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Scott C. Bates, Ph.D. is an assistant professor who earned a B.S. from Whitman College, an M.S. from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychologist from Colorado State University. Professor Bates conducts research in three primary areas:

• Problem Behavior Prevention: currently funded (CURI) project involves the design and assessment of a personalized, web-based, social-norms intervention among college students. Other interests herein include: social-influences on college-student alcohol use, and; etiology of early school departure.
• Environmental Psychology: currently funded (NASA) project involves the design and assessment of the non-nutritive benefits to having and/or tending plants in isolated environments such as those found in space travel.
• Higher Education Teaching & Learning: current projects include an assessment of the introductory psychology course from a sample of syllabi; an assessment of textbook selection techniques.

Professor Bates teaches primarily in the undergraduate program: Psy 1010:General Psychology; Psy 3500:Scientific Thinking and Methods in Psychology; Psychology 2950: Orientation to the Psychology Major. Dr. Bates runs an active research lab; currently supervising seven graduate students on thesis and dissertation projects that range from social influences on alcohol involvement, to evaluation of sex-education in high-schools, to an analysis of the processes of worry and rumination, the understanding the impact that the perception of air quality has on environmental behavior.

 

Professor Bates is accepting applications for new graduate students to begin their training in Fall of 2008.