Dr. Erik M. Gregory
Dr. Gregory is Executive Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. He specializes in positive psychology, a field that examines healthy human functioning such as courage, hope, optimism, and happiness. He has worked internationally with children and adolescents as a psychotherapist and has consulted with leaders in higher education, media, and business to improve personal and professional functioning.
Dr. Gregory received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has held appointments with the National Cancer Institute in Hawaii, the Spencer Foundation, and the University of Chicago. He completed his clinical internship at the Tavistock Institute in London where he worked as a consultant to the entertainment industry and a leader in the treatment of refugee children suffering from trauma.
Dr. Gregory can be reached at egregory@mprcenter.org
Dr. Pamela Rutledge
Dr. Rutledge is the Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. She has a background in media communications, business management, and psychology. A speaker, writer, researcher and consultant, Dr. Rutledge is adjunct faculty at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Fielding Graduate University, an instructor of media psychology in the UCLA Extension program, and an instructor of social media audience profiling and transmedia storytelling in the UC Irvine Extension School of Business and Law’s Internet and social media certificate program.
Dr. Rutledge has provided assessments and guidance to individuals and organizations for over 25 years drawing on her a broad background in media communications and visual design, business strategy, and the psychology of cognition, attitudes, persuasion, and perception. Her current research and applied interest is identifying the ways in which technology and connectivity influence individual and group behavior with implications for marketing and branding as well as internal communications, identifying primary goals, the fundamentals of storytelling and narrative in a transmedia environment, and shifting audience psychologies as a result of social media technologies on individual and group communication, attention, expectations, interaction, consumption, and social norms. Recent projects involved the impact of information flows on cooperation and conflict between nations, the influence of fan communities and narratives on individual cognition, and the impact of technological literacy on self-image. Read more.
Dr. Rutledge can be reached at prutledge@mprcenter.org or on Twitter at @pamelarutledge. and @mediapsychology.
Gary Goldberger
As Partner, Vice President and Director of Production at FableVision, Goldberger oversees the production and technology related to the creation and distribution of educational media into schools, museums, and broadcast markets. His film credits include The Dot (2003, Director), Ish (2004, Director) both co-productions with Weston Woods/Scholastic, He Was Me (2003, Executive Producer), as well as The Blue Shoe (1999, Director) and Living Forever (2002, Director), which have been honored in over 70 film festivals worldwide and have been broadcast nationally and internationally.
Paul Reynolds
Paul Reynolds has built several successful multiple media companies that serve children and adults. After founding and running Cosmic Blender, an adult eLearning firm, for eighteen years, Reynolds founded FableVision in 1996 with his identical twin brother, Peter H. Reynolds. Reynolds provides creative strategy and branding development for the firm’s award-winning products and projects, which include web, CD-ROM, kiosk, broadcast, film, books, and classroom products.
Senior Research Fellows
Dr. Jerri Lynn Hogg, Bay Path College and Fielding Graduate University
Jerri Lynn Hogg is on the media psychology faculty at Fielding Graduate University and professor of media psychology at Bay Path College as well as an international presenter speaking about the cultural influence on human behavior and digital media, virtual communities and worlds, effective communication design, learning communities, and multimedia design. Passionate about the impact of social media environments, she continues to develop curriculum that can cross cultural and regional barriers. As a psychologist, Jerri Lynn researches and consults on the convergence of psychology, technology, education, and culture with a special concentration on human behaviors in digital environments. She is also an instructor at UC Irvine Extension, teaching Social Media and Audience Profiling. Jerri Lynn holds a PhD and MA in media psychology from Fielding Graduate University and an MS in Communications from Bay Path College.
Bonnie Buckner,
Bonnie Buckner, MA is co founder of A Think Lab and President and CEO of MicroFocus Media, a political and corporate market research firm which she co-founded in 2004. MicroFocus Media is an industry leader in providing customized, ideological research for targets on new and traditional media, maintaining strategic partnerships with Nielsen Media Research, Arbitron and HCD Research. MFM’s clients include U.S. Presidential and other prominent political campaigns, national political organizations, national foundations and research organizations, and corporate clients.
Buckner has spoken across the country on topics as diverse as Using Augmented Reality for Social Impact, Cognitive Psychology and Design for the Small Screen, Architecting Solutions through Whole Brain Processes and Micro-Targeting for Political Campaigns. She teaches Media and Political Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology and the Visual Display of Information for the Media Psychology and Social Change graduate program that is a partnership between Fielding Graduate University and UCLA. She also teaches Transmedia Marketing Through Storytelling for UC Irvine Extension. She holds a PhD and MA in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University, a BS in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas and is a graduate from the School of Images where she also serves as a member on the advisory board.
Dr. Marc Giudici
Marc Giudici, PhD, MS, MA, NCC is a Nationally Certified Counselor with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Giudici earned his Master in Counseling Psychology Degree at the University of Mississippi and has recently earned his Masters in Media Psychology Degree through Fielding University. Since Katrina, Giudici’s passion, time, and research have been focused on the Hurricane Katrina survivors and relief effort. He spent the initial year post-storm on the Gulf Coast working with the Survivors of Katrina providing mental health services and assisting the long term planning and recovery process. Marc is fueled, inspired, and humbled by the resilience, post-trauma growth, and forward thinking of people along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. As a result of his experience with Katrina survivors, Giudici is in the final stage of developing in an assessment tool that mines for strengths and assets of those that have experienced trauma to be used in the future to assist with post-recovery efforts. In addition, Giudici is committed to promoting the evolving field of Media Psychology and its role in psychology. He has been invited to speak at the Mississippi Conference on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, as guest lecturer providing Media Psychology rich information and interventions for those that are working with this difficult population. Giudici’s previous research focused on developing medication compliance profiles using selected scales from the MMPI-2 with the Veteran population. He continues to work in this area.
Cynthia Hagan, MA
Cynthia Hagan received her Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Marshall University and is a Doctoral candidate in Media Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. She is adjunct faculty at the UCLA extension/Fielding Graduate University joint certificate program in Media Psychology and Social Change. She has an employment background in clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and forensic psychology. Also, Hagan is an optioned screenwriter. Her current research interests include the impact of media narrative on resilience and optimism, the influence of media on human rights, and the emotional impact of still photography.
Dr. Leo Chan, University of Houston Clear Lake
Leo Chan earned his Ph.D in Mass Communication and Media Arts. His dissertation focused on intercultural communication, media effects, and children’s television programming. Chan, a native from Hong Kong, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication Program and Digital Media Studies at University of Houston – Clear Lake. His convergence of experiences in mass communication and media arts have stimulated his teaching and research interests in media effects, media and society, multimedia design, intercultural communication, visual communication, and international media. He was also nominated for the university wide teaching award in 2004. In addition to his full time teaching position, Chan has been active in research that has resulted in a number of conference presentations nationally and internationally, and more are currently out on review. He enjoys both activities immensely. He was also involved in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters as a big brother for two years.
