Heidi O'Connor, PhD

Professor of Psychology

Dr. O’Connor is a full-time professor of psychology at AIC. Her background is in health psychology and in neuropsychology. Dr. O’Connor teaches a wide range of classes for the psychology department. In addition to the core courses, she teaches Personality, Abnormal Psychology, Topics in Psychology-Positive Psychology, and Health Psychology. More recently, she has an interest in interdisciplinary aspects of psychology and has been collaborating with business. She enjoys her role as an academic advisor and as the faculty mentor for women’s field hockey.

Education
BA- Psychology University of Massachusetts
MA-Human Resource Development American International College
MA-Clinical Psychology Connecticut College
PhD-Clinical Psychology Ohio University

Courses Taught at AIC
Introduction to Psychology
Statistics
Experimental Psychology
Health Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Personality
Topics in Psychology – Positive Psychology

Presentations/Selected Presentations

• O’Connor, H.R.M., and Chambers, D.L. (2019).  The path to promoting cultural competence in the classroom.  Poster Presentation at Annual Meeting for the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
• O’Connor, H.R.M and Robert Khoury (2019).  Is it the business of psychology or the psychologyof business? (Participant Idea Exchange). Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Manchester New Hampshire, United States.
• Sego, S., Stuart, A. E., & O’Connor, H. R. M. (2014, October 18).  Grit: A failure to replicate Duckworth, et al. (2007).  Poster presentation at the 54^th Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Lewiston, ME.
• O’Connor, H.R.M., Stuart, A. E., & Sego, S.A. (2013).  Spoiler Alert!  Using Peer Role Models to Reveal the Path to Graduation and Beyond.  Presentation at the Farmingdale State College Teaching of Psychology Conference, Tarrytown, NY.
• Sego, S. A., O’Connor, H.R.M. (2012, March).  Weaving Learning Objective Across the Curriculum.  Presentation at the Cooperating Colleges of Greater  Springfield Conference, Springfield, MA.
• Sego, S.A., Stuart, A.E., & O’Connor, H.R.M. (2011, October).  Engineering Student Success. Workshop Presented at New England Psychological Association Conference, Fairfield, CT.