Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Susan Nolan turned to psychology after suffering a career-ending accident on her second workday as a bicycle messenger. Susan graduated from the College of Holy Cross and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She studies mental health stigma as well as the role of gender in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University. She served as a representative from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the United Nations and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015-2016 and in Australia in 2023. She is a fellow of the EPA, the APA, and the Association for Psychological Science. Susan’s academic schedule allows her to pursue her love of travel. She has ridden her bicycle across the United States (despite her earlier crash), swapped apartments to live in Montréal, and explored the Adriatic coast in a 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco. She and her husband, Ivan Bojanic, travel frequently to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they own a small house on the Vrbas River in the city of Banja Luka.

Kelly Goedert’s fascination with psychology – and in particular, how the mind works, began with the simple question: “How is it that we get so good at tying our shoes?” Simple, but profound. What if we never got good at it, or anything else for that matter? Kelly has found that she loves answering questions with numbers. Her idea of a fun vacation is a week-long Bayesian workshop in the Netherlands. (OK, she likes other, more relaxing vacations, too!) Kelly graduated from Western Kentucky University with an undergraduate degree in psychology and an MA in applied experimental psychology. After spending a year working in market research, she returned to school to earn a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Virginia. Kelly’s research has ranged from studying spatial attention in healthy human populations and in people with stroke-induced attentional impairments to investigating how people make causal inferences about events (e.g., “What’s causing my stomach upsets?”). Most recently, she is starting a line of research graph comprehension. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Currently, she is professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Seton Hall University, where she is also a faculty member in the data analytics program. In her spare time, she enjoys meditating, traveling, and hanging out with her partner and her dogs.