Pamela Bacon, Ph.D.

Education:  B.A., Carleton College, 1993; M.S., Iowa State University, 1996; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2001

Areas of Interest:  Social Psychology

Areas of Research: Focuses on the relational self-construal (the degree to which individuals incorporate important relationships into the self-concept) and its effect on behavior, emotion, and cognition.  Especially interested in how the organization of the self-concept impacts interactions with close others and strangers.

Courses Taught: Social Psychology, Research Methods, Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Gender