Bio:

Dr. Khalkhal is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at SFSU. She has a BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Quebec, Canada, 2012) and has served as a postdoc fellow at Yale University (2012-2013) and UC Berkeley (2014-2016). Her research interest is in extending the understanding of the physics of soft matter and the development of the structure-property relationship in complex fluids. Such studies are critical in designing multi-functional materials and flow processes with biomedical, aerospace, and energy applications. She has developed several techniques to design more fuel-efficient lubricants for car engines and composites for the transportation industry. Furthermore, she has experience designing and optimizing microfluidic devices for diagnostics and has studied flow instabilities in many industrial applications. She has also worked for Schlumberger Ltd. (2000-2005), providing consulting services to oil companies to re-engineer their economic evaluation system, portfolio management, and risk analysis.

Other areas of research interest: engineering education, engineering identity, broadening participation, rheology, flow visualization, particle image velocimetry, microscopy, microfabrication, and computational modeling.

Current funding: 

1) Strengthening Pathways to Success in STEM (SP2S), Title V US Department of Education ($232,864, 2018-2023, role: Co-PI).

2) Strengthening Student Motivation and Resilience through Research and Advising (NSF-HSI iUSE, $1.0 million, 2021-2024, role: Co-PI).

3) Understanding Teamwork Experience and its Linkage to Engineering Identity of Diverse Students (NSF RIEF EEC: $199,919.0; 2021-2023, role: Co-PI).

 

Research in (engineering) Education:

       1) Strengthening Pathways to Success in STEM (SP2S), Title V US Department of Education ($232,864, 2018-2023)

This collaborative project between Skyline College and SFSU is intentionally designed to increase social and emotional support, persistence, retention, transfer, and graduation for Hispanic and low-income students by strengthening Skyline college's infrastructure and implementing collaborative activities with SFSU. The collective experience of faculty at Skyline College and SFSU will inform evidence-based strategies employed in supporting hundreds of Hispanic and low-income students in STEM education each year and recognize the complex needs and risk factors that create barriers to their academic success.

 

      2) Strengthening Student Motivation and Resilience through Research and Advising ( NSF-HSI iUSE, $1.0 million, 2021-2024) 

This collaborative effort between SF State, Skyline, and Canãda College will enhance undergraduate engineering education and build capacity in the School of Engineering (SoE) for a successful transition of Hispanic and underrepresented minority (URM) students to the engineering profession. In this project, we pursue three objectives: 1) to increase current retention and graduation rates for URMs, particularly, Hispanic students by 30%; 2) to enhance internships, networking with industry, and career development for URMs, by establishing a student success center; 3) to raise awareness and present evidence of student success through faculty enrichment programs. The knowledge gained from this project will address the national need for a diverse and well-prepared STEM workforce.

 

      3) Understanding Teamwork Experience and its Linkage to Engineering Identity of Diverse Students (NSF RIEF: $199,919.0; 2021-2023).

Engineering Identity (EI) is an indicator of persistence and retention in engineering and measures how strongly a person identifies with being an engineer. In recent years, there have been repeated calls for developing teamwork skills in recent university graduates from engineering employers and educational accreditation bodies. This emphasis has led to a wide range of studies about the effect of teamwork on different skills, including metacognitive ability and communication. Through the lens of dispersion theory and our lived experiences as women in pre-dominantly male-oriented engineering disciplines, we explore how teamwork disagreements inform or are informed by the formation of EI, particularly among women and URM students. The outcome of this research will inform our future efforts in inclusive teaching, learning, advising, and research mentorships.

 

Research areas in Complex Fluids Lab (CFL):

       1) Development of structure-property relationship in complex fluids

One of the research goals of the Complex Fluids Lab is focused on uncovering the mechanisms involved in the formation of different flow structures in complex fluids, particularly in milli- and micro-channels. Complex fluids are mixtures of a fluid (liquid or gas) and another phase (liquid, gas, or solid) that exhibit unusual mechanical responses to applied stress or deformation due to the geometrical constraints (e.g., the shape of the microstructure) that the phase coexistence imposes. Examples of the applications of these materials are to be found in printing inks, food products, personal care products, lubricating oils, liquefied natural gas, and medicine, to name a few.

The development of new multi-functional complex fluids highly relies on our ability to accurately measure, characterize, and control the microstructure often by studying the mechanical and physical behavior of complex fluids in bulk. Given the non-trivial nature of the relationship between the microstructure and mechanical properties of complex fluids, we pursue to establish this relationship by exploring the correlations between comprehensive experimental and theoretical results. By combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with experimental techniques such as rheometry, optical microscopy, and flow visualization, we attempt to answer fundamental questions such as: how do materials’ pristine properties, the processing conditions, and molecular/mesoscopic interactions affect the bulk properties? What are the mechanisms of structure formation under the influence of various parameters? What is the time scale of structural evolution under different processing conditions? How to control material bulk properties by manipulating the properties at smaller scales? To what extent do different forces contribute to the transport of soft materials (such as vesicles, double emulsions, colloidal suspensions, etc.)?

sample publication:

• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Ajay Singh Negi, James Harrison, Casey D. Stokes, David L. Morgan and Chinedum Osuji (2017), Evaluating dispersant stabilization of colloidal suspensions from the scaling behavior of gel rheology and adsorption measurements, Langmuir, 34 (3), 1092-1099.
• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Pierre J. Carreau and Gilles Ausias (2011) Effect of flow history on linear viscoelastic properties and the evolution of the structure of MWCNT suspensions in an epoxy, J. Rheology, 55(1),153-175.

 

       2) Fabrication of low-cost microfluidic devices using fast prototyping techniques

Microfluidic devices (or chips) are miniaturized devices containing micron size chambers with dimensions as small as the thickness of a human hair (~ 75 microns) or smaller, through which fluids flow or are confined. Due to their small size, they can operate at minimal quantities of samples, which is critical in many biomedical applications, including lab-on-a-chip (e.g., blood glucose test strips), diagnostics (e.g., cancer, HPV), organ-on-a-chip (e.g., an artificial heart) and drug delivery (e.g., insulin patches). Such devices can save us millions of dollars annually due to the much shorter time of experiments (by parallelizing experiments on a single device) and by saving the lab space by performing the experiments on a small chip. Microfluidic devices can facilitate early cancer diagnostics and reduce the risk of human error as a result of the low concentration of cancer cells in the blood at the very early stages of the disease.

Microfluidic devices are traditionally fabricated using soft photolithography techniques. These devices need to have a relatively high channel depth or high aspect ratio [aspect ratio = channel depth/channel width] for specific applications. Fabrication of high-aspect-ratio microfluidic devices with conventional soft photolithography such as SU-8 based techniques is very challenging. On the other hand, molds with a wide range of aspect ratios can be prepared by laminating a single or multiple layers of a thin, dry film photoresist onto metal wafers; we can make devices as deep as 500 um and with aspect ratios as high as 10.

Similarly, milli-channels can be designed and fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques for desired applications, such as analyzing the bifurcating flow of complex fluids. The fast prototyping lab in the school of engineering is equipped with multiple 3D printers and several workstations complete with 3D modeling software including SolidWorks/Simulation, AutoCAD, Creo, and Fusion360.  

sample publication:

• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Kendrick Chaney and Susan Muller (2016), Optimization and application of dry film photoresist for rapid fabrication of high-aspect-ratio microfluidic devices, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 20 (11), 153.
• Hidema, Ruri, Fatemeh Khalkhal, and Susan Muller, Optimizing a microfluidic device to produce double emulsion droplets, International Congress on Rheology, Kyoto, Japan, August 2016.

 

       3) Generation and migration behavior of monodisperse double emulsion droplets

Double emulsion droplets are used in many applications, including drug delivery and models for cells for in vitro studies, in the absence of actual cells. In drug delivery applications, it is crucial to generate droplets that have the same size (i.e., are monodisperse) to ensure uniform distribution of drugs to different parts of an organ and different organs. The uniform size can be measured using a polydispersity index (PDI); larger values of PDI correspond to a broader size distribution. PDI can be defined as the standard deviation (σ) of the particle diameter distribution divided by the mean particle diameter. We use flow-focusing microfluidic devices to generate mono-disperse (uniform size, ~100 um in diameter) droplets of water in oil in water (W/O/W) with PDI of 1.0005.

Monodisperse double emulsion droplets can also be used as models for cells for in vitro studies, in the absence of actual cells; an example includes using these droplets to mimic the migration behavior of red blood cells in microfluidic channels. In a preliminary study, we examined the inertial migration behavior of double emulsion droplets in straight channels (at Re ~ 17-18) compared to rigid spheres. The elastic droplets were more focused on the center of the channels near the outlet, while the rigid particles traveled very close to the channel walls. This work in progress can help us to better understand the mechanisms of blood cell migration at different flow rates and uncover the underlying mechanisms in blood clotting.

sample publication:

• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Susan Muller, Dynamics of Double Emulsion Droplets in a Wall-Bounded Shear Flow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015 (oral presentation).

Invited Talks

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A new insight into the characterization of the microstructure of colloidal suspensions, Cambridge, MA, November 2013.
• California Polytechnique State University: Application of rheology in efficiency evaluation of engine oil, Pomona, CA, April 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

^* corresponding author      

1. Necdet Aslan, and Fatemeh Khalkhal, "Numerical investigation of micro-channel flows by matrix distribution scheme with preconditioning" (submitted, full paper).
2. Ian Bucog, Fatemeh Khalkhal^* , and Jose Villanueva, "A comparative numerical study in extensional flow behavior of various non-Newtonian fluids in microrheometric devices" (in preparation).

3. Khalkhal, Fatemeh^*  and Susan J Muller (2022), “Analyzing flow behavior of shear-thinning fluids in a planar microfluidic abrupt contraction/expansion geometry”, Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 023303.
    

    
4. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Ajay Singh Negi, James Harrison, Casey D. Stokes, David L. Morgan and Chinedum Osuji (2018), Evaluating dispersant stabilization of colloidal suspensions from the scaling behavior of gel rheology and adsorption measurements, Langmuir, 34 (3), 1092-1099.
5. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Kendrick Chaney and Susan Muller (2016), Optimization and application of dry film photoresist for rapid fabrication of high-aspect-ratio microfluidic devices, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 20 (11), 153.
6. Ren, Fang, Stacy A. Kanaan, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Codruta Zoican Loebick, Gary L. Haller and Lisa D. Pfefferle (2013), Controlled cutting of single-walled carbon nanotubes and low-temperature annealing, Carbon, (63), pages 61-70.
7. Khalkhal, Fatemeh and Pierre J. Carreau (2012) Critical shear rates and structure build-up at rest in MWCNT suspensions, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 171-172, pages 56-66.
8. Khalkhal, Fatemeh and Pierre J. Carreau (2011) Scaling behavior of the elastic properties of non-dilute MWCNT-epoxy suspensions, Rheologica Acta, 50(9), 717-728.
9. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Pierre J. Carreau and Gilles Ausias (2011) Effect of flow history on linear viscoelastic properties and the evolution of the structure of MWCNT suspensions in an epoxy, J. Rheology, 55(1),153-175.

Theses

• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Characterization of flow-induced structures in carbon nanotube suspensions, Ph.D. thesis, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
• Khalkhal, Fatemeh, Modeling, and fluid flow analysis in fractured reservoirs, Master of Applied Science thesis, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings and Presentations

1. Zhang, Xiaorong, Stephanie Claussen, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Yiyi Wang, Evaluating ChatGPT's Efficacy in Qualitative Analysis of Engineering Education Research, Proceedings of 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 23-26 June, Portland, OR (full paper).
2. Claussen, S., Khalkhal, F., Zhang, X., Biviano, A.K., and Wang, Y. Qualitative analysis of the relationships between the teamwork experiences of diverse students and their engineering identities at a Hispanic-serving institution. Proceedings of 2023 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 25-28 June, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
3. Wang, Y., Claussen, S, Zhang, X, and Khalkhal, F. Development and initial outcomes of an NSF RIEF project in understanding teamwork experience and its linkage to engineering identity of diverse students, Proceedings of 2023 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 25-28 June, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
4. Wang, Y., Zhang, X, Khalkhal, F., Claussen, S., and Biviano, A.K A quantitative analysis on teamwork behavior, disagreement, and their linkages to students’ engineering identities, Proceedings of 2023 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 25-28 June, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
5. Jose Villanueva, Matthew Hutchinson, Emiliano Lopez, Ian Bucog, and Fatemeh Khalkhal^*, Towards preparing a diversified and skilled STEM workforce by providing hands-on mechanical design experience to community college students, Proceedings of the 2023 American Society of Engineering Education - The Pacific Southwest Section Annual Conference, 13-15 April, Los Angeles, CA (full paper).
6. Fatemeh Khalkhal^*, Jenna Wong, Xiaorong Zhang, Zhaoshuo Jiang, Yiyi Wang, Christopher Pong, Fostering student success through faculty development workshops, Proceedings of the 2023 American Society of Engineering Education - The Pacific Southwest Section Annual Conference, 13-15 April, Los Angeles, CA (full paper).
7. Fatemeh Khalkhal^*, Zhaoshuo Jiang, Xiaorong Zhang, Jenna Wong, Christopher Pong, Analyzing student peer mentor experiences in a collaborative summer internship project between San Francisco State University and local community colleges in San Francisco Bay Area, Proceedings of the 2023 American Society of Engineering Education - The Pacific Southwest Section Annual Conference, 13-15 April, Los Angeles, CA (full paper).
8. Zhaoshuo Jiang, Xiaorong Zhang, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Jenna Wong, David Quintero, Yiyi Wang, Christopher Pong, Robert Petrulis, Strengthening Student Motivation and Resilience through Research and Advising, Proceedings of the 2023 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition, 25-28 June, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
9. Xiaorong Zhang^*, David Quintero, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Zhaoshuo Jiang, Zhuwei Qin, Jenna Wong, Yiyi Wang, Wenshen Pong, and Robert Petrulis, Development and First-Year Outcomes of an NSF-Funded Summer Research Internship Program to Engage Community College Students in Engineering Research,  Proceedings of the 2023 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition, 25-28 June, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
10. Jenna Wong, Zhaoshuo Jiang, Fatemeh Khalkhal, David Quintero, Robert Petrulis, Wenshen Pong, Yiyi Wang, and Xiaorong Zhang (2023). Kickstarting an Engineering Success Center at a Hispanic Serving Institute, Proceedings of 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, June 25-28, Baltimore, MD (full paper).
11. Cheng, Chen, Zhaoshuo Jiang, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Nick Langhoff, J. Le, Christopher Wenshen Pong, Xiaorong Zhang, “A Collaborative Project between Skyline College and San Francisco State University to Strengthen Pathways to Success in STEM”, 7th IAFOR International Conference on Education, Hawaii, Jan 6-9, 2022.
12. Zhaoshuo Jiang, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Chris Wenshen Pong, David Quintero, Yiyi Wang, Jenna Wong, Xiaorong Zhang, An Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) project funded by the National Science Foundation, Hispanic-Servicing Institutions Program at San Francisco State University, 21^st Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Jan. 3-6, 2023, Honolulu, Hawaii.
13. Chatterjee, Ajay, and Fatemeh Khalkhal (2019), Stability and scalar transport in laminar non-Newtonian flow in a bi-furcating T-junction, Proceedings of the ASME 17th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM 2019), St John's, NL, Canada, June 23-26, V001T01A004. ASME.
14. Hidema, Ruri, Fatemeh Khalkhal, and Susan Muller, Optimizing a microfluidic device to produce double emulsion droplets, International Congress on Rheology, Kyoto, Japan, August 2016 (oral presentation).
15. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Susan Muller, Dynamics of Double Emulsion Droplets in a Wall-Bounded Shear Flow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015 (oral presentation).
16. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Susan Muller, Microfluidic Studies of Emulsions and Suspensions in Wall-Bounded Shear Flow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015 (poster presentation).
17. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Chinedum Osuji, Scaling behavior of colloidal gel elasticity in the context of dispersant surface activity, Society of Engineering Science (SES) 50th Annual Technical Meeting, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 2013 (oral presentation).
18. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Pierre J. Carreau, Analyzing the kinetics of structure build-up in carbon nanotube suspensions, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM18), 21-26 August 2011, Jeju Island, Korea (oral presentation).
19. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Pierre J. Carreau, Development of structure-property relationships in carbon nanotube suspensions, Canadian Society of Rheology: Current Topics and Trends in Rheology, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 2011 (poster presentation).
20. Khalkhal, Fatemeh, and Pierre J. Carreau, Flow-induced evolution of the microstructure of MWCNT suspensions at small deformations, 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology, Santa Fe, NM, October 2010 (oral presentation).
21. Khalkhal, Fatemeh and Pierre J. Carreau, Transient behavior of carbon nanotube suspensions in an epoxy, 81st Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology, Madison, WI, October 2009 (oral presentation).
22. Khalkhal, Fatemeh and Pierre J. Carreau, Effect of flow history on the rheology of MWNT-epoxy suspensions, VIII World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, QC, August 2009 (oral presentation).

