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New Faculty Profile: Robin Nusslock

The department of Psychology wel- comed Robin Nusslock as new a member of the faculty this Fall. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the clinical area. He earned his B.A in psychology, M.S. in clinical psychology, and Ph.D. in clinical psychology, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his clinical internship in clinical and transla- tional neuroscience at the Western Psychi- atric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center. Looking back, Professor Nusslock can remember the moment he knew with certainty that he wanted to be a psy- chologist. The moment occurred during his sophomore year of college when he attended his first big research meeting for the Laboratory for Affective Neuro- science. At the time he was majoring in philosophy. He had always been drawn to the big questions of mind, emotion and difficulty differentiating bipolar disorder He also keeps active in numerous outdoor the human experience. Sitting in the lab from other psychiatric disorders, and the activities. He worked as a kayaking guide meeting, however, he met leading scien- goal of this research is to help facilitate in college and spent a summer kayaking tists who were investigating these ideas accurate diagnosis and treatment. the coast of Alaska. Currently, he spends in a scientifically rigorous and empirical Professor Nusslock describes his his free time running, alpine skiing, and fashion. Before that moment he had never new position at Northwestern as a dream participating in triathlons. experienced science in action or listened job. In addition to working at a top tier to such an exchange of ideas between sci- research institution, he likes the feel and entists and students. From that moment reputation of the department, and also had on he was hooked on the idea of studying ties to Sue Mineka through his gradu- large questions with scientific analysis ate school advisor. He has already been and methodological rigor. He found a new impressed by the intellectual caliber of the passion which changed his undergraduate undergraduates, and he is excited to begin plan and ultimately set the path for his teaching both graduate and undergraduate future career. coursework. In the Winter 2011 quarter he Professor Nusslock’s research will teach the graduate seminar “Clinical focuses on integrative biopsychosocial Affective Neuroscience” which will exam- models of bipolar disorder and unipolar ine recent developments in research on depression. He is particularly interested the neurobiology of depression and bipolar in investigating abnormalities in reward disorder. In the Spring 2011 quarter he will brain activity as a way to better under- teach the undergraduate course “Psychol- stand the mechanisms underlying unipolar ogy of Personality.” He describes three depression and bipolar disorder. Nusslock main goals for his teaching style: facilitat- and colleagues propose that an abnormal ing students’ intellectual curiosity about increase in reward-related brain activity the mind and the brain, helping students during reward processing may represent a understand the importance of questioning neural mechanism for predisposition to ex- and challenging theories with which they pansive mood and hypo/mania in response are confronted, and encouraging student to reward-relevant life events that charac- interest in the field of psychology. terize bipolar disorder. The possible dopa- Professor Nusslock is pleased to have minergic basis of elevated reward-relevant moved close to members of his family brain activity has important implications who live in the Chicagoland area and has for treatment choices and new treatment enjoyed exploring the city. Outside of his development for the illness. His laboratory professional life, he has a fascination with research primarily focuses on identifying different cultures and loves to travel. He biological markers for bipolar disorder and enjoys reading about history and explor- unipolar depression. Doctors often have ing philosophical inquiries into humanity. 2 Distinguished Faculty Profiles Jennifer Richardson

ennifer ous questions pertaining to the psychological make it deleterious to health. In addition to Richeson dynamics of navigating diverse environments. these important studies examining the potential Jis a Several of her students are examining, for in- health outcomes of exposure to discrimination, social psy- stance, the creation, maintenance, and dissolu- Richeson and her students also consider broad- chologist who tion of intergroup trust. Considerable research er consequences of discrimination exposure, specializes has documented a divide in the trust we afford such as its implications for decision-making and in the study members of our same social groups (i.e., in- perceptions of members of other disadvantaged of prejudice, group members) and that afforded to members social groups. discrimination, of different social groups (i.e., outgroup mem- Richeson’s research on these and related and social bers). These studies concern factors that make topics has been published in various scholarly stigma. At it difficult for individuals to engage in inter- journals including: Psychological Science, the the core of group trust, even when they have information Journal of Personality and Social Psychol- her research, that a particular outgroup member is indeed ogy, Nature, Neuroscience, and the Journal of teaching, trustworthy, as well as what drives members of Experimental Social Psychology. She recently and mentoring activities lies a passion for some groups to “over-trust” ingroup members, won the 2009 Distinguished Scientific Award identifying the conditions that allow racially even when such individuals are known to be for Early Career Contribution to Psychology and culturally diverse environments to prosper. untrustworthy! Given how important this type from the American Psychological Associa- That is, she seeks to reveal the challenges that of interpersonal trust is for the successful and tion and in 2006, she was named one of 25 individuals often encounter in diverse environ- smooth functioning of communities, coupled MacArthur Foundation Fellows for her research ments and, in turn, discover ways to foster with the increasing racial/cultural diversity of “highlighting and analyzing major challenges positive experiences and outcomes instead. US society, it is imperative to understand how facing all races in America and in the continuing Jenn was born and raised in Baltimore, trust across group boundaries, when warranted, role played by prejudice and stereotyping in our MD and then went to Brown University for her can be achieved. lives.” undergraduate training. After, she studied at In addition to these and many other lines In addition to her appointment in the Harvard University where she earned her PhD of research, Richeson and her students conduct Psychology Department, Richeson is a faculty in Social Psychology in 2000. Prior to coming to research on the consequences of exposure to fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, a Northwestern in 2005, she was on the faculty discrimination against an important social group faculty affiliate at the Center on Social Dispari- in the Department of Psychological and Brain membership (i.e., racism, sexism). Research ties and Health, and a faculty affiliate at the Sciences at Dartmouth College and a Visiting in the public health domain suggests that expo- Center on the Science of Diversity, all here Scholar at the Research Institute in Compara- sure to discrimination has ill effects on physical at Northwestern. She also holds a courtesy tive Studies of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford and sometimes mental health. Richeson’s appointment in the Department of African University. research seeks to understand why this may American Studies. Professor Richeson’s lab includes a be the case. Specifically, what exactly does number of undergraduate, graduate, and exposure to discrimination do—what cognitive post-doctoral researchers who focus on vari- and emotional processes does it trigger—that

