Lisa Thomson Ross, Ph.D.

                                                                                   

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

            1986                 B.A., Hope College   Holland, MI

                                    Majors:             Psychology and Social Work

                

            1988                 M.A., Wake Forest University   Winston-Salem, NC                                          

                                    Major:               Experimental Psychology

                                    Thesis:              Effects of physical masculinity/femininity and need for cognition on psychological attributions.  Advisor:  John E. Williams, Ph.D.

 

            1993                 Ph.D., Wayne State University   Detroit, MI

                                    Major:               Social Psychology

                                    Minor:               Industrial-Organizational Psychology

                                    Dissertation:      Social support schematic processing:   Priming effects on mood and support-related cognitions.  Advisor:  Brian Lakey,  Ph.D.

                       

            1995                 Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

                                    Area:                Psychosocial adjustment of families and the impact of alcohol.

 

            

          

EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

            8/04 - present   Associate Professor, College of Charleston, Department of Psychology

                                    Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses, serving as a research

                                    mentor for undergraduate students, conducting research, and committee

                                    service.

 

            8/99 – 7/04      Assistant Professor, College of Charleston, Department of Psychology

                                    Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses, serving as a research

                                    mentor for undergraduate students, conducting research, and committee

                                    service.

 

            Winter              Adjunct Professor, Georgia School of Professional Psychology

            Trimester          Taught accelerated graduate course.

            1999-2002

      

            9/98 - 8/99       Visiting Assistant Professor, The Citadel, Department of Psychology           

                                    Taught graduate and undergraduate courses; coordinated undergraduate internships; served as a research mentor for undergraduate and graduate students.

 

            1/98-7/98         Adjunct Professor, College of Charleston, Women’s Studies Program and Sociology Department

                                    Taught undergraduate courses.

 

            8/97-7/98         Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston, Psychology Department

                                    Taught undergraduate courses and served as a research mentor for

                                    undergraduate students.

 

            9/97-5/98         Visiting Instructor, The Citadel, Department of Psychology

                                    Taught undergraduate and graduate courses.

                       

            9/95- 8/97        Research Investigator, The University of Michigan School of Nursing, Child                                      and Parent Relations Study and Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention Study

                        Examined predictors of adolescent substance use; investigated effectiveness of

                        school-based and family-based adolescent substance abuse prevention

                        programs; helped design in-home booster intervention for adolescent substance

abuse prevention; assisted with competing and non-competing grant renewals;  supervised graduate and undergraduate students’ research projects. 

 

            Fall, 1996         Visiting Instructor, Eastern Michigan University Department of Psychology

            Spring, 1996    Taught undergraduate courses.

            Winter, 1995

            Fall, 1994

             1993-1995             Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry,                                         Alcohol Research Center

                        Investigated alcoholism's impact on family functioning;  conducted secondary

                        data analysis for publication;  designed and implemented original research on

                        alcohol, unpredictability schemas, and risk-taking; submitted three grants.

 

            July 1993,        Participant, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research,

            July 1996         Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan

                                    Completed statistics workshops on LISREL and Hierarchical Linear Modeling

           

            Winter,1994     Visiting Instructor, The University of Michigan School of Public Health          

                                    Taught a graduate course.

 

            1988-1993       Graduate Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University Department of          

                                    Psychology and College of Lifelong Learning

                                    Taught undergraduate courses.

 

            1991-1993       Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University Department of          

            Summer,           Community Medicine, Addiction Research Institute

1989                                Investigated the role of alcohol in sexual assault; conducted program

                        evaluation of elementary school substance abuse prevention program.


            1986-1988
      Graduate Clinical Assistant, Wake Forest University Bowman Gray Schoolof Medicine,                                       Developmental Evaluation Clinic and Rehabilitation Hospital

Evaluated infants' and children’s psychosocial and cognitive functioning as part of a multidisciplinary team; assisted with therapeutic interventions for child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

 

            1985                Beginning French Lab Instructor, Hope College Dept. of Foreign Languages Taught reinforcement classes using the Dartmouth/Rassias method of instruction.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

           

Undergraduate       

 

            College of Charleston                           Introductory Psychology (PSYC 103)

            Department of Psychology                                fall, 1997; spring, 1998–fall, 2000;

                                                                                    fall, 2001, 2002, 2003

                                                                        Social Psychology (PSYC 310)

                                                                                    summer, 1998; fall, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006

                                                                                    spring, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004

                                                                        Psychology of Personality(PSYC 308)

