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College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology

Raymond M. Quock

Raymond M. Quock

Professor
Honors College Fellow

Ph.D. University of Washington, 1974

Contact Information

Email: quockr@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 317
Phone: (509) 335-5529

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 265: Biopsychological Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs
  • Honors 390: Global Issues in Science.  Section 1: Drug Abuse – A Global Perspective
  • Honors 390: Global Issues in Science.  Section 2: Mental Health – A Global Perspective

Research Interests

  • Pharmacology of Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO2) Suppression of Chronic Pain and Opiate Withdrawal

HBO₂ therapy has been approved by the FDA for a limited set of clinical indications, although there are clinical reports that HBO₂ therapy appears to be effective in a broader range of conditions, including several examples of chronic pain. We have demonstrated that HBO₂ therapy causes relief of acute pain and gathered convincing evidence that HBO₂ therapy activates antinociceptive pathways in the brain. Further research showed that HBO2 therapy could also relieve neuropathic pain in animal models of chronic pain.  Evidence of an opioid mechanism of HBO2 led to the finding that treatment with HBO2 could   suppress naloxone-precipitated opiate withdrawal in morphine-dependent mice. More recently, we have concluded a clinical study in Spokane. Subjects enrolled in a methadone maintenance program agreed to a 10% reduction in their daily methadone dose so that there was less protection against opioid withdrawal.  HBO2 therapy administered for several days following methadone dose reduction resulted in reduced intensity of opioid withdrawal signs, a prolonged reduction in the methadone dose needed to reduce withdrawal, and improvement in quantity and quality of sleep.  HBO2 therapy may potentially be an innovative approach to the treatment of chronic pain and opioid dependence.

Selected Publications and Presentations

 

Finlay, M., Wilson, M., Erwin, J.A., Skeiky, L., Hansen, D.A. Layton, M., Quock, R.M. and Van Dongen, H.P.A. Nighttime sleep and respiration in individuals receiving methadone for medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Journal of Addictions Nursing, in press.

Brewer, A.L., Lewis, C.C., Eggerman, L., Blokker, A., Burkland, J.A., Johnson, M. and Quock, R.M.  Modeling spontaneous opioid withdrawal in male and female outbred mice using traditional endpoints and hyperalgesia.  Behavioural Pharmacology 34(2-3):112-122 (2023)

Wilson, M., Bindler, R.J., Stanek, K., Layton, M.E. and Quock, R.M. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for pain, opioid withdrawal, and related symptoms: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Pain Management Nursing 23(5):616-624 (2022)

Wilson, M., Odom-Maryon, T., Stanke, K., Rouse, T., Muriungi, J., Jessie, A., Quock, R.M. and Layton, M.  Hyperbaric oxygen to assist adults with opioid use disorder in reducing methadone dose.  Journal of Addictions Nursing 33(1):27-36, 2022.

Zinsky, A.L., Carrion, S., Michal, J.J., Phelps, M.P., Gartstein, M.A., Quock, R.M., Davis, J.F. and Jiang, Z.  Genome-to-phenome research in rats: progress and perspectives.  International Journal of Biomedical Science 17(1):119-133, 2021.  doi: 10.7150/ijbs.51628.

Wilson, M., Odem-Maryon, T., Stanek, K., Layton, M.E. and Quock, R.M. Pain interference influences hyperbaric oxygen treatment response during opioid dose tapering. American Society for Pain Management Nursing, San Antonio, TX, September 29-October 2, 2021. Pain Management Nursing 22(2):232, 2021.

Wilson, M., Stanek, K., Quock, R.M., Layton, M.E., Delaney, and Bindler, R.  Piloting a sham condition in adults with opioid use disorder to test effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on pain and withdrawal syndrome.  American Academy of Pain Medicine 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, April 23-25, 2021

Skeiky, L., Hansen, D.A., Layton, M., Quock, R.M., Van Dongen, H. and Wilson, M.  Naturalistic measurement of sleep/wake disturbance in adults receiving methadone for medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.   Sleep 2021, a joint conference of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, June 10-13, 2021.  Sleep 44(S2):A305, (2021)