A Note from the Chair continued from page 1 • We recruited a bumper crop of new made a major commitment to join the Found- launch a new lecture series at Northwestern, Ph.D. students for the fall of 2010. We have ing Circle of the new Psychological Clinical to be named after the renowned NU social 17 new students – 12 women and 5 men. Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) cre- psychologist, Donald Campbell. Not only is this the largest class we have ated by the Academy of Psychological Clinical Please visit our Psychology Depart- recruited in years, but it is also the most Science. In last year’s Psychwatch, Dick ment website. Send us an email. Make a diverse, including 3 Asian and Asian-Ameri- Bootzin (former NU professor of Psychology, visit. Keep in touch. We are eager to include can students, 2 African-Americans, 2 Latino now at Arizona) described the values and news from our alumni in future editions of students, and 1 Native American. goals of PCSAS. Psychwatch. And should you fancy to offer • The WCAS Dean has authorized the • The Provost and WCAS Dean have other forms of support, we would love to hear Department to hire a new professor in Clini- opened up a new revenue stream for the about that, too. In these difficult economic cal Psychology (rank open) in 2010-2011. Psychology Department, which derives from times and in the face of budget cutbacks and The new faculty member will eventually join tuition receipts obtained from the University’s declining federal support for higher educa- Professors Rick Zinbarg, Sue Mineka, Mike M. A. programs in Counseling Psychology tion, universities and individual departments Bailey, Robin Nusslock, Bill Revelle, and and in Marriage and Family Therapy at the are more dependent on the generosity of myself in the Clinical/Personality area. Tem- Family Institute. Over the next two years, the alums and other benefactors. The Psychol- pering our excitement about hiring a new col- new revenue will be used to fund a number ogy Department continues to search for new league is our sadness about losing Professor of initiatives, including redoubling efforts to ways to enhance our research enterprise and Emily Durbin, who took a tenured, associate recruit students of color and other minorities, improve our educational mission. If you feel professor position at Michigan State Univer- enhancing graduate education, improving that you can help us in that regard, let us sity this past year. recruitment of research participants, and know. • In an effort to support scientific stan- developing a new undergraduate study space Wishing you the best. dards and evidence-based therapy in Clinical in Swift Hall. During 2010-11, furthermore, Psychology nationwide, the Department the Department will be developing plans to 3 psychwatch The newsletter of the department of psychology at Northwestern University

