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These are psychology faculty
who are now retired or have passed away. Some were founders of the department.
Most of those still living in the area are willing to work with undergraduate
students whose interests coincide with theirs.
Georgia Babladelis: B.A., 1953, University of Michigan;
M.A., 1957, U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., 1960, University of Colorado; Emerita,
1994. Dr. Babladelis taught courses and did research in personality development,
psychotherapy, and gender. Taking note of the many returning students
at this University (usually female) she undertook research to evaluate
their academic experiences and achievements. That work led to her abiding
interest in issues of gender. Often working against significant opposition,
she created the course in Psychology of Women, helped launch the Women's
Studies program, and became the founding editor of Psychology of Women
Quarterly, the official journal of Division 35 of the American Psychological
Association. She is a member of the University's Heritage Society and
has endowed a scholarship for returning women students. She resides in
Berkeley.
Cletus Burke: A.B., 1939, University of Southern California;
M.A., 1943, University of California Scripps Institute; Ph.D., 1948, State
University of Iowa. Dr. Burke had a joint appointment in the Department
of Statistics. He came to Cal State with a grant that paid his salary,
but he chose to teach courses in Mathematical Psychology without pay because
he loved to teach and he loved his subject matter. He passed away in 1973
while still teaching at the university.
Richard
Floyd: B.S., 1960, University of Michigan; Ph.D., 1964, University
of Minnesota; Emeritus, 1997. Dr. Floyd was a legendary teacher of Introductory
Psychology, with special interests in thinking, the nature of consciousness,
and beliefs in parapsychology. He taught at the University of Utah from
1964 to 1966, then came to our Department. He resides in El Cerrito.
Nancy Harrison: B.S., 1966, University of Maryland; M.S.,
1968, Ph.D., 1970, Northwestern University, Emerita, 2007. Dr. Harrison
taught for a year at Northwestern before coming to our University in 1971.
A cognitive psychologist by training, Dr. Harrison knows a lot about attention,
memory, problem solving, and a little about consciousness and things like
that. In her most recent research she tried to understand the relationship
between people's daily plans and what they actually do. Her past
course offerings included Cognitive Processes, Psychological Tests, Developmental
Psychology, and Experimental Psychology. She currently resides in Castro
Valley with her husband, daughter, and toy poodle, Smithers.
Stuart
Klapp: B.E.E., M.S., 1959, Ohio State University; Ph.D., 1969, U.C.
Berkeley; Emeritus, 2000. Dr. Klapp worked as an electronic engineer at
Batelle Memorial Institute and at SCM Corporation before entering graduate
school in psychology. He came to our University in 1969 and served as Department
Chair from 1979 until 1982 and subsequently served as acting chair. Now
Professor Emeritus, Dr. Klapp is continuing to work with students on his
research on subliminal perception (that is, nonconscious influences on behavior),
automatic processes, and changes in perception with Parkinson's disease
(an effect discovered by Dr. Allan Netick, another emeritus professor).
Eleanor
Levine: B.A., 1964 Bard College; Ph.D., 1969 Cornell University;
Emerita, 2004. Before coming to our department, Dr. Levine was a Research
Associate at Stanford University Medical Center, at the Institute for
Childhood Aphasia, and a joint Post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University
and U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Levine's specialties are in developmental psychology
and psycholinguistics, but she devoted much of her career to community
mental health activities, and was also interested in women's issues. Early
in her academic career she began spending summers in Central America becoming
fluent in Spanish and getting acquainted with psychologists there. Subsequently,
she spent a year in Nicaragua as a Fulbright Fellow, helping to develop
an alternative program for assessing and remediating children's learning
difficulties. She developed the community internship program for psychology
students (under the course name of Fieldwork in Psychology, Psyc 4430).
She was Chair of the Department from 1995 until 2000. Among her research
interests are women's issues and development of children and the elderly.
At home in Berkeley, Dr. Levine is living out various dignified middle-aged
sequels to her early days as a political activist, continuing with her
research and community involvement.
Norman Livson: B.S., 1945, Ph.D., 1951, U.C. Berkeley; Emeritus,
1986. Dr. Livson was a developmental psychologist who was instrumentally
associated with the data archive at the Institute of Human Development,
U.C. Berkeley. He was Chair of the Department from 1966 until 1979, a
period of tumultuous growth and followed by slow shrinkage. His special
interest was longitudinal research on personality development throughout
the lifespan. He passed away in 2005.
Roy Matsumoto: B.A., 1962, University of Hawaii; M.A., 1964,
Ph.D., 1965, State University of Iowa; Emeritus, 2004. Students describe
Dr. Matsumoto as demanding, kind and thoughtful, clear and thorough. Dr.
Matsumoto is retired but continues to teach part-time, primarily Conditioning
and Learning and Experimental Psychology.
Arnold Mechanic: B.A., 1954, Queens College; M.A., 1955,
Ohio State University; Ph.D., 1960, U.C. Berkeley; Emeritus, 1992. Dr.
Mechanic was the second faculty member in the Department, and was a fierce
advocate for faculty rights. His special interests include learning and
conditioning, and experimental analysis of pain and mood. He served for
six years as Consulting Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
He resides in Berkeley.
