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Stephen Briner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Department at William James University. He holds degrees from DePaul University (PhD in Experimental Psychology, 2010), University of Memphis (MS in Psychology, 2007), and Lyon College (BA in English with a Psychology minor, 2003). His research focuses on psycholinguistics, learning from narratives, and communication/empathy dynamics. Key interests include metaphor comprehension, narrative processing, and the cognitive impacts of literary and cinematic techniques.
Briner has presented at conferences such as the Society for Text and Discourse and the Midwestern Psychological Association. Prior roles include Assistant Professor at Sacred Heart University and Senior Visiting Research Specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Learning Sciences Research Institute. His work bridges cognitive science and literary studies, with publications in Neuropsychologia, Scientific Study of Literature, and Memory and Cognition.
