Biography

Prior to arriving at Stonehill, Professor Nash taught for a year at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut, and completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Nash’s research interests are in the areas of behavioral economics, knowledge structure and knowledge change; and children's perception and knowledge of illness.

She is the co-author of several editions of Doing Data Analysis with SPSS, published by Cengage. Professor Nash’s research articles have appeared in Psychology in the Schools, the Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Computer Science Education, Headache, Journal of Chemical Education, Research in the Teaching of English and Written Communication.

Education

  • B.A., Grinnell College
  • M.S. and Ph.D., Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Cognitive Psychology, Ohio University

Courses Taught

  • Advanced Psychology Seminar
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Introduction to Statistics
  • General Psychology

Areas of Expertise

Titles

Professor of Psychology

Departments

Psychology