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Collie and Jane Conoley will soon take their psychology from the classroom to the airwaves.
The two UNL educational psychology professors will be the hosts of a National Public Radio
call-in series about relationships in April.
Professors help couples talk it out
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
You won’t find Jane and Collie
Conoley fighting it out.
The two professors of educational
psychology aren’t the type to scream
and yell and throw coffee cups. They
just talk to each other about their
relationship.
Now they will do it on the radio
ai^d coach others.
Nebraska Public Radio asked the
husband-and-wife team to do a call
in show in December about relation
ships. It did well enough that they’ll
be back to do a series this April.
When asked what they would do if
they disagreed on the air, the two just
looked at each other and smiled as
they sat on a couch in Jane’s office in
Mabel Lee Hall.
“I’d say, that’s an interesting point,
Collie, here’s another perspective,”
Jane said. “I don’t think we would
vehemently disagree.
“If we did disagree, we would
want to model a good way for couples
to get along.”
On top of that, Collie said, psy
chology was all experimental; people
often have different methods to ac
complish the same thing.
The couple’s interests and training
in relationships overlap. His interests
are in family therapy and marriage
counseling; she centers on child therapy.
The two met while studying psy
chology as graduate students at the
University of Texas at Austin’s library.
“Collie was going for a Coke and
he invited me to go along,” Jane said,
smiling at her husband once again.
In their first show, the couple re
ceived no calls for ten minutes, Jane
said. After that, they took more than
they could handle.
They handled issues like what to do
when one person has lost sexual inter
est with the other, and what to do if the
partners don’t love each other, but are
secure with each other financially.
The couple said they were jjust
trying to give people better informa
tion about relationships.
“We’re not 1-800-dial-a-thera
pist,” Jane said. “Some people get
into bad relationships and don’t know
that they can be happy.”
“There’s a lot of people we feel
that if they had better information,
they wouldhave better relationships,”
Collie said.
With simple tips, such as better
communication, fights could be
avoided, Jane said. But even better
communication doesn’t cure all.
“It’s very tough to have a good
relationship,” Jane said. “You have
to attend to it with the same energy
that you have with other things.”
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