Sara Broaders

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Instruction, Department of Psychology

Professor Broaders' (she/her/hers) research interests include the role of gesture in cognition and communication and issues in memory development. She is primarily interested in the use of gesture by both interviewers and witnesses in forensic interviews, and the type of functions that gesture may serve in this situation.  She also studies the role of gesture in cognitive development and problem solving.

​2019-2020 Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll 

Contact: [email protected]

For more information:
https://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/sara-broaders.html