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Name: Joy Drinnon
School: Milligan College
Institution Address: 1 Blower Blvd., Milligan College, TN 37682
Institution Website: http://www.milligan.edu/riseabove/
Job Title: Associate Professor of Psychology/Director of Undergraduate Research
Contact Information: jrdrinnon@milligan.edu, 423-461-8661
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
I have been working on a community-based research project with a non-profit organization called Appalachian Service Project for more than 3 years. We are conducting a longitudinal study of the effects of this home-repair ministry on the physical and psychological health of the residents. The residents are all low-income residents of Central Appalachia. Most are elderly individuals who can not afford to keep up repairs on their homes. Our research is carried out mostly in the summer when student researchers can travel to interview or conduct telephone interviews with residents whose homes were repaired the summer before. Pre-test surveys are collected as well to provide comparison data. A second component of this reserach is surveying the volunteers who come to work over the summer. Thus far, 9 undergraduate psychology majors have worked on the project. Each has written a paper and presented their results at local or regional conferences. Topics have included depression, anxiety, materialism, volunteer motivations, and resiliency. Student researchers will have some input in what questions are asked on the survey so they may have opportunities to explore new variables not already being studied.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Clinical, Developmental, Physiology, Child, Adolescent, Lifespan
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Name: Mindy Erchull
School: University of Mary Washington
Institution Address: 1301 College Ave., Fredericksburg, VA, 22401
Institution Website: http://cas.umw.edu/psychology/faculty/biographies/
Job Title: Associate Professor of Psychology
Contact Information: merchull@umw.edu, 540-654-1557
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
"I have an active and diverse program of research, much of it undertaken with undergraduate students, looking at topics broadly related to feminist identity, division of labor, parenting, the objectification and sexualization of women, and menstruation.
I have undertaken a wide array of research looking at the importance of self-identification of as feminist as opposed to only studying attitudes associated with feminism. I have also looked at attitudinal and behavioral similarities and differences between self-identified feminists and non-feminists.
In regards to division of labor and parenting, I have explored these issues in college students who are thinking about what their future lives might involve as well as older women who do and do not have children. Much of this research overlaps with my work on feminist identity, such as my work exploring stereotypes and realities of feminist mothers, but some of it is separate from this, such as work showing that despite stereotypes that women desire marriage and children more than do men, their actual desires were the same.
The bulk of my research relates to the objectification and sexualization of women. I have explored precursors and outcomes of self-objectification including recent work on the link to dissociation and other trauma symptoms, the extent to which women report enjoying sexualization (and the possible negative consequences of this), and the extent to which self-sexualization is associated with positive and negative sexual outcomes. More recently, this work has led me to explore young women's experiences with casual sex as well as the sexual double standard and slut shaming.
Finally, I occasional undertake research about menstruation. I am particularly interested in attitudes of both men and women about menstruation and how we educate about the menstrual cycle."
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Gender, Health, Social
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Name: James Gross
School: Stanford University
Institution Address: Department of Psychology, Stanford, CA 94305-2130
Institution Website: http://spl.stanford.edu/
Job Title: Professor
Contact Information: gross@stanford.edu, 650-723-1281
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
Dr. James Gross is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. Dr. Gross earned his BA in philosophy from Yale University in 1987 and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. He is a leading researcher in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation, and he has received early career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Dr. Gross also has won numerous awards for his teaching, including a Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award, and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Gross has authored over 200 publications, including Psychology and the Handbook of Emotion Regulation, and is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Clinical, Experimental, Adult
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Name: Robert Morrison, Ph. D.
School: Loyola University Chicago
Institution Address: 1032 W Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660
Institution Website: canlab.org
Job Title: Assisstant Professor
Contact Information: rmorrison@luc.edu, 312-498-2612
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
"Why does a century-past story of a steamship sinking in the North Atlantic inspire millions to watch films and read books today? Is it because we recognize the names of Astor and Guggenheim among the victims? Or is it because the story of people from all walks of life, heroically facing an unexpected and undeserved end, helps us cope with the tragedy of September 11th? Or rather because we hope, with tears streaming down our cheeks, to play with the greatest passion of our lives on the deck at the moment of our own end? Relational thought pervades the grand and mundane of our lives, allowing us to make comparisons to what we already know, and critically make inferences that can guide our future actions.
