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Morgan Cope

Morgan Cope

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Offices & Programs

Psychology

Education

B.S. in Psychology | Ursinus College
M.A. in Psychology 
Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology | Florida Atlantic University
 

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BIOGRAPHY

Morgan Cope joined Centre College as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Fall of 2024. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of the self and romantic relationships, exploring how individual’s identities shape – and are shaped by – connections with close others. She is particularly interested in relationship breakup recovery, with an emphasis on identity restoration and psychological well-being after dissolution. Dr. Cope has published research on motivated maladaptive relationship behaviors and has emerging interest in breakup-induced physical health outcomes, self-change dynamics across relationship types, and conceptions of love as a scarce or abundant resource. 

AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • International Association for Relationship Research
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology
  • American Psychological Association
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Psi Chi International Honors Society

PUBLICATIONS

  • Cope, M. A. & Mattingly, B. A. (2025) Quick but not painless: Differential effects of dissolution trajectory on the self-concept. Personality and Individual Differences, 244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113254
  • Cope, M. A., Reinka, M. A., & Mattingly, B. A. (2024). Ready for the next step: Novel commitment amplification in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(6), 1481-1509. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231224801
  • Cope, M. A. & Mattingly, B. A. (2021). Putting me back together by getting back together: Post-dissolution self-concept confusion predicts rekindling desire in anxiously attached individuals. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(1), 384-392. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520962849
  • McIntyre, K., Mattingly, B., Gorban, S., & Cope, M. A. (2020). Do the consequences of relationship-induced self-concept change extend across partners? An actor-partner interdependence model approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(5), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520903799
     

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