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College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology

Blythe Duell

Blythe Duell

Scholarly Associate Professor

Ph.D. Washington State University, 2008

Contact Information

Email: blythe_duell@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 315
Phone: (509) 335-5547

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 201: Degrees and Careers in Psychology
  • Psychology 230: Human Sexuality
  • Psychology 320: Health Psychology
  • Psychology 324: Psychology of Gender
  • Psychology 550: Social Psychology

Research Interests

  • Effective teaching and learning strategies
  • Social dilemmas
  • Environmental behavior
  • Human Sexuality

Selected Publications:

Madewell, A. N., Anderson, J., Duell, B., & Kytola, K. (2017, Oct.). Panel discussion on reducing math anxiety: Cognitive and behavioral tricks of the trade. Presented at the Oklahoma Network for the Teaching of Psychology, Lawton, OK.

Day, K. & Duell, B. (2017, April). The effect of stereotype threat on Native American students. Poster to be presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Posey, D. Hughes, J. S., Morshead, L. L., Woods, K. R., & Duell, B (April, 2016). Using active learning strategies in statistics and research methods. Symposium presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Howard, N. R. & Duell, B. (April, 2016). The anxiety of cell phones and the benefits of nature. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Duell, B. (2014, February). Jigsaw classroom in a college course. Talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Teaching Pre-conference, Austin, TX.

Callicoat, R. & Duell, B. (2014, April). Warm hands, warm heart. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Joireman, J., Truelove, H., & Duell, B. (2010). Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes, and anchoring on belief in global warming. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 358-367.

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2010). The mortality muzzle: Effect of death thoughts on attitudes toward national security and a watchdog press. Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, 11, 185-202.

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2009). The thought of death, national security values, and polarization of attitudes toward freedom of information. Open Government, 5(1), peer-reviewed electronic journal available at www.opengovjournal.org.

Joireman, J., & Duell, B. (2007). Self-transcendent values moderate the impact of mortality salience on support for charities. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 779-789.

Joireman, J., Kamdar, D., Daniels, D., & Duell, B. (2006). Good citizens to the end? It depends: Empathy and concern with future consequences moderate the impact of a short-term time horizon on OCBs. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 1307-1320.

Joireman, J. & Duell, B.  (2005). Mother Teresa vs. Ebenezer Scrooge: Mortality salience leads proselfs to endorse self-transcendent values (unless proselfs are reassured). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 307-320.

 Konty, M., Duell, B. & Joireman, J. (2004). Scared selfish: The culture of fear’s values in the age of terrorism. American Sociologist, 35, 93-109.

 

Susan Collins

Susan Collins

Professor

Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2003

Contact Information

Email: susan.collins@wsu.edu
Spokane Office (Primary): 103 E. Spokane Falls Blvd, Office 414C
Phone: (206) 832-7885

Vita

Classes Taught

I am teaching the clinical and community class in the spring semester.

Research Interests

  • Substance use assessment and treatment development and evaluation
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Methods in clinical psychology
  • Harm reduction interventions for people who use substances

“I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University. I also hold affiliate faculty positions in both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington where I also codirect of the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment (HaRRT) Center at UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center. I have been involved in substance use research, assessment and treatment for over 2 decades and have disseminated this work in over 60 book chapters, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles. Using a community-based participatory research approach, I work with multidisciplinary research and clinical teams, community-based agencies, traditional Native health professionals, and people who use substances to codevelop, evaluate and implement interventions that aim to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life for people who use substances and their communities. I am also a mother, a wife, a sister and a daughter embedded within families affected by the intergenerational experience of trauma, addictive behaviors and substance use disorder. I attended my first 12-step meeting when I was 16, and my families’ and my own lived experiences drive my desire to reduce the stigma of addictive behaviors and meet people where they are at in all aspects of my work.”

