Rate My Professor Loretta McGregor

Dr. Loretta Neal McGregor serves as Interim Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Arkansas State University, where she joined the faculty in 2005 as Chair of the department and held that position for seven years. She has also served as President of the Faculty Senate and continues to teach psychology with over 30 years of experience in the field. McGregor earned her Ph.D. in human factors psychology from Wichita State University, her M.S. in general experimental psychology from Emporia State University, and her B.A. in psychology from Ouachita Baptist University. She was a Fellow in the Southern Regional Educational Board’s Doctoral Scholars Program, becoming the first participant from Arkansas.

Her academic interests span experimental psychology, incorporating cognitive, psychosocial, and biological perspectives to study human behavior and influences, including personality characteristics, the impostor phenomenon, and the history of African Americans and people of color in psychology. Notable publications include "Doing Assessment Well: Advances for Undergraduate Psychology Programs and Psychology Educators" (2020), "Context Matters: Outcome Assessments for Associate’s Degree Psychology Programs" (2020), "Self-perception of personality characteristics and the Type A behavior pattern" (2013), "Similarities and differences between ‘traditional’ and ‘nontraditional’ college students in selected personality characteristics" (2013), and "I feel like a fraud and it depresses me: the relation between the impostor phenomenon and depression" (2008). McGregor was elected by the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives to the APA Board of Educational Affairs for a three-year term. She received the 2020 APA Division 2 Presidential Citation for outstanding service to the program and to psychology, as the first person of color to earn this honor. With more than 30 years of involvement, she served as national President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology after her president-elect term, promoting themes like cultivating the next generation of psychology educators and mentoring early-career psychologists. She participated in the Society’s 2008 National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology.