NEWS

In this Spotlight Event, we will explore many facets of one of the most valued aspects of our lives – the friendships we have with others. Friendships and peer relationships have been a topic of interest for centuries and across many disciplines, including philosophy, religion, literature, and psychology. These relationships bring us pleasure as well as pain, and they occupy our thoughts, at times more than we would like. We will take a life-span perspective on friendships and focus on how research in psychology can help us ask and answer questions about these social bonds, including how friendships develop, how they affect us, and how they vary from person to person.

Event Details

Date: September 18
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Davidson Town Hall, Lower Level Community Room, 251 South Street**

** Please enter from parking lot in rear of building through the double red doors to left of glass entrance.

About the Speaker

Catherine Bagwell, PhD is Virginia Lasater Irvin Professor of Psychology at Davidson College. With a B.S. in psychology from the University of Richmond and PhD in clinical psychology from Duke University, she taught at Richmond and Colgate Universities and at Oxford College of Emory University before joining the Davidson faculty in 2022.

She now lives on the Davidson campus with her partner, Doug Hicks, and their two children.

At Davidson, she teaches courses in adolescent psychology and relationship science, and her research focuses on the role of friendships and peer relationships.

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