non-Peer-Reviewed Showcases

1. Tianyou Huang, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Investigation on Optimal Design of Thermal Management System for Data Centers, College of Science and Engineering Showcase, Spring 2024 (poster).
2. Candace Castro, George Anwar, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Automatic Refillable Tabletop Electronic Machine Mixing In Spices (ARTEMMIS), College of Science and Engineering Showcase, Spring 2023 (poster).
3. Miles Phillips, Justin Baskin, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a 3D-printed Go Kart Brake Pedal, College of Science and Engineering Showcase, Spring 2023 (poster).
4. Carlos Acuna, Mario Acuna, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a 3D printed Monitor Mount, College of Science and Engineering Showcase, Spring 2023 (poster).
5. Ian Bucog, Jose Villanueva, and Fatemeh Khalkhal, A comparative study on the extensional flow behavior of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in micro-rheometric devices, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
6. Tyler Casaclang, Nathaniel Albert, Jackie Guo, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a hook that fit into a predetermined railing and able to withstand 40 pounds without breaking, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
7. Jocelynn Nazarit, Joyce Bulatao, Fatemeh Khalkhal, One Trip Grip Multiple Bag Holder, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
8. Gabriel Ruiz, John Tobie, Vasav Juthani, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Exploration of Stress and Strain Results of 3D Printed Screwdriver Handle, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
9. Franklin Monzon, Nuzhat Shaikh, Andy Wong, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Double Wishbone Suspension Design, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
10. Joey Conway, David Luckett, Tristan Moore, Fatemeh Khalkhal, 3-D Design and Printing Methodologies Stubby Handle Screwdriver, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
11. Cesar Lopez, Daniel Nguyen, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a hook that fit into a predetermined railing and able to withstand 40 pounds without breaking, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
12. Brian A. Lopez Rocha, Crystal Perez Genchi, Rakan Shannan, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a laptop stand, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
13. Ritvik Kumar, Reid Nakano, Leonardo Vigil Ruiz, Fatemeh Khalkhal, Design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of a sturdy hook, School of Engineering Showcase, Fall 2022 (poster).
14. Ian Bucog, Jose Villanueva, and Fatemeh Khalkhal, Numerical and experimental investigation of flow around an obstacle in milli- and microfluidic channels, College of Science and Engineering Showcase, Spring 2022 (poster).

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Research:

My research interests broadly span the co-evolution of life and the earth surface environment on geologic and recent timescales. As a sedimentary geologist and geobiologist, I use field, petrographic, and geochemical approaches to understand different scales of environmental change as recorded in the sedimentary rock record. Most of my work has been on the biogeochemistry of fluvial and lacustrine carbonate microbialites. My research offers a range of opportunities for students to study sedimentary rocks from a paleoenvironmental perspective as well as with a geobiological/astrobiological framework.

 

Teaching:

Earth Systems Science (ERTH 500) 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy (ERTH 515)

Our Dynamic Earth (ERTH 112)

In Spring 2025 I will be teaching Geology of National Parks (ERTH 325)

 

Education:

A.B. Geology-Biology, Brown University 

Ph.D. Geological Sciences, University of Southern California

*SFSU student author

Ibarra, Y., Marenco, P.J., Centlivre, J.P., Hedlund, B.P., Rademacher, L., Greene, S.E., Bottjer, D.J., Corsetti, F.A. 2024. A biofilm channel origin for vermiform microstructure in carbonate microbialites. Geobiology 22(5) 312623. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12623 

*Kanner, M.C., **Cortes, L., Ibarra, Y. 2022. Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of Early to mid-Holocene wet events from fluvial tufa deposits in Santa Cruz, CA. Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3450

*Bays, A.J., *Sanon, S., ^Ibarra, Y., Hayzelden, C. 2022. Taphonomic controls on microbialite textures of the Steamboat Point Member of the Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite, western Teton Mountains, WY, USA. Palaios 37(5) p. 150-164. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.042

Yager, J., West, A.J., Thibodeau, A., Corsetti, F.A., Rigo, M., Berelson, W., Bottjer, DJ., Greene, S., Ibarra, Y., Jadoul, F., Ritterbush, K.A., Rollins, N., Rosas, S., Stefano, P., Sulca, D., Todaro, S., Wynn, P., Zimmerman, L., Bergquist, B. 2021. Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: Towards a more robust mercury proxy for large igneous province magmatism. Earth Science Reviews 103775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103775

*Boelts, H.P., ^Ibarra, Y. Hayzelden, C. 2020. The influence of benthic diatoms on the textures of carbonate-coated grains from a fluvial tufa spring in northern California. Journal of Sedimentary Research 90 (11), 601-613. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.74

Petryshyn, V.A., Greene, S.E., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Kelley, A., Gammariello, R. T., Ibarra, Y., Bottjer, D. J., Tripati, A. Corsetti, F.A. 2020. The role of temperature in the initiation of the end-Triassic mass extinction.  Earth Science Reviews Volume 208: 103266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103266

Clement, A.M., Tackett, L.S., Ritterbush, K.A., Ibarra, Y. 2020. Formation and stratigraphic facies distribution of early Jurassic iron oolite deposits from west central Nevada, USA.  Sedimentary Geology 395, 105537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.105537

Ibarra, Y., *Sanon, S. 2019. A freshwater analog for the production of Epiphyton-like microfossils. Geobiology 17, 510-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12341

Ibarra, Y. and Corsetti, F.A. 2016. Lateral comparative investigation of stromatolites: Astrobiological implications and assessment of scales of control. Astrobiology 16:4, p. 271-281. doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1388

Thibodeau, A.M., Ritterbush, K.A., Yager, J.A., West, J., Ibarra, Y., Bottjer, D.J., Berelson, W., Bergquist, B., Corsetti, F.A., 2016. Mercury anomalies, volcanism, and timing of biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction. Nature Communications 7, 11147. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11147

Ibarra, Y., Corsetti, F.A., Greene, S.E., Bottjer, D.J. A microbial carbonate response in synchrony with the End-Triassic Mass Extinction SW UK. Scientific Reports 6, 19808. doi.org/10.1038/srep19808

Ritterbush, K.A., Ibarra, Y., Tackett, L.S. Post-extinction biofacies of the first carbonate ramp of the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) in NE Panthalassa (New York Canyon, NV, USA) Palaios 31, p. 141-160. doi.org/10.2110/palo.2015.021

Ibarra, Y., Corsetti, F.A., Greene, S.E., Bottjer, D.J. Reply to Comment on Microfacies of the Cotham Marble: A tubestone carbonate microbialite from the Upper Triassic SW UK. Palaios 30, p. 806-809. doi.org/10.2110/palo.2015.068 *Featured Journal Cover

Ibarra, Y., Corsetti, F.A., Feakins, S.J., Rhodes, E.R., Kirby, M. K. Fluvial tufa evidence of Late Pleistocene wet intervals from Santa Barbara, California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 422, p. 36-45. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.01.012

Ibarra, Y., Corsetti F.A., Greene, S.E., Bottjer. 2014. Microfacies of the Cotham Marble: A tubestone carbonate microbialite from the Upper Triassic, Southwestern United Kingdom. Palaios 29, p. 1-15. doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.046

Feakins, S.J., Kirby, M.E., Cheetham, M.I., Ibarra, Y., Zimmerman, S. R. H. 2014.  Fluctuation in leaf wax D/H ratio from a southern California lake records significant variability in isotopes in precipitation during the late Holocene. Organic Geochemistry 66, p. 48-59. doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.10.015

Ibarra, Y., Corsetti, F.A., Cheetham M., Feakins S.J. 2014. Were fossil spring-associated carbonates near Zaca Lake, Santa Barbara, California deposited under an ambient or thermal regime? Sedimentary Geology 301, p. 15-25. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2013.12.005

Bio

 

My Chinese name is 葛浩德 and I am Professor of Chinese. I teach a wide variety of Chinese literature and language classes, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. I was the Academic Advisor of the Chinese Flagship Program, a federally-funded honors track that offers intensive training in Chinese language and culture, until Spring 2024. I am currently the chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

I grew up in the north-German town of Rendsburg, in the beautiful state of Schleswig Holstein. I received a BA in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University where I was an undergrad at St. John's College, and a Ph.D. in Chinese literature from Yale University. I have also studied Chinese at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Tokyo, and various places in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Research

My research is highly interdisciplinary and ranges from Qing-dynasty poetry and visual arts to Republican-period literature, Sino-Japanese relations, and contemporary cinema from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. My CV posted on this site provides a list of my peer-reviewed articles and book chapters along with my book reviews and many other scholarly and non-scholarly writings, all of which I am happy to share upon request. 

My book Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic is a study and anthology of five novellas by Xu Xu (1908-1980), an important Chinese novelist. It was published by Stone Bridge Press.

Bio:

Desde el verano de 2015, tengo el honor de trabajar en la SFSU, donde en la actualidad soy profesora asociada. Anteriormente fui profesora visitante en la University of Washington en Seattle durante dos años. Mi formación académica tuvo lugar, sin embargo, en Alemania. Me doctoré en la Universidad de Hamburgo con una tesis sobre la memoria colectiva de la Guerra Civil Española en la narrativa contemporánea. Como resultado, en 2004 publiqué el libro La encrucijada de la memoria en la Editorial Tranvia, que tuvo una segunda edición en 2012. Entre 2003 y 2013 trabajé como profesora en la Universidad de Bremen. Allí co-edité tres libros: Entre la violencia y la reparación, La obsesión del Yo: la auto(r)ficción en la literatura española y latinoamericana, y La reinvención de Latinoamérica. He escrito numerosos artículos y capítulos de libros relacionados con la representación de las violencias, la memoria, el género policial, la cultura de la crisis tanto en España como en América Latina.

En 2017 edité, junto con Katherine O. Stafford, el volumen monográfico Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España, en Hispanic Issues Online. Vol 19. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online. En esta monografía, contribuí con el artículo: "La última victoria del Franquismo".

Además he publicado diversos artículos sobre literatura, cine y televisión en España y América Latina. En 2016 publiqué el artículo “Un artefacto de resistencia antifranquista en clave grotesca: Balada triste de trompeta de Álex de la Iglesia” en La memoria cinematográfica de la guerrilla antifranquista. En 2018, “Buenos Aires como prisión – Paraguay como utopía: formas de resistencia y la creación de espacios alternativos en Leonera (2008) y El niño pez (2009)", en la Revista Iberoamericana, Vol 258, y “El carnaval de los espías: la simulación como ofensiva en La cabeza de la hidra (1978) de Carlos Fuentes y El ojo de la Patria (1992) de Osvaldo Soriano” en Chasqui. En 2018 también publiqué en Hispanófila “Cámbiame: Una fábrica de terapia nacional e interseccional” y  junto con Daniel Noemi, "Escrituras latinoamericanas del 2017: Lo bueno, lo malo y el resto" en El Desconcierto, http://www.eldesconcierto.cl/2018/05/04/escrituras-latinoamericanas-del-..., y "2017: Escrituras latinoamericanas (el resto es literatura)" en el Almanaque editado por Germán Labrador en la revista Ínsula.  Por último, en 2019 he publicado “Un viaje lírico al infierno: una posible lectura o descodificación de La Mara de Rafael Ramírez Heredia” en el libro Ficciones que duelen.

En 2023 he publicado dos capítulos sobre la construcción del mito de la neutralidad y la Concordia Nacional en España: “The Neutrality of Spain in World War II: The Filmic Construction of a Myth” en Memories of WWII in Neutral Europe (ed. Manu Braganca, Routledge) y “Revitalización del mito de la Concordia Nacional a través de los restos ideológicos en El Ministerio del Tiempo” en Mitos y leyendas en España (Ed. Daniel Arroyo y Carrie Ruiz).

Produzco el podcast #RadioAnemocoria con Daniel Ares, de San Diego State University, en que hacemos entrevistas a autores y autoras de ensayos sobre Estudios Ibéricos y además soy colaboradora del medio digital Contexto y Acción (ctxt.es).

También he publicado un cuento infantil, Lucas tiene superpoderes,  con ilustraciones de Marisol Díaz, traducido al catalán y al euskera en Edicions Bellaterra.

En verano de 2023 publiqué mi libro Arqueología del esencialismo español: Leyes, genealogías y herencias, en la Editorial Comares, y también mi primera novela, Mi bien esquivo, en Ediciones Carena.

https://edicionescarena.com/producto/mi-bien-esquivo/

En 2024 publiqué mi primer poemario, Inconclusa sinestesia, en Valparaíso Ediciones 

https://valparaisoediciones.es/tienda/poesia/880-448-inconclusa-sinestes...

Mi próximo proyecto es Otras iluminaciones: narrativa, cultura y psicodélicos en colaboración con Alberto Ribas-Casasayas, de Santa Clara University. Almenara Press, 2025.

https://almenarapress.com/shop/almenara/en-preparacion/2025-otras-ilumin...

Desde la primavera de 2021 soy la coordinadora del Programa de Español. He tenido el honor de ser Senadora en San Francisco State University durante tres años y participar en diferentes comités.

Creo en el poder de la educación, de la creatividad y del pensamiento crítico para cambiar las cosas a mejor.

__________________

Since the summer of 2015, I have had the honor of working at SFSU. Previously, I was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle for two years. However, my academic training took place in Germany. I received my doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the collective memory of the Spanish Civil War in the contemporary narrative. As a result, in 2004 I published the book La encrucijada de la memoria at Editorial Tranvia, which had a second edition in 2012. Between 2003 and 2013 I taught at the University of Bremen. There I co-edited three books: Entre la violencia y la reparación, La obsesión del Yo: la auto(r)ficción en la literatura española y latinoamericana, and La reinvención de Latinoamérica. I have written numerous articles and book chapters related to the representation of violence, memory, the police genre, the culture of the crisis both in Spain and in Latin America. In 2017, I edited, together with Katherine O. Stafford, the monographic volume, Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España on Hispanic Issues Online. Vol 19. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online. In this monograph, I contributed the article: "La última victoria del Franqusimo."

I have also published several articles on literature, film and television in Spain and Latin America. In 2016 I published the article “Un artefacto de resistencia antifranquista en clave grotesca: Balada triste de trompeta de Álex de la Iglesia” in La memoria cinematográfica de la guerrilla antifranquista. In 2018, "“Buenos Aires como prisión – Paraguay como utopía: formas de resistencia y la creación de espacios alternativos en Leonera (2008) y El niño pez (2009)", in Revista Iberoamericana, Vol 258, and "El carnaval de los espías: la simulación como ofensiva en La cabeza de la hidra (1978) de Carlos Fuentes y El ojo de la Patria (1992) de Osvaldo Soriano” in Chasqui. In 2018 I also published in Hispanófila“ Cámbiame: Una fábrica de terapia nacional e interseccional,” and together with Daniel Noemi," scrituras latinoamericanas del 2017: Lo bueno, lo malo y el resto"i n El Desconcierto, http://www.eldesconcierto.cl/2018/05/04/escritura-latinoamericanas-del- .. ., and "2017: Escrituras latinoamericanas (el resto es literatura)" in the Almanaque edited by Germán Labrador in the magazine Ínsula. Finally, in 2019 I published “Un viaje lírico al infierno: una posible lectura o descodificación de La Mara de Rafael Ramírez Heredia” in the book Ficciones que duelen.

I have published two chapters on the construction of the myth of neutrality and National Concord in Spain: "The Neutrality of Spain in World War II: The Filmic Construction of a Myth" in Memories of WWII in Neutral Europe (Translation by Michael Hammer, and ed. Manu Braganca, Routledge) and "Revitalization of the myth of National Concord through ideological remains in The Ministry of Time" in Myths and Legends in Spain (Ed. Daniel Arroyo and Carrie Ruiz. Iberoamericana).

I have also published a children's story, Lucas tiene superpoderes, in Edicions Bellaterra.

In 2023 I published my new book, Arqueología del esencialismo español in Editorial Comares (Granada, Spain) and miy first novel Mi bien esquivo, in Edicions Carena (Barcelona, Spain).

My next project, in collaboration with Professor Alberto Ribas-Casasayas (Santa Clara University) is Otras iluminaciones: Narrativa, cultura y psicodélicos Almenara Press, 2025.

https://almenarapress.com/shop/almenara/en-preparacion/2025-otras-ilumin...

