Dr. Stuart Appelle

Stuart Appelle began his graduate work in experimental psychology at Pennsylvania State University, and received his Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1972. In addition to teaching at SUNY Brockport, he has held teaching or research positions at George Washington University, Mount Vernon College, and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Department of Pediatrics).

He is currently Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, an appointment that follows a number of earlier administrative positions at Brockport, including chairman of the Department of Psychology, Director of the Master of Arts program in Liberal Studies, Associate Dean of the School of Letters and Sciences, and Interim Dean.

In addition to these administrative activities, Appelle is an active scholar whose research focuses on perception, and the nature of conscious experience. His work in these areas has been widely published, spanning theoretical problems in the senses, applied work related to blind and developmentally delayed populations, and topics of popular interest such as hypnosis and anomalous experience (e.g. accounts of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions). Dean Appelle is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, Psychonomics Society, and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.