Angela P. Cole-Dixon, PhD

Angela P. Cole-Dixon, PhD, is associate provost for Academic Affairs and professor of psychology at Howard University. She earned her BS in psychology, with a minor in mathematics, at Howard University and her PhD in cognitive psychology at Stanford University. She was awarded a predoctoral fellowship and dissertation fellowship by APA’s Minority Fellowship Program. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. In 2008, Cole-Dixon was selected by Stanford University as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar. Her research focuses on information-processing models of decision making, social cognition and personality, and has resulted in publications in Health Psychology; Law and Human Behavior; Brain, Behavior and Immunity; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology; Caribbean Journal of Psychology; and African American Research Perspectives. She has received external funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and APA. She was principal investigator (PI) for a research grant jointly funded by NSF’s Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program and Social Psychology Program; was PI for the Atlantic Coast Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Alliance (AC-SBE), funded by NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences; and received a Faculty and Student Research Team Program Award from the DHS. She has chaired an American Association for the Advancement of Science Health, Education and Human Services Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Selection Committee and is a member of the APA Psychology Summer Institute Selection Committee.