PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

The Psychology Department enjoyed a busy and productive year in 2000-01. Our student enrollments are at an all time high, with over 1500 course registrations. We now have more total majors than any other department in the college, with 85 graduating seniors, 72 incoming seniors, and nearly 90 incoming juniors. These numbers put the department under some strain, but we are all enjoying the superb quality of the students who take our courses and choose our major.
We had nine students complete honors theses this year. The overall quality was absolutely outstanding. In addition, nearly 60 students did independent studies. Steve Fein was particularly busy supervising independent studies.
As is typical in a large department, there were lots of comings and goings among faculty. Bob Kavanaugh completed yet another excellent tour of duty as chair and Al Goethals returned to the post. Assistant Professor Ari Solomon, a clinical psychologist, joined the staff as a tenure-track member of the department. Ari graduated with a BA in psychology from Brown and received his Ph.D. from American University. He spent three years doing a postdoc at Stanford’s School of Medicine, working on depression. We are delighted to have him on board. In addition, Visiting Assistant Professor Bryan Bonner, with a new Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, joined us for the first year of a two-year appointment in social psychology. Bryan’s research focuses on group dynamics. Two other visitors joined us for a semester. Bill von Hippel from Ohio State University, a colleague and frequent guest of Steve Fein, was here in the fall, teaching social psychology, and Maryann Martone, from UC San Diego was here for the second time in the past few years, visiting in the spring semester and teaching neuroscience. It is always good to have new people with fresh perspectives in our midst, and we feel fortunate that Ari, Bryan, Bill, and Maryann were able to be with us this past year.
This was the first year that we were without our books and journals in the Class of 1950 psychology library. All materials have been moved to Schow Science Library. The former library has been reconfigured into a psychology gallery gathering space by Professor Laurie Heatherington and students working with her. The space has been outfitted with new furniture, display cases, and attractive wall spaces for exhibits. The gallery contents themselves will be developed during the coming year. In the meantime, parts of the space have become inviting areas for informal conversations among students and faculty. We are grateful to Laurie for her good work.
A significant loss this spring was the resignation of cognitive psychologist Talia Ben-Zeev. Talia left after two years to take a job at San Francisco State University. We will miss her dynamic presence.
The department heads into the 2001-02 academic year looking forward to Saul Kassin, Ken Savitsky, and Paul Solomon returning from leave and the arrival of visiting assistant professors Meredyth Krych and Kevin Shockley, both cognitive psychologists. In addition, Jeffrey Geller ’70 and William Goodman will teach courses in clinical psychology. Kris Kirby will be on leave all year, Betty Zimmerberg and Phebe Cramer will be on leave in the fall, while Susan Engel, Steve Fein and Laurie Heatherington will be on leave in the spring. We wish them all happy and productive leaves.
Professor Phebe Cramer attended a conference on Moral Development held in Highland Beach, FL, January 2001. She presented a paper, “Defense Mechanisms and Moral Development,” at the conference. Dr. Cramer was invited to become a Consulting Editor for the European Journal of Personality and continues in that capacity for the Journal of Personality Assessment. In addition, she served as an ad hoc reviewer for many professional journals. She also served as an advisor to the psychology editor of a popular press magazine. Dr. Cramer served as an external reviewer for the promotion review of two psychologists being considered for promotion to full professor at other institutions. She provided advice to Ph.D. dissertation students at various universities. Her collaboration continues with colleague, Dr. Paul Wink of Wellesley College, on the U. C. Berkeley intergenerational study of personality development.
This year Susan Engel presented two pieces of research at The Society for Research in Child Development's Biennial meetings in Minneapolis, MN. One study was titled “Who is Really in Grandmother's Bed?” conducted with her colleague Robert Kavanaugh, as well as Amy Sprengelmeyer ’00 and Kathryn Kavanaugh ’00. They were interested in assessing the role of adult input on the development of children's understanding of other people's thoughts and intentions. The second piece of research was titled “Gender Differences in the Autobiographical Narratives of Adolescents: What's The Story” which was based on work done as part of Amy Sprengelmeyer's honors thesis. Her study compared the life stories of young teenagers with the stories parents told of those teenagers' lives. In May, she gave a symposium at Clark University, titled “My Harmless Inside Heart Turned Green: Some Questions about Children's Narratives.”