Since the spring of 2021, I have been the coordinator of the Spanish Program.

I believe in the power of education, creativity, and critical thinking to change things for the better.

Websites: 

Academia.edu, Lucas tiene superpoderes. Un cuento infantil sobre el autismo, La encrucijada de la memoria, Happy Hispanidad Day!, Cuando la hora llega, Perpetradores y memoria democrática, Cámbiame: una fábrica de psicoterapia nacional e interseccional, Escrituras latinoamericanas del 2017, Radio Anemocoria, Otras iluminaciones, Mi bien esquivo, Entrevista Mi bien esquivo, Entrevista Arqueología del esencialismo español

Bio:

Samuel McCormick is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University and was recently appointed EURIAS & Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark.  He came to SFSU in 2012, after serving as Assistant Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Political Science, and Codirector of the Philosophy & Communication Doctoral Program at Purdue University.  Prior to this, he was a Presidential Fellow in Communication Studies at the University Iowa, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2007. 

 

Professor McCormick is interested in communication, social theory, and the practice of everyday life, especially as these topics intersect with broader issues in intellectual and cultural history.  He is particularly interested in psychoanalytic theory and technique, the history and philosophy of animals, mathematical approaches to language and social interaction, and the sociopragmatics of sense and sexuality in the digital age, where pleasure is often mistaken for enjoyment and fantasy routinely misconstrued as love.  

 

His first book, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, won the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, the James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Everett Lee Hunt Award.  His second book, The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press, with an Italian translation to be published later this year.

 

Professor McCormick is currently at work on two new book projects: one on animal philosophy and another on Lacanian psychoanalysis.  He is also the host of Lectures on Lacan, a newsletter, podcast, and lecture series dedicated to clear, coherent, and accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian psychoanalysis. 

 

Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

M.S., Geology, Western Washington University

B.S., Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

 

Specialties

hydrology, watershed biogeochemistry, resource management, environmental science, GIS, environmental modeling, and ecohydrology.

Graduate Students

Current

Kyle Roe

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning

Thesis - in progress: Evaluating Microplastic Contamination in Water and Sediment across San Francisco Bay

B.A. English, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Julian LoGiudici

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning

Thesis - in progress: Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Ecological Effects in the Greater Yellowstone Area

USDA Water Resources Intern. Awarded through the Water Resources Experiential Learning for USDA Careers, Cal State San Bernardino University.

B.A. Geography, San Francisco State University

Awards: Pease Award

 

Lab Alumni

Paige Krinks

Now GIS Specialist, California State Lands Commission

M.S. Geographic Information Science, 05/2025

Thesis: Hydrogeologic GIS Modeling of East Contra Costa Groundwater Subbasin

B.A. Geography, San Francisco State University

 

Alanna Smith

Now Parks Program Associate, Save the Redwoods League

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, 05/2025

Thesis: A Walk to the Park: Trail Connectivity in Orick, California

B.A. Global Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

 

Eleanor Morgan

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, 05/2024

Thesis: Scorched Legacy: Wildfire impacts on Water Quality in a Montane Valley Creek

B.S. Environmental Science, San Francisco State University

 

Nicholas Fetherston

Now Environmental Scientist, North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, 05/2022

Thesis: Effects of Restoration on Water Quality in a Sierra Nevada Meadow

B.A. Geography, San Francisco State University

  

Kelly Krotcova

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, San Francisco State University, 05/2019

Thesis: Tradeoffs of water security and adequate ecological protection during drought, Coastal California

B.L.A. Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University

Awards: Pease Award, 2017

 

Zoe Statman-Weil

Now Senior Software Engineer, The Earth Genome

M.S. Geographic Information Science, San Francisco State University, 12/2018

Thesis: Disparities in Community Water Systems Compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.

B.A. Environmental Studies, Carleton College

  

Deseret Weeks

Now Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Utah State University

Ph.D. Management of Complex Systems, University of California Merced, 05/2024

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, San Francisco State University, 05/2018

B.A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles

Thesis: Mercury in the Cache Creek Watershed - Spatial Analysis, Ecosystem Services Impacts and SES Framework Implementation

Select Awards: Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholar, 2017-2018; COAST Graduate Student Research Award, 2017

  

Sam Stein

Now Instructional Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, Chapman University

Ph.D. Geography, University of California Berkeley, 2024 

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, San Francisco State University, 12/2016

B.S. Environmental Science, University of Nevada Reno

Thesis: An Examination of Water Quality in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

Select Awards: CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Scholar, 2018; AAG Student Award, Water Resources Specialty Group, 2016; Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship, 2015.

 

Ellen Doudna

Now Associate Environmental Planner at Caltrans

M.A. Geography, Resource Management and Environmental Planning, 12/2016

B.A. Oberlin College

Thesis: Trends in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus of California's Central Valley

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

*SFSU student author

 

*Blumenthal, J.G., Chang, A.L., Cheng, B.S., Hines, E.M., Nanus, L., Zabin, C.J., 2025. Fine-scale habitat factors linked to density but not distribution of an invasive estuarine predator, Aquatic Invasions, 20 (1): 69-87, doi:10.3391/ai.2025.20.1.143501.

 

*Wolf, C., Gurdak, J.J., *Lauffenburger, Z., Nanus, L., Mauer, E., 2022. Controls on recharge in thick vadose zones under climate variability and change, Hydrogeology Journal, doi.org/10.1007/s10040-022-02504-6.

 

Burpee, B.T., Saros, J.E., Nanus, L., Baron, J., Brahney, J., Christianson, K.R., Ganz, T., Heard, A., Hundey, B., Koinig, K.A., Kopáček,, J., Moser, K., Nydick, K., Oleksy, I., Sadro, S.,  Sommaruga, R., Vinebrooke, R., and Williams, J., 2022. Identifying factors that affect mountain lake sensitivity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across multiple scales, Water Research 209, 117883, doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117883.

 

*Statman-Weil, Z., Nanus L., Wilkinson, N., 2020. Disparities in Community Water System Compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, Applied Geography 121, 102264, doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102264.

 

Nanus, L., Campbell, D.H., Lehmann, C.M.B., Mast, M.A., 2018. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Sources of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in the Rocky Mountains using Nitrogen Isotopes, Atmospheric Environment 176, 110-119, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.12.023.

 

Nanus, L., McMurray, J.A., Clow, D.W., Saros, J.E., Blett, T., Gurdak, J.J., 2017. Spatial Variation of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Critical Loads for Aquatic Ecosystems in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Environmental Pollution 223, 644-656, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2017.01.077.

 

Gurdak, J.J., *Geyer, G.E., Nanus, L., Taniguchi, M., and *Corona, C.R., 2017. Scale Dependence of Controls on Groundwater Vulnerability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, California Coastal Basin Aquifer System, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.01.002.

 

Clow, D.W., Roop, H.A., Nanus, L., Fenn, M.E, Sexstone, G.A., 2015. Spatial Patterns of Atmospheric Deposition of Nitrogen and Sulfur using Ion-exchange Resin Collectors in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA, Atmospheric Environment 101, 149-157.

 

*Newcomer, M.E., Gurdak, J.J., Sklar, L.S., Nanus, L., 2014. Urban Recharge beneath Low Impact Development and Effects of Climate Variability and Change, Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2013WR014282.

 

Nanus, L., Clow, D.W., Saros, J.E., Stephens, V.C., Campbell, D.H., 2012. Mapping Critical Loads of Nitrogen Deposition for Aquatic Ecosystems in the Rocky Mountains, USA, Environmental Pollution 166, 125-135.

 

Clow, D.W., Nanus, L., Verdin, K.L., Schmidt, J., 2012. Evaluation of SNODAS Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Estimates for the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Hydrological Processes 26, 17, 2583-2591.

 

Clow, D.W., Nanus, L., Huggett, B., 2010. Use of Regression-Based Models to Map Sensitivity of Aquatic Resources to Atmospheric Deposition in Yosemite National Park, Water Resources Research 46, doi:10.1029/2009WR008316.

 

Nanus, L., Williams, M.W., Campbell, D.H., Tonnessen, K.A., Blett, T., Clow, D.W., 2009. Assessment of Lake Sensitivity to Acidic Deposition in National Parks of the Rocky Mountains, Ecological Applications 19, 4, 961-973.

 

Nanus, L., Williams, M.W., Campbell, D.H., Elliott, E.M., Kendall, C., 2008. Evaluating Regional Patterns in Nitrate Sources to Watersheds in National Parks of the Rocky Mountains using Nitrate Isotopes, Environmental Science and Technology 42: 6487-6493. Supporting Information.

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Campbell, D.H., Clow, D.W., Nanus, L., Turk, J.T., 2008. Trends in Snowpack Chemistry and Comparison to National Atmospheric Deposition Program Results for the Rocky Mountains US, 1993-2004, Atmospheric Environment 42, 6098-6113.

 

Nanus, L., Campbell, D.H., Ingersoll, G.P., Clow, D.W., Mast, A.M., 2003. Atmospheric Deposition Maps for the Rocky Mountains, Atmospheric Environment 37, 4881-4892.

 

Mitchell, R.J., Babcock, S., Gelinas, S., Nanus, L., Stasney, D., 2003. Nitrate Distributions and Source Identification in the Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer, Northwestern Washington, Journal of Environmental Quality 32, 3, 789-800.

 

Clow, D.W., Striegl, R.G., Nanus, L., Mast, M.A., Campbell, D.H., Krabbenhoft, D.P., 2002. Chemistry of Selected High-Elevation Lakes in Seven National Parks in the Western United States, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, Focus 2: 139-164.

 

Peer-Reviewed Reports

 

Nanus, L., McMurray, J.A., and Blett, T.F., 2022. Environmental management of air quality issues in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Natural Resource Report NPS/NRSS/ARD/NRR—2022/2441, doi.org/10.36967/2294111.

 

Simonich, S., Nanus, L., 2012. Sierra Nevada-Southern Cascades Region Air Contaminants Research and Monitoring Strategy, National Park Service Technical Report. 

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Campbell, D.H., Clow, D.W., Nanus, L., and Turk, J.T., 2009. Rocky Mountain Snowpack Physical and Chemical Data for Selected Sites, 1993–2008. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 369.

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Nanus, L., Handran, H.M., Manthorne, D.J., and Hulstrand, D.M., 2007. Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry at Selected Sites, 2004. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2007-1045.

 

Nanus, L., Campbell, D.H., Williams, M.W., 2005. Sensitivity of Alpine and Subalpine Lakes to Acidification from Atmospheric Deposition in Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5023.

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Nanus, L., Manthorne, D.J., Handran, H.M., Hulstrand, D.M., Winterringer, J.A., 2005. Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry at Selected Sites, 2003. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2005-1332.

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Nanus, L., Manthorne, D.J., Clow, D.W., Handran, H.M., Winterringer, J.A., Campbell, D.H., 2004. Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry Synoptic at Selected Sites 2002. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2004-1027.

 

Ingersoll, G.P., Mast, M.A., Clow, D.W., Nanus, L., Campbell, C., Handran, H.M., 2003. Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry Synoptic at Selected Sites for 2001. U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report, 2003-48.

San Francisco State University

GEOG 751: Environmental Management

GEOG 810: Seminar in Physical Geography

GEOG 644: Water Quality

GEOG 342/ERTH 442: Surface Water Hydrology

GEOG 642/ERTH 642: Watershed Assessment and Restoration

GEOG 688: Geographic Internship

ENVS 680: Environmental Studies Internship

GEOG 101: Our Physical Environment

Bio:

Charlotte Tate, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University. She is a mixed ethnicity trans woman and a lesbian. She is also an intersectional feminist. Her work is situated at the nexus of social and personality psychology—drawing methods, theories, and approaches from both traditions. Specifically, she examines the social identities of gender (trans* inclusive), sexual orientation (asexual inclusive), and ethnicity in the United States by focusing on the self and identity processes within those identities as well as prejudice and discrimination directed toward them. Her work uses an intersectional lens as a foundation to understand all these topics. Her work is largely quantitative, with a focus on multivariate statistical modeling, and is guided by conceptually analytic models that are amenable to qualitative inquiry as well. She has been on the editorial boards of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Journal of Lesbian Studies and currently serves as an Associate Editor for Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, on the Editorial Board of Journal of Sex Research, and as a Consulting Reviewer for American Psychologist.

Brownbag

Introduction to the Archive

The SPA/MBB brownbag archive is a list of all the presentations that have been delivered since the inception of the brownbag series in Spring 2010. Click this here to return to the current SPA/MBB brownbag page. To update the archive or correct an error, please e-mail Dr. Charlotte Tate at ctate2@sfsu.edu.

 

Historical Format Information

The SPA/MBB brownbag has been held on Wednesdays from 11:00-11:55am since 2010. The long time home of the Series was Burk Hall room 228 from Spring 2010 through Fall 2019. (That room was annexed by another academic unit, displacing the brownbag series.) In Spring 2020, the series moved to the Science Building room 395. However, the SARS-COV-2 pandemic (aka COVID-19) resulted in the campus closing and all instruction being remote for the latter half of Spring 2020 until Fall 2021. Consequently, the series moved to a remote webconferencing platform called Zoom. Between Spring 2022 through Spring 2023, the series met in a hybrid format of in-person attendance (in the Ethnic Studies and Psychology building and via the Zoom webconferencing platform simultaneously.)  Location changes notwitstanding, throughout its history, each meeting has been divided into presentation and discussion periods. Since 2011, there is one speaker per meeting and that speaker is able to choose the length of the presentation (up to 30 minutes), with the remainder being the discussion period.

 

Complete List of Speakers

(in Reverse Chronological Order [Most Recent to Most Distant Semesters])

*Indicates the format change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Speakers List (Fall 2024; Hybrid: Zoom & EP 304A)*

 

August 28, 2024: No Meeting

 

September 4, 2024: No Meeting

 

September 11, 2024: Informational Meeting (to [Re]Introduce the Series and Attendees)

 

September 18, 2024: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Construct validity case closed: The BSRI measures agreeableness and extraversion, not femininity and masculinity (or gender-related cognitions)"

 

September 25, 2024: No Meeting

 

October 2, 2024: Kenneth R. Paap. Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Cognitive reserve? Cognitive capacity!"

 

October 9, 2024: No Meeting

 

October 16, 2024: Vani Kakar, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Beauty ideals and body image among adolescent girls: A cross-cultural study"

 

October 23, 2024: No meeting

 

October 30, 2024: The Ph.D. Application Process: Part 1 of 2 (Roundtable Discussion)

 

November 6, 2024: The Ph.D. Application Process: Part 2 of 2 (Roundtable Discussion)

 

November 13, 2024: No Meeting

 

November 20, 2024: No Meeting
 

November 27, 2024: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

December 4, 2024: Anisha Singh, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Audiobooks, print, and comprehension: What we know and what we need to find out"

 

December 11, 2024: Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Can’t spend your way in: How stereotypes of materialists limit their employment opportunities."

 

Speakers List (Spring 2024; Hybrid: Zoom & EP 304A)*

 

February 7, 2024: Informational Meeting (to [Re]Introduce the Series and Attendees)

 

February 14, 2024: Academic Career Trajectories (Roundtable Discussion lead by the Ph.D.s [faculty and post-docs]): Part 1

 

February 21, 2024: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Creating a nomological network for (the many meanings of) 'gender': Introducing the BIRDS understanding."

 

Feburary 28, 2024: Academic Career Trajectories (Roundtable Discussion lead by the Ph.D.s [faculty and post-docs]): Part 2

 

March 6, 2024: Empirical information about the Ph.D. application and selection process (Roundtable Discussion: led by current-M.A. and post-M.A. applicants from SPA & MBB)

 

March 13, 2024: Darwin Guevarra, Ph.D. (Post-Doc, UCSF): "Low-effort affect regulation: Harnessing regulation nudges and placebo effects to promote emotional well-being"

 

March 20, 2024: No Meeting

 

March 27, 2024: No Meeting (Spring Recess)

 

April 3, 2024: John Majoubi (MBB, SFSU): "Breathing new life into old measures of attention & self-control: Advancements in methodological and statistical techniques for predictive models of executive function"

 

April 10, 2024: Presenting Posters at Professional Conferences (Roundtable Discussion lead by the Ph.D.s [faculty and post-docs])

 

April 17, 2024: Kara Eytcheson, M.A. (SPA, SFSU): "Assessing data integrity and trustworthiness from Amazon's Mechnical Turk in 2023"

 

April 24, 2024: No Meeting (WPA Convention)

 

May 1, 2024: Debriefing on Presenting Posters at Professional Conferences (Roundtable Discussion lead by Dr. Zena Mello [everyone can participate])
 

May 8, 2024: Zena Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "A longitudinal investigation of social class discrimination and academic outcomes among adolescents"

 

May 15, 2024: Irene Harmos (SPA, SFSU): "The contact paradox: Initially exploring the contact hypothesis and men's gender bias against women"

 

 

External Speakers List (Fall 2023)

 

Brownbag was on hiatus during Fall 2023; Below are the external talks we enouraged attendees to visit.

