Psychology Department

Graduate Presentations and Publications

department of psychology

Posters and Presentations

Barrett, L. F., Brennan, L., Yemelyanova, N., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2008, February). She is emotional. He is having a bad day: Attributional explanations for sex-based stereotypes of emotion. Poster presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, Albuquerque, NM.

Bliss-Moreau, E., Wager, T., Lindquist, K.A., Kober, H., Joseph, J., Davidson, M., & Barrett, L.F. (April, 2008). The valued brain: The neural reference space for core affect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Bohanek, J., Holland, A., & Bauer, P.J. (2007, July). Structure, content, and nature of early vs. later memories in adults. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Lewiston, ME.

Cochrane, K., Holland, A., & Bauer, P.J. (2007, October). Where Does It Go Awry? Predicting Age-related Differences In Long-term Recall. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.

Drake, J.E., (2006). The Psychology and Physiology of Burn Stress in Very Early Childhood. In F. Stoddard (Chair). Neuropsychiatric Responses to Burns: Modeling the Developmental Neurobiology of Trauma. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Drake, J.E., Williams, A., Schlegel, A., & Levine, M. (2003). Mental health assessment of youth in the juvenile justice system. Accepted to the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Gendron, M., Lindquist, K.A., Barrett, L.F., & Barsalou, L. (January, 2008). Language and social perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Goldstein, T.R., & Winner, E. (2007, Nov). Bringing Literature to Life: Acting Strategies and Theory of Mind. Paper presented at Literature and Theory of Mind Conference, Purdue University.

Goldstein, T. R., & Winner, E. (2007, Oct). Advances in Advanced Theory of Mind: Can Acting Help? Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

Goldstein, T.R. (2007, July). Improvisation and Disaster Response: Links between Psychology and Disaster Research. Invited talk given at the Natural Hazards Workshop annual meeting. Boulder, CO.

Goldstein, T.R., & Winner, E. (2007, May). “My Conscience Hath a Thousand Several Tongues” (Richard III, 5.3): Empathy and Acting Strategies. Poster presented at the Jean Piaget Society meeting, Amsterdam, Holland.

Goldstein, T.R. (2007, May). Extroversion, Imitation, and Emotion Regulation: Early Predictors of Acting Talent. Poster presented at the Association of Psychological Science Annual Convention. Washington, DC.

Goldstein, T.R & Winner, E. (2007, March). Understanding Representational Diversity: One Achievement Early or Several Achievements Over Time? Chair of Symposium given at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) bi-annual meeting. With Paul Bloom, Deena Skolnik Weisberg, Jennifer Van Reet, Angeline Stoll Lillard, and Michael Chandler, Boston, MA.

Goldstein, T. R. (2007, March). Does Acting Training Foster the Development of Special Talent in Theory of mind? Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development bi-annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Goldstein, T.R., (2006, August). Creativity and Creative Response to Disasters: Links to Basic Psychological Research. Talk given at the Institute for Behavioral Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Goldstein, T.R., Iida, M., & Johnson, K.L. (2006, May). Stomp!: How Lay Theories Affect Group Creativity. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Sciences annual meeting. New York, NY.

Kayyal, M.H., Russell, J.A., Widen, S.C. (2007). Comparing Palestinian and American Children’s Understanding of Fear. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society’s 2007 Conference, Santa Fe, NM.

Kayyal, M.H., Naab, P., Russell, J.A. (2008). Palestinian and American Judgments of Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 20th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Lindquist, K.A. & Barrett, L.F. (November, 2008). Intelligent emotion regulation: The wisdom of feelings. Talk given at the Learning and Brain Conference, Cambridge, MA.

Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T. Bliss-Moreau, E., Kober, H., et al (April, 2008). Seeing emotion with your feelings: A meta-analytic review of the neural reference space for emotion experience vs. perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Lindquist, K.A., Wager, T. Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., et al (January, 2008). Seeing with your feelings: Meta-analytic review of the neural reference space underlying perception vs. experience of emotion. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Lindquist, K. A., & Barrett, L.F. (January, 2007). The Psychological Construction of Emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.

Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L.F., & Hancock, R. (August, 2006). The Experience Emotion: An Act of Categorization. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotion, Atlanta, Ga.

Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Barrett, L. (July, 2005). Language and perception of emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Bari, Italy.

Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E. & Barrett, L. (January, 2005). Language and the perception of emotion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Lindquist, K. A., Connor, T., Feldman Barrett, L., Tugade, M., & Zubowicz, A. (January, 2004). Complexity of the mind: The relation between self and emotional complexity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

Meuret, A.E., Drake, J.E., Pincus, D.B. In-Albon, T., & Ehrenreich, J.T. (2004). Prevalence and Correlates of Asthma in Clinically Anxious Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA & the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Princeton, NJ.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008, April). Neural activity at encoding associated with vivid memory for negative information and familiarity for positive information. The Amygdala, Stress, and PTSD Conference, Bethesda, MD.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., Choi, E.S. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008, April). Aging and Phenomenological Memory for Emotional Details. Poster Presented at Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, November). Neural activity at encoding associated with vivid memory for negative information and familiarity for positive information. Poster presented at 2007 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Using the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire to Examine How we Remember Emotional Stimuli. Poster Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Using the RSVP Paradigm to Investigate the Processes Contributing to Emotional Memory. Poster presented at 2007 Rotman Research Institute Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007, March). Characteristics of Memories of Emotional Pictures. Poster Presentation at 2007 New England Science Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Caimbridge, MA.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2006, November). Retrieval of words in emotional and non-emotional context: An ERP Analysis. Poster Presentation at 2006 Society For Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Nelson, N.L., Russell, J.A. (2008). Children’s Labeling of Dynamic Facial, Postural, and Vocal Cues to Emotion. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Association of Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, IL.

Nelson, N.L., Russell, J.A. (2007). Dynamic Cues Affect Children’s Understanding of Others’ Emotional States. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Association of Psychological Science Convention, Washington D.C.

Nelson, N.L., Widen, S.C., Russell, J.A. (2007). The Development of Preschoolers' Theory of Mind and Emotion Understanding. Poster presented at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.

Nelson, N.L., Widen, S.C., Russell, J.A. (2006). Children's Understanding of Emotion Causes and Consequences in Labeling Facial Expressions and Stories. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Association of Psychological Science Convention, New York, NY.

Pathman, T., Holland, A., & Bauer, P.J. (2007, March). Is Time on Our Side? The Vulnerability of Memory Representations in Infants. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Pittman, A. (2008, May). Diversifying the Master’s Tools: Moroccan Women’s Rights Activists Transforming Family Law. Poster presented at the Law and Society Association Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Pittman, A. (2006, June). Balancing Objectivity and Subjectivity in Cross-Cultural Collaborative Research Project: A Moroccan Case Study. Poster presented at SPSSI, Long Beach, CA.

Pittman, A. (2006, November). Cultural Reconstructions: The Case of the Moroccan Family Law Reform. Poster presented at the Institute for Development Studies, Participation and National Policy Working Group.

Pittman, A. (2005, October). The Moroccan Case to Change the Moudawana. Working in Alliances or Coalitions. How Does Change Happen? Poster presented at the AWID Forum, Bangkok, Thailand.

Prenovost, M., Morelli, G., & Shartrand, A. (2007, November). The cost of economic security for low-wage earning families. Poster presented at the annual convention of  the National Council on Family Relations, Pittsburgh, PA.

Prenovost, M., Morelli, G., & Shartrand, A. (2007, May). The choices mothers make: A pilot study on economic decision making of women living on the edge of self-sufficiency. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC.

Prenovost, M., Sherman, D. K., Kinias, Z., Major, B., & Kim, H.S. (2006, June). The fans’ role in the group: Affirmation and group-serving biases. Poster presented at the biennial convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Long Beach, CA.

Prenovost, M. (2005, May). The role of the fan in the group. Poster presented at the annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Santa Barbara, CA.

Rapoza, K., Drake, J.E., & Vargas, R. (2004). Alcohol consumption, expectancies and emotional commitment’s relationship to sexual aggression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.

Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Saxe, G., Levine, J., & Sheridan, R. (2006). The Prevalence of PTSD Diagnoses and Symptomatology in Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Kagan, J., Saxe, G., Ronfeldt, R., Snidman, N., Levine, J., Brown, L., & Sheridan, R. (2005). Dimensions of Psychological Care of Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Burn Congress, Shanghai, China.

Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Snidman N, Kagan, J., Saxe, G., & Sheridan, R. (2005). Trauma Severity Influences Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association, Chicago, IL and the 2005 Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day, Boston, MA.

Tierney, K., Sutton, J., Stapleton, S., Kuligowski, E. & Goldstein, T.R, (2006, June). Community Field Studies and Analyses of Preparedness Networks. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). College Park, MD.

Waring, J.D. & Kensinger, E.A. (2007). Impact of scene valence and arousal level upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Waring, J.D. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008). Emotion-induced memory trade-offs in young and older adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Waring, J.D., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2007). Increased Anxiety and Poor Executive Control Increase Emotion-Induced Memory Trade-offs. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. New York, NY.

Waring, J.D., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2007). Emotion-Induced Memory Trade-offs. Poster presented at the New England Science Symposium, Boston, MA.

Publications

Barrett, L., Quigley, K., Bliss-Moreau, E. & Aronson, K. (2004). Arousal focus and interoceptive sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 684-697.

Barrett, L. F. & Lindquist, K. A. (2008). The embodiment of emotion. In G. R. Semin and E. R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding: social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S.L., Rauch, S. & Wright, C.I. (2007).The amygdala and the experience of affect. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 73-83.

Barrett, L.F., Lindquist, K., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J. & Brennan, L. (2007). Of mice and men: Natural kinds of emotion in the mammalian brain? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(2), 297-312.

Barrett, L.F., Lindquist, K., Gendron, M. (2007). Language as context for the perception of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 327-332.

Bliss-Moreau, E., Barrett, L.F. & Wright, C.I. (in press). Individual Differences in Learning the Affective Value of Others under Minimal Conditions. Emotion.

Cohen, A.B., Restuccia, J.R., Shwartz, M., Drake, J.E., Kang, R., Kralovec, P., Holmes, S.K., Margolin, F., & Bohr, D.  (2008). Quality Improvement Activities in a Large Sample of U.S. Hospitals. Medical Care Research and Review, 65(5): 571-595.

Conner, T. & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2006). Sampling human experience in naturalistic settings. In S. Hesse-Biber (Ed.), Emergent Methods in Social Science Research. Sage Publications.

Conner, T., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lebo, K. & Kashub, C. (2002). Experience Sampling Methodologies: A Primer. The Journal of Happiness Studies, 4, 53-78.

D'Astous, M., Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., Dluzen, D.E. (2006) Differential protective properties of estradiol and tamoxifen against methamphetamine-induced nigrostriatal dopaminergic toxicity in mice. Neuroendocrinology, 82(2):111-20.

Dluzen, D.E., & Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. (2005). Gender differences in modulatory effects of tamoxifen upon the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 80(1): 27-33.

Drake, J.E., & Winner, E. (in press). Precocious realists: Perceptual and cognitive characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions Series B.

Drake, J.E., Stoddard, F.J., Murphy, J.M., Ronfeldt, H., Snidman, N., Kagan, J., Saxe, G., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Trauma Severity Influences Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Burned Children. Journal of Burn Care and Research, 27(2), 174-82.

Goldstein, T.R. (2008). Psychological perspectives on acting. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

King, C.T., Garcea, M., Stolzenberg D.S., Spector, A.C. (2008). Experimentally cross-wired lingual taste nerves can restore normal unconditioned gaping behavior in response to quinine stimulation. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 294(3), 38-47.

Kober, H., Barrett, L.F., Joseph, J., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K., & Wager, T.D. (2008). Functional groups and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. NeuroImage.

Lindquist, K.A. (in press). Language is powerful: Comment on Wierzbicka. Emotion Review.

Lindquist, K.A., & Barrett, L.F. (2008). Constructing emotion: The experience of fear as a conceptual act. Psychological Science.

Lindquist, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotional complexity. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of emotions (3rd ed.), New York: Guilford.

