Psychology of Women and the Potential for Influencing Students' Lives: An Interview with Margaret W. Matlin

Abstract

Lori Van Wallendael is an associate professor of Psychology and coordinator of the Women's Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches courses in psychology of women, general psychology, cognitive science, history and systems of psychology, research methods, and psychology and law, among others. Her research interests include human decision making, eyewitness and earwitness memory, and juror intuitions about memory issues. Margaret W. Matlin is a distinguished teaching professor at SUNY Geneseo. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Canadian Psychological Association. During her teaching career, she has been the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) Award, and the American Psychological Foundation's Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award. She is the author of Cognition (5th ed., 2001), The Psychology of Women (4th ed., 2000), Psychology (3rd ed., 1999), and the coauthor (with Hugh Foley) of Sensation and Perception (4th ed., 1997). She has also authored or coauthored 21 instructor's manuals, student study guides, and test-item files as well as 8 chapters in books and 45 published articles.