Faculty Honors and Awards
Professor Kent Berridge received
a Guggenheim Fellowship for distinguished
achievement and exceptional
promise for future accomplishment.
The fellowship will support a yearlong
sabbatical at Cambridge University in
England, where Berridge will study the
psychology and neurobiology of reward.
Professor Susan Gelman was
named a Fellow of the Academic Leadership
Program, Committee on Institutional
Cooperation (CIC), 2004-05. Assistant Professor Joseph Gone
received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral
Diversity Fellowship for
2005-06, which will provide one
year of support for him to study
the Ethnopsychologies of
Algonquian Native American Peoples.
Professor Catherine Lord received
the Irving B. Harris Early Childhood
Lecture Award (2004) and the New York
University Child Study Center Scientific
Achievement Award (2005).
Assistant Professor Laura Kohn-Wood received an LS&A Excellence in
Teaching Award.
In October 2004, LS&A honored
three Psychology faculty with collegiate
professorships, one of the highest honors
LS&A can bestow for distinguished
achievement and reputation. Toni Antonucci
was named Elizabeth M. Douvan
Collegiate Professor of Psychology;
John Jonides was named
Daniel J. Weintraub Collegiate
Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience; and Martin
Sarter was named Charles A.
Butter Collegiate Professor of
Psychology.
Professor Emeritus Wilbert ‘Bill’ McKeachie received a Presidential
Citation from APA President Ron Levant
for “extraordinary contributions to APA
for over 50 years.”
Associate Professor Stephen
Maren received a U-M Faculty Recognition
Award for 2004-05, for significant
achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; excellence
as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and
participation in service activities.
Associate Professor Carol
Mowbray is receiving the 2005 APA
Harold Hildreth Award, for a senior professional
whose career and accomplishments
embody the highest principles
of public service. In addition, the U.S.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
has renamed its Early Career Research
Award as the Carol T. Mowbray Award.
Professor Daphna Oyserman
has been named a fellow of the American
Psychological Society, awarded to
members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science
of psychology in the areas of research,
teaching, service and/or application.
Professor Arnold Sameroff received
a Distinguished Scientist Award
from the Society for Research in Child
Development (SRCD) and was elected President-Elect of the SRCD.
In September 2004, Professor
Norbert Schwarz was named an Honorary
Member of the German Psychological
Association and was awarded the Wilhelm Wundt Medal for distinguished
contributions to psychology.
In October, Professor Abigail
Stewart will be presented with a Distinguished
University Professorship, which
recognize faculty for exceptional scholarly
achievement, national and international
reputation, and superior teaching
skills.
Associate Professor
Brenda Volling received
an Independent Scientist
Award (a five-year career
development award) from
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
In the News
Professor of Psychology and
Women’s Studies Abigail Stewart was
mentioned in the New York Times for
leading UM’s effort to increase awareness
of sex bias in hiring.
In the Time Magazine special issue
on Mind & Body: research by Professor
Norbert Schwarz and Professor
Christopher Peterson. Schwarz was on the team that developed the Day-Reconstruction
Method, in which participants
fill out a long diary and questionnaire
detailing everything they did on the
previous day and whom they were with
at the time and rating a range of feelings
during each episode (happy, impatient,
depressed, worried, tired, etc.) on a seven-point scale. Peterson’s work focuses
on defining such human strengths and
virtues as generosity, humor, gratitude
and zest and studying how they relate to
happiness.
The Michigan Humor Initiative
looks at humor “from psychological,
medical, anthropological, cultural,
historical and other points of view,”
using every cartoon published by the
New Yorker since 1925. The initiative has
been mentioned in a number of media
outlets, including the New York Times
and the Discovery Science channel.
Associate Professor Rick Lewis and a
number of others from the department
are working with Bob Mankoff, cartoon
editor for the New Yorker on the initiative,
which is jointly funded by the Institute
for the Humanities, the Psychology
Department, the Depression Center and
Rackham.
Research performed by many of
our faculty members appears in a wide
variety of news outlets. To learn more,
visit the website at
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/news/.
Transitions
Promotions
To Associate Professor with Tenure:
Seema Bhatnagar, Edward Chang,
Laura Kohn-Wood, & Oliver Schultheiss.
To Professor: Barbara Fredrickson
New Faculty Members
Christopher Monk will join us
in the Developmental Area in September.
