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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Donnah Canavan
Address: Department of Psychology, Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167
617 552-4116 <canavang@bc.edu>
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: 4 August 1941
Education:
1959 - 1963
Undergraduate study in Psychology at Emmanuel College
Boston, MA (A.B., June 1963)
1964 - 1969
Graduate study in Psychology at Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York, NY (Ph.D. with distinction,
February 1969)
Professional Experience:
1977
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston College
1981-1983
Psychology Fellow, McLean Hospital, Belmont
Massachusetts Fellow, Harvard Medical School
1980-1981
Internship in clinical psychology, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
1970 - 1977
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston College
1970 -1980
Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, New York
1969 - 1970
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Harold H. Kelley, sponsor
1969 - 1970
Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, UCLA
1968 - 1970 Research Associate with Riverside School Study, Department of
Psychology, UCLA. Harold B. Gerard, Principal Investigator
1967 - 1968 Research under the direction of Morton Deutsch, Teaching Assistant to
Peter Gumpert, Teachers College, Columbia University
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1965 - 1966 Research Assistant under the direction of David Glass, Rockefeller
University
1964 - 1965 Research Assistant under the direction of Morton Deutsch, Teachers
College, Columbia University
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Memberships:
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
New England Psychological Association (Steering Committee, President-Elect)
New England Psychological Association (Steering Committee, President)
Massachusetts Psychological Association (Fellow)
Program Advisory Council for International Conference on Improving University
Teaching
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Sigma Xi
Licensed Psychologist (State of Massachusetts)
Books:
Canavan-Gumpert, D., Garner, K., & Gumpert, P. (1978). The success-fearing
personality: Theory and research. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath
and Co.
Chapters in Books:
Kanouse, D.,Gumpert,P. & Canavan,D. (1981) The Semantics of Praise In Kelley, H.,
et al New Directions in Attribution Research. NewYork: L. Erlbaum Ass.
Canavan, D. (1989). Fear of success. In R. C. Curtis (Ed.), Self-defeating behaviors:
Experimental research, clinical impressions, and practical implications. New
York: Plenum Press.
Published Articles:
Deutsch, M., Epstein, Y., Canavan, D., & Gumpert, P. (1967). Strategies of inducing
cooperation: An experimental study. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2 (3), 345360
Glass, D., Canavan, D., & Schiavo, R.S. (1968). Achievement motivation dissonance
and defensiveness. Journal of Personality, 35 (3), 474-492.
Deutsch, M., Canavan, D., & Rubin, J. (1971). The effects of size on conflict and sex
of experimenter upon interpersonal bargaining. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 7 (2), 258-267.
Canavan, D. (1971). El desarrollo do diferencias individuales en la percepcion de
valores y manera de afrontaar el riesgo. Revista de Psychologia General Y
Aplicada, Madrid.
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Canavan, D. The development of individual differences in the perception of value and
risk taking style. University Microfilms, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, #69-17, 577.
Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1977). Generating reward and cost orientations through praise
and criticism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35 (7), 501-513.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1977). Social structure and productivity in the
university. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Improving
University Teaching, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1978). Creating intrinsic motivation to
improve teaching. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Improving University Teaching, Aachen, West Germany.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1978, June). Bedingungen fur effiziente
zusammenarbeit in forschung und lehre. Die Deutsche Universitats-Zeitung, 330333.
Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1979). Student heterogeneity: Teaching more
of the students more of the time. Proceedings of the Fifth International
Conference on Improving University Teaching. London, England.
Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1980). Situational and personality factors in
the creation of intrinsic motivation. Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Improving University Teaching. Sucaba, Japan.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1982). The teacher as therapist. Proceedings
of the Eighth International Conference on Improving University Teaching. Berlin,
Germany.
Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1985). A preliminary profile of the students who are adultchildren of alcoholics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Improving University Teaching. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Canavan, D. (1986). Psychological separateness in male and female college students.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Improving University
Teaching, Heildeberg, Germany.
Canavan, D. (1987). The separation-individuation conflict and the thinking of college
women. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Improving
University Teaching, Haifa, Israel.
Canavan, D. (1988). Self-esteem and college students. Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Umea, Sweden.
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Canavan, D. (1989) Projective identification, self-defeat, and college students.
Proceedings of the Fiftheenth International Conference on Improving University
Teaching, Vancouver, Canada.
Canavan, D. (1991) The I Feeling. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International
Conference on Improving University Teaching, Glasgow, Scotland.
Canavan, D. (1996) A Mind of One's Own: the Suchness of Things. Procedings of the
Twenty-first International Conference on Improving University Teaching,
Nottingham, England.
Delivered Papers:
Canavan, D. (1969). Field dependence in children as a function of grade, sex, and
ethnic group memebership. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the
American Psychological Association; Symposium on School Desegregation.
Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1976). Examining our open and hidden assumptions as
teachers. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Improving
University Teaching, Heidelberg, Germany.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1977). Social structure and productivity in the
university. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Improving
University Teaching, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1978). Creating instrinsic motivation to
improve teaching. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on
Improving University Teaching, Aachen, West Germany.
