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Dr. Benjamin Meagher

Associate Professor Psychology

616.395.7731meagher@hope.edu

Dr. Benjamin Meagher joined 麻豆视频 in 2017. He teaches courses in introductory, social and cognitive psychology.

Areas of expertise

Dr. Meagher specializes in environmental, social and personality psychology. His current research interests include studying how individual differences in motivation and personality influence impressions of the physical environment, whether certain types of physical settings can help people perform and cope in more effective ways, and in what way the composition of a group 鈥� particularly in terms of its virtues 鈥� impacts the success or experience of individual members when they are together.

You can read more about his research at his .

Education

Ph.D., social psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2014)
M.A., social psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2011)
B.A., psychology, Gordon College, Wenham, MA (2007)

Honors, grants and awards

鈥淐ollective intellectual humility: Investigating when and how intellectual humility enhances group outcomes,鈥� grant from The Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project, 2017鈥�2019
鈥淎ssessing change in intellectual humility across a 5-week course,鈥� subcontract from The John Templeton Foundation grant #58942, 2016鈥�2017
Jack Shand Research Award, 鈥淧hysically situated religiosity: Investigating the relationship between environmental design, religious beliefs, and worship experience,鈥� grant from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2017鈥�2019
Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, 鈥淛udgments of religious qualities and the identification of spiritual exemplars,鈥� grant from the Religious Research Association, 2010-2011

Published work

鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2019
鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29, 2018
鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Environmental Psychology, 55, 2018
鈥�,鈥� with K.L. Marsh, K. L., Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 2017
鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Individual Differences, 37, 2016
鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Environment and Behavior, 48, 2016
鈥�,鈥� with J.C. Leman et al., Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 2015

Dr. Benjamin Meagher

Phone Number616.395.7731

meagher@hope.edu

A. Paul Schaap Science Center 1161 35 East 12th Street Holland, MI 49423

Psychology Department

A. Paul Schaap Science Center 1161 35 East 12th Street Holland MI 49423