Steven Hertler, Psy.D.

Dr. Hertler joined the SEU Psychology Department full time in 2021 after teaching as an adjunct instructor since 2014 – PSY331 Biological Basis of Behavior, PSY706 Physiological Psychology, PSY403 Seminar in Social Psychology and PSY705 Human Learning. Previously, he taught Rorschach Methods, Developmental Psychology, Psychopathology and other courses at Pace University, Caldwell University and the College of New Rochelle.

Dr. Hertler earned a B.S. in Psychology from the State University of New York and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pace University. As a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey, Dr. Hertler specializes in psychological assessment and diagnosis, and provides legal, educational, vocational, and clinical evaluations through his practice, Psychodiagnostics.

In the capacity of an examining psychologist, Dr. Hertler worked at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for three grant-funded programs, while also providing assessments for Morristown Memorial Hospital, East Newark Schools and Specialized Therapy Associates.

Research Interests

• Biologically-based personality variation
• Gene-environment interactions, niche selection, niche construction, experience producing drives, and related interactions between genetic and environmental sources of individual differences
• Cliodynamics, an empirical approach to analyzing historical cycles
• Human evolution and ecology
• Histories documenting evolutionary change resulting from social, industrial and agricultural revolutions, or recorded by warfare, pestilence, migration, famine and related demographically relevant trends