Faculty Publications

Book Cover Packaging Girlhood Dr. Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown (August, 2006). Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers Schemes. St. Martin's Press.

For more information on this and other books written by Dr. Sharon Lamb see Dr. Lamb's website: http://academics.smcvt.edu/slamb/

Book Cover Sex, Thereapy and Kids Dr. Sharon Lamb (August, 2006). Sex, Therapy & Kids: Addressing Children's Concerns through Talk and Play. Norton Professional Books.

For more information on this and other books written by Dr. Sharon Lamb see Dr. Lamb's website: http://academics.smcvt.edu/slamb/

Book Cover The Story of Alpha Dr. Susan Kuntz (2005). The Story of Alpha: A Multiage, Student- Centered Team- 33 Years and Counting. Ohio: National Middle
School Association.

Book Cover Human Suffering Dr. Ronald Miller (2004). Facing Human Suffering: Psychology and
Psychotherapy as Moral Engagement.

       Dr. Sharon Lamb (2001) The secret lives of girls: What good girls really
       do--sex play, aggression, and their guilt. New York, NY, US: Free
        Press, 2001.

For more information on this and other books written by Dr. Sharon
Lamb see Dr. Lamb's website: http://academics.smcvt.edu/slamb/

Scholarly Articles

Carrico, R.L. and Berthier N.E. (January, 2008).Vision and precision reaching in 15-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development.

Zurbriggen, Collins, Lamb, Roberts, Tolman, & Ward (2007) The American Psychological Association Task Force Report on the Sexualization of Girls. Washington DC: APA.

Lamb, S. (2007). Have girls gone wild? Teenage girls, sex, and therapy. In Counseling Children and Young People, Summer issue.

Kuntz S. and Kaplan, C. (Winter, 2007).You can't be old before you are young: Aging and pedagogy. Feminist Teacher.

Millwood, M. and Waltz, J. (in press). Demand-Withdraw Communication in Couples: An Attachment Perspective. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.

Lamb, S.(2006). Forgiveness Therapy in Gendered Contexts: What Happens to the Truth? In Nancy N. Potter (Ed.), Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Lamb, S. (2006). Forgiveness, Women, and Responsibility to the Group, Journal of Human Rights, 5, 1-16.

Bickel, W.K., Boynton, D.M. & Kirshenbaum, A.P. (2006). Simulated opioid withdrawal engenders risk-prone choice: A comparison of intravenous and intranasal-using populations. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol 83(2), pp. 130-136.

Hegarty, M., Montello, D.R., & Richardson, A.E. (2006). Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning. Intelligence, Vol 34(2), pp. 151-176.

Boynton, D.M. & Smith, L.D. (2006). Bringing History to Life: Simulating Landmark Experiments in Psychology. History of Psychology, Vol 9(2), pp. 113-143.

Vanderkaay, M.M. & Patterson, S.M. (2006). Nicotine and acute stress: Effects of nicotine versus nicotine withdrawal on stress-induced hemoconcentration and cardiovascular reactivity. Biological Psychology, Vol 71(2), pp. 191-201.

Adams, J.B. (2005). What Makes the Grade? Faculty and Student Perceptions. Teaching of Psychology, Vol 32(1), pp. 21-24.

Miller, R.B. (2005). Suffering in Psychology: The Demoralization of Psychotherapeutic Practice. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Vol 15(3), pp. 299-336.

Carrico, R.L. (2005). Attention during action in infancy. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol 66(2-B), pp. 1195.

Miller, R.B. (2005). Adding supporting evidence and eliminating extraneous bio-medical constructs from the psychodynamic case study. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Vol 1(3), pp. 1-8.

Remillard, A.M. & Lamb, S. (2005). Adolescent girls' coping with relational aggression. Sex Roles, Vol 53(3-4), pp. 221-229.

Richardson, A.E. (2005). Spatial representations and transformations: The influence of vision and body-based information. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol 65(9-B), pp. 4863.

Lamb, S. (2005). Forgiveness Therapy: The Context and Conflict. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol 25(1), pp. 61-80.

Johnson, M.W., Bickel, W.K. & Kirshenbaum, A.P. (2004). Substitutes for tobacco smoking: A behavioral economic analysis of nicotine gum, denicotinized cigarettes, and nicotine-containing cigarettes. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol 74(3), pp. 253-264.

