Shelia Kennison
I am a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. In my research, I investigate a range of social and cognitive topics, including the role of stereotype information in language comprehension and the effect of mortality salience on rapid decision making and mating strategies. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
I have taught a variety of courses including, undergraduate courses in introductory psychology, statistics, research methods, research ethics, cognitive psychology, psychology of language, and graduate courses in psychology of language, cross-cultural cognition, and research design. I have received a number of awards for teaching, including the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. In 2004, I received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Oklahoma Psychological Society. In 2002 and 2003, I received the Outstanding Faculty Award for the Department of Psychology. I am currently President-Elect of the Southwestern Psychological Association.
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Evolution and Genetics
- Gender Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Clifton, C., Jr., Kennison, S. M., & Albrecht, J. (1997). Reading the words "her," "his," and "him": Implications for parsing principles based on frequency and on structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 276-292.
- Fischer, L. B., & Kennison, S. M. (2007). Detecting lies told by friends and strangers. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 12, 173-178.
- Guidry, J. A., George, J. N., Vesely, S. K., Kennison, S. M., & Terrell, D. R. (2009). Corticosteriod side effects and risk for bleeding in immune thrombocytopenic purpura: Patient and hematologist perspectives. European Journal of Hematology, 83, 175-182.
- Kennison, S. M. (2009). The use of verb information in parsing: Different statistical analyses lead to contradictory conclusions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 363-378.
- Kennison, S. M. (2007). Why children in the U.S. read less well than children in other industrialized nations: Recommendations for future research. Public Policy Forum, 3, 24-37.
- Kennison, S. M. (2005). Different time courses of integrative semantic processing for plural and singular nouns: Implications for theories of sentence processing. Cognition, 97, 269-294.
- Kennison, S. M. (2003). Comprehending the pronouns her, him, and his: Implications for theories of referential processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 335-352.
- Kennison, S. M., & Bowers, J. M. (2010, in press). Illustrating brain lateralization in a naturalistic observation of cell phone use. Psychology Learning & Teaching.
- Kennison, S. M., & Clifton, C. (1995). Determinants of parafoveal preview benefit in high and low working memory capacity readers: Implications for eye movement control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 68-81.
- Kennison, S. M., Fernandez, E. C., & Bowers, J. M. (2009). Processing differences for anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns: Implications for theories of referential processing. Discourse Processes, 46, 25-35.
- Kennison, S. M., & Trofe, J. L. (2003). A role for gender stereotype information in language comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32, 355-378.
- Longoria, A. D., Page, M., Hubbs-Tait, L., & Kennison, S. M. (2009). The relationship between social competence and verbal skills in young children. Early Childhood Development and Care, 179, 919-929.
- Popham, L., Bradley, K. I., & Kennison, S. M. (in press). Ageism and risk-taking in young adults: Evidence for a link between risk-taking and Ageism. Death Studies.
- Stites, E. L., Kennison, S. M., & Horton, J. J. (2004). Solving algebraic word problems: The effects of gender stereotyped scenarios on accuracy and confidence for male and female college students. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 9, 119-125.
- Vaughn, J. E., Bradley, K. I., Byrd-Craven, J., & Kennison, S. M. (2010). The effect of mortality salience on women’s judgments of male faces. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 477-491.
Courses Taught:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Diversity and Professional Issues in Psychology
- Ethical Conduct of Scientific Research
- Experimental Psychology
- History and Systems of Psychology
- Introductory Psychology
- Language Development
- Psychology of Language
- Quantitative Methods
- Research Design
- Sensation and Perception
Shelia Kennison
Department of Psychology
Oklahoma State University
116 North Murray
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
United States of America
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