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Thomas E. Van Cantfort, Ph.D. "Dr. Van"
At FSU since 1990
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In the harbor of Cabo San Lucas
with his son Jason & daughter Viktoria
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Thomas E. Van Cantfort is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Fayetteville State University. He is an evolutionary psychologist and teaches undergraduate; statistics, research methods, biopsychology, sensation and perception, and history and systems in psychology. On the graduate level he teaches statistics, research methods, biological aspects of behavior, teaching of psychology, psychobiology of sex differences and is the Interim Chair and Director of the Graduate Experimental Psychology program. |
Tom received a B. A. in psychology and a M. A. in experimental psychology at San Francisco State University, He earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1986 (Academic Genealogy). His area of expertise has been the study of language acquisition in cross-fostered chimpanzees. Tom has worked with Drs. Allen and Beatrix Gardners for over ten years.
Tom is also Co-Principal Investigator on the Yogic Breathing, Testimony and Interpersonal Violence research group. This research is exploring the effects of yogic breathing and testimony on self-efficacy, depression and various physiological measures such as heart and respiration rate, blood pressure and handgrip in battered women.
Current Publications:
Franzblau, S. H., Echevarria, S., Smith, M., & Van Cantfort, T. E. (2008). Preliminary investigation of the effects of giving testimony and learning yogic breathing techniques on battered women’s feelings of depression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23(12), 1800 - 1808.
Van Cantfort, T. E. (2008). Expanding the multicultural debate: Culture and nonhuman primates. In R. Eddy & V. Villanueva, Jr. (Eds.), Racism and Representations: A Reader of Language and Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Jones, C. B., & Van Cantfort, T. E. (2007). A schema for multimodal communication applied to male Mantled Howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) analysis. Laboratory Primate Newsletter, 46(2), 10 - 16.
Jones, C. B., & Van Cantfort, T. E. (2007). Multimodal communication by male Mantled Howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in sexual contexts: a descriptive analysis. Folia Primatologica, 78(3), 166 - 185.
Franzblau, S. H., Smith, M., Echevarria, S., & Van Cantfort, T. E. (2006). Take a breath, break the silence: The effects of yogic breathing and testimony about battering on feelings of self-efficacy in battered women. International Journal of Yogic Therapy, 16, 49 - 57.
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