Placement of REcent PhD Students
Recent Graduates
| Name: | Scharf, Deborah |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Rigid and Flexible Styles of Smoking Restraint |
| Position: | Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist , RAND Corporation |
| Email: | deb_scharf@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Geier, Charles |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Program: | Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Dissertation: | Incentive Processing and Inhibitory Control in Adolescents and Young Adults |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Matestic, Patricia |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Trajectories of Observed Maternal and Paternal Sensitivity in Early and Middle Childhood: Predicting Children’s Social Competence from Sensitive Parenting |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington |
| Name: | Streeter, Sybil |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Individualized |
| Dissertation: | Odor, Adult Attachment and Emotions in Romantic Relationships |
| Position: | Unknown |
| Name: | Wilson, Stephen |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Self-focused versus Other-focused Strategies for Coping with Smoking Cue Exposure |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Penn State University |
| Email: | sjw42@psu.edu |
| Name: | Gilbert, Alison |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | The Physiological Response to Fear in Alexithymia |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, WPIC |
| Email: |
| Name: | Jones, Brandi |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Pathways to Maladjustment and Resilience in Inner-city Minority Youth: Examining Academic Failure and Hopelessness as Mediators Between Contextual Risk Factors and Child Maladjustment from a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective |
| Position: | Intern, Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital |
| Name: | Kirchner, Thomas |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Relapse Dynamics during Smoking Cessation:Recurrent Abstinence Violation Effects and Lapse-Relapse Progression |
| Position: | Research Investigator, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies (American Legacy Foundation) Assistant Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Email: |
| Name: | Saner, Lelyn |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Framing in the Wild: Expressions of Decisions in Real-World Situations |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Dynamic Decision-Making Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Email: |
| Name: | Barber, Anita |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Dissertation: | Transition Frequency and Preparation: Characterizing Task Preparation and Repetition Priming with Differing Expectancy Demands |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Name: | Harrison, Anthony |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Spatial Updating and Reversal of the Alignment Effect: Influence of Spatial Set Size |
| Position: | Research Associate, Advanced Artificial Intelligence Lab, Naval Research Labs |
| Name: | Roscoe, Rod |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Strategies for Tutor Learning: Explaining and Responding to Questions |
| Position: | Research Associate, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University |
| Email: | rod.d.roscoe@vanderbilt.edu |
| Name: | Zerwas, Stephanie |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Imagination in Motion: Pretense Pretense Representation as Perceptual Stimulation |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Name: | Goldbacher, Edie |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Depression and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Women |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Temple University |
| Name: | Holt, Elizabeth Clare |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Maternal Harshness and the Mother-Child Relationship in the Toddler Years: Associations with Internalizing Problems at First Grade |
| Position: |
| Name: | Kalb, Lawrence |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | Screening for Recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System: Establishing Accuracy |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Kaiser Permanente |
| Name: | Lenze, Shannon |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | The Role of Positive Life Events on Treatment Outcome During Acute and Maintenance IPT for Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University |
| Name: | Petersen, Karen |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Socioeconomic Status as a Correlate of Plasma IL-6 Levels: An Association that May Be Modulated by the (-174) GIC Promoter Polymorphism |
| Position: | Staff Psychologist, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| Name: | Thompson, Amanda |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Developmental |
| Dissertation: | The Long Term Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer on Young Adult Close Relationships |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellow, Nationwide Children's Hospital |
| Name: | Bolger, Don |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University |
| Name: | Somers, Tamara |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Program: | Clinical/ Health |
| Dissertation: | Imagination in Motion: Pretense Representation as Perceptual Simulation |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University |
| Name: | Cooper, Katrina |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | The influence of Type of Emotion Expressed, Degree of Emotion Expressed and Relationship Type on the Provision of Social Support |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Bethany College |
| Name: | Troxel, Wendy |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Health |
| Dissertation: | Marital Quality, Communal Strength, and Physical Health |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Thompson, Judy |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | Pre-onset Abnormalities, Psychosocial Stressors, and the Development of Psychosis: A Prospective Population-Based Study |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University |
| Name: | Ringham, Rebecca |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Health |
| Dissertation: | Eating Behaviors in Overweight Children of Binge Eating Mothers |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Oland, Alyssa |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology in Children: The Potential Role of Sociodevelopmental Milestones |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles |
