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Greg Bohémier, PhD
Professor of Psychology


Office Location:  Johann 206C
Office and & lab phone numbers: Office: 573-288-6422 
Psychology Lab: 573-288-6547
Fax: 573-288-6615
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Credentials:  Dr. Bohémier is in his eighteenth year of teaching at C-SC. Dr. Bohémier earned his B.A. in psychology from Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Cognitive Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.  Dr. Bohémier also holds two Ph.D. minors: Developmental Cognition and Systems Science.  Dr. Bohémier is an associate member of the Psychonomics Society, a member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA). 


Teaching Experience

Culver-Stockton College

  • Advanced Research Methods in Psychology

  • Altered states of Consciousness

  • Astronomy

  • Biological Psychology

  • Career Seminar in Psychology

  • Communicating in Psychology

  • Cognition

  • Death and Dying

  • Exploratory and Professional Internships

  • Gender Studies

  • General Psychology

  • History and Systems of Psychology

  • Human Motivation

  • Independent Research

  • Introduction to Research Methods

  • Learning Theories

  • Memory and Cognition

  • Psychological Assessment

  • Principles of Ethology

  • Psychology of Film and Cinema

  • Psychology of Language

  • Psychology of Music

  • Psychology of Reading

  • Self-Awareness and Human Relationships

  • Sensation and Perception

  • Statistics


      
Hobart and William Smith Colleges and at SUNY Binghamton

  • Cognitive Psychology

  • Neural Networks

  • Motivation

  • Quantitative Methods

  • Semiotics


A Sampling of Student-Related Academic Activities

Faculty Advisor,  Psi Chi Chapter 881

Received certificates of appreciation for outstanding service as a faculty advisor in 1996, 1998, and 2007.  Established the Psi Chi chapter at Culver-Stockton College in 1996.  Member of Psi Chi for forty years.  Charter president of Psi Chi at Western New England College and during that time earned a student service award. Nominated for a New England Psychological Association Undergraduate (Psi Chi) Research Award while an undergraduate.

Faculty Advisor, Psychology Club, fall 1994 - spring 1998. (The Psychology Club Homecoming float won 3rd prize out of 78 entrants in the 1998 Homecoming parade.)

Faculty Advisor, Occupational Therapy Club, until 2010

Faculty Advisor, Pre-Occupational Therapy Program, fall 2006 - spring  2009

Faculty Sponsor, Exploratory and Advanced Internships

Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Research Projects 1994-2007; 2012 -

Between the spring of 1994 and the spring of 2007, more than 150 students from Culver-Stockton College have conducted an original psychological research project. Many of these students have gone on to present papers or posters at Regional and National conferences, and some students have had their research published.

Supervises psychology students in the Earn and learn program (Now called "student employees.")

Organizes trips to conferences. Annual trips to the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference; The ILLOWA Conference, and the Tri-States Undergraduate Conference.

Webmaster, Psychology Department

Webmaster, ILLOWA

Editor of the Psychology Department's Student Handbook

Chair (1994 - 2008; 2012 - present) and member (2009 - 2011) of C-SC's Psychological Research Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Chair of the psychology department fall 2003 - spring 2010; spring 2012 - present

Serves as a reviewer of undergraduate manuscripts for the Journal of Psychological Inquiry

Serves as a reviewer of textbooks and software for many publishers.

Serves as an Evaluator for Pillars Scholarships.

Listed in the Culver-Stockton College's Expert's Directory

Participates in "Hit the Hill Days" and Family Weekend.

Server: Thanksgiving Dinners.

Hosted the Psychology Club's annual picnic (1994-1999, 2007) and Psi Chi's annual picnic (1996–present).

Participates in the the host family program for C-SC's international students.


Academic Committees

  • Academic Computing

  • Academic Council

  • Academic Standards Committee

  • ACE: Academic and Cultural Affairs

  • Assessment

  • Committee on Faculty

  • General Education

  • Honors Program

  • Informational Technology

  • Judicial

  • Library

  • Social and Behavioral sciences

  • Adult Education


Research Interests

MEMORY

To investigate gender differences in olfactory memory as modulated by controlled verses automatic processing of olfactory stimuli.

