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CURRICULUM VITA
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ADDRESS:
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Office:
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
225 Draper Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Telephone: 413.577.1203
Fax: 413.577.0905
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Home:
362 Middle Street
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Telephone: 413.253.9114
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1970, with High Honors
Major: Psychology
M.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972
Major: Social Psychology
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974
Major: Social Psychology
Minors: Developmental Psychology and Sociology
MAJOR TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Interim Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2009-present.
Associate Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2006-2009.
Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986-present (Associate Professor, 1980-1986; Assistant Professor, 1977-1980)
Visiting Professor: Mount Holyoke College (Fall, 1989; Fall, 1990); Wesleyan University (Fall, 1993-Spring, 1994)
Visiting Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, 1977.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 1974-1977.
MAJOR DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology, 1994-1997, 1998-2004; 2005-2006
Director, Power Up for Student Success program for entering first-year students, 2001-present
Head, Personality and Social Psychology Division of Department of Psychology, 1990-1994
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, 1984-1988
Departmental oversight and budgetary trust fund responsibilities for Walden Learning Center, a lab school for children with autism and typical children sponsored by Department of Psychology, 1985-1996
Elected member, Department Personnel Committee, 1981-1982; Chair, 1982-1983
Chair, Departmental Admissions Committee, 1978-1981
HONORS/AWARDS:
Fellow, American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 8, 9, and 15).
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Hewlett Teaching Fellow, University of Massachusetts, 2000-2001
College Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Massachusetts, 1998
Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar Award, 1977
Walkley Award, Wesleyan University, 1970
Senior Online Instruction Fellow, University of Massachusetts, 2000-2001
McGraw-Hill Writer-in-Residence, 2005
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Wesleyan University, 2010
Textbook Awards:
Understanding Psychology, 4/e (1996): Revision of the Year Award, McGraw-Hill
Understanding Psychology, 8/e (2008): Revision of the Year Award, McGraw-Hill
Psychology and Your Life (2010): Book of the Year Award, McGraw-Hill
P.O.W.E.R. Learning and Your Life (2011): Book of the Year Award, McGraw-Hill
NATIONAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Board Member and Treasurer
Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences Federation, Board Member and President-Elect
Social Psychology Network Advisory Board Member
Member, International Board of Consulting Editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:
American Psychological Association (Fellow)
Association for Psychological Science (Fellow)
Society for Experimental Social Psychology (Fellow)
International Society for Research on Emotion
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Society for Research in Child Development
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
National Institute of Mental Health Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 1970.
Grants-in-Aid of Research from Sigma Xi for "Determinants of Dissenting Behavior," 1973-1974; "Nonverbal Behavior in Interracial Interaction," 1976-1977.
National Institute of Mental Health, "Age Trends in Nonverbal Disclosure of Deception," 1978-1979.
National Institute of Mental Health for "Development of Nonverbal Behavioral Ability," 1982-1983.
Associate Project Director, Office of Special Education Training Program Grant, "Developmental Disabilities Training Program," 1978-1987.
Co-Project Director, Office of Special Education Training Grant, "Specialization Program in Developmental Disabilities," 1984-1987.
National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, "Prevention/Remediation of Developmental Disabilities" (Co-P.I. with B. Sulzer-Azaroff and G. McGee), 1985-1988.
U. S. Information Agency, "Psychology Consortium Visitors Program" (co-P.I. with S. Berger), 1986-1989.
U. S. Department of Education, "An Incidental Teaching Curriculum that Promotes Social Integration" (Co-P.I. with G. McGee, B. Sulzer-Azaroff, and M. DiBella), 1987-1990.
National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, "Normalizing the Social Behavior of Children with Autism," (Co-P.I. with G. McGee), 1988-1991.
National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, "Environmental Influences of Crucial Social Behaviors in Children with Autism," (Co-P.I. with G. McGee), 1991-1994
Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, “Specialization Program in Human Services
Services and Developmental Disabilities,” 1997-2005.
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, “Specialization Program in Mental Health Interventions,” 2000-2002
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:
Reviewer for American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Review of Educational Research, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Business and Social Studies, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Member, Editorial Boards, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and Contemporary Educational Psychology.
Reviewer for grant proposals submitted to National Science Foundation, The Canada Council, and U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Scientific Psychology
Panel Member, Grant Review Committees, National Institute of Education and U.S. Department of Special Education
Reviewer for Prentice Hall, Allyn & Bacon, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Academic Press, Kluwer, and Cambridge University Press
COURSES TAUGHT:
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Undergraduate:
Introductory Psychology (both traditional and distance learning)
Social Psychology
Educational Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Research Methodology
First-Year Student Survival Skills (both
traditional and distance learning)
Graduate:
Social Psychology
Educational Psychology
Personality
Attitudes
Social Psychology in the Schools
Professional Skills Seminar
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
a. Theses
Feldman, R. S. (1970). Social determinants of dissent. Senior honors thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. (Awarded High Honors).
Feldman, R. S. (1971). The effects of private and nonpresent social support on conformity. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Feldman, R. S. (1974). Nonverbal disclosure of deception and interpersonal affect. Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Articles
Feldman, R. S., & Scheibe, K. E. (1972). Determinants of dissent in a psychological experiment. Journal of Personality, 40, 331-348.
Feldman, R. S., & Allen, V. L. (1972). Effect of tutee's performance on tutor's attitudes and attributions. Proceedings of the 80th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 7, 519-520.
Allen, V. L., & Feldman, R. S. (1973). Learning through tutoring: Low-achieving children as tutors. Journal of Experimental Education, 42, 1-5.
Allen, V. L., & Feldman, R. S. (1974). Tutor attribution and attitude as a function of tutee performance. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 4, 311-320.
Feldman, R. S., & Allen, V. L. (1975). Attributions of ability: An unexpected recency effect. Psychological Reports, 36, 59-66.
Feldman, R. S., & Allen, V. L. (1975). Determinants of the primacy effect in attribution of ability. Journal of Social Psychology, 96, 121-133.
Devin-Sheehan, L., Feldman, R. S., & Allen, V. L. (1976). Theory and research on cross-age and peer interaction: A review of the literature. Review of Educational Research, 46, 355-385.
Feldman, R. S. (1976). An experimental examination of behavioral dissent. Psychological Reports, 38, 683-690.
Feldman, R. S. (1976). Nonverbal disclosure of deception and interpersonal affect. Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 807-816.
Feldman, R. S., & Bernstein, A. (1977). Degree and sequence of success as determinants of self-attribution of ability. Journal of Social Psychology, 102, 55-63.
Feldman, R. S. (1977). Race of student and nonverbal behavior of teacher. Journal of Classroom Interaction, 12, 20-26.
Feldman, R. S., Devin-Sheehan, L., & Allen, V. L. (1978). Nonverbal cues as indicators of verbal dissembling. American Educational Research Journal, 15, 217-231.
Vorwerk, K. E., Feldman, R. S., & Rood, P. (1978). Sex of model and performance expectations for male and female observers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 420-423.
Feldman, R. S., & Bernstein, A. (1978). Self-attribution of ability and prior anchoring effects. Journal of Personality, 46, 732-742.
Feldman, R. S., & Donahoe, L. F. (1978). Nonverbal communication of affect in interracial dyads. Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 979-987.
Feldman, R. S., & Rosen, F. P. (1978). Diffusion of responsibility in crime, punishment, and other adversity. Law and Human Behavior, 2, 313-322.
Feldman, R. S., & Allen, V. L. (1979). Student success and tutor verbal and nonverbal behavior. Journal of Educational Research, 72, 142-149.
Feldman, R. S. (1979). Nonverbal disclosure of deception in urban Korean adults and children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 10, 73-83.
Feldman, R. S., Jenkins, L., & Popoola, O. (1979). Detection of deception in adults and children via facial expressions. Child Development, 50, 350-355.
Feldman, R. S., & Prohaska, T. (1979). The student as Pygmalion: Effect of student's expectancy on the teacher. Journal of Educational Psychology, 71, 485-493.
Feldman, R. S., & Orchowsky, S. (1979). Race and performance of student as determinants of teacher nonverbal behavior. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 4, 324-333.
Feldman, R. S., & White, J. B. (1980). Detecting deception in children. Journal of Communication, 30, 121-128.
Parham, I. A., Feldman, R. S., Oster, G. D., & Popoola, O. (1981). Inter-generational differences in nonverbal disclosure of deception. Journal of Social Psychology, 113, 261-269.
Lobato, D., Barrera, R. D., & Feldman, R. S. (1981). Sensorimotor functioning and prelinguistic communication of severely and profoundly retarded individuals. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 85, 489-496.
Feldman, R. S., & Theiss, A. J. (1982). The teacher and student as Pygmalions: The joint effects of teacher and student expectation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 217-223.
Feinman, J. A., & Feldman, R. S. (1982). Decoding children's expressions of affect. Child Development, 53, 710-716.
Feldman, R. S. (1982). Review of R. Rosenthal, Skills in Nonverbal Communication, Social Science and Medicine, 16, 1728-1729.
Feldman, R. S., Saletsky, R. D., Sullivan, J., Theiss, A. (1983). Student locus of control and responses to expectations about self and teacher. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 27-32.