He comes to us from a position as a
research fellow at the Section of Development
and Affective Neuroscience at
the National Institute of Mental Health
in Bethesda, MD. He received his PhD
in child psychology with a minor in neuroscience
from the University of Minnesota.
He uses behavioral and brain-based
measures to examine affective-cognitive
processing during adolescent development.
In particular, his research focuses
on how these responses vary across ages
in normally developing youth and those with or at risk for psychopathology. His
teaching interests include developmental
psychology, cognitive development and
developmental neuroscience.
Stephanie Preston will join the
Cognition & Perception Area in September.
She comes to us from a postdoctoral
fellowship with the Neurology Clinic at
the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
She received her PhD in Behavioral
Neuroscience from the University of
California, Berkeley. Her research examines
cognitive neuroscience, proximate
and ultimate mechanisms of behavior,
stress and decision-making, emotion
physiology, empathy, spatial memory,
cognitive ethology and animal behavior.
Currently, she is studying decision-making
processes, including resource-allocation decisions, testing normal and
impaired populations to determine the
neural bases of decisions to keep or discard
items and the basis of pathological hoarding. Among other topics, she also
looks at the effects of reward and punishment
on future decisions.
New Research Fellows
With Joshua Berke: Siobhan Robinson
(Aug’05) and David Wilson (Oct’05). With Kent Berridge: Alexis Faure
(June’05). With Fred Morrison: Rachel
Pulverman (July’05). With Stephen
Kaplan: Leann Fu (Sept’04). With Martin Sarter: Rouba Kozak and
Vinay Parikh (Sept’04).
New Administrator
All the best to Mary Ann Bryant, who retired from U-M on April 1.
We welcomed Bob Davies as our new department administrator in
May; he comes to Psychology from the
U-M Depression Center.
Sabbaticals
Fall’05: Kent Berridge, Dick Nisbett,
Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, L. Monique
Ward. Fall’05-Winter’06: Rosie Ceballo,
Barbara Smuts. Winter’06: Al Cain, Oliver Schultheiss, Jun Zheng. Fall’05-Summer’06 (Scholarly Activity Leave):
Joseph Gone.
Farewells
Susan Nolen-Hoeksma to Yale
Seema Bhatnagar to U. Penn.
Monique Fleming to UCLA
Retirements
Professor Emeritus Robert Lindsay
retired in August 2004.
Professor Ed Smith retired in June
2004. He was sent off
with an “Ed Fest,” which included a Mind & Brain
symposium in his honor.
In Memoriam
Former Professor Ward Edwards passed
away in February.
Professor Emeritus Harold Stevenson
passed away on July 8 after a long illness.
A memorial service will be held in Ann
Arbor on August 28th; please visit this page for more information about Stevenson’s life and work.
New Program Area: Personality & Social Contexts
For many years, the Personality Area faculty have realized that their research and teaching interests
extend well beyond what is usually considered to be “personality psychology”—study of the traits of skinbounded,
de-contextualized individuals. For one thing, personality includes other variables besides traits: for
example, motives, beliefs, values, self-concept and identity. Personality, moreover, is shaped and channeled by
social contexts—both immediate situations and also enduring contexts such as gender, race and ethnicity, social
class, institutions, culture, and history. Most area faculty research involves the combinations or “intersections” of
personality characteristics with the affordances and barriers of social context. At the same time, several faculty
members in the Organizational Area with research and teaching interests in the intersection of the individual and
context have decided to join with the Personality faculty to form the Personality & Social Contexts Area.
This new area combines the traditional interests of personality psychology (examination of traits and
individual differences) with the traditional focus associated with many organizational psychologists (the impact of
the environment and context on individual behavior) into a new approach that examines the intersection of both
the individual and the social context. As such, the focus of the Personality and Social Contexts Area is the dynamic nexus between characteristics of the individual and characteristics of the context in which they reside. In order
to effectively study this nexus, it is important that we are able to also effectively study the individual and context
separately. Thus, the research interests of the faculty in the area range on a continuum from those whose primary
focus on individual characteristics to those who primarily focus on the study of contextual characteristics. All
area faculty, however, recognize the importance of the nexus of the individual and contexts in the way that they
conceptualize their research. Watch the website for more information about this area.
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