PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

The Psychology Department had an excellent year. We were delighted to see that students continued to enroll in psychology courses in record numbers. Once again, over 400 students took introductory psychology. We had 71 senior majors graduate this past June, a number of whom accepted fellowships to top graduate programs. We have 87 majors in the rising senior class, the largest number of majors in a single class in the history of the department.

We have been pleased, not only by the numbers of students in our classes, but by their close interaction with our faculty. Twelve senior majors completed year-long honor theses sponsored by one of our faculty, and approximately 50 majors enrolled with a faculty member in one semester independent study courses. Work with students complements and extends the active scholarship of our faculty. Each year we seem to have a growing number of faculty-student co-authored conference papers as well as published articles in peer-reviewed journals. This year continued that impressive trend.

During the year, the department prepared for the transition to new teaching labs for our 300 level courses. Two new labs on the third floor of Bronfman were completed in June and will come on line in September. We also made plans to renovate the current space in the psychology library, which will become vacant this summer when our books and journals move to the Schow Science Library. Professor Laurie Heatherington has been the point person on the renovation project and we are very grateful for her efforts to help us think of innovative ways to use the new library space. We look forward to the completion of that space during the coming year.

This past fall, Assistant Professor Kenneth Savitsky was re-appointed to a second term. He will spend his assistant professor leave at Northwestern. We congratulate Ken and look forward to his return one year hence. As Ken departs, we are happy to have Professors Al Goethals and Elliot Friedman returning to the department after their well-deserved leaves. Al has summoned the courage to serve once again as department chair and we look forward to his leadership. Elliot has completed his assistant professor leave year and we welcome his return to the department.

During the past year, we conducted a successful national search for a new tenure-track position in clinical psychology by hiring Dr. Ari Solomon. Ari completed his doctoral work at American University and recently finished a two-year postdoctoral position at Stanford. We are very pleased to have Ari joining our staff. We also welcome three visitors who will be with us during the coming year. Dr. Bryan Bonner, a social psychologist, will be here for the entire year. Bryan comes to us from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana where he recently completed his doctoral work. Dr. William von Hippel, also a social psychologist and Associate Professor at Ohio State, will join us for the fall semester. Dr. Maryann Martone, a neuroscientist from the University of California, San Diego, and former visiting Assistant Professor at Williams, will be with us again during the spring semester.

This year we were delighted to welcome back Dr. Andrew Crider, former chair of the department now retired, who returned in the spring term to teach a course on Behavioral Medicine. We were also pleased to have one of our former undergraduate majors, Dr. Cynthia McPherson Frantz, teach a fall course on Social Conflict. We thank both Andy and Cindy for their excellent courses. We also thank and bid farewell to Jeremy Wilmer, research assistant to Professor Kris Kirby for the past several years, as he departs for graduate work at Harvard.

Assistant Professor Talia Ben-Zeev’s past year at Williams College has been very productive and rewarding. She is continuing to conduct research in the areas of problem solving, probabilistic reasoning, and gender differences in mathematical performance. This work has culminated in in-press and recent publications. These publications include a book chapter, with Jon Star, on Intuitive Mathematical Thinking for Torff & Sternberg’s, Understanding and Teaching the Intuitive Mind, published by LEA and a journal article on deductive reasoning in Memory and Cognition, with Alex Staller and Steven Sloman from Brown University, entitled “Perspective Effects in Non-Deontic Versions of the Wason Selection Task.”

Professor Ben-Zeev presented research at conferences on probabilistic reasoning and on gender differences in mathematical performance. In addition, she reviewed an article on categorization for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and was mentioned in Self magazine (June 2000 issue) for the work on sex differences in math performance.

Professor Phebe Cramer attended a Social Science Conference at Highland Beach, FL, January 24-26, and presented a paper, “Narrative Themes and Defense Mechanisms: Continuity and Change in Psychotherapy.” She conducted a workshop on “The Assessment of Defense Mechanisms,” also at Highland Beach, January 20-23.

Professor Cramer continues to be a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Personality Assessment. She served as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Personality, the Journal of Research in Personality, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Archives of General Psychiatry, and Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Professor Cramer presented two lectures sponsored by the Sigma Xi society: “Protecting the Self: The Three Monkeys Revisited” and “The Road to Identity.”

