Jennifer Fayard

jfayard@huntington.edu

Joined the Huntington University faculty in 2025.

Dr. Jennifer Fayard is a part-time faculty member in the psychology department at Huntington University.  She has taught at small liberal arts colleges during her entire career, but recently also became the project coordinator of the Scientific Pioneers Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Her teaching specialties are research methods, social psychology, personality psychology, and the psychology of creativity, but she has also taught a little bit of (almost) everything, from introductory psychology to meta-analysis.  Her teaching focuses a great deal on the importance of both research literacy (knowing how to evaluate claims and draw conclusions based on evidence) and people literacy (understanding why people behave the way they do, and how mental shortcuts change the way we see others), emphasizing how both are important skills not just for living life, but for being responsible and earnest people of faith.   Her current research examines what people mean by someone having "no personality" or "a lot of personality" and how that judgment affects one's interactions with that person.