 

September 25, 2023: Joint Colloquium with Biology, Time TBA: Dapha Joel, Ph.D. (Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University): Room EP 304

 

September 27, 2023: Department Colloquium, 12:00-1:30pm: Peter Wais, Ph.D. (Neurology, UC San Francisco/Neuroscape): LIB 121

 

October 25, 2023: Department Colloquium, 12:00-1:30pm: Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D. (Provost Emerita, SFSU): LIB 121

 

Speakers List (Spring 2023; Hybrid: Zoom & EP 304A)*

 

February 1, 2023: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): “Neither brain training nor bilingualism produces far transfer.  It makes sense.”

 

February 8, 2023: No Meeting

 

February 15, 2023: No Meeting

 

February 22, 2023: No Meeting (SPSP Travel Day)

 

March 1, 2023: No meeting

 

March 8, 2023: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Centering class: How perceived discrimination based on social class is associated with academic outcomes, mental health, and substance use"

 

March 15, 2023: Department Colloquium, 12:00-1:30pm: Gustavo Carlo, Ph.D. (Education, UC Irvine): LIB 121

 

March 22, 2023: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

March 29, 2023: No Meeting

 

April 5, 2023: No Meeting

 

April 12, 2023: No Meeting

 

April 19, 2023: Department Colloquium, 12:00-1:30pm: Jessica L. Tracy, Ph.D. (Affective Science, University of British Columbia): LIB 121

 

April 26, 2023: No Meeting

 

May 3, 2023: Ilke Bayazitli (SPA, SFSU): "Time beyond personality: Associations between time perspective and academic outcomes among adolescents"

 

May 10, 2023: David Obando (SPA, SFSU): "When uncertainty is high, affective forecast is hard: The sequel."

 

May 17, 2023: No meeting

 

Speakers List (Fall 2022; Hybrid: Zoom & EP 304)*

 

August 24, 2022: Informational Meeting: Format and Expectations

 

August 31, 2022: Roundtable Discussion: "The somewhat secret lives of submitted articles: A behind-the-scenes view of submitting to journals and the editorial process" (Discussion leader: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D.)

 

September 7, 2022: Roundtable Discussion: "How do I start my research career? (And, does it have to be a career?)" (Discussion leaders: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. and Ken Paap, Ph.D.)

 

September 14, 2022: No meeting

 

September 21, 2022: No Meeting; Attend Department Colloqium instead!

 

Department Colloquium 12-1:30pm: Christina Masclach, Ph.D. (Social/Personality, UC Berkeley): Location: LIB 121

 

September 28, 2022: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "A longitudinal examination of tobacco use and discrimination based on social class among adolescents"

 

October 5, 2022: No meeting

 

October 12, 2022: No meeting

 

October 19, 2022: No Meeting; Attend Department Colloqium instead!

 

Department Colloquium 12-1:30pm: Kathleen Mosier, Ph.D. (Industrial/Organizational, San Francisco State University [Emerita]): Location: LIB 121

 

October 26, 2022: The Ph.D. Application Rountable Discussion (Part 1 of 2)

 

November 2, 2022: The Ph.D. Application Rountable Discussion (Part 2 of 2)

 

November 9, 2022: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): Toward a new classification system for "sexual orientation": Insights from integrating sexual and romantic attraction measurements

 

November 16, 2022: No meeting

 

November 23, 2022: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

November 30, 2022: No meeting

 

December 7, 2022: No meeting

 

Speakers List: Spring 2022* (January to May; Weekly Meetings, Online)

January 26, 2022: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Academic outcomes and perceived discrimination based on social class and race/ethnicity among Latinx high school students"

 

February 2, 2022: Stats Corner: Deep dive into Type I error

 

February 9, 2022: Annette Loynaz, M.A. (SPA '21, SFSU): "Top in the streets, bottom in the sheets? Preferred sexual behavior roles and personality dimensions for BDSM and vanilla communities"

 

February 16, 2022: No Meeting (SPSP Conference)

 

February 23, 2022: CANCELED - University-wide power outage

 

March 2, 2022: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Who mourns the personality typology, redux: Is a '5 from 5' (response profile) personality typology useful?"

 

March 9, 2022: Deja Simon, M.A. [SPA '19] (Social/Personality, University of California, Riverside): "Colorism and recognition memory"

 

March 16, 2022: No Meeting

 

March 23, 2022: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

March 30, 2022: Delaney Casey (SPA, SFSU): "Revisiting the Kinsey scale: Toward a higher fidelity measurement (and use) of the original Kinsey continuum"

 

April 6, 2022: Christina Merrick, Ph.D. [MBB '14] (Neurology, UCSF): "kTMP: A new non-invasive magnetic induction method to modulate cortical excitability."

 

April 13, 2022: No Meeting

 

April 20, 2022: No Meeting

 

April 27, 2022: Rountable Discussion: "Some similarities and differences between academic and consulting work: Insights from both sides" (Discussion leader: Dr. Ryan Howell [SPA/MBB])

 

May 4, 2022: Career Discussions (lead by Julia Moon, M.A. [SPA '20])

 

May 11, 2022: Kodai Kusano, M.A. [SPA '17] (University of Nevada, Reno): "Towards a more parsimonious conception of pride: Three pre-registered studies to unravel the nature of authentic and hubristic pride"

 

Speakers List: Fall 2021* (August to December; Weekly Meetings, Online)

August 25, 2021: Introductory & Informational Meeting

 

September 1, 2021: Kenneth R. Papp, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Do wording effects change the factor structure or validity of Tangney and Baumeister's Brief Self-Control Scale?"

 

September 8, 2021: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU) & Delaney Casey (SPA, SFSU): "Correcting the record for cumulative science: Is it worthwhile to develop a higher fidelity Kinsey self-report scale than the de facto measure?"

 

September 15, 2021: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "A connectionist approach to semantic cognition"

 

September 22, 2021: Kenneth R. Papp, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Can bilinguals control entry into consciousness better than monolinguals?"

 

September 29, 2021: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Tobacco/nicotine use and perceived discrimination based on socioeconomic status among adolescents"

 

October 6, 2021: Rountable Discussion: "How is psychology similar to and different from other sciences, and what are the implications of these differences for practitioners of psychological science?" (Part 1)

 

October 13, 2021: Rountable Discussion: "How is psychology similar to and different from other sciences, and what are the implications of these differences for practitioners of psychological science?" (Part 2)

 

October 20, 2021: Roundtable Discussion: The Ph.D. Application Process (Part 1)

 

October 27, 2021: Roundtable Discussion: The Ph.D. Application Process (Part 2)

 

November 3, 2021: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Encapsulation and the function of consciousness in the nervous systems"

 

November 10, 2021: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Some research realities of truly interdisciplinary research"

 

November 17, 2021: David Obando (SPA, SFSU): "When there is uncertainty...affective forecasting is hard"

 

November 24, 2021: No Meeting [Fall Recess]

 

December 1, 2021: No Meeting [Clinical Area Job Talk]

 

December 8, 2021: No Meeting [Clinical Area Job Talk]

 

Speakers List: Spring 2021* (February to May; Bi-Weekly Meetings, Online)

February 3, 2021: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "How correlated are the facets of "gender?" Insights from panels of (mostly white) cisgender heterosexual women and men in the U.S."

 

February 17, 2021: Sean Chandler (MBB, SFSU): "Does stigmatization with Covid-19 diminish empathy for Asian people's pain? Can Self-compassion help?"

 

March 3, 2021: Roundtable Discussion: "Online Participants: Opportunities and Difficulties"

 

March 17, 2021: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Perspective: Is there a bilingual advantage?"

 

March 31, 2021: No Meeting (Cesar Chavez Day, U.S.)

 

April 14, 2021: Roundtable Discussion: "How did you choose your research topic? (And why do you deem it important to ask?)"

 

April 28, 2021: Betsy Paredes Centeno (MBB, SFSU): "What is a White Latinx? The moderating role of racial and ethnic identity on social identity threat and academic performance"

 

May 12, 2021: Liliana Celesia Moore (SPA, SFSU): "An intersectional approach to understanding the relationships among social identities, including race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement, ethnic identity, and school equity"

 

Fall 2020* (September to December; Bi-Weekly Meetings, Online)

September 2, 2020: Introuction to the Series (Roundtable format)

 

September 16, 2020: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Looking backward, looking forward: How time perspective moderates the associations between racial and gender discrimination and tobacco use in adolescents"

 

September 30, 2020: Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Causal deviants"

 

October 14, 2020: Sarah Purnell (MBB, SFSU) & Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB/SFSU): "Illusory correlation in a social context"

 

October 28, 2020: Roundtable Discussion: The Ph.D. Application Process

 

November 11, 2020: No meeting (Veterans' Day, U.S.)

 

November 25, 2020: No meeting (Fall Recess)

 

December 9, 2020: Martha Maldonado-Clark (SPA, SFSU): "Anchoring: Can we encapsulate the anchor and prevent the bias?"

 

Spring 2020 (January to May)

January 29, 2020: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The alchemy of confirmation bias transmutes expectations into bilingual advantages: A tale of two new meta-analyses"

 

February 5, 2020: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "The computation of will: A connectionist model of control"

 

February 12, 2020: Department Colloquium: Dr. Simine Vazire (Personality/Social, UC Davis): LIB 121: 12-1:30pm

 

February 19, 2020: Kuba Gwozdz (SPA, SFSU): "Extroversion, introversion, and music choice: How does personality affect our music preferences?"

 

February 26, 2020: No Meeting (SPSP Travel Day)

 

March 4, 2020: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): Stats Corner: "Are many reported mediation analyses actually demonstrating moderation instead? A preliminary discussion"

 

March 11, 2020: Department Colloquium: LIB 121: 12-1:30pm - POSTPONED

 

March 18, 2020: Canceled (Public Event Cancellation University-wide)

 

March 25, 2020: No Meeting (Spring Recess)

 

April 1, 2020: Canceled (COVID-19 stay-at-home order)

 

April 8, 2020: Canceled (COVID-19 stay-at-home order)

 

April 15, 2020: Canceled (COVID-19 stay-at-home order)

 

April 22, 2020: Canceled (COVID-19 stay-at-home order)

 

April 29, 2020: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU), & Reza Ghafur, M.A. (SPA, SFSU): "The decline effect further considered: The wobble of variability based on sample size" [via Zoom]

 

May 6, 2020: Cheng Yu (SPA, SFSU): "Toward a gendered mannerisms scale: Updates from an exact replication study" [via Zoom]

 

May 13, 2020: Annette Cerdas Loynaz (SPA, SFSU): "Exploring personality and sexual behavior: BDSM and vanilla practices as complementary lenses" [via Zoom]

 

Fall 2019 (September to December)

August 28, 2019: Introductory Meeting

 

September 4, 2019: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Measuring gender identity as an individual difference: Insights from an empirical application of the gender bundle perspective"

 

September 11, 2019: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "On the relationship between autism and executive functioning"

 

September 18, 2019: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (SPA/MBB, SFSU): "Some of the best things in life are things"

 

September 25, 2019: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "The promise of computational methods in psychology"

 

October 2, 2019: Stats Corner: Regression Analysis Questions: LASSO vs. Stepwise (Discussion Leader: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D.)

 

October 9, 2019: Dawn M. Lucier (SPA, SFSU): "From money to memory: Do people accurately predict happiness with experiential purchases made with a windfall?"

 

October 16, 2019: Cheng Yu (SPA, SFSU): "Development of a gendered mannerisms scale"

 

October 23, 2019: Roundtable Discussion: "The Ph.D. Application Process"

 

October 30, 2019: Department Colloquium: Dr. Steven Hillyard (Neuroscience, UC San Diego, School of Medicine): LIB 121: 12-1:30pm

 

November 6, 2019: Dylan Perez Neider (SPA, SFSU): "Motivated reasoning can influence the intake of simple, visual information: A case study using climate change"

 

November 13, 2019: Department Colloquium: Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt (Social, Stanford University): LIB 244: 12-1:30pm

 

November 20, 2019: Stats Corner: Missing Data and Handling Strategies (Roundtable Discussion)

 

November 27, 2019: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

December 4, 2019: Nabila Anguiano (MBB, SFSU): "When do we know someone is happy? Testing the convergence between alternative measures of happiness and self-reported happiness"

 

December 11, 2019: Anika Javaid (SPA, SFSU): "Acts of kindness: Impact on happiness and dosage effects"

 

Spring 2019 (January to May)

January 30, 2019: No Meeting (Department Mini-Retreat)

 

February 6, 2019: No Meeting (SPSP Conference Travel Day)

 

February 13, 2019: Paige Guge (SPA, SFSU): "How labeling of a sugary beverage tax impacts sugary beverage sales"

 

February 20, 2019: Department Colloquium: Nina Dronkers, Ph.D. (Neurology and Linguistics, UC Davis): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

February 27, 2019: Department Colloquium: Ja'nina Garrett-Walker, Ph.D. (Developmental Psychology, USF): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 244

 

March 6, 2019: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Say 'yes' to the inclusive measurement of dress: A self-report measure for the social presentation of gender via clothing and accouterments"

 

March 13, 2019: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "How can decision making inform emotion regulation?"

 

March 20, 2019: Reza D. Ghafur (SPA, SFSU): "The Asian disease problem and the salience of missing information."

 

March 27, 2019: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

April 3, 2019: Laura Kosbie (SPA, SFSU): "Why can't we decide? Examining the role of regret aversion in indecision"

 

April 10, 2019: Julia Moon (SPA, SFSU): "Time and trepidation: An examination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future and anxiety among adolescents"

 

April 17, 2019: Roundtable Discussion: "Retire 'statistical significance'? Or, carry on?"

 

April 24, 2019: Deja Simon (SPA, SFSU): "Development and validation of the perpetration of racial microaggressions scale"

 

May 1, 2019: Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Death and other threats to meaning systems"

 

May 8, 2019: Mirae Bouyssou (SPA, SFSU): "Social snubs and spending types: Interpersonal employment discrimination towards materialistic employees in the workplace"

 

May 15, 2019: Darwin Guevarra, Ph.D. (Social/Personality, University of Michigan): "Are they real? Regulating emotional distress with non-deceptive placebos"

 

Fall 2018 (August to December)

August 29, 2018: Informational/Introductory Meeting

 

September 5, 2018: Ryan Mette (SPA, SFSU): "Still happy with it. Explaining why we hedonically adapt slower to life experiences than material items."

 

September 12, 2018: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Who mourns for the personality typology? (And is it worth reinventing?)"

 

September 19, 2018: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Neural networks and the nature of emotion."

 

September 26, 2018: Department Colloquium: Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D. (Health Psychology, UCSF): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

October 3, 2018: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "How do sex, smarts, and sports relate to inhibitory control?"

 

October 10, 2018: Roundtable Discussion: "Some whens and whys of replication: Considerations for choosing studies to replicate."

 

October 17, 2018: Guided Discussion: "Trying to achieve a cumulative science understanding on a single topic with adversarial and/or non-interested research groups." (Facilitator: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. [SPA, SFSU])

 

October 24, 2018: Department Colloquium: Violet Cheung, Ph.D. (Social/Affective, University of San Francisco): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

October 31, 2018: The Ph.D. Application Process (Roundtable Discussion)

 

November 7, 2018: Cam Bui (SPA, SFSU): "Stimulus-elicited involuntary insights and syntactic processing: Implications for cognitive control."

 

November 14, 2018: Dylan Perez Neider (SPA, SFSU): "The effect of motivation on perception."

 

November 21, 2018: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

November 28, 2018: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Gaydar among gay men: The follow-up."

 

December 5, 2018: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Should I go to the SPA/MBB brownbag on Dec 5th? A neural network view on how we make such decisions."

 

December 12, 2018: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (MBB/SPA, SFSU): "The five burdens of encapsulation."

