson/Professor, Psychology

Emily Benson
Academic Administrative Assistant, Psychology

Kathleen M. Cain

Professor

Psychology

Contact

Email

kcain@gettysburg.edu

Phone

(717) 337 - 6198

Box

Campus Box 0407

Address

McCreary Hall
Room 323
300 N. Washington Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400
Kathleen M. Cain

Education

BA College of the Holy Cross, 1981
MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990

My research program focuses on children's and adolescents' social-cognitive and emotional development. In addition to my ongoing research on the development of children's motivation and conceptions of self and others, recently I have been conducting research on identity development in adolescents. I was away from the department from 2005 to 2010; I worked in the Provost's Office and also spent a sabbatical year as a Fulbright scholar at the Institute for Postgraduate Childhood Studies at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. I am delighted to be back in the Psychology Department and to be teaching and conducting research again.

Our distinguished faculty’s publications

Professor Wilson presented research at the Association for Psychological Science’s conference in Washington, D.C. The research focused on the replication and extension of the effect of reductive explanations in science.


Professor McCall and his students presented research at the Association for Psychological Science’s conference in Washington, D.C. The research focused on the emotional and social significance of odors for college students.


Professor Russell created a new podcast (Humainity) about being human in the age of AI.

Be inquisitive inside and outside the lab with Gettysburg’s Psychology Department

With a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, you gain insight into how the human brain works, allowing you to apply the knowledge gained from your research to situations in your career. The coursework and undergraduate research opportunities within the psychology major encompass a wide range of multidisciplinary perspectives, requiring an empirical approach to the interpretation of data.

Students in the Psychology Department at Gettysburg emerge equipped with the breadth and depth of knowledge and enduring skills to conduct analytical and interpretive analysis on whichever problems come their way within the field they work.