Contact Information
Email
(615) 567-3472
218B Peabody Administration Building
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Education
Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1986)
Curriculum Vitae
Advising
Craig Smith
Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Peabody College
Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
Professor Smith's research centers on the relationships among cognition, emotion, and adaptation, broadly defined. Topics investigated include the role of cognitive appraisal in the differentiation of emotion, the psychophysiology of appraisal and emotion, the cognitive processes underlying appraisal, and the role of emotion and coping in long-term adaptation in stress. Current laboratory efforts focus on the psychophysiological differentiation of emotional experience and the cognitive processes underlying emotion elicitation, whereas more applied collaborative efforts are examining the roles of emotion and coping in long-term adaptation to chronic health conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis and children's recurrent abdominal pain.
Representative Publications
- Smith, C.A. & Kirby, L.D. (2000). Consequences require antecedents: Toward a process model of emotion elicitation. In J. Forgas (Ed.). Feeling and thinking: The role of affect in social cognition (pp. 83-106). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Griner, L.A. & Smith, C.A. (2000). Contributions of motivational orientation to appraisal and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 727-740.
- Smith, C.A., Wallston, K.A., Dwyer, K.A., & Dowdy, S.W. (1997). Beyond good and bad coping: A multidimensional examination of coping with pain in persons with rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 19, 11-21.
- Pecchinenda, A. & Smith, C.A. (1996). The motivational significance of skin conductance activity during a difficult problem-solving task. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 481-503.
- Smith, C.A. & Lazarus, R.S. (1990). Emotion and adaptation. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality theory and research (pp. 609-637). New York: Guilford.