- Contact Info: 502-272-8438 e-mail drosborn@bellarmine.edu
- Office Hours: I am generally in and available on weekdays from 10-12 and 1-5 unless I am teaching a class or at a committee meeting. Leave a message if I am out.
- Office Location: P-164 or P-163
- Fall 2010 Courses: Psyc 103, HONR 151
Dr. Don R. Osborn, Professor, completed his B. A. at Miami University (Ohio) and his M. A. and Ph.D. at Northwestern University. His area of expertise is Social Psychology. His research papers include studies on how personality traits influence interior design and artistic style preferences; evaluation research on how mass transit subsidies affect ridership, and studies on how self-presentation strategies influence personal attributions. His current research projects are concerned with attitudes towards automobiles and global warming, and a critical examination of the limitations of evolutionary psychology in explaining human beauty judgments. Several conference presentations on these topics have been co-authored with students who collaborated on the research.
Dr. Osborn’s teaching experience has included Social Psychology, Child Psychology, Theories of Personality, Dimensions of Consciousness, Human Sexuality, Organizational Psychology in the Psychology Department and Bellarmine MBA Program, Research Methods in Psychology and Business Research Methods in the MBA Program, and Senior Comprehensive Seminar, an interdisciplinary capstone social policy course. His current classes include Introductory Psychology and Cross Cultural Sexuality, an Interdisciplinary course in the General Education Program.
His classes provide opportunities for students to work in groups and develop creative projects that increase each individual’s understanding and help the other students learn.
He has also been active in community service as a founder and board member of a local neighborhood association and in the Highlands Connection, a coalition of neighborhoods. In his free time he likes to work around the house, maintain his pond, keep up with politics, check out antique shops, and attend art openings with his wife, Maggie Meloy, an art historian and Bellarmine Adjunct faculty. Their son, Andrew, graduated from Bellarmine with a major in Liberal Studies and an interest in television production. He currently works for a video production company. He is the drummer for the band Workers.
