Emily Keener, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae

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Rev. 3/2012

   
EDUCATION

Doctorate of Philosophy, Life-span Developmental Psychology                             August 2010
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Dissertation:  Boys’ and Girls’ Strategies for Managing Peer Conflict in Adolescence
Chair: JoNell Strough, Ph.D.
 
Master of Arts, Experimental Psychology                                                                 May 2005
Radford University, Radford, Virginia                      
Thesis: Effects of Dominance, Sex Role Expectations, and Incentives on Negotiating  Behavior
Chair: Hilary Lips, Ph.D.

     Bachelor of Arts, Psychology                                                                                                                      May 2003
     Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia                                                                                       

AWARDS

• West Virginia University, Velma Miller/WV Alliance for Women's Studies Graduate Scholar Award       April 2007
• Wheeling Jesuit University, Andrew Scott Wensel Award for Most Promise as a Researcher                   May 2003

TRAINING

Slippery Rock University

• Safe-Zone Member Training                                                                                                          October 2011

Program is designed to improve visibility and support to LGBTQI students and employees. Training is designed to increase knowledge of and sensitivity to LGBTQI issues. 
West Virginia University

• Undergraduate Teaching Training                                                                                                   Spring 2008

As part of supervised teaching (Introduction to Human Development) a semester-long online training program was completed to improve undergraduate teaching.
Wheeling Jesuit University

• Wellness Training Program                                                                                                                 May 2003

Attended programming and training (16 hours) throughout undergraduate career where the underlying goal is to help students become involved and productive members of society– confident, competent, and enlightened by shared experiences with fellow human beings, with a commitment to a lifestyle of service to the human community.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Eastern Psychological Association,                                                                                    October 2011 – Present
• Society for the Teaching of Psychology,                                                                              January 2009 – Present
• Society for Research in Child Development,                                                                       January 2009 – Present
• Association for Psychological Science,                                                                   September 2006 – Spring 2010
• American Psychological Association,                                                                         October 2004 – Spring 2010

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
   
Slippery Rock University Department of Psychology, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania                 August 2010 – Present
     Instructor

• Introduction to Experimental Psychology, Fall 10 – Spring 12
• Introduction to Psychology (2 sections in Fall semesters), Fall 10 – Fall 11
• Learning, Spring 11 and Spring 12
• Developmental Psychology, Spring 12

West Virginia University Department of Psychology, Morgantown, West Virginia              August 2006 – June 2010
     Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Supervised Teaching
• Introduction to Psychology, Fall 06 - Spring 07
• Introduction to Life-Span Human Development (2 sections each semester),   Fall 07 – Fall 09
• Sex Roles and Behavior, Spring 10
• Field Experience (undergraduate internship), Summer 08
• Undergraduate Capstone/Research Experience (involved teaching statistics), Fall 08 – Summer 10
• Independent teaching
• Research Methods in Psychology (involved teaching statistics), Summer 10
• Social Psychology, Summer 09
• Introduction to Life-Span Human Development, Summer 07

Wheeling Jesuit University Department of Psychology, Wheeling, West Virginia               August 2005 – May 2006
     Lecturer

• History and Systems of Psychology, Fall 05
• Introduction to Psychology, Fall 05 – Spring 06
• Topics in Gender, Spring 06

Bethany College Department of Psychology, Bethany, West Virginia                                  August 2005 – May 2006
     Lecturer

• Systematic Psychology, Fall 05
• Social Psychology, Fall 05
• Psychology of Women, Fall 05
• Developmental Psychology, Spring 06

Radford University Department of Psychology, Radford, Virginia                                       August 2004 – May 2005
     Graduate Teaching Fellow

• Introduction to Psychology (2 sections each semester), Fall 04 – Spring 05

     Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Research Methods in Psychology II (with a focus on statistics), Spring 04

     Graduate Assistant

• Teaching Assistant for graduate level Independent Study(with a focus on statistics), Spring 04

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

West Virginia University, Department of Psychology                                                                                          
Research Assistant: Dr. JoNell Strough’s Lab                                                                      June 2005 – Summer 2010

• Collaborative everyday problem solving in older adults
• Assisted with grant funded project (older adult data collection, data coding, data analysis, and writing)
• Developed a measure of positive and negative friendship quality based on existing data
• Presented research based on younger and older adults friendship quality
• Age differences in sunk cost
• Assisted with the development of research protocol 
• Collected older adult data
• Assisted in the supervision of data entry and transcribing

