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Associate Professor
Arild Hestvik, Ph.D.
Cultural and social psychology
Recently I have investigated the concept of psychological control from a cultural psychological perspective. I am interested in how people choose to adjust to environmental realities. My research focuses on cultural, subcultural, and role demands that influence people's control choices. I have investigated the impact of cultural (specifically, Japanese and North American) and individual variables on control. We are currently working on reviews of cultural psychological studies that measure "cultural products" such as advertising, newspaper coverage, songs, or other culturally constructed environments.
Mechanisms and inhibitors of change in psychotherapy for mood and anxiety disorders
I am interested in investigating mechanisms of change and treatment development for anxiety and mood disorders. For my first-year research project, I used a dynamic systems methods to investigate how emotional processing, a widely recognized mechanism of change in psychotherapy for anxiety disorders, is related to disruption of the psychological system (the interplay between cognitions, emotions, behavior, and somatic sensations) during treatment for depression. I am currently working on my Masters project which how different ways that people can cope with and process daily stressful events might relate to their risk for developing psychopathology. I am interested in continuing both of these lines of research, in addition to looking at mechanisms of change in treatment for PTSD in children and adolescents, using data from a clinical trial being run by Dr. Hayes and our lab.
Recent Publications:
Hayes, A.M., Beck, J. G., & Yasinski, C. (in press). Cognitive behavioral perspective on corrective experiences in exposure-based treatments. In L. G. Castonguay & C. Hill (Eds.) Corrective experiences in psychotherapy. Washington, DC: APA.
Drapkin, M., Yusko, D., Yasinski, C., Oslin, D., Hembree, L. & Foa, E. (2011). Baseline Functioning Among Individuals with PTSD and Alcohol Dependence. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 41(2), 186-192.
Jayawickreme, N., Yasinski, C., Williams, M., & Foa, E. B. (2011). Gender-Specific Associations Between Trauma Cognitions, Alcohol Cravings, and Alcohol-Related Consequences in Individuals With Comorbid PTSD and Alcohol Dependence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Culture, Self, and Interpersonal Relationship
I am interested in cross-cultural psychology. In particular, I am curious about how the prototype of self-construal differs between American and Eastern Asian cultures, and how cultural differences on self-construal affect people's behavior. My current research project is aimed at revealing cultural differences on self-discrepancy. In American society, actual-ideal self-discrepancy and actual-ought self-discrepancy are typically associated with distinct outcomes. Nonetheless, among Eastern Asians (e.g., Chinese), the boundary between actual-ideal and actual-ought discrepancy may be more blurred with regard to their outcomes. Degree of Autonomy and Need for Social Approval might be the cultural factors contributing to this cultural difference.
I am interested in the role of social influence in all aspects of public opinion; especially, how individuals process and make judgments about political information. My current research focuses on three related lines of inquiry: 1) how public opinion is affected by contextual factors like question order, question wording, and interviewer characteristics, 2) the measurement and conceptualization of resentment, especially racialized resentment, and 3) the psychological consequences of diversity in organizations. My research has been published in leading peer-reviewed outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, the DuBoise Review, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. I teach courses in political psychology, public opinion, statistics and data analysis, race and politics, and American government. I also supervise the "Blue Hen Poll" at the University of Delaware, a scientific survey of UD students conducted by undergraduate students interested in applied research.
My research interests include gender differences in disruptive behavior disorders in youth, and the development and dissemination of translational and evidence-based programs for at-risk and delinquent adolescents. I am particularly interested in social-emotional learning, educational and mental health service delivery in alternative school and juvenile justice settings, and intervention programming for aggressive and violent females.
As Dr. Guerra's advisee, I work on several projects related to the prevention of youth violence and aggression, such as efficacy research on a cognitive-behavioral, core competency based program for youth engaged in problem behavior (Positive Life Changes; Guerra, 2009), and an evaluation of a home visitation program for low-income, immigrant Latina mothers and their children (Madres a Madres). I also work with Dr. Kobak's lab to implement and evaluate a trauma-focused intervention program in local middle schools.
Parenting Intervention after Early Adversity
I am a first year student working with Mary Dozier in the Infant Caregiver Lab. I am interested in the efficacy, effectiveness and dissemination of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention for children who have faced early adversity. For my first year project, I am investigating parent trainer behavior as a moderating factor that influences the intervention's success. I am also involved in projects examining the moderating effects of risk factors on the success of the intervention.
Attachment, Developmental Psychopathology, Criminal Behavior
My research centers around understanding how attachment relationships relate to pathological and normative development "from cradle to grave." Broadly, I aim to understand parents', peers', and romantic partners' putative roles in the development of severe psychopathology such as personality disorders and serious externalizing problems (ie. juvenile delinquency and criminal behaviors). I am especially interested in exploring questions related to intergenerational transmission and sex differences.
As a research assistant in Dr. Kobak's lab, I contribute to work on three projects. The first project evaluates an attachment-based family intervention for suicidal adolescents, the second explores the quality of pregnant teenagers' kin and peer networks, the third project aims to elucidate mechanisms and moderators of effectiveness of an evidence-based group therapy for traumatized adolescents.
Aggression, social cognition, and preventive interventions
My research focuses on understanding and preventing children's aggression and behavior problems of youth, particularly youth violence. I also am very interested in the role of culture in the etiology of behavior and implications for the design and implementation of prevention programs in the U.S. and internationally. My work is grounded in social-cognitive theory, emphasizing the role of children's thought processes and beliefs in determining and modifying behavior. I have been involved in the development and evaluation of several large scale prevention programs. I was the principal investigator for the Metropolitan Area Child Study, an 8-year development and prevention study with urban and inner city children in Chicago, funded by NIMH. A primary finding of this work was that community context is an important moderator of prevention outcomes. Specifically, a multi-component, multi-context 2-year program was effective in reducing children's aggression, but only in moderate resource communities (not in the poorest, inner-city settings). I was the principal investigator for an evaluation of a district wide SAMHSA-funded Safe Students project in Southern California that was designed to promote healthy development and prevent risk through Wellness Centers in school settings.
More recently, as part of a CDC-funded Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, I was involved in the implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based parent-child interaction therapy program for low-income immigrant Latino families, which led to the development of a home visitation child development parent training program, Madres a Madres, to address the unique needs of immigrant families. I also developed a competence-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for adolescents, Positive Life Changes, that currently is being evaluated in alternative school and juvenile justice settings in California and Connecticut.
An important focus of my research is on the application of child development and prevention research across different cultural settings and internationally. I have worked on projects funded by The World Bank, The Interamerican Development Bank, USAID, and other donor agencies over the past several years. These projects have emphasized enhancing children's development, improving educational and youth service settings, and preventing problem behaviors in Latin American and the Caribbean. Countries I have worked in include Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela, Jamaica, and Trinidad.
Grant Funding
2000-2003 Principal Investigator, "Southern California Developing Center of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention," CDC, $1,197,000
2001-2003 Principal Investigator, "Aggression and social cognition among urban and inner-city youth," NICHD, $550,000
2003-2005 Principal Investigator, "Southern California Developing Center of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention" (renewal), CDC, $774,123
2005-2011 Principal Investigator,"Southern California Academic Center of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevenation," CDC, $4.3 million.
I moved to the University of Delaware in 2011, where I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, after serving as the Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center and leader of the Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research pursues normal and abnormal brain mechanisms in cognition, emotion, and psychopathology. Interests include executive function, emotional processing, and sensory perception as well as development of multimodal neuroimaging methods. Studies in collaboration with Prof. Robert Simons at U. Delaware address abnormal cognition in anxiety and other problems. MRI and EEG studies in collaboration with Profs. Wendy Heller, Brad Sutton, and Marie Banich at U. Illinois and U. Colorado address the mutual effects of emotion and executive function, with a particular interest in differentiation of depression and anxiety. A collaboration with Profs. Brigitte Rockstroh and Thomas Elbert and Drs. Nathan Weisz, Tzvetan Popov, and Astrid Steffen at the U. of Konstanz (Germany) pursues MEG and EEG studies of compromised sensory, emotional, and cognitive processing in schizophrenia and nonspecific effects of stress. Publications include philosophy-of-science and policy issues that arise in psychological and biological research as well as data papers and tutorials on method issues in psychophysiology / cognitive neuroscience.
Using neuroscience methodologies to understand stigma, prejudice and prejudice reduction
As a social neuroscientist, my research utilizes cognitive neuroscience methodologies such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and lesion studies to investigate how different contexts affect the way we attend to and interpret information. Specifically, my research examines how priming negative stereotypes associated with stigmatized individuals in our society, e.g. minorities and women, may ironically engender situations where these individuals inadvertently reinforce the stereotype and bias the way they perceive themselves and others perceive them. My research program revolves around two primary topics: 1) How negatively stereotyped targets’ motivation, attention, and memory is affected by situations that prime negative group relevant stereotypes both in the moment and over time, and 2) How factors such as contextual primes or genetic predispositions undermine a person’s ability to perceive novel, negatively stigmatized outgroup members in a non-biased manner. My approach to these topics utilizes an integrative social neuroscience perspective by examining how these processes are influenced by interactions between implicit (i.e., fast) and explicit (i.e., slow) cognitive processes and the physiological interactions between subcortical and prefrontal cortical networks that are integral to implicit and explicit processing in general.
Future research will examine how negative stereotypes alter the way targets and perceivers encode information in a given context, how negative stereotypic contexts undermine targets' domain identification over time and how individuals can be trained to overcome their implicit biases using techniques grounded in theories of neural function. Stay tuned!
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
My research interests lie in examining how hippocampal place cell firing characteristics are modified with environmental and behavioral changes in the awake and unrestrained animal. I am also interested in exploring the role that the hippocampus has in the context of a broader neural network that underlies learning and memory processes. I use in vivo electrophysiology, a methodology that allows simultaneous extracellular recordings and subsequent analysis of hundreds of neurons during a given task, as well as chemical lesioning and inactivation of discrete brain regions through implanted micro-infusion cannulae to better assess how the functional impairment of a neural area affects performance on strategy switching during goal-directed behavior. The aim of this type of research is to better understand how the hippocampus interacts with different brain regions, such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), in order to form a more comprehensive view of the neural mechanisms that influence learning, memory and spatial navigation.
Comparative animal cognition and neurobiology
From mammals to reptiles, my research uses a multidisciplinary approach and integrative techniques to address spatial questions broadly centered in the fields of spatial behavior, cognition, and neurobiology. Where is an organism at a given point in time and why is it there? What navigation mechanisms are used to move from location to location? How is sensory information integrated and processed to influence spatial decision making, perception, learning, and memory? What biological, ecological, neurobiological, cognitive, and evolutionary factors interact to produce spatial behavior?
My dissertation work examined the complexity of spatial interactions from a behavioral and ecological perspective. Projects included radio-telemetry studies to explore movement patterns and spatial use of a snake population (cottonmouth: Agkistrodon piscivorus), as well as related projects focused on anti-predator behavior, behavioral and brain lateralization, foraging behavior, social interactions, conservation impacts of buffer zones around riparian habitats, and neuro-ecological correlates between regional brain volumes and aspects of cottonmouth spatial ecology. My postdoctoral research transitioned to exploring the molecular (DNA methylation, epigenetic molecular mechanisms) and neurobiological mechanisms underlying spatial behavior. This involved recording from spatial representations in the brain (cognitive maps: hippocampal place cells) of rats using in vivo neurophysiology techniques and EEG analysis as rats performed spatial tasks to investigate aspects of spatial navigation, decision making, and learning and memory.
My ongoing research maintains a spatial focus with 3 broadly defined goals: 1) Define patterns of spatial behavior and ecology; 2) Use integrative techniques (molecular, neurobiological, cognitive, ecological) to investigate mechanisms underlying behavior; and 3) Apply results to big picture concepts (comparisons across taxa, conservation implications, evolutionary history, fitness, biodiversity).
Neurobiology of Emotion
My general research interests focus on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of anxiety and fear. Understanding the neuroanatomical circuitry, in addition to the cellular and molecular correlates of unconditioned and conditioned fear, may reveal a greater insight into the neurobiological underpinnings of anxiety related emotional processes.
Using behavioral paradigms such as fear conditioning, fear-potentiated startle, and exposure to predator odor allow for a fundamental characterization of the conditioned and unconditioned aspects of fear-related behavior. This characterization leads to a better foundation for understanding the genetic mechanisms regulating and regulated by fearful stimuli. Specifically, using in-situ hybridization with radiolabeled probes allows for anatomically precise quantification of mRNA changes in immediate early gene and neuropeptide expression. Using RNA isolation strategies, various techniques of PCR, quantitative PCR, reverse transcription, spectrophotometry, gel electrophoresis, and in-vitro transcription - enables us to generate probes targeting numerous genes ( EGR-1, BDNF, Enkephalin, AVP, CRH, Oxytocin, and many more.).
My specific focus lies in understanding the neuroanatomical and cellular mechanisms regulating unconditioned (innate) fear. I am currently a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jeffrey B. Rosen. Additionally, in order to bridge the gap between neuroscience emotions research and the public while facilitating communication between scientists (for cellular/molecular protcols, technical discussions, etc.), I have created Neuroscilab.
Postnatal alcohol exposure and hippocampal neurogenesis
Broadly, I am interested in the effects of early life experiences on measures of learning and memory, such as hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity. I am a first year PhD student in Dr. Anna Klintsova's lab. My first year project will be focusing on the effects of postweaning wheel running and environmental complexity on survival of new cells in the hippocampus in rats exposed to postnatal alcohol.
Group Processes
The major focus of my research is to understand what motivates different individual attitudes and behaviors in group settings. One line of research addresses the question: "Why do individuals choose to compete?" In social dilemmas, individuals are faced with choices that promote self-interest (compete) or promote collective interest (cooperate). Social psychological research investigating social motives for these decisions has typically focused on why individuals cooperate, with the underlying assumption that competition is simply motivated by rational self-interest. Recent evidence demonstrates that this assumption may be flawed or at least incomplete, a group labeled "aversive competitors" is not responsive to monetary incentives, but become more cooperative with social feedback from their social dilemma partner. Aversive competitors may be motivated by fear and distrust of others, and social feedback can be a more effective mechanism for encouraging cooperation among Aversive Competitors than traditional (and more costly) rewards and punishments. A second major line of research is focused on dissent in group decision-making processes. Social psychology has a long history of demonstrating the extraordinary circumstances under which individuals will conform, comply, and obey authorities (ex: Milgram experiment, Stanford Prison experiment, and Asch autokinetic effect studies). However, in each of these provocative experiments, there are participants who fail to conform, resist authority, and voice dissent. A voice of dissent is widely viewed as a factor that can nullify group-decision making pitfalls such as group polarization and groupthink, where groups arrive at substandard outcomes due to biases and social pressures. Despite the powerful role of dissent in these theories, we still know very little about dissent and the individuals who choose to voice it. A collaborative effort between UD and Lehigh University seeks to identify what types of people are more likely to dissent, under what circumstances are they more likely to dissent, and how does dissent affect group outcomes.
Evidence-Based Practice, Community Interventions, and Dissemination Science
My work involves integrating research into community-based interventions - particularly interventions for children, adolescents, and their families. This includes conducting community-based research, studying the dissemination of evidence-based practice, and building capacity for communities to collect and utilize their own data. I am particularly interested in the relationships between researchers, expert trainers, clinical organizations, therapists, and the broader communities in which they are based. In addition, I am interested in the development of technologies to facilitate the use of evidence within community settings.
My interests have led me to research within juvenile justice and child mental health agencies. I have conducted randomized clinical trials with community settings. In addition, I have worked with agencies to guide them in the development of scientifically sound program evaluation strategies. In each case, I am impressed by the importance of building collaborative relationships that facilitate positive organizational change around the use of evidence.
Behavioral epigenetics
Our research focuses on defining molecular mechanisms responsible for environmental influences on CNS gene activity, development of behavior, and psychiatric disorder. Our current research efforts utilize a rodent model of early-life experience to understand the relationship between early environmental manipulations and epigenetic programming of patterns of gene expression and cognition. Behavioral and biochemical approaches are used in infant, adolescent, and adult animals to address this relationship. This has led to the discovery that epigenetic molecular mechanisms potentially underlie the lifelong and transgenerational perpetuation of changes in the brain and behavior incited by an adverse caregiving environment.
Through a collaboration with David Diamond at the University of South Florida, our recent work has also expanded into exploring epigenetic alterations in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder. Our results indicate that traumatic stress occurring in adulthood can induce stable changes in methylation and expression of an important plasticity-related gene within the hippocampus, and provide important insight into the complex gene-by-environment interactions that likely underlie PTSD.
Mechanisms and processes of change in psychotherapy; Regulation and processing of emotions; Alexithymia
I am a clinical science graduate student working with Adele Hayes. My main research interests include the mechanisms and processes of psychotherapy, particularly how one's ability to identify, tolerate, and regulate emotions influences treatment progress and the maintenance of treatment gains. As part of this line of research, I study both how improvements in emotion regulation may be associated with positive change and how deficits in emotion regulation may interfere with adaptive processing and treatment progress. Recent projects include examining how the concept of alexithymia, characterized as a lack of emotional awareness and difficulty expressing emotional experiences to others, may inhibit productive processing of a negative autobiographical event. In addition to these research areas, I have a particular interest in the mechanisms and processes of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and am currently working on a project to examine the association between cognitive processing of a traumatic event and treatment outcome in children receiving Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD symptoms.
language acquisition and processing, event representation, word learning
How do children learn to make sense of the world around them, and how do they learn to describe it? In my research, I use experimental methodologies like preferential looking and eyetracking to investigate the mapping between conceptual and linguistic representations of events. I am especially interested in understanding how event construal and description differ across languages and with linguistic and conceptual development. Specific areas of interest include how children represent and label multi-part events like causatives and motion events, what crosslinguistic patterns of linguistic encoding can tell us about event construal, and how early conceptual knowledge might provide a foundation for universal linguistic categories.
Creative Cognition
The goal of my research is to understand creative thought by examining the influence of cognitive processes like problem-solving, expertise, analogy, and memory on the development of high-level creative productivity. The use of domain-specific criteria for determining quality of products is stressed, especially for studies of artistic and musical creators. Current and future projects aim to bridge the study of expert-performance and motivation with the study of creative cognition.
Emotion, attention, and working memory
I joined the Dr. Most's lab in the fall of 2007. I also work in Dr. James Hoffman's lab doing EEG and ERPs studies. My research interests include exploring mechanisms underlying interactions between attention and emotion, and interactions between working memory and emotion.
Psychophysiological measures to understand emotion and cognition.
My research interests include using psychophysiological measures to understand emotion and cognition. Specifically, I’m interested in using ERPs to understand cognitive and emotional processing in patients with anxiety disorders. Eventually, I’d like to examine how that processing changes during the course of successful treatment.
Childeren's emotion regulation and utilization, parental emotion socialization, preventive interventions
I am a fourth year in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program working in the Human Emotions Lab with Dr. Carroll Izard. In our lab, we are studying the development of emotion processes in an at-risk population. We are at the start of a new project focused on implementing, evaluating, and identifying the mechanisms of the Emotions Course, an emotion-centered preventive intervention for preschool children. My research interests include the development of children’s emotion regulation and emotion utilization (how children use their emotions adaptively) and how parenting behaviors relate to and affect these abilities. This year, I am completing my practicum at the Centreville School, working with children in 3rd – 5th grades.
Investigating diverging trajectories of emotional development from the perspective of high risk verses low risk populations.
I am an incoming clinical graduate student studying with Dr. Carroll Izard. My past research experiences include studying: the relationship between attitude and memory, the neurobiological and cognitive basis of autism, the neurobehavioral and cognitive familial relationship with autism, and restrictive repetitive behaviors in autism. My research interests involve investigating diverging trajectories of emotional development from the perspective of high risk verses low risk populations. I will be joining the Human Emotions lab to help implement and evaluate an emotion-based preventative intervention program.
Lasting effects of recurrent depression on physical and mental health.
My fascination with disruptive vicious cycles has led me to examining clinical depression. Some of my recent work has examined the lasting effects of a history of recurrent depression on current physical and mental health. I am currently preparing my first year project for publication that examines how stress reactivity and coping styles are changed in individuals who receive cognitive therapy for depression.
Perceived Organizational Support Theory
I am a second year Social Psychology PhD student currently working at Dr. Eisenberger’s lab on Perceived Organizational Support Theory. Specifically, my current research deals with the mechanisms by which support from the organization can be used as a tool for the socialization of newcomers. In our research at the lab we are also investigating the relationships between leadership, perceived organizational support and favorable work outcomes such as extra-role and in-role performance. Currently we are analyzing the data we collected last year for our leadership research.
The development of spatial language and spatial cognition.
I am a third year graduate student working in Dr. Anna Papafragou’s Language and Cognition lab. I am interested in how speakers of different languages describe spatial scenes, whether or not these differences are able to influence thought, and if there are any universal conceptual representations of spatial relationships. I am also interested in exploring universal patterns present in children developing spatial concepts and spatial language.
Developmental Psychobiology, ontogeny of learning and memory processes .
My research has primarily focused on examining individual differences in exploratory behavior through measuring reaction to novelty across the lifespan in an experimental paradigm known as novel object recognition. Spatial configuration recognition tasks have also been incorporated to further investigate the development of the ability to learn about and integrate background contextual information, as well as understand the neural basis of memory-guided performance. Since employing these tasks, I have used novelty recognition procedures as a means of examining age differences in memory, in addition to retention across time and impulsive behavior.
Development of psychopathology among parents and adolescents and the relationship between academic achievement and adjustment.
I am a first year clinical student working under the advisement of Roger Kobak and Brian Ackerman. Our research is with the Parent-Teen Project, an ongoing NIMH-funded study that investigates the development of psychopathology among parents and adolescents in a low income sample. My particular interests are in the relationship between academic achievement and adjustment. For my first year project, I am investigating the developmental trajectories of disadvantaged children from the start of middle childhood, when the child first enters school, through early adolescence. I am also examining the diversity found among our disadvantaged sample. For example, I am interested in how income poverty and cofactors of poverty such as parent maladjustment (i.e. criminal activity and parent psychopathology) affect the child differently. In addition, I am assisting with data collection for a separate, but related project investigating student and classroom factors associated with achievement growth in late elementary school.
The reduction of intergroup conflict.
ERIC HEHMAN is a student of Samuel L. Gaertner at the University of Delaware. He received his B.A. (2001) from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His research interests include intergroup relations more generally, but of late have focused on emotional influences in facial-recognition, the accurate detection of prejudice, and whether restored perceptions of control can reduce the negative psychological and physiological health outcomes associated with being a victim of discrimination. He prefers to examine intergroup phenomena from socio-cognitive, emotional, and psychophysiological perspectives. In his free time, Eric travels as often and as broadly as possible, and frequently wishes he had a dog.
Damaging effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the medial prefrontal cortex.
I am a second year behavioral neuroscience graduate student working with Dr. Anna Klintsova. My current research explores the damaging effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on a still developing brain. This is done using a rat model of fetal alcohol syndrome. In particular I focus on the medial prefrontal cortex, as this is one of the last brain regions to develop. Brain plasticity is analyzed using the Golgi technique wherein both dendritic length and dendritic spines are analyzed.
Influence of the classroom environment on preschool social behavior
Grant Funding
Visuomotor function and neuronal modelling
Dr. Northmore is a neuroscientist interested in synthesizing nervous systems in computer simulation and neuromorphic hardware for behaving animats. The aim is to "incubate" artificial systems capable of developing along biologically realistic lines, extracting information from the environment, and behaving adaptively. The principles are derived from neurobiology, including his own behavioral and electrophysiological work on the visual system, particularly the midbrain optic tectum and nuclei associated with it. He is currently recording activity from these structures in response to motion flow fields.
I am a second year clinical graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. One area of my research examines the effects of gratitude on close relationships using a daily diary methodology designed to capture everyday events and emotions. A second line of research utilizes behavioral observation to examine the importance of positive and negative affect expressed during newlywed couples’ interactions to predict long-term relationship outcomes.
I am a fourth year graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. My interests broadly involve studying close relationships, and primarily utilizing daily diary and behavioral observation methods to better understand patterns associated wtih relationship outcomes such as intimacy and divorce proneness.
Recent Publications
Chen, F. F., & Jing, Y. (In press). The impact of Individualistic and Collectivistic orientation on the judgment of self-presentation. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Jing, Y., Hui, L., & Wang, D. (2011, Jan.). Are the Ideal Self Pursuit and the Ought Self Fulfillment Unrelated? Presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas
Recent Publications
Avery, Derek R., Patrick F. McKay, David C. Wilson, Sabrina D. Volpone, and Emily A. Killham (2011) "Does Voice Go Flat? How Tenure Diminishes the Impact of Voice." Human Resource Management. 50: 147-158.
Wilson, David C. and Darren W. Davis (2011) "Reexamining Racial Resentment: Conceptualization and Content." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 634 (March): 117-133.
Wilson, David C. (2010) "Perceptions about the Amount of Interracial Prejudice Depend on Racial Group Membership and Question-order." Public Opinion Quarterly. 74: 344-356.
Representative Publications
Hunt, Matthew O., and David C. Wilson (2009) "Race/ethnicity, Perceived Discrimination, and Beliefs about the Meaning of an Obama Presidency." Du Bois Review. 6:173-191.
Jones, James R., Jinlan Li, and David C. Wilson (2009) "Comparative Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Employee Engagement on Withdrawal Behavior." Journal of Managerial Issues. Vol. XXI, n2.
Avery, Derek R., Patrick F. McKay, and David C. Wilson (2008) "What are the Odds? How Demographic Similarity Affects the Prevalence of Perceived Employment Discrimination" Journal of Applied Psychology. 93: 239-245.
Jones, James R., David C. Wilson, and Margaret A. Jones (2008) "Toward Achieving the "Beloved Community" in the Workplace: Lessons for Applied Business Research and Practice from the Teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr." Business and Society. 47:457-483.
Wilson, David C., David W. Moore, Patrick F. McKay, and Derek R. Avery (2008) "Affirmative Action Programs for Women and Minorities: Support Affected by Question Order." Public Opinion Quarterly. 73:514-522.
Recent Publications
Fite, P. J., Wimsatt, A., Elkins, S., & Grassetti, S.N. (2011, in press). Contextual Influences of Proactive and Reactive Subtypes of Aggression. Child Indicators Research.
Fite, P. J., Preddy, T. M., Vitulano. M. L., Elkins, S. R., Grassetti, S. N., & Wimsatt, A. R. (in press). Perceived best friend delinquency moderates the link between contextual risk factors and juvenile delinquency. Journal of Community Psychology.
Fite, P.J., Rathert, J., Grassetti, S.N., Gaertner, A.E., Campion, S.D., Fite J., & Vitulano, M. L. (2011). Longitudinal investigation of the link between proactive and reactive aggression and disciplinary actions. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 33, 205-214.
Recent Publications
Sample Publications
Guerra, N. G., Hammons, A., & Otsuki, M. (in press). How ethnicity and culture influence the development of aggression and violence: A cross-national comparison. In X. Chen, & K. H. Rubin (Eds.), Socioemotional development in cultural context. New York: Guilford Press.
Guerra, N. G., Williams, K. R., & Sadek, S. (2011). Bullying and victimization from childhood to adolescence: Developmental changes and implications for prevention. Child Development, 82, 1, 295-310.
Guerra, N. G., Graham, S., & Tolan, P. H. (2011). Raising healthy children: Translating research into practice. Child Development, 82, 1, 7-16.
Williams, K. R., & Guerra, N. G. (2011). Perceptions of collective efficacy and bullying perpetration in schools. Social Problems, 58, 126-143.
Leidy, M., Guerra, N., G., & Toro, R. (2010). The impact of positive parenting and family cohesion on social competence among children of immigrant Latino parents: A mixed methods study. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 252-260.
Cook, C., Williams, K. R., Guerra, N. G., Kim, T., & Sadek, S. (2010). Predictors of childhood bullying and victimization: A meta-analytic review. School Psychology Quarterly, 25, 65-83.
Guerra, N. G., & Bradshaw, C. (Eds., 2008). Core competencies to prevent problem behaviors and promote positive youth development. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 122. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Recent Publications
Hanlon, F.M., Houck, J.M., Pyeatt, C.J., Lundy, L.S., Euler, M.J., Weisend, M.P., Thoma, R.J., Bustillo, J.R., Miller, G.A., & Tesche, C.D. (In press). Bilateral hippocampal dysfunction in schizophrenia. NeuroImage.
Silton, R.L., Heller, W., Towers, D.N., Engels, A.S., Edgar, J.C., Spielberg, J.M., Sass, S.M., Stewart, J.L., Sutton, B.P., Banich, M.T., & Miller, G.A. (In press). Depression and anxiety distinguish frontocingulate cortical activity during top-down attentional control. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Spielberg, J.M., Heller, W., Silton, R.L., Stewart, J.L., & Miller, G.A. (Accepted pending minor revisions). Approach and avoidance profiles distinguish dimensions of anxiety and depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Popov, T., Jordanov, T., Rockstroh, B., Elbert, T., Merzenich, M.M., & Miller, G.A. (2011). Specific cognitive training normalizes auditory sensory gating in schizophrenia: A randomized trial. Biological Psychiatry, 69, 465-471.
Popov, T., Jordanov, T., Weisz, N., Elbert, T., Rockstroh, B., & Miller, G.A. (2011). Evoked and induced oscillatory activity contributes to auditory sensory gating in schizophrenia. NeuroImage, 56, 307-314.
Spielberg, J. M., Miller, G. A., Engels, A. S., Herrington, J. D., Sutton, B. P., Banich, M. T., & Heller, W. (2011). Trait approach and avoidance motivation: Lateralized neural activity associated with executive function. NeuroImage, 54, 661-670. PMCID: PMC2962704.
Steffen, A., Rockstroh, B., Wienbruch, C., & Miller, G.A. (2011). Distinct cognitive mechanisms in a gambling task share neural mechanisms. Psychophysiology. (Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1111)
Bredemeier, K., Spielberg, J.M., Silton, R.L., Berenbaum, H., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Screening for depressive disorders using the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire Anhedonic Depression Scale: A receiver-operating characteristic analysis. Psychological Assessment, 22, 702-710. PMCID: PMC2992834.
Engels, A.S., Heller, W., Spielberg, J.M., Warren, S.L., Sutton, B.P, Banich, M.T., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Co-occurring anxiety influences patterns of brain asymmetry in depression. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 141-156. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.