Finlay, M., Wilson, M., Erwin, J.A., Hansen, D.A., Layton, M., Quock, R.M. and Van Dongen, H.  Individuals receiving methadone for medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder show evidence of respiratory depression.  Sleep 2020, a joint conference of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 13-17, 2020.  Sleep 43(S):A278, (2020)

Erwin, J.A., Wilson, M., Finlay, M., Hansen, D.A., Little-Gott, A., Reynolds, D., Quock, R.M., Layton, M. and Van Dongen, H.   Sleep architecture in individuals receiving methadone for medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.  Sleep 2020, a joint conference of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 13-17, 2020.  Sleep 43(S):A394-A395, 2020

Rousch, T., Wilson, M., Odem-Maryon, T., Stanek, K., Muriungi, J., Jesse, A., Quock, R.M. and Layton, M.  Hyperbaric oxygen effects on pain and withdrawal symptoms in adults with opioid use disorders.  American Academy of Pain Medicine 2020 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, February 26-March 1, 2020.

Brewer, A.L., Shirachi, D.Y., Quock, R.M. and Craft, R.M.  Effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) on chemotherapy-induced neuropathy in male and female rats.  Behavioural Pharmacology 31:61-72, 2020.

Emmanouil, D.E., Klein, E.D., Chen, K., Brewer, A.L., Zhang, Y. and Quock, R.M.  Nitrous oxide-induced impairment of spatial working memory requires activation of GABAergic pathways.  Current Psychopharmacology 9:68-78 (2020)

Raymond Quock

Tahira M. Probst

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Tahira M. Probst

Professor

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Contact Information

Email: probst@wsu.edu
Office: VCLS 208K (Vancouver Campus)
Phone: (360) 546-9746
Lab Website: Coalition for Healthy and Equitable Workplaces

Vita

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 310: Work, Stress, and Health
  • Psychology 311: Statistics in Psychology
  • Psychology 412: Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Psychology 529: Occupational Health Psychology

Research Interests

  • Occupational Health, Well-Being and Safety
  • Economic Stress and Job Insecurity
  • Organizational Safety Climate
  • Accident Under-reporting

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

Selected Publications

Bettac, E., & Probst, T. M. (in press).  Work-family conflict, sleep, and health: A comparison of traditional and self-employed workers. International Journal of Manpower.

Hu, S., Jiang, L., Probst, T. M., & Liu, M. (in press). The relationship between qualitative job insecurity and subjective well-being in Chinese employees: The role of work–family conflict and work centrality. Economic and Industrial Democracy.

Petitta, L., Probst, T. M., Ghezzi, V., & Barbaranelli, C. (in press). The impact of emotional contagion on workplace safety: Investigating the roles of sleep, health, and production pressure. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01616-8

Probst, T. M., Bazzoli, A., Jenkins, M. R., Jiang, L., & Lopez-Bohle, S. (in press). Coping with job insecurity: Employees with grit create I-Deals. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Austin, C., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Masculine gender norms and adverse workplace safety outcomes: The role of sexual orientation and risky safety behaviors. Safety, 7(3), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7030055

Bazzoli, A., Probst, T. M., & Lee, H. J. (2021). Economic stressors, COVID-19 attitudes, worry, and behaviors among US working adults: A mixture analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 2338. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052338

Bettac, E., Rice, S., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Job performance: Comparing differences among self- and organizationally-employed workers. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 34 (1), 55-76.

Debus, M., Unger, D., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Dirty work on the COVID-19 frontlines: Exacerbating the situation of marginalized groups in marginalized professions. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 14(1-2), 144-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.33

Lavaysse, L. M., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Pregnant employees and occupational safety: The impact of stereotype threat. Work & Stress, 35, 93-109.