Professor Cramer published an article, with Heather Westergren ’96, entitled “Gender Identity: Affected by Social Change?” in the Journal of Personality Assessment. She published two articles in the Journal of Personality: “Personality, Personality Disorders, and Defense Mechanisms” and “Ego Functions and Ego Development: Defense Mechanisms and Intelligence as Predictors of Ego Level.” She published an article on “The Thematic Apperception Test” in the Encyclopedia of Psychology, American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press. Professor Cramer published a chapter, “Change in Defense Mechanisms During Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: A Case Study” in The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time, published by Academic Press.

This year has been a busy one for Susan Engel, Director of the Program in Teaching. In October, the program sponsored a three-day conference on Educational Leadership. Twenty-four Williams alumni participated as well as approximately 20 current students. One outcome of that conference was the creation of a list server allowing former and current Williams students to communicate, form mentoring relationships and discuss topics in education. The Program also hosted a visit from Ted Sizer, founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools. Their regular teaching lunches included talks by: Frank Morgan on Mathematics Education, Special Needs Educator Nancy Mills on Meeting the Needs of Special Education Students, artist and founder of the Flying Cloud Institute, Jane Burke on putting art at the center of the curriculum, and a roundtable discussion of Teaching Evolution in the Classroom.

Meanwhile, Lecturer Susan Engel taught a new course, Adolescence, in spring 2000. Without a doubt, teaching adolescent development to a group of 19-21 year olds was one of the more fascinating teaching experiences she has had. Among other things, the students did a collaborative interview study of adolescent recollections, giving them a chance to learn about open ended interview techniques and the analysis of interview data. Amy Sprengelmeyer did an honor’s thesis titled “The Plot Thickens: Children’s Autobiographies and Parents’ Biographies of their Children”, looking at convergence and divergence between what young adolescents and their parents say about the past.

Professor Engel gave a talk at Bucknell University in November entitled, “Laying Claim to The Past: Autobiographical Memory.” She also gave a talk to the Minnesota Supreme Court in December on “Children’s Autobiographical Memory.” In April, her paper, “Peeking Through the Curtain: Narratives as the Boundary between Secret and Known,” appeared in a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by Elisabeth Goodenough. In April, four Williams students joined Professor Engel in making a presentation about the Program in Teaching for the reunion of the class of 1952. In May, she appeared on a panel at Monument Mountain High School on standardized testing. Also in May, Professor Engel gave a talk on “Three Kinds of Discomfort Involved in Good Teaching” for the Monday Night Supper Club at the Faculty House. She also gave one of the Bronfman Science Lunch talks titled “Five Ways to Look at a Narrative” that presented some of the dilemmas and methods of analyzing the stories people tell. Professor Engel continues to serve as educational advisor to the Hayground School, an experimental elementary school in New York State.

Associate Professor Steven Fein conducted research on stereotypes and prejudice, interpersonal suspicion and attribution processes, social psychological factors affecting women’s and men’s math performance, and the effects of media images and video games on self-esteem and performance and on sexism. Professor Fein co-organized the Ninth Ontario Symposium in Ontario, Canada, and is co-editing a book based on this symposium. Professor Fein and his students, Jeffrey Manning ’00 and Ronald Parsons ’00, presented a paper entitled “Priming Suspicion and Resisting the Correspondence Bias” at the first annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, in Nashville, TN. With department colleague Ken Savitsky, Professor Fein also presented the paper, “Fixing What Isn’t Broken: When “Want” and “Should” Align: Correcting for Perceived Bias Results in Worse Decisions,” at this conference. Abstracts of these papers were published in the Society of Personality and Social Psychology’s 2000 conference proceedings. Professor Fein presented a talk entitled “Using Seinfeld to Teach Social Psychology” at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, in St. Petersburg Beach, FL. He presented a talk entitled “Prejudice and Self-Image Processes: Sociocultural, Cognitive, and Motivational Interactions” at the meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, in St. Louis, MO, and a talk entitled “Prejudice and Performance: Dealing with Self-Image Threats” at the Preconference on The Self, in St. Louis. He presented “Stereotypes and Self-Image Maintenance Processes” at the meeting of the New England Social Psychological Association, in Hanover, NH. Professor Fein also gave invited colloquia at the University of Chicago (School of Business), New York University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Waterloo. Professor Fein became a consulting editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was appointed to the Executive Committee of the International Society for Self and Identity, and continued to serve on the Executive Committee of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Professor Fein supervised 16 Independent Study Projects, two Winter Study “99” Independent Research Projects, and one senior honors thesis, as well as served as the second reader on three additional senior honors theses.