 

Spring 2018 (January to May)

January 24, 2018: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "A layman’s meta-analysis of tests of the hypothesis that bilingualism enhances general inhibitory control in nonverbal interference tasks"

 

January 31, 2018: No Meeting (Faculty Mini-Retreat)

 

February 7, 2018: Sarah J. Barber, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Ambiguous faces look more positive to older adults"

 

February 14, 2018: Paige Guge (SPA, SFSU) and Ishaa Chaukulkar (MBB, SFSU): "Purchasing happiness: It's written all over your face"

 

February 21, 2018: Department Colloquium: Benjamin J. Levy, Ph.D. (Cognitive, University of San Francisco): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

February 28, 2018: No Meeting (SPSP travel day)

 

March 7, 2018: Alyssa Wicker (SPA, SFSU) and Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (SPA/MBB, SFSU): "Do people know how to spend their money in order to maximize happiness? Examining differences in income allocation for happy and unhappy people"

 

March 14, 2018: Reza Ghafur (SPA, SFSU): "Examining the role of affect on framing through the use of neural networks"

 

March 21, 2018: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

March 28, 2018: Gerald Young (SPA, SFSU): "An investigation into whether ethnicity is associated with depressive rumination thinking styles"

 

April 4, 2018: Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Skin deep? Racial phenotypic change elicits meaning threat and backlash"

 

April 11, 2018: Department Colloquium: James (Jay) L. McClelland, Ph.D. (Cognitive, Stanford University): 12:10-1:30pm, LIB 244

 

April 18, 2018: Rachel Gonzalez (MBB, SFSU): "Examining the relationship between loneliness and trauma through ecological momentary assessment"

 

April 25, 2018: Noelle Lopez (MBB, SFSU): "Exploring the role of cognitive control in the positivity effect"

 

May 2, 2018: Zena R. Mello, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Time after time: A conceptual model of time perspective."

 

May 9, 2018: Regina Anders-Jefferson (MBB, SFSU): "Does bilingualism enhance mental flexibility or disengagement of attention?"

 

Fall 2017 (September to December)

August 23, 2017: Informational/Introductory Meeting

 

August 30, 2017: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU) and Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (SPA/MBB, SFSU): "Redefine statistical signficance? Is p < .005 the answer?" (Group Discussion)

 

September 6, 2017: Gaurav Suri, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Understanding motivated behavior via neural networks."

 

September 13, 2017: Stacy Castellanos, M.A., & Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Gaydar among gay men"

 

September 20, 2017: Ella Tarnate, M.A. (Credit Karma), Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (SPA/MBB, SFSU), & Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "How selecting the (in)correct inferential procedure has implications for future replications."

 

September 27, 2017: Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto (MBB, SFSU): "Happy shopping! The emotional antecedents of experiential purchasing decisions."

 

October 4, 2017: Department Colloquium: Amanda Morrison, Ph.D. (Clinical, CSU East Bay): 12-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

October 11, 2017: Daniel Wright, Ph.D. (Scientist, Alder Graduate School of Education)

 

October 18, 2017: Alyssa Wicker (SPA, SFSU): "Identifying contexts in which psychological inertia is most influential."

 

October 25, 2017: Reza Ghafur (SPA, SFSU): "Decision making and contextual framing."

 

November 1, 2017: Roundtable Discussion: The Ph.D. Application Process

 

November 8, 2017: Mirae Bouyssou (SPA, SFSU): "Can't buy your way in: How stereotypes of materialists limit their employment opportunities."

 

November 15, 2017: Ashish Mehta (SPA, SFSU): "Characterizing distraction as an emotion regulation strategy."

 

November 22, 2017: No Meeting: Fall Recess

 

November 29, 2017: School Psychology Job Talk: 12:00-1:30pm, EP 304

 

December 6, 2017: School Psychology Job Talk: 12:00-1:30pm, EP 304

 

Spring 2017 (January to May)

January 25, 2017: Cameron Hecht (Social/Personality, University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Promoting interest and performance in science: The importance of values"

 

February 1, 2017: Ashish Mehta (Social, SFSU): "Emotion regulation choice: Indian vs. U.S. populations"

 

February 8, 2017: No Meeting (Extended Faculty Meeting)

 

February 15, 2017: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU): "The primary function of consciousness in the nervous system: A new synthesis."

 

February 22, 2017: Department Colloquium: Michael Spivey, Ph.D. (UC Merced), 12:00-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

March 1, 2017: Tiffany Jantz (Cognition/Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Michigan): "Failing to forget: Age-related deficits in top-down control of working memory contents"

 

March 8, 2017: No brownbag

 

March 15, 2017: Gerald Young (Social, SFSU): "Emotion regulation choice: The role of environmental affordances."

 

March 22, 2017: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

March 29, 2017: Sarah J. Barber, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Interventions to reduce stereotype threat in older adults."

 

April 5, 2017: Luciano Sagastume (MBB, SFSU): "'Think like a man': Information search after manhood threat."

 

April 12, 2017: Department Colloquium: James Gross, Ph.D. (Stanford University), 12:00-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

April 19, 2017: Arnrow Domingo (Social, SFSU): "Psychological inertia."

 

April 26, 2017: Annecy Majoros (Social, SFSU): "Can you tell I'm disgusted? Look at how I talk: An examination of evolutionary functions of disgust in language."

 

May 3, 2017: Alyssa Wicker (Social, SFSU): "The influence of appraisal on motivated action."

 

May 10, 2017: Lena Ryoo (Developmental, SFSU): "Regulation of recurrent emotion in the aftermath of a lost election."

 

Fall 2016 (September to December)

August 24, 2016: Informal Meeting/Introduction to Format

 

August 31, 2016: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Why most people believe that the bilingual advantages in executive functioning exist, but are probably wrong."

 

September 7, 2016: Gerald Young (Social, SFSU): "Can depressive rumination be constructive? Exploring the role of culture in predicting the consequences of depressive rumination."

 

September 14, 2016: Chris Sanders (MBB, SFSU): "Exploring the mechanisms of authentic happiness: Longitudinal well-being through a three-dimensional lens."

 

September 21, 2016: Gaurav R. Suri, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "A connectionist framework for motivated behavior."

 

September 28, 2016: No Meeting (Room Unavailable)

 

October 5, 2016: Erica B. Walker (MBB, SFSU): "Involuntary high-level cognitions and attentional processing through external control: Implications for consciousness."

 

October 12, 2016: Catherine Kircos (MBB, SFSU): "Loneliness in the 21st century: Utilizing smartphone technology to detect perceived social isolation."

 

October 19, 2015: Andre Oliver, Ghila Andemeskel, Erica Hill, & Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Africana studies may be protective against the negative effects of stereotype threat on affective aspects of Black identity”

 

October 26, 2016: Department Colloquium (12-1:30pm, LIB 121): Phillip Shaver, Ph.D. (UC Davis)

 

November 2, 2016: Roundtable Discussion: The Ph.D. Application Process

 

November 9, 2016: Nick Yeh (MBB, SFSU): "Staying cool when things get hot: Emotion regulation and memory."

 

November 16, 2016: Donish Cushing (MBB, SFSU): "Involuntary spatial reasoning: implications of a novel application of the reflexive imagery task"

 

November 23, 2016: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

November 30, 2016: Department Colloquium (12-1:30pm, LIB 121): Srikantan Nagarajan, Ph.D. (UCSF)

 

December 7, 2016: I/O Job Talk (12-1:30pm, EP 304)

 

December 14, 2016: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "A curious case of construct validity: How the Bem Sex Role Inventory may have measured extraversion and agreeableness--not gender roles--for 40 years."

 

Spring 2016 (January to May)

January 27, 2016: No Meeting (SPSP Conference)

 

February 3, 2016: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Two-dimensional additive prediction: A new technique for exploring the combination of dual main effects."

 

February 10, 2016: Sarah J. Barber, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Applications of the multi-threat framework to age-based stereotype threat."

 

February 17, 2016: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Does language switching improve general task switching?"

 

February 24, 2016: Department Colloquium: Frank C. Worrell, Ph.D. (Cognition and Development, UC Berkeley): 12-1:30pm, location: EP 304

 

March 2, 2016: Zaviera B. Reyes (Social, SFSU): "Testing resilience: Impacts of self-talk on performance and well-being in students."

 

March 9, 2016: Ella Tarnate (MBB, SFSU): "When in Rome: A person-situation approach to understanding personality, savoring, and well-being."

 

March 16, 2016: Sara Lieber (Social, SFSU): "Applying cultural psychology to intercultural relations."

 

March 23, 2015: No Meeting (Spring Break)

 

March 30, 2016: Department Colloquium: Greg Walton Ph.D. (Social, Stanford University): 12-1:30pm, location: EP 304

 

April 6, 2016: Kristina Pfeifer (MBB, SFSU): "Associative processing within creative individuals: An electrophysiological approach."

 

April 13, 2016: Pooya Razavi (Social, SFSU): "Loneliness and expression of emotions: The role of negative attitudes towards expressivity."

 

April 20, 2016: Mercedes D. Pearson (Social, SFSU): "This road is closed: Self-to-ingroup comparison is probably not the mechanism of manhood threat."

 

April 27, 2016: Jill Nagy (Social, SFSU): "To be or not to be seen: Moral identity dimensions predict European-Americans' racial/ethnic prejudice."

 

May 4, 2016: Callan Lujan (MBB, SFSU): "Post-traumatic stress disorder: An electrophysiological approach"

 

May 11, 2016: Dayana Aghaie (Social, SFSU): "'Do ask, do tell?' The (anticipated) effects of stereotype suppression on heterosexual participants' social distance toward gay targets"

 

Fall 2015 (August to December)

August 26, 2015: Informational Meeting/Open Science Discussion (roundtable discussion)

 

September 2, 2015: Alen Tersakyan (MBB, SFSU): "Distinction between wanting and liking measured by EEG"

 

September 9, 2015: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "How do happy people spend their money? I have no idea."

 

September 16, 2015: Open Science Discussion: Part 2: The Findings (roundtable discussion)

 

September 23, 2015: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "An intersection of U.S. ethnicity and social class through the lens of social attributions."

 

September 30, 2015: Kristine Tom (MBB, SFSU): "Purchases and positive emotions: A physiological approach"

 

October 7, 2015: Kristina Pfeifer (MBB, SFSU): "How do people think creatively?"

 

October 14, 2015: The Ph.D. Application Process (roundtable discussion)

 

October 21, 2015: Laurel Somers (Social, SFSU): "Thinking queerly: An intersectional approach to evaluations of sexual identity and gender presentation."

 

October 28, 2015: Department Colloquium: Eric Walle, Ph.D. (Developmental, UC Merced): 12-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

November 4, 2015: Chris Sanders (MBB, SFSU): "Why don't people take good advice? The missing component of habit formation."

 

November 11, 2015: No Meeting (Campus Closed in observance of Veteran's Day)

 

November 18, 2015: Department Colloquium: Virginia Sturm, Ph.D. (Clinical, UCSF): 12-1:30pm, LIB 121

 

November 25, 2015: No Meeting (Fall Recess)

 

December 2, 2015: Social Psychology Job Talk: 12-1:30pm (EP 304)

 

December 9, 2015: Social Psychology Job Talk: 12-1:30pm (EP 304)

 

Spring 2015 (January to May)

January 28, 2015: Ella Tarnate (MBB, SFSU) and Jordan McDaniel (MBB, SFSU): "Brief mindfulness meditation training: Implications to stereotype threat and well-being"

 

February 4, 2015: Elizabeth D. Stoddard (Social, SFSU): "Personality and motivational factors predict academic performance more strongly than ingroup gender attitudes"

 

February 11, 2015: Kevin J. Eschleman, Ph.D. (I/O, SFSU): "Matching job recovery strategies to occupation type"

 

February 18, 2015: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Type III and IV errors: Statistical decision-making considerations in addition to rejecting or retaining the null hypothesis."

 

February 25, 2015: No Meeting [SPSP Conference]

 

March 4, 2015: Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Stereotype threat from A to Z."

 

March 11, 2015: Trevor Jackson (MBB, SFSU): "The effects of self-selected, emotionally valenced music on EEG and pain modulation."

 

March 18, 2015: Department Colloquium: Nicolas Davidenko, Ph.D. (Cognitive, UC Santa Cruz) [Time: 12-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

March 25, 2015: No Meeting [Spring Break]

 

April 1, 2015: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Who's that guy? Predicting the characteristics of people on the off-diagonal."

 

April 8, 2015: Sierra Niblett (MBB, SFSU): "Your brain on stereotypes: Social context biases early cortical attention."

 

April 15, 2015: Masha Ksendzova (MBB, SFSU): "Do happy people need less? Income allocation, well-being, and categorizing what is essential."

 

April 22, 2015: Jill Nagy (Social, SFSU): "Moral identity and prejudice."

 

April 29, 2015: Amanda Ng (MBB, SFSU): "Resting state EEG in individuals with low and high generalized anxiety disorder symptoms."

 

May 6, 2015: Sara Lieber (Social, SFSU): "Culture, ideal affect, and personality."

 

May 13, 2015: Department Colloquium: Serena Chen, Ph.D. (Social, UC Berkeley) [Time: 12-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

Fall 2014 (August to December)

August 27, 2014: Informational Meeting / Introduction to the Series

 

September 3, 2014: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The importance of behavioral data in cognitive neuroscience: Bilinguals do not adapt better to conflict" (Part 1)

 

September 10, 2014: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The importance of behavioral data in cognitive neuroscience: Bilinguals do not adapt better to conflict" (Part 2)

 

September 17, 2014: Michael Mathieu (I/O, SFSU) & Kevin Eschleman, Ph.D. (I/O, SFSU): "Creating a recovery filled weekend"

 

September 24, 2014: Roundtable Discussion: "The Ph.D. Process"

 

October 1, 2014: Andre Oliver (MBB, SFSU): "Ironic activation: Attention bias to race during person perception"

 

October 8, 2014: Tyler Allen (MBB, SFSU): "Explaining choice in experiential product vs. experiential purchases"

 

October 15, 2014: Department Colloquium: Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. (Neuroscience, UCSF): "The science of brain plasticity" [Time: 12:00-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

October 22, 2014: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU): "The interdependence between conscious and unconscious processes in the brain"

 

October 29, 2014: Matthew Killingsworth, Ph.D. (Social, UC Berkeley): "Happiness in everyday life"

 

November 5, 2014: Lea Folsom (Social, SFSU): "The name game: Exploring the effects of gendered names on gender evaluations"

 

November 12, 2014: Hyein Cho (MBB, SFSU) & Sabrina Bhangal (MBB, SFSU): "Reflexive imagery task: Involuntary cognitions and implications for clinical psychology"

 

November 19, 2014: Department Colloquium: Joy Geng, Ph.D. (Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis) [Time: 12:00-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

November 26, 2014: [No meeting - Fall Recess]

 

December 3, 2014: Clinical Psychology Job Candidate [Time: 12:00-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

December 10, 2014: Clinical Psychology Job Candidate [Time: 12:00-1:30pm, Location: EP 304]

 

Spring 2014 (January to May)

January 29, 2014: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Practicing the ANT version of the flanker task (up to 20,800 trials):  Are the effects stable, robust, reliable, and transferable?"

 

February 5, 2014: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Ovulation and relationship status do not jointly predict religiosity or political behavior: A case of Type IV error in Durante, Rae, and Griskivicius (2013)."

 

February 12, 2014: No meeting (SPSP Conference)

 

February 19, 2014: The Ph.D. Interview (roundtable discussion)

 

Feburary 26, 2014: Masha Ksendzova, Dylan Ban, Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D., and Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Distancing from self: The influence of categorization specificity on connectedness with nature."

 

March 5, 2014: Kevin Eschleman, Ph.D. (I/O, SFSU): "Why do you treat me so badly? The effects of perceived intent on employee responses to workplace aggression."

 

March 12, 2014: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D., & Cris Youssef, M.A. (Social, SFSU): "Binary and non-binary identities on the transgender spectrum: Evidence that cisgender perceivers are less tolerant of the non-binary identities."

 

March 19, 2014: Department Colloquium: Benjamin C. Storm, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Cruz). Time: 12-1:30pm. Location: EP 304

 

March 26, 2014: No meeting (Spring Break)

 

April 2, 2014: Daniel J. Lehr (Social, SFSU): "The evil that men do: Threats to manhood increase unethical decision-making."

 

April 9, 2014: Michelle L. Manning (Social, SFSU): "Gendered occupations and career pursuit correlates: Exploring the contributions of self- and other-directed attitudes for women."

 

April 16, 2014: Jordan Seliger, Jordan McDaniel, and Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "'One of us': How changing one's phenotype to appear more White affects racial categorization"

 

April 23, 2014: Jessica Lam & Kevin Eschleman, Ph.D. (I/O, SFSU): "The effects of mindfulness on recovery from work"

 

April 30, 2014: Department Colloquium: Eve A. Isham, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis). Time: 12-1:30pm. Location: EP 304.