Petitta, L., Probst, T. M., Ghezzi, V., & Barbaranelli, C. (2021). Emotional contagion as a trigger for moral disengagement: Their effects on workplace injuries. Safety Science, 140, 105317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105317

Probst, T. M., & Lee, H. J., Bazzoli, A.,  Jenkins, M. R., & Bettac, E. L. (2021). Work and non-work sickness presenteeism: The role of workplace COVID-19 climate. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 6(8), 713-718. https://doi.org/10.1097/jom.0000000000002240

Rice, S. P. M., Probst, T.M., & Lopez, S. (2021). Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of psychological capital, grit, and gratitude in selected samples from Chile and the USA. Journal of Well-Being Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41543-021-00039-3

Sinclair, R., Probst, T.M., Watson, G., & Bazzoli, A. (2021). Caught between Scylla and Charybdis: How economic stressors and occupational risk factors influence workers’ occupational health reactions to COVID-19. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 71, 85-119.

Benson, W. L., Probst, T. M., Jiang, L., Olson, K. J., & Graso, M. (2020). Insecurity in the ivory tower: Direct and indirect effects of pay stagnation and job insecurity on faculty performance. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41, 693-708.

Ghezzi, V., Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., & Barbaranelli, C. (2020). Multilevel job demands and resources: Cross-level effects of organizational safety and production pressure climates on the relationship between workload and risky safety behaviors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 3496.

Ghezzi, V., Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., Ciampa, V., Ronchetti, M., Di Tecco, C., Iavicoli, S., & Barbaranelli, C. (2020). The interplay among age and employment status on the perceptions of psychosocial risk factors at work. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 3611.

Petitta, L., Probst, T. M., Barbaranelli, C., & Ghezzi, V. (2020). Economic stress, emotional contagion and safety outcomes: A cross-country study. Work, 66, 421-435.

Probst, T. M., Lee, H. J., & Bazzoli, A. (2020). Economic stressors and the enactment of CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors: The impact of state-level context. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(12), 1397-1407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000797

Probst, T. M., Chizh, A., Hu, S., Jiang, L., & Austin, C. T. (2020). Explaining the relationship between job insecurity and creativity: A test of cognitive and affective mediators. Career Development International, 25(3), 247-270.

Probst, T. M., Jiang, L., & Lopez-Bohle, S. (2020). Job insecurity and impression management: Which is the horse and which is the cart when it comes to job performance? Career Development International, 25(3), 306-324.

Probst, T. M., Petitta, L., Barbaranelli, C., & Austin, C. (2020). Safety-related moral disengagement in response to job insecurity: Counterintuitive effects of perceived organizational and supervisor support. Journal of Business Ethics, 162, 343–358.

Reuter, M., Wahrendorf, M., Di Tecco, C., Probst, T. M., Chirumbolo, A., Ritz-Timme, S., Barbaranelli, C., Iavicoli, S., Dragano, N. (2020). Precarious employment and self-reported experiences of unwanted sexual attention and sexual harassment at work: An analysis of the European Working Conditions Survey. PLoS ONE, 15(5): e0233683.

Shoss, M., Brummel, B., Probst, T.M., & Jiang, L. (2020). The joint importance of secure and satisfying work: Insights from three studies. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35, 297-316.

Sinclair, R. R.*, Allen, T., Barber, L., Bergman, M., Britt, T., Butler, A., Ford, M., Hammer, l., Kath, L., Probst, T. M., & Yuan, Z. (2020). Occupational health science in the time of COVID-19: Now more than ever. Occupational Health Science, 4, 1-22. *Authorship following first author is alphabetical.

Jiang, L., Lavaysse, L., & Probst, T. M. (2019). Safety climate and safety outcomes: A meta-analytic comparison of universal versus industry-specific safety climate predictive validity. Work & Stress, 33, 41-57.

Jiang, L., & Probst, T. M. (2019). The moderating effect of trust in management on consequences of job insecurity. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 40, 409-433.

Morgan, J., Reidy, J., & Probst, T.M. (2019). Age group differences in household accident risk perceptions and intentions to reduce hazards. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(12) n° 2237; doi:10.3390/ijerph16122237.

Petitta, L., Probst, T.M.P, Ghezzi, V., & Barbaranelli, C. (2019). Cognitive failures in response to emotional contagion: Their effects on workplace accidents. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 119, 165-173.

Probst, T. M., Goldenhar, L., Byrd, J., & Betit, E. (2019). Development and validation of the Safety Climate Assessment Tool (S-CAT): A rubric-based self-assessment for the construction industry. Journal of Safety Research, 69, 43-51.

