Staff

Jennifer Talevich

Postdoctoral Scholar -


Contact Information

Office: SGM 501
Phone: (213)740-8111
E-mail: talevich@usc.edu

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


  • - 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


  • 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.
     

 

 

 

 

  • Department of Psychology
  • University of Southern California
  • SGM 501
  • 3620 South McClintock Ave.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061