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Timothy D. Ritchie

Timothy D. Ritchie

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Dr. Tim Ritchie collaborates with scholars locally and internationally. He is a peer reviewer for more than 40 journals, grant agencies, and book publishing companies. Tim is a lead author and a coauthor on more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters

In 2014, Dr. Ritchie joined the Psychology Department at SXU as chairperson, and is now in a second term as the department chair. Tim earned tenure here in July of 2017

2009 to 2014: Lecturer (assistant professor, tenured), Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland

2007 to 2009: Research & Teaching Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Self & Identity, University of Southampton, England

2006: Ph.D. in Social and Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Illinois University

2002-2003, Tim facilitated Psychometric Data Analyst needs for the Riverside Publishing Company in Itasca, IL, working on the USA's states' standardized exam scores for grades K-12; he coauthored an article about computerized adaptive testing algorithms; and, contributed to other projects, including updates to the Stanford-Binet version 5 manual

1998 to 2001: Helped build a team of Quality Assurance Analysts for Product Development at IBM SPSS in Chicago, working on the flagship product, SPSS, including syntax, macro, script developments, product localization across languages and operating systems

1999: M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University Chicago

1997: B.S. in Psychology with a Philosophy minor from Loyola University Chicago

Primary Interests:

  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Ethics and Morality
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition

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Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Analysis I & II (graduate)
  • Behavioral Neuroscience (undergraduate)
  • Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics (graduate)
  • Individual & Group Therapy (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate)
  • Psychological Tests and Measures (graduate)
  • Research Methods (undergraduate)
  • Social Cognition (undergraduate)
  • Social Influence & Attitude Chage (graduate)
  • Statistics for the Social Sciences and Biostatistics (undergraduate)
  • Stress management (undergraduate)

Timothy D. Ritchie
3700 West 103rd St.
Department of Psychology
Saint Xavier University
Chicago, Illinois 60655
United States of America

  • Phone: 773-298-3759

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