Courtney Bishop, Instructor
- Ms. Bishop joined OBU Psychology part-time beginning with the Fall 2007 semester
- PhD expected 2007, Counseling, George Washington University
- Research Interests: Check back soon!
Guyla Davis, Assistant Professor (davisg@obu.edu)
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, Bowling Green State University
- Research interests: Dr. Davis’s research interests include psychological issues related to retirement (including psychological retirement planning and retirement adjustment and satisfaction), measurement and intervention program development, and judgment and decision-making (particularly risky decision-making). Dr. Davis is currently working on a validation study for a measure of psychological retirement planning, a study examining the meaning of retirement and retirement plans of women, and a decision-making study examining information used in making voting decisions.
Chris Long, Assistant Professor (longc@obu.edu)
- PhD, Personality and Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts
- Research Interests: Dr. Long has studied creativity, aloneness, emotion, and religious fundamentalism. Currently, he has been working on a series of projects exploring people's relationships with media figures as well as projects examining how people use media in regulating their emotions and how subtle (e.g., subliminal) cues alter people's social behavior and their self-reports of personality traits.
Randall Wight, Professor and Chair (wight@obu.edu)
- PhD, Biopsychology, Memphis State University
- Research Interests: Dr. Wight has published studies in comparative psychology, the psychology of teaching, and the history of psychology. He is currently conducting molecular neuroscience research that focuses on ajulemic acid (a synthetic cannabinoid) and resveratrol (a phytoestrogen) as potential treatments of neurodegenerative disease. Using microglia, astrocytes, and neuroblastoma as cellular models of multiple sclerosis, the research centers on identifying (1) the modulating effects of ajulemic acid and resveratrol in neuroinflammation, (2) the receptors through which these modulation effects occur, and (3) a role for ajulemic acid and resveratrol in neuroprotection.
