Undergraduate Advising 
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Welcome
Psychology Dept Online
Psychology at Hunter College
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Department Office
Undergraduate Advising Office
Meetings for Majors
Psychology Advising Resource Library
TO 
MAJOR 
IN PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites
to Declaring a
 Psychology Major
Declaring Psychology Officially
Course Requirements of the Psychology Major:
The New Psychology Curriculum
Course Content Areas
Prerequisites for Psychology Courses Numbered Above PSYCH 250
The Old and New Psychology Curricula
Distribution Requirements
Special Courses
Course Descriptions 
Psychology Peer Advising
Registration
Student Activities
Student/Faculty Committees
Professional Organizations
Frequently Asked Questions
Graduate Study Information
Career Information
Faculty
  Fieldwork 
Volunteer Opportunities
  Intro to the Fields Of Psychology
 
 
 
 

 
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Faculty and Administrative Staff 

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF:    Room 611HN    772-5550 

CHAIR: Prof. Vita C. Rabinowitz 
vrabinowitz@gc.cuny.edu
ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR: Mr. Carlos R. Manzano 
CUNY OFFICE ASSISTANT: Ms. Genevieve Schiefer
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: Dr. Dirk Houben (Ph.D., City University of New York) 
dhouben@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 
 
ADVISORS: HOURS ARE POSTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN THE HALLWAY OUTSIDE OF, AND WITHIN, THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPT. OFFICE 
Undergraduate:    ROOM 611HN    772-5568 or 772-5550
Faculty Undergraduate Advisor:   E. Tobey Klass  
psychadv@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 
(for advising and major-related messages) 

Assistant Advisor:  Jolene Beiser 
psychadv@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu

Peer Advising Assistants 
 
Graduate: ROOM 514TH 772-5558
Faculty Graduate Advisor: Dr. Virginia Valian (772-5558)  
vvvhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

FACULTY                HOURS ARE POSTED IN ROOM 611HN 

BARR, GORDON A., Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University 
(Neuropsychopharmacology/Developmental Neuroscience) Office:619N; Phone:772-5610.  
gbarr@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

CHASE, SHEILA, Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York 
(on leave Fall, 1999) 
(Experimental Psychology; animal cognition, information processing psychophysics) Office:608N; Phone:772-5617. 
schase@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

CHODOROW, MARTIN, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
(Experimental Psychology; psycholinguistics, cognition, information processing) Office:512TH; Phone:772-5628. 
mschc@cunyvm.cuny.edu 

DEFOUR, DARLENE, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois 
(Personality/Social; coping with stress, social networks, minority adjustment) Office:626N; Phone:772-5679. 
ddefour@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

FLORES, ROSEANNE, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York 
(Developmental Psychology; language acquisition, cognitive development, children and poverty) Office:738N; Phone:650-3537. 
rflores@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

FRIED, ROBERT, Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University 
(Psychophysiology; behavior modification, biofeedback, hypnosis, hemispheric lateralization) Office:741(A)N; Phone:772-5567. 

GORDON, JAMES, Professor, Ph.D., Brown University 
(Sensory Psychology; color vision, visual neurophysiology, vision in children and infants) Office:604N; Phone:772-5569. 
jgordon@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

HARDING, CHERYL F., Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University 
(Psychobiology; hormone-behavior interactions, circadian rhythms, aggressive behavior) Office:604N; Phone:772-5047. 
harding@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu 

HUSELID, REBECCA F., Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Kansas 
(Social Psychology; gender roles and health, stress and coping, adolescent substance use and mental health) Office:621N; Phone:772-5561. 
rhuselid@rci.rutgers.edu 

KLASS, ELLEN TOBEY, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago  
(Clinical Psychology; guilt, morality, honesty) Office:736(A); Phone:772-4802. 
eklass@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

KRAUSS, HERBERT H., Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern University 
(Personality/Clinical Psychology, stress and stress management) Office:611N; Phone:772-5550. 
hkrauss@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

LUINE, VICTORIA, Professor, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo 
(Behavioral Endocrinology; gonadal hormone regulation of neurochemicals mediating sexual behavior, neuroendocrinology of aging & cognitive function) Office:629(A); Phone:772-4223. 
vluine@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu  

MOLLER, PETER, Professor, Ph.D. Free University of Berlin, West Germany 
(Animal Behavior; multisensory integration, electrolocation and electrocommunication in electric fish, behavioral physiology) Office:620N; Phone:772-5197. 
pemo@amnh.org 

NEWMAN, HELEN M., Associate Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York 
(Communication within intimate relationships, information-processing & social cognition, psychoanalytic theory, systems theory) Office:611N; Phone:772-5630. 
hnpsych@aol.com 

QUINONES-JENAB, VANYA, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutger's University 
Molecular and neuroendocrinological bases of behavior; effects of drug use on mental behaviors and on CNS/endocrine mechanisms in females; modulation of pain pathways by ovarian hormones. Office: 602HN; Phone:772-5550. 
quinones@rockvax.rockefeller.edu 

RABINOWITZ, VITA C., Associate Professor, Ph.D. Northwestern University 
(Experimental Social Psychology; attribution theory, justice and helping, health psychology, quasi-experimental design) Office:736N; Phone:772-4330. 
vrabinowitz@gc.cuny.edu 

RETTIG, SALOMON, Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University 
(Social Psychology; the therapeutic group, the kibbutz, risk taking, philosophy and sociology of science) Office:738(B)N; Phone:772-5553. 
srettig@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

SEEGMILLER, BONNIE, Associate Professor, Ph.D., New York University 
(Developmental Psychology; intrafamily abuse, family interactions, cross-cultural research, second language acquisition) 
Office:509TH; Phone:772-5678  bsehc@cunyvm.cuny.edu 
 
SLOCHOWER, JOYCE, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University 
(Clinical Psychology; psychoanalysis, psychotherapy) Office:738N; Phone:772-5622. 
slochowr@is3.nyu.edu 

TOPOFF, HOWARD, Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York  
(Animal Behavior; social insects, animal communication, orientation, social organization) Office:606N; Phone:772-5677. 
HTopoff@aol.com 

TURKEWITZ, GERALD, Professor, Ph.D., New York University 
(Developmental Psychology; lateral differentiation, perceptual functioning, infant development) Office:634(B)N; Phone:772-5616. 
gturkewi@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 

VALIAN, VIRGINIA, Professor, Ph.D., Northeastern University 
(Cognitive and Developmental Psychology; language acquisition, gender and achievement, cognition) Office:510TH; Phone:772-5558. 
vvvhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu 

YOUNG, JASON, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota 
(Social Psychology; attitudes and persuasion, political psychology, statistical methods, advertising and media effects, self-concept) Office:738N; Phone:772-5566. 
jryhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu 

ZEIGLER, H. PHILIP, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin  
(Physiological Psychology; brain mechanisms and feeding behavior, birds and mammals, motivation) Office:626N; Phone:772-6363. 
hzeigler@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu 


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