Faculty and Staff

Kate Makarec

Professor • Department of Psychology

I am interested in a wide range of topics within the area of Psychology. Beginning with my interests in brain and behavior relationships and the temporal lobe hypothesis of belief systems, and moving forward into the areas of learning and memory, broadly defined.

Professional Interests

Learning, memory, and emotion. 

Degrees

PhD General Experimental, York University Toronto, Canada

Specialization

General Experimental, Emotion and Memory

Representative Publications


The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena; Maryland: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.; 2023


Neurotoxic and metabolic injuries; Acquired Brain Injury; Springer; 2017


The relationship between physical activity and depressive symptoms in healthy older women; , Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine; 2016


PowerPoint Lectures to Accompany Nolan & Heinzen’s Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences.; to accompany Nolan and Heinze's textbook; Worth; 2007


Incidental encoding of mildy affective words: An event-related fMRI study; , NeuroImage; Volume 11, 2000

Awards and Honors

AHSS Faculty Service Award
College of AHSS
04/01/2022

WPUNJ Faculty Recognition Award for Exemplary Service
WPUNJ
01/01/2021

WPUNJ Everyday Hero
WPUNJ
01/01/2018

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