Lindquist, K. A., Barrett, L. F., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Russell, J. A. (2006). Language and the perception of emotion. Emotion, 6, 125-138.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Phenomenological characteristics of emotional memories in younger and older adults. Memory.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). The effects of valence and arousal on the neural activity leading to subsequent memory. Psychophysiology.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R. & Kensinger, E.A. (2008). Emotional Valence Influences the Neural Correlates Associated with Remembering and Knowing. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(2): 143-152.

Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., & Dluzen, D.E. (2004). Dose-response effects of estrogen and tamoxifen upon methamphetamine-induced behavioral responses and neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system in female mice. Neuroendocrinology, 79(6), 305-316.

Numan, M., & Stolzenberg, D.S. (in press). Hypothalamic interaction with the mesolimbic dopamine system and the regulation of maternal responsiveness. In R. Bridges (Ed.), The Neurobiology of the Parental Brain. San Diego: Elsevier.

Numan, M., Numan, M.J., Pliakou, N., Stolzenberg, D.S., Mullins, O.J., Murphey, J.M., & Smith, C.D. (2005). The effects of D1 or D2 dopamine receptor antagonism in the medial preoptic area, ventral pallidum, or nucleus accumbens on the maternal retrieval response and other aspects of maternal behavior in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119, 1588-1604.

Pittman, A (in press). Democratizing the Legal Reform Process: The Case of the Moroccan Women’s Movement. CAWTAR 2008 Arab Women and Legislation Development Report.

Pittman, A. (2007). Cultural Adaptations: The Moroccan Women’s Campaign to Change the Moudawana. Institute for Development Studies "Participation and National Policy" project. Retrieved from http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/Part/proj/pnp.html.

Pittman, A. (2007). The Evolution of Discourse: The Women’s Campaign to Change the Moudawana in Morocco. Building Feminist movements and organizations:
lessons from diverse experiences
(N. Payne, ed.). London, UK: Zed.

Pittman, A. (2006). Book Review. Guide to Equality in the Family in the Maghreb. Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin, 40, 2, 281-82.

Prenovost, M., Youngblood, D. C., Babcock, E. D., Liberman, R., & Goodman, A. (2007). Unlocking the doors to higher education and training for Massachusetts’ working poor families. The Working Poor Families Project. Available at http://liveworkthrive.org/admin/Editor/assets/MA_WPFP_UnlockingTheDoors.pdf

Rapoza, K.A., & Drake, J.E. (in press). Alcohol Consumption, Expectancies and Emotional Commitment’s Relationship to Male Sexual Coercion and Aggression in Dating Couples. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Sherman, D. K., Kinias, Z., Major, B., Kim, H.S., & Prenovost, M.A. (2007). The group as a resource: Reducing biased attributions for group success and failure via group-affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1100-1112.

Stoddard, F.J., Ronfeldt, H., Kagan, J., Drake, J.E., Snidman, N., Murphy, J.M., Saxe, G., Burns, J., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Young Burned Children: The Course of Acute Stress, Physiological Responses and Behavioral Symptoms. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(6), 1084-90.

Stoddard, F.J., Saxe, G., Ronfeldt, H., Drake, J.E., Burns, J., Edgren, C., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Children with Burns. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45(1), 87-93.

Stolzenberg, D.S., Mckenna, J.B., Keough, S., Hancock, R.., Numan, M.J., & Numan, M. (2007). Dopamine D1 receptor stimulation of the nucleus accumbens or the medial preoptic area promotes the onset of maternal behavior in pregnancy-terminated rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121(5), 907-919.

Tropp, L., & Prenovost, M. (2008). The role of intergroup contact in predicting children’s inter-ethnic attitudes: Evidence from meta-analytic and field studies. In S. Levy and M. Killen (Eds.) Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wager, T., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lindquist, K.A., et al (2008). The neuroimaging of emotion. In M. Lewis, J.M. Haviland-Jones, & L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The Handbook of emotions (3rd ed). New York:  Guilford.

Waring, J.D., Payne, J.D., Schacter, D.L., & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Impact of individual differences upon emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Cognition and Emotion.