LAURA E. R. BLACKIE Curriculum Vitae
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Blackie vitae 1 LAURA E. R. BLACKIE Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Work Address: Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 27106, United States Contact Information: Tel (work): (1) 336-758-3615 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 2005 - 2008 BSc (First-class honors) in Psychology, University of Essex 2008 – 2012 PhD in Social Psychology, University of Essex ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2012 – Present Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Wake Forest University 2013 - Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University PUBLICATIONS Blackie, L. E. R. & Jayawickreme, E. (in press). Promoting Change in Post-Traumatic Growth Research: Response to Commentaries. European Journal of Personality. Jayawickreme, E & Blackie, L. E. R. (in press). Posttraumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions. European Journal of Personality. Schueller, S. M., Jayawickreme, E., Blackie, L. E., Forgeard, M. J., & Roepke, A. M. (2014). Finding character strengths through loss: An extension of Peterson and Seligman (2003). The Journal of Positive Psychology, (ahead-of-print), 1-11. Cozzolino, P. J., Blackie, L. E. R., & Meyers, L. S. (2014). Self-related consequences of death fear and death denial. Death Studies. Online First DOI:10.1080/07481187.2013.780110 Blackie, L. E .R., Roepke, A .M., Forgeard, M. J. C., Jayawickreme, E. & Fleeson, W. (forthcoming – June 2014). Act well to be well: The promise of changing personality states to promote well- being. In A. C. Parks (Ed.), Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Cozzolino, P. J., & Blackie, L. E. R. (2013). I Die, Therefore I Am: The Pursuit of Meaning in the Light of Death. In Joshua Hicks and Clay Routledge (Eds.) The experience of meaning in life: Classical perspectives, emerging themes, and controversies. Springer, pp.31-46. Blackie, L. E. R., & Cozzolino, P. J. (2011). Of blood and death: A test of dual-existential systems in the context of prosocial intentions. Psychological Science, 22, 998-1000. Blackie vitae 2 PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW/IN PREPARTION Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., Forgeard, M. J. C., Jayawickreme, N. (submitted). The Protective Function of Personal Growth Initiative among a Genocide-Affected Population in Rwanda. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Second invitation to revise and resubmit. Helzer, E. G., Furr, R. M., Hawkins, A., Barranti, M., Blackie, L. E. R., Fleeson, W. (submitted). Visible virtues: Agreement on the perception of moral character. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Second invitation to revise and resubmit. Blackie, L. E. R., Cozzolino, P. J., & Sedikides, C. (submitted). Specific and Individuated Death Reflection Fosters Identity Integration. Manuscript in preparation. Blackie, L.E.R Jayawickreme, E., Jayawickreme, N., Atanasov, P.D. & Goonasekera, M.A. (in prep). An investigation of the psycho-social resources that predict posttraumatic growth among a war- affected population in Sri Lanka. Manuscript in preparation. PROFESSIONAL TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., & Helzer, E. G. (2014, July). Can Retrospective Reports of Growth Following Adversity Reflect Actual Personality Change? A Profile Analysis Approach. European Conference on Personality, Lausanne, Switzerland. Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., & Helzer, E. G. (2014, February). Corroboration of Posttraumatic Growth using Profile Analysis. Poster presented as the personality and lifespan development preconference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, USA. Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., Forgeard, M. J. C., & Jayawickreme, N. (2013, July). The Protective Function of Belief in Personal Change among Genocide Survivors in Rwanda. Oral paper presented at the general meeting for the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Barcelona, Spain. Blackie, L. E. R., Jayawickreme, E., Forgeard, M. J. C., & Jayawickreme, N. (2013, May). The Protective Function of Individual Differences in Personal Growth Initiative for Mental and Physical Health Outcomes among a Genocide-Affected Population in Rwanda. Poster presented at the annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C, USA. Blackie, L. E. R., & Hawkins, A., & Furr. M. (2012, July). Self-Other Agreement on Morally Relevant Character Traits. Oral paper presented at the general meeting of the European Conference on Personality, Trieste, Italy. Blackie, L. E. R., & Cozzolino, P. J. (2012, January). Activating the integrated-self or the symbolic-self as a function of death awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California, USA. Blackie, L. E. R., & Cozzolino, P. J. (2011, July). What I stand to gain (or lose) from death: dual-existential systems and self-regulatory motivation. Oral paper presented at the general meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden. Blackie, L. E. R., & Cozzolino, P. J. (2010, September). Thinking about death: A test of the Dual-existential systems model in the context of attention to gain and loss-related information. Oral paper presented at the Blackie vitae 3 social section British Psychological Society annual social psychology conference, Winchester, United Kingdom. Blackie, L. E. R., Cozzolino, P. J., Rentzelas, P., Cooper, N. R., & Perugini, M. (2010, January). Thinking differently about death: A test of the dual-existential systems in the context of attention and perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Cozzolino, P. J., Rentzelas, P., Cooper, N. R., Blackie, L. E. R., Geeraert, N., & Meyers, L. (2010, January). In pursuit of existential liberty: Differential effects of mortality salience and death reflection on desires for freedom. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2013 - Present Instructor, Social Psychology (PSY 260 A), Wake Forest University. Duties: designing the course, developing suitable assessments, delivering classes, marking tests/essays, and providing feedback and mentoring for students, supervising teaching assistants. Student evaluation scores were 4.73 (out of 5) for instructor and 4 (out of 5) for course. 2012 - 2013 Guest Lectures, Wake Forest University. The Science of Happiness (PSY 315), class given on self-determination theory. Death (FYS 100), class given on terror management theory. 2008 – 2011 Graduate teaching assistant, Undergraduate workshop on statistics, University of Essex. Duties: assist students with their understanding of factorial ANOVA and multiple linear regression techniques on statistical packages including SPSS and JMP. 2009 – 2010 Graduate demonstrator, Introduction to psychology, University of Essex. Duties: grade essays from first year undergraduate students on a range of topics including social psychology, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology. Spring term 2009 Graduate demonstrator, Social psychology, University of Essex. Duties: assist students with the development of questionnaires on the theory of planned behaviour and assist with the analysis and interpretation of data. GRANTS RECEIVED Immortality Project grant competition, John Templeton Foundation (final round) $500 Postdoctoral Scholar Development Award from Wake Forest University – 2013 £300 Sir Eric Berthoud Travel Grant from the University of Essex – 2011 £500 Experimental Psychology Society Grindley Grant – 2010 $500 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award – 2010 £1000 University of Essex Research Conference fund – 2009 Blackie vitae 4 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Society for Personality and Social Psychology Association for Psychological Science .