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Carol S. Weissbrod, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training

E-mail: cweissb@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1726
Office: Asbury building, room 323

Education:

Tufts University (1965-1969) Psychology B.S.

Northwestern University (1969-1973) Psychology M.A., Ph.D.

Current Research Interests:

• Affect, Motivation and Identity in Child and Adolescent Athletes
• Gender and Affect
• The Development of Attitudes About Motherhood
  

Representative Publications and Papers:

Denham, S., Workman, E., Cole, P., Weissbrod, C., Kendziora, K., and Zahn-Waxler, C. (2000). Prediction of externalizing behavior problems from early to middle childhood: The role of parental socialization and emotion expression. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 23-45.

Weber, J., Rosen, L., and Weissbrod, C.,(2001). Gender based personality traits and military cohesion. Military Medicine, 20.

Weissbrod, CS, Klein, S., Necowitz, B., Bodnar, B., Schwartz, S. and Mmolawa, T. Parent support, child autonomy, and skill confidence: Relation to athletic persistence. Poster presentation. Eastern Psychological Association Meetings. Boston, Massachusetts, March 2002.

Weissbrod, C.S., Acosta, A., Dadonna, K., Klein, S. and Lazar, J. Children's sports anxiety, attitudes, and self concept. Poster presentation, Eastern Psychological Association Meetings, Washington, DC 2001.

Weber, J. and Weissbrod, C. Sex differences in emotional expression across variations in situational context and emotion representer. Paper presented at Eastern Psychological Association Meetings. Boston, Massachusetts, March 2002.

Representative Supervised Student Dissertations and Theses:

Dissertations:

Jessica Enig -- Envy: Gender differences and similarities

Jennifer Goldman -- Parental socialization of coping with dysphoria in adolescence

Stacy Friedman -- Gender differences in attitudes towards work and family in young adults

Jill Weber -- Sex differences in emotional expressivity across variations in situational context, emotion represented, and affect intensity.

MA Theses:

Stephanie Klein -- Perfectionism, fear of negative evaluation, and competitive anxiety in athletes.

Beth Bodnar -- Gender differences in peer relationships and sports.

Lisa Sirian -- Temporal myopia in preschool-aged children.

Psychology Department and Web Page Information: psychology@american.edu

Last rev.:10/25/02