The People Behind the Pages

Mike, Victoria, Chris, and Dale  at WPA 2001.

Dale, Gio, Amanda, and Chris at WPA 2006.

Dale E. Berger, Project Director

Dale Berger is a Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). He teaches a range of statistics, research methodology, and data analysis courses, and a cognitive course in the Psychology of Thinking and Problem Solving. He has written numerous articles in the fields of research methodology, public policy, and cognitive psychology, and has consulted with various organizations on issues dealing primarily with applied data analysis. dale.berger@cgu.edu

Chris Aberson

Chris Aberson is an Associate Professor at Humboldt State University. Chris completed his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at CGU in 1999. Chris teaches graduate-level courses in Multivariate Statistics, ANOVA, and Computer Applications as well as undergraduate courses in Introductory Statistics, Intermediate Statistics, and Research Methodology. cla18@humboldt.edu

Michael Healy

Michael Healy completed his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at CGU in 2004. His primary research interests are human memory, cognitive aging, and human-computer interaction. Michael has taught an undergraduate course in Statistics at Pitzer College, and he is the primary contributor of JAVA programming to the WISE Project. Michael.Healy@cgu.edu

Amanda Saw

Amanda Saw, a graduate student in cognitive psychology, is interested in general learning principles and applying and evaluating educational technologies. In addition to the WISE Project, she is conducting mathematical education research at the UCLA Human Perception Laboratory. amanda.saw@cgu.edu

Giovanni Sosa

Giovanni Sosa is a graduate student in social psychology. His interests are in statistics and in experimental/quasi-experimental methodology. giovanni.sosa@cgu.edu


'Emeritus' members of the WISE team

Victoria Romero

Victoria Romero obtained her Ph.D. in psychology at CGU in 2007 and is currently the Learning Development Manager at PhaseOne Communications, a communications consulting company in Los Angeles. Victoria applies psychological theory to the development of analytical methods, and the development of training tools for communications analysts. victoriaromero2002@yahoo.com

Eric P. Emerson

Eric Emerson is working as an Information Systems Consultant for the Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs at Cal Poly Pomona. Eric was one of the primary developers of this site.

Jill Huntley

Anita Blanchard

Dr. Anita Blanchard is a faculty member in Psychology and Organization Science at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She studies the effects of technology on employees’ affective attachment. Currently, she has two lines of research. First, she is examining sense of virtual community in virtual communities, particularly how it develops, and what it leads to. Second, she is developing an environmental theory framework to combine the social processes with the technological features that lead to successful virtual group functioning.

Diana Kyle

Matthew Prull

Matthew Prull is Associate Professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Matthew completed his Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology at CGU in 1997. He teaches various undergraduate courses such as cognitive psychology, research methods, statistics, and psychology of aging, and maintains an active research program in memory and aging. Email: prullmw at whitman dot edu.


Participating Faculty

Leah L. Light, Pitzer College

Peter Nardi, Pitzer College

Kathy Pezdek, Claremont Graduate University

Patricia Smiley, Pomona College

John Sullivan, Pitzer College

Last updated September 2007


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