Professor Engel wrote a chapter on children's narratives for a forthcoming book on the every day lives of children titled: What Children's Stories Tell us About Children.
Alice Li ’01, Professor Engel’s advisee, conducted research for her honors thesis titled “Do Children Gossip: The Stories Children Tell about the Lives of Others,” which is currently being prepared for publication. Two other students conducted original studies under her direction. Kathryn Figge studied the effect of elementary school children's misbehavior in school on the other children in the classroom, and Victoria Henrion did a study of what college students know about the lives of their classmates.
The Program in Teaching continues to thrive. The monthly teaching lunches included a guest talk by Steve Swoap from the Biology department on teaching science to young children, as well as a talk by Kelly Delorenzo from The Berkshire Center for Families and Children on working with children at risk. In collaboration with the Department of Psychology, the Program in Teaching sponsored a yearlong lecture series on Race and Education including a three-day visit and lecture from Claude Steele on the effects of stereotyping on academic performance. The program also sponsored a visit by Dennis Littky, nationally famous school principal and founder of alternative public high schools across New England. The program launched a new series, designed to bring master teachers on to campus from all over the country to share their insights and experiences with those Williams students interested in learning to become teachers. Our first teachers were from New York City high schools.
Susan Engel also conducted a faculty research seminar under the auspices of the Oakley Center for the Humanities titled “What Shall We Teach and to What End?” Eight colleagues from a wide range of disciplines (English Literature, German, Biology, Statistics, etc.) met once every two weeks and taught one another about the structure of their disciplines and the processes by which someone might become educated (elementary, secondary and college level) in their field. This seminar proved to be an absorbing and inspiring forum for the participants, and demonstrated one really lively and productive way for scholars to work together across disciplines.
Associate Professor Steven Fein conducted research on stereotypes and prejudice, social influence factors in perceptions of humor and racially sensitive attitudes, false memory implantation, social stigma concerning gay men, interpersonal suspicion and attribution processes across cultures, social psychological factors affecting women’s and men’s math performance, and the effects of media images and video games on self-esteem and performance and on sexism. Professor Fein co-authored the fifth edition of Social Psychology with department colleague Saul Kassin, as well as the ancillary, Instructor’s Resource Manual, with department colleague Bryan Bonner. He also spent much of the year writing chapters for and co-editing the book, Motivated Social Perception: The Ontario Symposium. His article, “Beyond the Fundamental Attribution Era?” was published in Psychological Inquiry, and another article, “Maintaining One's Self-Image Vis-à-vis Others: The Role of Self-Affirmation in the Social Evaluation of the Self” was accepted for publication in Motivation and Emotion. With Dr. William von Hippel, of the University of New South Wales, Professor Fein wrote two chapters for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: “Stereotypes” and “Prejudice.” His article with Dr. Steven Spencer, of the University of Waterloo, “Prejudice as Self-Image Maintenance: Affirming the Self through Derogating Others” appeared in the book, Stereotypes and Prejudice: Essential Readings. Key Readings in Social Psychology, in 2000.
In February 2001, Professor Fein and several of his students presented 4 different papers at the annual conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio: With Ronald Parsons ’00 & David Joyce ’00, he presented “Effects of Self-Affirmation and Objectifying or Positive Images of Women in Advertisements on Girls’ Math Performance;” with Jeffrey Manning ’00 and Eric Hasenauer ’00, he presented “Ken Steps Out of Barbie’s Shadow: Effects of Sexualized, Objectifying Advertising Images of Men on Men’s and Women’s Math Performance;” with Stefanie Liquori ’00, Marissa Kreh ’00, and Lindsay Holzapfel ’00, he presented “Ad It Up: Effects of Sexy Images of Women in Advertising on Women’s Math Performance in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Groups;” and with Emily Eustis ’00, he presented “Effects of Violent and Sexist Content in Video Games on Men’s Sexist Attitudes and Judgments.” Professor Fein also delivered the keynote address at the Teaching of Psychology conference in March 2001, in Ellenville, NY. Invited colloquia included Brown University (February 2001) and the University of Chicago (March 2001). Professor Fein also presented, “Stereotype Activation and Application,” at the American Psychological Society annual conference held in June 2001 in Toronto.
Professor Fein served as a consulting editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, served on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Self and Identity, and served on the Executive Committee of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He supervised the work of 29 independent study projects, three senior honors theses, and four research assistants.


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Jackie Dinzey ’03 and Prof. Elliot Friedman examine brain tissues under a microscope.

Assistant Professor Elliot Friedman continued his research with the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat model of depression to address the question of why clinical depression is associated with impaired immune function and greater susceptibility to illness. Professor Friedman and his students showed that antibody responses to immunization are significantly lower in the FSL rats than in control animals and that the FSL rats are also more vulnerable to bacterial infection. Professor Friedman published the paper “Central CRH Suppresses Specific Antibody Responses: Effects of ß-adrenoceptor Antagonism and Adrenalectomy” in the journal, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, and had the paper “Reduced Primary Antibody Responses in a Genetic Animal Model of Depression,” written with Kelly Becker ’99, accepted by the journal, Psychosomatic Medicine. He presented a poster entitled “Increased Bacterial Infection and Reduced IFN-γ Production in a Genetic Animal Model of Depression” at the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands in May and delivered a Hot Topic paper presentation entitled “Vulnerability to Bacterial Infection in a Genetic Animal Model of Depression” at the American Psychological Society meeting in Toronto, Ontario in June.
Students in Professor Friedman's seminar course in Psychoneuroimmunology this spring undertook original research projects focused on classically conditioning antibody responses to immunization, treating immunological impairments with antidepressants, disruption of learning during an immune response, and activation of selective brain regions after peripheral injection of bacterial cell wall components. Some of these projects generated exciting new data, and summer students working with Professor Friedman are currently extending this work.
Professor George R. Goethals returned from leave and resumed the chair of the Psychology Department in July 2000. He also continued his work as chair of the program in Leadership Studies. During the year his chapter on “Interpreting and Inventing Social Reality: Attributional and Constructive Elements in Social Comparison” was published in the Handbook of Social Comparison. He is currently finishing invited chapters on the history of social psychology and psychological theories of leadership. Strangely, those chapters did not get done during the 2000-01 leave year as planned. Goethals hosted a conference at Williams on Presidential Leadership through Public Communication attended by a number of distinguished scholars and practitioners, including David Gergen from PBS and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, Professor Emeritus James MacGregor Burns ’39, Sander Vanocur of the History Channel, and Michael Waldman, chief speech writer for President Bill Clinton. He spoke to alumni in Naples, Florida and Wilmington, Delaware about presidential debates. Professor Goethals also chaired a review committee of the Psychology Department at Claremont McKenna College.
Professor Laurie Heatherington continued research and writing on cognitive processes in psychotherapy, on gender and self-presentation, and on the interrelationships between cognition, affect and interpersonal control in marital interaction.
She attended the annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research in June 2000 in Chicago, and the first Pennsylvania State University Conference on the Process of Change in Psychotherapy in March in State College, Pennsylvania. In August 2000, Professor Heatherington and Williams students presented papers at the American Psychological Association Conference in Boston: “Males and Emotional Expression: When Sadness Becomes Anger” with Stephen Gray and “Children’s Attributions about Deviant Peers” with Katie Kavanaugh, both Class of 2000. She presented a paper, “Integration of Qualitative-Quantitative Research Methods: Toward a New Language to Describe Psychotherapy Process,” with colleagues Micki Friedlander, Valentin Escudero, and Michael Beck at a conference at SUNY Albany on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Psychotherapy and Counseling Research. Finally, Professor Heatherington presented a workshop on Gender and Family Therapy to the students and faculty of the Master’s Program in Family Interventions at the Universidade da Coruña, SPAIN, via videoconferencing technology, in June 2001.
Professor Heatherington chaired the Committee on Educational Policy during a year (2000-2001) of intensive curricular discussion and innovation at Williams.
Professor Heatherington served on the editorial board of Psychotherapy Research and did frequent ad-hoc reviewing for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. She served on the Board of Directors and as chair of the Clinical Committee of the Board, Gould Farm (Monterey, MA), a treatment center/working farm serving people with major mental illness. She also served on the Advisory Board of Northstar, a community initiative working to promote agency collaboration on, and outcomes-based assessment of, the physical and mental health of children in northern Berkshire county.
