Dr. Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez

Dr. Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez earned an MSc in Research Methods (2002) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology (2005) from The University of Bristol, in England. Upon graduation he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Bristol and then at Bangor University, in Wales. From 2012 to 2022 he was at The University of Southern Mississippi, most recently as a tenured associate professor in psychology. In 2019 he earned a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Ball State University. He joined Benedictine College in the fall of 2022. Dr. Stadthagen-Gonzalez’s main area of research is in the psychology of language, including work on bilingualism, language and emotion, word recognition, and categorization of meanings. More recently he has also started conducting research on the topic of financial infidelity. He teaches General Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biopsychology, and Research & Statistics in Psychology.