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Faculty Research:
Publications and Presentations since 2000

This page provides a listing of some of the research presentations and publications that have been made by our faculty in recent years. This list is meant to give both our present and potential students a sense of how our faculty approaches psychological scholarship. Obviously, in a predominantly undergraduate institution, Le Moyne's faculty are dedicated with a special concern for classroom teaching. But, as research scientists, we are also committed to advancing knowledge as scholars as illustrated by the publications and presentations listed below.


Krystine I. Batcho

Batcho, Krystine I. (2002, June). Nostalgia and reminiscence. Paper presented at the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu.

Batcho, Krystine I. (2004, June). Nostalgia: Retreat or support in difficulty times? Paper presented at the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu.

Batcho, Krystine I. (2007). Nostalgia and the emotional tone and content of song lyrics. American Journal of Psychology, 120(3), 361-381.


Birgit Bryant

Mullen, Brian, Muellerleile, Paige, & Bryant, Birgit. (2001). Cumulative meta-analysis: A consideration of indicators of sufficiency and stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(11), 1450-1462.


Maria DiTullio

Sylvia, Monica R., Kirby, Brenda J., & DiTullio, Maria (2004, May). When less is more: Student attitudes toward varying formats of PowerPoint presentations. Poster session at the meeting of the American Psychological Society’s Teaching Institute, Chicago, IL.


Vincent W. Hevern, SJ

Benson, Trisha A., Burke, Caroline, Amstadter, Ana, Siney, Ryan, Hevern, Vincent, Beins, Barney, & Buskist, William (2005). Teaching psychology in autobiography: Perspectives from exemplary psychology teachers. Washington, DC: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/tia2005/tia2005.php

Buskist, William, Hevern, Vincent W., & Hill, Wiliiam G., IV (Eds.) (2002). Essays from e-xcellence in teaching 2000-2001. [Online] Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/eit2000/eit2000.php

Buskist, William, Hevern, Vincent W., & Hill, William G., IV (Eds.) (2003). Essays from e-xcellence in teaching II. 2002. [Online] Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/eit2002/eit2002.php

Buskist, William, Beins, Barney C., & Hevern, Vincent W. (Eds.) (2004). Preparing the new psychology professoriate: Helping graduate students become competent teachers. Syracuse, NY: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/pnpp/index_pnpp.php

Buskist, William, Hevern, Vincent W., Saville, Bryan K., & Zinn, Tracy (Eds.) (2004). Essays from e-xcellence in teaching 2003. Vol. III. Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/eit2003/eit2003.php

Hevern, Vincent W. (2001, August). Teaching narrative in psychology: Scholarly foundations and advisement resources. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED458467) Available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED458467

Hevern, Vincent W. (2004). Listening to the storied lives of clients: Challenges and opportunities [Review of the book Healing plots: The narrative basis of psychotherapy]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 48, Suppl. 5. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2004). Ong, interiority, and the narrative turn in psychology. Explorations in Media Ecology, 3(1), 53-60.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2004). Threaded identity in cyberspace: Weblogs and positioning in the dialogical self. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 4(4) 321-335.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2004). Applying to teach at religiously-affiliated institutions: Advice for new faculty members. In William Buskist, Barney C. Beins, & Vincent W. Hevern (Eds.), Preparing the new psychology professoriate: Helping graduate students become competent teachers (pp. 91-94). Syracuse, NY: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/pnpp/index_pnpp.php

Hevern, Vincent W. (2005). Dialogical selves in the human digital ecology. In P. K. Oles & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), The dialogical self: Theory and research (pp. 15-26). Lublin, Poland: Wydawnictwo Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski (KUL).

Hevern, Vincent W. (2005). Spiraling into madness: Selling the American dream [Review of the motion picture The assassination of Richard Nixon]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50(46), Article 16. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W., & Annese, Susanna (2005). Le homepage personali in rete: il sé a dialogo con l'altro [Personal homepages on the Web: The self in dialogue with the other]. In M. B. Ligorio & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), Identità dialogiche nell'era digitale [Dialogical identity in the digital age], (pp. 41-63). Gardolo-Trento, Italy: Editioni Erickson.

