Anthony Perry

Dr. Perry has worked in the School of Psychology at Walden University since 2008. He started at Walden as a part-time faculty member and in 2009 became Program Director for the doctoral specializations in General, Health, and Organizational Psychology. Beginning in 2011, he also served as Program Director for the doctoral specializations in Educational and Social Psychology. In 2015, Dr. Perry move to a full-time, core faculty position in the School of Psychology. Dr. Perry's primary responsibilities include mentoring dissertation students, teaching at dissertation intensives and doctoral residencies, and teaching doctoral level coursework.
Dr. Perry's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Brandeis University. His M.A. (Experimental Psychology) and B.A. (Psychology/Gerontology) were earned from CSU Sacramento. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Perry was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in aging and cognition at the University of Southern California. His broad research interests include cognition, perception, human factors, psycholinguistics, and adulthood and aging.

Courses Taught

PSYC 8815 - Contemporary Gerontology/Geriatric Psychology

PSYC 8300 - Philosophical Foundations of Psychological Research

Education

PhD, Brandeis University

MA, California State University, Sacramento

BA, California State University, Sacramento

Awards / Honors

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Cognition/Aging, University of Southern California, 1995

Publications

Perry, A., Wingfield, A. (1994). Contextual encoding by young and elderly adults as revealed by cued and free recall. Aging and Cognition

Perry, A. (1986). Type A behavior pattern and motor vehicle drivers' behavior. Perceptual and Motor Skills

Perry, A., Laurie, C. A. (1992). Sustained attention and the Type A behavior pattern: The effect of daydreaming on performance. Journal of General Psychology

Perry, A., Baldwin, D. A. (2000). Further evidence of associations of Type A personality scores and driving related attitudes and behaviors. Perceptual and Motor Skills

Rogers, L., Ntuen, C., Perry, A. (1999). An application of true depth display in visiualzation of military symbols. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Human Factors & Ergonomics of Complex Systems

Perry, A. (1989). Letter identification in normal and dyslexic readers: A verification. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society

Perry, A., Kane, K. M., Bessemer, K. J., Spicker, P. T. (1990). Type A behavior, competitive achievement-striving, and cheating among college students. Psychological Reports