Research Interests

Psychology Department Faculty Information

• Emily Stark, Assistant Professor

  Degree: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

  Research Interests:

  I am a social psychologist, and I specifically study how people think about uncertainty and risk and how they make decisions. I am also interested in how emotions influence our decision making and our perception of risk.

  Current Research:

  I am studying how people think about and make choices in response to options framed as gains or losses, and I am extending this to study choices in applied domains, such as choosing healthy or unhealthy behaviors, or choosing productive or unproductive study habits. I also examine how emotions underlie and influence attitudes, specifically toward health behaviors and products (such as drinking alcohol or smoking). I am also involved in a research study of children who experienced the St. Peter tornado in 1998, to understand how parents and children remember and discuss a traumatic event.

  Selected publications / Selected presentations:

  • Bauer, P., Stark, E., Lukowski, A., Rademacher, J., Van Abbema, D., & Ackil, J. (2005). Working together to make sense of the past: Mothers’ and children’s use of internal states language in conversations about traumatic and nontraumatic events. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 463-488.
  • Rothman, A.J., Stark, E., & Salovey, P. (in press). Using message framing to promote healthy behavior: A guide to best practices. Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Diseases, Volume 3. Institute for Disease Management, Los Altos, California.
  • Stark, E., Borgida, E., Kim, A., & Pickens, B. (in press). Understanding public attitudes toward tobacco harm reduction: The role of attitude structure. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Stark E., Kim., A., Miller, C., & Borgida, E. (2008). Effects of including a graphic warning label in advertisements for tobacco products: Implications for persuasion. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(2) 281-293.

  Current courses:

  • Psyc 101 Introduction to Psychology
  • Psyc 211 Research Methods and Design
  • Psyc 340 Social Psychology
  • Psyc 433/533 Child Psychology

• Rosemary Krawczyk, Professor

  Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984

  Area(s) of specialization (e.g., areas of interest):

  Developmental psychology, psychology of women

  Research Interests:

  • Gender development and gender socialization
  • Gender and achievement
  • Friendship development among very young children

  Current research:

  • What characterizes effective mentoring for women in the sciences?

  Selected publications / Selected presentations:

  • Krawczyk, R. (2005, Oct.). The math gene: faulty assumptions and new perspectives.In G. Grossi (Chair), Are there inherent sex differences in scientific ability?: A critical review of the literature. Symposium conducted at the conference on Women, Gender, and Science, New Paltz, New York.
  • Krawczyk, R. (2005, Oct.). Mentoring women toward achievement: Characteristics of effective mentors. In A. Nash (Chair), AOld (and young) girls’ networks and women-friendly labs: Survival strategies of women scientists. Symposium conducted at the conference on Women, Gender, and Science, New Paltz, New York.

  Current courses:

  • Psyc 4/533 Child Psychology
  • Psyc 4/560 Psychology of Women
  • Psyc 4/597 Field Experience

• Sarah K. Sifers, Ph.D., LP

  Asscociate Professor

  Degree: Ph.D. Clinical Child Psychology, University of Kansas, 2003

  Research Interests:

  • Stress and Resiliency- I study stress and resilience in children and adolescents. That means I want to know what enables youth who have experienced stressful life events (parental divorce, moving, etc.) to be okay after the event. In particular, I’m interested in evaluating the effectiveness of programs that attempt to foster resilience in youth.

  • Ethics- I’m interested in ethics in psychology. In particular, I am interested in the ethics of reporting methodology and cultural competence of psychologists.

  Current Projects:

  • Evaluation of the Girls on the Run program through the Mankato YWCA – I am collaborating with the Mankato, MN YWCA in evaluating the effectiveness of the Girls on the Run program in fostering positive body image and healthy attitudes in pre-adolescent girls.
  • Evaluation of the Big Brothers/Sisters program through the YMCA – I am collaborating with the Mankato, MN YMCA in evaluating the effectiveness of their Big Brothers/Sisters program from the perspective of both the mentees and mentors.
  • Evaluation of the BackPack Buddies Program – I am partnering with Feeding Our Communities, the United Way, and Franklin Elementary in evaluating the impact of sending food home with kids over breaks and weekends on school performance, behavior, and health.

  Selected Publications:

  • Sifers, S. K. (2009). Child care psychology. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.

  • Warren, J. S., Jackson, Y., & Sifers, S. K. (2009). Social support provisions as differential predictors of adaptive outcomes in young adolescents. Journal of Community Psychology, 37, 106-121.

  • Sifers, S. K. (2007, September). Another Parenting Book? [Review of the book Parenting your out– of–control child: An effective, easy–to–use program for teaching self-control]. PsycCritiques, 52 (37), article 12. Retrieved November 2, 2007, from http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.showContent&id=2007–11566–001&view=fulltext&format=html.

  • Cisler, J. M., Barnes, A. C., Farnsworth, D., & Sifers, S. K. (2007). Reporting practices of psychological research using a wait-list control: Current state and suggestions for improvement. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 16, 34-42.

  • Sifers, S. K., Costello, T. W., & Costello, J. T. (2006). Abnormal Psychology. New York: Harper Collins.

  Courses Taught:

  • Child Care Psychology

  • Standards and Ethics in Psychology

  • Psychology

  • Adolescent Psychology

  • Abnormal Psychology

  • Tests and Measures in Education

• Dr. Andi Rittman Lassiter

  Degree: Ph.D. George Mason University 2004

  Area(s) of specialization (e.g., areas of interest):

  Industrial/Organizational Psychology

  Research Interests:

  • Training and Development
  • Team performance and Leadership
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Dispersed performance

  Selected publications / Selected presentations:

  • Orvis, K.L & Lassiter, A.L.R. (2007) Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Best Practices and Principles for Insturctors. An edited book published by IGI Global; Hershey, PA.

  • Schaab, B.B., Dressel, J.D., Sabol, M.A., Rittman, A.L. (2007)Performance in Non-Face-to-Face Collaborative Information Environments.  U. S. Army Research Institute for the Behavior and Social Sciences, Research Report 1865.

  • Jones, R.G., Chomiak, M., Rittman, A., & Green, T. (2006). Distinguishing motive through perception of emotions, Psichothema, 67-71.

  Courses taught

  • Employee Selection
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Group Psychology
  • Personnel Training
  • History of Psychology

• Dawn N. Albertson, Ph.D.

  Degree: Ph.D. in  Cellular & Clinical Neurobiology
  Wayne State University School of Medicine, 2005

  Area(s) of specialization:

  I am focused on the biological basis of behavior, in particular the molecular and genetic contributions.  For the last 8 years my focus has been on neuropsychopharmacology and the molecular basis of drug abuse and addiction.

  Research Interests:

  • Although drug abuse and addiction has been studied extensively for decades, the underlying molecular mechanisms are still not well understood.  Drug abuse is thought to induce long-term cellular and behavioral adaptations as a result of alterations in gene expression.  With the recent sequencing of the human genome, we now have the unique opportunity to catalogue and understand the molecular consequences of drug abuse and addiction. 

  • Until recently, the dogma of drug abuse research stated that all drugs of abuse, regardless of type, activate the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic reward pathway resulting in a flood of dopamine to the brain's pleasure center (the nucleus accumbens).  This dopamine flood has been directly associated with the pleasurable feelings and reinforcing properties of drug administration. 

  • In my previous research, we utilized human postmortem brain to examine gene expression changes that resulted from the chronic administration of cocaine and heroin - two drugs of abuse that work by very different mechanisms.  Our data suggest that the profiles of nucleus accumbens gene expression associated with chronic heroin or cocaine abuse are largely unique, despite what are thought to be common effects of these drugs on dopamine neurotransmission in this brain region.  This data necessitates a reexamination of our current assumptions about the commonality of molecular mechanisms associated with all abused substances.

  Current research:

  As a new faculty member, my research agenda is in the developmental stages but now finding myself in the Midwest, I am interested in expanding my previous research beyond cocaine and heroin and into studies of methamphetamine. 

  Selected publications / Selected presentations:

  • Albertson, D. N., Schmidt, C. J., Kapatos, G., & Bannon, M. J.  (2006).  Comparison of Gene Expression Profiles from the Nucleus Accumbens of Human Cocaine and Heroin Abusers.  Submitted to Neuropsychopharmacology.
  • Bannon, M. J., Kapatos, G., & Albertson, D. N.  (2005).  Gene Expression Profiling in the Brains of Human Cocaine Abusers.  Addiction Biology, 10(1), 119-26.
  • Albertson, D. N., Pruetz, B., Schmidt, C. J., Kuhn, D. M., Kapatos, G., & Bannon, M. J.  (2004).  Gene expression profile of the nucleus accumbens of human cocaine abusers: Evidence for dysregulation of myelin.  Journal of Neurochemistry, 88(5), 1211-9.

  Courses taught

  • PSYC 101 - Introduction to Psychology
  • PSYC 420 - Drugs and Behavior
  • PSYC 421 - Biopsychology (Fall 2006)
  • PSYC 429 - Drug Dependence
  • PSYC 490 - Drug and Alcohol Workshop
  • Summer workshop - Drugs & Your Brain

• Dan Sachau, Professor, Director of the Graduate Program in I/O Psychology

  Degree: Ph.D., Psychology, University of Utah, 1989

  Area(s) of specialization (e.g., areas of interest):

  Social Psychology,

  Research Interests:

  • Attitude
  • Motivation
  • Self-presentationa strategies
  • I/O psychology

  Current research:

  I am working on three research topics at the moment.   First, I am studying the planning fallacy in the workplace.  The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate one's own task completion times.    My second area of interest is  escalating consumer expectations.  I am testing the exptent to which escalating expectations reduce satisfaction.  My third area of interest is self-presentaion strategies.  I am collaborating with Bryan Gibson at Central Michigan University and we are studying the benefits and costs of self-effacing strategies including sandbagging (claiming to be less capable that you really are) and self -handicapping. 

  Courses taught:

  • Organization Development
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Social Psychology
  • Marketing Psychology
  • Motivation

• Vinai Norasakkunkit, Ph.D.

  Degree, institution, year awarded

  Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), University of Massachusetts - Boston, 2003

  Area(s) of specialization (e.g., areas of interest)

  • cultural psychology
  • culture and self
  • intersection between social psychology and clinical psychology in cross-cultural perspective
  • intersection of social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics
  • Examining the role of implicit values and attitudes versus explicit values and attitudes in culturally patterned psychological processes and cultural change
  • Understanding the nature of Japanese and American mentalities

  Research Interests

  Cultural influences on: 1) self-perception, 2) basic cognition and attention, 3) emotional tendencies, 4) motivational tendencies, 5) social cognition, 6) concepts of well-being, and 6) etiology and cognitive manifestations of emotional distress (e.g., social anxiety and depression).

  Most of the data collection is between US and Japan.

  Current research

  I am currently working on several research projects, including ones that I am collaborating with graduate and undergraduate students. However, I have three main projects that I am personally working on with more projects under development. The three projects are summarized below:
  
  Project title: Standardizing Cultural Priming Procedure in the United States and Japan
  Summary: The following study addresses a movement in cross-cultural psychological research towards being able to treat culture as a true independent variable by utilizing an experimental method called cultural priming (i.e., deliberately activating one or another cultural mode of thought and being able to randomly assign participants to one of these conditions). While social cognition research in cultural priming has established evidence that Americans can be effectively primed to think relatively more like an Easterner or relatively more like a Westerner, the same methods do not seem to be effective in priming Japanese populations to think relatively more like an Easterner or relatively more like a Westerner (see Norasakkunkit, 2003). The current study attempts to develop an equally effective standardized priming method for both Japanese and American populations so that such a method can be used for future cross-cultural research, especially since cross-cultural research traditionally requires equivalency of methods to produce credible conclusions about cross-cultural differences or similarities.

  Project title: Self-focused social anxiety and other-focused social-anxiety: Culture as a mediator between attention strategies and social anxiety.
  Summary: The purpose of this study is to attempt to examine how culture mediates perceptual and attentional processes among individuals who score high on social anxiety in order to test the thesis that socially anxious individuals in the United States and Japan may be adopting perceptual and attentional strategies afforded by their respective cultures in excessive ways.

  Project title: The Cultural Construction of Emotion and Subjective Well-Being:
  The Role of Social Situations in Japan and the United States in Shaping Emotional Experience and Subjective Well-Being.
  Summary: The aim of the current proposed cross-national study is to examine the impact of specific cultural situations and loose sets of meanings and practices that give rise to culturally variable emotions and emotional tendencies. It is hoped that this study will give further support to the view that human diversity is also represented by psychological diversity, which includes diversity in experiencing and expressing divergent categories of emotions. Furthermore, this study should provide support that the culturally variable experience and expression of particular categories of emotions are products of participating in a world of situations and loose sets of meanings and practices that shape natural emotional tendencies and implicit preferences for culturally congruent emotions and their relationship to emotional well-being.

  Other projects in the early stages

  • Examining the social, economic, environmental, and technological factors that contribute to a social problem called “Hikikomori” in Japan and its possible tendencies in the United States.
  • Examining the role of valence (positive versus negative) in cultural images e.g., “Declaration of Independence” versus “Slavery”) as visual stimuli for priming culturally patterned modes of thought.
  • Examining the role of implicit nationalism versus explicit nationalism and genuine patriotism (the predictive opposite of nationalism) in the success of adapting to a dramatically different culture.
  • Understanding the relationship between cognitive dissonance and capacity to adjust to difficult situations from a cultural framework.

  Selected publications / Selected presentations

  • Norasakkunkit, V., & Kalick, M.S. (under review). Self-construal priming and emotional distress: Testing for cultural biases in the concept of distress and culture-related correlates of well-being. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
  • Lee, Y-T., Norasakkunkit, V, Liu, Li, Zhang, J, & M. Zhou (under review). Taoist altruism and wateristic personality: East and West. In Vakoch, D. (Ed)’s Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective. .
  • Uchida, Y., Norasakkunkit, V., & Kitayama, S. (2004). Cultural constructions of happiness: Theory and empirical evidence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 5, 223-239.
    Penney, S., Norasakkunkit, V., Leigh, J. (2002). New leaders for a new century. Building Leadership Bridges.
  • Norasakkunkit, V., & Kalick, M.S. (2002). Culture, ethnicity, and emotional distress measures: The role of self-construal and self-enhancement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33 (1), 56-70.
    Kitayama, S., Markus, H.R., Matsumoto, H., & Norasakkunkit, V. (1997). Individual and collective processes in the construction of self: self-enhancement in the United States and self-criticism in Japan. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72 (6), 1245-1267.

  Courses taught

  • Cultural Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistics
  • Research Methods and Design
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • History of Psychology

  Link to personal website: http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~norasv

• Kevin J. Filter, Assistant Professor

  Degree, institution, year awarded

  Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2004

  Area(s) of specialization

  • School Psychology
  • School-wide Positive Behavior Support
  • Functional Behavioral Assessment
  • Curriculum-Based Measurement

  Research Interests

  • Academic interventions for problem behavior
  • Validity of functional behavioral assessment
  • Effective interventions in school-wide positive behavior support
  • Systems change and the role of the school psychologist

  Current research

  • What features of functionally aversive stimuli in applied settings, particularly academic classrooms, can be modified to improve behavior?
  • How broadly do findings from traditional functional analyses generalize in applied contexts?
  • How effective are function-based behavior interventions relative to non-function-based behavior interventions?

  Selected publications

  • Filter, K. J., McKenna, M. K., Benedict, E. A., Horner, R. H., Todd, A. W., & Watson, J. (In Press). Check in/ Check out: A Post-Hoc Evaluation of an Efficient, Secondary-Level Targeted Intervention for Reducing Problem Behaviors in Schools. Education and Treatment of Children.
  • Calderhead, W., Filter, K. J., & Albin, R. (In Press; March 2006). Incremental effects of interspersed math items on task-related behavior. Journal of Behavioral Education.
  • Patten, C. A., Martin, J. E., Filter, K. J., & Wolter, T. D. (2002). Utility and accuracy of collateral reports of smoking status among 256 abstinent alcoholic smokers treated for smoking cessation. Addictive Behaviors, 27, 687-696.

  Selected presentations

  • Filter, K. J., Horner, R. H., McKenna, M. K., Todd, A. W., & Fairbanks, S. (2006). Check in/ Check out: Empirical Support for a Secondary-Level, Targeted Intervention. Symposium Presentation at the 3rd Annual Convention for the Association for Positive Behavior Support, Reno, NV.
  • Filter, K. J. (2005). The Functional Relationship Between Problem Behavior and Academic Variables. Symposium Presentation at the 37th Annual Convention for the National Association of School Psychologists, Atlanta, GA.
  • Filter, K. J. (2004). School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: An Overview. Presentation at the Minnesota Department of Education Conference for Special Education, Duluth, MN.
  • Filter, K. J., & Calderhead, W. (2002). Incremental effects of interspersed math items on task-related behavior. Symposium Presentation at the 28th Annual Convention for the Association for Behavior Analysis, Toronto, Ontario.

  Courses taught

  • PSYC 101 Psychology
  • PSYC 103 Psychology Today
  • PSYC 303 Introduction to Professional Psychology
  • PSYC 4/576 Behavior Therapy
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• Barry J. Ries, Ph.D.

  Director of Clinical Training
  Degree, institution, year awarded, Ph.D.
  Oklahoma State University 1996

  Area(s) of specialization

  • Clinical Psychology, Anxiety Disorders, Behavioral Medicine
  • Research Interests [can be bulleted points]
  • Adult Anxiety Disorders
  • Pain
  • Behavioral Medicine

  Current research

  • The impact of social anxiety and nonverbal audience feedback on anxiety and attribution in an impromptu speech task
  • Analysis of insight using a behavioral avoidance task: Checkers versus washers.
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters Associated with Physical Health and Health Care Utilization in Rural Primary Care Patients
  • Exposed to a Natural Disaster

  Selected publications / Selected presentations

  • Carter, L. E., McNeil, D. W., Vowles, K. E., Sorrell, J. T., Turk, C. L., Ries, B. J., & Hopko, D. R. (2002) Effects of emotion on pain reports, tolerance and physiology. Pain Research and Management, 7, 21 – 30.
  • Boone, M.L., McNeil, D W., Masia, C., Turk, C.L., Carter, L.E., Ries, B.J., Lewin, M. R. (1999). Multimodal comparisons of social phobia subtypes and avoidant personality disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 13, 271-292.
  • Ries, B. J., McNeil, D. W., Boone, M. L, Turk, C. L, Carter, L. E., & Heimberg, R. G. (1998). Assessment of contemporary social phobia verbal report instruments. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 983 - 994.
  • Cisler, J. M., Widner, R. J., Powers, S., Brockel, M., Farnsworth, D., & Ries, B. J. (2005, November). Examining Information Processing in Spider Phobia Using the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Paradigm. Presented at the 39th Annual Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies,Washington, D.C.
  • Farnsworth, D., Wright, J., Brocket, M., Cisler, J., & Ries, B. J. (2005, November) Math Performance as a Function of Math Anxiety and Arousal Performance Theory. Presented at the 39th Annual Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C.
  • Nelson, E. A., Kraft J. E., Peters, C. L., & Ries, B. J. (2005, November). Social Anxiety and the Recall of Interpersonal Information as a Function of Attractiveness of Conversation Partners. Presented at the 39th Annual Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C.

  Courses taught

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Clinical Psychopathology and Behavioral Therapy
  • Clinical Case Management

• Dr. Jeffrey A. Buchanan

  Degree: Ph.D., University of Nevada, 2004

  Area(s) of specialization:

  • Applied Behavior Analysis, Alzheimer's disease and related conditions

  • Research Interests [can be bulleted points]

  • Management of challenging behaviors in dementia patients

  • Identification of preferences in nonverbal populations

  • Education of caregivers of persons with dementia

  • Ageism

  Current research:

  My research interests are in the general area of clinical geropsychology. My lab is currently working on projects that involve investigating how professional caregivers communicate with older adults with dementia and how different kinds of communication patterns effect patient behavior (e.g., compliance with instructions, aggressive behavior). Regarding communication, we have become particularly interested in the phenomenon of Elderspeak (i.e., talking to elders as if they were young children) and how older adults perceive and react to this kind of communication. I am also interested in evaluating interventions to maintain memory functioning in individuals with conditions that cause progressive dementia.

  Selected Publications:

  • Klein, L & Buchanan, J.A. (2009). Psychometric properties of the Pyramids and Palm Trees Test. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 803-808.

  • Fisher, J.E., Buchanan, J.A., & Cherup, S.M. (2008). Stimulus preference assessment. In W. O’Donohue & J.E. Fisher (Eds.), Cognitive–Behavior Therapy: Applying empirically supported techniques in your practice (pp. 523-528). N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

  • Buchanan, J.A., Husfeldt, J.D., Berg, T.M., & Houlihan, D. D. Publication (2008). Trends in Behavioral Gerontology in the Past 25 Years: Are the Elderly Still an Understudied Population in Behavioral Research? Behavioral Interventions, 23, 65-74.

  • Buchanan, J.A. & Houlihan, D. (2008). The use of in vivo desensitization for the treatment of a specific phobia of earthworms. Clinical Case Studies, 7,12-24.

  • Vandermay, J., Houlihan, D., Klein, L., Lewinski, W., & Buchanan, J. (2008). Command sequence in police encounters: Searching for a linguistic fingerprint. Law Enforcement Executive Forum, 8(3), 141-151.

  • Schwarzkopf, E.N., Houlihan, D.D., Kolb, K., Lewinski, W., Buchanan, J.A., & Christenson, A. (2008). Command types used in police encounters. Law Enforcement Executive Forum, 8, 99-114.

  • Buchanan, J.A., Bonsall-Hoekstra, A, & Rodman, J.L. (2007) Termination of psychotherapy with older adults. In M. Cucciare & W.T. O’Donohue (Eds.) Terminating psychotherapy: A clinician’s guide (pp. 283-302). Routledge Publishing.

  • Buchanan, J.A., Christenson, A.M., Ostrom, C., & Hofman, N. (2007). Non–pharmacological interventions for aggression in persons with dementia: A review of the literature. The Behavior Analyst Today, 8, 413-425.

  • Fisher, J.E., Yury, C. ∓ Buchanan, J.A. (2006). Dementia. In J.E. Fisher & W. O’Donohue (Eds.) Practitioner’s guide to evidence-based psychotherapy. New York: Springer.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2006). A Review of Behavioral Treatments for Persons with Dementia. The Behavior Analyst Today, 7, 521-537.

  Selection of recent presentations:

  • Buchanan, J.A., Christenson, A., Houlihan, D., Fairchild, K., Fiksdal, B, & Surla, C. (2009, September). Variables related to compliance during personal cares between nursing home staff and residents with cognitive impairment. Invited paper presentation at the meeting of the Minnesota Northland Association of Behavior Analysis, St. Cloud, MN.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2009, May). Maintaining a healthy brain. Invited presentation at the 2009 Mankato Senior Expo, Mankato, MN.

  • Surla, C., Fairchild, K, Fiksdal, B., & Buchanan J.A. (2009, March). A Case Study of a Young Woman with a Phobia of Spiders. Paper presented at the 4th annual Midwestern Conference on Professional Psychology, Owatonna, MN.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2009, January). Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Invited presentation as part of the VINE Faith in Action “Competent Caregiver” series, Mankato, MN.

  • Buchanan, J.A., Christenson, A., & Houlihan, D. (2008, October). An analysis of command types and compliance during personal cares between nursing home staff and residents with cognitive impairment. Invited paper presentation at the meeting of the Mid-American Association of Behavior Analysis, Champaign, IL.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2008, May). An overview of aging and mental health: We need to know what is normal before we can determine what is “abnormal”. Invited presentation at the Clinical Forum on Mental Health conference, Bismarck, ND.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2007, October). Counseling elders. Presentation at the meeting of the Minnesota Counseling Association, Minneapolis, MN.

  • Buchanan, J.A. (2007, April). Mental health issues in the geriatric population. Presentation at the 7th annual Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Workshop, Immanuel St. Joseph’s Hospital, Mankato, MN.

  • Buchanan, J.A. & Berg, T. (2005, October). Strategies for managing challenging behaviors in persons with dementia. Presentation at the 11th annual Alzheimer’s and Dementias conference, Mankato, MN.

  Courses taught:

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Psychology of Aging
  • Behavioral Assessment
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• Dr. Lisa M. Perez

  Degree: Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1998

  Area(s) of specialization:

  • Industrial-Organizational Psychology

  Research Interests:

  • Occupational Stress

  • Health ∓ Safety in the Workplace

  • Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

  • Interpersonal Conflict/Incivility in the Workplace

  • Diversity in the Workplace

  Current research:

  • Work-related stress experienced by law enforcement officers investigating child pornography and child sexual abuse cases

  • The relationship of work and leisure activities to recovery from stressful work experiences

  • The role of individual differences in aiding or hindering recovery from stressful work experiences

  • Causes and consequences of negative interpersonal interactions in the workplace (incivility, conflict, emotional labor)

  Selected publications / Selected presentations:

  • Perez, L.M., Jones, J.,Englert, D. R., & Sachau, D. Secondary traumatic stress and burnout among law enforcement investigators exposed to disturbing media images. Submitted to Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Revise and resubmit.

  • Sachau, D., Gertz, J., Johnson, A., Matsch, M., Perez, L. M., & Englert, D. Work-life conflict and organizational support in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Submitted to Military Psychology. Revise and resubmit.

  • Guidroz, A. M., Wang, M., & Perez, L.M. Emotional exhaustion as a mediator between interpersonal conflict and outcomes in nurses: Does the source of conflict matter? Manuscript in preparation.

  • Lins, A., & Perez, L. M. (2009, November). The role of emotional labor in the relationship between incivility and psychological distress. Poster presented at the 8^th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

  • Fox, M., Tange, A., & Perez, L. (2008, October). Conflict, workload and health: The moderating effects of recovery experiences. Presentation at the Midwest Academy of Management Conference, St. Louis, MO.

  • Jones, J., Perez, L. M., Sachau, D., & Englert, D. (2008, October). Secondary traumatic stress, burnout and turnover intentions among law enforcement agents exposed to violent and disturbing media images. Presentation at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, Walnut Creek, CA.

  • Durando, M. W., & Perez, L. M. (2008, March). Exploring the link between incivility and counterproductive work behavior. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, Washington, DC.

  • Tange, A., & Perez, L. M. (2008, March). Personality as a moderator of the job stress-need for recovery relationship. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Industrial/Organizational - Organizational Behavior Graduate Student Conference, Denver CO.

  • Guidroz, A. M., Perez, L. M., & Wang, M. (2006, May). Conflict and emotional exhaustion: Another look at the burnout progression. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.

  • Perez, L. M., & Riley, R. P. (2006, March). Coping with workplace incivility: Effects on psychological distress and counterproductivity. Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, Miami, FL.

  • Smith, C. S., Folkard, S., Schmeider, R., Parra, L. F., Spelten, E., Almiral, H., Sen, R., Sahu, S., Perez, L. M., & Tisak, J. (2002). Investigation of morning-evening orientation in six countries using the preferences scale. Personality & Individual Differences, 32, 949-968.

  • Stanton, J. M., Bachiochi, P. D., Robie, C., Perez, L. M., & Smith, P. C. (2002). Revising the JDI Work Subscale: Insights into stress and control. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 62, 877-895.

  Courses taught:

  • PSYC 101 – Introduction to Psychology

  • PSYC 201 – Statistics

  • PSYC 4/519 – Psychometric Theory

  • PSYC 4/563 – Survey of Industrial-Organizational Psychology

  • PSYC 624 – Seminar: Stress & Health in the Workplace

  • PSYC 695/697 – Research in I/O Psychology

• Dr. Kristie L. Campana

  Degree: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2009

  Area(s) of specialization:

  • Industrial-Organizational Psychology

  Research Interests:

  • Counterproductive Work Behaviors

  • Leadership

  • Gender differences in the workplace

  • Unproctored Internet Testing

  Currently, I am focused on three areas in my research.  First, I am interested in how workplace mistreatment (e.g. bullying, incivility) affect how group members perform together. Second, I am interested in how gender affects individual experiences in the workplace.  Third, I am interested in selection testing, and specifically, how internet testing can affect applicant behaviors and reactions.

  Courses taught:

  • Psyc101 – Introduction to Psychology

  • Psyc211 – Research Methods and Design (undergraduate)

  • Psyc340 – Social Psychology

  • Psyc456 – Personality Psychology

  • Psyc610 – Research Design and Statistics (graduate)