Professor Emeritus
Email: DCrough@loyola.edu
Education:
- B.S., Ursinus College
- M.A., The Catholic University of America
- Ph.D. (Experimental, Physiological Psychology), The Catholic University of America
Scholarly Interests:
My research interests derive from intersecting areas of evolutionary and forensic psychology. The focus of my research is on violence prevention. Methods of improving self-defense self-efficacy for women are of special interest. Current research projects involve gender differences in threat perception, physical self-efficacy, assertiveness and vulnerability to assault. Several preliminary studies in the development of an attitudes toward self-defense scale and an attitudes towards weapons scale are ongoing.
Course Offerings:
PY412: Evolutionary Psychology
PY418: Special Topics in Psychology--Forensic Psychology
PY819: History and Philosophical Bases of Psychology