Psychology

Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, in collaboration with Serena King of Hamline University, and Todd Wilkinson of the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, published an article in the Journal of Gambling Studies titled “Personality, Gender, and Family History in the Prediction of College Gambling.”

Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, in collaboration with Fiammetta Cosci (University of Florence), Koen Schruers (Maastricht University), and Eric Griez (Maastricht University), co-authored an article published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry titled “Cigarette smoking and panic: A critical review of the literature.”

Seth Greenberg, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor and Chair of Psychology, and Maren Macgreggor-Hannah '07, published a paper on cross-race face identification that examines the differences in features examined when recognizing own and other race faces. The article appears in Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2010, 110, 2, 567-579.

Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, is being awarded the Minnesota Psychological Association's (MPA) Walter D. Mink Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award. This award is given to the best undergraduate teacher of psychology in the state, and recognizes a teacher who brings a special quality or commitment to undergraduate teaching in psychology. Neiworth accepted the award at the Minnesota Psychological Association's annual meeting on Saturday, April 17, in Plymouth.

Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Melissa Mayer '09, published two chapters in the Nova Science book Social Drinking: Uses, Abuses, and Psychological Factors. The chapters are titled "Alcohol Cues, Alcohol Expectancies, and Aggression" and "Abstinence vs. Controlled Drinking: Trends and a Call for Research." The former chapter, for which Melissa is first author, is based largely on Melissa's comps research.

Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a paper at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America conference in Baltimore. The paper, co-authored with Kate Leger ’10, Laura Schlosser ’10, and Anna Minkina ’10, was titled "Does Acute Nicotine Use or Withdrawal Promote Panic? Findings from Biological Challenge Studies." Abrams, Avantika Jalan ’10, Emily Snyder ’11, and Kelley Stevens ’11 also presented a poster titled "Cognitive Processes Underlying the Elevated Rate of Panic Among Smokers."

Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, and Annelise M. Lawson '09, presented the paper The Peak/End Rule in Prospective Judgments of Life Quality at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in Las Vegas in January.

Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Nathan Grawe, Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor of Economics, and Christopher Tassava, Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, have published "A Rubric for Assessing Quantitative Reasoning in Written Arguments" in Numeracy, the journal of the National Numeracy Network.

Kathleen M. Galotti, Professor and Director of Cognitive Science, and Educational Associate in Psychology, Lacey Dorman, 2009, presented a poster at the 2009 annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society entitled "Making Progress On and Deriving Satisfaction From Goals: Does Urgency Eclipse Importance?"

Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, recently published the chapter "Teaching Psychology's Endings: The Simple Gifts of a Reflective Close" in the Oxford University Press book Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major. He was also cited in a September 2009 Psychologies Magazine story on "How to Let Go and Move On: The Secret of Happy Endings."

Kathleen M. Galotti, Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of Cognitive Science, and Carey Tinkelenberg '05 recently published an article entitled "Real-Life Decision-Making: Parents Choosing a First-Grade Placement" in the American Journal of Psychology, volume 122, pages 455-468. This paper reports on a five-year project investigating real-life decision making among Northfield parents of elementary school children. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation under the auspices of their Research in Undergraduate Institutions program, Grant No. 011185.