Professor of Psychology Dr. John T. Jones has been at Utah Tech since 2005. Before that he was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his PhD at the State University of New York in Social and Personality Psychology. Before that he received his BA in Psychology from Idaho State University. Prior to that he served four years as an active-duty Marine. He graduated (barely) from Highland High School, Hawthorne Junior High, and Chubbuck Elementary in Pocatello, Idaho.
He most commonly teaches Introductory Psychology for Majors, Research Methods, Statistics, Social Psychology, Theories of Personality, Relationship Science, and Psychology of Morality. His current research interests include attempts to better understand the psychological contours of religious disenchantment, especially the crisis of identity and crisis of meaning people often experience.
Dr. Jones is married and has five children. Most of his free time is spent with his family or cleaning up after them. He loves the wilderness, solitude, silence, and doughnuts.