Olivia DrakeAnna Shusterman, assistant professor of psychology; Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior; and Emily Slusser, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology, received a grant worth $25,000 from Mattel Philanthropy Programs. The grant was awarded on March 24. The grant allows the group to explore children's ability to learn from independent play with toys. Children will receive one of four kinds of toys for a period of two months, and their parents will be asked to bring the toys out daily. At the beginning and end of the study, children will participate in a series of brief measures, many of which…
Matthew Kurtz, associate professor of psychology, associate professor of neuroscience and behavior, received a $104,338 grant from the National Institute for Health on Feb. 8. The grant, titled "Cognitive Remediation for Nicotine Dependence" involves adapting cognitive training procedures developed for use in schizophrenia, for addressing the temporary deficits in memory that often accompany smoking cessation in long-term users and that also predict relapse. The project, part of a collaboration between Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania, is lead by Dr. Caryn Lerman, director of the Tobacco Use Research Center at Penn's School of Medicine. It will help support Kurtz's work…
Lisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, and Jennifer Rose, research associate professor of psychology, are the co-recipients of a $97,936 grant from the University of Illinois, through the National Cancer Institute. The award will support their research titled "Social Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns" through July 2011.
Charles Sanislow, assistant professor in psychology, co-authored a publication showing that personality disorders increased the time to the remission of a depressive episode, and accelerated the time to relapse of a new depressive episode following remission. The work was published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and stems from the NIH-funded Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Study, a 10-year prospective study on which Sanislow is a co-investigator.
Lisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, received a grant worth $347,241 for "Center for Prevention and Treatment Methodology." The grant, awarded Nov. 24, is subcontracted with Penn State.
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Charles Sanislow, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of an article titled "Developing constructs for Psychopathology Research: Research Domain Criteria," published as the lead story in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, pages 631-639 in 2010. His colleagues from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) contributed to the article. The article describes the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), a new approach to diagnosing mental disorders for research purposes. Sanislow is a member of the NIMH working group that is spearheading this effort.
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Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology, is the lead author of "I fear your envy, I rejoice in your coveting. On the ambivalent experience of being envied by others," published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(5), 842-854 in 2010.
Tasmiha Khan '12 made a poster presentation on her research during the Inspiring Women Scientists conference Sept. 24 at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. She represented Wesleyan, while presenting her research "Responses to Devaluation among American-Muslims,” co-created by Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology. Khan focuses her research on ethnic minorities/feminine honor. Mariah Schug, visiting assistant professor of psychology, accompanied Khan at the conference. Sandy Durosier ’13, Adela Ramirez ‘13 and Mariah Schug, visiting assistant professor of psychology, also attended the conference.
Lisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, received a grant worth $590,769 from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund her research on “Individual Differences in Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Sensitivity” through Aug. 31, 2012. The award is part of the Recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009. Jennifer Rose, research associate professor of psychology, is the coPI on this grant.
Anna Shusterman, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of the article, "Early acquisition of the word 'two'," published in The Proceedings of the 2009 Boston University Conference on Language Development, by Cascadilla Press, 2010.