Benjamin R. Meagher (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hope College. His research lab conducts work in environmental, social, and personality psychology, investigating how these distinct sub-disciplines--dealing respectively with the physical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal world--intercept in a variety of interesting ways. His primary areas of research currently focus on (a) how individual differences in beliefs, motivation, and personality lead to different impressions of the same physical environment, and (b) how being in a particular types of physical environments (e.g., the home, religious spaces) can help people interact, cope, or self-regulate in more effective ways. His work has appeared in leading journals in social and environmental psychology, including Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environment & Behavior, and Personality and Individual Differences.