Description

Stacie M. Spencer, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the BS in Health Psychology program at MCPHS University (formerly the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Boston, MA). She received her BA from Allegheny College and her MA and PhD from Northeastern University in Experimental Social and Personality Psychology. She later did her Post-Doc at the University of Miami in Behavioral Medicine. A recipient of the MCPHS Trustees’ Award for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Spencer has developed a comprehensive series of career exploration and professional development seminars and conducts research on team-based learning and interprofessional education. You can contact her at stacie.spencer@mcphs.edu.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Stacie's difficulties in undergrad
• The quality that served Stacie no matter where she went
• What is behavioral medicine?
• How are social and personality psychologies related to health?
• Stacie's research on defensive pessimism and strategic optimism and on coping 
• Why her gravestone will say: "Yes, you can get a job with a bachelor's in psychology"
• Why she became a college professor
• What can you do with a bachelor's in psychology?
• Job searching and graduate school application advice

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Music by: Adam Fine