Psychology at Lehigh

[mubeckham09]

<p>So I applied to Lehigh pretty last minute, and I did not expect to like it as much as I do. I have heard that Lehigh is highly regarded for its engineering programs and is not so strong in other departments. I plan on majoring in psychology in college. Would Lehigh be a bad decision on my part, or do they have a strong psych department?</p>

[StitchInTime]

<p>FWIW:</p>

<p>[ul][li][DuPaul</a> earns prestigious Senior Scientist Award from American Psychological Association](<a href=“Lehigh University News | Lehigh University”>Lehigh University News | Lehigh University):[/li]

…more than one-third of the school psychology program’s alumni have gone on to seek professorships at universities across the country. Four have been honored with the Lightner Witmer Award, a recognition of the field’s most promising young researchers.

[li][Campbell</a> Social Science Research Prizes awarded](<a href=“Lehigh University News | Lehigh University”>Lehigh University News | Lehigh University):[/li]

…Amy Rikoon ’06, a psychology major from Yorktowne Heights, N.Y., won the undergraduate award for her honors thesis, “Oral vs. Written Narrative Memories and Well-Being in Late Adolescence.” Rikoon compared the degree of specificity and coherence of personal memories expressed either in oral or narrative form, and whether the structure of these narrative memories relate to psychological well-being. She was supervised by Ageliki Nicolopoulou, associate professor of psychology.

[li][Undergraduate</a> Student Research](<a href=“http://cas.lehigh.edu/CASWeb/content/default.aspx?pageid=1009]Undergraduate”>http://cas.lehigh.edu/CASWeb/content/default.aspx?pageid=1009):[/li]

…Psychology
Nathan George – Relating Temperament and Parenting to Children’s Representations of Relationships
Jillian Kelly – Why Narrative? A critical review of narrative and its effect on coping and healing
Rachel Sansenelli – Maternal Personality, Child Temperament, and Goodness-of-Fit: Implications for Dyadic Communication Quality during a Reminiscing Task
Jessica Stuart – The Impact of Mind Wandering on Multitask Performance…

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