Reuter, M., Wahrendorf, M., Di Tecco, C., Probst, T. M., Ruhle, S., Ghezzi, V., Barbaranelli, C., Iavicoli, S., & Dragano, N. (2019). Do temporary workers more often decide to work while sick? Evidence for the link between employment contract and presenteeism in Europe. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, n° 1868; doi:10.3390/ijerph16101868.

 

Donelle “Dee” C. Posey

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Donelle ”Dee” C. Posey

Clinical Associate Professor

Ph.D. Washington State University, 2005

Contact Information

Email: deeposey@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 233C
Phone: (509) 335-8427

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 210: Psychology as a Science
  • Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics
  • Psychology 328: Self Control

Secondary Interests

  • Self-Regulated Learning
  • Rubric Development
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Training
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

In my research, I focus on strategies for teaching and learning that improve student performance in their college courses. I’ve looked at the use of rubrics for improving students’ writing, the relationship between statistics anxiety and performance in our statistics course, whether statistics anxiety is related to teacher/student rapport, and whether the “flipped” classroom format enhances student learning. Additionally, I’m very active in The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Div. 2 of the APA). I’ve served on three STP presidential task forces, including the task force for Psychological Literacy, Statistical Literacy, and Skills Development of Psychology Students. I’ve been honored by the College of Arts and Science with the award for Excellence in Teaching by Clinical Faculty.

 

Michael M. Morgan

Michael M. Morgan

Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1989

Contact Information

Email: mmmorgan@wsu.edu
Office: CLS 208G (Vancouver Campus)
Phone: (360) 546-9726

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Classes Taught

  • Psychology 265: Biopsychological Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs
  • Psychology 372: Biological Basis of Behavior
  • Psychology 401: Historical Development of Psychology
  • Psychology 504: History of Psychology: Theoretical and Scientific Foundations

Research Interests

  • Neural Mechanisms of Pain Modulation
  • Animal models of opioid withdrawal

Pain is the most costly medical problem in the United States. Pain treatments are limited by poor analgesic efficacy or severe side effects (e.g., opioid dependence). My lab uses behavioral pharmacological approaches to address this problem in three ways: First, we are developing new ways to assess pain in animals such as measuring depression of activity (e.g., decreases in wheel running) to more closely mimic the effects of pain in people. Second, we are studying how the midbrain periaqueductal gray contributes to opioid analgesia and tolerance. Third, we are developing novel methods to assess spontaneous opioid withdrawal in rats in order to create a better model of opioid withdrawal in humans. Our primary goal is to lay the groundwork for the development of more effective treatments for pain and opioid withdrawal. 

Current Publications

Morgan, M.M. & Ataras, K. (2021). Morphine restores and naloxone-precipitated withdrawal depresses wheel running in rats with hindpaw inflammation. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 209:173251. PMID: 34363827

Stickney, J.D. & Morgan M.M. (2021). Comparative benefits of social housing and buprenorphine on wheel running depressed by morphine withdrawal in rats. Psychopharmacology, 238(10), 2895-2903. PMID: 34247265

Dunford, J., Lee, A. T., & Morgan, M. M. (2021). Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) exacerbates inflammatory bowel disease in adolescent and adult female rats. Journal of Pain, 22:1040-7. PMID: 33727159

Morgan, M. M., Peecher, D. L, & Streicher, J. M. (2021). Use of home cage wheel running to assess the behavioural effects of administering a mu/delta opioid receptor heterodimer antagonist for spontaneous morphine withdrawal in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 397:112953. PMID: 33031872

Stickney, J. S. & Morgan, M. M. (2021). Social housing promotes recovery of wheel running depressed by inflammatory pain and morphine withdrawal in male rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 396:112912. PMID: 32949642

Frances K. McSweeney

Frances K. McSweeney

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Regents Professor of Psychology

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974

Contact Information

Email: fkmcs@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 214
Phone: (509) 335-5581
Websites: Operant Conditioning Lab

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 198: Honors Introductory Psychology
  • Psychology 390: Operant Behavior
  • Psychology 470: Motivation
  • Psychology 591: Theories of Learning
  • Psychology 593: Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Research Interests