Montello, D.R., Hegarty, M. & Richardson, A.E. (2004). Spatial Memory of Real Environments, Virtual Environments, and Maps. In: Human spatial memory: Remembering where. Allen, Gary L.; Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2004. pp. 251-285.

Miller, R.B. (2004). Facing human suffering: Psychology and psychotherapy as moral engagement. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, xv, 321 pp.

Lamb, S. (2004). IV. Sexual Tensions in Girls' Friendships. Feminism & Psychology, Vol 14(3), pp. 376-382.

Keen, R., Carrico, R. L., Sylvia, M. R., & Berthier, N. E. (2003). How infants use perceptual information to guide action. Developmental Science, 6, 221-231.

Lamb, S. (2003) The psychology of condemnation: Underlying emotions and their symbolic expression in condemning and blaming. Brooklyn Law Review, 68, 929-958

Millwood, M.C. (2003). Empathic understanding and attachment processes in adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse and their partners. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol 63(7-B), pp. 3480.

Kirshenbaum, A.P., Szalda-Petree, A.D. & Haddad, N.F. (2003). Increased effort requirements and risk sensitivity: A comparison of delay and magnitude manipulations. Behavioural Processes, Vol 61(3), pp. 109-121.

Boynton, D.M. (2003). Superstitious responding and frequency matching in the positive bias and gambler's fallacy effects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol 91(2), pp. 119-127.

Keen, R., Carrico, R.L. & Sylvia, M.R. (2003). How infants use perceptual information to guide action. Developmental Science, Vol 6(2), pp. 221-231.

Whitney, C. & Miller, C.T. (2002). Goal interference, perceived consensus, and preferences for conflict-resolution strategies. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol 32(4), pp. 834-850.

Waller, D., Montello, D.R. & Richardson, A.E. (2002). Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol 28(6), pp. 1051-1063.

Hegarty, M., Richardson, A.E & Montello, D.R.. (2002). Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability. Intelligence, Vol 30(5), 425-448.

Lamb, S. (2002). Women, abuse, and forgiveness: A special case. In: Before forgiving: Cautionary views of forgiveness in psychotherapy. Lamb, Sharon; Murphy, Jeffrie G.; New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 155-171. [Original Chapter]

Adams, J.B. (2001). Self-control as a mediator for the effects of parental bonding, prosocial behavioral training and psychological autonomy on adolescent delinquency. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 62(4-A), pp. 1595.

Berthier, N. E., Bertenthal, B. I., Seaks, J. D., Sylvia, M. R., Johnson, R. L., & Clifton, R. K. (2001). Using object knowledge in visual tracking and reaching. Infancy, 2, 257-284.

Kirshenbaum, A.P. (2001). The effects of magnified effort demands on the response to resource variability. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol 62(1-B), pp. 531.

Miller, R.B. (2001). Scientific vs. clinical-based knowledge in psychology: A concealed moral conflict. American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 55(3), pp. 344-356.

Kuntz, S.W. (1985). Relationship between maternal teaching strategies and cognitive style profiles. Dissertation Abstracts International, Vol 45(11-A), pp. 3276.

Boynton, D.M. (2000). The psychophysics of informal covariation assessment: Perceiving relatedness against a background of dispersion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol 26(3), pp. 867-876.

Kirshenbaum, A.P, Szalda-Petree, A.D. & Haddad, N.F. (2000). Risk-sensitive foraging in rats: The effects of response-effort and reward-amount manipulations on choice behavior. Behavioural Processes, Vol 50(1), pp. 9-17.

Miller, R.B. (2000). Epistemology of practice. In: Encyclopedia of Psychology, Vol. 3. Kazdin, Alan E.; Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2000. pp. 232-234.

Boynton, D.M. (2000). Gibson, James Jerome. In: Encyclopedia of Psychology, Vol. 3. Kazdin, Alan E.; Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2000. pp. 493-494.

Professional Conference Presentations and Posters

Kim, M.Y. and Whitney, C.A.. (2007).Influence of Attachment Style on Same-Culture and Cross-Culture Friendships. Poster presented at presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington D.C.

Lamb, S (2007) Keynote speaker: Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition conference titled: "Let’s talk about sex.” Hawaii, Sept. 20-21, 2007.

Lamb, S (2007) Keynote speaker: Gender Equity in Education Conference, Stony Brook University, March 21, 2007. on Packaging Girhood.

Lamb, S (2007) Keynote speaker: North East Media Literary Conference. U of Conn., Storrs, March 30, 2007. on Packaging Girhood.