Professor Saul Kassin published the third edition of his textbook Psychology, in 2001, with Prentice Hall. He also published an article, “Confessions: Psychological and Forensic Aspects” which appeared in the 2001 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a research paper entitled “On the General Acceptance of Eyewitness Testimony Research: A New Survey of the Experts,” which appeared in American Psychologist. By invitation, Kassin presented the following talks: “But He Said He Did It: Recognizing and Challenging False Confessions” (National Seminar on Forensic Evidence & Criminal Law, October 2000, Philadelphia), “Truth, Deception, and the Human Lie Detector: What Lawyers Need to Know” (Special Conference on the Cooperating Witness Conundrum, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, November 2000, New York City), “What’s Your Prediction?: Introducing Psychology Via Commonsense” (Opening address, National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, January 2001, St. Petersburg), and “Social Influence Effects in Miscarriages of Justice” (Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February 2001, San Antonio). This past year, Kassin gave research colloquia at numerous institutions, including Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. He gave a workshop on the teaching of psychology at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He also gave workshops on police interrogations and confessions at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, the Vermont Public Defense Training Seminar, and the South Carolina Public Defense Association. Kassin continued to serve as consulting editor for Law and Human Behavior and review grant proposals for the National Science Foundation. He served as a trial consultant and expert witness in a number of trials across the country. In April of 2001, his research on false confessions was featured on The Learning Channel, in a TV documentary entitled “False Memories.”
Professor Robert D. Kavanaugh became the Director of the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences on July 1, where he enjoyed a busy year arranging colloquia and overseeing the operations of the Center. In the Psychology Department, Dr. Kavanaugh continued his research on the development of imagination and causal reasoning in young children. In April, Dr. Kavanaugh made two presentations at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development: “Who is Really in Grandmother’s Bed?: Training Children to Understand False Beliefs in Narratives” with department colleague Susan Engel, and “Whither the Future of Research on Counterfactual Thought?” – the latter as the discussants comments in a symposium organized to discuss Children’s Counterfactual Thinking: Its Nature, Development, and Consequences. In May, Dr. Kavanaugh and his colleague from the University of Oxford, Dr. Paul Harris, presented a paper entitled, “Young Children’s Sensitivity to Causally Relevant Contrasts” at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. During the past year, Dr. Kavanaugh was an ad hoc reviewer for Developmental Review, Developmental Science, and Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Assistant Professor Marlene Sandstrom’s research this past year has continued to focus on children’s peer relationships. She is particularly interested in issues of competence and resiliency – that is, how children negotiate difficult peer experiences (teasing, exclusion, victimization) over time. Dr. Sandstrom has initiated a collaboration with the elementary schools in Pittsfield and North Adams, and has been collecting classroom data with the help of several undergraduate students. Over the summer, she and her undergraduate research team conducted in-depth interviews with 100 children and parents. This past spring, she conducted a second wave of classroom data collection with these same children as part of an ongoing longitudinal study. In addition, Dr. Sandstrom taught an upper-level seminar on children’s peer relationships, and invited fifth grade students from a North Adams School to participate in a discussion about innovations for “emotionally safe” classrooms. Dr. Sandstrom is an active member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research in Child Development.
Lecturer Noah Sandstrom continued research examining hormonal modulation of cognitive processes including attention, memory, and time perception. He supervised a thesis student, Anne Dwyer, who examined the effects of dietary estrogens on reproductive behavior. He also supervised three independent study students.
Dr. Sandstrom attended a number of conferences including the annual meetings of the Society of Neuroscience in New Orleans, LA and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in New York City. In addition, he took nine students from his Hormones & Behavior course to a Behavioral Neuroendocrinology symposium at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He presented his research at a number of colleges and universities including the University of Colorado, Amherst College, and Reed College. In addition, he had a paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Assistant Professor Kenneth Savitsky spent his assistant professor leave as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Kellogg Teams and Groups Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he taught a course on social psychology and management. While at Kellogg, he continued his research on egocentrism and social judgment and published a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Dr. Savitsky chaired a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology entitled “Egocentrism and Everyday Judgment” and Dr. Savitsky and his colleagues presented their research at the annual meetings of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, in San Antonio, TX, and the Social Psychologists of Chicago, in Chicago, IL. In addition, Dr. Savitsky presented invited colloquia at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Savitsky supervised the independent research projects of two students.
