Hayley Nelson

Dr. Hayley Nelson is a full-time Associate Professor of Psychology at Delaware County Community College (DCCC) where she teaches PSY 140 – General Psychology, PSY 204 – Addiction, Drugs, and the Brain, and PSY 255 – Introduction to Biological Psychology. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Psychology Club and is a member of the BCSS symposium planning committee (America in Crisis), Middle States Commission on Higher Education self-study working group at DCCC, Recruitment and Retention Task Force, and is an academic advisor for Psychology majors. Prior to joining DCCC, Dr. Nelson was a full-time lecturer and Research Director for the undergraduate Neuroscience program at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Human Factors scientific consultant at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates where she addressed the role of human perception, performance, and behavior in accident scenarios taking into account various behavioral components including drug and alcohol use. Dr. Nelson earned her PhD in 2010 at The Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences where she received behavioral neuroscience training in the classroom and laboratory, leading to several peer-reviewed research publications on the role of dopamine in motivated behaviors. Dr. Nelson also has work published from her time as a researcher with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).

• biological psychology
• behavioral neuroscience
• biological basis of behavior
• motivated behaviors
• addiction
• psychopharmacology
• dopamine
• neuroanatomy
• neuroethology
• psychology