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Associate Professor
A.B., University of Michigan--Dearborn
A.M., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Psychology
205 Severance Laboratory
(440) 775-8362
al.porterfield@oberlin.edu

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I'm a clinical psychologist by training but an experimental psychologist by temperament. I teach Abnormal Psychology, Human Psychophysiology, Seminar in Emotion, and I participate in our team-taught introductory course (The Study of Behavior). My research interests fall in the realm of cognitive neuroscience, and I am currently studying event-related brain potentials associated with viewing one's own face. I manage Oberlin's Psychophysiology Laboratory.

Two great minds discussing one magnificent idea: Edward O. Wilson and James Watson talk about Darwin and evolutionary biology with Charlie Rose.

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