Dr. Ari Solomon's research this past year has focused on clinical depression and anxiety. He continues to explore the boundaries between normal negative moods and clinical depression, how beliefs and thinking styles contribute to depression vulnerability, and how depression may be both cause and consequence of relationship failures. He had papers published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Cognitive Therapy and Research. This summer he and his summer science students are focusing on understanding what is distinctive about the relationship histories and preferences of depression-prone individuals. He is contributing to several ongoing research projects with colleagues at Stanford University, Oregon Research Institute, and Pennsylvania State University, including functional magnetic resonance imagery (fMRI) investigations of the neurobiology of sexual arousal, a study of the boundaries between anxiety and depressive agitation, and a prospective study of the temporal sequence of anxious and depressive symptoms.
Dr. Solomon served as ad-hoc reviewer for several journals this year including Cognitive Therapy and Research, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Journal of Personality.
Professor Betty Zimmerberg was on sabbatical leave this year. In the fall, she was in Atlanta, where she conducted research with Professor Paul Plotsky, Director of the Stress Neurobiology Laboratory at the Emory University. She also gave a colloquium on her research there. During the fall semester, she presented research conducted with Abigail Rosenthal ’02 and Aleksandra Stark ’01 at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology in New Orleans. Also in New Orleans, research conducted with Deborah Frisone ’00 was presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. At the same meeting, Joseph Masters ’02 and Robert McGehee ’02 came down to New Orleans to join Professor Zimmerberg in demonstrating the new multimedia CD they helped to develop. Assisted by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Professor Zimmerberg has been working on both a web-site “textbook” and an instructor’s CD for teaching neuroscience. Original music for the animations on the CD was composed by Judd Greenstein ’01. She has now used the animations in PSYC 212, Introduction to Neuroscience, and PSYC 101, Introductory Psychology. Elliot Friedman also used them this fall when he taught PSYC 101. Williams College students have been very enthusiastic about these animations. To visit the “Multimedia Neuroscience Education Project” please see http://www.williams.edu/imput.
Professor Betty Zimmerberg continued her research funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, entitled “Early Experience and Neurosteroid Response to Stress.” Professor Zimmerberg’s research uses behavioral and neurochemical methodology to answer questions about the relationship of early stressful experiences and later emotional behavior. This grant focuses on the role of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone, a progesterone metabolite synthesized in the brains of males and females in response to stress. Abigail Rosenthal, Aleksandra Stark and a high school student, Mia Shapiro, worked on this project last summer in her laboratory. Other professional activities included serving on the steering committee of a new professional society, N.E.U.R.O.N. (Northeast Under/Graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience) and helping run their annual meeting at Wellesley College. Last October, Professor Zimmerberg served on a grant funding panel to review grant proposals submitted to the Behavior and Neuroscience Review Group (ALCB2) of the National Institutes of Health. She also was a grant reviewer for the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation as well as reviewing manuscripts for various neuroscience journals.
Class of 1960 Scholars in Psychology
Jennifer L. Berylson ’01
Elizabeth C. Cadogan ’01
Virginia G. Despard ’02
Beth Friedman ’01
Gillian Green ’01
Sarah R. Hart ’02
Victoria J. Henrion ’01
Vickie Y. Jo ’02
Alice J.F. Li ’01
Valerie E. S. Lothian ’01
Dana Lea B. Nelson ’02
Cynthia H. Posner ’02
Ann W. Richards ’01
Christopher J. Riley ’01
Liliana Rodriguez ’01
Aleksandra C. Stark ’01
Natalie R. Tolejko ’02
Danielle A. Weiss ’02

PSYCHOLOGY COLLOQUIA

Brad J. Bushman, Iowa State University
“Self-esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression”
Joachim Krueger, Brown University
“Social Projection: Some Hidden Benefits of Egocentrism”
Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz
“A New Theory of Intergroup Contact”
Patricia Bauer, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
“Windows on Development: Brain and Behavior Relations in Early Long-Term Recall Memory”
Claude Steele, Stanford University
“How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Academic Performance”
William von Hippel, Ohio State University, Steven Spencer, University of Waterloo
“Basic and Applied Research on Stereotyping & Prejudice