  • Habituation
  • Operant and Classical Conditioning
  • The Matching Law
  • Behavioral Contrast
  • Within-Session Changes in Responding

I have investigated the matching law, behavioral contrast, and the participation of women in psychology. My current research examines systematic changes in the ability of reinforcers to support responding (changes in reinforcer value). Response rates are not constant within sessions when animals respond on operant or classical conditioning procedures. Instead, responding usually starts slowly, increases to a peak, and then decreases within the session. These systematic changes in response rate occur mainly because the value of the reinforcer changes with its repeated delivery across the session. The changes in reinforcer value are, in turn, produced by sensitization and habituation to the sensory properties of the reinforcer. I believe that sensitization-habituation may eventually provide the key to understanding the termination of many behaviors that are currently attributed to different mechanisms. For example, the termination of feeding is usually attributed to satiation; the termination of running to fatigue; the termination of videogame playing to boredom; and the termination of drug taking to achieving the desired high. Arguing, instead, that all of these behaviors stop in part because of habituation to the sensory properties of their reinforcers suggests a common theoretical explanation for the behaviors, as well as entirely new methods for controlling these behaviors in practice.

Selected Publications

McSweeney, F.K., & Swindell, S. (1999). General-process theories of motivation revisited: The role of habituation. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 437-457.

McSweeney, F.K., & Weatherly, J.N. (1998). Habituation to the reinforcer may contribute to multiple-schedule behavioral contrast. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 69, 199-221.

McSweeney, F.K., Hinson, J.M., & Cannon, C.B. (1996). Sensitization-habituation may occur during operant conditioning. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 256-271.

Frances McSweeney

Allison Matthews

Allison Matthews

Clinical Associate Professor

Ph.D. Washington State University, 2010

Contact Information

Email: almatthews@wsu.edu
Office: CIC 125B (Tri-Cities campus)
Phone: (509) 372-7146

Courses Taught

  • Psychology 105: Introductory Psychology
  • Psychology 210: Psychology as a Science
  • Psychology 265: Biopsychological Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs
  • Psychology 311: Statistics in Psychology
  • Psychology 312: Research Methods in Psychology
  • Psychology 324: Psychology of Gender
  • Psychology 350: Social Psychology
  • Psychology 372: Biological Basis of Behavior
  • Psychology 384: Sensation and Perception
  • Psychology 466: Environmental Psychology
  • Psychology 473: Advanced Biological Basis of Behavior
  • Psychology 490: Cognition and Memory
  • Psychology 492: Psychology of Language
  • Psychology 499: Independent Study

Research Interests

  • Decision making and reasoning, including the role of working memory, the influence of affective information, impact of bias, and the use of heuristics
  • Alternatives to suspension for substance-use violations in schools
  • Student and faculty engagement and retention
  • Curriculum-embedded undergraduate research experiences
  • Misconceptions in academic settings about psychology

David Marcus

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David Marcus

Professor
Director of Clinical Training, Former Department Chair

Ph.D. Clark University, 1989

Contact Information

Email: david.marcus@wsu.edu
Office: Johnson Tower 209
Phone: (509) 335-7750

Classes Taught:

  • Psychology 348: Forensic and Legal Psychology
  • Psychology 520: Empirical Approaches to Adult Psychotherapy
  • Psychology 533: Adult Psychopathology

Research Interests

Currently, my primary research interests include: (a) psychopathy; (b) other “dark” personality traits such as sadism and spitefulness; and (c) the relative importance of common versus specific factors in psychotherapy.  Much of my research on psychopathy is focused on the measurement of psychopathic personality traits, including studies that have used Meehl’s taxometric method to examine whether psychopathy and related disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, conduct disorder) exist along a continuum or are discrete, qualitatively distinct conditions.  In other words, this research is interested in the question of whether there are “psychopaths” who are uniquely different from others or whether psychopathy is a dimensional construct.  I am also interested in the behavioral correlates of psychopathic personality traits, such as the association between psychopathy and risky sexual behavior. My other area of research uses meta-analytic methods to examine whether various psychological treatments yield similar outcomes (“Dodo bird effect”), whether adding specific components to treatments improves outcomes, and the role of therapist allegiance in psychological assessment and treatment.