Recent Publications:

Collins, S. E., Nelson, L. A., Stanton, J., Mayberry, N., Ubay, T., Taylor, E. M., . . . the HaRT-S Community Advisory Board. (in press). Harm reduction treatment for smoking (HaRT-S): Findings from a single-arm pilot study with smokers experiencing chronic homelessness. Substance Abuse.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Nelson, L. A., Stanton, J., Goldstein, S. C., Taylor, E. M., . . . Jackson, T. R. (2019). Randomized controlled trial of Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol (HaRT-A) for people experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder. International Journal of Drug Policy, 67, 24-33.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Stanton, J., The LEAP Advisory Board, Straits, K. J. E., Gil-Kashiwabara, E., Rodriguez Espinosa, P., Nicasio, A. V., Andrasik, M. P., Hawes, S. M., Miller, K. A., Nelson, L. A., Orfaly, V. E., Duran, B. M., & Wallerstein, N. (2018). Community-based participatory research (CBPR): Towards equitable involvement of community in psychology research. American Psychologist, 73, 884-898.

Collins, S. E., Orfaly, V. E., Wu, T., Chang, S., Hardy, R. V., Nash, A., Jones, M. B., Mares, L., Taylor, E. M., Nelson, L. A., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2018). Content analysis of homeless smokers’ perspectives on established and alternative smoking interventions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 51, 10-17.

Grazioli, V. S., Collins, S. E., Paroz, S., Graap, C., & Daeppen JB. (2017). Six-month outcomes among socially marginalized alcohol and drug users attending a drop-in center allowing alcohol consumption. International journal on drug policy, 41, 65-73.

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L. & Lonczak, H. (2017). Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD): Program effects on recidivism. Evaluation and Program Planning, 64, 49-56. doi: 1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.008

Clifasefi, S. L., Collins, S. E., Torres, N. I., Grazioli, V. S., & Mackelprang, J. L. (2016). Housing First, but what comes second? A qualitative study of resident, staff and management perspectives on single-site Housing First program enhancement. Journal of Community Psychology, 44, 845-855.

Collins, S. E., Jones, C. B., Hoffmann, G., Nelson, L. A., Hawes, S. A., Grazioli, V. S., Mackelprang, J. S., Holttum, J., Kaese, G., Lenert, J., Herndon, P., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2016). In their own words: Content analysis identifying pathways to recovery among homeless individuals with alcohol use disorders. International Journal of Drug Policy, 27, 89-96.

Collins, S. E., Duncan, M. H., Smart, B. F., Saxon, A. J., Malone, D. K., Jackson, T. R., & Ries, R. K. (2015). Extended-release naltrexone and harm reduction counseling for chronically homeless people with alcohol dependence. Substance Abuse, 36, 21-33. doi: 1080/08897077.2014.904838

Collins, S. E., Clifasefi, S. L., Dana, E. A., Andrasik, M. P., Stahl, N. E., Kirouac, M., et al. (2012). Where harm reduction meets Housing First: Exploring alcohol’s role in a project-based Housing First setting. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23, 111-119. doi: 1016/j.drugpo.2011.07.010.

Collins, S. E., Malone, D. K., Clifasefi, S. L., Ginzler, J. A., Garner, M. D., Burlingham, B., et al. (2012). Project-based Housing First for chronically homeless individuals with alcohol problems: Within-subjects analyses of two-year alcohol-use trajectories. American Journal of Public Health, 102, 511-519. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300403

 

 

Elizabeth Canning

Elizabeth Canning

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Contact Information

Email: elizabeth.canning@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 210
Phone: (509) 335-9127
Website: BOLD Lab

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 350: Social Psychology
  • Psychology 550: Social Psychology

Research Interests

  • Achievement motivation
  • Social inequality and diversity
  • Social-psychological interventions in education and organizations

Research in Dr. Canning’s lab focuses on how to create equitable and inclusive contexts that stoke motivation, persistence, and achievement—so that all groups flourish and reach their full potential. Our lab investigates subtle messages about belonging, value, talent, and ability that are communicated by institutions, employers, instructors, parents, and peers. These messages can be communicated verbally—in the form of lectures or one-on-one interactions—and nonverbally—by the materials, policies, and practices put forth by those around us. Some messages communicate the nature of ability (e.g. “only some people are naturally talented”) and some messages communicate what is valuable or useful (e.g. “this information will be important in your future career”). We also design and test interventions that mitigate or reinforce these messages to reestablish a sense of belonging, confidence, and engagement for stigmatized groups. This approach consists of controlled laboratory experiments, randomized intervention studies, and longitudinal, field studies. Our goal is to build social-psychological theory in the lab and translate that theory into practice with interventions in the field.

Dr. Canning will be considering graduate student applications for Fall 2024 admission to the Experimental Psychology PhD Program.

Selected Publications:

Canning, E. A., LaCosse, J., Kroeper, K. M., & Murphy, M. C. (in press). Feeling like an imposter: The effect of perceived classroom competition on the daily psychological experiences of first-generation college students. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Canning, E. A., Murphy, M. C., Emerson, K. T. U., Chatman, J. A., Dweck, C. S., & Kray, L. J. (2019). Cultures of genius at work: Organizational mindsets predict cultural norms, trust, and commitment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167219872473

Canning, E. A., Priniski, S. J., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2019). Unintended consequences of framing a utility-value intervention in two-year colleges. Learning and Instruction, 62, 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.05.001

Canning, E. A., Muenks, K., Green, D. J., & Murphy, M. C. (2019). STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes. Science Advances5(2): eaau4734. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4734

Canning, E. A., Harackiewicz, J. M., Priniski, S. J., Hecht, C. A., Tibbetts, Y., & Hyde, J. S. (2018). Improving performance and retention in introductory biology with a utility value intervention. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(6), 834-849. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000244

Harackiewicz, J. M., Canning, E. A., Tibbetts, Y., Priniski, S. J., & Hyde, J. S. (2016). Closing achievement gaps with a utility-value intervention: Disentangling race and social class. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology111(5), 745-765. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000075

Tibbetts, Y., Harackiewicz, J. M., Canning, E. A., Boston, J. S., Priniski, S. J., & Hyde, J. S. (2016). Affirming independence: Exploring mechanisms underlying a values affirmation intervention for first-generation students. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology110(5), 635-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000049

Canning, E. A. & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2015). Teach it, don’t preach it: The differential effects of directly communicated and self-generated utility-value information. Motivation Science, 1, 47-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000015

Harackiewicz, J. M., Canning, E. A., Tibbetts, Y., Giffen, C. J., Blair, S. S., Rouse, D. I., & Hyde, J. S. (2014). Closing the social class achievement gap for first-generation students in undergraduate biology. Journal of Educational Psychology106, 375-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000075

Courtney Kurinec

Courtney Kurinec

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Baylor University, 2019

Contact Information

Email: courtney.kurinec@wsu.edu
509-358-7619
CCRS 702C,
WSU-Spokane

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

 

 

Alison Poteracke

Alison Poteracke

Undergraduate Advisor

Contact Information

Washington State University
Department of Psychology
Johnson Tower 221
P.O. Box 644820
Pullman, WA 99164-4820

Email: alison.poteracke@wsu.edu
Phone: (509) 335-3388
Fax: (509) 335-5043

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Students T – Z and minors

Provides information and advise students, faculty and staff in all matters regarding undergraduate student advising and departmental advising records. Serves as primary contact for advising inquiries, student graduation, undergraduate advising policy and procedures, and administration of the undergraduate advising system for the department(s).

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Experimental Psychology Program Faculty and Interest Areas

The doctoral program in experimental psychology at Washington State University is designed to produce highly skilled, innovative, and productive experimental psychologists in terms of research and teaching. Each student will build his/her program of study around one or more specialty areas in Cognition, Biological, Health, Industrial/Organizational, Social Research. Degree recipients are expected to be highly knowledgeable about their specialty areas, to have a strong background in general experimental psychology, to be able to identify significant research problems, to be conversant with a wide variety of strategies for generating and testing hypotheses that emerge from these problems, and to be able to effectively communicate these ideas. It is expected that graduates will leave Washington State University well equipped to become successful professionals in competitive research and teaching positions in academia, as well as competitive research or applied positions in government and industry.

