Bradley Celestin, PhD

Bradley D. Celestin is an experimental psychologist with extensive experience spanning social, cognitive, quantitative, and computational domains. He specializes in moral cognition, legal and law enforcement decision-making, teaching assessment and evaluation, and advanced statistical methods using both Bayesian and frequentist approaches. At CPG, Dr. Celestin serves as a Senior Scientist, contributing interdisciplinary expertise to research design, data analysis, and the development of research and educational support tools.  

Dr. Celestin has published peer-reviewed research in leading psychology–law journals and has led complex research efforts involving curriculum development, software design, data management, and empirical investigation. Prior to joining CPG, he served as Chair of Psychology and Philosophy and Director of Software Development at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, and earlier spent eleven years as a commissioned law enforcement officer, working as a police detective with the Newton Police Department and as a federal agent in the Cyber Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dr. Celestin earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Indiana University Bloomington.