Part 1: Nonconscious Stereotyping and Prejudice
Part 2: Media Images and Women's Academic Achievement
Part 3: A Discussion of Two Intervention Programs in College Settings”

OFF-CAMPUS COLLOQUIA

Phebe Cramer
“Defense Mechanisms and Moral Development”
Social Science Research Conference, Highland Beach, FL
Susan Engel
“Who is Really in Grandmother's Bed?” (with R. Kavanaugh)
“Gender Differences in the Autobiographical Narratives of Adolescents: What's The Story”
Society for Research in Child Development's Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
“My Harmless Inside Heart Turned Green: Some Questions about Children's Narratives”
Clark University
Steven Fein
“Effects of Self-Affirmation and Objectifying or Positive Images of Women in Advertisements on Girls’ Math Performance” (with R. Parsons ’00 & D. Joyce ’00)
“Ken Steps Out of Barbie’s Shadow: Effects of Sexualized, Objectifying Advertising Images of Men on Men’s and Women’s Math Performance” (with J. Manning ’00 & E. Hasenauer ’00)
“Ad It Up: Effects of Sexy Images of Women in Advertising on Women’s Math Performance in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Groups” (with S. Liquori ’00, M. Kreh ’00, & L. Holzapfel ’00)
“Effects of Violent and Sexist Content in Video Games on Men’s Sexist Attitudes and Judgments” (with E. Eustis ’00)
Annual Conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX
“Stereotype Activation and Application”
American Psychological Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario
Laurie Heatherington
“Males and Emotional Expression: When Sadness Becomes Anger” (with S. Gray ’00)
“Children’s Attributions about Deviant Peers” (with K. Kavanaugh ’00)
American Psychological Association Conference in Boston, MA
“Integration of Qualitative-Quantitative Research Methods: Toward a New Language to Describe Psychotherapy Process” (with M. Friedlander, V. Escudero, and M. Beck)
State University of New York, Albany, NY
Saul M. Kassin
“But He Said He Did It: Recognizing and Challenging False Confessions”
National Seminar on Forensic Evidence & Criminal Law, Philadelphia, PA
“Truth, Deception, and the Human Lie Detector: What Lawyers Need to Know”
Special Conference on the Cooperating Witness Conundrum, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
“What’s Your Prediction?: Introducing Psychology Via Commonsense”
National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL
“Social Influence Effects in Miscarriages of Justice”
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX
Robert Kavanaugh
“Who is Really in Grandmother’s Bed?: Training Children to Understand False Beliefs in Narratives” (with S. Engel)
“Whither the Future of Research on Counterfactual Thought?”
Society for Research in Child Development's Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
“Young Children’s Sensitivity to Causally Relevant Contrasts” (with P. Harris)
Annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society
Marlene J. Sandstrom
“Peer Rejection in Childhood: An Eye Toward Intervention”
Lewis & Clark College
Noah Sandstrom
“Ovarian Hormones & Memory: Mechanisms of Modulation”
Amherst College
“Where Did I Put that Patch? How Estrogens Influence Memory”
University of Colorado
“Morphological and Behavioral Consequences of Hormone Manipulation”
Reed College
Kenneth Savitsky
“Would Anyone Notice if I Just Stayed Home? Overestimating the Salience of One’s Absence From a Group”
Social Psychologists of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Do Others Judge Us as Harshly as We Think? Overestimating the Impact of our Failures, Shortcomings, and Mishaps”
Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX; Northwestern University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yale University; University of Texas at Austin
Betty Zimmerberg
“Neonatal Social Isolation Alters Both Dam and Pup Behaviors in Rats”
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
“The Acute and Long-term Effects of Social Isolation During the Third Week of Life on Spatial Learning in Rats”
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
“Multimedia Neuroscience Education: Animations for Classroom Instruction”
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans.

POSTGRADUATE PLANS OF PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS

Feyisara Akanki
Hoping to do a post baccalaureate program in premedical studies at Columbia
Charis H. Anderson
Unknown
Gail M. Anderson
Doctoral program in clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Dorian B. Baker
Unknown
Courtney L. Bennigson
Unknown
Jennifer L. Berylson
Going into Account Management in advertising or going to Law School
Jennifer L. Bogovic
Unknown
Joseph J. S. Butler
Unknown
Elizabeth C. Cadogan
Working at the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Psychopharmacology Lab
Jenny Chen
Unknown
Christopher C. Chiou
Attending Harvard Law School
Tracy Conn
Working as a paralegal at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for one year, then attending Harvard Law School.
