Kerry L. Marsh
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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 The 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 (social division, and ecological division) and the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (virtual reality and HIV research, virtual reality and egress 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; an ecological approach to environmental psychology, 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
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Funding for Social Psychology at the National Science Foundation
Journal Articles:
- Demos, A. P., Chaffin, R., Begosh, K. T., Daniels, J. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2012). Rocking to the beat: Effects of music and partner's movements on spontaneous interpersonal coordination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 49-53.
- 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., Isenhower, R. W., Richardson, M. J., Helt, M., Verbalis, A. D., Schmidt, R. C., & Fein, D. (2013). Autism and social disconnection in interpersonal rocking. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7(4). doi: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00004
- 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. (1989). Attributional complexity and depression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 15, 325-336.
- Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2017). Seeking the safety of sociofugal space: Environmental design preferences following social ostracism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 192-199.
- Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2015). Testing an ecological account of spaciousness in real and virtual environments. Environment and Behavior, 7, 782-815.
- Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2014). The costs of collaboration: Action-specific perception in the context of joint action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 429-444. doi: 10.1037/a0033850
- Nasco S. A., & Marsh, K. L. (1999). Gaining control through counterfactual thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 556-568.
- Overstreet, N., Quinn, D., & Marsh, K. L. (2015). Objectification in virtual romantic contexts: Perceived discrepancies between self and partner ideals differentially affect body consciousness in women and men. Sex Roles, 73, 442-452
- 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.
Other Publications:
- 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.
- Richardson, M. J., Dale, R., & Marsh, K. L. (2014). Complex dynamical systems in social and personality psychology: Theory, modeling and analysis. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (2nd ed., pp 251-280). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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)
Kerry L. Marsh
1800 Asylum Avenue, Room 211
University of Connecticut
West Hartford, Connecticut 06117-2697
United States of America
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