Fisher, J.E., Sass, S.M., Heller, W., Silton, R.L., Edgar, C.E., Stewart, J.L., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Time course of processing emotional stimuli as a function of perceived emotional intelligence, anxiety, and depression. Emotion, 4, 486-497. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.
Herrington, J.D., Heller, W., Mohanty, A., Engels, A., Banich, M.T., Webb, A.W., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Localization of asymmetric brain function in emotion and depression. Psychophysiology, 47, 442-454. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00958. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.
Huang, M.X., Lee, R.R., Gaa, K.M., Song, T., Harrington, D.L., Loh, C., Theilmann, R.J., Edgar, J.C., Miller, G.A., Cañive, J.M., & Granholm, E. (2010). Somatosensory system deficits in schizophrenia revealed by MEG during a median-nerve oddball task. Brain Topography, 23, 82-104. PMID 19943100.
Miller, G.A. (2010). Mistreating psychology in the decades of the brain. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 716-743.
Miller, G.A. (2010). SPR Award, 2008, for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology: William G. Iacono. Psychophysiology, 47, 603-614.
Sass, S.M., Heller, W., Stewart, J.L., Silton, R.L., Edgar, C., Fisher, J.E., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Time course of attentional bias to threat in anxiety: Emotion and gender specificity. Psychophysiology, 47, 247-259. NIHMSID: NIHMS276693. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.
Silton, R.L., Miller, G.A., Towers, D.N., Engels, A.S., Edgar, J.C., Spielberg, J.M., Sass, S.M., Stewart, J.L., Sutton, B.P., Banich, M.T., & Heller, W. (2010). The time course of activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex during top-down attentional control. NeuroImage, 50, 1292-1302. NIHMSID NIHMS175789. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.061.
Smith, A.K., Edgar, J.C., Huang, M.X., Lu, B.Y., Thoma, R.J., Hanlon, F.M., McHaffie, G., Jones, A.P., Paz, R.D., Miller, G.A., & Cañive, J.M. (2010). Cognitive abilities and 50 and 100 ms paired-click processes in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 1264-1275.
Stewart, J.L., Silton, R.L., Sass, S.M., Fisher, J.E., Edgar, J.C., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2010). Attentional bias to negative emotion as a function of approach and withdrawal anger styles: An ERP investigation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 76, 9-18.
Warren, S.L., Bost, K.K., Roisman, G.I., Levin Silton, R., Spielberg, J.M., Engels, A.S., Choi, E., Sutton, B.P., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2010). Effects of adult attachment and emotional distractors on brain mechanisms of cognitive control. Psychological Science, 21, 1818-1826. NIHMSID: NIHMS276015. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.
Recent Publications
Forbes, C. E., Poore, J. C., Barbey, A. K., Krueger, F., Solomon, J., Lipsky, R. H., Hodgkinson, C. A., Goldman, D., & Grafman, J. (2011). BDNF polymorphism-dependent OFC and DLPFC plasticity differentially moderates implicit and explicit bias. Cerebral Cortex, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhr337.
Forbes, C. E., Cox, C. L., Schmader, T., & Ryan, L. (2011). Negative stereotype activation alters interaction between neural correlates of arousal, inhibition and cognitive control. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsr052
Forbes, C. E., Poore. J.C., & Grafman, J. (in press). Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex to Social Cognition and Moral Judgment Processes. To appear in R. P. Ebstien, S. Shamay-Tsoory & S. H. Chew, From DNA to Social Cognition.
Forbes, C. E., & Schmader, T. (2010). Retraining Attitudes and Stereotypes to Affect Motivation and Cognitive Capacity under Stereotype Threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 740-754.
Forbes, C. E., & Grafman, J. (2010). The Role of the Human Prefrontal Cortex in Social Cognition and Moral Judgment. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 33, 299- 324.
Zhang, S., Schmader, T. & Forbes, C. E. (2009). The effects of gender stereotypes on women's career choice: Opening the glass door. In M. Barreto, M. K. Ryan, and M. T. Schmitt's (Eds.) The Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century: Understanding Barriers to Gender Equality. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Schmader, T., Forbes, C. E., Zhang, S., & Johns, M. (2009). A meta-cognitive perspective on the cognitive deficits experienced in intellectually threatening environments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 584-596.
Schmader, T., Johns, M., & Forbes, C. (2008). An integrated process model of stereotype threat effects on performance. Psychological Review, 115, 336-356.
Forbes, C. E., Schmader, T., & Allen, J. J. B. (2008). The role of devaluing and discounting in performance monitoring: A neurophysiological study of minorities under threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 253-261.
Ben-Zeev, T, Duncan, S., & Forbes, C. E. (2005). Stereotypes and Math Performance. In J. Campbell's (Ed.), Handbook of Mathematical Cognition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Recent Publications
Roth, E.D., X. Yu, G. Rao, and J.J. Knierim. 2012, in press. Functional differences in the backward shifts of CA1 and CA3 place fields in novel and familiar environments. PLoS One.
Roth, E.D. and W.I. Lutterschmidt. 2011. Experimental validation of sex differences in spatial behavior patterns of free ranging snakes: Implications for social interactions. Ethology. 117:852-858.
Penner, M.R., T.L. Roth, M.K. Chawla, L.T. Hoang, E.D. Roth, F.D. Lubin, J.D. Sweatt, P.F. Worley, and C.A. Barnes. 2011. Age-related changes in Arc transcription and DNA methylation within the hippocampus. Neurobiology of Aging. 32:2198-2210.
Roth, T.L., E.D. Roth, and J.D. Sweatt. 2010. Epigenetic regulation of genes in learning and memory. Essays in Biochemistry. 48:263-274.
Representative Publications
Roth, E.D., W.I. Lutterschmidt, and D.A. Wilson. 2006. Relative medial and dorsal cortex volume in relation to sex differences in spatial ecology of a snake population. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 67:103-110.
Roth, E.D. 2005. Buffer zone applications in snake ecology: A case study using cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Copeia 2005 (2): 399-402.
Roth, E.D. 2005. Spatial ecology of a cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) population in East Texas. Journal of Herpetology 39 (2): 309-312.
Roth, E.D. and J.A. Johnson 2004. Size-based variation in antipredator behavior within a snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) population. Behavioral Ecology 15 (2): 365-370.
Roth, E.D. 2003. Handedness in snakes? Lateralization of coiling behavior in a cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) population. Animal Behaviour 66 (2): 337-341.