                                                                                    fall, 1999, 2000, 2004;  spring, 2001, 2002, 2005

                                                                        Psychology of Gender (PSYC 410 & 350)

                                                                        summer, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005; 2006;

                                                                        spring, 2000,  2003, 2004;  May, 2002;

                                                                        fall, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

                                                                        Social Psychology Lab (PSYC362)

                                                                                     spring 2002, 2003, 2007; fall, 2003

                                                            Special Topics:  Relationships and Mental Health

                                                                        (PSYC410)  May, 2004

                                                                        Individual in Society (SOCY )

                                                                                    spring 1999

 

            College of Charleston                           Introduction to Women’s Studies (WMST 200)

            Women’s Studies Program                               May evening, 2004, May, 2006

           

            College of Charleston                           Lifespan Personality Development in Literature

            Honors Program                                               (HONS 392) spring, 2005

                                                                        Introduction to Psychological Science (HONS 163)

                                                                                    spring, 2007


            The Citadel                                           Social Psychology, spring, 1998, 1999

            Department of Psychology                    Psychology of Individual Behavior, F 1988                                                                                                                          summer,1999

 

            Eastern Michigan University                  Introductory Psychology, fall, 1994

            Department of Psychology                    Social Psychology, winter, 1995

                                                                        Psychology of Sex, spring, 1996; fall, 1996

                                               

            Wayne State University                         Introductory Psychology, fall, 1988 

            Department of Psychology                    Social Psychology, winter, 1989-fall, 1990

            and College of Lifelong Learning           Human Sexuality, fall, 1990-summer, 1993

 

            Hope College                                       Beginning French (Reinforcement Lab), 1985

            Department of Foreign Languages 

 

 

Graduate

 

            Georgia School of Professional             Clinical Social Psychology, winter, 1999 - 2002

            Psychology, Atlanta, GA          

 

            The Citadel                                           Human Growth and Development, fall, 1997, 1998;

                                                                                          spring, 1999, summer, 1999

 

            The University of Michigan                    Social Networks and Social Support in Health Education,                         School of Public Health                                  winter, 1994               

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

            Sigma Xi Senior Research Award, Hope College, 1986

            C.J. Stringer Memorial Award in Psychology, Hope College, 1986

            Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, nominated Spring, 2000, Spring 2004

            College of Charleston Teaching Award for Undergraduate Student Research, Spring, 2002

            Southeastern Psychological Association Outstanding Paper Award nominee, Spring 2003

            Golden Key Honor Society, honorary member, Spring, 2004

            College of Charleston Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Award, Spring, 2006

            South Carolina Governor’s Teacher of the Year Nominee, Fall, 2006

 

GRANTS AWARDED

 

            Measuring Unpredictability in Alcoholic Families (Principal Investigator),  National

            Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, RO3 (AA10646-01) New Investigator Award

            ($10,000 direct), January, 1995.


GRANTS AWARDED – continued

 

The Negative Impact of Unpredictability (Principal Investigator), College of Charleston Faculty Research and Development Committee, Starter Grant Award ($2,500 direct), Summer, 2000.

 

Childhood Environmental Unpredictability, Schemas for Unpredictability, and Risk Taking (Principal Investigator), College of Charleston Faculty Research and Development Committee, Faculty Professional Support Grant Award ($1,440 direct), Spring, 2002.

 

            Developing an Honors Course (Co-Principal Investigator with Kathy Gehr), College of

            Charleston School of Humanities and Social Sciences ($1,500, direct). 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:  PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Ross, L.T., & Kaplan, K.J.  (1994).  Life ownership orientation and abortion, suicide and capital

            punishment attitudes.  Omega:  Journal of Death and Dying, 28, 17-30.

 

Lakey, B., &  Ross, L.T.  (1994).  Dependency and self-criticism as moderators of interpersonal and

            achievement stress:  The role of initial dysphoria.  Cognitive Therapy and Research, 18, 581-

            599.

 

Abbey, A., Ross, L.T., McDuffie, D.M., & McAuslan, P.  (1996).  Alcohol and dating risk factors for

            sexual assault among college women.   The Psychology of Women Quarterly, 20, 147-169

 

Lakey, B., Ross, L.T., Butler, C., & Bentley, K.  (1996).   Making social support judgments:  The

            role of similarity and conscientiousness.  The Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15,

            283-304.

