Gloria Hicinbothom, Chair.

Ms. Hicinbothom has a Ph.D. in Child and Developmental Psychology from the University of Connecticut and a M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance from Walla Walla College. She is currently department Chair, and her varied teaching experience includes directing the Early Childhood programs at both Loma Linda University and Walla Walla College, lecturing in Psychology at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, and being a Psychology faculty member at Union College. She has taught psychology at LSU since 1991. Her current research focuses on duckling vocalizations, particularly issues of instinct and environment; she has published papers in Developmental Psychobiology and Animal Behavior.

Dr. Hicinbothom is interested in research in the processes involved in young children who learn two languages simultaneously. She plans to begin research with students in areas such as adolescent and children’s perceptions of corporal punishment in various cultures. Further research is planned with animals as well.

In-Kyeong Kim, Associate Professor.

Dr. Kim graduated from Cornell University in 1990, with a Ph.D. in Psychology specializing in human experimental psychology. She also has an LL.B. in Law, and M.A. in Educational Psychology from Ewha University, Seoul. Her research interests include perceptual and cognitive development, infant perception, the origin of physical knowledge, and children's eyewitness memory; she has published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, and Developmental Science, and has presented many papers in the national and international meetings of psychology. She has taught at Ewha University and Duksung University, and has been a visiting scholar at both Yale and The Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. Kim presented research at the Society For Research in Child Development (SRCD) in April 2001, and American Psychological Society (APS) in May 2003. Her research focuses on the development of implicit and explicit commonsense physical knowledge. Besides, she is currently working with several students from the psychology department on the accuracy of the field and observations mode of memory, effects of familiarity and typicality on the memory of places and objects, and relationship between confidence and accuracy of eyewitness memory.

Kim, I. K., & Clarke, N. (May, 2003). Representation of perceptual and cognitive commonsense physical knowledge. Paper presented in the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Atlanta, GA.
Kim, I. K., Choi, J., Huyhn, C., & Park, L. S. (April, 2002). Verbal and non-verbal memories from different perspectives. Paper presented in the 82nd Annual Convention of Western Psychological Association. Irvine, CA

Paul Mallery, Associate Professor.

Dr. Mallery joined the LSU faculty in 1993, and completed his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994 in Social Psychology, with a minor in Political Psychology. His research focuses on intergroup relations, primarily social comparisons in intergroup settings, and prejudice. In addition to numerous conference presentations, he has co-authored two textbooks (published by Wadsworth and Allyn & Bacon) on the SPSS statistical package.

Dr. Mallery is extremely engrossed with work and research. He is anticipating the release of the second edition of SPSS/Windows Step By Step, which should be released by late summer. He has published an article in the Journal of Social Psychology entitled, "Controllability, Anger, Judgements and Valence of Attributions for Civil Unrest." Dr. Mallery is currently collecting data for research that focuses on a taxonomy of attribution to God. He hopes to publish this in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

George, D., & Mallery, P. (annually 1999-2005). SPSS/Windows Step-By-Step: A Simple Guide and Introduction, First through Sixth Editions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Allyn & Bacon.

George, D., & Mallery, P. (1995). SPSS/PC+ Step-By-Step: Simple Guide and Introduction. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

 

Mallery, P., Mallery, S., & Gorsuch, R. (2000). A preliminary taxonomy of attributions to God. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10(3), 135-156.

 

Mallery, P. (2000). Controllability, Anger, Judgements and Valence of Attributions for Civil Unrest. Journal of Social Psychology, 140(3), 392-395.

 

Chung, T., & Mallery, P. (1999). Social Comparison, Individualism-Collectivism and Self-Esteem in China and the United States. Current Psychology: Developmental Learning, Personality, Social, 18, 340-352.

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Suzanne Mallery, Assistant Professor.

