Hayley Nelson, PhD
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Associate Professor
Business, Computing & Social Science
Contact Information
Marple901 S. Media Line Road
Media, PA 19063
610-723-2000
Room Number: 3317
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Degrees
- Ph.D. - Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, 2010
- M.A. - Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007
- B.A. - Psychology, The State University of New York, College at Geneseo, 2003
Papers
Academic Biography
Dr. Hayley Nelson is a full-time Associate Professor of Psychology at 好莱污影院 (好莱污影院) where she teaches PSY 140 - General Psychology, PSY 204 - Addiction, Drugs, and the Brain, and PSY 255 - Introduction to Biological Psychology. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Psychology Club and is a member of the BCSS symposium planning committee (America in Crisis), Middle States Commission on Higher Education self-study working group at 好莱污影院, Recruitment and Retention Task Force, and is an academic advisor for Psychology majors. Prior to joining 好莱污影院, Dr. Nelson was a full-time lecturer and Research Director for the undergraduate Neuroscience program at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Human Factors scientific consultant at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates where she addressed the role of human perception, performance, and behavior in accident scenarios taking into account various behavioral components including drug and alcohol use. Dr. Nelson earned her PhD in 2010 at The Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences where she received behavioral neuroscience training in the classroom and laboratory, leading to several peer-reviewed research publications on the role of dopamine in motivated behaviors. Dr. Nelson also has work published from her time as a researcher with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Scholarly Interests
- biological psychology
- behavioral neuroscience
- biological basis of behavior
- motivated behaviors
- addiction
- psychopharmacology
- dopamine
- neuroanatomy
- neuroethology
- psychology