Distinguished Alumna Profile: Patricia Gurin, Ph.D

uate education, Dr. Gurin made the most of NU’s course offerings. She took French even though she did not have to meet a language requirement, and she regrets not GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE: being able to fit in courses in science and statistics BRAIN, BEHAVIOR & COGNITION Dr. Gurin was also shaped by North- Vani Mathur is a fourth year graduate western’s rigorous academic environment. student in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition When asked about her best experience program. After receiving her B.S. in physiol- as a student she explains how she most ogy from Boston University, she worked as a clinical researcher in the Neuroendocrine valued the general intellectual challenge. Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. In high school she was active on her There she was part of an interdisciplinary school newspaper and considered herself team whose aim was to improve the psycho- a good writer. After getting a C on her first logical and physiological well-being of people college paper, she realized Northwestern with eating disorders. expected her to perform at a new level, Vani is passionate about understand- and she quickly rose to that challenge. Dr. ing the subjective reality, biological sub- ince receiving her B.S. at Northwest- Gurin ended up with a stellar academic strates, and moderators of the experience, ern University in 1954, Patricia Yates record graduating Summa Cum Laude. perception, and SGurin has become a leading figure She especially remembers being proud processing of in the field of social psychology. She is of her performance in the Introduction to human suffering currently the Nancy Cantor Distinguished Psychology course. She had the highest both in oneself University Professor Emerita of Psycholo- grade on the midterm which earned her a and in others. gy and Women’s Studies at the University book from the professor. The experience In her work with of Michigan as well as a Faculty Associate helped reveal to her the enjoyment of advisor Dr. Joan of the Research Center for Group Dynam- scholarly accomplishment. Chiao, she has ics at the Institute for Social Research. In addition to offering her a breadth implemented a social neurosci- After joining the faculty at the University of study and an intellectual challenge, Dr. ence approach of Michigan in 1966, she served as both Gurin credits Northwestern with giving her the chair of the psychology department to probe these topics. Early studies have a formative exposure to diversity. She has focused on perceiving pain in others, and the from 1991-2001 and as the interim dean since completed research, widely cited in subjective experience of empathy. of The College of Literature, Science and both academia and legal platforms, dem- Currently, her primary research focus the Arts for the 1998-1999 academic onstrating the benefits of early exposure is on exploring possible sources of racial year. Dr. Gurin focuses her research on to diversity. Dr. Gurin grew up in a small, health disparities in the subjective experi- social identity, the role of social identity in predominantly white town in Southern ence and treatment of pain. In collaboration political attitudes and behavior, motivation Indiana. During her junior year at NU she with Dr. Judith Paice at Northwestern’s and cognition in achievement settings and met an Anthropology graduate student Fienberg School of Medicine, and Drs. Joan the role of social structure in inter-group from Mozambique. Her friendship with him Chiao and Jennifer Richeson in the Psychol- relations. opened her eyes to the concept of race on ogy Department, Vani is currently designing Throughout her career Dr. Gurin has campus and brought up larger questions studies to probe how processes associated explored many lines of inquiry in social of inequality, the meaning of race, and with implicit prejudice and the experience psychology and pursued diverse research the meaning of nationality. By the time of discrimination may contribute to racial paths. She has drawn knowledge from she graduated she was hooked on the disparities seen in the experience of pain. a myriad of fields including psychology, concept of identity. She knew she wanted When not in the lab, Vani loves to travel and spend time with her family. As a sociology, economics, demography, and to study how people understood and con- native Texan, she also considers herself to political science to take a comprehensive nected with each other as well as the kind approach to her research. Dr. Gurin was be a BBQ and Tex-Mex connoisseur. After of collaborations people could produce graduation, she hopes to continue her re- one of the first to suggest that class, across their differences. In her decades of search integrating neuroimaging, biological, race and gender all factor into the source research Dr. Gurin has explored these very physiological, and psychological methods to and consequences of social identity. Her issues. Looking back Dr. Gurin describes contribute to the understanding of and inter undergraduate years at Northwestern Uni- her undergraduate years at Northwestern vention in public health issues – particularly versity gave her early exposure to these as the transformative experience of her those related to pain and human suffering. fields. Although she was in the School life. of Speech, she enjoyed the liberal arts aspect of the university. She remembers finding every class exciting and eagerly awaiting registration to pick out courses for the next quarter. During her undergrad- 4 New Faculty Profile: Mesmin Destin

Mesmin Destin joined the department of Psychology this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Social Area. He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Northwestern and his Ph.D. in Social Psy- chology from the University of Michigan. At Northwestern, Professor Destin has a GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE: joint appointment between the Depart- ment of Psychology and the School of COGNITIVE Education and Social Policy in the Human Yangqing “Lucie” Xu is a second-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Development and Social Policy program. program. After receiving her B.A. in Psychol- Professor Destin first became inter- ogy from Lawrence University in Wisconsin, ested in the field while taking an AP Psy- she came to work with Dr. Franconeri in the chology course. As an undergraduate at Visual Cognition Lab at Northwestern. Northwestern, he engaged further in social Lucie’s research focuses on how the psychology. He was drawn to the scientific visual system represents object structure. investigation of social issues and phe- basic science as well as the community During her first year, she showed that our nomena and completed his undergraduate and educational facets of his interests. perception of an object’s structure is closely thesis on stereotyping and social class. In In Winter 2011 he will be teaching tied to where we his graduate studies Destin expanded his the cross-listed course “Identity and place our ‘spot- research, studying motivational processes Motivation- From Theories of the Self light’ of attention and conducting research in natural set- to Real-World Applications.” Profes- within that object. tings outside of the laboratory. sor Destin enjoys teaching discussion When viewing Professor Destin’s research centers oriented classes and is excited for a a shape whose on understanding broad societal issues course that will open up communica- ‘front’ and ‘back’ and trends. Recently he has been looking tion between students across schools surfaces were at socioeconomic disparities in education who study the same topics from dif- ambiguous, an ERP measure of attainment from a psychological perspec- ferent perspectives. He is also excited the locus of atten- tive. He conducts field research in local to be back in Chicago and spends his tion showed that free time exploring the city and playing schools where he and his team distribute seeing a given piano. college financial information, such as need surface as ‘front’ based financial aid and financial benefits was associated of a college education, to middle school with attending to that location. This result students. The objective is for students suggests an exciting new role for attention. to see college as a salient and attrac- Instead of merely enhancing the processing tive goal. He hopes to be able to study of a location, selective attention may play a whether the pieces of information given role in controlling the perceived structure of to middle school students will work as an that object. In her new experiments, she has effective intervention strategy and build begun to investigate a similar mechanism on themselves over time. Professor Destin in displays of moving objects that create also conducts laboratory experiments that ambiguity about any single object’s identity study motivational cognitive processes over time. Maintaining constant attention and national data analysis that study the on a single object may actually underlie the effects of family wealth and assets on impression that the object continues to exist as the same entity over time. educational outcomes of youth. When she’s not found outside the ERP Professor Destin is delighted to re- chamber, or in front of matlab code, Lucie turn to Northwestern where he completed likes to dance, play table-tennis, and make his very first work in social psychology. Chinese papercuts. She relishes knowing, but He was drawn to the offering of a joint also knowing all that is yet unknown. After appointment in which he can satisfy the graduation, Lucie hopes to find a position within academia to continue pursuing her research interests and to learn through teaching.

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PhD Recipients 2009-2010

STELLA CHRISTIE (Dedre Gentner – Adviser) RUMEN ILIEV SONYA SACHDEVA “How Simple is Same: Percep- (Douglas Medin – Adviser) (Douglas Medin – Adviser) tion of Relational Similarity in “The Role of Psysical Fac- “The Norm of Self Sacrifice” Young Children” tors on Moral Judgments: Applying a Domain General GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE: Causal Approach to Study- TIMOTHY SWEENY MONIKA BAUER ing Morality” (Satoru Suzuki/Marcia Grabowecky CLINICAL (Galen Bodenhousen – Adviser) – Advisers) Amanda Uliaszek recently completed “Disengagement, Dysphoria, “Perceptual Distortions, her 6th year of study in Northwestern’s Clini- and the Pursuit: An Investiga- LUCIA IORDANESCU Signal, Noise, and Awareness cal Psychology program. Currently, she is on tion of Social and Affective (Marcia Grabowecky – Adviser) in Low-, Intermediate-, and her clinical internship at University of Illinois- Consequences of Material- “Object-Based Auditory Vi- High-level Vision” Chicago Department of Psychiatry. Mandy ism” sual Interactions Derive From was born in Buffalo, New York and attended Experiential Associations” college at Pennsylvania State University. GALE PETERSON At Northwestern, Mandy worked KATHERINA HAUNER (Daniel Molden – Adviser) closely with her primary advisor, Richard (Susan Mineka – Adviser) SEEMA SAIGAL “Anxiety and Security-Focused Zinbarg. Her research program has largely “Functional Neuroanatomical (Emily Durbin-Adviser) Goal-Pursuit: An Integrative focused on the Substrates of Fear Extinction “Marital Distress and De- Approach” role of normal pression: A Behavioral and Following Exposure Therapy” personality in Linguistic Anaylsis of Couple psychopatho- Interactions” EZRA WEGBREIT logical (Mark Beeman – Adviser) phenomena. “Emotional Influences on the Scope of Selective Visual Her early proj- Attention” ects focused on the role of neuroticism and extraver- sion in stress generation, a process where a diagnosis of depression (or anxiety) predicts later stress. Mandy’s later projects focused on two studies that she had a part in developing. The first, her dis- sertation, is a large study of 420 participants collected from three Chicagoland colleges. This study, using interview, self-report, and informant-report measures, examines the comorbidity among Axis I and Axis II disorders and how this covariance structure is related to normal personality traits. This study then presents an integrated hierarchical structural model of personality and psychopathology. The second study is a treatment outcome study of dialectical behavior group therapy for adolescents and their parents. This study is being conducted at the Family Institute. Currently, Mandy is on the aca- demic job market. She is attempting to find a research-focused university professor job in a clinical psychology department. She is also researching postdocs just in case. For fun, Mandy has spent the summer training for the three half marathons that she is running this year. She also does yoga and enjoys cooking new vegetarian recipes. Psychology Department Kick-Off Party Photo Credit: Rebecca Pallmeyer 6 MA/MS Recipients 2009-2010