Dr. Mallery is a clinical psychologist (PSY17401) with a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary. She has specialized in pediatric psychology at her internship (at the University of Minnesota) and postdoc (at Loma Linda University). She is currently working on a monograph titled, Maddening Spirits and Pains in the Neck: Exotic Expressions of Distress Confront Psychiatric Diagnosis. Her current research focuses on long-term psychosocial outcomes in childhood leukemia patients and methodological issues in the study of leukemia outcomes. Before coming to La Sierra University, Dr. Mallery was an assistant professor at the Loma Linda University Department of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at The Learning Spot, Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University. Dr. Mallery also holds an M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mallery, P. M., Mallery, S.T., Gorsuch, R. (2000). A preliminary taxonomy of attributions to God. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 10(3).

Freier, M.C., Mallery, S.T., Baum, M., Vaz, C. (1999) Medical and Surgical Variables Influence Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Infant Heart Transplant Recipients. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Denver, Colorado.

Mallery, S. T. (1996) Zar sickness: Is it a DSM-IV mental illness? Paper presented at the Social Science Research Council - Near and Middle East Research and Training Act Dissertation Workshop: Comparative Methods in the Study of the Middle East. The American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Leslie Martin, Professor.

Dr. Martin received her graduate training at the University of California, Riverside and, in 1996, joined La Sierra University's psychology department. She is a social/personality psychologist specializing in health psychology, and does research in the areas of physician-patient communication and the influence of personality and psychosocial factors on health and mortality risk. Dr. Martin is the current department chair and has received awards for outstanding advising, distinguished research, excellence in teaching, and service learning. In addition to her full-time position at LSU, she holds faculty appointments in the psychology departments at Loma Linda University and the University of California, Riverside. Some of her recent publications are listed below.

Martin, L.R., Friedman, H.S., & Schwartz, J.E. (2007). Personality and mortality risk across the lifespan: The importance of conscientiousness as a biopsychosocial attribute. Health Psychology, 26, 428-436.

Friedman, H.S., & Martin, L.R. (2007). A life-span approach to personality and longevity: The case of conscientiousness. In Aldwin, Park, & Sprio (Eds) Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging. Guilford Press.

Martin, L.R., Friedman, H.S., Clark, K.M., & Tucker, J.S. (2005). Longevity following the experience of parental divorce. Social Science and Medicine, 61, 2177-2189. Martin, L.R., Williams, S.L., Haskard, K.M., & DiMatteo, M.R. (2005). The challenge of patient adherence. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 1, 189-199.

Jahng, K.H., Martin, L.R., Golin, C.E., & DiMatteo, M.R. (2005). Patient-physician matching and its associations with patient outcomes: A focus on preferences for medical collaboration. Patient Education and Counseling, 57, 308-314.

Martin, L.R., & Friedman, H.S. (2005). Nonverbal communication and health care. In R.E. Riggio & R.S. Feldman (Eds.) Applications of nonverbal communications. New York, NY: Erlbaum.

Adeny Schmidt, Professor.

Dr. Schmidt received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1986. Since then she has been a psychology faculty member, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
and Vice President of Academic Administration. Since her return to the
Psychology Department in 2000 her research has focused on the effects
of Service-Learning on college students as well as on children mentored by university students. She is currently funded by a grant from the
Corporation for National and Community Service and is the university
coordinator for Service-Learning. In addition to teaching General
Psychology, she teaches Developmental Psychology, Adolescent Psychology and Cross-cultural Psychology. She has been at La Sierra since 1974.

Her most recent publications and presentations include:

Schmidt, A. & Robby, M.A. (2002). What is the value of Service-Learning to the Community? Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, 9 (1),pp.27-33.

Schmidt, A. (October 2002). Value of Service-Learning to the community:Effects of tutoring on children. Paper presented at 2nd Annual International Conference of Service Learning Research, Nashville, Tennessee.

Schmidt, A. (April 2002). Tutor characteristics predictive of tutoring outcomes: The view from three sides (tutors, teachers and children). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, New Orleans.