| Name: | Hart, Rhiannon |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Intentional Supression of Emotional and Visual Stimuli |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Name: | Bleil, Maria |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Health |
| Dissertation: | Negative Affectivity: A Model of Understanding Psychosocial Risk for Impairment in Cardiac Autonomic Function |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California |
| Name: | Beck, Joy |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Trajectories, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Childhood Somatization in School-Age Boys |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology and Human Development Department, Vanderbilt University |
| Name: | Wheeler, Elizabeth |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Examining Theories of Ventromedial Prefrontal Function |
| Position: |
| Name: | van Veen, Vincent |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Conflict Detection: Representational Specificity and Timing of Activation |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis |
| Name: | Overman, Amy |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Episodic Memory Changes Associated with Aging |
| Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University |
| Email: | aoverman@elon.edu |
| Name: | Janicki, Denise |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Biological and Health |
| Dissertation: | Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Progression of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: A Mediation Model |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Name: | Givannelli, Joyce |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Face Processing Abilities in Children With Autism |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Psychologist, The Watson Institute |
| Name: | Ramani, Geetha |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Cooperative Play and Problem Solving in Preschool Children |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Name: | Schonberg, Michael |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Risk Factors For Boys' Conduct Problems Within and Across Neighborhoods' Trajectories |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Western psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Landi, Nicole |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Extending and Evaluating the Semantic Deficit Hypothesis in Adult Poor Comprehenders |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University |
| Name: | Hausmann, Robert |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Collaborative Problem Solving |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center |
| Name: | Hausmann, Leslie |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Saying is Believing" and the Development of Stereotypes: The Role of Audience Size and Consensus |
| Position: | Project Coordinator, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Pittsburgh Healthcare System |
| Name: | Hart, Lesley |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Training in an Artificial Orthography: Transfer of L1 Reading Skills to L2 |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Child Study Center, Yale University |
| Name: | Brady, Sonya |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | Impact of Violence Exposure on Hostility, Physiological Inquiries, and Health in Youth |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Psychology Department, University of California |
| Name: | Smith, Wendy |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | What are the Structural Characteristics that Best Predict Quality in Preschool Classrooms in Child Care Centers |
| Position: | Project Manager at the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development |
| Name: | Newell, Lisa |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | The Development of the Cross-Race Effect: A Comparison of Incidental Versus Intentional Learning |
| Position: | Postdoctoral position, Florida International University |
| Name: | Gilliom, Michael |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | Desistance from Childhood Physical Aggression |
| Position: | Child Clinical Psychologist and Research Associate, Family Services , Institute for Social Development, NC |
| Name: | Tharp-Taylor, Shannah |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | The Effects of Early Social Deprivation on Social and Emotional Development After Adoption from Russian Orphanages |
| Position: | Social Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation |
| Name: | Taylor, Roger |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg |
| Name: | Siler, Stephanie |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Does Tutors' Use of Their Knowledge of Their Students Enhance One-to-One Tutoring |
| Position: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Name: | Robinson, Deborah |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | Group Reactions to Risky Prospective Members |
| Position: | Research Scientist, Army Research Institute |
| Name: | Raynor, Douglas |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | Adherence to Pharmacological Smoking Cessation Treatment among Weight-Concerned Women |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Geneseo |
| Name: | Goldberg, Robert |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | The Distribution and Interaction of Semantic Knowledge |
| Position: | Postdoctoral position at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania |
| Name: | Cho, Kwangsu |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | When Experts Give Worse Advice than Novices: The Type and Impact of Feedback Given by Students and an Instructor on Student Writing |
| Position: | Research Associate at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Chain, Jason |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | Evaluating Models Working Memory: FMRI and Behavioral Evidence on the Effects of Concurrent Irrelevant Information |
| Position: | Postdoctoral position at the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind , and Behavior, Princeton University |
| Name: | Dietz, Laura |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Associations between Family Risk Factors and Toddlers' Behavior Problems and Self-regulation" |
| Position: | Postdoctoral position at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Biglan, Minhnoi C. Wroble |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Maternal stress during pregnancy: The relation between maternal stress, gestational complications, and neonatal health" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Beaver |
| E-mail: | mwroble@chatham.edu |