Hevern, Vincent W., & Pugliese, Anna C. (2005). Identità virtuali che si intrecciano con la storia: i weblog e le pratiche discorsive del sé [The interweaving of virtual identity and personal history: Weblogs and discursive practices of the self]. In M. B. Ligorio & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), Identità dialogiche nell'era digitale [Dialogical identity in the digital age], (pp. 65-76) Gardolo-Trento, Italy: Editioni Erickson.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2006). Building lives (and theory) in a post-positivist age [Review of the book Narrative identities: Psychologists engaged in self-construction]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51(2), Article 11 Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2006). Using the Internet effectively: Home pages and e-mail. In William Buskist, & Steven Davis (Eds.), Handbook of the teaching of psychology (pp. 99-106). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2006). Shining city on the hill? Emplotting the American psyche [Review of the book The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51(18), Article 8. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2006, July). Dramaturgy: Some 20th century influences on American psychology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2007). Cinematic paths to the self: Challenging encounters [Review of the book Meeting movies]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(14), Article 17. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2007). The enduring casualties of war [Review of the motion picture The ground truth: After the killing stops]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(40), Article 18. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2007, June). Bruner, mind, and the narrative self: Dramaturgical and philosophical influences. Paper presented at the joint meeting of Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, University College, Dublin, Ireland.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2007, August). Millennials at the movies: Cinematic experience and contemporary psychology students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Hevern, Vincent W. (2008). Seeing a complex world: Challenges in 21st century educational practice [Review of the book The human experience: Description, explanation, and judgment] PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53(4), Article 2. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Irons, Jessica G., Beins, Barney C., Burke, Caroline, Buskist, William, Hevern, Vincent W., & Williams, John (2006). Teaching in autobiography: Perspectives from psychology's exemplary teachers. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available at the website: http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/tia2006/tia2006.php

Saville, Bryan K., Zinn, Tracy, & Hevern, Vincent W. (Eds.) (2005). Essays from e-xcellence in teaching 2004. Vol. IV. Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available from http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/eit2004/eit2004.php


Brenda J. Kirby

Bird, S., DiGiacomo, Anthony., and Kirby, Brenda J. (2000, March). Effect of musical mode on emotional state. Presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Convention. Baltimore, MD.

Cooney, M. E., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2006, May). An examination of authoritative and participative management and employee satisfaction in a healthcare organization. Presentation at the 18th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Depeaux, A. & Kirby, Brenda J. (2005, May). Attitudes toward the environment and nature. Presentation at the 17th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Los Angeles, CA.

DiSanto, D. J., Kirby, Brenda J., & Voorhees, D. (2007, May). In the blink of an eye: Individual difference factors in emotion induce blindness. Presentation at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Fliegel, M., and Kirby, Brenda J. (2004, May). The effects of peer mentoring on youth in a rural community. Presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Chicago, IL.

Kirby, Brenda J., & DiSanto, D. J. (2008, May) The naked truth? Emotion-induced blindness and the female perspective. Presentation at the 20th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Kirby, Brenda J., & Michaelson, Christina (2005, October) Issues of sexuality from a Catholic perspective. Presentation at 'Out There', the 1st National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses. Santa Clara, CA.

Kirby, Brenda J., & Michaelson, Christina (2006, May) A national survey of Catholic attitudes toward teaching about human sexuality and homosexuality: The effect of political and Catholic ideological stance, sex, age and education level. Presentation at 18th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Kirby, Brenda J. (2000, June). Enhancing recognition of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination in society using a journal writing project. Presentation at the Seventh Annual American Psychological Society Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. Miami Beach, FL.

Kirby, Brenda J. (2004, June). Defining and using class and class labels in empirical research. Presentation at the 2nd Annual 'How Class Works' Conference sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class Life, Stony Brook, NY.

Kirby, Brenda J. (2007, March). U.S. Catholic attitudes toward homosexuality. Invited presentation at the Sixth National Symposium on Catholicism and Homosexuality, Minneapolis, MN.

Kirby, Brenda J., & Michaelson, C. M. (May, 2008). Educating about homosexuality: What do American Catholics think? Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 8(2), 225-235.

Kirby, Brenda J., and White, Theresa L. (2004, May). Other-sex effect?: Race and sex interact in categorization of faces by sex. Presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Chicago, IL.

Kirby, Brenda J., Jureller, P., & Stebner, S. (2007, May). Does the penalty fit the crime? Evaluating acquaintance versus stranger rape. Presentation at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Kirby, Brenda J., Sylvia, Monica R., & Cooney, M. (2005, May). Stay tuned for real life: Viewer behaviors and perceptions of reality and news programming. Presentation at the 17th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Los Angeles, CA.

Nelson, J., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2006, May). In the mood? The influence of positive and negative affect on creativity. Presentation at the 18th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Parks, D., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2003, May/June). The effect of birth order on rebellion and social activism. Presentation at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Atlanta, GA.

