Psychology Faculty
Adrian Teo

Adrian Teo
Associate Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4420 Fax: (509) 777-3225
Office Location: Dixon Hall 209 D
E-mail: ateo@whitworth.edu

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Education:
Ph.D. and M.A. in Child Psychology (joint program in School Psychology), Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
B.Sc. in Psychology, Oregon State University

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty:  1997

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Developmental and school psychology; longitudinal research; statistical analysis; child development; school achievement and conduct problems; development of moral behavior and cognition; ethics in psychology; evolutionary psychology; psychology and faith integration; science and religion

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:

Publications include: "Human Life (Dignity and Sanctity of), Human Embryo, Childrearing, and Evolution and Human Experimentation" in the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (2007, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc.); an article, Teo, A., & Calbreath, D., "Embryonic Stem Cells and a Reformed Christian World View," in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (2006); an article: "Human Altruism in Evolutionary Psychological Perpective: A Critique" in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (2002).

Conducting an ongoing research project, Healthy Youth Survey, through the Washington State Department of Health.

Presented a poster, "The influence of adaptational patterns on academic achievement," at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association's 87th Annual Convention (2007); presented a poster, "Altruism: A re-examination of the evolutionary psychological explanation," at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association’s 85th Annual Convention (2005); presented a paper, "An Organizational-Developmental Model of School Achievement" at the Meeting of the Western Psychological Association's 84th Annual Convention (2004).

Advisory board member for Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) 50th year celebration book project: Psychology and Christianity Integration: Seminal Works that Shaped the Movement.

Recipient of a Murdock summer study grant (2002); Templeton Science & Religion Course Development Award (2001); Whitworth College Faculty Summer Research Grant (2001, 1998); Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning summer research fellowship (2000); Templeton Science and Religion Course Award (1999).



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