N. Kyle Smith

Curriculum Vita

August 2005

 

Address

Department of Psychology

Phillips Hall

Ohio Wesleyan University

Delaware, Ohio 43015

Telephone:  (740) 368-3807

 

Fax: (740) 368-3812

E-mail: nksmith@owu.edu

 

Personal Information

Date Of Birth: September 02,1972

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

 

Education

 

Ph.D.  (August, 2001)                                      Social Psychology

                                                                        Minors in Quantitative and Physiological Psychology

                                                            Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

 

M.A.  (March, 1998)                                       Social Psychology

                                                                        Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

 

B.S. (June, 1994)                                             Majors:  Psychology and Chemistry, magna cum laude

Union College, Schenectady, NY

 

Employment History

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2002-present

 

Research Experience and Awards

Research Assistant, Social Neuroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, 1995-2001

NIMH Predoctoral Training Fellow (Grant No. T32-MH19728), 1996-1997

Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum Finalist, Ohio State University, 1999

Summer Science Program Research Supervisor, 2002-2005

 

Teaching Experience and Awards

Ohio State University

Introduction to Social Psychology, 1997-1998, 2000

Introduction to Psychology, 1999-2001

Seminar on Teaching Psychology, 2001

Practicum on Teaching Psychology, 2001

 

Meritorious Teaching Award, Psychology 100, 2000

Meritorious Teaching Award, Psychology 100, 2001

Service Award, Psychology 100, 2001.

 

Ohio Wesleyan University

Introduction to Psychology, 2001-2005.

Social Psychology, 2001-2005.

Research Methods in Psychology, 2003-2005

Social Cognition Seminar, 2003, 2005.

Psychology and the Law Seminar, 2004

The Science of Subliminal Messages, Freshman Honors Tutorial, 2005.

 

Publications

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T.,  Chartrand, T. L., Cacioppo, J. T., Katafiasz, H. A., & Moran, K. E.  (in press)  Being bad isn't always good: Affective context moderates the attention bias toward negative information.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

Cacioppo, J. T., Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K., & Berntson, G. G. (2004).  The affect system: What lurks below the surface of feelings?  In A. S. R. Manstead, N. H. Frijda, & A. H. Fischer (Eds.), Feelings and emotions: The Amsterdam conference (pp. 221-240).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Smith, N. K., Cacioppo, J. T., Larsen, J. T., & Chartrand, T. L.  (2003).  May I have your attention, please:  Electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli.  Neuropsychologia, 41, 171-183.

 

Ito, T. A., Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K. & Cacioppo, J. T. (1998).  Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75,  887-900.

 

Foley, M. A., Foley, H. J., Durso, F. T, & Smith, N. K. (1997).  Investigations of closure processes: What source-monitoring judgments suggest about what is "closing".  Memory and Cognition, 25, 140-155.

 

Manuscripts In Preparation or Under Review

 

Smith, N. K. & Brunsdon, J. L.  (2005).  Eliminating the attention bias for simultaneously presented positive and negative stimuli.  In preparation.

 

Smith, N. K. & Lavelle, L. A.  (2005).  With pheromones, seeing is believing:  Visual presence of males moderates the effect of androstadienone on mood.  In preparation.

 

Presentations

 

Lavelle, L. A. & Smith, N. K.  (2006).  Social context moderates the effects of the pheromone AND on women’s moods.  Paper to be presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, California.

 

Brunsdon, J. & Smith, N. K. (2005).  Accentuating the Positive: The Effects of Comedic Movies on the Attention Bias to Negative Information.  Paper presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 

Smith, N. K.  (2005).  Priming Moderates the Attention Bias to Negative Information for Simultaneously Presented Positive and Negative Stimuli.  Paper presented at the 6th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Moran, K. E., Savage, H. A., & Smith, N. K. (2004).   Attenuating the Attention Bias To Negative Information Using Real World Manipulations.  Paper presented at the 5th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas.

 

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., Chartrand T. L. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2002).  Priming positivity eliminates the attention bias to negative information.  Paper presented at the 3rd meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, Georgia.

 

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2001).  May I have your attention, please: Electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli.  Paper presented at the 2nd meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas.

 

Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K., & Cacioppo, J. T. (1999).  The evaluative consequences of ambivalence.  Paper presented at the 71st meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., Cacioppo, J. T.  (1999).  Affect Sensitivity in the Components Underlying the LPP.  Paper presented at the 71st meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., & Cacioppo, J. T.  (1999)  The Brain Rapidly Differentiates Positive and Negative Stimuli.  Paper presented at the 14th Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Columbus, Ohio.

 

Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., Cacioppo, J. T., & Ito, T. A. (1999).  Rapid Differentiation of Positive and Negative Stimuli.  Invited talk given to the Center for the Study of Affect and Emotion, Gainesville, Florida.

 

Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K., Ito, T. A. & Cacioppo, J. T.  (1998).  ERPs and evaluative categorizations: An index of the negativity bias.  Paper presented at the 38th meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, Colorado.

 

Smith, N. K. & Cacioppo, J. T. (1998).  Neutral needn’t be ignored:  Valence category and cognitive resource allocation.  Poster presented at the 10th meeting of the American Psychological Society.  Washington, D.C.

 

Smith, N. K., Gardner, W. L., Hugdahl, K., Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (1996).  The P300 is sensitive to evaluative and nonevaluative categorization processes of very briefly presented pictorial stimuli.  Poster presented at the 36th meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.  Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Biological Psychology

Brain and Language

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

 

Professional Memberships

Society for Personality and Social Psychology