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Dr. Pete Yaksick, a Johns Hopkins and Ivy League (Columbia & Penn) trained developmental psychologist and former television journalist, was recently recognized in the Johns Hopkins Magazine. The recognition was given for co-publishing a cognitive science article as member of a five-person Ivy League research team based at Columbia University.
The article is titled “How does discourse among like-minded individuals affect their thinking about a complex issue? “
Yaksick holds advanced psychology degrees from Johns Hopkins and Columbia, and is currently enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) where he is studying mental health counseling.
During the 1990s, he was a crime and investigative reporter for WBRE TV’s “I Team,” along with several other NBC and CBS affiliates. Currently, he is an assistant professor of criminology and psychology at the Tom Ridge College of Intelligence Studies & Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University in Erie.
Yaksick maintains residences at Mountain Lake in Bear Creek Township and in Old Forge.