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Charles A. Lowe

Charles A. Lowe

Title: Professor, and Head of the Department


Departmental Program: Social

E-mail: charles.lowe@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-3517

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Person perception
  • Non-verbal behavior
  • Advertising effectiveness

Undergraduate courses:

  • General Psychology II

Graduate courses:

  • Advanced Social Psychology
  • Social-Organizational Psychology
  • Consumer Psychology

Representative Publications:

  • Levesque, M. L., & Lowe, C. A. (1992). The importance of attributions and expectancies in understanding academic behavior. In F. J. Medway & T. P. Cafferty (Eds.), School psychology: A social psychological perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 47-81.
  • Starr, V., & Lowe, C. A. (1995). The influence of program context and order of ad presentation on immediate and delayed responses to television advertisements. In C. T. Allen & D. R. John (Eds.), Advances in consumer research (Vol. 22), pp. 184-190. Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research.
  • Lowe, C. A., & Kassin, S., (1980). A perceptual view of attribution: Theoretical and methodological implications. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 6, 532-542.

Other:

  • UConn Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1979
  • Society of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Consultant to several national/international corporations and advertising agencies
  • Head, Department of Psychology