 

Hill, EM., Ross, L.T., Mudd, S.A., Young, J.P., & Blow, F.C.   (1997).  Adulthood functioning:  The

            joint effects of parental alcoholism, gender, and childhood socioeconomic stress.  Addiction,

            92, 583-596.

 

Hill, E.M., Ross, L.T., & Low, B.S.  (1997).  The role of future unpredictability in human risk-

            taking.   Human Nature, 8, 287-325.

Abbey, A., McAuslan, P., & Ross, L.T.  (1998).  Sexual assault perpetration by college men:  The

            role of alcohol, misperception and sexual beliefs and experiences.  Journal of Social and

            Clinical Psychology, 17, 167-195.

 

Ross, L.T., Lutz, C., & Lakey, B.  (1999).  Perceived social support and attributions for failed

            support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 906-919.

           

Loveland-Cherry, C., Ross, L.T., & Kaufman, S.  (1999).  Effects of a home-based family

            intervention on adolescent alcohol use/misuse.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 13

            (supplement), 94-102.

 

Abbey, A., McAuslan, P., Ross, L.T.  , & Zawacki, T.  (1999).  Alcohol expectancies regarding sex,

            aggression and sexual vulnerability:  Reliability and validity assessment.  Psychology of

            Addictive Behaviors.  13, 174-182.

 

Ross, L.T., & Hill, E.M.  (2000).  The Family Unpredictability Scale:  Reliability and validity. 

            Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 549-562.

 

Ross, L.T., & Hill, E.M.  (2001).  Drinking and parental unpredictability among adult children of

            alcoholics:  A pilot study.   Substance Use and Misuse, 36, 609-638.

 

Ross, L.T., & Hill, E.M.  (2002).  Childhood environmental unpredictability, schemas for

            unpredictability, and risk taking.   Social Behavior and Personality:  An International

            Journal, 30, 453-474.

 

Ross, L.T.  & Gill, J.L.**  (2002).  Family unpredictability, anxiety and eating disorders among

            college women.  Psychological Reports, 91, 289-298.

 

Lynch, E. R** and Ross, L.T.  (2003). The influence of beliefs on sexual assault attributions and

            perceptions.  Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 8, 33-39.

 

Ross, L.T. & Hill, E.M.  (2004). Comparing alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents on the Family

            Unpredictability Scale.  Psychological Reports,94, 1358-1391

 

Smith, S.T.** & Ross, L.T.  (2006). Family and environmental contributions to young

            adults’ racism.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 2750-2765.

 

Burnett, G., Jones, R. A., Bliwise, N. G., Ross, L. T. (2006).  Family unpredictability, parental

            alcoholism, and the development of parentification.  American Journal of Family Therapy,

            34, 181-189.

 

Veal, M.L.** & Ross, L.T.  (2007, in press) Gender, alcohol consumption, and parental monitoring.

            Journal of Psychology.

 

Ross, L.T. & McDuff, J.**  (2007, in press) The Retrospective Family Unpredictability Scale: 

            Reliability and validity.  Journal of Child and Family Studies.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:  BOOK CHAPTERS

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Abbey, A., Ross, L.T., & McDuffie, D. (1994). Alcohol's role in sexual assault.  In R. R. Watson

            (Ed.), Drug and Alcohol Abuse Reviews, Vol. 5:  Addictive Behaviors in Women   (pp.97-123). 

            Totowa, N.J.:  Humana Press.

 

Furr, A.E.**, & Ross, L.T.  (2006). Family Risk and Protective Factors for Eating Disorders

            Among College Women.  Accepted for publication in F. Columbus (Ed.) Trends in Eating

            Disorders Research.  Hauppauge, NY:  Nova Science Publishers.

 

Ross L.T.  (2007, in press).  Family Unpredictability.  Accepted for publication in D.M. DeVore

            (Ed.) Parent-Child Relations.  Hauppauge, NY:  Nova Science Publishers.

 

Abbey, A., Ross, L.T., McDuffie, D.M., and McAuslan, P.  (1996).  Alcohol, misperception and

            sexual assault:  How and why are they linked?  In D.M. Buss & N. Malamuth (Eds.), Sex,

            power, conflict:  Evolutionary and feminist perspectives  (pp.138-161).  N.Y.:  Oxford

            University Press.

 

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS

                                            

Thomson, L.I., & Abbey, A. (1989). An evaluation of the South Central Michigan Substance Abuse

            Commission's substance abuse prevention campaign:  Teachers' and administrators'

            perceptions of the program.  Presented to the South Central Michigan Substance Abuse

            Commission, Battle Creek, Michigan.

 

Abbey, A., & Thomson, L.I. (1992).  Psychosocial explanations of alcohol's role in sexual assault. 

            Presented to the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary

            Education.

 

Abbey, A., Ross, L.T., McDuffie, D.M., & McAuslan, P. (1993). The relationship between alcohol

            and sexual assault among African American and Caucasian women.  Presented to the City of

            Detroit Bureau of Substance Abuse.

 

Loveland-Cherry, C., Ross, L.T., Pappas, M., & Laetz, V.B.  (1996, 1997).  The University of

            Michigan Child and Parent Relations Project:  Summary and interpretation of results. 

            Presented to participating principals in Flint, Howell and Lapeer (Michigan) school districts.

 

 

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Veal, M.L.** & Ross, L.T.  Parental monitoring, family dysfunction, and binge drinking. 

 

 

NON-REVIEWED PAPERS

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Ross, L.T. “Enhancing personal responsibility via self evaluation”  (Spring, 2002). Article published

            in the “Teaching Psychology Matters” column of the South Carolina Psychological

            Association’s newsletter Feedback.

 

Ross, L.T.  “A profile of student-faculty research collaboration“  (Spring, 2003).  Article published

            in the College of Charleston Women’s Studies Program newsletter The Forum.

 

Veal, M.** and Ross, L.T. “Gender, Parental Monitoring and Binge Drinking” (2004).  In

Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research at the College of Charleston
Volume 3.

 

Ross, L.T.  “Student-faculty research collaboration:  A profile”  (Fall, 2006).  Article published

            in the College of Charleston Women’s and Gender Studies Program magazine Cheek..

 

 

 

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Ross, L.T., Loveland-Cherry, C., Leech, S.L., & Laetz, V.  Parental, peer and personal correlates of

            adolescent substance use. 

 

Ross, L.T., & Speck, A.**  Family factors related to eating pathology in female athletes.

 

Miller, J. R. ** & Ross, L.T.  Parental divorce and college students:  The impact of family

unpredictability and perceptions of divorce.

 

Weaver, C., DeRoma, C., Nida, S., Ross, L.T. & Sinisi, C.   Tolerance for ambiguity and college

            milieu selection.

 

Furr, A.E.** & Ross, L.T.  Eating disorders and family unpredictability among college women:  The

            potential mediating role of ineffectiveness.

 

Furr, A.E.** & Ross, L.T.  Eating disorders among college women: Childhood family risk and

            protective factors. 

 

Ross, L.T.,  Kurth, C.L., Krahn, D.D., & Gomberg. E.S.L., Clark, G.H.**, & Furr, A.E.** 

            Nonconsensual sexual experiences and alcohol consumption among college women.  

 

 


PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIPS

 

            Association for Psychological Science, Member

            Southeastern Psychological Association, Member

            52%/National Organization for Women, Charleston Chapter, Member

 

 

REVIEWING

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer

            Addiction (1996) 

            Psychological Reports (1999, 2003, 2006[2x])

            Psychology of Women Quarterly (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004)

            Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2000)

            European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2002)

            Journal of Psychology (2003[2x])

            Southeastern Psychological Association conference reviewer (2007)

 

Consulting Reviewer 

                Journal of Psychology (2004 - present)

  

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

** denotes student author under my supervision

 

Thomson Siebert, L.  (1987, November). Relative use of visual and descriptive information in

            masculinity/ femininity judgments.  Poster presented at the Society of Southeastern Social

            Psychologists, Athens, GA.

 

Goldstein, D.J., Thomson Siebert, L. , Peterson, N.C., & Sheaffer, C.I. (1988, April).  Revised

            Denver prescreening developmental questionnaire:  Validity with high-risk infants.  Poster

            presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans.

 

Thomson Siebert, L. , & Williams, J.E. (1988, April). Relationship among judgments of

masculinity/ femininity and physical and sexual attractiveness.  Paper presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans.

 

Thomson Siebert, L. , & Williams, J.E. (1989, March). Effects of physical masculinity/femininity on

psychological attributions.  Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.  

 

Thomson, L.I., Butler, C., & Lakey, B. (1991, March).  The role of target similarity and

conscientiousness in making social support judgments.  Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans.

 

Abbey, A., & Thomson, L.I. (1991, September). Substance use and acquaintance rape.  Paper

            presented at the Funding for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education conference,

            Washington, D.C.

           

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