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Recent Human Development faculty publications, presentations and awards.
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April 2012
Publications
Reed, A.E., Mikels, J.A., & Löckenhoff, C.E. (2012). Choosing with confidence: Self-efficacy and preferences for choices. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(2), 173–180.
Mendle, J., Harden, K. P., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Graber, J.A. (2012). Peer relationships and depressive symptomatology in boys at puberty. Developmental Psychology, 48, 429-435.
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March 2012
Mendle, J., & Ferrero, J. (2012). Detrimental psychological outcomes associated with pubertal timing in adolescent boys. Developmental Review, 32, 49-66.
Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (2012). Interviewing witnesses and victims. In G. Davies & A. R. Beech (Eds.), Forensic psychology: Crime, justice, law, interventions (pp. 115-134). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Brainerd, C. J. , Reyna, V. F., & Holliday, R. E. (2012). Development of recollection: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective. In S. Ghetti & P.J. Bauer (Eds.), Origins and development of recollection: Perspectives from psychology and neuroscience (pp. 101-142). New York: Oxford University Press.
Lee, Y.S., Turkeltaub, P., Granger, R.H. and Raizada, R.D.S. (2012). Categorical speech processing in Broca's area: An fMRI study using multivariate pattern-based analysis. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(11), 3942-3948.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/11/3942
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Holliday, R.E., & Nakamura, K. (2112). Overdistribution in source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 413-439.
Williams, W.W. & Ceci, S.J. (2012). When Scientists Choose Motherhood. American Scientist, 100, 138-145.
Harden, K.P., & Mendle, J. (2012). Gene-environment interplay in the association between pubertal timing and delinquency in adolescent girls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 73-87.
Vrangalova, Z., & Savin-Williams, R.C. (2012). Mostly Heterosexual and Mostly Gay/Lesbian: Evidence for New Sexual Orientation Identities. Archives of Sexual Behavior [online-first]. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-012-9921-y.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Terraciano, A., Ferrucci, L., & Costa. (2012). Five-Factor Personality Traits and Age Trajectories of Self-Rated Health: The Role of Question Framing. Journal of Personality 80(2), 375-401.
Presentations
Mendle, J., van Ryzin, M., Natsuaki, M.N., & Leve, L.D. (2012). Pubertal development and internalizing among girls in foster care. Symposium presentation at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Vancouver, B.C.
Awards
Karl Pillemer received the annual award from the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity at Hunter College in recognition of his research in gerontology, March 2012.
Other
Corinna Loeckenhoff has recent media coverage of her work at “Bankrate.com”.
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/make-investing-decisions-any-age-1.aspx
Steve Hamilton organized and chaired two sessions at the Society for Research on Adolescence meeting in Vancouver, March 2012.
- Paper Symposium: M.A. Hamilton, C.F., Ana Lazzaretti, & S. Koller. Social inventions in different countries to improve the transition to adulthood
- Roundtable: M.A. Hamilton, R. Larson, D. DuBois, & N. Yohalem. Linking research with the practice of youth development
In addition, he co-authored a poster with Rachel Sumner: Are school-related jobs better?
HD Scholarship
February 2012
Presentations
Löckenhoff, C.E. & Rutt, J.L. (2012). Age, Time, and Decision Making: A Tale of Multiple Mechanisms. Paper presented at the Aging Pre-Conference of the Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Diego, CA.
HD Scholarship
January 2012
Publications
Finkelstein, E.S., Reid, M.C., Kleppinger A., Pillemer, K., & Robison, J. (2012). Are baby boomers who care for their older parents planning for their own future long-term care needs? Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 24, 29-45
Pillemer, K.,Chen, E.K., Van Haitsma, K.S., Teresi, J., Ramirez, M., Silver, S., Sukha, G. & Lachs, M.S. (2012). Resident-to-resident aggression in nursing homes: Results from a qualitative event reconstruction study. The Gerontologist, 52, 24-33.
