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