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Short Biographies of Invited Presenters


Michael Vandehey, Ph.D.    Midwestern State University
Currently, Dr. Vandehey is in his ninth year at Midwestern State University. He is the advisor to Psi Chi (Psychology National Honor Society). Dr. Vandehey teaches a variety of courses including general psychology, developmental psychology, learning, abnormal, and psychology of the self. He has also taught general psychology at a local high school for four years. At the graduate level, he teaches marriage and family therapy, theories of counseling, child and adolescent clinical psychology,  development across the lifespan, and career counseling.

Michael Walker, Ph.D.    Stephen F. Austin State University
General interests include behavior analysis and performance management assessment and enhancement with individuals and systems; General clinical interests include attention, memory, learning disabilities and trauma response.

Theodore Joseph, Ph.D.    Stephen F. Austin State University
Current research interests are racial profiling in vehicle stops by police officers, stigmatization of disadvantaged groups, Americans response to terrorism, cross-cultural issues as in immigrants' adjustment behaviors, and positive psychology.

Jeremy Heider, Ph.D.        Stephen F. Austin State University
Jeremy D. Heider received his Ph.D. in social and industrial/organizational psychology from Northern Illinois University in 2005, and is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Stephen F. Austin State University. His main research interests lie in the domains of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, particularly with respect to individuals of profoundly short stature (i.e., little people). Additionally, he has actively pursued research on gender differences in reactions to infidelity from an evolutionary psychological perspective.

Nicole Warehime, Ph.D.     Oklahoma Baptist University
Dr. M. Nicole Warehime earned her Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in 2008.  Her research interests include psychosocial effects of male and female fertility and the health and well-being of children.  She has published several articles on the general topics of sexual satisfaction and social issues of male and female surgical sterilization effects.


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