Dr. Benjamin Meagher

Associate Professor Psychology
616.395.7731meagher@hope.edu
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Dr. Benjamin Meagher joined Hope College 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 ɫɔ particularly in terms of its virtues ɫɔ impacts the success or experience of individual members when they are together.

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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

  • ɫɜCollective intellectual humility: Investigating when and how intellectual humility enhances group outcomes,ɫɝ grant from The Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project, 2017ɫɓ2019
  • ɫɜAssessing change in intellectual humility across a 5-week course,ɫɝ subcontract from The John Templeton Foundation grant #58942, 2016ɫɓ2017
  • Jack Shand Research Award, ɫɜPhysically situated religiosity: Investigating the relationship between environmental design, religious beliefs, and worship experience,ɫɝ grant from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2017ɫɓ2019
  • Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, ɫɜJudgments of religious qualities and the identification of spiritual exemplars,ɫɝ grant from the Religious Research Association, 2010-2011

Published work

  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ&Բ;Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2019
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ&Բ;International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29, 2018
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ&Բ;Journal of Environmental Psychology, 55, 2018
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ with K.L. Marsh, K. L., Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 2017
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ&Բ;Journal of Individual Differences, 37, 2016
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ&Բ;Environment and Behavior, 48, 2016
  • ɫɜ,ɫɝ with J.C. Leman et al., Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 2015
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Dr. Benjamin Meagher

Phone Number616.395.7731

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