Thoemmes, F. (December 2011). Comparison of Selected Causality Theories. Das Gesundheitswesen, 73, 880-883.
Raizada, R.D.S. & Connolly, A.C. (2012). What makes different people's representations alike: Neural similarity-space solves the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Advance Online Publication.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00189
Evans, G.W., Fuller-Rowell, T., & Doan, S. (2012). Childhood cumulative risk and obesity: The mediating role of self-regulatory ability. Pediatrics, 129, 1-6.
Pillemer, K. , Meador, R.H., Teresi, J.A., Henderson, C.R., Chen, E.K., Lachs, M.S., Boratgis, G., Silver, S., Eimicke, J.P. (2012). Effects of electronic health information technology implementation on nursing home resident outcomes. Journal of Aging and Health. 24, 92-112.
Hans, V.P., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). To dollars from sense: Qualitative to quantitative translation in jury damage awards. Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-25, Social Sciences Research Network, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1876667.
Reyna, V.F. , Chapman, S., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (2011) (Eds.). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Geary, D.C., Berch, D.B., Boykin, A.W., Embretson, S., Reyna, V., & Siegler, R.S. (2011). Learning mathematics: Findings from the national (United States) mathematics advisory panel. In N. Canto (Ed.), Issues and proposals in mathematics education (pp. 175-221). Lisbon, Portugal: Gulbenkian.
Reyna, V.F. (2011) Across the lifespan. In Fischhoff, B., Brewer, N.T., Downs, J.S. (Eds). Communicating risks and benefits: An evidence-based user's guide (pp.111-119). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration.
Reyna, V.F. (2011). Preface. In Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (Eds.). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association
Reyna, V.F. (2011) Epilogue: Paradoxes of the adolescent brain in cognition, emotion and rationality. In Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (Eds.). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association
Chick, C.F. & Reyna, V.F. (2011). A fuzzy-trace theory of adolescent risk-taking: Beyond self-control and sensation seeking. In Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S., Dougherty, M., & Confrey, J. (Eds.). The adolescent brain: Learning, reasoning, and decision making. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Reyna, V.F. (2011). Perspectives on judgment and decision making as a skill: A fuzzy-trace theory approach. In Dhami, M.K., Schlottmann, A., & Waldmann, M.R.(Eds.), Judgment and decision making as a skill: Learning, development and evolution (pp. 297-298). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Presentations
Rajeev Raizada gave a colloquium at the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, on January 12, 2012. The title of his talk was “Neural population codes: representations, regularities and behavior.”
Rajeev Raizada gave a colloquium at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, on January 24, 2012. The title of his talk was “The brain's linguistic representations: from neural population codes to syllables and semantics.”
Raizada, R.D.S. (2011). A new approach to neural decoding: acting on the similarities between activation patterns, rather than on the patterns themselves". Talk given at the Neural Information Processing Systems 2011 workshop on machine learning and interpretation in neuroimaging, Sierra Nevada, Spain. https://sites.google.com/site/mlini2011
Hans, V.P., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). To dollars from sense: Qualitative to quantitative translation in jury damage awards. Paper presented at the 6th annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Chicago, IL.
Romer, A., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). Gist for risk: Link between impulsivity and fuzzy-trace theory explanations of adolescent risk behavior. Poster to be presented at the 45th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Toronto, Canada.
Reyna, V.F. (2011). Intuitive and unconscious cognitive processes in fuzzy-trace theory: An advanced approach. Paper presented at the 23rd Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making conference, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom.
Reyna, V.F. , Wolf, C.R., & Liberali, J.F. (2011). Visual representations reduce conjunction and disjunction fallacies: Testing the overlapping classes hypothesis of fuzzy-trace theory. Paper presented at the 23rd Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making conference, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom.
Brainerd, C.J. , & Reyna, V.F. (2011). How does emotion affect developmental reversals in false memory? Paper presented as part of the symposium, Children's memory for emotional information, Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Corinna Loeckenhoff is joining the editorial board of Psychology and Aging as a Consulting Editor.
