Department of Psychology

Faculty

Dr. Richard Deyo
Dr. Carrie Fried
Dr. John Holden
Dr. John Johanson
Dr. Mary Kesler
Dr. Gloria Marmolejo
Dr. Peter Miene (chair)
Dr. Charles Schreiber
Dr. Susan Sefkow
Dr. Jessica Siebenbruner
Dr. Janette Williams

Faculty office hours

Education: Degrees & Certificates

Ph.D., Psychology (Cognitive)
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2001

Teaching Credential, Elementary Education
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 1986

B.A., History
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 1981


Education: Non-Degree Education & Training
 
Individual National Research Service Award
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Training Site: University of Pittsburgh, 2001-2004

Pre-Doctoral Participant (competitive selection)
Weekly Seminar for Post-Doctoral Fellows and Faculty
NIMH Training Program in Emotion and Affective Science
Training site: University of California, Berkeley


WSU Courses Taught

PSY 210 Introduction to Psychological Science
PSY 231 Statistics
PSY 308 Experimental Psychology
PSY 309 Experimental Psychology Lab
PSY 369 Cognitive Psychology


Scholarly Interests & Expertise

Judgment & decision-making
Human memory
Visual perception
Hedonics (the psychology of pain & pleasure)
Emotion


Student Research Opportunities Offered

There are frequently opportunities for students to assist with Dr. Schreiber's research in one or more of the above areas.

Students with an idea for independent research are also welcome to propose a new project.


Selected Supervised Student Research

Brace, D. J. (2004). Meta-awareness and retrospective global hedonic evaluations.
Honors thesis. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.


Selected Presentations/Publications

Schreiber, C. A. Weighting moments in hedonic, nonhedonic, and hypothetical global judgments: Not just peak-end. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, May 2009.
[pdf from off-campus host]

Schooler, J. W. & Schreiber, C. A. (2004) Consciousness, meta-consciousness, and the paradox of introspection. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11, 17-39.
[pdf from off-campus host]

Schreiber, C. A., & Kahneman, D. (2000). Determinants of the remembered utility of aversive sounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 27-42.
[pdf from off-campus host]

Neisser, U., Winograd, E., Bergman, E. T., Schreiber, C. A., Palmer, S. E. & Weldon, M. S. (1996). Remembering the earthquake: Direct experience versus hearing the news. Memory, 4, 333-357.
[pdf from off-campus host]

Rock, I., Schreiber, C., & Ro, T. (1994). The dependence of two-dimensional shape perception on orientation. Perception, 23, 1409-1426.
[pdf from off-campus host]

Kahneman, D., Fredrickson, B. L., Schreiber, C. A., & Redelmeier, D. A. (1993). When more pain is preferred to less: Adding a better end. Psychological Science, 4, 401-405.
[pdf from off-campus host]


Community & University Service

Alternate Department Representative, WSU Academic Affairs and Curriculum Committee (2007-present)

Member, WSU Career Services Advisory Committee (2006-present)

Participant, WSU Ad Hoc Group on Promotion of Faculty & Student Research (2007-Present)

Member, Search Committee for WSU Associate Dean of Liberal Arts (2007-2008)

Member, Faculty Search Committee, WSU Department of Psychology (2007-2008)

WSU Psychology Department Web Master (2005-present)

Participant, WSU New Faculty Learning Community (2005-2006)


Awards, Grants & Other Honors

Award: Individual National Research Service Award
Source: National Institutes of Health
Project Title: Verbal and Perceptual Processing of Degraded Images
Budget: Approximately $120,000 over 3 years

Award: Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Source: National Science Foundation
Budget: Approximately $60,000 over 3 years

Award: Jacob K. Javits Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Source: U.S. Department of Education
(Funding declined in favor of NSF fellowship)


Personal Interests

good coffee
current affairs (politics)
cats
literature for children & "young adults"


Joined WSU Psychology Department

2005