Psychology is the scientific study of behavior, cognition and emotion. The Santa Clara psychology department believesactions, thoughts and feelings are best understood as the result of psychological, neurological, developmental, social and cultural influences. The composition of the faculty reflects this broad approach, with members who specialize in clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, health psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, learning, neuropsychology, and social psychology.

The psychology department places a strong emphasis on empirical methods of inquiry. All faculty members have active research programs, and we encourage undergraduates to get involved. Each year a large number of our majors present papers at professional conferences, and many students co-author articles in professional journals. Permanent laboratories maintained by the department include a health psychology lab, an animal lab, and a sleep lab.

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Submissions from 2004

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Bishops behaving badly: Ethical considerations regarding the clergy abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, Thomas G. Plante

Conclusion: What do we know and where do we need to go?, Thomas G. Plante

Introduction to Sin against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church, Thomas G. Plante

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Moral friends can help each other create a more humans, just, and ethical world, Thomas G. Plante

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Pretty much everything you wanted to know about psychotherapy, and then some. Review of Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, Thomas G. Plante

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Priests are not the only abusers: Report should be wake-up call for all of society, Thomas G. Plante

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Sexual abuse by Catholic priests – Next steps, Thomas G. Plante

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The association between strength of religious faith and coping with American terrorism regarding the events of September 11, 2001, Thomas G. Plante and Erika L. Canchola

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The sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church: What psychologists and counselors should know, Thomas G. Plante and Courtney Daniels

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Predictors of participation in premarital prevention programs: The health belief model and social norms, Kieran T. Sullivan, Lauri A. Pasch, Tara Cornelius, and Ellen Cirigliano

Submissions from 2003

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Examining ethnic faultlines in groups: a multimethod study of demographic alignment, leadership profiles, coalition formation, intersubgroup conflict and group outcomes, Katerina Bezrukova and Karen A. Jehn

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The role of group values in the relationship between group faultlines and performance, Katerina Bezrukova and Karen A. Jehn

Influence of a Sleeping Verses Waking Retention Interval on Spatial Visual Auditory Memory Performance, Meghan Frey, Mariah Graca, Holly Hem, Cynthia Hoffman, and Tracey L. Kahan

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Clergy sexual abuse and the Catholic Church: What do we know and where do we need to go?, Thomas G. Plante

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Psychological consultation with the Roman Catholic Church: Integrating who we are with what we do, Thomas G. Plante

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“Won’t you be my neighbor?” Mr. Rogers as an ethical model, Thomas G. Plante

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Believing in health, Thomas G. Plante

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Mirror me: Is this the message graduate students in clinical psychology get from their graduate school faculty?, Thomas G. Plante

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Priests behaving badly: What do we know about priest sex offenders, Thomas G. Plante

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Might virtual reality promote the mood benefits of exercise?, Thomas G. Plante, Arianna Aldridge, Ryan Bogden, and Cara Hanelin

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Does virtual reality enhance the management of stress when paired with exercise? An exploratory study., Thomas G. Plante, Arianna Aldridge, Denise Su, Ryan Bogdan, Martha Belo, and Kamran Kahn

Does virtual reality enhance the psychological benefits of exercise?, Thomas G. Plante, S. Frazier, A. Tittle, and E. Riggs

Submissions from 2002

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Preference and resistance to change in concurrent variable-interval schedules, Matthew C. Bell and Ben A. Williams

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The effects of cross-level conflict: the moderating effects of conflict culture on the group faultlines - performance link, Katerina Bezrukova and Karen A. Jehn

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Exploring faultlines, conflict, satisfaction, and stress in groups of peacekeepers, Katerina Bezrukova, Karen A. Jehn, Martin Euwema, and Nicolien Kop

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Persistence and visibility of group faultlines: a theoretical model of the effect of group culture and team identity on the group faultlines-organizational conflict link, Katerina Bezrukova, Karen A. Jehn, and Madhan Gounder

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Celibacy and the child sexual abuse crisis, Thomas G. Plante

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Stress and coping among displaced Bosnian refugees: An exploratory study, Thomas G. Plante, Azra Simicic, Erin N. Endersen, and Gerdenio Manuel

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The development of a brief version of the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire, Thomas G. Plante, Charlotte L. Vallaeys, Allen C. Sherman, and Kenneth A. Wallston

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Successful conflict resolution between peacekeepers and NGOs: the role of training and preparation in international peacekeeping in Bosnia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Katerina Bezrukova, Karen A. Jehn, Martin Euwema, and Nicolien Kop

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Recruitment of engaged couples for premarital counseling: An empirical examination of the importance of program characteristics and topics to potential participants, Kieran T. Sullivan and Carmen Anderson

Submissions from 2001

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Trichotillomania: An overview and guide to understanding, S Enos and Thomas G. Plante

Consciousness in dreaming: A metacognitive approach, Tracey L. Kahan

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Faith and Health: What Do We Know?, Thomas G. Plante

Money doesn’t buy happiness – it rents it, Thomas G. Plante

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Review of - Handbook of Religion and Health, Thomas G. Plante

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The association between religious faith and coping with daily stress, Thomas G. Plante

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Does exercising with another enhance the stress reducing benefits of exercise?, Thomas G. Plante, Laura Coscarelli, and Maire Ford

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Religious faith and mental health outcomes, Thomas G. Plante and Naveen K. Sharma

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Research on faith and health: new appoaches to old questions, Thomas G. Plante and Allen C. Sherman

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Melatonin and sleep qualities in healthy adults: Pharmacological and expectancy effects, Daniel A. Rose and Tracey L. Kahan

Conclusions and future directions for research on faith and health, A. C. Sherman and Thomas G. Plante

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Measuring religious faith in cancer patients: Reliability and construct validity of the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire, Allen C. Sherman, Stephanie Simonton, Dawn C. Adams, Umaira Latif, Thomas G. Plante, S. Kaay Burns, and Tom Poling

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Influence of competing distractors on response selection in Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, Julie C. Stout, Scott Wylie, Patricia M. Simone, and Eric R. Siemers

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Understanding the relationship between religiosity and marriage: An investigation of the immediate and longitudinal effect of religiosity on newlywed couples, Kieran T. Sullivan

Submissions from 2000

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One frog, two frog, red frog, blue frog: Factors affecting children’s syntactic choices in production and comprehension, Felicia Hurewitz, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Kirsten Read, Lila R. Gleitman, and John C. Trueswell

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The "problem" of dreaming in NREM sleep continues to challenge reductionist (two generator) models of dream generation (Commentary), Tracey L. Kahan

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Effects of melatonin on dream bizarreness among male and female college students, Tracey L. Kahan, Jeanine Hays, Ben Hirashima, and Kimberly Johnston

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Religious faith and spirituality in substance abuse recovery: Determining the mental health benefits, Dustin A. Pardini, Thomas G. Plante, Allen Sherman, and Jamie E. Stump

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Perceived fitness and responses to laboratory induced stress, Thomas G. Plante, Deanna Caputo, and Lisay Chizmar