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David (Hongjen) Chen, PhD

  • Adjunct Faculty

Affiliated Programs

Education

  • PhD, Psychology (1984)
    The American University (DC)
  • MA, Psychology (1980)
    The American University (DC)

About Me

I have been teaching since 1979. I earned a MA and a PhD in Psychology (and Statistics & Research) from American University in Washington, DC.  Prior to 1979, I was a certified counselor, TV script writer, and newspaper columnist in ROC. 

In the early 1980's, I held the following positions: Clinical Research Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Research Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor in Psychology/Statistics at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Guest Investigator on Alzheimer’s Disease at Rockefeller University in New York City. 

Since the late 1980's, I held various senior leadership positions in Marketing/Business Analytics at major pharmaceutical companies including Rhone Pulenc Rorer pharmaceuticals (Sanofi), Wyeth (Pfizer), Johnson & Johnson, Cephalon (Teva), and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

While working in the private sector in the past 30+ years, I have been an adjunct faculty teaching statistics, research methods, counseling psychology, educational, social, abnormal, and women's psychology, marketing/marketing research, decision analytics, and leadership and problem solving skills courses at Widener University, Rosemont College, and Saint Joseph’s University’s Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing Program.  Since 2011, I have been serving as a visiting & adjunct professor in Decision and System Science at Saint Joseph's University.

Research Interests

Behavioral Modification and Motivation & Attribution

Publications

  • Predictive-analytics approach to improve and sustain college students’ non-cognitive skills and their educational  outcome, Authors: John Yi *, Christina Kang-Yi, Flavia Burton, David Chen, Sustainability 2018, 10(11),  4012; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114012 (Special Issue Sustainability of Economy, Society, and Environment in the  4th Industrial Revolution)
  • Attributions and Information Processing as a function of Observer’s Involvement Level: A re-examination of ActorObserver Attribution Differences. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, September (1990)
  • Effects of Involvement of Observers’ Estimates of Consensus, Distinctiveness, and Consistency. Personality and  Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 3, 468-478, 1988
  • Altered Lateralization of Cognitive Processes in Depressed Women. Co-authored with E. Silberman et al., NIMH.  American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 140, No. 10, 1340-1344, 1983

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

  • APA
  • American Counseling Association (ACA) 

Awards

  • Dissertation Fellowship Award, The American University (1983-1984)
  • Teaching Assistantship, Department of Psychology, The American University (1977-1980)
  • Graduate Fellowship, Department of Academic Computer Services, The American University (1981-1983)
  • Consortium of Universities, Washington, DC. Research Fellow for The U.S. Army Research Institute for Beha