POTSDAM -- Marissa Harrison will give a free lecture titled "Female Serial Killers: What We Know" on Friday, Sept. 18 at 3 p.m. in Kellas Hall Room 104.

Harrison is an associate professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. She received her Ph.D. in biopsychology with a specialization in evolutionary psychology from the University at Albany in 2006. She has additional qualifications in social psychology and behavioral neuroendocrinology, SUNY Potsdam said.

Harrison's research has included being a visiting scholar in comparative behavioral biology at the University of Southwestern Louisiana Primate Research Center in New Iberia, La., where she and her colleagues studied contagious yawning in chimpanzees. She has also collaborated on research with colleagues and students at Penn State Harrisburg, as well as at Albright College, the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Georgia State University and UAlbany.

Recently, Harrison's research on female serial killers has been featured in the Washington Post, along with other national media outlets.