Brian Ayotte

faculty

Brian Ayotte, PhD

Associate Professor

Psychology

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Education

2010West Virginia UniversityPhD

Teaching

  • Health Psychology
  • Methods
  • Statistics
  • Developmental Psychology

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

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.

Prerequisite for Honors APEX. The course leads students through project development and explores creative and critical thinking in the context of American culture, politics, economics and society; research ethics; time management; and public presentation. They will identify their project supervisor and submit their initial APEX proposal. This is scheduled as a blended course. In addition to meeting for one hour and forty minutes each week, you will be asked to complete weekly online assignments and provide peer feedback to other students. Students will earn three credits for completing this course.

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.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Provides an overview of health psychology: the scientific study of behaviors and cognitive processes related to health states. It addresses the mind/body connection, the influence of social and physical environments on our health, cognitive processing of health information, health belief models and the link between personality traits and health. The interactions between these biological, psychological, and social influences on individuals' health states are examined from an empirical perspective.
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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.