Parks, S., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2007, May). Can you afford your taste? Motivations for food choices among college students. Presentation at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Ruggiano, C., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2004, May). Perceptions of acquaintance and stranger sexual assault: Using the Ambivalent Sexism Scale. Presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Chicago, IL.

Sylvia, Monica S., Kirby, Brenda J., & DiTullio, Maria (2004, May). When less is more: Student attitudes toward varying formats of PowerPoint presentations. Presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Chicago, IL.

Tiballi, T., Kirby, Brenda J. (2003, May/June). Effects of gender on sexual attitudes of college co-eds. Presentation at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Atlanta, GA.

Walkowicz, A., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2000, June). Effect on stress of participation in athletics with varying levels of organization. Presentation at the 12th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Miami Beach, FL.

Welch, J., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2007, May). I second that emotion: Encoder race and media format affect emotion perception. Presentation at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

White, Theresa L., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2004, May). 'Tis better to give than to receive: An undergraduate peer review process. Presentation at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Chicago, IL.

White, Theresa L., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2005). 'Tis better to give than to receive: An undergraduate peer review project. Teaching of Psychology, 32(4), 259-261.

Young, S., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2001, June). Effects of public displays of affection of male-female dyads on bystanders in the United States. Presentation at the 13th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society. Toronto, Canada.



Christina Michaelson

Michaelson, Christina. (2006). Cultivating inner peace. In Rachel M. MacNair (Ed), Working for peace: A handbook of practical psychology and other tools (pp. 16-23). Atascadero, CA: Impact Publishers.

Michaelson, Christina. (2006). Integrating Eastern and Western approaches to psychology: An undergraduate senior seminar. Teaching of Psychology, 33(2), 142-144.


Monica Sylvia

Berthier, Neil E., Bertenthal, Bennett I., Seaks, Jill D., Sylvia, Monica R., Johnson, Renee L., & Clifton, Rachel K. (2001). Using object knowledge in visual tracking and reaching. Infancy, 2(2), 257-284.

Blasik, J. L., & Sylvia, Monica R. (2006, May). Is there an “I” in team? Sex differences in collegiate coaching preferences. Poster session at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, NY.

Butler, S. C., Sylvia, Monica R., Berthier, Neil E., & Clifton, Rachel K. (2001, April). Motivation and children's reasoning about unseen events. Poster session at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Johnson, Renee L., Sylvia, Monica R., Clifton, Rachel K., & Berthier, Neil E. (2000, July). Give me a minute: Integrating action with object knowledge under different time constraints. Poster session at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton & Hove, U.K.

Keen, Rachel, Berthier, Neil E., Sylvia, Monica R., Butler, S., Prutny, P. K., & Baker, R. K. (in press). Toddler’s use of cues in a search task. Infant and Child Development.

Keen, Rachel, Carrico, Renee L., & Sylvia, Monica R. (2003). How infants use perceptual information to guide action. Developmental science, 6(2), 221-231.

Kirby, Brenda J., Sylvia, Monica R., & Cooney, M. E. (2005, May). Stay tuned for real life: Viewer behaviors and perceptions of reality and news programming. Poster session at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.

McCarty, M. E., Sylvia, Monica R., & Clifton, Rachel K. (2002, April). The appearance-reality distinction: Are infants "captured by appearances" when reaching for objects? Poster session at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada.

Perron, M. F., & Sylvia, Monica R. (2007, May). It’s story time: An examination of college students’ child-directed reading Styles. Poster session at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

Sylvia, Monica R. (2000, July). The role of experience in infants' representations of unseen, sounding objects. Poster session at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton & Hove, U.K.

Sylvia, Monica R. (2003, April). Three-year-olds' understanding of the appearance- reality distinction: When actions speak louder than words. Poster session at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Sylvia, Monica R., & Warner, L. L. (2007, March). Willy Wonka’s everlasting gobstopper question: Does color affect children’s identification of flavor? Poster session at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Sylvia, Monica R., Kirby, Brenda J., & DiTullio, Maria (2004, May). When less is more: Student attitudes toward varying formats of PowerPoint presentations. Poster session at the meeting of the American Psychological Society’s Teaching Institute, Chicago, IL.

Warner, L. L., & Sylvia, Monica R. (2005, May). Tasting the rainbow: The effects of color on young children’s perception of flavor. Poster session at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.


Theresa L. White

Dishaw, L.V., White, Theresa L., & Youngentob, Steven L. (2006, April). Genetic influences on taste preference for ethanol (Abstract). Presented at the 28th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Hornung, David E., Smith, D. J., Kurtz, Daniel B., White, Theresa L., & Leopold, D. A. (2001). Effect of nasal dilators on nasal structure, sniffing strategies, and olfactory ability. Rhinology, 39, 84-87.