Robert Moulton: A.B., 1952, M.A., 1954, Ph.D. 1957, University
of Michigan; Emeritus, 1986. Dr. Moulton, a very reasonable, kind, and
witty man, taught primarily in the areas Abnormal Psychology and Personality.
A popular teacher, in the early 1970s he helped the students start the
Black Psychology Student Association, which provided an important transitional
structure during that time of rapid social change. His research was in
Achievement Motivation. He was the first Emeritus Professor in the department.
He passed away in 2000.
Allan Netick: B.A., 1958, Reed College; M.A., 1963, U.C.
Berkeley; Ph.D., 1968, University of New Mexico; Emeritus, 1997. Dr. Netick
is an experimental psychologist who specialized in both the physiology
of sleep and breathing, and in memory, bringing his special computer expertise
to bear on problems of designing and monitoring research. He was Chair
of the Department from 1989 until 1995. He resides in Berkeley.
William L. Sawrey: A.B., 1949, Indiana University; Ph.D.,
1952, University of Nebraska; Emeritus, 1990. Dr. Sawrey was the founder
of both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Statistics
and was jointly appointed to these departments. He was Chair of the Department
of Psychology from its beginnings until 1966 and again from 1982 until
1989. Dr. Sawrey's research interests include heredity and behavior, ethology,
behavioral causes of ulcers, attachment behavior and avoidance conditioning.
He now resides at Half Moon Bay where it must be easy to do ethological
observation (of marine animals and birds as well as of his grandchildren).
Ronald Schusterman: B.A., 1954, Brooklyn College; M.A.,
1958, Ph.D., 1961, Florida State University; Emeritus, 1994. Dr. Schusterman
has specialized in the study of marine mammals. (He has consulted at such
places as Marine World, and given lab courses at zoos among other places!)
His special interests include animal cognition, animal sonar systems,
animal communication, primatology, and sociobiology. He now resides in
New York and the Bay Area.
Joan Sieber: B.S., 1962, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1966, University
of Delaware; Emerita, 2000. Dr. Sieber taught at Stanford University from
1966 until she joined our Department in 1970. She also spent a year as
a visiting research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown
University.
Dr. Sieber is a social psychologist and a walking example of how career
plans change. In the 1960s she started her career doing laboratory research
on decision making, but found that lonely, and switched to field social
research, where she learned that one can get in trouble with whole communities
without trying. In 1973, she reformed and began to study how ethical issues
(harmful, but unintended side effects) blind-side well-meaning scientists
(such as herself). Most of her career has been spent studying processes
like (un)informed consent, invasion of privacy, data sharing, whistleblowing,
and a host of other ways social scientists get into trouble. She has chaired
several Research Ethics Committees, at the University, in industry, and
on hospital, State, and national ethics committees. She currently resides
in Hayward, and continues to her work on ethics.
Wiley Clem Small: B.S., 1959, M.Ed., 1959, M.A., 1965, Ph.D.,
1970, University of Missouri; Emeritus, 1986. Dr. Small is an experimental
psychologist who worked in the areas of conditioning and learning, and
behavior modification. He was the first adviser of the Psychology Club.
He now resides and makes music in Montana.
Gene
Steinhauer: B.A., 1972, M.A., 1974, CSU, Fresno; Ph.D., 1977,
University of Montana; Emeritus, 2006. Dr. Steinhauer taught at CSU Fresno,
and developed his own consulting business before coming to this University
in 1987, and joining the psychology faculty as a regular member in 1990.Dr.
Steinhauer's special interests in psychology included the analysis of
operant schedule performance, and computer simulation of conditioning
processes in simple and complex environments-especially conditioning simulations
of concept learning. He passed away in 2007.
Arnold
Stoper: B.A., 1958, University of Illinois; Ph.D., 1967,
Brandeis University, Emeritus, 2007. Dr. Stoper was an NIMH Post-doctoral
fellow at M.I.T. in the Artificial Intelligence Group (1967-68) then came
to CSUH in 1968. Dr. Stoper is retired, but he will be teaching for several
more years. He and his students are likely to be found in his perception
lab, next to his office; otherwise, Dr. Stoper might be found at NASA
(Moffett Field) where he is engaged in research on the role of gravity
in visual perception. His interests also include auditory and visual perception,
and computers and their ever-expanding uses in psychology, as well as
consciousness and personal growth. Courses offered by Dr. Stoper include
General Psychology, Personal Growth and Effective Behavior, Sensation
and Perception, Sensation and Perception Lab, and Computer Applications
in Industrial Psychology. Dr. Stoper's interest in visual illusions makes
for great demonstrations and Science Festival activities.
Donald J. Strong: B.A., 1950, Houghton College; M.A.,
1951, University of Michigan; Ph.D., 1959, University of Denver; Emeritus,
1989. Dr. Strong combined several interests to create a satisfying career.
He was the founding director of the University's Counseling Center, where
he worked as a counseling psychologist for many years while teaching courses
in Personality, Abnormal Psychology, and Psychotherapy in the Psychology
Department. He did cross-cultural research at a Navajo reservation. Working
with other departments, he created a Certificate in Biofeedback. He served
for 12 years as a sports psychology consultant to the U. S. Olympic Development
Committee for Women's Track and Field, and also served as a consultant
for the AAU Synchronized Swimming Committee. He is the author of "The
Fine Tuning Model" for working with athletes, and also published
in the area of self concept. He now lives in Fremont.
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