David Widman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Hi. Welcome to my home page; a little about myself first. I am an experimental psychologist studying animal learning and behavior. I received my doctorate from The State University of New York at Albany in Biopsychology. There I worked with Bob Rosellini studying Learned Helplessness and other effects of the exposure to uncontrollable stress. I was especially interested in a more ecological approach to these questions. That interest lead me to my next position, Post-doctoral research associate in Bill Timberlake's lab. While there I studied Time-Place learning and the ultradian control of daily rhythms of feeding and out-of-nest behavior.

Now I am an Associate Professor and chair of Psychology at Juniata College. I am primarily responsible for teaching Introduction to Psychology, Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, Biosychology, Learning and Conditioning, and Research Methods in Psychology.

In the lab undergraduates and I study Time-Place learning in rats, the application of Learned Helplessness to models of human anxiety disorders, and, more recently, Human Spatial Navigation in Virtual environments, the effects of hormonal status on navigation and Evolutionary Psychology. If you are interested, you can look at my Curriculum Vitae.