HD Scholarship
December 2011
Publications
Mendle, J., Leve, L.D., van Ryzin, M., Natsuaki, M.N., & Ge, X. (2011). Associations between early life stress, child maltreatment, and pubertal development in foster care girls. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 871-880.
Harden, K.P., Mendle, J., & Kretsch, N. (2012) Environmental and genetic pathways between early pubertal timing and disordered weight control behaviors. Psychological Medicine, 42, 183-193.
Evans, G.W., Brooks-Gunn, B., & Klebanov, P.K. (2011). Stress out the poor: Chronic physiological stress and the income-achievement gap. Community Investments, Federal Bank of San Francisco, 23, 22-27.
Suitor, J.J., Gilligan, M., & Pillemer, K. (2011). Conceptualizing and measuring intergenerational ambivalence in later life. (2011). Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 66:769-781.
Abrahamson, K., Pillemer, K., Sechrist, J., & Suitor, J.J. (2011). Does race influence conflict between nursing home staff and family members of residents? Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 66: 750-755.
Talks and Presentations
Löckenhoff, C.E., O’Donoghue, T., & Dunning, D. (2011). Age differences in temporal discounting of emotional experiences. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
Reed, A.E., Maresca, S.N., & Löckenhoff, C.E.(2011). Who saves the best for last? Age differences in decisions about affective sequences. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
Chen, E.K., Pillemer, K., Van Haitsma, K., Teresi, J.A., & Lachs, M. (November 2011). A descriptive typology of resident to resident aggression in nursing homes. Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
Reid, C., Kwon, R., Parker, S.J., Chen, E.K., & Pillemer, K. (2011). Comparing an adapted (vs. original) self-management pain program: Is adaptation always necessary? Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
Wethington, E., Brennan, T., Kwon, R., Parker, S., & Reid, C. (2011). The relationship between loneliness and chronic pain in a national sample of Americans. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston MA.
Wethington, E., Anderson, B., & Kamarck, T. (2011). Reliability and validity of the life events assessment profile: A new tool for stress research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Boston MA.
HD Scholarship
November 2011
Publications
Ganzel, B. & Morris, P. (2011).Allostasis and the developing human brain: Explicit consideration of implicit models. Development & Psychopathology, 2nd Special Issue on Allostasis, 23, 953-974. (selected to be lead article of this special issue)
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Petersen, R.C., Smith, G.E., & Taub, E.S. (2011). Is the apolipoprotein e genotype a biomarker for mild cognitive impairment? Findings from a nationally representative study. Neuropsychology, 25, 679-689.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Duberstein, P., Friedman, B., & Costa, P.T. Jr. (2011). Five-factor personality traits and subjective health among caregivers: The role of caregiver strain and self-efficacy. Psychology and Aging, 26(3), 592-604.
Natsuaki, M.N., Leve, L.L., & Mendle, J. (2011). Going through the rites of passage: timing and transition of menarche, childhood sexual abuse, and anxiety symptoms in girls. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Special Issue: New Studies to Explain Pubertal Timing Effects,40, 1357-1370.
Talks
Qi Wang gave a talk at the psychology colloquium at Stanford University, on November 9, 2011. The title of her talk was “The totalitarian ego, or not? The cultured self in autobiographical remembering.”
Gary Evans gave a keynote address, “The environment of childhood poverty” to the National Council on Family Relations, Orlando, FL.
Other
Gary Evans was appointed to a second, three year term on the Board of Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences.
Judgment and Decision Making Society, in Seattle.
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Kenney, A.E., Gross, C.J., & Taub, E.S. (2011). Modeling episodic memory declines in Alzheimer’s dementia and mild cognitive impairment: Differential characterization and early identification. Paper.
Gomes, C.F., Stein, L.M., & Brainerd, C.J. (2011). Emotional recall: A dual-trace analysis. Poster.
