Courtney Kurinec

Biography

Research Interests

• Sleep deprivation
• Memory
• Decision making
• Metacognition and learning

In my research, I focus on factors that can influence memory and decision making in diverse contexts. Specifically, I have investigated how factors such as sleep deprivation, cognitive load, stereotypes, and metacognitive ability affect the way people are able to recall information and the types of decisions they later make. I also explore how these factors influence affective processing.

Selected Publications:

• Kurinec, C. A., Stenson, A. R., Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2022). Electrodermal activity is sensitive to sleep deprivation but does not moderate the effect of total sleep deprivation on affect. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.885302
• Kurinec, C. A., Whitney, P., Hinson, J. M., Hansen, D. A., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2021). Sleep deprivation impairs binding of information with its context. Sleep. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsab113
• Stenson, A. R., Kurinec, C. A., Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2021). Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing. PLOS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256983
• Leman, J., Kurinec, C., & Rowatt, W. (2021). Overconfident and unaware: Intellectual humility and the calibration of metacognition. The Journal of Positive Psychology. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2021.1975155
• Kurinec, C. A., & Weaver, C. A. (2019). Dialect on trial: Use of African American Vernacular English influences juror appraisals. Psychology, Crime & Law. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2019.1597086
• Scullin, M. K., Kurinec, C. A., & Nguyen, K. (2017). The effects of implementation intention strategies on prospective memory cue encoding. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2017.1329205