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Ann Elizabeth RenkenAssociate Professor (Teaching) of PsychologyContact Information E-mail: arenken@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2203 Office: SGM 611 |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Neuroscience, Baylor University, 8/2001
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M.A. Neuroscience, Baylor University, 5/1998
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B.A. Psychology, Truman State University, 5/1996
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Non-Tenure Track Appointments |
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Assistant Professor (teaching), University of Southern California, 2008-2012
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Lecturer, University of Southern California, 01/2004-05/2008
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Lecturer, California State University, Fullerton, 01/2004-05/2007
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Scripps College, 2001-2002
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Lecturer, Baylor University, 1998-2001
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Instructor, McLennan Community College, 08/1998-05/2001
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| I am currently studying how unconscious and conscious exposure to stimuli related to negative emotions affects spatial attention, directing it more leftward or more rightward. A current project with several undergraduate research assistants relates individual differences to spatial attention, including traits associated with enhanced left versus right hemisphere activity, gender, and how personally meaningful negative emotion words are reported to be. We are using a variant of line bisection as a measure of spatial attention, and plan on broadening the range of spatial tasks in future studies to include more "real world" visual displays. | |
Funded Research |
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USC Funding |
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Next Level Initiative/Psychology. Emotionally-primed Spatial Judgments: Effects on Hemispheric Activation: Examined emotion-word priming and spatial attention., $1,000, 2008-2009
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Increased Right Hemisphere Activation by Aversive Word Primes in Threat Sensitive People", Association for Psychological Science, Poster, San Francisco, CA,
Spring
2009
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"College Students' Fear and Perceived STD/HIV Vulnerability Following Risky Sexual Behavior", American Psychological Society, Poster, Los Angeles,
Spring
2005
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"New directions in Terror Management Theory? Implications from a Mortality Salience study", American Psychological Society, Poster, Atlanta, GA,
Spring
2003
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"Optimal conditions for predicting test performance at expanding retention intervals. ", Psychonomic Society, Poster, New Orleans, LA,
Fall
2000
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"Evidence for transfer appropriate monitoring in predicting future test performance.", Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Poster, Tucson, AZ,
Spring
2000
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"When is the test? Predicting future test performance at expanding delays", Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Poster, Tucson, AZ,
Spring
2000
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"Measuring ‘awareness’ as metacognitive accuracy in implicit learning.", Psychonomic Society, Poster, Los Angeles,
Fall
1999
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" Measuring ‘awareness’ as metacognitive accuracy in implicit learning research", Southwestern Psychological Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Albuquerque, NM,
Spring
1999
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"Effective demonstrations for the teaching of psychology.", Southwest Regional Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Talk/Oral Presentation, Fort Worth, TX,
Fall
1998
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"Transfer appropriate monitoring: Matching prediction and retrieval conditions improves metacogntive performance.", Psychonomic Society, Talk/Oral Presentation, Dallas, TX,
Fall
1998
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"Does intentional learning raise confidence or awareness? Distinguishing explicit from implicit knowledge.", Southwestern Psychological Association, Poster, New Orleans,
Spring
1998
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