Psychology Achievements
Kathleen Galotti, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, and Steven Kozberg, Senior Lecturer in Psychology,
March 18, 2009and Mary Gustafson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, published an article entitled, "Goal Setting and Decision Making by At-Risk Youth" in the journal The Prevention Researcher, for the April issue. It reports on the results of a research project conducted at the Wisconsin Challenge Academy, investigating changes in at-risk older adolescents' decision-making as they experienced a 22-week intervention program designed to enhance life skills.
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology and Director of Neuroscience, published an article in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, February issue, 2009, together with Carleton alumni Elizabeth Johnson (2007), Katie Whillock (2008), Julia Greenberg (2008), and Vanessa Brown (2007). The article was titled "Is a sense of inequity an ancestral primate trait? Testing social inequity in cotton top tamarins."
Mija Van Der Wege, assistant professor of psychology,
January 21, 2009Assistant Professor of Psychology, had the paper entitled, "Lexical Entrainment and Lexical Differentiation in Reference Phrase Choice" accepted for publication in the Journal of Memory and Language.
Kathleen Galotti, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science,
December 10, 2008and Mitchell Lundin '08 presented a poster at the 2008 meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Chicago entitled, "Phoning it in: Considering the Role of Judgment in Distracted Driving." It reported on research investigating the effects of cell phone usage while driving.
Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
December 4, 2008together with Helena Kaufman, Director of Off-Campus Studies, and Éva Pósfay (Associate Dean of the College), recently presented a talk entitled "What's Up With Culture? Teaching Literature, Marine Biology and Psychopathology Cross-Culturally" at The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning Conference in Bloomington, MN.
Seth Greenberg, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Dept,
November 26, 2008was awarded funds by the Dean's discretionary fund for the year 2009-2010 to explore a distinction between the processing of two classes of faces.
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology and Director of Neuroscience,
November 26, 2008was awarded support from the Dean’s Research Overhead fund for a half-time research assistant to help complete testing of autistic children at the Partners in Excellence Facility in Burnsville for Winter Break, 2009-2010.
wrote an invited article on Teaching Reasoning and Decision-Making in Introductory Cognitive Science Courses for the Hewlett Project on Cognitive Science, administered through Pomona College.
Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
October 15, 2008published two papers in a recent edition of Addictive Behaviors. One paper is entitled "Biological Challenge Procedures Used to Study Co-occurring Nicotine Dependence and Panic Disorder," co-authored with Shaun Sawtell ‘08, and Koen Schruers and Fiammetta Cosci of Maastricht University. The other paper is entitled "Linkages Between Cigarette Smoking Outcome Expectancies and Negative Emotional Vulnerability," co-authored with researchers from the University of Vermont.
recently accepted the position of consulting editor of the American Psychological Association journal, the Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Mija Van Der Wege, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
September 18, 2008Assistant Professor of Psychology, published a paper entitled "Potential Perils of Changing Environmental Context on Examination Scores" in the summer issue of the journal College Teaching, co-authored with Leslie Barry ('04).
Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology,
September 5, 2008gave a featured talk on "Counting Quantitative Reasoning as a Teaching of Psychology Priority" at the Third International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Russia. Professor Lutsky also served as the Discussant on a Symposium on Teaching Ecopsychology held at the annual meeting of the American Psychology Association in Boston.