Selam Yadetta

Selam Yadetta

Undergraduate Advisor

Contact Information

Washington State University
Department of Psychology
Johnson Tower 221
P.O. Box 644820
Pullman, WA 99164-4820

Email: psych.advising@wsu.edu
Phone: (509) 335-2854
Fax: (509) 335-5043

Job Responsibilities and Duties

Students J – S

Provides information and advise students, faculty and staff in all matters regarding undergraduate student advising and departmental advising records. Serves as primary contact for advising inquiries, student graduation, undergraduate advising policy and procedures, and administration of the undergraduate advising system for the department(s).

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Alexander Spradlin

Alexander Spradlin

Scholarly Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Washington State University

Contact Information

Email: a.spradlin@wsu.edu
Office:VCLS 208 B, Vancouver
Phone: (360) 546-9354
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Spradlin

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics in Psychology
  • Psychology 312: Experimental Methods in Psychology
  • Psychology 321: Personality
  • Psychology 324: Psychology of Gender
  • Psychology 328: Self-Control
  • Psychology 350: Social Psychology
  • Psychology 401: Historical Development of Psychology
  • Psychology 470: Motivation

Research Interests

  • Cannabis, stress, and coping
  • Interpersonal relationships and technology
  • Empathy and prosocial behavior

My research is at the intersection between social/personality psychology and health psychology. Generally, I am interested in stress coping, including how coping strategies are learned and utilized over time and how dispositional characteristics influence coping behavior and effectiveness. To date, I have focused primarily on the short- and long-term effects of the use of cannabis and the use of technology for dealing with stress and other elements of negative affect. I also have a strong interest in quantitative methods, including psychometrics, SEM, MLM, and longitudinal analyses.

Recent Publications

Spradlin, A., Mauzay, D., & Cuttler, C. (2019). A response to the commentary by Storch and Kay: Gaps in knowledge on the treatment of cannabis users with OCD [invited response article]. Addictive Behaviors, 93, 265-266. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.07.029

Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Nusbaum, A. T., Whitney, P., Hinson, J., & McLaughlin, R. J. (2019). Joint effects of stress and chronic cannabis use on prospective memory. Psychopharmacology, 236, 1973-1983. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-5184-9

Spradlin, A. & Cuttler, C. (2019). Problems associated with using cannabis to cope with stress. Cannabis, 2, 29-38. doi: 10.26828/cannabis.2019.01.003

Spradlin, A., Cuttler, C., Bunce, J. P., & Carrier, L. M. (2019). #Connected: Social networking sites may facilitate face-to-face relationships for introverts. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8, 34-40. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000162

Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., & McLaughlin, R. J. (2018). A naturalistic examination of the perceived effects of cannabis on negative affect. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 198-205. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.054

Nusbaum, A. T., Whitney, P., Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Hinson, J. M., & McLaughlin, R. J. (2017). Altered attentional control strategies in chronic cannabis users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 181, 116-128. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.09.019

Cuttler, C., Spradlin, A., Nusbaum, A. T., Whitney, P., Hinson, J., & McLaughlin, R. J. (2017). Blunted stress reactivity in chronic cannabis users. Psychopharmacology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s00213-017-4648-z

Cuttler, C., & Spradlin, A. (2017). Measuring cannabis consumption: Development and validation of the Daily Sessions, Frequency, Age of Onset, and Quantity of Cannabis Use Inventory (DFAQ-CU). PLoS ONE, 2(5): e0178194. doi: 1 0.1371/journal.pone.0178194

Spradlin, A., Mauzay, D., & Cuttler, C. (2017). Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder predict cannabis misuse. Addictive Behaviors, 72, 159-164. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.03.023

Mauzay, D., Spradlin, A., & Cuttler, C. (2016). Devils, witches, and psychics: The role of thought-action fusion in the relationships between obsessive-compulsive features, religiosity, and paranormal beliefs. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 11, 113-120. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2016.10.003

Carrier, L. M., Spradlin, A., Bunce, J. P., & Rosen, L. D. (2015). Virtual empathy: Positive and negative impacts of going online upon empathy in young adults. Computers in Human Behavior, 52, 39-48. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.026

Jones, R. E., Spradlin, A., Robinson, R. J., & Tragesser, S. L. (2014). Development and validation of the opioid prescription medication motives questionnaire: A four-factor model of reasons for use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28, 1290-1296. doi: 10.1037/a0037783