Set at the crossroads of developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science, my work seeks to understand such relational learning and reasoning. Using category learning and analogical reasoning, I am investigating how executive functions and knowledge interact in relational thought throughout the lifespan, and how developmental changes are supported by the neural networks of the brain.
Executive function is critical to our ability to learn and use accumulated knowledge in the service of reasoning, underlying the ability to maintain, manipulate, and monitor the contents of our conscious mind, allowing us to implement goal-relevant actions. These functions undergo enormous developmental change, greatly improving in efficiency into early adulthood, and then gradually declining for the remainder of life. In contrast, relational knowledge accumulates throughout our lives, showing only modest decline in our last years. Thus, relational thought also provides a core domain to investigate how the complex neural networks of the brain change as a result of maturation and experience."
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Cognitive, Neuropsychology, Lifespan
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Name: Pamela Ansburg
School: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Institution Address: Campus Box 54, PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362
Job Title: Professor of Psychology
Contact Information: ansburg@msudenver.edu, 303-556-5631
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
Dr. Ansburg's current research focuses on understanding the effects of aging on cognition. In particular, she is interested in understanding how aging impacts effective problem solving and everyday memory functioning.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Cognitive, Memory, Geriatric
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Name: Travis Crone
School: University of Houston-Downtown
Institution Address: 1 Main Street, Dept. of Social Sciences, Houston, TX
Institution Website: http://www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/humanities/sos/bio/bio_cronej.html
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Contact Information: cronet@uhd.edu, 713-221-8995
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
Social cognition with an emphasis on goals, conscious and nonconscious; implementation intentions and how individuals perceive religious relationships. I am generally interested in the effects of environmental priming on goal constructs. I have also began examining the effects of embodied cognition on goals and attitudes.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Cognitive, Religion, Social
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Name: Jessica Borelli
School: Pomona College
Institution Address: 647 N College Way, Claremont, CA, 91711
Institution Website: http://research.pomona.edu/carelab/
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Contact Information: jessica.borelli@pomona.edu, 909-607-3757
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
The mission of my lab is to investigate the links between close relationships and emotional experience in both adults and children. We are most interested in the specific ways in which parent-child relationships are internalized and influence future patterns of relating and emotionality over the life-span. Using an attachment framework, our work examines the influence of early relationships on physiological indices of emotion. These interests are grounded in a life-span developmental psychopathology perspective.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Clinical, Developmental, Physiology, Child, Adolescent, Lifespan
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Name: Cynthia Erickson
School: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Institution Address: PO Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217
Job Title: Adjunct Faculty
Members of:
Contact Information: cerick21@msudenver.edu, 720-233-2054
Sponsor’s Research Interests:
I do not remember a time when I was not fascinated by human and animal behavior, which is why I decided to study psychology. The focus of my BS and MS degrees was on learning and memory. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in neuroscience and psychology, I worked as a staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. There I studied how the brain changes during the process of learning. This research required developing cutting-edge technology to record brain activity from many neurons simultaneously. I then moved on to vision and memory research at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. At the primate center I managed a multicenter project on the neurobiology of memory and aging in primates. I currently work as a consultant to researchers in the psychology department at Emory University. I have published papers and presented original research at local, national and international conferences on such topics as human learning and memory, teaching of psychology, brain changes during learning and exposure to emotional images, the effects of aging on memory, and other topics in neuroscience and psychology. Whether I am teaching psychology or working in a lab, I love the energy and excitement that students bring to the study of psychology.
What Key Words would your research fall under?
Animal behavior, Experimental, Learning, Memory, Neuropsychology, Physiology
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