Department of Psychology & Human Development
Vanderbilt University April 2009
0552 GPC P:
615.343.4564
Education
2008-2009 Vanderbilt
University Ph.D., Psychology:
Quantitative Methods
2005-2008 Vanderbilt
University M.S., Psychology:
Quantitative Methods
Thesis:
Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students
and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and sex differences during young
adulthood and parenthood.
2003-2004 Universität
Mannheim Graduate Courses in
Assessment, Multivariate Statistics, Program Evaluation, and Cross-Cultural
Development of Civic Competencies
2000-2003 Northwestern
University B.A., Psychology
Honors and Awards
2005-2010 Vanderbilt University Graduate
Fellowship
2005-2008 Peabody College Travel Grants
2006 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Honorable Mention
2003-2004 Deutscher
Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) Academic Year
Scholarship
2002 Northwestern
University Undergraduate Research Grant
2000 National
Merit Scholarship
Research Experience
2005-Present Graduate Research Assistant, Study of
Mathematically Precocious Youth
Drs. David Lubinski and Camilla Benbow
2008 Interviewer, Vanderbilt
Visions Interview Team
2004-2005 Research Manager,
The ArticuLab
Dr. Justine Cassell
Northwestern University, Department of Communication
Studies
2002-2004 Research Assistant, Vanderbilt
Infant Cognition Lab
Dr. Susan J. Hespos
2003-2004 Research Assistant
Prof. Dr. Werner Wittmann
2002-2003 Research Assistant, Northwestern
Personality, Motivation, & Cognition Laboratory
Dr. William Revelle
Northwestern University, Department of Psychology
Research Interests
Women in science and academia
Sex differences and
evolutionary psychology
Individual differences and psychometric
methods
Statistics and mathematical models
Talent development
Teaching
Experience
2008-Present Research Coordinator, Undergraduate
Honors Project
Instructor, Introduction to Statistical Analysis
(undergraduate)
2007 Teaching
Assistant, Introduction to Statistical Analysis (undergraduate), Dr. James H. Steiger
Teaching
Assistant, Quantitative Methods and Experimental Design (graduate), Dr. Andrew
J. Tomarken
2006 Teaching
Assistant, Statistical Inference (graduate), Dr. James H. Steiger
Professional Service
2006 Graduate
Student Council For Psychology and Human Development
Publications
Ferriman, K., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (in press). Work preferences, life values,
and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted:
Developmental changes and sex differences during young adulthood and parenthood.
Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology.
Kopp, S., Tepper,
P., Ferriman, K., Striegnitz, K., & Cassell, J. (2007). Trading spaces: How humans and humanoids use speech and gesture to give
directions. In T. Nishida (Ed.), Conversational informatics: An engineering
approach.
West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Cassell, J., Huffaker,
D., Tversky, D., & Ferriman, K. (2006). The language of online leadership: Gender and youth
engagement on the internet. Developmental Psychology 42(3). 436-449.
Cassell, J., Huffaker,
D., Tversky, D., & Ferriman, K. (2005). How to win a world election: Emergent leadership in
an international online community. In P. van den Besselaar,
G. De Michelis, J. Preece,
& C. Simone (Eds.), Communities and
Technologies 2005: Proceedings of the Second Communities and Technologies
Conference, Milano 2005.
Presentations
Ferriman, K., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2006, December). Sex differences in personal views among top
math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted. Paper presented
at the sixth annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence
Research,
Ferriman, K. A.,
& Hespos, S. J. (2003, April). Seven-month-old infants segment
continuous human actions. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting
of the Society for Research in Child Development.
References
Camilla P. Benbow
Co-Director, SMPY
Patricia
& Rodes Hart Dean of Education & Human
Development
camilla.benbow@vanderbilt.edu
615.322.8407
David Lubinski
Co-Director, SMPY
Professor, Psychology & Human Development
0552 GPC
david.lubinski@vanderbilt.edu
615.343.1195
James H. Steiger
Director,
Quantitative Methods Program, Psychological Sciences
0552 GPC
james.h.steiger@vanderbilt.edu
615.322.7060
William Revelle
Professor, Psychology
Northwestern University
revelle@northwestern.edu
847.491.7700
Susan J. Hespos
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Northwestern University
hespos@northwestern.edu
847.467.1394