MA Recipients KEITH COX VANI MATHUR CHIVON POWERS Adviser: Dan McAdams Adviser: Joan Chiao Adviser: Mark Beeman ANJA JAMROZIK Adviser: Dedre Gentner MAUREEN CRAIG KATIE ROTELLA SYLIA WILSON Adviser: Jennifer Richeson Advisers: Jennifer Richeson/Joan Adviser: Emily Durbin DANIEL SLATEN Chiao Advisers: Sid Horton/ David Rapp PATRICIA HERMANN MICHAEL WINOGRAD Advisers: Sandra Waxman/Doug ALLEN ROSENTHAL Adviser: J. Peter Rosenfeld MS Recipients Medin Adviser: Michael Bailey CHIN MING HUI DANIEL SANCHEZ BOBBY CHEON Adviser: Daniel Molden Adviser: Paul Reber Adviser: Joan Chiao HEATHER LUCAS LINDSEY SMITH Adviser: Ken Paller Adviser: Dedre Gentner GRADUATE STUDENT PROFILE: Undergraduate Honors Students SOCIAL 2009-2010 Destiny Peery is a 5th year graduate student in the Social Psychology program. She is also a student in the JD/PhD program and recently completed her coursework at ARIELA ABREVAYA Northwestern’s law school. Destiny received Adviser: Daniel Molden ANNA GUTINA EMILIE ROSS her B.A. from the University of Minnesota Adviser: Emily Durbin Adviser: Susan Hespos in 2005, and she came to work with Galen LUKE ADAMS Bodenhausen in the Adviser: Joan Chiao CLIFF HAIMANN JARED SALISBURY fall of 2006 after Adviser: Richard Zinbarg KATHERINE ADAMSKI Adviser: William Revelle finishing two years as a co-director of Adviser: Richard Zinbarg MELISSA HANSEN RACHEL SALK an educational non- FARIAH AHMAD Adviser: Sanda Waxman Adviser: Renee Engeln-Maddox profit in Minneapo- lis. She completed Adviser: Paul Reber ADITI SRINIVASAN TIM HERRMANN her M.A. in 2008 Adviser: Wendi Gardner ROSE ARNOLD Adviser: Eli Finkel and anticipates Adviser: Daniel Molden finishing her JD/ BONNIE VU WILLIAM HOOPER PhD in the spring of Adviser: David Uttal SARINA ARNOLD Adviser: H.D. Smith 2012. . Destiny’s research focuses primar- PRERANA BARANAL JOSHUA WAYTZ ELIZABETH KACEL ily on how people perceive and categorize Adviser: Douglas Medin Adviser: Robert Livingston Adviser: Richard Gershon racially ambiguous and multiracial individu- als, with an emphasis on how context can JESSE BASTIAENS EMILY KIM Adviser: Daniel Molden affect the disambiguation process. She has Adviser: Joan Chiao published work showing that information about the racial makeup of one’s family takes BRIAN BOHL MIHWA KIM Adviser: Emily Durbin precedence over other kinds of information Adviser: Sanda Waxman and has investigated the role that social contextual cues to race, such as the racial JOSEPH DABADO ARUNDATI NAGENDRA Adviser: Dan McAdams makeup of one’s social environment, play in Adviser: Emily Durbin racial categorization. Destiny also studies several other top- NORA ELLINGSEN STEPHANIE RICHMAN ics, including influences on minority groups’ Adviser: Eli Finkel Adviser: Wendi Gardner reactions to discrimination and prejudice and the role law and policy play in shaping our basic understandings of social categories like race and gender. In her (little) free time, Destiny enjoys reading, attending concerts, and enjoying lively conversation with her friends and colleagues over great food and drink around Chicago. After graduating, Destiny plans to pursue a career in academia, allowing her to focus on both research and teaching.

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Awards

Faculty Honors and Awards nominated to be a fellow of the American Associa- undergraduate students. Our most recent recipients tion for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and are Zhen Cheng, Reina Uchino and Elizabeth appointed Visiting Professor at Harvard University Wilson. Faculty members of the Department of Psychol- for 2010-2011. ogy continue to receive numerous awards for The Cognitive Science Summer Fellowship Award their contributions in research and teaching at the went to Yoomin Ahn, Andrew Deitch, and international, national, and local level. Graduate Student Honors Lauren Kahn.

Professor Mike Bailey was named to the and Awards The Undergraduate Research Council awards funds Faculty Honor Role by the Associated Student for summer research at Northwestern. The depart- Government. . Donna Bridge, of the interdepartmental neurosci- ment had nine students receive funding from the ence program was awarded the Human Cognition URGC: Scott Beymer, Rebecca Blackwell, So- Senior Lecturer Sara Broaders was named to Training Grant. phia Espinoza, Talia Seidman, Max Sutton- the Faculty Honor Role by the Associated Student Smolin, Stephanie Tang, Heather Waldron, Lindsay Zamarripa and Julian Zlatev. Government Azurii Collier, a BBC student, received the 2010

UNCF-Merck Dissertation Research Fellowship. The Lois Elizabeth Henrikson Undergraduate Travel Lecturer Renee Engeln-Maddox has recieved Award helps to fund undergraduate students a number of awards in the past year including the Vani Mathur from the BBC program received travels to attend and present at conferences. This Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award the Philip Brickman Endowment Fellowship as well award was presented to both Rachel Salk and from the Order of Omega Greek Leadership Honor as the American Pain Society Young Investigator Tim Herrmann. Society, and the Weinberg College Alumni Teaching Award. Award. She was also named to the Faculty Honor Roll by the Associated Student Government and Caitlin Duffy, Priya Kamat, and Katie selected by the 2010 graduating senior class to Rotella all received honorable mention in the deliver the “Last Lecture”. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship program. Associate Professor Eli Finkel has received the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career David Sylva won “best poster” for “Sexual Achievement from the International Association for arousal patterns in heterosexual and homosexual Relational Research. men and women: Results from neuroimaging” at a conference comprised of the leading researchers of Professor Dedre Gentner was nominated to sexual orientation from North America. be a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Staff Honors and Awards Senior Lecturer Joan Linsenmeier was a recipient of the Service Excellence Award and was Tomeka Bolar received the Phil Waldenberg Staff appointed Assistant Dean for Curriculum in Wein- Mentor of the Year Award. berg College effective September 2010