Reyna, V.F., Kharmats, A., & Pardo, S.T. (2011). Improving health outcomes for adolescents using social cognitive theory and goal-setting: A randomized control trail of the EatFit Curriculum. Paper.
Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Sui, W., Pardo, S.T., & Corbin, J.C. (2011). Delay discounting and reward sensitivity: A fuzzy trace theory approach. Poster.
Reyna, V.F., Hsia, A., Chick, C.F., & Pardo, S.T. (2011). Professional risk takers are more susceptible to framing effects: Expertise and developmental reversals in fuzzy-trace theory. Poster.
Brust, P.G., Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Sui, W., & Corbin, J.C. (2011). The gist of choice: The role of numbers in decision making. Poster.
Wilhelms, E.A., Reyna, V.F., & Brust, P.G. (2011). A better way to assess financial risk and well-being: A reliable and externally valid spendthrift scale. Poster.
Furlan, S., Agnoli, F., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). Time pressure makes intuition evident in probability estimates: Individual differences in ratio bias. Poster.
Reyna, V.F., Wilhelms, E.A., Brust, P.G., Sui, W., & Pardo, S.T. (2011). The gist of delay discounting: Neurobiology and representation. Paper.
HD Scholarship
October 2011
Publications
Löckenhoff, C.E. (2011). Age, time, and decision making: From processing speed to global time horizons. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1235(1), 46-56.
Sechrist, J., Suitor, J., Riffin, C., Taylor-Watson, K., Pillemer, K. (2011). Race and older mothers' differentiation: A sequential quantitative and qualitative analysis. Journal of Family Psychology, Published online Oct 3, 2011
Coccaro, E.F., Ong, A.D., Seroczynski, D. & Bergeman, C.S. (2011). Affective intensity and lability: Heritability in adult male twins. Journal of Affective Disorders, 134, 1-6.
Ong, A.D., Rothstein, J.D., & Uchino, B.N. (2011). Loneliness accentuates age differences in cardiovascular responses to social evaluative threat. Psychology and Aging, 26, 1-9.
Burrow, A.L., & Hill, P.L. (in press). Purpose as a form of identity capital for positive youth adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1196-1206.
Reyna, V.F., Estrada, S.M., DeMarinis, J.A., Myers, R.M., Stanisz, J.M., & Mills, B.A. (2011). Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1125-1142.
Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2011). Dual processes in decision making and developmental neuroscience: A fuzzy-trace model. Developmental Review, 31, 180–206.
Gary Evans gave the 2011 Harold Proshansky Lecture, "The environment of childhood poverty," at the American Psychological Association annual meeting.
Reyna, V.F. (2011, September). Risk, rationality and neurodevelopment. Paper presented a Society for Neuroeconcomics, Chicago, IL.
Presentations
Ritch C. Savin-Williams (with Kenneth Cohen) presented an all-day clinical workshop for the Oregon Psychological Association in Portland; presented to the Long Island Cornell Alumni group in Garden City, NY, on bullying; and talked with The New York Times twice (gay youth accepting their sexuality; the use of gender terms among adolescent girls); the Weekly Reader on advice to youth on coming out to parents, and The National Geographic TV channel on love and relationships. His interview with Time magazine on whether gay schools are a good/bad thing is out this week.
Gary Evans gave the 2011 Harold Proshansky Lecture, “The environment of childhood poverty,” at the American Psychological Association annual meeting.
Reyna, V.F. (2011, September). Risk, rationality and neurodevelopment. Paper presented a Society for Neuroeconcomics, Chicago, IL.
Awards
Elaine Wethington is among a group of collaborators at the University of Pittsburgh, Stony Brook University, Columbia University, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University who have been awarded a grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, "The Validation and Field Testing of New Tools for Characterizing the Personal Environment."Other
Some of Raj Raizada’s work using EEG is discussed in the New York Times magazine:
The Cyborg in Us All
The third page of that article discusses this work:
NeuroPhone: Brain-Mobile Phone Interface using a Wireless EEG Headset