John A. Johnson holds the rank of Professor of Psychology. Since his
appointment to the campus in 1981, he has taught over a dozen different
psychology courses, a technical writing course, a freshman seminar, two
courses on computer applications in the social sciences, and several
honors seminars and special topics courses. He also serves as an advisor
for Psychology majors. He has occasionally taught at the University Park
campus and has served on graduate committees of both Penn State students
and students from the DuBois area who earned their graduate degrees from
other universities. His teaching awards include DuBois Campus Professor
of the Year, Fellow of the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in
Learning, Recipient of the Provost's Collaborative and Curricular
Innovations Special Recognition Program Award, First place STAR Project
Award from the Jack P. Royer Center for Learning and Academic
Technologies, and the Penn State Alumni Association Award for Excellence
in Teaching.Dr. Johnson completed
his B.S. degree in Psychology and his B.S. degree in Biology at the Pennsylvania State University
in 1976. He earned his
M.A. degree in Psychology in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1981 at the Johns Hopkins University. In
1990-91 he spent his sabbatical year as visiting professor at the
University of Bielefeld in Germany and he spent a portion of his 1999
sabbatical as visiting research scientist at the Oregon Research
Institute.
In addition to teaching psychology
courses, Dr. Johnson conducts research on factors that affect the
validity of personality tests, particularly in employment settings. He
has consulted on employee selection issues for several local companies,
and has published over 30 scientific articles and book chapters on
personality theory and measurement. He maintains a web-based personality
test that has been visited by over 300,000 individuals and was
recognized with an award from MSNBC.
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