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Brian Ayotte

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Brian Ayotte, PhD

Associate Professor / Faculty Director of the Honors College

Psychology

Contact

508-999-9206

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Claire T. Carney Library 222

Education

2010West Virginia UniversityPhD

Teaching

  • Health Psychology
  • Methods
  • Statistics
  • Developmental Psychology

Teaching

Courses

First year intensive transition course providing students with an abridged, immersive college experience focused on skill development, college expectations, and community building. Students develop strategies for academic success, including study techniques, time management skills, information literacy, interdisciplinary problem solving, and group work. Through high-impact mentoring, students learn about and utilize campus resources, centers, and technology systems. The course culminates in an interdisciplinary mixed-media communication project.

First year intensive transition course providing students with an abridged, immersive college experience focused on skill development, college expectations, and community building. Students develop strategies for academic success, including study techniques, time management skills, information literacy, interdisciplinary problem solving, and group work. Through high-impact mentoring, students learn about and utilize campus resources, centers, and technology systems. The course culminates in an interdisciplinary mixed-media communication project.

First year intensive transition course providing students with an abridged, immersive college experience focused on skill development, college expectations, and community building. Students develop strategies for academic success, including study techniques, time management skills, information literacy, interdisciplinary problem solving, and group work. Through high-impact mentoring, students learn about and utilize campus resources, centers, and technology systems. The course culminates in an interdisciplinary mixed-media communication project.

Exploration of what it means to be human. This course will sample insights into ourselves from the unraveling of the human genome to the uncovering of the earliest evidence of distinctively human culture. Topics could include human consciousness, biomedical discoveries, defining human experiences, or the origins of human societies or belief sets. May be repeated with change of content.

Independent pursuit of an individual research project under the supervision of a faculty sponsor.

Independent pursuit of an individual research project under the supervision of a faculty sponsor.

Independent pursuit of an individual research project under the supervision of a faculty sponsor.

Student develops and executes an independent research thesis under the direction of a faculty advisor. Graded A-F.

Student develops and executes an independent research thesis under the direction of a faculty advisor. Graded A-F.

Research

Research interests

  • Health behaviors
  • Social support
  • Relationships
  • Health attitudes

Dr. Ayotte is interested in the role of individual and interpersonal factors on health-related attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes through the lifespan. His work includes the examination of health behaviors in married couples, health-related outcomes in healthcare employees, independent living skills in younger and older adults, health-related decision making, and other related work. In his life outside of work, he loves to swim, bike, run, and hike with his wife and dog.

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