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Valanne L. MacGyvers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champagn, 1993
Post Doctoral Fellowship at UCLA, Educational Psychology, 1992-1994
Member of UL Faculty since 1994

What do you love about UL Lafayette?
They hired me!

Area of scholarship/expertise?
Achievementg Motivation, Sexual Abuse, Developmental Psychology

Courses routinely taught:

Advanced Developmental Psychology

What is your hometown
and what is unique about it?
Seattle, Washington. It is bordered on the east and west by both water and mountains. Most of Downtown is below ground, because they raised the streets to fill in the sink holes.

What was your first job? What did you learn from it?
Babysitting. You get more homework done after the kids go to bed.

Work of art, literature, movie, or music that you would recommend.
JRR Tolkien ’s Lord of the Ring Trilogy

Person you’d like to meet:

my husband?

Why do you do what you do?

I had a real job once—it wasn’t as much fun …

Favorite anecdote/quote:

If you’re not having fun, then your attitude is wrong.


 

 


 

 

 

 

   

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