Selected Publications (2013-present)

Psychopathy and externalizing behaviors

Fanning, J. R., Marcus, D. K., & Coccaro, E. F.  (in press).  Evidence for the taxonic latent structure for DSM-5 intermittent explosive disorder in adults.  Psychological Medicine.

Marcus, D. K., *Eichenbaum, A. E., *Anderson, A. E., *Zimmerman, J. A., *Nagel, M. G., Zeigler-Hill, V., Watts, A. L., Lilienfeld, S. O.  (2019).  Construction and preliminary validation of Triarchic Psychopathy Scales from the HEXACO-100.  Psychological Assessment, 31, 961-973.

*Eichenbaum, A. E., Marcus, D. K., & French, B. F.  (2019).  Item response theory analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised.  Assessment, 26, 1046-1058.

Marcus, D. K., *Robinson, S. L., & *Eichenbaum, A. E. (2019).  Externalizing behavior and psychopathy: A social relations analysis. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 310-325.

*O’Connell, D. C., & Marcus, D. K.  (2019).  The association between psychopathy and sadism.  Aggression and Violent Behavior, 46, 109-115.

*Anderson, A. E., & Marcus, D. K. (2019).  A bifactor model of meanness, coldheartedness, callousness, and sadism.  Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 192-197.

*Preszler, J., Marcus, D. K., Edens, J. F., & McDermott, B. E.  (2018).  Network analysis of psychopathy in forensic inpatients.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 127, 171-182.

Marcus, D. K., *Sawaqdeh, A., *O’Connell, D.,& Lilienfeld, S. O.  (2018).  Identifying careless responding bias with the Psychopathic Personality Inventory—Revised (PPI-R) validity scales.  Assessment, 25, 31-39.

*O’Connell, D., & Marcus, D. K. (2016). Psychopathic personality traits predict positive attitudes toward sexually predatory behaviors in college men and women Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 372-376.

Marcus, D. K., & *Norris, A. L.  (2014).  A new measure of attitudes toward sexually predatory tactics and its relation to the triarchic model of psychopathy.  Journal of Personality Disorders  28, 247-261.

Marcus, D. K., *Fulton, J. J., & Edens, J. F.  (2013).  The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: Evidence from the Psychopathic Personality Inventory.  Personality Disorders:  Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4, 67-76.

 

Other Dark Personality Features

Marcus, D. K., *Preszler, J., & Zeigler-Hill, V.  (2018).  A network of dark personality traits: What lies at the heart of darkness?  Journal of Research in Personality, 73, 56-62.

Zeigler-Hill, V., & Marcus, D. K. (2016).  The Dark Side of Personality.  In V. Zeigler-Hill & D. K. Marcus (Eds.), Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Marcus, D. K., & Zeigler-Hill, V.  (2015).  A big tent of dark personality traits. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 434-446.

*Grafeman, S. J., Barry, C. T., Marcus, D. K., & *Leachman, L. L.  (2015).  Interpersonal perception of narcissism in an at-risk adolescent sample: A social relations analysis.  Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 92-100.

Zeigler-Hill, V., Noser, A. E., Roof, C., Vonk, J., & Marcus, D. K.  (2015).  Spitefulness and moral values.  Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 86-90.

Marcus, D. K., Zeigler-Hill, V., Mercer, S., & *Norris, A. L.  (2014).  The psychology of spite and the measurement of spitefulness.  Psychological Assessment, 26, 563-574.


Psychotherapy Research

*Lui, J. H. L., Barry, C. T., & Marcus, D. K. (2019).  A short-term intervention for adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and emotion-processing deficits.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 38, 475-500. 

*Lui, J. H. L., Marcus, D. K., & Barry, C. T. (2017).  Evidence-based apps? A review of mental health mobile applications in a psychotherapy context.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 48, 199-210.

Marcus, D. K., *Bell, E. C., & Mercer, S. H. (2015).  Adding components improves treatment outcomes: Reply to Flückiger et al. (2015)” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83, 443-444.