Research Assistant: Dr. Amy Gentzler’s lab                                                                        January 08 – Summer 2010

• Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative and positive events: Associations to attachment and gender
• Coauthored a paper based on existing data
• Maximizing and minimizing coping in response to positive events: Associations with gender and attachment
• Assisted with the development of research protocol and survey development
• Assisted with data collection and analysis
• Coauthored a poster based on findings    
• Collaborating on a manuscript examining depressive symptomatology and coping responses
• Emotional and coping responses in children (daily-diary study of positive and negative events)
• Assisted with study design
• Assisted with participant recruitment
• Assisted with data collection

SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Slippery Rock University, Department of Psychology

• Co Advisor, Psi Chi, Fall 11 – Present
• Faculty Representative, Saturday Showcase, October11
• Faculty Representative, Psi Chi’s Graduate School Panel Discussion, Fall 10 & Fall 11

Slippery Rock University, Women’s Studies

• Attended monthly Women’s Studies meetings, Fall 10 - Present
• Advocacy Subcommittee Member, Women’s Studies, Spring 11 – Present
• Faculty Representative (led letter-writing session), Human Slavery Advocacy Event, March 2011
• Faculty Representative (led letter-writing session), Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Advocacy Event, April 2011
• Attended (with invited students) Twenty-Fourth Annual Leadership/Mentoring Dinner, October 2011

West Virginia University, Department of Psychology

• Graduate Student Representative, Department of Psychology Developmental Training Committee, Fall 08
  – Spring 09   
• Graduate Student Representative, Job Candidate Search Committee, Fall 08 – Spring 09          
• Member, Department of Psychology Wellness Committee, Fall 07 - Spring 08

Radford University, Department of Psychology

• Advisory Board member: Center for Gender Studies, Fall 04 – Spring 05
• Graduate Student Representative, Job Candidate Search Committee, Fall 03 – Spring 04

Professional Service

• Ad hoc reviewer: Child Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Journal of Adolescence, and Developmental Psychology

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Keener, E., Strough, J., & DiDonato, L. (in press). Gender differences and similarities in strategies for managing      conflict with friends and romantic partners. Sex Roles.
• Gentzler, A. L., Kerns, K. A., & Keener, E. (2010). Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative      and positive events: Associations to attachment and gender.  Motivation and Emotion, 34, 78-92.
• Lips, H., & Keener, E. (2007). Effects of gender and dominance on leadership emergence: Incentives make a      difference. Sex Roles, 56, 563 – 572.
• Keener, E. (2005).  Competitive attitudes and egotistical attributions: Gender differences while competing in a      game of pool.  Athletic Insight, 7, No Pagination.

Chapter in Edited Book

• Strough, J., & Keener, E. (in press). Interpersonal problem solving across the life span. In P. Verhaeghen & C.      Hertzog  (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of emotion, social cognition, and everyday problem solving      during adulthood. The Oxford Library of Psychology Series, Oxford University Press.

Book Review

• Keener, E. (2012, accepted). Review of The Truth about Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes      about our Children. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Under Review

• Keener, E., Mehta, C.M., & Strough, J. (under review). Should educators and parents encourage other-sex      interactions? Sex segregation and sexism.
• Mehta, C., Keener, E., & Shrier, L.A. (abstract accepted, article under review for special issue). Perceived      advantages and disadvantages of being a female graduate student in the U.S. and the U.K: An interpretative      phenomenological analysis. Gender and Education.

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Keener, E., & Strough, J. (in preparation). Relationship type vs. gender composition: Strategies for managing      conflict with same-gender friends, other-gender friends, and other-gender romantic relationships.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Invited

• Keener, E. (2012, April). Men and Women in Relationships: What’s the Difference? Invited keynote            presentation at Radford University’s Gender Conference, Radford, VA.
• Keener, E. (2012, March). Discussant, Symposium on Parenting Across the Lifespan  presented at the meeting      of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Keener, E. (April, 2012). What is Feminist Psychology? Invited presentation as part of Department of      Psychology’s Psi Chi colloquium series. West Virginia University: Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV.

