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Visiting Sabbatical Information
The psychology department at Montana State University has faculty in these main subfields: cognitive, social, learning and motivation, and behavioral neuroscience. There is neither a clinical nor a counseling emphasis in the department. We service approximately 270 undergraduate majors and have 10-15 graduate students enrolled in the M.S. Program in Psychological Science. The graduate program is heavily research oriented.
Faculty members in the psychology department are committed to quality research and are active in publishing. Most faculty members are involved in collaborative research with one another, with undergraduate and/or graduate students, and with colleagues in other departments. The department has access to research facilities that include computerized laboratories and a human subject pool.
Recent Sabbatical Visitors
Dr. Charles W. Malsbury, Professor of Physiological Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Spring 2004)
Some MSU Psychology Faculty Research Areas
Memory and attention (Block, Hutchison, Meade)
Eating disorders (Lynch)
Affect and decision making (Handley)
Cogntive aging (Meade)
Self-regulation of motivation (Smith)
Face encoding and recognition (Block)
Memory effects of cerebral ischemia (Babcock)
Meta-analytic methodology (Block)
Neural mechanisms of motivation (Lynch)
Neurobiology of learning and memory (Babcock)
Psycholinguistics (Hutchison)
Social cognition, attitudes, & persuasion (Handley, Smith)
Temporal cognition (Block)
Sabbatical visitors have access to the MSU library, computing centers, and may be provided with office space in Traphagen Hall. Although there is not a budget for visiting faculty, those participating in teaching are given instructional support.
Montana State University is located in Bozeman, a city of 30,000+ in the northern Rockies. MSU serves about 12,000 students on a 1,170 acre campus, just 90 minutes from Yellowstone National Park and within a day's drive of Glacier National Park. Bozeman is a family-friendly community, with excellent schools and a full complement of summer and winter recreational activities (e.g., skiing, hiking, golfing, fishing, tennis, and rafting). The current psychology faculty form a close-knit social group that works hard and plays hard in an especially pleasurable setting. For a more complete description of the University, Psychology Department, and surroundings, browse our website.
If you are interested in spending your sabbatical at Montana State University, please send an email with information about your current areas of research and teaching interests to Professor Richard A. Block at block@montana.edu. If you are interested in collaborating with a particular faculty member, feel free to contact them directly. Additional information regarding specific faculty research interests can be viewed at the faculty page.
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