Professor Douglas Medin was elected the Undergraduate Honors and new president of the Association for Psychological Science. Awards The Department of Psychology presents the Winfred Associate Professor David Rapp was a Hill Award for the Best Paper in Psych 205-Research recipient of the Society for Text & Discourse Tom Methods each year. We congratulate Jessica Mar- Trabasso Young Investigator Award. tinson, this year’s winner.

Professor Lance Rips was a recipient of the Winners of the WIlliam H. Hunt Award for the best Undergraduate Psychological Association’s Award undergraduate research paper in the Department of for Excellence in Teaching Psychology:

Professor Peter Rosenfeld gave an invited •Jared Salisbury, “Internet Overuse and keynote at the plenary session of the March 2010 Personality: A Look at the Big Five, BIS/BAS, American Psychology and Law Conference in Lonliness, & Boredom” (adviser Wiliam Revelle) Vancouver, “The New Complex Trial Protocol for Deception Detection with P300: Mock Crime & •Rachel Salk “If you’re fat then I’m humon- gous: Frequency, Content, and Impact of Fat Anti-Terror Scenarios” Talk Among College Women” (adviser Renee Engeln-Maddox) Professor Aryeh Routtenberg gave a lecture in Salzburg, Austria September 3 at Paracelsus •Aditi Srinivasan “Cultural Contrast versus Medical University, “Hippocampal mossy fibers: a Assimilation” (adviser Wendi Gardner) mnemonic mystery, wrapped in cellular diversity.” Honorable mention went to Stephanie Richman. Professor Sandra Waxman has received the Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon The Benton J. Underwood Summer Research Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She was also Fellowship supports independent research by

8 Alumni News

ear Northwestern University Alumni, We are Northwestern University’s 40s Undergraduate Psychology Association (UPA), a student organization dedi- Louis Evans BS ‘49 cated to providing undergraduates with psychology-related resources and Dr. Louise Evans, Diplomate of the American Board D of Professional Psychology, is the recipient of the creating an undergraduate psychology community on campus. Corann Okorodudu International Women’s Advocacy We ask for your support by inviting you to participate in the Northwestern Award of 2009. It was awarded by the Society for Psychology Alumni Network. The goal of the program is to allow university students the Psychology of Women (Division 35) at the Ameri- can Psychological Association’s annual convention. to see the many career options a Northwestern University psychology degree might Dr. Evans has committed more than four decades offer. As you know, psychology is a unique major providing skills and knowledge ap- of continuous service to the psychology of women plicable for many career paths. Thus, it is difficult for psychology undergraduates to internationally. In 1958 she joined the International Council of Women Psychologists and was elected gather all the information that they want to make informed career decisions. a fellow and secretary by 1962. In 2003 Dr. Evans We hope to establish a program that provides students with guidance and received a plaque from the International Council of Psychologists “in recognition for her pioneering knowledge drawing on your experiences in the position you hold now and the path leadership in international psychology” and another you took to get there. This exchange will take place on an online website, Course award as Ambassador for Life “in recognition of her Management System (CMS), to which only declared psychology students will have outstanding leadership and enduring commitment.” She was also appointed by the American Biographi- access. We assure you that this website is secure and your identity can be con- cal Institute as a Founding Member of its Interna- cealed, if you wish. tional Women’s Review Board. We are offering two options for participation: Lois Jean Murker Thompson BS ’49 1. If you are willing to be contacted by current students, we ask for your name, Lois has recently retired after starting and operating e-mail, graduation year, current profession, and a paragraph or two about your her own business for 50 years. She is also pleased to profession and how you arrived at this point in your career. We will post this on the announce that her granddaughter Samantha Thomp- son started as a freshman at NU in the fall of 2009. website for current undergraduates. We will make it clear that this contact infor- mation is only to be used for advice and mentorship, not job solicitation. The UPA Executive Board will check in with you on a yearly basis to ensure that we have the 50s most up-to-date information. Please send this information to UPA.northwestern@ Robert P. Erickson BS ‘51 Robert graduated from Northwestern University via gmail.com. the NROTC in 1951, and served in the Navy until 2. If you do not wish to be contacted but still wish to help, you can just send 1954 when he enrolled in graduate studies in Psy- a paragraph or two about your profession and career path, and we will post it chology at Brown University. After his post-graduate study in neurobiology at the University of Washing- anonymously for the perusal of interested undergraduates. Again, please send this ton in Seattle, he entered the Psychology depart- information to [email protected]. ment at Duke University. There he served as the chairperson and director of undergraduate studies in We are eager to initiate this program, and we hope you agree that it has the psychology, and retired in 2000. His area of research potential to help current and future psychology students. If you have any questions is the neural bases of behavior. His interest in the about the program and your involvement, please contact us at UPA.northwestern@ piano is now of importance. He and his wife, Marilyn D. Frey, have three sons, Lars, Nils, and David. gmail.com. We are excited to hear from you!