Papers

• Keener, E., Strough, J., DiDonato, L. (2009, March). Managing conflict with friends and romantic             partners: Gender-typed personality traits as predictors of communal goals. Paper presented at the      meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Lips, H., & Keener, E. (2006, March). Women’s leadership emergence: Incentives make a difference.              Paper presented at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s fourth Annual Gender and Women’s Studies      Conference, Savannah, GA.
• Keener, E., & Lips, H. (2005, March).  Early data on the effects of dominance, sex role expectations, and      incentives on negotiating behavior. Paper presented at The Center for Gender Studies Spring Conference:      Providing Tools for Understanding Change, Radford University, VA.   
• Keener, E. (2004, March).  Gender differences in the expression of egotistical attributions in competitive      situations. Paper presented at Gender Conference 2004:  Women on the Move, Patrick Henry Community      College, Martinsville, VA.
• Keener, E., & Joyce, D.* (2004, April).  Identifying gender neutral tasks and incentives.  Paper presented at      Radford University Undergraduate Graduate Forum, Radford, VA. 
• Keener, E. (2003, April).  Measuring gender differences in how people display competitive attitudes,             express emotions and make attributions while playing a game of pool.  Paper presented at 2nd Annual      Interdisciplinary Conference for the behavioral Sciences, Mount Union College, Alliance, OH.

      
Posters           

• Keener, E., Gould, S., Lucas, C., & Reuscher, A. (2012, March). Avoidance in managing romantic            relationship conflict: Does gender matter? Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological      Association.
• Keener, E., Strough, J. (April, 2011). Adolescent Peer Conflict: An Examination of Gender,            Relationship Type, and Communal Strategies. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research      in Child Development, Montreal, Canada. 
• Keener, E., Strough, J., & DiDonato, L. (April, 2010). Communal and Agentic Conflict-Management            Strategies within Friendships and Romantic Relationships. Poster presented at the Gender Development      Research Conference, San Francisco, CA.
• McFall, J., Keener, E., Schlosnagle, L., & Strough, J. (November, 2009). Interpersonal processes            between older adult friends: An actor-partner model.  Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of      America, Atlanta, GA.
• Strough, J., DiDonato, L., Schlosnagle, L., McFall, J., & Keener, E. (November, 2009). Justifying decisions      about sunk costs: Do older and younger adults report different goals? Poster presented at the      Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
• Morey, J., Keener, E., Gentzler, A. (June, 2009). Coping in response to positive events: Do gender,             attachment, and type of event matter? Poster presented at the World Congress on Positive Psychology,      Philadelphia, PA.
• Strough, J., DiDonato, L., Schlosnagle, L., Keener, E., McFall, J.P., Mehta, C.M. (2009, May).  The sunk-cost      fallacy is  associated with older and younger adults' future time perspective.  Poster presented at the      meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
• Keener, E., Mehta, C., DiDonato, L., Strough, J. (2009, April). Is modern sexism associated with sex             segregation? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver,      CO. 
• Stoltzfus, J., Keener, E., & Karraker, K. (2009, April). Web-based study skills training and performance in a      life-span developmental psychology course: It’s all about reading skills. Poster presented at the meeting      of the Society for Research in Child Development Developmental Science Teaching Institute, Denver, CO.
• Strope A., DiDonato, L. & Keener, E. (2008, September). Correlates of preferences for cooperative and      competitive activities. Poster presented at the West Virginia Psychological Association, Morgantown, WV.
• Keener, E., & Strough, J. (2007, November). Friendship quality: Do age and gender matter?  Poster             presented at the meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
• Keener, E., Mehta, C.M., & Strough, J. (2007, March). Adolescents’ femininity, masculinity, gender             identity, and preferences for competitive and cooperative activities. Poster presented at the meeting of      the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
• Keener, E., & Lips, H. (2005, April).  Effects of dominance, sex role expectations, and incentives on             negotiating behavior. Poster presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.
• Keener, E., & Reilly, N. (2005, April).  A measure of ambivalent sexism toward men and women.              Poster presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.
• Keener, E., Culpepper, K., & Parker, C. (2005, April).  An examination of the relationship between             gender, self-esteem and dominant personalities.  Poster presented at Southeastern Psychological             Association, Nashville, TN.  
• Keener, E. (2002, September).  Measuring student’s perceptions of college faculty.  Poster presented at the      West Virginia Psychological Association, Pipestem, WV.

     *Names in Bold represent students/research assistants

Emily Keener, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae