Robin Arkerson

Robin Arkerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Specializing in developmental psychopathology, emotional development, and affective physiology, they teach courses including PSY250 (Biological Bases of Behavior), PSY393 (Research Methods in Physiological Psychology), PSY478 (Emotion), and graduate seminars on emotion and thesis research.

• Education:
  • PhD in Psychology (2005), University of Wisconsin Madison
  • MS in Psychology (1999), University of Wisconsin Madison
  • BA in Psychology (1992), Boston University

Their research focuses on emotional development in children, particularly context-inappropriate anger, its physiological correlates, and links to social relationships and aggressive behavior. Recent publications explore emotion knowledge deficits, attentional differences, and cortisol responses in preschoolers.

Contact: Office in Liberal Arts 363, phone numbers 508-910-6955 and 508-999-9169, email rlocke@umassd.edu.