Marcus, D. K., *O’Connell, D., *Norris, A. L., & *Sawaqdeh, A.  (2014).  Is the Dodo bird endangered in the 21st century?  A meta-analysis of treatment comparison studies.  Clinical Psychology Review, 34, 519-530.


Misc Taxometrics

Rufino, K. A., Marcus, D. K., Ellis, T. E., & Boccaccini, M. T.  (2018).  Further evidence that suicide risk is categorical:  A taxometric analysis of data from an inpatient sample.  Psychological Assessment, 30, 1541-1547.

*Norris, A. L.. Marcus, D. K., & Green, B. A.  (2015).  Homosexuality as a discrete class.  Psychological Science, 26, 1843-1853.

 Marcus, D. K., *Sawaqdeh, A., & Kwon, P.  (2014).  The latent structure of generalized anxiety disorder in midlife adults.  Psychiatry Research, 215, 366-371.

*Eichner, K. V., Kwon, P. & Marcus, D. K.  (2014).  Optimists or optimistic? A taxometric study of optimism. Psychological Assessment, 26, 1056-1061.


*Denotes student authors

David Marcus

Renee E. Magnan

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Renee E. Magnan

Associate Professor
Director of Experimental Training

Ph.D. North Dakota State University, 2008

Contact Information

Email: renee.magnan@wsu.edu
Office: VCLS 208R
Phone: (360) 546-9403
Lab Website: WSU Health and Social Psychology Research

More Information…

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 320: Health Psychology
  • Psychology 312: Experimental Methods in Psychology
  • Psychology 350: Social Psychology
  • Psychology 523: Health Psychology (Graduate Seminar)
  • Psychology 550: Social Psychology (Graduate Seminar)

Research Interests

  • Cognitive versus affective predictors of health behaviors (physical activity, tobacco use, cannabis use…)
  • Perceptions of harms, benefits, and knowledge about ambiguous health behaviors such as e-cigs and cannabis use
  • Communicating risk information (e.g., cigarette graphic warnings)
  • Health decision-making

I apply social psychological theory to address issues in preventive health behaviors and health behavior promotion. Specifically, much of the research in my lab focuses on understanding the role that affect (e.g., worry) plays on health decisions and behavior (e.g., smoking cessation, exercise, cannabis). I am interested in both how one’s feelings about health behaviors may influence their decisions to engage in health behavior and also how health behaviors may influence one’s feelings. Both perspectives can provide important insight to identify targets for interventions to prevent negative health consequences and promote wellness.

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

Selected Publications

Magnan, R.E., Gibson, L.P., & Bryan, A.D. (2021). Cognitive and affective risk beliefs and their association with protective health behavior in response to the novel health threat of COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral medicine, 44, 285-295  https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaaa071

Magnan, R.E., Hamilton, W.K., Shorey-Fennell, B.R., & Cameron, L.D. (2020). Experimental test of the educational impact of the newly proposed FDA graphic cigarette warnings among U.S. adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaaa071

Shorey Fennell, B.R., & Magnan, R.E. (2019). Reactance to anti-binge drinking messages: Testing cognitive and affective mechanisms among noncollege emerging adults. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 42, 984-990. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-019-00018-3

Magnan, R.E., & Ladd, B.O. (2019). “It’s all good”: Perceived benefits but not perceived risks or worries among adult marijuana users. Cannabis, 2, 112-119. https://doi.org/10.26828/cannabis.2019.02.001

Magnan, R.E. (2017). Comparisons of health-related and appearance-related smoking risk perceptions and worry on motivation to quit. Health Psychology Open, 4. doi: 10.1177/20551029177295411. PMID: 29379619.

Magnan, R.E., & Cameron, L.D. (2015). Do young adults perceive that cigarette graphic warnings provide new knowledge about the harms of smoking? Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 49, 594-604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-015-9691-6

Magnan, R.E., Köblitz, A. R., McCaul, K. D., & Dillard, A., J. (2013). Self-monitoring effects of ecological momentary assessment on smokers’ perceived risk and worry. Psychological Assessment, 25, 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031232

Magnan, R. E., Kwan, B. M., & Bryan, A. D. (2013). Effects of current physical activity on affective response to exercise: Physical and social-cognitive mechanisms. Psychology and Health, 28, 418-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2012.733704

Magnan, R.E., Nilsson, R., Marcus, B.H., Ciccolo, J.T., & Bryan, A.D. (2013). A transdisciplinary approach to the selection of moderators of an exercise promotion intervention: baseline data and rationale for Colorado STRIDE. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 36, 20-33.

