Title
Professor of Psychology
Company
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Bio
Charisse Nixon received her Ph.D. from West Virginia University and is currently a full professor of Psychology at Penn State Behrend. Her primary research interest focuses on increasing students’ pro-social behaviors and decreasing negative behaviors including various forms of peer mistreatment (e.g., relational and physical mistreatment). Nixon is currently studying effective prevention and intervention efforts (including mentoring) to reduce at-risk behaviors. Building students’ resiliency is a core tenet of her work.