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Tim Miller

Tim Miller (Colby '08) is now at the Rocky Mountain Biological laboratory in Crested Butte, CO, where he is working as a lab assistant in plant ecology for the summer. Tim plans to take on various seasonal jobs as a research assistant for the next year.  and then to return to school in the fall of 2009 as a doctoral student in plant ecology or pollination biology. 

Charlottw Morse-Fortier

Charlotte Morse-Fortier (Colby '08) setting off on a bike ride across America with Bike and Build, an organization that raises funds for new affordable housing building projects. After that, Charlotte is off to France to spend a year or two as an English Language assistant

Recent Publications

This chapter in Social Psychology: A handbook of basic principles, makes Kate a published author while she pursues her graduate studies at Stanford University in English Literature.

Pittman, T. S., & Zeigler, K. R. ('06) (2007). Basic human needs. In A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social Psychology: A handbook of basic principles, 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford Publications.

 

Pittman, T.S., Tykocinski, O., Sandman-Keinan, R., & Matthews, P. (2008). When bonuses backfire: An inaction inertia analysis of procrastination induced by a missed opportunity. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 139-150 .

Tory and I have a chapter for the2008 edition of the Annual Review of Psychology. The chapter is available now online.

Higgins, E. T., & Pittman, T. S. (2008). Motives of the human animal: Comprehending, managing, and sharing inner states. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 361-385.

Recent Events

Talks

Thane Pittman gave a research colloquium talk to the faculty and students in the Psychology Department at the University of Maine on "At last, my talk on procrastination."

Thane also gave a presentation, co-authored with John Darley, at the Justice Preconference prior to the recent SPSP meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, titled "In Search of Moral Luck"

Conferences:

Gabe Adams ('06) and I had a poster based on her Honors Thesis findings at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Memphis, TN, in January 2007.

Adams, G.S., & Pittman, T.S. (2007). Making reparations: How passage of time, expression of remorse, and provision of compensation affect punishment inclinations. Pster presented at the meeting of SPSP, January 13-15, 2007.