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.
Submissions from 1995
Measuring mental health treatment outcome and client satisfaction among children and families, Thomas G. Plante, Charles E. Couchman, and Anna R. Diaz
Coping with stress among Salvadoran immigrants, Thomas G. Plante, Gerdenio M. Manuel, Ana V. Menendez, and David Marcotte
Stimulus devaluation and extinction of chain schedule performance, Ben A. Williams, Bertram O. Ploog, and Matthew C. Bell
Submissions from 1994
Lucid dreaming as metacognition: Implications for cognitive science, Tracey L. Kahan and Stephen P. LaBerge
Are stress and coping associated with WISC III performance among children?, Thomas G. Plante and Charlotte Sykora
Submissions from 1993
Aerobic exercise in the prevention and treatment of psychopathology, Thomas G. Plante
Are stress and coping associated with aptitude and achievement testing performance among children? A preliminary investigation, Thomas G. Plante and Lori Plante Goldfarb
Submissions from 1992
The Persian Gulf War: Civilian war related stress and the influence of age, religious faith, and war attitude, Thomas G. Plante and Gerdenio M. Manuel
Submissions from 1991
Improving the effectiveness of computer assisted weight loss, C. B. Taylor, W. S. Agras, M. Losch, Thomas G. Plante, and K. Burnett
Submissions from 1990
Physical fitness and enhanced psychological health, Thomas G. Plante and Judith Rodin
Defensive and repressive coping styles: Self presentation, leisure activities and assessment, Thomas G. Plante and Gary E. Schwarz
Submissions from 1989
Social skills training: A program to help schizophrenic clients cope, Thomas G. Plante
Using the biopsychosocial model to predict nocturnal penile rigidity in men with erectile dysfunction, Thomas G. Plante, Robert Kerns, William Yellig, and Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite
The psychological effects of exercise, Judith Rodin and Thomas G. Plante
Submissions from 1988
Attitudes towards sex, arousal, and the retention of contraception information, L. Goldfarb, M. Gerrard, F. X. Gibbons, and Thomas G. Plante
Defensive and repressive coping styles: Physiological stress responsivity to psychosocial stressors, Thomas G. Plante
The clinical internship: A call for national standards, Thomas G. Plante
Introducing the Living with Illness Group: A specialized treatment for patients with chronic schizophrenic conditions, Thomas G. Plante, Stephanie L. Pinder, and David Howe
Submissions from 1987
Employment in care giving jobs for mentally disabled young adults: A feasibility study, Michael L. Jones, Gary R. Ulicny, Mare J. Czyzewski, and Thomas G. Plante
Comments on the clinical psychology internship application process, Thomas G. Plante
The influence of aerobic exercise on physiological stress responsivity, Thomas G. Plante and Dennis Karpowitz
Submissions from 1985
Construct validity for the Activity Vector Analysis utilizing the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Thomas G. Plante, Lori A. Goldfarb, and Edward Guadagnoli
Submissions from 1984
Fear of fat in runners: An examination of the connection between anorexia nervosa and distance running, Lori A. Goldfarb and Thomas G. Plante
Stress responsivity among dysmenorrheic women at different phases of their menstrual cycle: More ado about nothing, Thomas G. Plante and Douglas R. Denney
Submissions from 1982
Concurrent validity for an Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) index of anxiety, Thomas G. Plante
