Faculty
Dr. Susan Larson
Chair
Associate Professor
218.299.3252
larson@cord.edu
Dr. Susan Larson is an experimental psychologist with a specialization in behavioral neuroscience and animal learning. She teaches courses in Learning, Physiological Psychology, Drugs and Behavior as well as Introductory Psychology and Research Methods. Larson uses a rodent population to ask questions about the behavioral changes associated with sickness. Current research in Larson's laboratory investigates various aspects of sickness behavior with a view to understanding communication between the immune system and the central nervous system. One ongoing project examines anhedonia (lack of interest in pleasurable stimuli) associated with immune system activation. Other work investigates the effect of cytokines and sickness on food-motivated behavior. She also maintains an interest in drug tolerance research, particularly alcohol tolerance.
Dr. Albert Bartz
Professor
218.299.3260
bartz@cord.edu
Bartz's interests are in the psychology of health, illness, and medical care. He teach Statistics, Research Methods, and Health Psychology. Bartz says he enjoys working with students on research projects in health psychology and has investigated anger expression in adult-onset asthmatics, Type A behavior in college students, and the effect of irrational health beliefs on health behavior and attitudes.
Dr. Susan Cordes-Green
Assistant Professor
218.299.4031
cordes@cord.edu
Cordes-Green's doctoral study is Social/Health psychology, but she also has an M.S. in clinical psychology, with an additional minor in human and family development. A Minnesota Licensed Psychologist, Cordes-Green has had years of practice and program administration while specializing in the treatment of eating disorders and on primary and secondary traumatization. Her current focus on disaster psychology integrates all these areas of preparation/experience.
Dr. Mark Covey
Professor
Chair, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
218.299.4213
covey@cord.edu
Covey says that one of the reasons he prefers undergraduate teaching to his university experience is the amount of time he gets to spend exploring ideas and implications with students. He enjoys the challenge of making my discipline both alive and useful for students through nontraditional teaching techniques, including travel and service-learning. Covey's research interests include Social Cognition and perception of social exchanges, and Aggression, Violence, and Victimization. He involve students at all levels of my research programs, from framing researchable questions, to methodological design, data collection and analysis, and communicating findings through presentations and publications.
Dr. Mona Ibrahim
Associate Professor
218.299.3299
ibrahim@cord.edu
Ibrahim is a developmental psychologist with a special interest in the preschool and elementary school populations. In addition to Developmental Psychology, she also teaches Educational Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Introductory Psychology. Her research interests include child temperament and its impact on school adjustment, religiosity and its impact on family dynamics and child school achievement, the impact of early enrichment programs for children on later school performance, and Psychological adjustment among recent immigrants to the United States.
Dr. Mark Krejci
Professor
Dean of the College, Vice President for Academic Affairs
218.299.3001
Dr. Krejci specialize in teaching courses related to the therapeutic side of psychology such as Abnormal Psychology, Personality Dynamics, and Personality Theory and Psychotherapy. His research is in the area known as the Psychology of Religion, which means he investigates cognitive models that may explain church attendance patterns in young adults and also look at how we develop our image of God. Students always serve as co-inquirers on these projects, assisting with design, data collection and analysis, and publication.
Dr. Michael Mangini
Assistant Professor
218.299.4991
mangini@cord.edu
Dr. Mikel Olson
Assistant Professor
218.299.3253
molson@cord.edu
Olson's interests are in physiological psychology with an emphasis on the neurobiological factors that underlie learning and memory formation. Specifically, he and his students study animal models. Current research in his lab include investigating whether blocking neurotransmitter function affects the on-going stability of memories. Courses Olson teaches include Physiological Psychology, Research Methods and Introductory Psychology.
Dr. Kevin Schumacher
Instructor
218.299.4030
Dr. Darcie Sell
Assistant Professor
218.299.3635
Dr. Lisa Sethre-Hofstad
Associate Professor
218.299.3107
Sethre-Hofstad's specialty is developmental psychology, with an emphasis on social development and physiology. She teaches Lifespan Development, Educational Psychology, Introductory Psychology, Psychology of Women, and Advanced Developmental Psychology. Her research investigates the development of emotion regulation strategies (i.e., coping with stress) and the physiological consequences of the experience of negative emotion. Sethre-Hofstad says she is particularly interested in this relationship within the parent-child context, and in socialized gender differences to emotional situations.
Shirley Sorensen
Administrative Assistant
218.299.4030
ssorense@cord.edu
Psychology