| Name: | Dougal, Sonya |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "A Dual Process Approach to Emotional Memory: Effects of Emotion on Familiarity and Retrieval Processes in Recognition" |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Research Associate, New York University |
| E-mail: | sonya.dougal@nyu.edu |
| Name: | Forbes, Erika Elaine |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Children's Emotion Regulation: Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Behavior" |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellowship, WPIC |
| E-mail: | forbese@msx.upmc.edu |
| Name: | Mash, Holly Barbara Herberman |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Complicated Grief: Extent of Relatedness and Age Similarity as Risk Factors" |
| Position: | Contractor/Clinical Interviewer, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
| E-mail: | hollybhm@yahoo.com |
| Name: | McMinn, Jamie G. |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Perceiver Differences and Judgments of Group Entitativity" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA) |
| E-mail: | mcminnjg@westminster.edu |
| Name: | Scherf, Kathryn Suzanne |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Event Representations and the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure" |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic |
| E-mail: | scherf@pitt.edu |
| Name: | Affeltranger, Mark |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Individualized |
| Dissertation: | "An Evaluation of Cross-Adaptation and Cross-Sensitization Effects between Orally Presented Vanilloids: Use of a Dynamic Model" |
| Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor, Bethany College |
| E-mail: | MAffelt@msn.com |
| Name: | Ambadar, Zara |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "The Effects of Motion and Orientation on Perception of Facial Expression and Face Recognition" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Automated Face Analysis Group, University of Pittsburgh |
| E-mail: | ambadar@pitt.edu |
| Name: | Balabanis, Mark |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Depression and Smoking Relapse: An Evaluation of Nicotine Mechanisms" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Psychology Fellow |
| Name: | Forlenza, Michael J. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Relationship Between Psychological Stress and Oxidative Stress in Victims of Motor Vehicle Accidents" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| E-mail: | michael_forlenza@med.unc.edu |
| Name: | Garcia, Monica Mayrick |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "The Structure and Development of Cross-domain competence in low-income African American boys" |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
| E-mail: | monicamgarcia2002@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Gwaltney, Chad J. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Clinical/Health |
| Dissertation: | "Examining Social-Cognitive Models of Smoking Relapse: Joint Effects of Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Positive Smoking Outcome Expectancies" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University |
| Name: | Hlastala, Stefanie |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Acute and Chronic Stress, Psychotherapy, and Recovery from Episodes of Bipolar Disorder" |
| Position: | Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington (Seattle) |
| E-mail: | shlastal@u.washington.edu |
| Name: | Ingoldsby, Erin |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Clinical/Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Neighborhood Contextual Factors and Early-Starting Antisocial Behavior" |
| Position: | Research Scientist, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington (Seattle) |
| E-mail: | erinmi@u.washington.edu |
| Name: | O'Hearn, Kirsten |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Objects and agents: 9-month-olds' reasoning about people" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University |
| E-mail: | ohearn@cogsci.jhu.edu |
| Name: | Smith, Ashley Wilder |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Physical Activity as a Moderator of Distress during BRCA1/2 Genetic Testing" |
| Position: | Cancer Prevention Fellow, NCI |
| E-mail: | smithas@mail.nih.gov |
| Name: | Van Dyke, Julie |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "Retrieval effects in sentence parsing and interpretation" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT |
| Name: | Wertz, Joan |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Perceived Smoking Opportunity: Effects on Cognitive Processing of Subliminal and Supraliminal Smoking Stimuli" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Monmouth College |
| Name: | Alegre, Maria |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "The psychological status of word formation" |
| Position: | Associate Professor, Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Name: | Browning, Laura J. |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Burnout as a loss of control: A new mechanism and comprehensive model explaining the burnout phenomenon in nurses" |
| Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University |
| E-mail: | Laurabrowning@juno.com |
| Name: | Choi, Hoon-Seok |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Group Receptivity to Newcomer Innovation : Effects of Prior Performance and Strategy Choice" |
| Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University |
| E-mail: | h-choi4@kellogg.nwu.edu |
| Name: | Escoffery, Joelle Suchy |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Health |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Causes and Consequences of Risk Assessment" |
| Position: | Researcher, dbaza, inc. |
| E-mail: | joelleescoff@yahoo.com |
| E-mail: | jescoffery@dbaza.com |
| Name: | Hungerford, Anne |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment Security as Predictors of Socioemotional Functioning at 24 and 36 Months" |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Developmental Science, The University of North Carolina |
| E-mail: | hungerfo@email.unc.edu |
| Name: | Hyman, Kelly Baker |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "The Impact of Emergency Department Intimate Partner Violence Advocacy: A Longitudinal, Randomized Trial" |
| Position: | Health Science Practitioner, Research Coordinator, Boston VAMC, Medical Psychology Service |
| E-mail: | Khyman2020@yahoo.com |
| Name: | MacDonald III, Angus |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "A Differential Deficit in Context Processing Associated with the Genetic Liability to Schizophrenia: A Sibling Study" |
| Position: | Postdoc fellow in Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh |
| E-mail: | angus3+@pitt.edu |
| Name: | McCaffery, Jeanne |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Clinical/Health |
| Dissertation: | "Variability in alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor genes as a predictor of cardiovascular function at rest and in response to psychological challenge" |
| Position: | Associate Professor of Research, Brown Medical School |
| E-mail: | Jeanne_McCaffery@brown.edu |
| Name: | Myaskovsky, Larissa |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Exploring the Effects of Gender Diversity on Transactive Memory in Groups" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic |
| E-mail: | myaskovskyl@msx.upmc.edu |
| Name: | Posluszny, Donna |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Psychological trauma and adjustment in women newly-diagnosed with gynecologic cancer" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine |
| Name: | Sandak, Rebecca L. |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "Investigating the causal relationships among speech (and non-speech) auditory perception, phonemic awareness, and reading skill" |
| Position: | Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories |
| E-mail: | sandak@haskins.yale.edu |
| Web: | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/STAFF/sandak.html |
| Name: | Fiore, Stephen |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "Problem space and problem solving failure: cognitive mechanisms in the explanation of process loss in group problem solving" |
| Position: | Visiting Research Scientist, University of Central Florida |
| Name: | Kinder, Leslie Smithline |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Depression as a risk factor for coronary artery disease in Type I Diabetes Mellitus: a study of possible mechanisms" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention |
| Name: | Marron, Maureen |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "What is the role of lower-level processes in the reading of low-literate adults? a descriptive study and a training study" |
| Position: | Independent Contractor, Breakthrough to Literacy, Inc., a division of McGraw-Hill Publishers |
| Name: | Mash, Clayton |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Developmental change in the apprehension of perceptual similarity relations among object displays varying in part structure" |
| Position: | Staff Scientist, NICHD, Bethesda, MD |
| E-mail: | mashc@mail.nih.gov |
| Name: | Moore, Ginger |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Maternal affective behavior with infant siblings: stability and change" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Duke University |
| Name: | Perna, Frank |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Program: | Health |
| Dissertation: | "Cognitive behavioral intervention reduces injury and illness among competitive athletes" |
| Position: | Division of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School |
| Name: | Gifford-Smith, Mary |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Developmental, gender & sociometric status differences in children's teasing and aggressive behavior" |
| Position: | Post-doctoral Associate, Duke University |
| Name: | Grobe, James |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "The importance of controllability over drug intake in moderating the effects of tobacco smoking" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas |
| Name: | Kelley, Sue |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Socialization of helplessness in toddlers: effects of maternal control, emotional climate, and depression" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Psychology, Lycoming College |
| Name: | Booth, Amy |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Function and infant categorization" |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University |
| Name: | Jeong, Heisawn |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "Knowledge co-construction during collaborative learning" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Hallym University, Chunchon, South Korea |
| Name: | Katz, Gary |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "A quantitative study of vocal acoustics in emotional expression" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, California State University at Northridge |
| Name: | Mahalingam, Ramaswami |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Essentialism, power and representation of caste: a developmental study" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Michigan |
| Name: | Melcher, Joseph |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Cognitive |
| Dissertation: | "Perceptual and conceptual expertise mediate the verbal overshadowing effect in a training paradigm" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University |
| Name: | Owens, Elizabeth |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Resilience to chronic psychosocial stressors: a longitudinal study of preschool-aged boys at risk for developing externalizing problems" |
| Position: | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Human Development, University of California at Berkeley |
| Name: | Waschbusch, Daniel |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Teachers and parents as informants about conduct problems" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University |
| Name: | Williams, Lynne |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Program: | Developmental |
| Dissertation: | "Three aspects of behavioral state organization in preterm infants at 32 weeks post-conceptional age" |
| Position: | Medical school, University of Pittsburgh |
| Name: | Bogart, Laura |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "The effects of stereotypes on judgment and help-seeking behavior" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University |
| Name: | Kassel, Jon |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "An attention-allocation model of cigarette smoking's impact on negative affect" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Name: | Keenan, Kate |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Program: | Clinical |
| Dissertation: | "Developmental trajectories of girls' and boys' early problem behavior: A longitudinal study of low-income children" |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago |
| Name: | Beach, Scott R. |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Program: | Social |
| Dissertation: | "Social support in the immediate aftermath of crime: Victim and support providers perceptions" |
| Position: | Director, Survey Research Services Program, University Center for Social and Urban Research, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |