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Introductory Proseminar
Fall 2009
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~roseman/prosem09.htm
Goals of the Course:
To familiarize students with the work of members of the
department.
To broaden students' knowledge of the different substantive
areas within the field of psychology.
To increase students' understanding of the choices involved
in selecting research questions and methods.
To suggest possible research opportunities for students and
assist them in the eventual selection of a mentor.
Course
Description:
Each week in this course, a different member of the Rutgers-Camden
Psychology Department will talk about his or her work with the students
enrolled in the class. During the first
half of each class meeting, the speaker will present the research that he or
she has done and is now doing. Speakers
may recount how they came to be interested in psychology, and in the research
questions they have sought to answer; the work they have already done; how that
work led to their current research; and, especially, the details of their
current projects. It is hoped
that this will be useful in helping students gain useful insights into the
research process, choose tentative thesis advisors and committee members, and
identify thesis and non-thesis projects on which they might like to work.
The second half of each meeting will be devoted to a class
discussion of the speaker's work, in which the students can ask questions and
offer comments on the research. Each speaker is providing us with a set
of readings about his or her work, and in some cases about the context for this
work, and everyone is expected to have done these readings in advance of the
class in which the speaker is presenting.
To help us achieve our course goals, I ask that each student come to
class prepared to answer 6 questions about each
speaker's
work:
1. What question or questions is the
speaker currently trying to answer in his or her research?
2. Why has the speaker chosen the
methods (s)he is using to answer these question(s)?
3. Is there anything you don't
understand about the speaker’s research?
4. What is most interesting to you about
the speaker's research?
5. Is there anything you might do
differently than the speaker is doing, if you were trying to answer his or her
research question (and why or why not)?
6. If you were to do a study to add to
knowledge in the speaker's research area, what might it be, and why would this
be interest to you and of theoretical and/or practical importance?
Everyone should
be prepared to take part in this discussion, and in reacting to a speaker’s
research you should not hesitate to critique the work or to suggest how this
research might be extended or applied.
Attendance:
To achieve the objectives of this
course, class attendance is essential.
Unless an absence is truly unavoidable, students are expected to come to
every class. Please let me know in
advance, by phone, voicemail, or email, if you will be missing a class session.
Grading:
Grades will be based 25% on class
participation and 75% on a final paper.
I expect the paper will ask you to choose a research area discussed by
one of the speakers, and give an in depth answer to question 6 above. Further details will be provided later in the
semester.
SCHEDULE AS OF 10/31/09
DATE
FACULTY MEMBER & FIELD
READING
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Sep 8 |
Introduction to the
course |
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Sep 14 |
Bill Tucker |
Tucker, W.H. (1994). The Science and Politics of Racial
Research. Tucker, W.H. (2003). A
closer look at the Pioneer Fund: Response to Rushton.
Tucker, W.H. (2009). The Cattell
Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology. |
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Sep 21 |
Sean Duffy |
Shepard, R. (1987).
Toward a universal law of generalization for the psychological sciences. Science,
237, 1317-1323. Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. (in press). Cultural modes of seeing through
cultural modes of being: Cultural influences on visual attention. To appear
in E. Balcetis & G.D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual
Perception. Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., & Uchida, Y. (2007). Self
as a cultural mode of being. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology.
Shweder, R.A. (1990). Cultural psychology - What is
it? In Stigler, J.W., Shweder, R.A. and Herdt, G. (Eds.) Cultural
Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development (pp. 1-43). |
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Sep 28 |
Mary Bravo |
Wolfe, J.M., Kluender, K.R., Levi, D.M., Bartoshuk,
L.M., Herz, R.S., Klatzky,
R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2006). Sensation
& Perception. Bravo, M.J. & Farid, H. (2008). A scale invariant measure of image
clutter. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-9. Bravo, M.J. & Farid, H. (2009). The specificity of the search template.
Journal of Vision, 9, 1-9. |
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Oct. 5 |
Bill Whitlow Reasoning &
Decision Making |
Harris, J.A. (2006).
Elemental representations of stimuli in associative learning. Psychological
Review, 113, 584-605. Melchers, K.G.,
Shanks, D.R. & Lachnit, H. (2008). Stimulus
coding in human associative learning: Flexible representations of parts and
wholes. Behavioral Processes, 77, 413-427. Whitlow, J.W. Jr.,
(2009). The effect of outcome valence
on positive and negative patterning in human causal reasoning. Manuscript
submitted for publication. |
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Oct 15 |
Sarah Allred |
Allred, S. R., & Jagadeesh,
B. (2007). Quantitative comparison between neural response in macaque
inferotemporal cortex and behavioral discrimination
of photographic images Journal of Neurophysiology, 98, 1263 - 1277. Allred, S. R. & Brainard, D. H. (2009). Contrast, constancy, and measurements of perceived lightness under
parametric manipulation of surface slant and surface reflectance. Journal
of the Optical Society of Allred, S. R. (2009). Approaching color with Bayesian algorithms. In G. Hatfield &
S. R. Allred, Visual experience: Sensation, cognition and constancy (book
proposal) |
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Oct 19 |
Michelle Verges |
Estes, Z., Verges, M., & Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Head up, foot down: Object words orient attention to the
objects' typical location. Psychological
Science, 19, 93-97. Verges, M., & Duffy, S.
(2009). Spatial representations elicit dual-coding effects in mental imagery. Cognitive
Science, 33, 1157-1172. |
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Oct 26 |
Naomi Marmorstein |
Glantz. M.D. & Leshner,
A.I. (2000). Drug use and developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 795-814.
Marmorstein, N.R. (in press). Longitudinal
associations between alcohol problems and depressive symptoms: Early
adolescence through early adulthood. Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research, 33, 49-59. Marmorstein, N.R., Iacono,
W.G., & McGue, M. (2009). Alcohol and illicit
drug dependence among parents: Associations with offspring externalizing
disorders. Psychological Medicine, 39,
149-155. |
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Nov 2 |
Dan Hart |
Evans, G.W. (2004).
The environment of childhood poverty. American
Psychologist, 59, 77-92. Hart, D., Eisenberg,
N., & Valiente, C. (2007). Personality change
at the intersection of autonomic arousal and stress. Psychological Science, 18, 492-497. Hart, D., Atkins, R.
& Matsuba, M. K. (2008). The association of
neighborhood poverty with personality change in childhood. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 94, 1048-1061. Hart, D., & Marmorstein, N. (2009). Neighborhoods
and genes and everything in between: Understanding adolescent aggression in
social and biological contexts. Developmental
Psychopathology, 21,
961-73. |
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Nov 9 |
Charlotte Markey |
Friedman, H.S., &
Adler, N. E. (2007). The history and background of health psychology. In H.
S. Friedman & R. C. Silver (Eds.) Foundations
of health psychology (pp. 3-18).
Markey, C.N., Markey, C. N. &
Markey, P. M. (2009). Body Image.
In. R. Levesque (Ed.) Encyclopedia
of Adolescence. Manuscript in
preparation. |
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Nov 16 |
Mike Wogan Psychology & Law |
Wogan, M., & MacKenzie,
M. (2002). Anti-social personality disorder in a sample of imprisoned
non-sex, non-arson adult male offenders. Journal
of Offender Rehabilitation, 35, 31-49. Wogan, M., & MacKenzie,
M. (2007). An inmate classification system based on PCL: SV factors scores in
a sample of prison inmates. Journal of
Offender Rehabilitation, 44, 25-42. Wogan, M. (2009). PCL-R and PCL:SV. Handout. |
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Nov 23 |
Luis Garcia |
Garcia,
L., Cavalie, C., Goins,
L., King, E. (2008). Enjoyment of
sexual activities and attributions of enjoyment to the other gender. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality,
17, 173-182. Garcia,
L., & Markey, C. (2007). Matching
in sexual experience for married, cohabiting, and dating couples. Journal
of Sex Research, 44, 1-6. Garcia,
L. (2006). Perceptions of sexual
experience and preferences for dating and marriage. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 15, 31-41. Garcia, L. (1983).
Sexual stereotypes and attributions about sexual arousal. Journal of Sex Research, 19, 366-375. Garcia, L. & Derfel, B. (1983). Perception of sexual experience: The
impact of nonverbal behavior. Sex
Roles: A Journal of Research, 9, 871-878. Garcia, L. (2006).
Perceptions of sexual experience and preferences for dating and marriage. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 15,
85-94. Garcia, L. & Carrigan, D. (1998). Individual and gender differences in
sexual self-perceptions. Journal of
Psychology and Human Sexuality, 10, 59-70. Garcia, L., Cieselka, C., & Fuchs, D. (1999). Social comparison
processes in sexual self-perception,
Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 11, 35-42. Garcia, L. & Hoskins,
R. (2001). Actual-ideal self discrepancy and sexual esteem and depression. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality,
13, 49-61. |
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Nov 30 |
Ira Roseman |
Roseman, I.J. (2001).
A model of appraisal in the emotion system. In K.R. Scherer, A. Schorr & T. Johnstone
(Eds.), Appraisal Processes in Emotion
(pp. 68-91).
Roseman, Roseman, I.J., Swartz,
T.S., Newman, L., & Nichols, N. (2009). Phenomenology, behaviors, and
goals also differentiate positive emotions.
Unpublished Manuscript, |
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Dec 7 |
Conclusion |
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