 

May 7, 2014: Lara Krisst (MBB, SFSU): "Revisiting Libet's paradigm: Neural correlates of response uncertainty"

 

May 14, 2014: Ann Harter (MBB, SFSU): "The need for aesthetics: Measuring intrinsic motivation toward the arts"

 

Fall 2013 (September to December)

August 28, 2013: Informational Meeting / Introduction to the Series

 

September 4, 2013: Masha Ksendzova (MBB, SFSU): "Death and shopping: A re-inquiry into the link between mortality salience and material consumption"

 

September 11, 2013: Andrew C. Garcia (MBB, SFSU): "Can you dig it?: Information flow during rule-selective retrieval of contextual memory representations"

 

September 18, 2013: Ken Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU) and Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The bad and the worst: Ignoble outcomes of the peer-review process"

 

September 25, 2013: Department Colloquium: David Nolley, Ph.D. Time & Location: 12-1:30pm, EP 304

 

October 2, 2013: Ann Harter (MBB, SFSU): "Worth the struggle: A new perspective on improving well-being"

 

October 9, 2013: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (MBB/Social, SFSU): "Homing in on consciousness in the brain: New robust experimental paradigms"

 

October 16, 2013: Kevin Eschleman, Ph.D. (I/O, SFSU): "The jingle-jangle jungle of personality: An example of the jingle-jangle fallacy within industrial/organizational and social/personality psychology"

 

October 23, 2013: Department Colloquium: Joaquin Anguera, Ph.D (University of California, San Francisco). Time & Location: 12-1:30pm EP 304

 

October 30, 2013: Matthew Kleckner (Social, SFSU): "Essentially conservative: Essentialist language in the 2012 U.S. federal elections"

 

November 6, 2013: Daniel J. Lehr (Social, SFSU): "The risking man: Threats to manhood increase unethical decision-making"

 

November 13, 2013: William Krenzer, Sierra Niblett, Mark W. Geisler, Ph.D., & Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "When an educated Black man becomes lighter in the mind's eye: A social cognitive neuroscience framework for investigating race categorization."

 

November 20, 2013: Christina Merrick, Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D., & Mark W. Geisler, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The olfactory system as the gateway to the neural correlates of consciousness"

 

November 27, 2013: [No Meeting - Fall Recess]

 

December 4, 2013: Aging Populations Job Talk. Time & Location: 12-1:30pm, EP 304

 

December 11, 2013: Aging Populations Job Talk. Time & Location: 12-1:30pm, EP 304

 

Spring 2013 (January to May)

January 30, 2013: James McGraw (MBB, SFSU): "Temporal Construal and Consumer Choice: Weighted Central Features Influence on Purchasing Decisions"

 

February 6, 2013: Kevin Eschleman, Ph.D. (Industrial/Organizational, SFSU): "Recovering from Work"

 

February 13, 2013: Department Colloquium: Sheldon Zedeck, Ph.D. (Industrial/Organizational, University of California, Berkeley). Colloquium held in EP 304 from 12-1:30pm.

 

February 20, 2013: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "An Interesting Tale of Social Distance: When Outgroup Members are Preferred over Ingroup Members"

 

February 27, 2013: Department Colloquium: Judy Pa, Ph.D. (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco). Colloquium held in EP 304 from 12-1:30pm.

 

March 6, 2013: Graham Hill (MBB, SFSU): "Spending Well: The Influence of Values on Pro-Social Spending and Well-Being"

 

March 13, 2013: Benjamin J. Levy, Ph.D. (Cognitive, University of San Francisco): "A Common Neural System Mediates Reflexive Attention Capture by both Percepts and Unwanted Memories"

 

March 20, 2013: Scott Ewing (Clinical/MBB, SFSU): "Potential Models for Substance Use: the Roles of Executive Functioning and Emotion Dysregulation"

 

April 3, 2013: Amy H. Sanchez, M.A., & Masha Ksendzova (MBB, SFSU): "Do Compulsive Buyers Spend Experientially?"

 

April 10, 2013: Daniel J. Lehr (Social, SFSU): "Manhood at the Expense of Morality? Do Threats to Manhood Alter Ethical Decision Making?"

 

April 17, 2013: Chana Feinstein (Social, SFSU): "A Self-Kindness Intervention for Stereotype Threat"

 

April 24, 2013: Ann Harter (MBB, SFSU): "The Need for Aesthetics: Measuring a New Construct"

 

May 1, 2013: Christina Merrick (MBB, SFSU): "The Effects of Unintended Action-Sets on Mental Imagery"

 

May 8, 2013: Ghislaine C. Atkins (Social, SFSU): "The Irony of Satire: Racial Satire Increases Racial Prejudice"

 

May 15, 2013: Darwin Guevarra (MBB, SFSU): "Buying Happiness: Differential Consumption Experiences for Material and Experiential Purchases"

 

Fall 2012 (September to December)

August 29, 2012: Informational Meeting

 

September 5, 2012: Sierra Niblett (MBB, SFSU): "A Woman by any Other Name: Gender Categorization versus Individuation in Person Perception"

 

September 12, 2012: Penny Bhathal (MBB, SFSU): "Lay-conceptions about Well-Being and Consumption Values"

 

September 19, 2012: Department Colloquium: Bruce Bridgeman, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. 12-1:30pm in EP 304.

 

September 26, 2012: Elizabeth Scharnetzki (MBB, SFSU): "Perceptions of Women as a Social Minority: Will Status Override Base Rates?"

 

October 3, 2012: Matthew Kleckner (Social, SFSU): "Avenues for Essentialism Research in a Political Context"

 

October 10, 2012: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "What should You do When Your Conclusion is Contradicted by the Worst Article Ever Published in a Peer-Reviewed Journal?"

 

October 17, 2012: Sara Michelle Mansoori-Rostam (Social, SFSU): "Managing Conflicting Identities: Choosing One's Own Adventure at the Intersection of Cultural and Queer Identities"

 

October 24, 2012: Masha Ksendzova & Grant Donnelly (MBB, SFSU): "The Pain of Knowing: An Application of Escape Theory to the Materialistic Pursuit of Happiness"

 

October 31, 2012: Aekyoung Kim (MBB, SFSU): "Influence of Ego Depletion while Seeking Happiness on Consumer Choices"

 

November 7, 2012: Department Colloquium: Victoria Plaut, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 12-1:30pm in EP 304.

 

November 14, 2012: Ghislaine C. Atkins (Social, SFSU): "Online Interracial Interactions using Non-verbal Communication"

 

November 28, 2012: Lindsey M. Lavaysse (Clinical, SFSU): "Motivation: Due to You, Your Environment, or Both?"

 

December 5, 2012: Sarah Noyes (Social, SFSU): "The Role of Emotion Recognition in Romantic Relationship Outcomes"

 

December 12, 2012: Developmental Psychology Job Candidate Talk, 12-1:30pm in EP 304

 

Spring 2012 (January to May)

 

January 25, 2012: No meeting (Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference)

 

February 1, 2012: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "On-line Data Collection in the 20-Teens and Beyond"

 

Feburary 8, 2012: Sara Michelle Monsoori-Rostam (Social, SFSU): "Peeking into the Opaque Process of Attitude Change: The Case of Education and LGBT Attitudes"

 

February 15 & February 22, 2012: No meetings (Industrial-Organizational Psychology Faculty Candidates: Job Talks, 12-1:30pm in EP 304)

 

February 29, 2012: Graham Hill (MBB, SFSU): "Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Consumer Items"

 

March 7, 2012: Department Colloquium, Rex A. Wright, Ph.D. (University of North Texas), 12-1:30pm EP 304

 

March 14, 2012: Cris Youssef (Social, SFSU): "Is Everything in (Statistical) Moderation a Good Thing?"

 

March 28, 2012: Cristina Gatti (Social, SFSU): "Emotion Experience in Social Context"

 

April 4, 2012: Ghislaine C. Atkins (Social, SFSU): "Interracial Interactions in a Computer-Mediated Setting: Does Online Anonymity Lower Anxiety in Different Race Dyads?"

 

April 11, 2012: Darwin Guevarra (COR, SFSU): "The Grey Area Between Purchase Types: the iPad Problem"

 

April 18, 2012: Lindsay Brent (Social, SFSU): "Re-examining the Role of Gender Dimensions for Self-Esteem: The Importance of Gender Typicality for Adults"

 

April 25, 2012: Eric D. Splan (MBB, SFSU): "When the Young Walk in Elderly Shoes: Embodiment, Perspective-Taking, and Social Distance"

 

May 2, 2012: Brandi Gilbert (Social, SFSU): "Nonverbal Behavior and Bullying Victimization"

 

May 9, 2012: Department Colloquium, Travis L. Seymour, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Cruz), 12-1:30pm EP 304

 

Fall 2011 (September to December)

August 24, 2011: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "How Do We Measure a Current Desire for Experiential Consumption?"

 

August 31, 2011: Department Colloquium: Daniel Cervone, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago). 12-1:30pm EP 304

 

September 7, 2011: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Maternalistic Sexism toward Men Predicts Contempt Perception on Faces over Stigma Consciousness"

 

September 14, 2011: Christine Godwin (MBB, SFSU): "The History of a Thought: Introspection-based 'Psychic Determinants' of Spontaneous Thought"

 

September 21, 2011: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU): "The Six Riddles Faced by an 'Action and Consciousness' Lab" (Part 1)

 

September 28, 2011: Kerry Cunningham (Industrial/Organizational, SFSU): "Set In Their (Happier) Ways"

 

October 5, 2011: Grant Donnelly (MBB, SFSU): "Money Management: The Mediating Affect on the Materialism-Compulsive Buying Link"

 

October 12, 2011: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU): "The Six Riddles Faced by an 'Action and Consciousness' Lab" (Part 2)

 

October 19, 2011: Brandi Gilbert (Social, SFSU): "The Nonverbal Component of Bullying Victimization"

 

October 26, 2011: Tiffany Jantz (MBB, SFSU): "What Was I Saying? External Distractors Interfere with Speech Plans in Working Memory"

 

November 2, 2011: Amy H. Sanchez (MBB, SFSU): "Emotion Dysregulation in Schizophrenia: Evidence from Daily Life"

 

November 9, 2011: Heather Smith, Ph.D. (Social, Sonoma State University): "What does Relative Deprivation Predict? A Meta-Analytic Critique"

 

November 16, 2011: Pat Boyd (Social, SFSU): "Mental Simulations of Mortality: Taking (some of) the Terror out of Terror Management"

 

December 7, 2011: Gina Pippin (Social, SFSU): "Disambiguating Class and Racial Attitudes"

 

Spring 2011 (January to May)

[No meetings in January]

 

February 16, 2011: Introduction to the Social/MBB Brownbag (led by Charlotte Tate, Ph.D.)

 

February 23, 2011: Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Measuring Discretionary and Non-Discretionary Spending in

Daily Life: Assessment and Data Analytic Concerns"

 

[No meetings in March - Clinical Job Talks]

 

April 13, 2011: Alena Mizerany (Social, SFSU): "Creating a Motivations for Motherhood Scale"

 

April 20, 2011: Brian Simpson (Social, SFSU): "Using Emotions Functionally in Goal Pursuit"

 

April 27, 2011: Avi Ben-Zeev, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Flirting with Threat: Social Identity and the Perils of Violating Gender Prescriptions"

 

May 4, 2011: Jay N. Ledbetter (Social, SFSU): "Unpacking the Gender Checkbox: Measuring the Felt Sense of Gender Identity for Transgender and Cisgender Persons"

 

May 11, 2011: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism: An Update"

 

Fall 2010 (September to December)

 

September 16, 2010: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Correlates of Cisgender Identity in Adulthood"

 

September 23, 2010: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU): "Anthroposexual Attraction Theory"

 

September 30, 2010: Ryan Howell, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Creating a Self-Regulation Index"

 

October 7, 2010: Tara C. Dennehy (MBB, SFSU): "Boys in pink and girls in blue: Risk-taking in a gain frame" & Patricia Gums (MBB, SFSU): "Emotional experience while watching films"

 

October 14, 2010: Katherine Sorensen (MBB, SFSU): "Ambivalent Sexism and Perceptions of Anger vs. Contempt on the Face"

 

October 21, 2010: Grant Donnelly (MBB, SFSU): "Financial Responsibility and Awareness: The Benefits of Financial Self Monitoring" & Paulina Pchelin (MBB, SFSU): "The Impact of Chronic Depletion on Buying Behavior"

 

October 28, 2010: Yovanni Antonelli (Social, SFSU): "Does Well-Being Enhancement Alter the Impact Bias in Affective Forecasting?"

 

November 4, 2010: Cris Youssef (Social, SFSU): "Correlates of Heterosexual Prejudice against Trans Persons" & Jevan Pradas (MBB, SFSU): "The Natural Living Test"

 

November 18, 2010: Tara C. Dennehy (MBB, SFSU): "Nisbett and Wilson (1977) Revisited: The Little that We Can Know and Can Tell"

 

December 9, 2010: Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU): "Consciousness: Facts, Fictions, and Functions"

 

Spring 2010 (April to May) {Titles unavailable}

 

April 14, 2010: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (Social, SFSU)

 

April 21, 2010: Ryan Howell, Ph.D., (MBB, SFSU)

 

April 28, 2010: Maggie Lynn (MBB, SFSU)

 

May 5, 2010: Tara Dennehy (MBB, SFSU) & Maggie Lynn (MBB, SFSU)

 

May 12, 2010: Wren Gould (MBB, SFSU) & Ezequiel Morsella, Ph.D. (Social/MBB, SFSU)

Bio

I grew up on the island of Sardinia, Italy, where my father, who was a mason, taught me how to lay bricks in a straight line.

In Sardinia I attended the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Oristano, earning a diploma in Industrial Design in 1979. I earned a B.F.A. in graphic design in 1983 from the Istituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche in Urbino, Italy, and a M.F.A. in graphic design in 1985 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, R.I., which I attended on a Fulbright scholarship.

I have been a generalist in my professional work as well as in my teaching, with projects ranging from museum exhibits to web design and film, and courses ranging from letterpress printing and bookbinding to drawing, environmental graphics, and information design. My research includes bioinspired design and psychology of perception, with a focus on metamaterials in the former and on working memory and cultural conventions in design in the latter, as they relate to problems of data visualization.

In the School of Design I teach Drafting and Sketching for Design, a hand-drawing class for industrial design majors, and Information Design: Data Visualization, which focuses on good graph construction. At State I have also taught Rapid Visualization and Letterpress Printing, using movable metal type and printing presses.

During the academic year 2017–2018 I was on sabbatical as a visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, conducting research on bio-inspired design and transformable origami structures, hosted by Prof. Paul Breedveld (BITE Group), minimally invasive surgical instrumentation, in the bio-mechanical engineering department.

I will continue research on bio-inspired design and metamaterials during a 2024–2025 sabbatical year as a visting scholar at Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, under the direction of Prof. Jian S. Dai, Dean of the Institute of Robotics, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering.

From 2013 to 2016 I served in the Academic Senate as part of the Faculty Affairs Commitee (FAC) which I chaired in 2015–16. I was again in the Academic Senate, in the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) for from Fall 2022 to Spring 2024.

 

Websites

• www.trogu.com, 

• Giorgio Scarpa – bionics and metamaterials, 

• Data visualization student work archive, 

• Data visualization playlist, 

• Drawing & sketching playlist, 

• Stanza 153 Press (letterpress)

 

Recent Publications

 

A theoretician and experimentalist in neuroscience, Ezequiel Morsella received his Ph.D. at Columbia University (2002) and carried out his postdoctoral training (2003 - 2007) at Yale University.  Since his pre-college days, he has studied perception-and-action, focusing on the role of conscious ("controlled") processes.  Click here to visit his neuroscience blog, Consciousness and the Brain. 

In 2007, he was hired as a professor in neuroscience at San Francisco State University (where he is now Professor of Neuroscience) and as an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.  His theory has appeared in Psychological Review and Behavioral and Brain Sciences (target article). Click here for TIME's coverage of the theory.  His current research has been supported by the Toyota Motor Corporation. 

He is the lead author of Oxford Handbook of Human Action. His research has appeared in journals such as Psychological Review, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Neurocase, Consciousness and Cognition, Experimental Brain Research, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. He has served as an editorial reviewer for many journals, including Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Psychological Review.   

Click here for book based on the think tank "Where's the Action? The Pragmatic Turn in Cognitive Science" (Chairpersons: Andreas K. Engel, Karl Friston, and Danica Kragic), Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (2014). 

Click here for TIME's coverage of the lab's research:

"A group of really, really smart people thinking really, really hard about things"

What is the difference between a blink, a wink, and the dilation of a pupil? The basic nuts and bolts underlying human action remain mysterious from a mechanistic point of view.  At the Action and Consciousness Laboratory, we investigate action control from an integrative cognitive neuroscience perspective, focusing on both unconscious brain mechanisms and conscious mechanisms (e.g., voluntary action and cognitive conflict, urges, working memory, impulse control).  One aim of the lab is to home in on the neural and cognitive mechanisms responsible for conscious states.  Many of our insights are synthesized in the publication, "Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis" (2016), which appeared as a "target article" in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.  The current research of the laboratory has been supported by the Toyota Motor Corporation. 