Garner, K., Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1978, May). Empirical
investigations of success-phobias in males and females. Paper presented at the
Annual Convention of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Garner, K., Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1978, August). The neurotic fear of
success: Psychodynamic and social psychological perspectives. Paper presented
at the 86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association,
Toronto, Canada.
Garner, K., Gumpert, P., Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Headen, S. (1978, August). Field
studies of conflicts and self-sabotage in success-fearers. Paper presented at the
86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto,
Canada.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., Gumpert, P., & Garner, K. (1978, August). When successfearers succeed: The effects of cooperation and competition. Paper presented at
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the 86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto,
Canada.
Gumpert, P., Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Garner, K. (1978, August). Fear of success and
family dynamics. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Convention of the
American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Gumpert, P., Garner, K., Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Schmid, C.E. (1978, August).
MMPI profiles of success-fearers. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Convention
of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., Gumpert, P., & Garner, K. (1978, August). Social structure,
interpersonal relations and teaching effectiveness. Paper presented at the 86th
Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1979). Student heterogeneity: Teaching more
of the students more of the time. Paper presented at the Fifth International
Conference on Improving University Teaching, London, England.
Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1980). Situational and personality factors in
the creation of intrinsic motivation. Paper presented at the Sixth International
Conference on Improving University Teaching, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1980). Planning for individual differences:
Teaching more of the students more of the time. Paper presented at the 88th
Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Montreal,
Canada.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1981). The context of higher education:
Student perceptions and the professor. Paper presented at the Seventh
International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Sucuba, Japan.
Boardman, S., Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1982). Fear of success, fear of
failure and need achievement. Paper presented at the 90th Annual Convention of
the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., Bordini, E., & Gumpert, P. (1982). Social acceptance, social
rejection and self-sabotage in success-fearers. Paper presented at the 90th Annual
Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Lall, M., Gumpert, P., & Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1982). Effects of self affirmation and
self derogation on performance. Paper presented at the 90th Annual Convention
of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Canavan-Gumpert, D., & Gumpert, P. (1982). The teacher as therapist. Paper
presented at the Eighth International Conference on Improving University
Teaching, Berlin, Germany.
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Canavan-Gumpert, D. (1985). A preliminary portrait of students who are adult
children of alcoholics. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Conference
on Improving University Teaching, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Canavan, D. (l986). Psychological separation in male and female college students.
Paper presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Improving University
Teaching, Heidelberg, Germany.
Canavan, D. (1987). The separation-individuation conflict and the thinking of college
women. Paper presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Improving
University Teaching, Haifa, Israel.
Canavan, D. (1988). Self-esteem, and college students. Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Conference on Improving University Teaching. Umea, Sweden.
Canavan, D. (1988, August). Adult children of alcoholic parents as self defeating
personality disorder. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Convention of the
American Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Canavan, D. (1989, June). Projective identification, self-defeat, and college students.
Paper presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Improving University
Teaching, Vancouver, Canada.
Canavan, D. (1991, July). The I Feeling. Paper presented at the Seventeenth
International Conference on Improving Universit Teaching, Glasgow, Scotland.
O'Dwyer, A. and Canavan, D. (1993, October). The context of being satisfied in a
relationship. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association,
Manchester, New Hampshire.
Canavan, D. and O'Dwyer, A. (1994, October). The effect of self esteem, relational
closeness, and type of trait on agreement and positivity in person perception.
Paper presented at the New England Psychological Association, Connecticut.
Canavan, D. and O'Dwyer, A (1994, October) Through the looking glass, but not in the
dark: how people think they are sen by others across differing levels of
relationship closeness and levels of self esteem. Poster presented at the New
England Psychological Association, Connecticut.
Canavan, D and O'Dwyer, A (1996, July) Adaptive Narcissism and Self -Esteem:
Evaluations of the Self and Other.
Poster presented at the American
Psychological Science Conference, San Francisco, California.
O'Dwyer, A. and Canavan, D. (1996, July) Evaluation in Relationship Closeness as
Determined by Positivity, Agreement, and Self-Esteem. Poster presented at the
Americal Psychological Science Conference. San Francisco, California
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Canavan, D. (1996, August) A Mind of One's Own: The Suchness of Things. Paper
presented at the 21st Annual International Conferences on Improving University
Teaching, Notingham, England.
Canavan, D. (2001, October) Social Energy: the Consequences of Shared Affect.
Symposium given at the New England Psychological Association Conference in
Danbury, Connecticut. Other presenters were Ed Diener, Christopher Peterson
and Joseph Mahoney.
Canavan, D. (2002 February) Social Energy: The Remarkable Consequences of Shared
Enthusiasm. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Personality and Social
Psychology Conference. Savannah, Georgia.
Moons, W. Collins, E. and Canavan, D. (2002 February) Enthusiasm is Contagious.
Poster presented the Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference. Savannah, Georgia.
