September 12, 2007
Wendy Treynor
Healing Consulting
107 West Torrance Boulevard, Suite 100
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
wtreynor@healingconsulting.com
Education
2000-2004 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Ph.D. Psychology.
2000-2002 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
M.A. Psychology.
1998-1999 University of California, Berkeley.
Post-Graduate Study. Psychology.
1993-1997 Georgetown University. Washington, D.C.
B.S. Mathematics & Economics.
Dissertation
Title: Are the Most Mistrustful the Least Trustworthy?
Studies of Unethical Behavior.
Advisors: Phoebe Ellsworth & Richard Gonzalez.
Committee: R. Gonzalez, P.C. Ellsworth, J. Crocker, & D.Velleman (Philosophy).
Professional
2007- Social Psychologist.
Healing Consulting.
2006-2007 Research Assistant Professor. (Title Granted).
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California.
2006-2007 Research Associate.
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California.
2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California.
Research Interests
Examining the Interface between:
Group Norms, Personal Ethics, Emotion, & Behavior.
Honors & Awards
2005 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
2003 Delta Epsilon Iota Award for Academic Excellence and Outstanding
Dedication, Enthusiasm, and Initiative
2003 Hough Psychology & Ethics Scholarship for Promising Psychology
and Ethics Research. Amount Awarded: $2,000.
2003-2004 NIMH Training Grant in Social Psychology
1997 Pi Mu Epsilon Award for Outstanding Achievement in the
Mathematical Sciences
1994 Nominated Best Actress by the Masque and Bauble Dramatic Society
1993 Accepted to NYU’s Tisch School of the Performing Arts for Dramatic
Study
1995-1997 Co-Writer, Co-Director, and Co-Producer of
Dances with Calculators,
· Performed at 1997 Mathematical Association of
America conference
· Featured in September 1997 issue of Math Horizons, a
Mathematical Association of America magazine
1996 Co-Hosted The Music Never Stopped, a weekly radio show on 92.3
FM, WGTB.
1996 Co-Founded the Georgetown Photo Club.
1996 Nominated and Elected Marketing Director of the Georgetown
OutdoorLeadership School.
1992 Founded the International Book Exchange Club at the Taft School,
Watertown, CT.
Work Experience
1999-2000 Oakland Unified School District. Oakland, CA. HS Mathematics Teacher.
· Taught 5 thirty-student classes to ethnically diverse, urban
population.
1998 Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising. San Francisco, CA. Media Assistant.
· Conducted industry research for NBC Snap! and
Hewlett-Packard pitches.
· Analyzed and summarized research findings for senior
executives.
Research Experience
1997-2007 Understanding Human Cruelty, Human Misery, and, Perhaps, a Remedy: A Theory of the Socialization Process.
I developed a theory of socialization that sheds light on how emotion, self-esteem (self-acceptance, self-love), depression, culture, and identity may be related.
2003-2007 Humiliation, Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt from an Appraisal Theory Perspective: An investigation of the thoughts that underlie the feelings.
Phoebe Ellsworth, Richard Gonzalez and I investigated the appraisal structure underlying the moral emotions within a code violation context. Humiliation,shame, and guilt were found to be phenomenologically distinct from each other.
1999-2007 What We Can Learn about Love from Contemporary Love Songs.
Jeremy Iskin and I examined whether power dynamics exist in human love relationships by analyzing contemporary love song lyrics using a coding system we created based on the sociologist Emerson’s (1962) definition of power. Results indicate that romantic love entails perceiving the beloved as the sole provider of a valued resource. (Whether this perception is an accurate one is another question—a question that this work does not attempt to answer.)
2006-2007 Computational Modeling of Emotion.
Bridging the chasm between psychology and computer science, Gratch and Marsella (2004) have built a computational model of emotion, called the EMA model. Building on psychological theories of emotion and coping, they have built their model by walking the unwalked path of translating psychological constructs into computer language. With Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, and Anya Okhmatovskaia, I designed a study with human participants to test their computational model.
