Daniel Arkkelin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Valparaiso University

Daniel Arkkelin (B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1978) has been at Valparaiso University since 1982, and is currently Full Professor of Psychology. Dr. Arkkelin is a social psychologist with both theoretical and applied interests. His interests include social influences on behavior, social cognition, and the relationship between humans and their physical environment. His major courses include Social Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology. He conducts research on occupational gender-role stereotyping and leadership, perceptual and affective responses to environmental features, determinants of recycling behaviors, and internet-based psychological research. These studies have resulted in several publications and numerous conference presentations, most co-authored by students. He has published two textbooks, Environmental Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (with R. Veitch, at B.G.S.U.) and Computer-Based Data Analyses: Using SPSS in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (with D. Rowland, also at V.U.). Dr. Arkkelin has served as Department Chair and is also active outside the Psychology Department, serving on numerous university committees, teaching a Freshman Seminar, and establishing a layperson's counseling program at Immanuel Lutheran Church. When not driving his three sons places, he loves camping/hiking, classic and alternative rock, drive-in movies, surfing the net and playing computer pinball simulations.