To investigate the effects of asynchronous (background) music on memory using stimuli normed for familiarity.

To investigate the relationship between memory retrieval and eye-movements during eyewitness testimony.

To investigate the role of schemas on perception of astronomical observational inferences.

PSYCHOLOGY OF READING

To investigate the input description under which the lexicon is addressed.

To investigate and time-lock orthographic and phonological neighborhood density effects during word recognition.

To investigate factors of word recognition as shown by spontaneous readers.

To investigate interference effects during word recognition of those with multiple lexicons.

GENERAL

To investigate the importance of intrinsic motivation in fostering undergraduate academic research (Sabbatical, fall 2010)

 

A Sampling of Psychology Publications

Bohémier, G. (1999). The role of neighborhood rhyme during visual word recognition. Ex Scientia. 5(1).  pp. 85-103.

Bohémier, G. (2000). Is there a role of neighborhood density in skilled reading? Ex Scientia. 6(1). pp. 81-99.

Bohémier, G., Hurley, J., Kent, A., Mast, M., Plenge, C., & Jones, K. (2001) Biodots: Help or Hype? Ex Scientia. 7(1). pp. 105-113.

Inhoff, A. W., Bohémier, G., & Briihl D. (1992). Integration of text across fixations in reading and copytyping. In K. Rayner (Ed.), Eye movements and visual cognition: Scene perception and reading. New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 355-368.

Inhoff, A.W., Briihl, D., Bohémier, G. &, Wang, J. (1992). Eye-hand span and coding of text during copytyping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 18(2). pp. 298-306.

Recent Conference Presentations

Kelly, K., Anderson, R., Bohémier, G., & Case, K. (2009, April). Creative tips for teaching writing skills. Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Bohémier, G., Booth, S., McDonald, B., Simon, M., & Tharp, B. (2008, May). The effect of familiar background music varying in tempo on cognitive performance.  Association for Psychological Science Conference, Chicago, IL.

 


Astronomy

Astronomical League (AL)

Served as the AL's Chairperson of the Northeast Division (NERAL)

Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers

Served as a tutor for the equipment and techniques division

Springfield (MA) Telescope and Reflector Society (S.T.A.R.S.)

Served as the societies' President and newsletter editor

The Webb Society (London, UK)

Astronomical Awards

Honorary Messier Certificate (1986)

Herschel Certificate (#25, 1986)

Northeast Regional Astronomical League Service Award (1993)


Community Service

Conducts astronomy talks and observational astronomy sessions for Girl Scouts, regional secondary schools, and local churches.

• Conducts literature luncheons, participates in career carnivals, presents talks and classroom discussions, and a serves as a member of the PTO and the band booster club in the Canton, MO Public Schools.

• Involved in many local community fund-raising activities for non-profit organizations.

• Listed in Culver-Stockton College’s Community Speaker’s Directory.

• Served as a judge in regional science fairs.

• Served as a SPSS and IRB consultant for the Blessing Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (Quincy, IL).

• Served as computer consultant for Palmyra, MO Public Library.

• Served as project leader for the Canton 4-H Club.

• Supporter of the Quincy, IL Museum of Natural History and Art.

• Supporter and advocate of light trespass and light pollution laws.

• Sierra Club: Osage Division

• Active member of Clearing Skies, a regional environmental protection group.


I live in Canton, Missouri near the college. I was born and raised in Massachusetts in the Connecticut Valley area of the state and I've spent most of my life enjoying learning--and I'm still at it! My principal hobby is observational astronomy.  But I'm an eclectic hobbyist. Some days you may find me with a telescope looking for obscure planetaries or with a microscope studying spores (my specialty is palynology). On other days you may find me collecting fossils, rocks, meteorites or just watching nature.  On still other days you may find me reading, constructing mysterious objects, watching vintage sci-fi movies, or listening to avant-garde classical or progressive rock music. 

I also like water skiing, cross-country skiing, boating, hiking, camping, and taking "century trips" on my bicycle. In addition, I love trying new cuisines, going to plays, concerts, and museums. On weekends, I love gardening, working on the house, and going to garage sales or antiquing.


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