2006-2007 Virtual Rapport Project.
You know that harmony, fluidity, synchrony, flow one feels when engaged in good conversation with someone? Curious to discover whether virtual characters are capable of eliciting this same experience, this feeling of rapport, in us humans when we are theirconversation partners, Jonathan Gratch, Anya Okhmatovskaia, and I designed a study to examine whether virtual characters are capable of creating rapport with humans.
2001-2006 Are the Most Mistrustful the Least Trustworthy?
For my dissertation research, I investigated the relationship between cynical beliefs and unethical behaviors using original laboratory cheating and stealing techniques. Regardless of technique used, cynicism was found to predict unethical behavior. Results additionally suggest that when it comes to unethical behavior, not only one’s beliefs about what others do, but also one’s actions, may be shaped by what one’s reference group does.
2001-2003 Group Dynamics Study.
Robert Savit, Katia Koelle, Richard Gonzalez, and I investigated
the interactive properties of the person and the group across time in a well-defined game-theoretic framework and found evidence of emergent coordination among group members. My responsibilities included supervising 2 research assistants and conducting non-traditional statistical analyses using a complex systems framework, writing the code for these analyses in the statistical package R.
2001-2002 Depression & Rumination Study.
With Richard Gonzalez and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, I reanalyzed existing data and showed that reflection—the aspect of rumination that is free of negative valence—does not predict depression, contrary to what might have been thought.
2000-2001 Power & Emotions Study.
Under the supervision of Oliver Schultheiss, I programmed computers using the experimental software ERTS and used my combinatorics skills to solve problems.
1999 SES & College Major Study.
Under the supervision of Martin Covington, I generated hypotheses, statistically analyzed data using SPSS, and presented research results.
1998-1999 The Mills Study of Women’s Adult Development.
Under the supervision of Oliver P. John and Jennifer Pals, I assisted in the design of coding methodology and coded narratives for emotion.
1998-1999 Infant Numerosity Study.
Under the supervision of Jonas Langer and Rosa Arriaga, I chose appropriate statistical methods for analysis, statistically analyzed data, and interpreted data findings.
Publications
Treynor, W. (2001). Review of the book Interpersonal Relationships.
Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1 (2), 214-215.
Treynor, W. Gonzalez, R., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2003). Rumination reconsidered:
Apsychometric analysis. Journal of Cognitive Therapy and Research 27 (3),
247-
Savit, R., Koelle, K. Treynor, W., & Gonzalez, R. (2004). Man and superman:
Human limitations, innovation and emergence in resource competition. In Tumer,
K. and Wolpert, D. (Eds.) Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems.
Schultheiss, O.C., Pang, J.S., Torges, C.M., Wirth, M.M., & Treynor, W. (2005).
Perceived facial expressions of emotions as motivational incentives:
Evidence from a differential implicit learning paradigm. Emotion5(1).
Manuscripts under Review
Treynor, W. Are the most mistrustful the least trustworthy? Two new methods for
studying unethical behavior in the laboratory.
A theory of the socialization process.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Treynor, W. Reference groups, everyday groups, & moral judgment.
Treynor, W. & Iskin, J. What we can learn about love from contemporary love
songs.
and
that underlie the feelings.
Conference Presentations
Treynor, W., Norman, C., Clay, M., Francis, K., Salinas, R., Yurttan, H., Wu, J.,
Benson, D., Chawla, D., Clarke, R.J., Spievack, B., Botts, C., Flemming, G., &
Vogt, A. (1997). Dances with calculators. Math musical performed at the
Mathematical Association of America Conference, Frederick, MD.
Arriaga, R.I., Joyce, K., Pathmarajah, M., Walthall, A., Treynor, W., Neufeld, S., &
Langer, J. (1999). Do 11-month olds know less about addition than 5-month
olds?
Irvine, CA.
Savit, R., Koelle, K., Treynor, W., & Gonzalez, R. (2002). Experiments on the
minority game. International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, New
Hampshire.
Savit, R., Koelle, K., Treynor, W., & Gonzalez, R. (2002). Man and superman:
Human limitations, innovation and emergence in resource competition.
Workshop
Research Center,
Wirth, M.M., Pang, J.C., Torges, C.M., Villacorta, M.A., Treynor, W., Lee, T.M., &
Schultheiss, O.C. (2003). Testosterone moderates the effect of anger faces on
implicit sequence learning. Poster presented by Michelle Wirth at the Society for
Neuroscience Conference, Orlando, FL.
Treynor, W. & Gonzalez, R. (2003). Cynicism as a predictor of unethical acts.
Poster presented at the Kyoto University International Symposium on Self,
Cognition, and Emotion, Ann Arbor, MI.
Journal of Cognitive Therapy and Research (2006)
Personality and Individual Differences (2005)
Invited Colloquia
Technion Israel Institute of Technology (2006)
University of California, Los Angeles (2006)
University of Southern California (2006)
University of California, Berkeley (2005)
Western Washington University (2005)
University of Delaware (2005)
Seattle University (2005)
University of New South Wales (2004)
University of Sydney (2004)
Teaching Experience
2005 Feb Structural Equations Modeling.
University of Delaware, Newark.
Seminar Speaker. (Taught an original, hour-long, one-day SEM
course to professors and graduate students)
2004 Fall Statistical Consulting.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Statistical Consultant. (Provided statistical advice to undergraduate
students, graduate students, and professors)
2003 July Graduate Statistics.
Warsaw University, Poland.
Graduate Student Instructor.
2001 Fall Graduate Statistics.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Graduate Student Instructor.
2004 Fall Social Psychology. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Lecturer. (2 discussion sections, 25 students each)
2003 Winter Social Psychology. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Graduate Student Instructor. (2 discussion sections,
31 students each)
2002 Fall Research Methods. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Graduate Student Instructor. (Sole teacher, developer of course)
· Designed course syllabus, assignments, exams, & grading
criteria
· Taught students how to
1) write APA format papers
2) create their own scales
3) assess scale reliability
4) assess scale convergent and discriminant validity
5) perform simple regression
6) perform 2 X 2 ANOVAs
· Helped students run 2 of their own IRB-approved studies:
1) a correlational study using the scale they created
2) an experimental study, in which they investigated
what situational variables contribute to helping the
homeless
· Had students perform their own analyses, write their own
papers (1practice paper and 2 graded papers), and present
their results to the class
1999-2000 High School Mathematics.Oakland Unified School District. Oakland, CA.
Mathematics Teacher. (listed previously)
Computer Skills (selected)
R (the open source version of the statistical package S-PLUS).
PASCAL (a predecessor of the programming language C++).
SPSS
Language Skills
English
Conversational Spanish
Quantitative Teaching Skills
Structural Equations Modeling
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Contrast Analyses
Post-Hoc Analyses
Scale Construction
Reliability Calculations
Covariance Algebra
Diagnostics
Regression
Logistic Regression
Multiple Regression
ANOVA
Teaching Interests in Social Pyshcology:
Psychology of Ethics and Socialization Processes
Statistics
Research Methods
Group Dynamics
Emotion
Logical Foundations of Social Psychology
Theory Building in Social Psychology
Graduate Coursework included:
Advanced Topics in Research Methods (SEM course taught by R. Gonzalez)
Advanced Statistical Methods (taught by R. Gonzalez)
Multivariate Statistics (taught by R.Gonzalez)
Research Methods (taught by P.C. Ellsworth)
Emotions (taught by B.L. Fredrickson)
Advanced Social Psychology (taught by J. Crocker)
Group Dynamics (taught by E. Burnstein)
Undergraduate Coursework included:
Mathematical Statistics I & II
Econometrics
Combinatorics
Computer Programming I & II