Undergraduate Psychology Faculty

Heide Island teaches in the undergraduate psychology program at Pacific University and conducts a broad spectrum of research.

Broadly, I am interested in examining how social preferences develop, how they are maintained, and how they change throughout the lifespan. Most of my work has specifically examined preferences for facial attractiveness, the emotional consequences of viewing attractive versus unattractive faces, and how experience best explains what people find attractive in a face.

Todd Schultz is a professor of psychology who also blogs for Psychology Today magazine and writes psychological interpretations of artists.