Thank you for your time, 70s UPA Executive Board 2009-2010 Janet Polivy PhD ‘74 Janet has recently become a board member of the Association for Psychological Science.

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Psychology Faculty

J. MICHAEL BAILEY STEVEN FRANCONERI SUSAN MINEKA DONORS 2009-2010 PhD University of Texas, 1989 PhD Harvard University, 2004 PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1974 Sexual orientation, gender Visual attention, visual memory, Behavioral and cognitive process- We would like to extend our utmost grati- nonconformity, sexual arousal, reflexive attention capture, object es of fear, anxiety and depression; tude to all our donors. Every donation helps behavior genetics, evolutionary tracking, number perception. cognitive and behavior therapy for psychology. anxiety disorders, primate models to support the Department in its teaching, of psychopathology. research and outreach endeavors. Your WENDI GARDNER support is truly appreciated. MARK BEEMAN PhD Ohio State University, 1996 PhD University of Oregon, 1991 Social exclusion and belonging, DANIEL MOLDEN cross-cultural differences in social Cognitive neuroscience, higher or- PhD Columbia University, 2003 Lewis E. Albright, Ph.D.i der language comprehension and cognition and behavior, social as- Influences of motivation on disorders, insight problem solving, pects of the self, social neurology, judgment processes, notably Mr. Arthur H. Anderson, Jr. hemispheric differences. emotion and evaluation. strategies of hypothesis testing; Dr. Rebecca S. Anderson processes by which meaning is assigned to behavior. Ms. Rima Irena Birutis GALEN BODENHAUSEN DEDRE GENTNER Dr. Kenneth H. Bradt PhD University of Illinois, 1987 PhD University of California, San Diego, Dr. Norman W. Carlson Prejudice, stereotyping, and 1974 ROBIN NUSSLOCK inter-group relations; self- Cognition and language in learning PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ms. Susan J. Carlson and development, processes of regulation of social cognition; 2009 Robert G. Claypool, MD influences of emotion and arousal similarity, analogy and metaphor, Biopsychosocial models of bipolar on judgment and decision-making. acquisition of word meaning. disorder and unipolar depression Dr. Jerry A. Colliver Ms. Carol DeBoth

JOAN CHIAO SUSAN HESPOS KEN PALLER Roger L. Dominowski, Ph.D. PhD Harvard University, 2006 PhD Emory University, 1996 PhD University of California, San Diego, Ms. Begum Dora Cultural neuroscience; social and Comparison of object, spatial and 1986 affective neuroscience across number representation abilities in Memory, disorders of memory, Dr. Daniel Druckman development; social and emotional children and adults. face perception, combining neu- Ms. Betty L. Duncan perception; social dominance and ropsychology with brain imaging affiliation and EEG methods to study human Mr. Gerald H. Duncan WILLIAM (SID) HORTON cognition. Marie C. Duncan, MD PhD University of Chicago, 1999 Mr. Alexander John Dybsky MESMIN DESTIN Higher-level aspects of language PhD University of Michigan, 2010 use and conversation, figurative DAVID RAPP Fidelity Inv. Ch. Gift Fund Perception and interpretation of language and narrative compre- PhD SUNY-Stony Brook, 2000 Ms. Nicole Marie Fortuna socioeconomic status; eduational hension. Reading comprehension; identify- motivation; youth perception of ing and remediating struggling Dr. Ellen R. Girden future economic success linked to readers’ difficulties; mechanisms Dr. Madeleine M. Gross evreyday choices and educational SARAH MANGELSDORF underlying narrative experience; outcomes. DEAN OF WEINBERG COLLEGE multimedia based influences on Ms. Kathrin Julia Hanek. PhD University of Minnesota, 1988 learning. Bruce M. Hartung, Ph.D Social and emotional development ALICE EAGLY in infants and young children Ms. Carolyn Hsu PhD University of Michigan, 1965 PAUL REBER Ms. Jocelyn Michelle Johnson Sociopolitical attitudes of women PhD Carnegie Mellon University, 1993 Ms. Mihwa Kim and men; gender and leadership; DAN MCADAMS Human learning and memory, heroism; the content of stereo- PhD Harvard University, 1979 nonconscious memory, cognitive Mr. Peter L. Klibanoff types; prejudice; attitudinal selec- Personality and development, neuroscience, functional neuro- Raquel S. Klibanoff, Ph.D. tivity in exposure and memory. adult development, identity and imaging. development of the self, culture, Ms. Alexandra Levit political psychology, biography. Melvin M. Mark, Ph.D. ELI FINKEL WILLIAM REVELLE Edward Harrison Marston,Ph.D PhD University of North Carolina, 2001 PhD University of Michigan, 1973 Interplay between close rela- DOUGLAS MEDIN Personality theory and assess- tionships, the self and health PhD University of South Dakota, 1968 ment; interrelationships of per- processes; optimal self-regulation Concept and classification learn- sonality, motivation, and cognitive as interpersonal process; determi- ing, cross-cultural cognition, performance; biological basis of nants of romantic attraction. decision making, computational personality; measurement and models of cognition, culture and psychometrics. education.

10 DONORS 2009-2010 JENNIFER RICHESON SATORU SUZUKI SARA BROADERS PhD Harvard University, 2000 PhD Harvard University, 1995 SENIOR LECTURER We would like to extend our utmost grati- Intergroup contact, controlling Mental encoding of physical dimen- PhD University of Chicago, 2003 tude to all our donors. Every donation helps prejudice, detecting and confronting sions; influences of prior experience, prejudice and discrimination, racial attention, intention and mental to support the Department in its teaching, categorization. states on perception. RENEE ENGELN-MADDOX research and outreach endeavors. Your SENIOR LECTURER PhD Loyola University Chicago, 2004 support is truly appreciated. LANCE RIPS DAVID UTTAL PhD Stanford University, 1974 PhD University of Michigan, 1989 BENJAMIN GORVINE McLane Company, Inc. Human reasoning, semantics and Cognitive development, specifically Lewis E. Albright, Ph.D.i long-term memory; experimental, of symbolic and spatial reasoning in LECTURER Mr. Arthur H. Anderson, Jr. Ronald K. McLaughlin, Ph.D. computational, and mathematical toddlers and preschoolers; cultural PhD University of Michigan, 2002 differences in mathematics cognition Dr. Rebecca S. Anderson Ms. Josephine Ann Menkin analysis of deduction. and achievement. Ms. Rima Irena Birutis Slater E. Newman, Ph.D. JOAN LINSENMEIER SENIOR LECTURER Dr. Kenneth H. Bradt Mrs. Dixie M. Nohara J. PETER ROSENFELD SANDRA WAXMAN PhD Northwestern University, 1977 Frederica W. O’Connor,Ph.D. PhD University of Iowa, 1971 Dr. Norman W. Carlson Psychophysiology; mechanisms, pro- PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1985 Dr. Carol Olander Ms. Susan J. Carlson cesses, and detection of deception. Conceptual development and DAVID SMITH language acquisition in infancy Robert G. Claypool, MD Ms. Rachel Pearl Ostrov SENIOR LECTURER and early childhood; cross-cultural PhD Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Donald L. Patrick KARL ROSENGREN perspectives on language acquisi- Dr. Jerry A. Colliver 1993 tion; development of conceptual Ms. Carol DeBoth Dr. Miles L. Patterson PhD University of Minnesota, 1989 Cognitive and motor development. knowledge and reasoning abilities. Roger L. Dominowski, Ph.D. Ms. Susan Rooney Pfannenschmidt MARCIA GRABOWECKY Ms. Begum Dora Ms. Katherine Anne Piserchia ARYEH ROUTTENBERG RICHARD ZINBARG RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Dr. Roberta S. Popik PROFESSOR Dr. Daniel Druckman PhD University of Michigan, 1965 PhD Northwestern University, 1989 PhD University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Regina Dombek Rabin Molecular basis of memory. Vulnerability to and psychotherapy Ms. Betty L. Duncan 1992. Ms. Stephanie Brooke Richman for anxiety disorders; structure of Mr. Gerald H. Duncan anxiety; relations between personal- Marie C. Duncan, MD Mrs. Emily Scheller ity and psychopathology; psychomet- ric theory. Mr. Alexander John Dybsky Dr. Rudolph W. Schulz Fidelity Inv. Ch. Gift Fund Ms. Elyse April Schwartz Ms. Nicole Marie Fortuna Ms. Alexandra R. Shankman Dr. Ellen R. Girden Stewart A. Shankman, Ph.D. Dr. Madeleine M. Gross Ms. Gilaine A. Shindelman Ms. Kathrin Julia Hanek. Marshall H. Segall, Ph.D. Bruce M. Hartung, Ph.D Ms. Deborah G. Servi Ms. Carolyn Hsu State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. Ms. Jocelyn Michelle Johnson Ms. Michelle Bank Stein Ms. Mihwa Kim Dr. Glenn F. Sternes Mr. Peter L. Klibanoff Arthur R. Thomas, Jr., Ph.D. Raquel S. Klibanoff, Ph.D. Dr. Thomas E. Thornton Ms. Alexandra Levit Howard L. Willett Foundation, Inc. Melvin M. Mark, Ph.D. Gordon Wood, Ph.D. Edward Harrison Marston,Ph.D Dr. Andrea L. Zevenbergen

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