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Natalia Wieczorek
Bella Banzaken
Sonia Pathak
Clayton Taylor
Ariel Huh
Karina Andrade
Cassandra Vera Newman
Denise Garcia

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS:

Divya Shettigar
Angelina Leopardo

INTRODUCTORY READINGS
 

Morsella, E., Godwin, C. A., Jantz, T. K., Krieger, S. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2016). Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Target Article], 39, 1-17. IMPACT FACTOR: 29.3. Link. The follow-up to the article in Psychological Review (below), this is the theoretical foundation of research in our lab. It focuses on the primary function of conscious processing in the nervous system. The evidence for different aspects of the theory can be found in five sections following Books and Special Volumes. These sections are organized by theme. Click here for TIME's coverage of the theory (111).
 

Morsella, E., Godwin, C. A., Jantz, T. K., Krieger, S. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2016). Passive frame theory: A new synthesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 44-70.  Authors' Reply to the 30 commentaries that were written in response to the target article above.] Link.

Morsella, E., Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., Li, Y., Wong, C. Y., & Lambert, D. (2020). Motor cognition: The role of sentience in perception-and-action. Kinesiology Review, 9, 261-274. This review article covers most of the ideas developed by the laboratory and covers many of the ideas presented in the other introductory readings. Link. 

Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021. IMPACT FACTOR: 8.93 [Addresses the differences between conscious and unconscious integrations in the nervous system] Link.
 

Bhangal, S., Cho, H., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2016). The prospective nature of voluntary action: Insights from the reflexive imagery task.  Review of General Psychology, 20, 101-117. This review focuses on the prospective aspects of voluntary action and covers the findings from the first handful of experiments using the reflexive imagery task, which is the primary paradigm used by the lab.
 
Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2008). The unconscious mind.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 73-79. IMPACT FACTOR: 10.58. Link.

Morsella, E. (2022).  Consciousness and the Brain: Lab Manual 1.0.  San Francisco: KDP.  Link

 

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
 

Brauer, S., Gazzaley, A., Toyoda, H., & Morsella.  (in press).  Habituation of Stimulus-Elicited Involuntary Cognitions:  Implications for Psychopathology.  Psychology of Consciousness:  Theory, Research, and Practice (an APA journal).
 

Morsella, E., Brauer, S., Wright-Wilson, L., & Elsabbagh, T. (in press).  Attention, the homunculus, and the Greek theater effect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

 

Wong, C. Y., Heredia Cedillo, A., & Morsella, E. (in press).  The priming of stimulus-elicited involuntary mental imagery.  Acta Psychologica.

 

Bui, N-C. T., Ghafur, R. D., Yankulova, J., & Morsella, E. (2023). Stimulus-elicited involuntary insights and syntactic processing. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice,  10, 115-133.  doi:10.1037/cns0000208 (An APA journal).

 

Heredia Cedillo, A., Lambert, D., & Morsella, E. (2024).  Identifying consciousness in other creatures: Three initial steps.  Behavioral Sciences, 14, 337.  doi: 10.3390/bs14040337  

 

Wright-Wilson, L., Elsabbagh, T., & Morsella, E. (in press).  Stimulus-elicited involuntary autobiographical memories.  Acta Psychologica.

 

Elsabbagh, T., Wright-Wilson, L., Brauer, S., & Morsella, E. (2023).  The habituation of higher-order conscious processes: Evidence from mental arithmetic.  Acta Psychologica, 236, 103922. Link

 

Morsella, E., Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., Li, Y., & Gazzaley, A. (2022).  Encapsulation and subjectivity from the standpoint of viewpoint theory.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, 37-38.

 

Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., White, N. A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2023).  Involuntary refreshing of mental representations.  Acta Psychologica, 03819, ISSN 0001-6918. Link

 

Yankulova, J. K., Zacher, L. M., Velazquez, A. G., Dou, W., & Morsella, E. (2022).  Insuppressible cognitions in the reflexive imagery task:  Insights and future directions.  Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 13:957359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.957359 Link

 

Yankulova, J. K., Zacher, L. M., Velasquez, A. G., Dou, W., & Morsella, E. (2023).  Stimulus-elicited involuntary cognition: Boundary conditions and systematic effects.  Psychological Reports, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941231219792.

 

BOOKS AND VOLUMES
 

Morsella, E., Bargh, J. A., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2009). Oxford handbook of human action.  New York: Oxford University Press. Link.

 
Consciousness and action control, A special issue (18 articles) of Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition (2013). Link.
 
Morsella, E. (2010). Expressing oneself / expressing one's self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity. (A Festschrift in the honor of Robert M. Krauss.)  London, UK: Psychology Press. Link.

 

Morsella, E. (2022).  Consciousness and the Brain: Lab Manual 1.0.  San Francisco: KDP.  Link

 

CONSCIOUSNESS AND NERVOUS FUNCTION
 
(Click here for CV listing all publications in chronological order. See next section for consciousness research based on the Reflexive Imagery Task, the new paradigm developed by the lab.)
 

Morsella, E. (2022).  Consciousness and the Brain: Lab Manual 1.0.  San Francisco: KDP.  Link
 

Yankulova, J. K., Zacher, L. M., Velazquez, A. G., Dou, W., & Morsella, E. (2022).  Insuppressible cognitions in the reflexive imagery task:  Insights and future directions.  Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 13:957359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.957359 Link

Morsella, E., Brauer, S., Wright-Wilson, L., & Elsabbagh, T. (in press).  Attention, the homunculus, and the Greek theater effect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Morsella, E., Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., Li, Y., Wong, C. Y., & Lambert, D. (2020). Motor cognition: The role of sentience in perception-and-action. Kinesiology Review, 9, 261-274. This review article covers most of the ideas developed by the laboratory and covers many of the ideas presented in the other introductory readings. Link.

 

Morsella, E., Godwin, C. A., Jantz, T. K., Krieger, S. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2016). Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Target Article], 39, 1-17. IMPACT FACTOR: 29.3.  Link.

 

Morsella, E., Godwin, C. A., Jantz, T. K., Krieger, S. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2016). Passive frame theory: A new synthesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 44-70. Authors' Reply to the 30 commentaries that were written in response to the target article above.] Link.
 

Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021. Link.
 

Morsella, E., Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., Li, Y., & Gazzaley, A. (2022).  Encapsulation and subjectivity from the standpoint of viewpoint theory.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, 37-38.

 

Heredia Cedillo, A., Lambert, D., & Morsella, E. (2024).  Identifying consciousness in other creatures: Three initial steps.  Behavioral Sciences, 14, 337.  doi: 10.3390/bs14040337    

Seth, A. K., Verschure, P. F. M. J., Blanke, O., Butz, M. V., Ford, J. M., Frith, C. D., Jacob, P., Kyselo, M., McGann, M., Menary, R., Morsella, E., & O'Regan, J. K. (2016). Action-oriented understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience. In Engel, A. K., Friston, K. J., & Kragic, D. (Eds.), The pragmatic turn: Toward action-oriented views on cognitive science (pp. 261-281). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Link.
 
Dou, W., Walker, E. B., & Morsella, E. (2020). The prospective nature of involuntary entry into consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27, 69-87.
 
Graziano, M. S. A., & Morsella (2020). A new motor approach to consciousness: Implications for the simulation of future behavior. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27, 88-103.
 
Yankulova, J. K., & Morsella, E. (2020). Conscious contents: Their unanalyzable, arbitrary, and unarbitrary properties. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37, 187-189.
  
Morsella, E., Wilson, L. E., Berger, C. C., Honhongva, M., Gazzaley, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing (7-experiment article). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1807-1824.
 
Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The essence of conscious conflict: Subjective effects of sustaining incompatible intentions. Emotion, 9, 717-728.
 
Gray, J. R., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Neural correlates of the essence of conscious conflict: fMRI of sustaining incompatible intentions. Experimental Brain Research, 229, 453-465.
 
Krisst, L., Montemayor, C., & Morsella, E. (2015). Deconstructing voluntary action: Unconscious and conscious component processes. In B. Eitam & P. Haggard (Eds.), The sense of agency (pp. 25-62). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Cho, H., & Morsella, E. (2016). Brain and consciousness. In H. L. Miller Jr. (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of theory in psychology (p. 59). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
 
Morsella, E., & Walker, E. B. (2016). What makes us conscious is not what makes us human. Animal Sentience, 120, Link. Click here for a blog about this article.
 
Cushing, D., Velasquez, A. G., & Morsella, E. (2016). Competition between cognitive control and encapsulated, unconscious inferences: Are Aha-experiences special?  Frontiers in Psychology, 7:626. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00626. Link.
 
Cushing, D., Ghafur, R. D., & Morsella, E. (2017). The interdependence between conscious and unconscious processes. In Z. Radman (Ed.), Before consciousness: In search of the fundamentals of mind (pp. 50-82). UK: Imprint Academic.
 
Morsella, E., & Reyes, Z. (2016). The difference between conscious and unconscious brain circuits. Animal Sentience. Link.

 
Robinson, M. M., & Morsella, E. (2014). The subjective effort of everyday mental tasks: Attending, assessing, and choosing. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 832-843.

Merrick, C., Godwin, C. A., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2014). The olfactory system as the gateway to the neural correlates of consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1011. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01011 Link.

Corr, P. J., & Morsella, E. (2015). The conscious control of behavior: Revisiting Gray's comparator model. In P. J. Corr, M. Fajkowska, M. W. Eysenck, & A. Wytykowska (Eds.), Personality and control, volume 4 (pp. 15-42). New York: Eliot Werner Publications.
 
Zarolia, P., Tomory, J. J., Rosen, H. J., & Morsella, E. (2015). The subjective aspects of self-control: Theory and experimental paradigms. In P. J. Corr, M. Fajkowska, M. W. Eysenck, & A. Wytykowska (Eds.), Personality and control, volume 4 (pp. 43-66). New York: Eliot Werner Publications.
 
Riddle, T. A., Rosen, H. J., & Morsella, E. (2015). Is that me? Sense of agency as a function of intra-psychic conflict. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 36, 27-46.
 
Morsella, E., Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A. (2013). Voluntary action and the illusion of conscious will. In H. Pashler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of the mind (pp. 772-774). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
 
Morsella, E., & Poehlman, T. A. (2013). The inevitable contrast: Conscious versus unconscious processes in action control. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 590. doi: 10.3889/fpsyg.2013.00590. Link.
 
Godwin, C. A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Homing in on the brain mechanisms linked to consciousness: Buffer of the perception-and-action interface. In A. Pereira and D. Lehmann's (Eds.), The unity of mind, brain and world: Current perspectives on a science of consciousness (pp. 43-76). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 
Morsella, E., Molapuor, T., & Lynn, M. (2013). The three pillars of volition: Phenomenal states, ideomotor processing, and the skeletal muscle system. In H. S. Terrace & J. Metcalfe (Eds.), Agency and joint attention (pp. 284-303). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Morsella, E., Dennehy, T. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2013). Voluntary action and the three forms of binding in the brain. In A. Clark, J. Kiverstein, & T. Vierkant (Eds.), Decomposing the will (pp. 183-198). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Poehlman, T. A., Jantz, T. K., & Morsella, E. (2012). Adaptive skeletal muscle action requires anticipation and 'conscious broadcasting.' Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 369. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00369 Link.
 
Robinson, M. M., Poehlman, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2012). The subjective aspects of agency, cognitive control, and self-regulation: Findings from the action and consciousness laboratory. In A. E. Cavanna & A. Nani (Eds.), Consciousness: States, mechanisms, & disorders (pp. 207-230). 

Morsella, E., Zarolia, P., & Gazzaley, A. (2012). Cognitive conflict and consciousness (pp. 19-46). In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A unifying concept in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press. [This focuses on the different kinds of conflict in the brain]
 
Molapour, T., Berger, C. C., & Morsella, E. (2011). Did I read or did I name? Diminished awareness of processes yielding identical 'outputs.' Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1776-1780. 
 
Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Berger, C. C. (2011). Cognitive and neural components of the phenomenology of agency. Neurocase, 17, 209-230. [Includes a quantitative review of evidence regarding agency and the function of consciousness in action production] Link.
 
Morsella, E., & Jantz, T. (2011). Conscious states are a crosstalk mechanism for only a subset of brain processes. Journal of Cosmology, 14, 4469-4471. (Special issue edited by Sir Roger Penrose.)
 
Morsella, E., Feinberg, G., H., Cigarchi, S., Newton, J. W., & Williams, L. E. (2011). Sources of avoidance motivation: Valence effects from physical effort and mental rotation. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 296-305.
 
Lynn, M. T., Berger, C. C., Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2010). Mind control? Creating illusory intentions through a phony brain-computer interface. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 1007-1012. 
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). What is an output? Psychological Inquiry, 21, 354-370. [Influenced by Gibson's classic article which posed the question, "What is the stimulus?", this piece argues that action is the only undisputable 'output' in the nervous system; with this in mind, it reveals the intimate link between action and conscious processing] Link.
 
Morsella, E., Ben-Zeev, A., Lanska, M., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). The spontaneous thoughts of the night: How future tasks breed intrusive cognitions. Social Cognition, 28, 640-649.
 
Morsella, E., & Hubbard, J. (2010). Controlled-reflective processes arise from integrative action-goal selection in the ventral pathway. European Journal of Personality, 24, 412-416.
 
Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Minimal neuroanatomy for a conscious brain: Homing in on the networks constituting consciousness. Neural Networks, 23, 14-15.
 
Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The function of consciousness: Why skeletal muscles are 'voluntary' muscles. In. E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 625-634). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Morsella, E. (2003). The function of phenomenal states: Is there progress for the 'softer problem' of consciousness? Psychological Reports, 93, 435-440.
 
Krauss, R. M., & Morsella, E. (2000/2006 [second edition]). Communication and conflict. In M. Deutsch & P. T. Coleman (Eds.), The handbook of conflict Resolution: Theory and practice (pp. 131-143 [pp. 144-157 for 2nd edition]). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
 
 

REFLEXIVE IMAGERY TASK (RIT):
INVOLUNTARY ENTRY INTO CONSCIOUSNESS OF IMAGERY AND OTHER COGNITIONS

Brauer, S., Gazzaley, A., Toyoda, H., & Morsella.  (in press).  Habituation of Stimulus-Elicited Involuntary Cognitions:  Implications for Psychopathology.  Psychology of Consciousness:  Theory, Research, and Practice (an APA journal). 

Wong, C. Y., Heredia Cedillo, A., & Morsella, E. (in press).  The priming of stimulus-elicited involuntary mental imagery.  Acta Psychologica.

Wright-Wilson, L., Elsabbagh, T., & Morsella, E. (in press).  Stimulus-elicited involuntary autobiographical memories.  Acta Psychologica.

 

Elsabbagh, T., Wright-Wilson, L., Brauer, S., & Morsella, E. (in press).  The habituation of higher-order conscious processes: Evidence from mental arithmetic.  Acta Psychologica, 236, 103922. Link

 

Yankulova, J. K., Zacher, L. M., Velasquez, A. G., Dou, W., & Morsella, E. (2023).  Stimulus-elicited involuntary cognition: Boundary conditions and systematic effects.  Psychological Reports, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941231219792

 

Velasquez, A. G., Yankulova, J. K., White, N. A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2023).  Involuntary refreshing of mental representations.  Acta Psychologica, 03819, ISSN 0001-6918. Link

Yankulova, J. K., Zacher, L. M., Velazquez, A. G., Dou, W., & Morsella, E. (2022).  Insuppressible cognitions in the reflexive imagery task:  Insights and future directions.  Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 13:957359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.957359

 

White, N., Velasquez, A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2024). Mary had a little... : Stimulus-elicited involuntary musical imagery. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/szb5g  Retrieved from osf.io/szb5g

 

Gardner, K., Walker, E. B., Li, Y., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2020). Involuntary attentional shifts as a function of set and processing fluency. Acta Psychologica, 203. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy .2020.103009.

 
Cushing, D., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2019). Involuntary mental rotation and visuospatial imagery from external control. Consciousness and Cognition, 75. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.019.102809.Epub 2019 Sep 12. 
 
Dou, W., Allen, A. K., Cho, H., Bhangal, S., Cook, A. J., Morsella, E., & Geisler, M. W. (2020). EEG correlates of involuntary cognitions in the reflexive imagery task. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00482. eCollection 2020. Link.
 

