Danielle Godon-Decoteau

(she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Comparative American Studies

Areas of Study

Education

BS, Bryant University, 2007
AM, Mount Holyoke College, 2012
PhD, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018

Biography

I am a clinical psychologist whose research is informed by multicultural psychology. I use both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore how Asian Americans' understandings of racism affect their mental health. Most recently, our research lab has been examining how U.S.-born Asian Americans talk to their immigrant elders about race. I hope to produce scholarship that helps promote Asian American well-being by resisting internalized racism.

Fall 2025

Teaching Assistant — PSYC 500

Practicum in Psychology — PSYC 501

Supervised Research in Psychology - Full — PSYC 510F

Supervised Research in Psychology - Half — PSYC 510H

Independent Research Problems - Full — PSYC 606F

Independent Research Problems - Half — PSYC 606H

Psychology Honors - Full — PSYC 608F

Psychology Honors - Half — PSYC 608H

Spring 2026

Teaching Assistant — PSYC 500

Practicum in Psychology — PSYC 501

Supervised Research in Psychology - Full — PSYC 510F

Supervised Research in Psychology - Half — PSYC 510H

Independent Research Problems - Full — PSYC 606F

Independent Research Problems - Half — PSYC 606H

Psychology Honors - Full — PSYC 608F

Psychology Honors - Half — PSYC 608H

Godon-Decoteau, D., Frye, A. A., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2024). Internalized racism and Asian American mental health. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 15(4), 329–341. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000347
Godon-Decoteau, D., Benson, J. M., Sawdy, M. E., & Reynolds, J. D. (Taewon Choi) (in press). “I am a normal Asian American?”: Diverse ways that Asian Americans respond to an open-ended question about their racial identification. Asian American Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000344
Suyemoto, K. L., Abdullah, T., Godon-Decoteau, D., Tahirkheli, N. N., Arbid, N., & Frye, A. A. (2022). Development of the Resistance and Empowerment Against Racism (REAR) Scale. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28, 58-71. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000353
Godon-Decoteau, D. & Ramsey, P. G., (2020). Transracial adoptees: The rewards and challenges of searching for their birth families. In G. M. Wrobel, E. Helder, & E. Marr (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Adoption (pp. 238-252). Routledge International Handbooks.
Godon-Decoteau, D., & Ramsey, P. G. (2018). Positive and negative aspects of transracial adoption from the perspectives of Korean transracially and internationally adopted individuals. Adoption Quarterly, 21, 17-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2017.1387209
Godon-Decoteau, D., Ramsey, P. G., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2018). Korean transnational and transracial adoptees: Ethnic identity and sense of belonging and exclusion in relation to birth and adoptive groups. Identity, 18, 178-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2018.1487299
Day, S. C., Godon-Decoteau, D., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2015). Effects of becoming a mother on the development of ethnic and racial identities in Korean transnationally and transracially adopted women. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6, 359-370. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000028
Godon, D. E., Green, W., & Ramsey, P. G. (2014). Transracial adoptees: The search for birth family and the search for self, Adoption Quarterly, 17, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2014.875087

Danielle Godon-Decoteau and Students Win Prize at Convention

August 20, 2025

Assistant Professor of Psychology Danielle Godon-Decoteau and two Oberlin students, Huyen Kim and Victoria Adair, won third prize for their poster presentation "Bottom-up Racial Socialization: U.S.-Born Asian Americans’ Initiation of Conversations About Race with their Immigrant Elders" at the Asian American Psychological Association's Annual Convention in Denver.

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