Frank McAndrew
Frank is a social, behavioral, and evolutionary psychologist. He has a blog, many publications, has written an Environmental Psychology textbook, and has been interviewed a great deal about his research. He likes to bring water guns to Stats class, and encourages going to the pool in dress clothes to row a rubber boat across the shallow end. His research has led him to be referred to by many names such as "the clown guy," "the ghost guy," and " the creepy/creepiness dude." He's basically the psychology department's goofy grandpa.
Knox College Cornelia H. Dudley Professor Emeritus of Psychology (1979-2025, retired).
Courses taught:
- Introductory psychology
- Social psychology
- Industrial psychology
- Organizational behavior
- Statistics
- Evolution and human behavior
- Environmental psychology
- History and systems of psychology
If you're interested in hearing a hilarious man talk about monkey sex, PSYC 369 is greatly recommended.
Quotes
- “Ethics don’t matter in my classroom.” - (He's literally meant to enforce ethics, I'm sobbing)
- “I’m much nicer than Patricia.”
- “This was the most sorry ass example of cheating I have ever seen.”
- “Now, I don’t see any problems with assigning people’s gender.” - (Nice! Glad that he's on the Knox IRB)
- “You never want to have to say you’re failing sex lab. That’s not a good look.” - (Sage wisdom)
- “Really you’re a selfish, low self-esteem, son of a bitch.”
- “You can’t go tell all your friends what so and so said in your sexual fetish study.” - (Awww man, why not??)
- "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
- “Once is enough.” - In response to receiving a “hi” for a second time after passing students in SMC
- “Don’t say it!” - In response to passing the same students again a few minutes later and one of them starting to wave at him
- “I still never cease to be amazed by some of the things these kids put in the lab reports.” - He said, disappointedly.
- “Everyone does terrible that’s why I like it.”
- “If I were to kill you and open up your skull…”
- “If I can’t tell you that the thing I’m about to pick up is a rattlesnake or a kitten, I’m not going to be in the gene pool anymore.”
- “I should give this lab negative numbers.” - While looking over a baffling lab report during a PSYC 100 TA meeting
- “I will make them sad that they came to talk to me.” - Also said to his PSYC 100 TAs
- “These next labs should be pretty good but after seeing these first ones my hopes have gone down significantly.” - (Brutal.)
- “We are the descendants of cowards.”
- “As you’re about to leave, you feel me put a cloth with ammonia over your mouth and I shove you in the trunk of my car.” - (what???)
- “This one is going to be pretty straight forward but I say that every week and we know how that’s gone so far.”
- “He’s flapping his arms like a damn albatross.”
- “I just really want to express my opinion about this lab report.”
- “Stop for a few cold ones after work.” - While talking about necrophilia
- “Then there’s this guy” - When using Donald Trump as an example of dark triad personalities
Honorable Mention
“My personal favorite is gender and I don’t care what Frank says.” - Patricia Xi, giving an example when referring to variables you can’t manipulate due to ethical issues