Dr. Elliot Friedman was on leave during the 1999-2000 academic year and spent his sabbatical working as a Visiting Scientist at the Wadsworth Laboratories, part of the New York State Department of Health in Albany, NY. He continued his work on depression and immune function examining increased disease susceptibility in the Flinders genetic rat model of depression as well as the immunological and hormonal mechanisms that contribute to disease vulnerability. He also began collaborative research with Wadsworth scientists looking into communication between the immune system and glial cells in the brain, a link that has been implicated in the etiology of clinical depression. Dr. Friedman, gave an invited talk entitled “Why We ‘Feel’ Sick: The Role of Sickness Behavior in Recovery from Illness” at Sweetwood Assisted Living Community in Williamstown. He attended a conference on “The Role of Neural Plasticity in Chemical Intolerance” at Rockefeller University in New York, and published a paper in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

Professor George R. Goethals was on sabbatical in 1999-2000, working on a book on theories of leadership. His newly co-authored social psychology text, Foundations of Social Psychology (with Worchel, Cooper, and Olson) appeared in the fall. He also published an article on college students’ thinking about tuition costs with Cynthia McPherson Frantz, Class of 1991. Professor Goethals presented his research on social comparison and peer influences among college students at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire during April, and at the City University of New York in March. During the year Goethals continued as chair of the program in Leadership Studies, teaching the senior seminar course in Leadership Studies while on leave. In October, Leadership Studies held a symposium at Williams College, organized by Professor Goethals, called “Transferring the Panama Canal: Passage to a New Millennium.” Panelists included Howard Baker, former US Senator, Ambassador Sol Linowitz, former Vice-President Walter Mondale, Panamanian Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Aleman, Author David McCullough, and Ambassador Jack Vaughn. Goethals wrote a Foreword to William Friar’s book, Portrait of the Panama Canal, which was published in 1999.

Professor Laurie Heatherington continued research and writing on cognitive processes in psychotherapy, on gender and self-presentation, and on the interrelationships between cognition, affect and interpersonal control in marital interaction.

She spent the summer 1999 working to incorporate new technology into her Psychology 354T course, a tutorial/research seminar on social interaction dimensions of family relationships, psychopathology and psychotherapy, with the support of a grant from the Mellon Learning Technologies Project. With the collaboration of Professor Kassin and others, she organized a Winter Study 2000 course, “Psychology Gallery” in which students designed exhibits illustrating interesting phenomena and current issues in psychology; the displays will be built and mounted in the Psychology Library once the books and journals have been removed to the Schow Science Library.

In August, Professor Heatherington and several former Williams students presented papers at the American Psychological Association Conference in Boston: “Gender and Self-Presentation of Achievement to Vulnerable Men” with Laurie Townsend ’98 and David Burroughs ’98; “Does ‘Female Modesty’ Disappear in Same-Sex Schools?” with Andrea Burns ’98; and “Constructions about Mental Illness in a Solution-Focused Partial Hospitalization Program” with Kristie Rogers ’98, and “Gender, Competition and the ‘Spirit of the Game’” with Sarah E. Nelson ’98. Professor Heatherington also organized and hosted a reunion of Williams psychology major alumni who attended the conference. In October, in collaboration with M. L. Friedlander, SUNY-Albany, she delivered a paper, “Findings in Family Therapy Process Research: Implications for Practice” on an invited panel of family therapy researchers at the annual conference of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy held in Chicago. The panel’s purpose was to help bridge the gap between clinicians and researchers. In April she presented a talk, “Gender Matters: Men, Women and the Self-Presentation of Achievement” to kick off a series of lunchtime seminars for Williams College staff.

Professor Heatherington served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Psychology and Psychotherapy Research, and did ad-hoc reviewing for Sex Roles and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. She served on the Board of Directors and as chair of the Clinical Committee of the Gould Farm (Monterey, MA), a treatment center/working farm serving people with major mental illness. She was also appointed to the Advisory Board of Northstar, a new community initiative working to promote agency collaboration on, and outcomes-based assessment of, the physical and mental health of children in northern Berkshire county.

Professor Saul Kassin completed the third edition of Psychology, a textbook to be published in 2000 by Prentice Hall. He also wrote the articles on “Psychology” and “Social Psychology” for Microsoft’s CD-ROM Encyclopedia, Encarta 2000. This past year, Kassin organized and chaired a Symposium entitled “The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions” at the Biennial Meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society in New Orleans. Professor Kassin presented the following invited talks: “Inside the Interrogation Room: Social Judgment Biases and Influences” (New England Social Psychology Association, October 1999, Dartmouth College); “Evaluating Confessions and Denials Elicited During Police Interrogation” (Joint APA/ABA Conference for Psychologists and Lawyers, October 1999, Washington, DC); “Biases in the Pre-interrogation Interview” (Biennial Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, March 2000, New Orleans, LA); “Why Suspects Waive Their Miranda Rights: The Power of Innocence” (American Psychological Society, June 2000, Miami, FL), and “What’s Your Prediction?: Introducing Psychology via Commonsense” (Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, April 2000, New York). He also gave research colloquia at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Middlebury College, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Florida State University, Iowa State University, and the Suffolk University Law School. Kassin continued to serve as consulting editor for Law and Human Behavior and reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundation and papers for numerous journals. He served as a trial consultant and expert witness in a number of cases in federal, military, and state courts. His research on false confessions was recently reenacted and featured in a TV documentary entitled “False Memories” produced by The Learning Channel.

Professor Robert D. Kavanaugh served as department chair while Professor George Goethals, who will return as chair in July 2000, took a well-earned respite during his sabbatical year. Dr. Kavanaugh continued his research on the development of imagination and causal reasoning in young children. Dr. Kavanaugh prepared a final report of this research program, completed with his collaborator, Dr. Paul Harris, University of Oxford, and sponsored by two successive NATO Collaborative Research Grants. Dr. Kavanaugh and Dr. Harris also authored a chapter this year on “Pretense and Counterfactual Thought in Young Children” in Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues. In October, Dr. Kavanaugh attended the inaugural meetings of the Cognitive Development Society in Chapel Hill, NC. During the past year, Dr. Kavanaugh was an ad hoc reviewer for Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Cognition and Development, and Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

Assistant Professor Kris Kirby continued his research on impulsive decision making and self-control, funded by a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.  He finished his term on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, served as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of other journals, and reviewed grant proposals for the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Professor Marlene Sandstrom and Abbey Eisenhower preparing video stimuli for an experiment.

Assistant Professor Marlene Sandstrom’s research this past year has focused on children’s peer relationships. She is particularly interested in issues of competence and resiliency – that is, how children negotiate difficult peer experiences (teasing, exclusion, and victimization) over time. Dr. Sandstrom has initiated a collaboration with the elementary schools in Pittsfield and North Adams, and has been collecting classroom data with the help of several undergraduate students.

Dr. Sandstrom attended an APA sponsored Peer Relations Conference in Durham, NC in which she presented a paper entitled “From the Inside Out: Coping with Peer Rejection.” Dr. Sandstrom also attended the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine in Nashville, TN, and presented research entitled “Social Behaviors of Children with Rheumatic Disease: Impact of Pain, Disability, and Depression.”

Over the past year, Dr. Sandstrom provided adjunct reviewing for the European Journal of Social Psychology. In addition, she published articles in Child Development entitled “A Developmental Perspective on Peer Rejection: Mechanisms of Stability and Change” and in Arthritis Care and Research entitled “The Relationship of Daily Mood and Stressful Events to Symptoms in Juvenile Rheumatic Disease.”

Lecturer Noah Sandstrom’s recent research has focused on hormonal modulation of learning and memory. Using rodent models, Dr. Sandstrom has been examining the neural and behavioral consequences of ovarian hormone deprivation and the effects of a variety of replacement paradigms.

He presented two papers with his collaborators at the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology titled “Hippocampal Granule Cells are Sexually Dimorphic in their Response to Estradiol” and “Acute Estradiol Replacement Enhances Spatial Working Memory Retention in Female Rats.” In addition, Dr. Sandstrom presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience titled “Working Memory Retention is Enhanced by Hormonal Manipulations that Cause Elevations in Hippocampal Spine Density.”

In the past year, Dr. Sandstrom has served as an ad hoc reviewer for Hormones and Behavior, Psychobiology, and Neuropsychopharmacology.

Assistant Professor Kenneth Savitsky conducted research on egocentrism and social judgment, including work examining people’s appraisals of how they appear to others. He had papers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Current Directions in Psychological Science and Skeptical Inquirer. Dr. Savitsky and his colleagues presented their research at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association in Boston, MA, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, in St. Louis, MO, and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, in Nashville, TN. Dr. Savitsky supervised the senior honors theses of two students, and the independent research projects of nine students.

Professor Betty Zimmerberg continued her research into why is it that some people can respond quickly in stressful situations, calm down and think clearly, while others are immobilized with fear and anxiety. Are early stressful experiences responsible for these individual differences? Professor Zimmerberg’s research uses behavioral and neurochemical methodology to answer these questions. It focuses on the role of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone, a progesterone metabolite synthesized in the brains of males and females in response to stress. This research will be funded next year by a research grant from the National Science Foundation, entitled "Early Experience and Neurosteroid Response to Stress."

Professor Zimmerberg started last summer in Nancy, France, where she was an invited speaker at a satellite symposium on “Gender Differences in Brain and Behavior” at the annual meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. Her talk was titled “Sex Differences in Anxiety-related Behaviors: Effects of Early Stress and Neurosteroids.” At the meeting, she also presented her work with thesis student Alexander Wong ’99, “Behavioral and Neurochemical Responses to Allopregnanolone in Neonatal and Adult Rats.” During the summer, Williams College students Gail Anderson ’01, Deborah Frisone ’00 and Meghan Moscati ’00 worked in her lab on several different projects in developmental psychobiology. In addition, Elizabeth Berg ’01 worked on developing a multimedia CD in association with Professor Zimmerberg’s curriculum development grant from the National Science Foundation. Progress on this grant, “Multimedia Neuroscience Education Project,” can be seen at www.williams.edu/imput. Also working on the animations and web site this year were Joseph Masters ’02 and Robert McGehee ’02. During the year, Professor Zimmerberg also attended the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology meeting at the Center for Endocrine Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the third annual meeting of a new professional society, N.E.U.R.O.N. (Northeast Under/Graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience), of which she is a member of the steering committee. In October, she gave an Alumni Seminar, “Wound Up and Wired: How the Brain Responds to Stress,” and in March, a Bronfman bag lunch talk, “Multimedia Neuroscience Education: Preliminary Report.” She also continued grant reviewing for the National Institutes for Health, participating in a special interdisciplinary panel on Child Neglect for the National Institute for Child Health and Development, in addition to reviewing for the Behavior and Behavioral Processes Panel for the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Professor Zimmerberg also reviewed manuscripts for various journals, including Brain Research, Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Psychobiology, and Psychopharmacology.

Emily Boer ’00	Johana Castro ’00	Tara Crowley ’00
Sandra DiPillo ’01	Abbey Eisenhower ’01	Emily Eustis ’00
Kate Flynn ’00	Deborah Frisone ’00	Jonathan Gardner ’01
Gillian Green ’01	Mary V. Gorges ’00	Victoria Henrion ’01
Elizabeth Hoover ’01	Lisa Knappen ’00	Jason Oraker ’00
Jennifer Page ’00	Todd Rogers ’01	Grace Rubenstein ’01
Amy Sprengelmeyer ’00	Aleksandra Stark ’01	Lauren Wiener ’01

Dr. Craig Anderson, Iowa State University

“Video Game Violence”

Dr. Michael Rohrbaugh & Dr. Varda Shoham, University of Arizona

“Ironic Processes in Problem Maintenance and Change”

Dr. Daryl Bem, Cornell University

“Does ESP Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer”

Dr. Robert Sternberg, Yale University

“Successful Intelligence”

Talia Ben-Zeev

“When Memory Overload Contributes to Making a Correct Probabilistic Choice” (with M. Dennis, J. M. Stibel, & S. A. Sloman) Psychonomics Society’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

“Distinctiveness and Stereotype Threat: How Being in the Minority Affects Performance in Stereotyped Domains” (with M. Inzlicht, N. Cockrell, & J. Ramos) 11th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO.

