Bio
I began my teaching career as graduate student at Texas Tech University. In Fall 2018,
I joined Northeastern State University as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Counseling
Education:
- PhD, Experimental Psychology, Texas Tech University, 2018
- MA, Experimental Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, 2011
- BA, Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, 2009
My research primarily focuses on womens aggression against other women. Currently,
I am testing how both biological factors (e.g., hormones) and social factors (e.g.,
family history, scarcity of resources) relate to aggressive behavior.
I haves taught courses in Social Psychology, Close Relationships, Research Methods,
Careers in Psychology, Personality Psychology, Introductory Psychology, Human Sexuality,
Positive Psychology, & Theories of Learning.
Intellectual Content:
- Female-female alliances (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised), Published, 2019
- Teaching careers in psychology (Newsletter), Published, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019
- Womens fertility status alters other womens jealousy and mate guarding (Journal Article, Academic Journal), Published, 2017
- Misattribution of affective coherence vs. incoherence in subsequent judgments (Journal Article, Academic Journal), Published, 2016
- Derogation of attractiveness (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised), Published, 2016
- Derogation of promiscuity (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised), Published, 2016
- Verbal derogation (Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised), Published, 2016
Presentations:
- Womens aggression toward rivals with invested fathers and high sociosexuality - 1st annual meeting of the Flyover-State Scientists Integrating Evolution - - August
2019
- Womens fertility status alters other womens jealousy and mate guarding - Graduate Research Competition at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological
Association - - April 2016
- Womens jealousy and mate guarding are altered by other womens fertility - 13th annual Evolutionary Psychology Preconference of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology - - January 2016
- How does womens mate guarding aggression change based on paternal investment, ethnicity,
and sociosexuality? - 37th annual meeting of the Oklahoma Psychological Society - - 2019
- Other womens fertility status predicts womens jealousy. - 17th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - -
2016
- Ovulating women primed with aggression prefer less masculine men than non-ovulating
women - 18th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - -
2017
- Resources, parenthood, & direct aggression - 37th annual meeting of the Oklahoma Psychological Society - - 2019
- When women report having children, direct aggression increases and their household
income decreases. - 20th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - -
2019
- Women are less aggressive toward Presentations trustworthy rivals but only if the
rivals are not ovulating - 21st annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - -
2020
- Womens mate guarding is different toward women with invested fathers versus non-invested
fathers. - 14th annual Evolutionary Psychology Preconference of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology - - 2018
Courses Taught:
- EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY LAB - PSYC 3574 - Fall 2019
- PSYCH AS CAREER & PROFESSION - PSYC 3213 - Fall 2019
- POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - PSYC 3353 - Fall 2019
- EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY W/ LAB - PSYC 3574 - Fall 2019
- POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - PSYC 3353 - Spring 2019
- THEORIES OF LEARNING - PSYC 3463 - Spring 2019
- PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY - PSYC 4343 - Spring 2019
- PSYCH AS CAREER & PROFESSION - PSYC 3213 - Spring 2019
- INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY - PSYC 1113 - Fall 2018
- PSYCH AS CAREER & PROFESSION - PSYC 3213 - Fall 2018
- PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY - PSYC 4343 - Fall 2018
- PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY - PSYC 4563 - Fall 2018
