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.
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
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Elizabeth C. Cadogan ’01
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Virginia G. Despard ’02
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Beth Friedman ’01
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Gillian Green ’01
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Sarah R. Hart ’02
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Victoria J. Henrion ’01
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Vickie Y. Jo ’02
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Alice J.F. Li ’01
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Valerie E. S. Lothian ’01
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Dana Lea B. Nelson ’02
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Cynthia H. Posner ’02
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Ann W. Richards ’01
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Christopher J. Riley ’01
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Liliana Rodriguez ’01
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Aleksandra C. Stark ’01
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Natalie R. Tolejko ’02
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Danielle A. Weiss ’02
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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
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Hoping to do a post baccalaureate program in premedical studies at Columbia
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Charis H. Anderson
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Unknown
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Gail M. Anderson
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Doctoral program in clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University,
Ohio
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Dorian B. Baker
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Unknown
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Courtney L. Bennigson
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Unknown
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Jennifer L. Berylson
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Going into Account Management in advertising or going to Law
School
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Jennifer L. Bogovic
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Unknown
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Joseph J. S. Butler
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Unknown
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Elizabeth C. Cadogan
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Working at the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Lab
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Jenny Chen
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Unknown
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Christopher C. Chiou
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Attending Harvard Law School
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Tracy Conn
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Working as a paralegal at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for one
year, then attending Harvard Law School.
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K. Hadley Cornell
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Unknown
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Clifton W. Covington
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Unknown
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Kevin S. Cummings
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Unknown
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Rishaad A. Currimjee
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Moving to NYC
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Eric M. Demment
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Playing professional hockey in Europe
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Erin M. Dempsey
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Unknown
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Devon T. DiClerico
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Unknown
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Kathryn M. Dingman
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Working part-time in the Stanford Psychology Program, then plan on getting
a PhD in Clinical Psychology
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Sandra L. DiPillo
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Social work
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Jacques R. Edelin
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Entering the commercial real estate industry in Washington, DC
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Abbey S. Eisenhower
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Working in Washington D.C. at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of
Consumer Protection as a Paralegal Specialist.
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Alexandros Evriviades
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Unknown
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Julian L. Fang
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Unknown
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Kathrine S. Figge
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Unknown
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Millissa E. Foster
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Working in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in
NY
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Beth L. Friedman
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Working as a teaching fellow with the Steppingstone Foundation in
Boston
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Robyn S. Goldman
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Consulting for the Monitor Group in Cambridge, MA
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Victoria A. Goldman
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Unknown
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Kelsey F. Gollop
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Research work at a Boston area hospital, then get a PhD in clinical
psychology
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Gillian Green
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Doing psych research for a year in San Francisco, them get PhD in Clinical
Psych
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Robert D. Griggs
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Interning at FCB Worldwide in Chicago in the Media Planning
division
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Andrew F. Hall
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Unknown
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Victoria J. Henrion
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Attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania
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Marc L. Hoffman
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Unknown
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Elizabeth M. Hoover
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Going to Brown University in the fall to acquire a Masters in Museum
Studies and a PhD in Anthropology
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Robert J. Houle
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Sales and trading analyst at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking in New
York
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Annie P. Im
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Unknown
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Beatriz S. Ivanova
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Unknown
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Jacob C. Jeffries
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Unknown
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Karen E. Kelly
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Working as an account executive at J. Walter Thompson, advertising agency
in NY
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Michele E. Kemmerling
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Unknown
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Seong H. Kim
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Unknown
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Graham S. Lee
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Technical Consultant for Cambridge Computer Services in Boston
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Mark D. Lees
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Working for General Cologne Reinsurance in Hartford, CT
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Ian M. Lewis
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Unknown
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Alice J.F. Li
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Applying to med school
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Valerie E.S. Lothian
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Working for a year, then going to graduate school in clinical
psychology
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Natalie L. Marchant
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Moving to San Diego and planning to work for a biotech company or as a
research Assistant for UCSD
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Alexander G. McWhorter
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Unknown
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Jesse A. Metzger
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Working in clinical research and hope to go to grad school for clinical
psych
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Heidi D. Montoya
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Research Assistant, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts
General Hospital
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Daniel C. Newhall
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Planning to go to San Francisco State to do research
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Kenneth U. Ojukwu
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Working for Lehman Brothers Investment Bank in NY
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Patrick A. O’Neill
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Unknown
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Jennifer M. Orr
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Unknown
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Ann W. Richards
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Applying to graduate school in nursing
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Christopher J. Riley
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Applying to Medical School next year; interested in Child
Psychiatry
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Christopher B. Ripley
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Associate Consultant, Putnam Associates, Boston, MA
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Liliana Rodriguez
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Clinical psychology program at UMass Amherst
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Todd T. Rogers
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Moving to California with plans to eventually go to law school
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Elizabeth E. Roller
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Unknown
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Allyson B. Rothberg
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Attending Harvard Law School
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Grace E.F. Rubenstein
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Two-year position as a research assistant with the Depression Clinical and
Research Program at Mass General Hospital
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Virginia A. Ruebensaal
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Moving to New York and will be consulting
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Richard R. Sarkis
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Unknown
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Sarah E. Schiavetti
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Working with the New York Brain Injury Association on a research project at
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
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Tailer F. Senior
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Unknown
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Matthew Shafeek
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Unknown
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Aaron M. Snyder
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Unknown
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Aleksandra C. Stark
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Working at the Center for Blood Research in Boston
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Brian F. Strickler
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Unknown
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Masato Sudo
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Tester Developer at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
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Meagan K. Tierney
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Unknown
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Cortni J. Tyson
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Applying to four post- baccalaureate pre-medical programs for the
fall
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Julia M. Vaughan
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Working in Boston for First Investors, a financial services
company
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Natalie Veras
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Doing human sexuality research assistance
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Amy E. Warren
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Sports marketing for Global Strategies Group in Boston
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Dafina A. Westbrooks
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Unknown
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Lauren E. Wiener
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Unknown
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Adrienne G. Wiley
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Moving to Seattle and working in education or journalism
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Eain A. Williams
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Unknown
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