“Generalizing the Occurrence of Stereotype Threat: How Minority Status in a Stereotyped Domain Affects Performance and Expectations” (with M. Inzlicht) 1st Annual Convention of the SPSP Society, Nashville, TN.

“Let’s Make a Deal: Probability, Memory, and Monty Hall” Department of Psychology, Yale University.

Phebe Cramer

“Narrative Themes and Defense Mechanisms: Continuity and Change in Psychotherapy” Social Science Conference at Highland Beach, FL

Susan Engel

“Laying Claim to The Past: Autobiographical Memory” Bucknell University

“Children’s Autobiographical Memory” Minnesota Supreme Court

Steven Fein

“Priming Suspicion and Resisting the Correspondence Bias” (with Jeffrey Manning ’00 and Ronald Parsons ’00) annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, TN

“Fixing What Isn’t Broken: When “Want” and “Should” Align: Correcting for Perceived Bias Results in Worse Decisions” (with Professor Ken Savitsky) annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, TN

“Using Seinfeld to Teach Social Psychology” National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL

“Prejudice and Self-Image Processes: Sociocultural, Cognitive, and Motivational Interactions” the meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO

“Prejudice and Performance: Dealing with Self-Image Threats” at the Preconference on The Self, St. Louis, MO

“Stereotypes and Self-Image Maintenance Processes” the meeting of the New England Social Psychological Association, Hanover, NH.

George R. Goethals

“Psychological Research on Higher Education” Plymouth State College, New Hampshire

“Social Comparison and Peer Effects at an Elite College” City University of New York

Laurie Heatherington

“Gender and Self-Presentation of Achievement to Vulnerable Men” (with Laurie Townsend ’98 and David Burroughs ’98) American Psychological Association Conference in Boston

“Does ‘Female Modesty’ Disappear in Same-Sex Schools?” (with Andrea Burns ’98) American Psychological Association Conference in Boston

“Constructions about Mental Illness in a Solution-Focused Partial Hospitalization Program” (with Kristie Rogers ’98) American Psychological Association Conference in Boston

“Gender, Competition and the ‘Spirit of the Game’ ” (with Sarah E. Nelson ’98) American Psychological Association Conference in Boston

“Findings in Family Therapy Process Research: Implications for Practice” (with M. L. Friedlander, SUNY) annual conference of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy in Chicago

Saul Kassin

“Inside the Interrogation Room: Social Judgment Biases and Influences” New England Social Psychology Association, Dartmouth College

“Evaluating Confessions and Denials Elicited During Police Interrogation” Joint APA/ABA Conference for Psychologists and Lawyers, Washington, DC

“Biases in the Pre-interrogation Interview” Biennial Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, New Orleans, LA

“Why Suspects Waive Their Miranda Rights: The Power of Innocence” American Psychological Society, Miami, FL

“What’s Your Prediction?: Introducing Psychology via Commonsense” Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, New York

Marlene Sandstrom

“From the Inside Out: Coping with Peer Rejection.” Peer Relations Conference in Durham, NC

“Social Behaviors of Children with Rheumatic Disease: Impact of Pain, Disability, and Depression.” annual meeting of Society for Behavioral Medicine, Nashville, TN

Noah Sandstrom

“Hippocampal Granule Cells are Sexually Dimorphic in their Response to Estradiol” and “Acute Estradiol Replacement Enhances Spatial Working Memory Retention in Female Rats.” Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Betty Zimmerberg

“Behavioral and Neurochemical Responses to Allopregnanolone in Neonatal and Adult Rats.”
(with Alexander C. Wong ’99) International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Nancy, France

“Sex Differences in Anxiety-related Behaviors: Effects of Early Stress and Neurosteroids.”
Invited presentation at the satellite meeting on "Gender Differences in Brain and Behavior" at the annual meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Nancy, France

