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Department of Psychology

2007 - 2008 Academic Year Publications

(Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.)

Abrahamson, C.E. (in press, anticipated August 2008). Infusing cross-cultural experiences in the classroom.  In R.A.R. Gurung & L.R. Prieto (Eds.), Got diversity? Best practices for incorporating culture into the curriculum. Stylus Publishing, Sterling, VA.

Apple, K.J., Serdikoff, S., Reis-Bergan, M.J., & Barron, K.E. (in press). Programmatic assessment of critical thinking in psychology. To appear in D. Dunn, J. Halonen, R. Smith (Eds.) Teaching critical thinking in psychology: A handbook of best practices. Blackwell Publishers.

Baranik, L.E.*, Barron, K.E., & Finney, S.J. (2007). Measuring Goal Orientation in a Work Domain: Construct Validity Evidence for the 2 x 2 Framework. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 67, 697-718.

Barron, K.E., Benedict, J., Saville, B., Serdikoff, S., & Zinn, T. (2007). Alternative approaches to teaching research methods and statistics.  In D. Dunn, R. Smith, & B. Beins (Eds.) Best practices for teaching statistics and research methods in the behavioral sciences (pp. 143-158). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Barron, K.E., Brown, A. R.*, Egan, T.E.*, Gesualdi, C.R.*, & Marchuk, K.A.* (2007). Validity. In S.F.Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.) 21st century psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Brewster, J.  (2007). Peer Tutoring: A Professional and Service Opportunity.  Eye on Psi Chi, 12(1), 30-33.

Buskist, W., Keeley, J., & Irons, J. G. (2007) Evaluating and improving your teaching.  In Perlman, B., McCann, L. I., & McFadden, S. H. (Eds.), Lessons Learned: Volume 3 Practical Advice for the Teaching of Psychology. Washington DC: Association for Psychological Science.

Buskist, W., & Irons, J. G. (in press). Simple Strategies for Teaching Your Students to Think Critically.  In Dunn, D. S., Halonen, J. S., & Smith, R. A. (Eds.), Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA.

Dunn, D. S., McCarthy, M. A., Baker, S., Halonen, J.S., & Hill, G. W. (2007). Quality benchmarks in undergraduate psychology programs. American Psychologist, 62, 650-670.

Echterling, L., Cowan, E., Evans, W., Staton, R., McKee, E., Presbury, J., & Stewart, A. (2008). Thriving! A manual for students in the helping professions. (2nd Ed.) Boston: Lahaska Press.

Gibson, P. R. (in press). Vocational and independent living services received by people with environmental sensitivities. Disability Studies Quarterly.

Gibson, P. R. & Vogel, V. M. (in press). Sickness related dysfunction in persons with self-reported multiple chemical sensitivity at four levels of severity. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Children of incarcerated parents. Virginia Child Protection
Newsletter,
81, 1-3, 5-6, 8, 24.

Grayson, J.H.. (in press). Gang prevention: A collaborative response. APSAC Advisor.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Gang prevention. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 80, 1-9, 23.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Kinship care., 81, 18-22.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Spotlight: Richmond’s gang reduction and intervention program (GRIP). Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 80, 15.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Spotlight: Northern Virginia regional gang task force. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 80, 16-17.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Spotlights. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 81, 4, 9,13-16,19,21.

Grayson, J. H. (2007). Virginia’s Picture. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 80, 10-14.

Grayson, J.H. (2007). Virginia’s Picture. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 81, 10-12,17.

Harackiewicz, J.M., Durik, A.M., Barron, K.E., Tauer, J.M., & Linnenbrink, E.M. (in press). The role of achievement goals in the development of interest: Reciprocal relations between achievement goals, interest, and performance. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Grayson, J. H. (2008). Preventing underage drinking. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 82, 1-3, 5-6, 8, 15-16, 18-20.

Grayson, J. H. (2008). Spotlights and resource reviews. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 82, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19.

Grayson, J. H. (2008). Virginia’s Picture. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 82, 10-12.

Gurung, R.A.R., Ansburg, P.I., Alexandra, P.A., Lawrence, N.K., & Johnson, D.E. (in press) The state of the scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology. Teaching of Psychology.

Henslee, A. M., Irons, J. G., & Correia, C. J. (2007).  Alcohol use among undergraduate students: From brief interventions to behavioral economics. In P. M. Miller & D. Kavanagh (Eds.), Translation of addiction science into practice: Update and future directions. United Kingdom: Elsevier.

Henslee, A. M., Irons, J. G., Day, J. M., Butler, L., Benson, T. A., & Correia, C. J. (2007). Using national alcohol screening day to deliver personalized feedback: A randomized outcome study. Journal of Drug Education, 36, 271-278.

Horst, S.J.*, Finney, S.J., & Barron, K.E. (2007). Moving beyond academic achievement goal measures: A study of social achievement goals. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32, 667-698.

