Kerry Marsh received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 1984, her M.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University in 1986, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Ohio State University in 1991. her undergraduate teaching is at the Greater Hartford campus of UConn; her graduate students and research labs are housed in Psychology (ecological division) and the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (virtual reality and HIV research) at the Storrs campus, as well as at the West Hartford campus (satellite virtual reality lab). Her current areas of research include: motivational & affective processes in persuasion (attitude functions, implicit attitudes, and HIV risk); social affordances of behavior settings and interpersonal synchrony; motivational influences on social cognition, action, and outcomes; dynamics of virtual and real interpersonal interactions (e.g., nonverbal communication; immersive virtual reality methods); meta-analysis of sociobehavioral HIV interventions; and individual differences in control needs.

Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Causal Attribution
Communication, Language
Health Psychology
Internet and Virtual Psychology
Interpersonal Processes
Motivation, Goal Setting
Nonverbal Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Attitudes and Beliefs
Causal Attribution
Communication, Language
Health Psychology
Internet and Virtual Psychology
Interpersonal Processes

Motivation, Goal Setting
Nonverbal Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
Interactive Map

Books:

Weary, G., Marsh, K. L., Gleicher, F., & Edwards, J. (1993). Depression and social information processing. In G. Weary, F. Gleicher, & K. L. Marsh (Eds.), Control motivation and social cognition (pp. 255-287). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Journal Articles:

Isenhower, R. W., Richardson, M. J., Carello, C., Baron, R. M., & Marsh, K. L. (2010). Affording cooperation: Dynamics and action-scaled invariance of joint lifting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 342-347
Julka, D. L., & Marsh, K. L. (2005). An attitude functions approach to increasing organ donor participation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 821-849.
Marsh, K. L., Hart-O'Rourke, D. M., & Julka, D. L. (1997). The persuasive effects of verbal and nonverbal information in a context of value-relevance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 563-579.
Marsh, K. L., Johnson, B. T., & Carey, M. P. (2001). Conducting meta-analyses of HIV prevention literatures from a theory-testing perspective. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 24, 255-276.
Marsh, K. L., Johnson, B. T., & Scott-Sheldon, L. A. J. (2001). Heart versus reason in condom use: Implicit versus explicit attitudinal predictors of sexual behavior. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 48, 161-175.
Marsh, K. L., Johnston, L., Richardson, M. J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2009). Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology {special issue: Modalities of Social Life: Roadmaps for an Embodied Social Psychology}, 39, 1217-1225.
Marsh, K. L., Richardson, M. J., Baron, R. M., & Schmidt, R. C. (2006). Contrasting approaches to perceiving and acting with others. Ecological Psychology, 18, 1-38.
Marsh, K. L., Richardson, M. J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2009). Social connection through joint action and interpersonal coordination. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(2), 320-339.
Marsh, K. L., & Weary, G. (1994). Severity of depression and responsiveness to attributional information. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 13, 15-32.
Marsh, K. L., & Weary, G. (1989). Attributional complexity and depression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 15, 325-336.
Nasco S. A., & Marsh, K. L. (1999). Gaining control through counterfactual thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 556-568.
Portnoy, D. B., Smoak, N. D., & Marsh, K. L. (2010). Perceiving interpersonally-mediated risk in virtual environments, Virtual Reality, 14, 67-76.
Richardson, M. J., Marsh, K. L., & Baron, R. M. (2007). Judging and actualizing intrapersonal and interpersonal affordances. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance and Perception, 33, 845-859.
Richardson, M. J., Marsh, K. L., & Schmidt, R. C. (2005). Effects of visual and verbal interaction on unintentional interpersonal coordination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Performance and Perception, 31, 62-79.
Webb, W. M., Marsh, K. L., Schneiderman, W., & Davis, B. (1989). The interaction between self-monitoring and manipulated states of self-awareness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 70-80.

Other Publications:

Julka, D. L., & Marsh, K. L. (2000). Matching persuasive messages to experimentally induced needs. Current Research in Social Psychology, 5(21), 1-15.
Marsh, K. L. (2010). Sociality from an ecological, dynamical perspective. In G. R. Semin & G. Echterhoff (Eds.), Grounding sociality: Neurons, minds, and culture (pp. 43-71). London: Psychology Press.
Marsh, K. L., & Julka, D. L. (2000). A motivational approach to experimental tests of attitude functions theory. In G. R. Maio & J. M. Olson (Eds.), Why we evaluate: Functions of attitudes (pp. 271-294). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Marsh, K. L., & Wallace, H. M. (2005). The influence of attitudes on beliefs and goals: Formation and change. In D. Albarracin, B. T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (Ch. 9, pp. 369-395). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Courses Taught:

Advanced Seminar in Social Psychology: Attitudes
Advanced Social Psychology
Current Issues Seminar in Social Psychology: Social Cognitio
Environmental Psychology
Interpersonal Perception and Attribution (Undergraduate)
Introduction to Psychology (Undergraduate)
Introduction to Social Psychology (Undergraduate)
Laboratory in Social Psychology Research Methods (undergrad)
Research Methods (Undergraduate)

Advanced Seminar in Social Psychology: Attitudes
Advanced Social Psychology
Current Issues Seminar in Social Psychology: Social Cognitio
Environmental Psychology
Interpersonal Perception and Attribution (Undergraduate)

Introduction to Psychology (Undergraduate)
Introduction to Social Psychology (Undergraduate)
Laboratory in Social Psychology Research Methods (undergrad)
Research Methods (Undergraduate)

Kerry L. Marsh
J. Ray Ryan Building
University of Connecticut
2006 Hillside Road
Storrs, CT 06269
United States

Phone: (860) 486-2452
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