Lamb, S (2007)Chair, Symposium, New Research on the Effects of Viewing Objectified and Sexualized Body Images in the Media APA (San Francisco, August 2007)

Lamb, S (2007)Workshop, Packaging Girlhood. APA Continuing Education Program, (San Francisco, August, 2007).

Lamb, S (2007)Healthy Alternatives to Sexualization. Paper in symposium at APA (San Francisco, August, 2007).

Lamb, S (2007)Packaging Boyhood: From Superheroes to Superbad. Paper at Association for Moral Education (New York City, Nov. 2007).

Murphy, M., Kirshenbaum, A., and VanderKaay, M. M. (April 2007). Psychophysiological Measurement of Human Sexual Attraction Based Upon Fertility Status Detected Through Odor Changes Across the Female Life Span. Poster presented at the 1^st Annual NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Meeting, New Paltz, NY.

VanderKaay, M. M., and Patterson, S. M. (March, 2007).
Differential effects of nicotine and nicotine abstinence on stress-induced cardiovascular reactivity among nicotine dependent and non-nicotine dependent cigarette smokers. Poster presented at the 28^th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.

Whitney, C.A.; Murphy, M.; Newth, A. (2007).
Hooking Up Among College Students: Sexual Motivations and Emotional Loneliness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Kuntz, S. (2006). Presentation at NAWCHE (National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education)--June 2006--Surviving the chill, 16 years and counting, Georgetown.

Kuntz, S. (2006). Presentation at NMSA (National Middle School Association). From the Inside: Student Voice and Engagement, November 3, 2006--Nashville.

Lamb, S. (2006). Chair, Symposium, Sexualization of Girls. APA (New Orleans, Aug. 2006).

Lamb, S. (2006). Forgiveness in Couples Therapy: Obscuring the “Truth”/Reinstating the Status Quo. Paper in symposium for a Presidential Hour at APA (New Orleans, Aug. 2006).

Lamb, S. (2006). Repression and Forgiveness: An Examination of Pseudoforgiveness, with Francesca Anelli. Poster presented at the Association for Moral Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Lamb, S. (2006). Packaging Girlhood: Stereotypes of Girls in the Media, with Lyn Mikel-Brown, at the Association for Women in Psychology conference (Ypsilanti, Apr. 2006).

VanderKaay, M. M. & Patterson, S. M. (2006). Cardiovascular reactivity during nicotine and nicotine abstinence conditions: Do habitual smokers and tobacco “chippers” differ? Poster presented at the 64^th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, Colorado.

Newth, A. & Whitney, C. (2006). Faith Based Coping and Satisfaction with Life: The Impact of Relinquishing Control and God Support. Poster Presentation, Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference, New York, New York.

Berthier, N.E., Carrico, R. L., & Smith, G. (2005, April). Vision and the control of grasping in one-year-olds. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Carrico, R. L. (2005, April). Attention-based resource conflicts in 24 month-old children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Carrico, R. L. (2005, February). Attention during action in infancy. Talk presented as part of the Psychology Symposia Series, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT.

Kuntz, S. (2005). Presentation at the Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, November 2005 Rethinking ethical thinking, Cambridge, MA

Harrington, J. & Whitney, C. (2005). Family Structure, Attachment Style, and Trust within Committed Romantic Relationships Among College Students. Poster Presentation, Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Carrico, R. L. (2004, March). Attention during action in infancy. Talk presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

VanderKaay, M. M., Patterson, S. M., & Chester, L. A. (2004). Cardiovascular reactivity and nicotine: A comparison between cigarette smokers and chippers. Poster presented at the 62^nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Orlando, Florida.

Carrico, R. L. (2002, May). Can reaching disrupt reasoning? Infants’ searches for a hidden object. Talk presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Johnson, R. L., & Berthier, N. E. (2002, April). Visually guided reaching in 15-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada.

Johnson, R. L., (2001, January). The role of vision in infants’ precision reaching. Talk presented at the New England Mini-Conference on Infant Studies, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Johnson, R. L., (2001, March). Vision in infants’ precision reaching. Talk presented at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

O’Sullivan, L. P., Johnson, R. L., Cannon, E. N., & Berthier, N. E., (2001, April). Visual attention during reaching in 6- and 9-month-olds. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Johnson, R. L., Sylvia, M. R., Clifton, R. K., & Berthier, N. E., (2000, July). Give me a minute: Integrating action with object knowledge under relaxed time constraints. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.