![]() He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written over 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. Professor Feldman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He also has been named a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and was Senior Online Instruction Fellow. Professor Feldman’s proudest professional accomplishment is winning the College Outstanding Teaching Award at UMass. He lives with his wife, who is an educational psychologist, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range in western Massachusetts. With the last of his three children completing college, Professor Feldman occupies his spare time with pretty decent cooking and earnest, but admittedly unpolished, piano playing. ![]() His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research. His research interests encompass the study of honesty and truthfulness in everyday life, development of nonverbal behavior in children, and the social psychology of education. His books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese, include Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice Understanding Psychology, 12/e and Development Across the Life Span, 7/e. He is founding director of POWER Up for Student Success, the first-year experience course for incoming students. Professor Feldman, who went on to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is now Deputy Chancellor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That experience, along with his encounters with many students during his own teaching career, led to a life-long interest in helping students navigate the critical transition that they face at the start of their own college careers. “I wondered whether I was up to the challenges that faced me,” he recalls, “and-although I never would have admitted it at the time-I really had no idea what it took to be successful at college.” Module 46 Positive and Negative Social BehaviorĮpilogue Diversity, Culture, Conflict, and CooperationĬonflict and Cooperation: Striving for a Just and Peaceful Worldīob Feldman still remembers those moments of being overwhelmed when he started college at Wesleyan University. Module 42 Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment ![]() Module 41 Psychotherapy: Humanistic, Interpersonal, and Group Approaches to Treatment Module 40 Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment Module 39 Psychological Disorders in PerspectiveĬhapter 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders Module 38 The Major Psychological Disorders Module 37 Normal Versus Abnormal: Making the Distinction Module 35 Psychological Aspects of Illness and Well-Being Module 33 Assessing Personality: Determining What Makes Us DistinctiveĬhapter 11 Health Psychology: Stress, Coping, and Well-Being Module 32 Trait, Learning, Biological and Evolutionary, and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Module 31 Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality Module 27 Nature and Nurture: The Enduring Developmental Issue Module 26 Understanding Emotional Experiences Module 25 Human Needs and Motivation: Eat, Drink, and Be Daring Module 17 Cognitive Approaches to LearningĬhapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence ![]() Module 14 Drug Use: The Highs and the Lows of Consciousness Module 11 Perceptual Organization: Constructing Our View of the World ![]() Module 9 Vision: Shedding Light on the Eye Module 6 The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communicating with the Body Module 5 Neurons: The Basic Elements of Behavior Module 2 A Science Evolves: The Past, the Present, and the Future ![]()
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