 

Stephen Lakatos

Stephen Lakatos

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993

Contact Information

Email: lakatos@wsu.edu
Office: VCLS 208A (Vancouver Campus)
Phone: (360) 546-9743

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Classes Taught

  • Psychology 105: Introductory Psychology
  • Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics in Psychology
  • Psychology 312: Experimental Methods in Psychology
  • Psychology 384: Sensation and Perception
  • Psychology 401: History of Psychology
  • Psychology 466: Environmental Psychology
  • Psychology 490: Cognition and Memory

Research Interests

  • Problem-based learning applied to research methods and statistics in Psychology
  • Perception of complex environmental sounds

Stephan Lakatos

John Hinson

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John Hinson

Professor

Ph.D. Duke University, 1981

Contact Information

Email: hinson@wsu.edu
Website: Affective and Cognitive Influences of Decisions (ACID) Lab

Classes Taught

  • Psychology 311: Elementary Statistics in Psychology
  • Psychology 401: Historical Development of Psychology
  • Psychology 504: History of Psychology

Research Interests

  • Affective and non-affective factors in decision making
  • Sleep deprivation effects on cognition

In general terms my research examines relations between hot (affective) and cold (rational) cognitive processes in decision making. I have previously studied how situational constraints (task demands) and individual constraints (personality traits or biological differences) affect hot and cold cognition and contribute to suboptimal decision making. More recent research examines cognitive control and memory processes involved in decision making. Our interdisciplinary research group has a research focus on how sleep deprivation affects cognitive control processes that are essential for decision making.

Selected Publications

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, Volume 44, Issue 8, August 2021, zsab113, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab113.

Whitney, P., Hinson, J. M., & Nusbaum, A. T. (2019) A dynamic attentional control framework for understanding sleep deprivation effects on cognition. In: Hans P.A. Van Dongen, Paul Whitney, John M. Hinson, Kimberly A. Honn, and Michael W. L. Chee, editors: Sleep Deprivation and Cognition, Vol 246, Oxford: Elsevier Science; p. 111-126. doi:10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.03.015

Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., Wilson, C. G., & Nusbaum, A. T. (2019). Working memory loads differentially influence frame-induced bias and normative choice in risky decision making. PLOS ONE, Mar 28;14(3):e0214571. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214571. eCollection 2019.

Honn, K. A., Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2018). Cognitive flexibility: a distinct element of performance impairment due to sleep deprivation. Accident Analysis & Prevention, Mar 14. pii: S0001-4575(18)30070-8. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.02.013. [Epub ahead of print]

Satterfield, B. C., Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., Schmidt, M. A., Wisor, J. P., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2018). Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) genotype affects cognitive control during total sleep deprivation, Cortex, 99, 179-186. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.012. [Epub ahead of print]

Whitney, P. Hinson, J. M., Satterfield, B. C, Grant, D. A., Honn, K. A., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2017). Sleep deprivation diminishes attentional control effectiveness and impairs flexible adaptation to changing conditions, Scientific Reports, 7, 16020. 10.1038/s41598-017-16165-z Epub 2017 Nov 22.

Wilson, C. G., Nusbaum, A. T., Whitney, P., and Hinson, J. M. (2017). Age differences in cognitive flexibility when overcoming a pre-existing bias through feedback. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Nov 21: 1-9. doi/full/10.1080/13803395.2017.1398311. [Epub ahead of print]

Whitney, P.M., Hinson, J. M., Jackson, M., & Van Dongen, H. P. A. (2015). Feedback blunting: Total sleep deprivation impairs decision making that requires updating based on feedback. Sleep, 38, 745-754. doi: 10.5665/sleep.4668.

John Hinson