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Robert Franklin is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Anderson University. His academic interests include understanding how we read social cues from other people, the processes involved in making good and bad decisions, and how we think about numbers. When he is not teaching or doing research, he enjoys hiking, woodworking, and waiting for things to break so he can fix them.
BS in History and Psychology, College of William and Mary
Ph.D in Social Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
My classes try to weave course concepts, experiences, thinking, and fun.
AU has engaging and dynamic students who make me think and push me to go beyond what is on the page or in the course.
I won the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in teaching award.
Social Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience
Nation, T. H., Franklin, R. G. Jr., Cox, C. E. & Maurer, E. C. (2025). An ecology of resilience: A nature-informed pilot curriculum for improving stress management in college students. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2024.2400111%EF%BB%BF
Johnson, A. L. & Franklin, R. G. Jr. (2022). The influence of evangelical religiosity on environmentalism. Journal of Psychology and Theology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00916471221122039
Franklin, R. G. Jr. (2019). Why we think sheep are sheepish? How perception affects animal stereotyping. Animal Sentience, 25(15).
Franklin, R. G. Jr., Adams, R. B., Jr., Steiner, T. G., & Zebrowitz, L. A.. (2019) Reading the lines of the face: Angularity and roundness in perceiving facial anger and joy. Emotion, 19, 209-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000423
Franklin, R. G., Jr. (2017). Canine Emotions and the Bond Between Humans and Dogs, Animal Sentience, 14(6). https://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1240&context=animsent
Franklin, R. G., Jr. & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2017). Age Differences In Emotion Recognition: Task Demands Or Perceptual Dedifferentiation? . Experimental Aging Research, 5,453-466. DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2017.1369628
Franklin, R. G., Jr & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2016). The influence of political candidates’ facial appearance on older and younger adults’ voting choices and actual electoral success. Cogent OA Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2016.1151602
Franklin, R. G., Jr. & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2016). Aging-related changes in decoding negative complex mental states from faces. Experimental Aging Research, 42, 471-478. DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2016.1224667
Franklin, R.G., Jr., Nelson, A. J., Baker, M., Beeney, J. E., Lenz-Watson, A., Vescio, T. K., & Adams, R. B. Jr. (2013). Neural mechanisms of empathy for humans and animals. Social Neuroscience. 8, 217-227.
Franklin, R. G. Jr. & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2013) Older adults’ trait impressions of faces are sensitive to subtle resemblance to emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 139-152.
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