Bui, N-C. T., Ghafur, R. D., Yankulova, J., & Morsella, E. (2023). Stimulus-elicited involuntary insights and syntactic processing. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice,  10, 115-133.  doi:10.1037/cns0000208 (An APA journal).

 

Velasquez, A. G., Gazzaley, A., Toyoda, H., Ziegler, D. A., & Morsella, E. (2021).  The generation of involuntary mental imagery in an ecologically-valid task.  Frontiers in Psychology. Link 

Bhangal, S., Cho, H., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2016). The prospective nature of voluntary action: Insights from the reflexive imagery task. Review of General Psychology, 20, 101-117. (An APA journal.) This review focuses on the prospective aspects of voluntary action and covers the findings from the first handful of RIT experiments.
 

Allen, A. K., Wilkins, K., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Conscious thoughts from reflex-like processes: A new experimental paradigm for consciousness research. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1318-1331. [After using the Stroop and flanker tasks to examine the role of consciousness in action control, we now use also this paradigm, which was developed in the lab.]  *Importantly, this article received the honor of being an "Editor's Choice" article for Elsevier Publishers. In the field of the scientific study of consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition is the premier journal.

 
Bhangal, S., Merrick, C., Cho, H., & Morsella, E. (2018). Involuntary entry into consciousness from the activation of sets: Object counting and color naming. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01017 Link.
 
Cushing, D., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2017). Externally controlled involuntary cognitions and their relations with other representations in consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 55, 1-10 (lead article).

 

Allen, A. K., Krisst, L., Montemayor, C., & Morsella, E. (2016). Entry of involuntary conscious contents from ambiguous images. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 3, 326-337. (An APA journal.)
 
Bhangal, S., Merrick, C., & Morsella, E. (2015). Ironic effects as reflexive responses: Evidence from word frequency effects on involuntary subvocalizations. Acta Psychologica, 159, 33-40.
 
Bhangal, S., Allen, A. K, Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2016). Conscious contents as reflexive processes: Evidence from the habituation of high-level cognitions. Consciousness and Cognition, 41, 177-188. 
 
Cho, H., Godwin, C. A., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2014). Internally generated conscious contents: Interactions between sustained mental imagery and involuntary subvocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 1445. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01445 Link.
 
Merrick, C., Farnia, M., Jantz, T. K., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2015). External control of the stream of consciousness: Stimulus-based effects on involuntary thought sequences. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 217-225. 
 
Cho, H., Zarolia, P., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2016). Involuntary symbol manipulation (Pig Latin) from external control: Implications for thought suppression. Acta Psychologica, 166, 37-41.
 
Cushing, D., Ghafur, R. D., & Morsella, E. (2017). The interdependence between conscious and unconscious processes. In Z. Radman (Ed.), Before consciousness: In search of the fundamentals of mind (pp. 50-82). UK: Imprint Academic.
 
Cho, H., Dou, W., Reyes, Z., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2018). The reflexive imagery task: An experimental paradigm for neuroimaging. AIMS Neuroscience, 5, 97-115.
 
Garcia, A. C., Bhangal, S., Velasquez, A. G., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2016). Metacognition of working memory performance: Trial-by-trial subjective effects from a new paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:927, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00927 Link. The research from our lab covered in this article led to the RIT and has implications for understanding the boundary conditions of the RIT effect.
 
Dou, W., Li, Y., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2018). Involuntary polymodal imagery involving olfaction, audition, touch, taste, and vision. Consciousness and Cognition, 62, 9-20. 
 

INVOLUNTARY ENTRY OF ACTION-RELATED URGES DURING COGNITIVE CONTROL
 
Morsella, E., Wilson, L. E., Berger, C. C., Honhongva, M., Gazzaley, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing (7-experiment article). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1807-1824.
 
Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The essence of conscious conflict: Subjective effects of sustaining incompatible intentions. Emotion, 9, 717-728.
 
Gray, J. R., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Neural correlates of the essence of conscious conflict: fMRI of sustaining incompatible intentions. Experimental Brain Research, 229, 453-465.
 
Zarolia, P., Tomory, J. J., Rosen, H. J., & Morsella, E. (2015). The subjective aspects of self-control: Theory and experimental paradigms. In P. J. Corr, M. Fajkowska, M. W. Eysenck, & A. Wytykowska (Eds.), Personality and control, volume 4 (pp. 43-66). New York: Eliot Werner Publications.
 
Hubbard, J., Rigby, T., Godwin, C. A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Representations in working memory yield interference effects found with externally-triggered representations. Acta Psychologica, 142, 127-135.
 
Riddle, T. A., Rosen, H. J., & Morsella, E. (2015). Is that me? Sense of agency as a function of intra-psychic conflict. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 36, 27-46.
 
Robinson, M. M., Poehlman, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2012). The subjective aspects of agency, cognitive control, and self-regulation: Findings from the action and consciousness laboratory. In A. E. Cavanna & A. Nani (Eds.), Consciousness: States, mechanisms, & disorders (pp. 207-230). (Volume contains a contribution from Dr. Alfredo Pereira Jr.)
 
Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2012). The phenomenology of quitting: Effects from repetition and cognitive effort. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 23, 25-46.
 
Morsella, E., Zarolia, P., & Gazzaley, A. (2012). Cognitive conflict and consciousness (pp. 19-46). In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A unifying concept in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press. [This focuses on the different kinds of conflict in the brain]
 
Molapour, T., Berger, C. C., & Morsella, E. (2011). Did I read or did I name? Diminished awareness of processes yielding identical 'outputs.' Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1776-1780. In the field of the scientific study of consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition is the premier journal.
 
Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Berger, C. C. (2011). Cognitive and neural components of the phenomenology of agency. Neurocase, 17, 209-230. [Includes a quantitative review of evidence regarding agency and the function of consciousness in action production]
 
Morsella, E., Feinberg, G., H., Cigarchi, S., Newton, J. W., & Williams, L. E. (2011). Sources of avoidance motivation: Valence effects from physical effort and mental rotation. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 296-305.
 
Molapour, T., & Morsella, E. (2011). Valence from conflict? Preliminary evidence from Stroop interference. Journal of Communications Research, 3, 255-270.
 

VOLUNTARY ENTRY INTO CONSCIOUSNESS DURING ACTION-RELATED WORKING MEMORY DURING COGNITIVE CONTROL
 
Garcia, A. C., Bhangal, S., Velasquez, A. G., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2016). Metacognition of working memory performance: Trial-by-trial subjective effects from a new paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:927, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00927 Link.
 
Jantz, T. K., Tomory, J. J., Merrick, C., Cooper, S., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2014). Subjective aspects of working memory performance: Memoranda-related imagery. Consciousness and Cognition, 25, 88-100. In the field of the scientific study of consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition is the premier journal.
 
Jantz, T. K., Tomory, J. J., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Subjective aspects of action control for delayed actions: Action-related imagery. Journal of Mental Imagery, 37, 21-48.
 
Hubbard, J., Rigby, T., Godwin, C. A., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2013). Representations in working memory yield interference effects found with externally-triggered representations. Acta Psychologica, 142, 127-135.
 
Paik, J. H., Luong, H. N., & Morsella, E. (2012). Giving children a prefrontal cortex? Increased mental control through external cues. In A. Durante & C. Mammoliti (Eds.), Psychology of self-control (pp. 175-186). New York: Nova.
 
Morsella, E., Larson, L. R. L., Bargh, J. A. (2010). Indirect cognitive control, working-memory-related movements, and sources of automatisms. In E. Morsella (Ed.), Expressing oneself / expressing one's self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity (pp. 61-90). London: Psychology Press.
 
Morsella, E. (2010). Prologue: A Festschrift in the honor of Robert M. Krauss. In E. Morsella (Ed.), Expressing oneself / expressing one's self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity (pp. xiii - xxviii). London: Psychology Press.
 
Morsella, E., Lanska, M., Berger, C. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2009). Indirect cognitive control through top-down activation of perceptual symbols. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1173-1177.
 
Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2004). The role of gestures in spatial working memory and speech. American Journal of Psychology, 117, 411-424.
 
 
ACTION-RELATED UNCONSCIOUS MECHANISMS AND INFERENCES
 
Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2008). The unconscious mind. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 73-79. IMPACT FACTOR: 10.58.
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2011). Unconscious action tendencies: Sources of 'un-integrated' action. In J. T. Cacioppo & J. Decety (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 335 - 347). New York: Oxford University Press. [A comprehensive review of research on unconscious action].
 
Morsella, E., & Miozzo, M. (2002). Evidence for a cascade model of lexical access in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 555-563.
 
Godwin, C. A., Morsella, E., & Geisler, M. W. (2016). The origins of a spontaneous thought: EEG correlates and thinkers’ source attributions. AIMS Neuroscience, 3(2), 203-231: doi: 10.393410.3934/Neuroscience.2016.2.203 Link.
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Unconscious mind. In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science, Fourth Edition (Volume 4, pp. 1817-1819). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
 
Berger, C. C., Dennehy, T. C., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2016). Nisbett and Wilson (1977) revisited: The little that we can know and can tell. Social Cognition, 34, 167-195.
 
Chen, P-W., Jantz, T. K., & Morsella, E. (2014). The prepared reflex: Behavioral and subjective flanker interference effects. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 6, 1-11. Open access.
 
Dennehy, T. C., Cooper, C., Molapour, T., & Morsella, E. (2014). Is there release from masking from isomorphism between perception and action? Brain Sciences, 4, 220-239.
 
Montemayor, C., Allen, A. K., & Morsella, E. (2013). The seeming stability of the unconscious homunculus. Sistemi Intelligenti, 25, 581-600.
 
Larson, L. R. L., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2012). Mental modes: Priming of expertise-based dispositions in expertise-unrelated contexts. Psicólogica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 33, 305-317.

Morsella, E., Larson, L. R. L., Zarolia, P., & Bargh, J. A. (2011). Stimulus control: The sought or unsought influence of the objects we tend to. Psicólogica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 32, 145-170.

 
Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2010). Unconscious behavioral guidance systems. In Agnew, C. R., Carlston, D. E., Graziano, W. G., & Kelly, J. R. (Eds.), Then a miracle occurs: Focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research (pp. 89-118). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Levine, L. R., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). The perversity of inanimate objects: Stimulus control by incidental musical notation. Social Cognition, 25, 267-283.
 
Hubbard, J., Molapour, T., & Morsella, E. (2016). The subjective consequences of experiencing random events. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 8, 120-125.
 
Krauss, R. M., Freyberg, R., & Morsella, E. (2002). Inferring speaker's physical attributes from their voices. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 618-625.
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Unconscious mind. In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science, Fourth Edition (Volume 4, pp. 1817-1819). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
 

MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACTION-RELATED CONTENT
 
Morsella, E. (2009).  The mechanisms of human action: Introduction and background.  In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 1-32). New York: Oxford University Press. [A comprehensive primer of all human action research].
 
Seth, A. K., Verschure, P. F. M. J., Blanke, O., Butz, M. V., Ford, J. M., Frith, C. D., Jacob, P., Kyselo, M., McGann, M., Menary, R., Morsella, E., & O'Regan, J. K. (2016). Action-oriented understanding of consciousness and the structure of experience. In Engel, A. K., Friston, K. J., & Kragic, D. (Eds.), The pragmatic turn: Toward action-oriented views on cognitive science (pp. 261-281). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
 
Morsella, E., Hoover, M. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2013). Functionalism redux: How adaptive action constrains perception, simulation, and evolved intuitions. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), People watching: Social, perceptual, and neurophysiological studies of body perception (pp. 256-282). New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Morsella, E., & Ben-Zeev, A. (2012). Cognition and action in the social world. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 278-294). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
 
Berger, C. C., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2012). The 'what' of doing: Introspection-based evidence for James's ideomotor principle. In A. Durante & C. Mammoliti (Eds.), Psychology of self-control (pp. 145-160). New York: Nova.
 
Hubbard, J., Gazzaley, A., & Morsella, E. (2011). Traditional response interference from anticipated action outcomes: A response-effect compatibility paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 138, 106-110.
 
Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2005). Muscular activity in the arm during lexical retrieval: Implications for gesture-speech theories. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 34, 415-427.
 
Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2005). Can motor states influence semantic processing? Evidence from an interference paradigm. In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, 36, 163-182. New York: Nova.
 
Morsella, E. (2002). The motor components of semantic representation. (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2002). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 63 (4B). (University Microfilms No. AAI3048195)
 

ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES AND OTHER SHORT PIECES
 
Morsella, E., & Bui, N-C. T. (2019). Why we need a blueprint for consciousness. In P. Negro, A blueprint for the hard problem of consciousness (pp. i - vii). New York: Bentham Science.
 
Morsella, E., & Walker, E. B. (2016). What makes us conscious is not what makes us human. Animal Sentience, 120, Link. Click here for a blog about this article.
 
Cho, H., & Morsella, E. (2016). Brain and consciousness. In H. L. Miller Jr. (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of theory in psychology (p. 59). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
 
Morsella, E., & Reyes, Z. (2016). The difference between conscious and unconscious brain circuits. Animal Sentience. Link.
 
Cushing, D., Velasquez, A. G., & Morsella, E. (2016). Competition between cognitive control and encapsulated, unconscious inferences: Are Aha-experiences special? Frontiers in Psychology, 7:626. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00626. Link.
 
Morsella, E., Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A. (2013). Voluntary action and the illusion of conscious will. In H. Pashler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of the mind (pp. 772-774). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Unconscious mind. In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science, Fourth Edition (Volume 4, pp. 1817-1819). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
 
Morsella, E., Montemayor, C., Hubbard, J., & Zarolia, P. (2010). Conceptual knowledge: Grounded in sensorimotor states, or a disembodied deus ex machina? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 455-456.
 
Morsella, E., & Montemayor, C. (2010). ¿Somos conscientes de toda la información que integra nuestro cerebro?: La Teoría de la Interacción Supramodular. Ciencia Cognitiva, 4, 44-46. [A review in Spanish about the lab's theory]
 
Morsella, E., Riddle, T. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Undermining the foundations: Questioning the basic notions of associationism and mental representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 218-219.
 
Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). Supracortical consciousness: Insights from temporal dynamics, processing-content, and olfaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 100.
 
Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Rizzo-Fontanesi, S. (2007). The primary function of consciousness in the nervous system. Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences, 9, 37-40. 

ARCHIVED RESEARCH REPORTS

Kong, F., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2025, January 18). Flanker Interference from Activation of Mental Imagery: A Proof of Concept. Retrieved from osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/f3bq9 

RECENT POSTER PRESENTATIONS
 
(Number 109) Brauer, S., Shettigar, D., Chilton, S., & Morsella, E. (2024, May 23).  Habituation of Stimulus-Elicited Involuntary Cognitions: Implications for Psychopathology. Poster Session 3. Annual Convention for the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, United States.

 

Wieczorek, N. E., Kong, F., Morsella, E., & Geisler, M. (2024).  In-Between Resting States Predicting Future Cognitions: An EEG Study.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco.

 

Pathak, S., Lopez-Carreno, J.M., & Morsella, E. (2024).  Challenges to Executive Function: Attentional Capture and High-Level Conditional Discriminations. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco.

 

Taylor, C. A., & Morsella, E. (2024).  Urges During Impulse Control: Implications for Motivation Science. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco.

 

Brauer, S., Wieczorek, N., Bueno, J., Panlilio, Z., Velasquez, A. G., & Morsella, E. (2023).  Stimulus-elicited involuntary cognitions: Response conflict, habituation, and word-frequency effects. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.

 

Elsabbagh, T., Wright-Wilson, L., Brauer, S., & Morsella, E. (2023).  The habituation of higher-order conscious processes: Evidence from mental arithmetic.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.
 

Kong, F., Lambert, D., Li, Y., Morsella, E., & Geisler, M. (2023).  EEG of mental imagery elicited by distractors in the flanker task. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.
 

Brauer, S., Elsabaggh, T., Lambert, D., Bhangal, S., & Morsella, E. (2022).  Habituation of stimulus-elicited involuntary cognitions:  Implications for neuroimaging and psychopathology.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.
 

Wright-Wilson, L., Kong, F., Renna, J., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2022).  During action selection, consciousness represents selected actions, unselected actions, and involuntary memories.  Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco.

 

The Action and Consciousness Laboratory is interested in training SFSU volunteer research assistants during the entire year. 

Qualified candidates will be considered for full-time positions in the lab.  Psychology and neuroscience majors, especially those interested in pursuing graduate studies in this field, are strongly encouraged to apply.  

All potentially interested should email morsella@sfsu.edu with a statement of interest, resume, unofficial transcript, and contact information.

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