Richard S. Pond
Professor
Dr. Pond is a Professor in the Psychology Department at UNCW. He is a social psychologist who conducts research on a variety of topics (including personality, emotion, the need to belong, close relationships, and self-control); however, his primary interests involve understanding the causes of aggression and violence. His work seeks to understand what affective processes, personality characteristics, and social contexts work to amplify or buffer the cycle of violence.
Dr. Pond also has interests in psychometrics and statistical analysis. He regularly teaches courses in regression, multivariate statistics, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and meta-analysis.
To learn more about his research and scholarship, please click the provided Scholars@UNCW link or Google Scholar link.
Education
B.S. in Psychology & Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University
M.A. in General/Experimental Psychology, College of William & Mary
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Kentucky
Research Interests
Aggression and intimate partner violence
Emotion processes
Affiliation, social pain, exclusion, and loneliness
Personality and individual differences
Statistics/Research methodology (daily diary methods, longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, within-person variability)