Canavan, D. (October 2002) Success and Beauty: The Motive to Contribute and The
Motive to Win. Presidential Address at the 2002 New England Psychological
Association Conference. Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire
Canavan, D. (2002) Social Energy: The remarkable consequences of shared
enthusiasm. Unpublished Manuscript
Canavan, D. and Lim, Say Keat (2003) Conventional and Healthy Success: The Motive
to Contribute and the Motive to Win. Poster Presented at the Annual Society for
Personality and Social Psychology Conference. Los Angeles, California
Canavan, D. and Traci, M. (2004) The experience of the self in social energy. Poster
presented at the Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference. Austin, Texas.
Keck, M. and Canavan, D. (2004) Actually, groups with social energy are more
enthusiastic, work harder, and perform better. . Poster presented at the Annual
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference. Austin, Texas.
Canavan, D. and Sanchez-Variella, V. (2005) Culture Beauty and Narcissism. Poster
presented at the Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana
Canavan, D. and Triche, A. (2007) A Comparison Among Individuals with Shyness,
Social Phobia and Neither. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Personality
and Social Psychology Conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
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Canavan, D. and Riggin, J. (2008) How Social Energy Affects Cooperation and
Competition. Poster presented at Annual Society for Personality and Social
Psychology Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico
Larkin, N., and Canavan, D. (2009) Social Energy in the National Football League.
Poster presented at Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference, Tampa Florida.
Canavan, D. LaCavalla, A. (2009) The Effects of Social Energy on Self-Experience.
Poster presented at Annual Conference of New England Psychological
Association. Worcester, Massachusetts.
Canavan, D. and Grady, S. (2009) Energy in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation. Poster
presented at Annual Conference of New England Psychological Association,
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Canavan, D. and LaCavalla, A. (2010) How Do We Experience Ourselves When We
Are in Social Energy? Poster presented at Annual Society for Personality and
Social Psychology
Canavan, D. and Egger, A. (2010) Social Energy Trumps Prima Donna on Performance.
Paper presented at Annual Conference of New England Psychological
Association, Burlington, Vermont.
Canavan, D. and Reaves, S. (2010) Social Energy Generates Inclusiveness of Own and
Different-Group Others. Paper presented at Annual Conference of New England
Psychological Association, Burlington, Vermont.
Reeves, S. and Canavan, D. (2011) Social Energy Increases Inclusiveness and
Egalitarianism. Poster presented at Annual Society for Personality and Social
Psychology Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Canavan, D. and Egger, A. (2011) Social Energy Trumps Prima Donna on Performance.
Poster presented at Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Donnah Canavan, Ph.D., Elizabeth Rapport & Robin Watts (2011)
About Healthy Succeeders and Conventional Succeeders. On Productivity,
Wealth, Superiority, Luck, Entitlement, and Gratitude.
New England
Psychological Association, Fairfield, Connecticut
Donnah Canavan Ph.D., Shannon Grady B.A. & Jessica Rolincik (2011)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Energy.
Psychological Association, Fairfield, Connecticut
New England
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Rolincik, J. Canavan, D. and Grady, S. (2012) Using the Common Language to Map
the Energy Domain. P
Canavan, D, Rapport, E. and Watts, R. (2012) Integrative Succeeders Seek Productivity,
Feel Lucky, and Are Grateful: Conventional Succeeders Seek Wealth, Feel Superior, And
Are Entitled. Poster Presented at Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference, San Diego, California
Robinson, C. and Canavan, D. (2012) Comparing Positive and Negative Shared
Interest in Social Energy New England Psychological Association Worcester,
Massachusetts
Canavan, D. Rolincek, J. & Robinson, C. (2012) Correlations Between
Attachment Categories and Aspects of the Self in Social Energy. New England
Psychological Association, Worcester, Massachusetts
Robinson, C. and Canavan, D. (2013) Is It The Same When People Share
Enthusiasm FOR Versus AGAINST Something? Poster to be presented at
the Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference. New
Orleans, Louisiana
Canavan. D, Rolincek, J, and Robinson, C. (2013) Secure Attachment Is Similar to
the Self in Social Energy in Relational and Psychological Variables and
Different in Task Variables. ? Poster to be presented at the Annual Society
for Personality and Social Psychology Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana
Garinther, A.,& Canavan, D. (2014) Social Energy, Generosity, & Joy. Poster to be presented at Annual
Society for Personality & Social Psychology Conference. Austin, Texas.
Canavan,D. Garinther,A., Perez,I. (2014) The Self in Social Energy Reacts Positively to a Potential Critic.
(2014) Poster to be presented at Annual Society for Personality & Social Psychology Conference. Austin,
Texas.
one more at EPA with GArinther as first author
Canavan, D. and Kim, Yi Jung, (2014) Description and Evaluation. Poster presented at
New England Psychological Association, Lewiston, Maine
Canavan, D. and Lanza, A., (2014) Shared Enthusiasm, Social Energy, Generosity,
and Joy. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association, Lewiston,
Maine
Canavan, D. and Caprio, S. (2014) Do Gender Composition and Social Energy
Facilitate Women’s Work in Groups?
Canavan,D. and Lee, S. (2015) The Story of the Making of a Theory. Poster
presented at New England Psychological Association. Fitchburgh, MA
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References:
Dr. Morton Deutsch
Dr. Harold Kelley
Dr. David Kano use
Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York City, New York 10027
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, A
Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA