Richard Russell

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

Richard Russell

Professor

Psychology

Contact

Email

rrussell@gettysburg.edu

Phone

(717) 337 - 6175

Box

Campus Box 0407

Address

McCreary Hall
Room 319
300 N. Washington Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

Website

Richard Russell's Homepage
Richard Russell

Education

BA Pomona College, 1998
PhD MIT, 2005

Academic Focus

Visual perception and person perception

Richard Russell regularly teaches classes on sensory perception and research methods. 

Work in his laboratory is focused on developing a biolgically-based account of how and why makeup works, and understanding how we perceive faces and make inferences about people from their facial appearance.  This involves investigating physical differences between faces, such as how the face changes with age, how male and female faces differ, and how do the faces of healthy and unhealthy people differ.  The work also involves studying how we form impressions of other people, such as how old they are, how healthy they are, and whether we find them attractive.

 

Courses Taught

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.