BERT H. HODGES

Department of Psychology                                         

Gordon College                                                       

Wenham, MA 01984  USA

Office; Frost Hall 325A                             

Phone:  (978) 867-4404

Email:  bert.hodges@gordon.edu

Bert H. Hodges received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Vanderbilt University, and is Professor of Psychology, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, where he won the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award in 1997.  He has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Connecticut, Rutgers University, University of Southampton (UK), University of Portsmouth (UK), and Oxford University (UK).  He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, and the Society for Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology (Div. 24, APA), serving as the Secretary-Treasurer of the latter in 1992-95. Winner (with Reuben Baron) of a Templeton prize for work relating science and religion, he has published numerous articles and chapters on social perception, action, and cognition. His work has been supported by Gordon College and Pew Charitable Trusts.  He has been a reviewer for a wide variety of scientific journals, has lectured at international conferences on perception and action, ecological psychology, language, and moral development, as well as being a colloquium speaker at universities in the USA and England.

Selected publications

Hodges, B. H. (in press). Values define fields: The intentional dynamics of driving, carrying, leading, negotiating, and conversing. Ecological Psychology.

Hodges, B. H. (in press). Good prospects: Ecological and social perspectives on conforming, creating, and caring in conversation. Language Sciences.

Baron, R. M., & Hodges, B. H. (Eds.). Updating the social psychological legacy of J. J. Gibson: On making ecological psychology more social, and social psychology more ecological. Special issue, Ecological Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hodges, B. H., & Baron, R. M. (in press). On making ecological psychology more social, and social psychology more ecological. Ecological Psychology.

Hodges, B. H., & Lindhiem, O. (2006).  Carrying babies and groceries: The effect of moral and social weight on caring. Ecological Psychology, 18, 93-111.

Hodges, B. H., & Geyer, A.  (2006).  A nonconformist account of the Asch experiments: Values, pragmatics, and moral dilemmas. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 2-19.

Hodges, B. H.  (2006).  Persons as obligated: A values-realizing psychology in light of Bakhtin, Macmurray, and Levinas. In P. Vitz and S. Felch (Eds.), The self:  Beyond the postmodern crisis (pp. 63-81). Wilmington, DE:  ISI Press.

Hodges, B. H. (2004). Asch and the balance of values.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 343-344.

Hodges, B. H.  (2000).   Remapping psychology:  A new look at values in scientific ontology. Christian Scholar's Review, 29, 471-497.

Hodges, B. H. (1996).  Review of [U. Neisser (Ed.), The Perceived Self:  Ecological and interpersonal sources of self-knowledge ]. Philosophical Psychology, 9, 283-287.

Hodges, B. H., & Baron, R. M.  (1992).  Values as constraints on affordances: Perceiving and acting properly. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 22, 263-294.

Courses taught recently

Psychological Perspectives on Reality (201)

Exploring Psychology (202)

Social Psychology (243)                           

Cognitive Psychology with Lab  (342)

Scientific and Philosophical Theories in Psychology  (447)

Social Perception, Cognition, and Action with Lab  (352)

Research (471)