Recent Publications
Hayes, A.M., Beck, J. G., & Yasinski, C. (in press). Cognitive behavioral perspective on corrective experiences in exposure-based treatments. In L. G. Castonguay & C. Hill (Eds.) Corrective experiences in psychotherapy. Washington, DC: APA.
Drapkin, M., Yusko, D., Yasinski, C., Oslin, D., Hembree, L. & Foa, E. (2011). Baseline Functioning Among Individuals with PTSD and Alcohol Dependence. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 41(2), 186-192.
Jayawickreme, N., Yasinski, C., Williams, M., & Foa, E. B. (2011). Gender-Specific Associations Between Trauma Cognitions, Alcohol Cravings, and Alcohol-Related Consequences in Individuals With Comorbid PTSD and Alcohol Dependence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Recent Publications
Brunzell DH, Boschen KE, Hendrick ES, Beardsley PM, McIntosh JM.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010 Feb;35(3):665-73. Epub 2009 Nov 4. PMID: 19890263
Boschen KE, Fadel JR, Burk JA.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Oct;206(2):205-13. Epub 2009 Jul 3. PMID: 19575184
Recent Publications
Fowles, T.R. (2010) Delaware's statewide dissemination of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): preliminary effectiveness data. Presentation during SAMHSA federal site visit.
Fowles, T.R., Wilson, M., Meek, C., & Taylor-McDowell, J. (2010). Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): Implementing an evidence-based practice in Systems of Care. Two training institutes presented at the biennial Georgetown University Training Institutes conference.
Florsheim, P. & Fowles, T.R. (2008). An interpersonal-developmental perspective on juvenile justice systems. Journal of Law and Family Studies.
Florsheim, P., Behling, S., South, M., Fowles, T. R., & DeWitt, J. (2004). Does the youth corrections system work? Tracking the effectiveness of intervention efforts with delinquent boys in state custody. Psychological Services, 1, 126-139.
Representative Publications
Fowles, T.R., Florsheim, P., & Magill, J. (2003). Child abuse among young fathers with conduct disorder. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference.
South, M., Fowles, T. R., & DeWitt, J. (2002). An analysis of Utah's Protective and Risk factors Assessment (PRA). Government Report Submitted to Utah's Division of Youth Corrections.
VanVleet, R. K., Lambert, J. M., & Fowles, T. R. (2000). The Impact of Utah's Serious Youth Offender Act. Government Report Submitted to Utah's Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
VanVleet, R. K., Fowles, T. R., & Lambert, J. M. (1999). Religion and the prevention of juvenile delinquency. Government Report Submitted to Utah's Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
VanVleet, R. K., & Fowles, T. R. (1999). A case for intermediate sanctions. Government Report Submitted to Utah's Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
Recent Publications
TL Roth and JD Sweatt. 2011. Annual research review: Epigenetic mechanisms and environmental shaping of the brain during sensitive periods of development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 52:398-408.
TL Roth, PR Zoladz, JD Sweatt, DM Diamond. 2011. Epigenetic modification of hippocampal BDNF DNA in adult rats in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45:919-926.
TL Roth, FD Lubin, AJ Funk, and JD Sweatt. 2009. Lasting epigenetic influence of early-life adversity on the BDNF gene. Biological Psychiatry 65:760-769.
Representative Publications
FD Lubin, TL Roth, and JD Sweatt. 2008. Epigenetic regulation of bdnf gene transcription in the consolidation of fear memory. Journal of Neuroscience 28:10576-10586.
TL Roth, S Moriceau, and RM Sullivan. 2006. Opioid modulation of Fos protein expression and olfactory circuitry plays a pivotal role in what neonates remember. Learning and Memory 13:590-598.
TL Roth and RM Sullivan. 2005. Memory of maltreatment: Neonatal behavioral and neural correlates of maternal maltreatment within the context of classical conditioning. Biological Psychiatry 57:823-831.
Recent Publications
- Pineles, S.L., Mostoufi, S.M., Ready, C.B., Street, A.E, Resick, P.A., & Griffin, M. (2011). Psychophysiological arousal, disengagement coping, and PTSD symptoms: A moderating relationship? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(1), 240-246.
- Street, A.E., Bell, M., & Ready, C.B. (2011). Sexual assault. In D. Benedek & G. Wynn (Eds.) Clinical manual for the management of PTSD (pp. 325-348). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
- Wallace, H.M., Ready, C.B., & Weitenhagen, E. (2009). Narcissism and task persistence. Self & Identity, 8, 78-93.
- Ready, C.B., & Hayes, A.M. Limitations of a self-distanced perspective: Alexithymia as a moderator of self-distancing and emotional processing. Manuscript in preparation.
Recent Publications
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. "Event apprehension for language production in children." Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD, January 7-10, 2010.
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. 2009. "Seeing and Saying: The Relation Between Event Apprehension and Utterance Formulation in Children." Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 6-8.
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. 2009. "What You See is Not What You Get: Event Apprehension and Utterance Formulation in Children and Adults." Paper presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain, September 7-9.
Bunger, A. 2008. How We Learn to Talk About Events: Linguistic Constraints on Verb Learning. Language Acquisition, 15.1.
Recent Publications
Hass, R.W., Weisberg, R.W. & Choi, J. (2010). Quantitative case studies in musical composition: The development of creativity in popular-songwriting teams. Psychology of Music, 38, 463-479.
Hass, R.W . & Weisberg, R.W. (2009). Career development in two seminal American songwriters: A test of the Equal-Odds Rule. Creativity Research Journal. 21, 183-190.
Weisberg, R.W. & Hass, R.W . (2007). We are all partly right: Comment on Simonton. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 345-360.
Recent Publications
Most, S. B., Wang, L. , Engelhardt, D., & Curby, K.(2008) Selective Effects of Emotion on Visual Short-Term Memory Consolidation. Poster session presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida
Wang, L. & Most, S. B.(2008). Is Contingent Attentional Capture Not Contingent on Working Memory? Poster session presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida
Recent Publications
Stanley, E.M. , Narayana, S., Pfordresher, P.Q. & Wicha, N.Y.Y. (2008). Advantage of Tonal Language Speaking on Pitch Perception. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, San Francisco, CA.
