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Jennifer TalevichPostdoctoral Scholar - |
Education
- B.A. Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine,
- M.A. Psychology, University of Southern California, 2010
- Ph.D. Psychology, University of Southern California, 12/2012
Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
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- Motivation & decision making in context
- Behavioral-motivation system processes
- inc. construals, motivation, emotion and how these become ingrained as personality
- Attachment, Power, and Caregiving as interacting behavioral systems
- Personality formation as adaptation to social roles
- Computational modeling of social psychological phenomena
- Virtual interventions (for humans) and artificial emotion/personality (for virtual humans)
Conference Presentations
- "A Neurocomputational Model of Attachment Formation", SPSP 2013 Dynamical Systems Preconference, Talk/Oral Presentation, New Orleans, Invited, 2012-2013
Publications
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Conference Proceeding
Read, S. J., Talevich, J. R., Walsh, D. A., Chopra, G., Iyer, R.
(2010).
A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Human Motives: A Principled Basis for the Motives of Intelligent Agents.
In Intelligent Virtual Agents (Ed.), pp. 35-41. pp. 10th International Conference. IVA 2010, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6356. Philadelphia.
Journal Article
Talevich, J. R., Walsh, D. A., Read, S. J., Iyer, R. Goal Impact: A Goal Systems Domain-General Prediction Tool, Applied to Voluntary Job. (revise & resubmit) Basic and Applied Social Psychology
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Talevich, J. R.
(2013).
Success of Influence and Coercion: A function of how psychotropic medication impacts the goals of adult psychiatric patients. (in press) Journal of Mental Health Law and Policy
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Chubb, C., Talevich, J.
(2002).
Attentional control of texture orientation judgments. Vision Research.
Vol. 42(3) (311-330)
Manuscript
Talevich, J. R. Goal Impact: A Goal Systems Domain-General Prediction Tool, Applied to Close Relationships.
Talevich, J. R., Read, S. J., Walsh, D. A., Chopra, G., Iyer, R. The Big Three Motives and a Comprehensive Taxonomy of Human Goals. Revising to Resubmit.
Talevich, J. R. Motivation, Affect, and Violations of Normative Behavior.
Talevich, J. R.
(2012).
The Motivated Behavior System: A Dynamic Account of the Attachment Behavioral System. (Dissertation) University of Southern California. Libraries.
Talevich, J. R.
(2012).
A Behavioral Systems Approach Toward a Unified Theory of Human Motivation: A computational model of attachment theory dynamics. (Qualifying Project) University of Southern California. Libraries.
Talevich, J. R.
(2010).
Real to me: Effecting real-world change from a virtual environment through an interaction between presence and immersive tendencies. (Masters's Thesis) University of Southern California. Libraries.