Irons, J. G. (2007). Book Review: First Day to Final Grade a Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching. Psychology Teacher Network, 17, 15.

Irons, J. G. (2007). On following your bliss: An interview with Jane S. Halonen.  Teaching of Psychology, 34, 262-267.

Irons, J. G., Beins, B. C., Burke, C. B., Bukist, W., Hevern, V. W., & Williams, J (Eds.). (2007). The teaching of psychology in autobiography: Perspectives from exemplary psychology teachers, Volume 2.

Irons, J. G. & Buskist, W. (2007). Operant conditioning.  In S. Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.) The Handbook of Psychology in the 21st Century. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.

Irons, J. G. & Buskist, W. (in press). Working Toward a Career in a Teaching Institution. In S. Davis, P. Giordano, & C. Licht (Eds.) Turning Your Psychology Degree into a Career: Life After the PhD. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA.

Irons, J. G. & Correia, C. J. (in press). A brief abstinence test for college student smokers: A feasibility study. Experimental and Clinical Psychology.

Irons, J. G. & Buskist, W. (in press) Preparing the New Professoriate: What courses should they be ready to teach? Teaching of Psychology.

Irons, J. G., Correia, C. J., & Grand, J. (in press) Caffeine consumption among college students. Substance Use and Misuse.

Kerr, N.L., Baker, S.B., Serdikoff, S., & Zinn, T.E. (in press). Demystifying critical thinking. In D.S. Dunn, J.S. Halonen, & R.A. Smith (Eds). Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook for Best Practices Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA.

Lawrence, N.K. (2008). On social psychology and human nature: An interview with Roy Baumeister. Teaching of Psychology.

Lawrence, N. K., Serdikoff, S., Zinn, T. E., & Baker, S. C., (in press). Have we demystified critical thinking? In Dunn, D.S., Halonen, J.S., & Smith, R.A. (Eds.), Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices.

Pastor, D., Barron, K.E., Davis, S.L.*, & Miller, B.J.*  (2007). A latent profile analysis of college students’ achievement goal orientation. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32, 8-47.

Saville, B. K. (2007). 2007 teaching award winners. Teaching of Psychology, 34, 211-218.

Saville, B. K. (2008). A guide to teaching research methods in psychology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Saville, B. K. (in press). Performance under competitive and self-competitive fixed-interval schedules of reinforcement. The Psychological Record.

Saville, B. K. (2008). Single-subject designs. In S. F. Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.), The handbook of 21st century psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 80-92). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Saville, B. K., & Johnson, K. B. (2007). Year in college and sorority membership in predicting self-esteem of a sample of college women. Psychological Reports, 101, 907-912.

Saville, B.K., & Zinn, T. E. (2008).  Educational goals related to the research experience. In R. L. Miller, R. F. Rycek, E. Balcetis, S. T. Barney, B. C. Beins, S. R. Burns, R. Smith, & M. E. Ware (Eds.), Developing, promoting, & sustaining the undergraduate research experience in psychology (pages of chapter). Retrieved [May, 8 2008] from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Web site: http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/ur2008/ur2008.php

Saville, B. K., & Zinn, T. E. (in press). Interteaching: The effects of quality points on exam scores. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Saville, B., Zinn, T., Kerr, N., Barron, K.E., & Andre, J.T. (in press). Addressing critical thinking in the statistics/research methods sequence. To appear in D. Dunn, J. Halonen, R. Smith (Eds.) Teaching critical thinking in psychology: A handbook of best practices. Blackwell Publishers.

Saville, B. K., Zinn, T. E., Lawrence, N. K., Barron, K. E., & Andre, J. (in press). Teaching critical thinking in statistics and research methods. In D. S. Dunn, J. S. Halonen, & R. A. Smith (Eds.), Teaching critical thinking in psychology: A handbook of best practices. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Saville, B. K., Zinn, T. E., Meyers, S. A., & Stewell, J. R. (Eds.). (2007). Essays from excellence in teaching, 2006. Published on the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Web site: http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/eitindex.php

Yoder, J. D., Fischer, A. R., Kahn, A. S., & Groden, J. (2007). Changes in students' explanations for gender differences after taking a psychology of women class: More constructionist and less essentialist. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31(4), 446-448.

Watts, C. R., & Hall, M. D. (in press) Timbral influences on vocal pitch-matching accuracy. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.

Zinn, T.E. (2007). Organizational behavior management. In S.Davis & B. Buskist (Eds). 21st Century Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Zinn, T. E., Reis-Bergan, M. J., & Baker, S. C. (accepted). Ten things I hate about my capstone – and a few ways to fix them. In Dunn, D.S., Beins, B.C., McCarthy, M.A., & Hill, G.W. (Eds.), Best Practices for Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major.

Zinn, T. E. & Saville, B. K. (2007). Interteaching: A new approach to peer-based instruction. Psychology Teachers Network, 17(2), 19-20, 22.

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