K. Hadley Cornell
Unknown
Clifton W. Covington
Unknown
Kevin S. Cummings
Unknown
Rishaad A. Currimjee
Moving to NYC
Eric M. Demment
Playing professional hockey in Europe
Erin M. Dempsey
Unknown
Devon T. DiClerico
Unknown
Kathryn M. Dingman
Working part-time in the Stanford Psychology Program, then plan on getting a PhD in Clinical Psychology
Sandra L. DiPillo
Social work
Jacques R. Edelin
Entering the commercial real estate industry in Washington, DC
Abbey S. Eisenhower
Working in Washington D.C. at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection as a Paralegal Specialist.
Alexandros Evriviades
Unknown
Julian L. Fang
Unknown
Kathrine S. Figge
Unknown
Millissa E. Foster
Working in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY
Beth L. Friedman
Working as a teaching fellow with the Steppingstone Foundation in Boston
Robyn S. Goldman
Consulting for the Monitor Group in Cambridge, MA
Victoria A. Goldman
Unknown
Kelsey F. Gollop
Research work at a Boston area hospital, then get a PhD in clinical psychology
Gillian Green
Doing psych research for a year in San Francisco, them get PhD in Clinical Psych
Robert D. Griggs
Interning at FCB Worldwide in Chicago in the Media Planning division
Andrew F. Hall
Unknown
Victoria J. Henrion
Attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania
Marc L. Hoffman
Unknown
Elizabeth M. Hoover
Going to Brown University in the fall to acquire a Masters in Museum Studies and a PhD in Anthropology
Robert J. Houle
Sales and trading analyst at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking in New York
Annie P. Im
Unknown
Beatriz S. Ivanova
Unknown
Jacob C. Jeffries
Unknown
Karen E. Kelly
Working as an account executive at J. Walter Thompson, advertising agency in NY
Michele E. Kemmerling
Unknown
Seong H. Kim
Unknown
Graham S. Lee
Technical Consultant for Cambridge Computer Services in Boston
Mark D. Lees
Working for General Cologne Reinsurance in Hartford, CT
Ian M. Lewis
Unknown
Alice J.F. Li
Applying to med school
Valerie E.S. Lothian
Working for a year, then going to graduate school in clinical psychology
Natalie L. Marchant
Moving to San Diego and planning to work for a biotech company or as a research
Assistant for UCSD
Alexander G. McWhorter
Unknown
Jesse A. Metzger
Working in clinical research and hope to go to grad school for clinical psych
Heidi D. Montoya
Research Assistant, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel C. Newhall
Planning to go to San Francisco State to do research
Kenneth U. Ojukwu
Working for Lehman Brothers Investment Bank in NY
Patrick A. O’Neill
Unknown
Jennifer M. Orr
Unknown
Ann W. Richards
Applying to graduate school in nursing
Christopher J. Riley
Applying to Medical School next year; interested in Child Psychiatry
Christopher B. Ripley
Associate Consultant, Putnam Associates, Boston, MA
Liliana Rodriguez
Clinical psychology program at UMass Amherst
Todd T. Rogers
Moving to California with plans to eventually go to law school
Elizabeth E. Roller
Unknown
Allyson B. Rothberg
Attending Harvard Law School
Grace E.F. Rubenstein
Two-year position as a research assistant with the Depression Clinical and Research
Program at Mass General Hospital
Virginia A. Ruebensaal
Moving to New York and will be consulting
Richard R. Sarkis
Unknown
Sarah E. Schiavetti
Working with the New York Brain Injury Association on a research project at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Tailer F. Senior
Unknown
Matthew Shafeek
Unknown
Aaron M. Snyder
Unknown
Aleksandra C. Stark
Working at the Center for Blood Research in Boston
Brian F. Strickler
Unknown
Masato Sudo
Tester Developer at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Meagan K. Tierney
Unknown
Cortni J. Tyson
Applying to four post- baccalaureate pre-medical programs for the fall
Julia M. Vaughan
Working in Boston for First Investors, a financial services company
Natalie Veras
Doing human sexuality research assistance
Amy E. Warren
Sports marketing for Global Strategies Group in Boston
Dafina A. Westbrooks
Unknown
Lauren E. Wiener
Unknown
Adrienne G. Wiley
Moving to Seattle and working in education or journalism
Eain A. Williams
Unknown