Julianne H. Anderson	Medically-related service work with Americorps or Indian Health Services
Camille R. Barker	Unknown
John E. Berry, Jr.	Unknown
Emily E. Boer	Unknown
Elizabeth L. Boyd	Teaching at Rabat American School in Morocco
Vanessa P. Caskey	Unknown
Johana V. Castro	Investment banker at Bear Stearns in New York
Jill K. Caterer	Financial analyst at FleetBoston
Meghan E. Cavanaugh	Work for a year; then master’s degree in social work
Geoffrey H. Cohane	Graduate school for clinical psychology
Tara R. Crowley	Moving west and finding a job in teaching/community service
Elise L. Cucchi	Graduate school at Wheelock College for MAT
Christopher T. Cuneo	Commodities broker at New York Mercantile Exchange
Jennifer A. Curley	Unknown
Yana Dadiomova	Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for MD
Sally-Thomas Daigneault	Unknown
Shaun D. Duggins	Unknown
Elise T. Estes	Working in Admissions and coaching at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, MA
Emily F. Eustis	Investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York
Peter J. Eyre	Working for the Commission on Presidential Debates
Benjamin S. Finholt	Teaching math at Wilbraham and Monson Academy, Wilbraham, MA
John K. Finkbeiner	Unknown
Mya N. Fisher	Teaching English in Japan for two years, then graduate school
Casey E. Flavin	Working in Boston for either a small internet company or in advertising
Kate E. Flynn	Working for Exeter Educational Management Systems, Cambridge, MA
Anna J. Frantz	Junior City Planner for the City of Peabody, MA
Deborah F. Frisone	Research assistant at McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
Mary V. Gorges	Project Director for Kids Source for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office
Stephen M. Gray	Working at the Harvard Bipolar Research Program at Mass General Hospital
Eric R. Hasenauer	Unknown
Cara M. Heintz	Undecided
Lindsey L. Holzapfel	Unknown
Rebecca A. Iwantsch	Graduate school for elementary education
Dahra N. Jackson	University of Miami Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program
David B. Joyce	Unknown
Kathryn C. Kavanaugh	Clark University for doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Lisa D. Knappen	Working for Lehman Brothers, NY in Sales and Trading
Marissa L. Kreh	Unknown
Albert R. Leatherman, III	Unknown
Elizabeth A. Lierman	Outward Bound for summer, then research assistant or program for at risk youths
Stefanie A. Liquori	Law school
Jeffrey D. Manning	Teaching chemistry and coaching football at Episcopal High School, Jacksonville, FL
Kimberly F. Massimiano	Working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Assurance Department
Shad M. Miller	Research Associate at Aberdeen Group, Boston, MA
Stephanie M. Moore	Working for a year at a corporate law firm in NYC, then law school
Steven C. Moore	Undecided
Meghan N. Moscati	Interning at Mt. Washington Hospital
Melissa J. Murphy	Unknown
Rebecca J. Norwick	Harvard University Social Psychology graduate program
Jason C.R. Oraker	Yale University Law School
Jennifer C. Page	University of Albany Ph.D. Program in Counseling Psychology
M. Gabriela D. Pereira	Cornell University Ph.D. Program in Human Development
Andrea R. Pyatt	Unknown
Imelda V. Ramirez	Smith College School for Social Work for masters degree in clinical social work
Samantha D. Reed	Unknown
Kamille S. Richards	Unknown
Caitlin G. Ritchie	Unknown
Tracey L. Rocha	Unknown
Lisa Sanchez	Legislative Assistant at Coudert Brothers, New York, NY
Theodore D. Satterthwaite	Biking coast to coast for summer, one year in Guatemala, then medical school
Katherine H. Simon	Unknown
Andrew F. Singer	Unknown
Amy L. Sprengelmeyer	Tufts University’s MA/CAGS School Psychology Program
Jill E. Straits	Unknown
Ryan Sylvia	Unknown
Gabriella Thiele	Unknown
Ellen K. Van Wert	Intern at the Merrowvista Education Center in New Hampshire
Amanda S. Watts	Graduate school at Tufts University for Early Childhood Education
Sarah E. Watts	Unknown
Sarah E. White	Residential counselor in a social service agency in the Boston area
Wayne M. Wight	Working for BiT Group, a web-design company in Boston
Malana P. Willis	Unknown