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Dr. Albert Bartz
Office: Ivers 244E
Phone: (218) 299-3260
e-mail: bartz@cord.edu

My interests are in the psychology of health, illness, and medical care.  I teach Statistics, Research Methods, and Health Psychology.  I enjoy working with students on research projects in health psychology. We have 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
Office: Ivers 244G
Phone: (218) 299-4031
e-mail: cordes@cord.edu

My doctoral study is Social/Health psychology, but I also have an M.S. in clinical psychology, with additional minor in human and family development.  I am a Minnesota Licensed Psychologist, and during my years of practice and program administration I specialized in the treatment of eating disorders and on primary and secondary traumatization.  My current focus on disaster psychology integrates all these areas of preparation/experience.   

 


Dr. Mark Covey
Office: Ivers 260B
Phone: (218) 299-4213
e-mail: covey@cord.edu

That I have the time to spend exploring ideas and implications with my students is one reason I prefer undergraduate teaching to my university experiences. I enjoy the challenge of making my discipline both alive and useful for my students through nontraditional teaching techniques, including travel and service-learning. My research interests include Social Cognition and perception of social exchanges, and Aggression, Violence, and Victimization.  I involve students at all levels of my research programs, from framing researchable questions, to methodological design, data collection and analysis, and communicating our findings through presentations and publications.

 

 

 

Bonnie Hurner
Office: Ivers 244
Phone: (218) 299-4030
e-mail: hurner@cord.edu

 

Bonnie graduated with a degree in Business Education from Concordia in 1979.  She then went on to teach business courses in St. Paul for 10 years.  Bonnie came back to Concordia to settle into what she considers her "perfect job".  Bonnie is proud to follow in the footsteps of her mother, Mary Ann (Music Mary) McDougall, who was a caring and hard-working  secretary in Concordia's music department for over 20 years.  Currently, Bonnie lives with her husband (also a 1979 Concordia graduate) and two daughters in Moorhead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dr. Mona Ibrahim
Office: Ivers 244D
Phone: (218) 299-3299
e-mail: ibrahim@cord.edu

I am a developmental psychologist with a special interest in the preschool and elementary school populations.  In addition to Developmental Psychology, I also teach Educational Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Introductory Psychology.  My 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
Currently serving as Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Office: Ivers 244D
Phone: (218) 299-3254
e-mail: krejci@cord.edu



I specialize in teaching courses related to the therapeutic side of psychology such as Abnormal Psychology, Personality Dynamics, and Personality Theory and Psychotherapy. My  research is in the area known as the Psychology of Religion. I investigate cognitive models that may explain church attendance patterns in young adults and I 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. Susan Larson
Office: Ivers 244B
Phone: (218) 299-3252
e-mail: larson@cord.edu

I am an experimental psychologist with a specialization in behavioral neuroscience and animal learning. I teach courses in Learning, Physiological Psychology, Drugs and Behavior as well as Introductory Psychology and Research Methods. I use a rodent population to ask questions about the behavioral changes associated with sickness.  Current research in my 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.  I also maintain an interest in drug tolerance research, particularly alcohol tolerance.

 

 


Dr. Mikel Olson

Office: Ivers 244C

Phone: (218)-299-3253

e-mail: molson@cord.edu

My interests are in physiological psychology with an emphasis on the neurobiological factors that underlie learning and memory formation.  Specifically, my students and I study animal models.  Current research in my lab is investigating whether blocking neurotransmitter function affects the on-going stability of memories.  Courses I teach include Physiological Psychology, Research Methods and Introductory Psychology. 

 

 

Dr. Lisa Sethre-Hofstad, Chair
Office: Ivers 244A
Phone: (218) 299-3107
e-mail: sethre@cord.edu

My specialty is developmental psychology, with an emphasis on social development and physiology. I teach Lifespan Development, Educational Psychology, Introductory Psychology, Psychology of Women, and Advanced Developmental Psychology.  My research investigates the development of emotion regulation strategies (i.e., coping with stress) and the physiological consequences of the experience of negative emotion. I am particularly interested in this relationship within the parent-child context, and in socialized gender differences to emotional situations.

 

 

 

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