Feldman, R. S., & Saletsky, R. D. (1984). Teacher locus of control and susceptibility to expectancy information about self and student. Educational and Psychological Research, 24, 45-49.
Feldman, R. J., & Chesley, R. B. (1984). Who is lying, who is not: An attributional analysis of the effects of nonverbal behavior on judgments of defendant believability. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 2, 1-11.
Feldman, R. S. (1985). Nonverbal behavior, race, and the classroom teacher. Theory Into Practice, 24, 45-49. (Reprinted in S. Denbo (Ed.). (1986). Improving minority student achievement: Focus on the classroom. Washington, DC: Mid-Atlantic Center for Race Equity. Also reprinted in B. J. R. Shade (Ed.). (1989). Culture, style, and the educative process (pp. 293-301). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas).
Feldman, R. S. (1985). Review of B. Brown, Between Health and Illness. Contemporary Psychology, 30, 306-307.
Feldman, R. S. (1987). Featuring features: The author speaks. Teaching of Psychology, 14, 248-249.
Feldman, R. S. (1987). The truth about deception: Review of Deception: Perspectives on human and nonhuman deceit. Politics and the Life Sciences, 6, 110-111.
Handen, B. L., Feldman, R. S., & Honigman, A. (1987). Comparison of parent and teacher assessment of developmentally delayed children's behavior. Exceptional Children, 54, 137-144.
Wilczenski, F., Sulzer-Azaroff, B., Feldman, R. S., & Fajardo, E. (1987). Feedback to teachers on student performance as a tool for effective mainstreaming. Professional School Psychology. 2, 161-172.
Custrini, R. S., & Feldman, R. S. (1989). Children's social competence and nonverbal encoding and decoding of emotion. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 18, 336-342.
Beck, L., & Feldman, R. S. (1990). Enhancing children's decoding of facial expression. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 13, 269-277.
Philippot, P., & Feldman, R. S. (1990). Age and social competence in preschoolers' decoding of facial expression. British Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 43-54.
McGee, G.G., Feldman, R.S., & Chernon, L. (1991). A comparison of affective display by children with autism and typical preschoolers. Journal of Early Intervention, 15, 237-245.
Houle, R., & Feldman, R. S. (1991). Emotional displays in children's television programming. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 15, 261-271.
McGee, G.G., Alemida, C., Sulzer-Azaroff, B., & Feldman, R.S. (1992) Promoting reciprocal interactions via peer incidental teaching. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 107-126.
McGee, G.G., Paradis, T., & Feldman, R.S. (1993). Free effects of integration on levels of autistic behavior. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 13, 57-67.
Feldman, R.S., McGee, G.G., Mann, L., & Strain, P. (1993). Nonverbal affective decoding ability in children with autism and in typical preschoolers. Journal of Early Intervention, 17, 1-10.
Coats, E., & Feldman, R.S. (1995). The role of television in the socialization of nonverbal behavioral skills. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 327-341.
Coats, E.J., & Feldman, R.S. (1996) Gender differences in nonverbal correlates of social status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 1014-1022.
Feldman, R.S., Coats, E., & Spielman, D. (1996) The role of television in the socialization of nonverbal behavioral display rules and decoding skills. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 17, 1718-1733.
Goldstein, N.E., & Feldman, R.S. (1996). Knowledge of American Sign Language and the ability of hearing individuals to decode facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 20, 111-112.
Levine, S.P., & Feldman, R.S. (1997). Self presentational goals, self-monitoring, and nonverbal behavior. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 19, 505-518.
McGee, G.G., Feldman, R.S., & Morrier, M. (1997) Normative data as benchmarks of social treatment for children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 27, 353-364.
Feldman, R.S., Tomasian, J., & Coats, E.J. (1999) Adolescents’ social competence and nonverbal deception abilities: Adolescents with higher social skills are better liars. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 23, 237-249.
Goldstein, N., Sexton, J., & Feldman, R.S. (1999). Encoding of facial expressons of emotion and knowledge of American Sign Language. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 67-76.
Forrest, J., & Feldman, R.S. (2000) Detecting deception and judges’ involvement: Lower task involvement leads to better lie detection. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 118-125.
Feldman, R.S., and Poirier, C.R. (2000). Bilingualism. In Balter, L. (Ed.), Parenthood in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 93-95.
Poirier, C.R., & Feldman, R.S. (2000). Breast-feeding. In Balter, L. (Ed.), Parenthood in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 108-110.
Poirier, C.R., & Feldman, R.S. (2000). Genetic counseling. In Balter, L. (Ed.), Parenthood in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 271-274.