Kirby, Brenda J. & White, Theresa L. (2004, May). Other sex effect? Race and sex interact in the categorization of faces by sex (Abstract). Presented at the 16th American Psychological Society meeting, Chicago, IL.

Kurtz, Daniel B., White, Theresa L., & Hayes, Meghan. (2000). The labeled dissimilarity scale: A metric of perceptual dissimilarity. Perception & Psychophysics, 62 (1), 152-161.

Kurtz, D. B., White, Theresa L., & Hornung, David E. (2001, April). Influence of odorant exposure on remembered odorant quality (Abstract). Presented at the 23rd Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Kurtz, Daniel B., White, Theresa L., & Sheehe, Paul R. (2001). Odorant confusion matrix: The influence of patient history on odorant identification and misidentification in hyposmia. Physiology & Behavior, 72(4), 595-602.

Kurtz, Daniel B., Sheehe, Paul R., Kent, Paul F., White, Theresa L., Hornung, David E., & Wright, Herbert N. (2000). Odorant quality perception: A metric individual difference approach. Perception & Psychophysics, 62(5), 1121-1129.

Longo, M. & White, T. L. (2002, July). Relationship between food preferences, stress, introversion, and taster status (Abstract). Presented at the 15th meeting of the European Chemoreception Research Organization, Erlangen, Germany.

McBurney, Donald H. & White, Theresa L. (2004). Research methods (6th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

McBurney, Donald H. & White, Theresa L. (2007). Research methods (7th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Streeter, N. L. & White, Theresa L. (2007, April). Effect of contextual information on short-term olfactory memory (Abstract). Presented at the 29th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L. (2002). Maxwell Mozell: A scientific profile. AChemS Newsletter, 21, 3-4.

White, Theresa L. (2002, June). The role of olfaction in the cognitive construct of flavor (Abstract). Presented at the 14th American Psychological Society meeting, New Orleans, LA.

White, Theresa L. (2005, April). Verbal context influences flavor perception (Abstract). Presented at the 27th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., Dishaw, L. V., Sheehe, Paul R., & Youngentob, Steven L. (2007). The relationship between PROP and ethanol preferences: An evaluation of four inbred mouse strains. Chemical Senses, 32(9), 847-854.

White, Theresa L., Kent, P. F., Kurtz, Daniel B., & Emko, P.E. (2004). Gabapentin (neurontin) as an effective treatment for burning mouth syndrome. Archives of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, 130(6), 786-788.

White, Theresa L., & Kirby, Brenda J. (2005). 'Tis better to give than to receive: An undergraduate peer review project. Teaching of Psychology, 32(4), 259-261.

White, Theresa L., & Kurtz, Daniel B. (2000, April). How good is your sense of smell? Awareness of olfactory ability in patient groups (Abstract). Presented at the 22nd AChemS meeting. Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., & Kurtz, Daniel B. (2003). The relationship between metacognitive awareness of olfactory ability and age in people reporting chemosensory disturbances. American Journal of Psychology, 116(1), 99-110.

White, Theresa L., Kurtz, Daniel B., & Hornung, David E. (2001, June). Exposure to odorants briefly alters ratings of olfactory memories (Abstract). Presented at 13th American Psychological Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

White, Theresa L., & Longo, M. (2004, April). Personality traits and PROP sensitivity (Abstract). Presented at the 26th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., & Prescott, John. (2001, April). Odors influence speed of taste naming (Abstract). Presented at the 23rd Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., & Prescott, John. (2002). Learned Associations with Smells Influence Taste Naming Speed. (Abstract. Presented at the 15th meeting of the European Chemoreception Research Organization, Erlangen, Germany, July 23-27).

White, Theresa L., & Prescott, John. (2003, April). Flavor expectations (Abstract). Presented at the 25th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., & Prescott, John. (2007). Chemosensory cross-modal stroop effects: Congruent odors facilitate taste identification. Chemical Senses, 32(4), 337-341.

White, Theresa L., & Youngentob, Steven L. (2002. April). Effect of transgenic over-expression of NR2B on olfactory memory performance in the mouse (Abstract). Presented at the 24th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) meeting, Sarasota, FL.

White, Theresa L., & Youngentob, Steven L. (2004). The effect of NMDA-NR2B receptor unit over-expression on olfactory memory task performance in the mouse. Brain Research, 1021(1), 1-7.