Jesse Cougle


Jesse Ray Cougle is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at Florida State University. His laboratory studies multiple psychological disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Education and career

Cougle graduated from Lutheran High School in Springfield, Illinois in 1993. He went on to receive a B.A. in psychology from Azusa Pacific University in 1997, an M.Sc. from the Oxford University in 2001, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. He joined Florida State as an assistant professor of psychology in 2008, and became an associate professor there in 2015.