Stanley, E.M. , Kothmann, D.K. & Wicha, N.Y.Y. (2007). Cross-Language Interference in a Bilingual Stroop Task. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, New York, New York.
Recent Publications
Parrish, B. P. , Zautra, A.J., Skinner, M. A. (2008, August). A History of Recurrent Depression predicts Greater Reports of Pain at Five Year Follow-up in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients but not Osteoarthritis Patients. Poster accepted to 12th World Congress on Pain, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Cohen, L. H., Gunthert, K.C., Butler, A.C., Parrish, B.P. , Wenze, S. J. (in press) Negative affective spillover from daily events predicts early response to cognitive therapy for depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Parrish, B.P. , Zautra, A.J., Davis, M.C. (in press) Importance of interpersonal events on daily levels of fatigue. Health Psychology
Parrish, B.P. , Zautra, A.J., Tennen, H., Davis, M.C. (2007, March). The Impact of Multiple Episodes of Depression on Daily Perturbation of Depressive Symptoms in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Poster presented at 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hun.
Wershba ,R.E., Parrish, B.P. , Fowler, A.C., Zautra, A.J., Davis, M.C. (2007, March). The Role of Depression on Daily Pain and Pain Coping in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Poster presented at 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hun.
Olmsted, M.E., Finan, P.H., Zautra, A.J., Davis, M.C., Parrish, B.P. (2007, March). The Use of a Solomon 4-Group Design in Psychosomatic Research. Poster presented at 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hun.
Zautra, A.J., Parrish, B.P. , VanPuymbroeck, C.M., Tennen, H., Davis, M.C., Reich, J.W., & Irwin, M. (2007) Depression history, stress, and pain in Rheumatoid arthritis patients. Journal of Behavior Medicine, 30(3), 187-97.
Zautra, A.J. Fasman, R., Parrish, B.P. , & Davis, M.C. (2007) Daily fatigue in women with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis. Pain. 128(1-2) 128-135.
Recent Publications
Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (submitted). The importance of being 'in': A cross-linguistic bias in the semantics and acquisition of containment expressions. Cognitive Science.
Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (in press). Universality and Language-Specificity in the Acquisition of Path Vocabulary. Proceedings of the BUCLD 34, USA.
Papafragou, A., Johanson, M., & Selimis, S. (2009). Over-extension patterns in spatial language: The case of containment. Paper Presentation at the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, 8-11 January.
Johanson, M., Selimis, S., & Papafragou, A. (2009). Cross-linguistic biases in the semantics and acquisition of spatial language. Proceedings of the BUCLD 33, USA, 1, 256-265.
Recent Publications
Jablonski, S. A. , & Anderson, M. J. (March, 2008). Effects of Distributed Learning on Novel Object Preference. Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, Massachusetts.
Anderson, M.J., Jablonski, S.A. , & Klimas, D.B. (2008). Spaced initial stimulus familiarization enhances novelty preference in Long-Evans rats. Behavioural Processes, 78, 481-486.
Jablonski, S. A. & Anderson, M. J. (March, 2007). The Effects of Repeated Novel Object Recognition Task Experience on Object Exploration and Novelty Preference. Eastern Psychological Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Recent Publications
Hehman, E., Graber, E., Hoffman, L. H., & Gaertner, S. L. (in press). Warmth and competence: A content analysis of photographs depicting American presidents. Psychology of Popular Media Culture.
Hehman, E., Gaertner, S. L., Dovidio, J. F., Mania, E. W., Guerra, R., Wilson, D. C., & Friel, B. M. (2012). Group status drives majority and minority integration preferences. Psychological Science, 23, 46-52. doi: 10.1177/0956797611423547
Hehman, E., Stanley, E. M., Gaertner, S. L., & Simons, R. F. (2011). Multiple group membership influences face-recognition: Recall and neurological evidence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1262-1268.
Hehman, E., Gaertner, S. L., & Dovidio, J. F. (2011). Evaluations of presidential performance: Race, prejudice, and perceptions of Americanism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 430-435.
Hehman, E., Mania, E. W., & Gaertner, S. L. (2010). Where the division lies: Common ingroup identity moderates the cross-race effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 445-448.
Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Saguy, T. & Hehman, E. (2010). Obama’s Potential to Transform the Racial Attitudes of White Americans. In G. S. Parks, and M. Hughey (Eds.), The Obamas and a Post-Racial America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recent Publications
GRAHAM BJ & NORTHMORE DPM (2006) A model of proximity measurement by the teleost nucleus isthmi. Neurocomputing, 69:1281-1285.
GALLAGHER SP & NORTHMORE DPM (2006) Responses of the teleostean nucleus isthmi to looming objects and other moving stimuli. Visual Neuroscience, 23 : 209-219.
NORTHMORE DPM, & GRAHAM BJ (2005) Avoidance behavior controlled by a model of vertebrate midbrain mechanisms. In Mechanisms, Symbols, and Models Underlying Cognition, LNCS 3561, Springer, Pp 338-345.
NORTHMORE DPM, MOSES J, and ELIAS JG (2005) A Neuromorphic System. In Complex Systems Science in BioMedicine, Eds T. S. Deisboeck, J.Y, Kresh, T. B. Kepler. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
NORTHMORE DPM (2004) A network of spiking neurons develops sensorimotor mechanisms while guiding behavior. Neurocomputing 58-60, 1057-1063.
Recent Publications
Dasch, K. B., Cohen, L. H., Belcher, A., Laurenceau, J-P., Kendall, J., Siegel, S., Parrish, B., & Graber, E. (2010). Affective differentiation in breast cancer patients. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. In press.
Most, S. B., Laurenceau, J-P., Graber, E., Belcher, A., & Smith, C. V. (2010). Blind jealousy? Romantic insecurity increases emotion-induced failures of visual perception. Emotion, 10, 250-256.
Rafaeli, E., Graber, E. , Berenson, K., & Downey, G. (2008, May). Affective complexity as a prerequisite for mood regulation in borderline personality disorder. Talk presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Graber, E. , & Rafaeli, E. (2007, May). Differentiation of emotions toward significant others among patients with personality disorders. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC.
Graber, E. , Belcher, A., & Laurenceau, J-P. (2007, Nov.). What you don’t see can hurt you: Effects of daily overt and covert conflict in newlywed couples. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
