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Dr. D. Lisa Cothran is an Assistant
Professor in the Psychology
Department at The University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga. She received a B.S. in Psychology from Tennessee State
University in Nashville, TN; and she received her A.M. and Ph.D.
degrees in Psychology
from the Social and Personality Psychology Program at Washington
University in St. Louis. Her research interests broadly include the
following:
personality, emotion
and prejudice; mentoring and development; and identity
and development. She is currently working
on a number of projects -- two of which focus on
the effect of women’s studies coursework
on biases toward women,
men and feminists
and the design of a mentoring program that
will improve the retention and academic success of female
first-year
UTC
students
with
high academic ability (e.g., who have ACT scores of 21 and higher) but
who are
underachieving (i.e., who are on academic probation at the end of their
first
semester at UTC). For
more information on current projects, please click on
the 'Projects' link in the menu on the top left of this page. Dr. Cothran teaches the
following undergraduate-level courses: Social
Psychology, Theories of Personality, Multicultural Psychology,
Psychology of
Women and Psychology of the African/African-American Experience. She
also supervises the graduate student instructors of Introduction to
Psychology. She
teaches or is preparing to teach the
following graduate-level courses: Advanced Social Psychology,
Theories of Personality and Multicultural Psychology. Dr. Cothran
sits on a number of committees in the broader Chattanooga community as
well as here at the University. In her spare time, she likes listening
to music,
painting and referring to herself in the third person via the internet. The
University of Tennessee At Chattanooga Ph.D. - Psychology - Washington University in St. Louis B.S. - Psychology
- Tennessee
State University American
Psychological Association
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