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Monisha Pasupathi
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 S. 1530 E., Rm 502
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
3432 S. Crestwood Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84109
801-585-9175
Fax: 801-581-5841
Email: Pasupath@psych.utah.edu
Employment & Affiliations
9/1996 –
8/1999
Post-doctoral Research
Fellow
8/1999 –
7/2005
7/2005 –
7/2012
7/2012present
4/2007 –
present
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Associate Investigator
Center for Lifespan Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Berlin, Germany
University of Utah
Psychology Department
University of Utah
Psychology Department
University of Utah
Psychology Department
University of Utah
Institute for Public and International Affairs
Education
B.A.
1991
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Psychology and English
Summa Cum Laude
Ph.D.
1997
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Psychology
Honors, Fellowships, Awards
1990
1992-1995
1995-1996
1995-1996
1995-1996
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003
2004
2004
Phi Beta Kappa
National Science Foundation Fellowship.
APA Minority Aging Research Fellowship.
Andrus/AARP Doctoral Fellowship.
Foley Center for Aging Fellowship.
Psi Chi “Best Psychology Professor”
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Superior Research Award
Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award, Gerontological Society of America
Psi Chi Outstanding Educator Award
Psi Chi Favorite Professor Award
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Grants Under Review
NICHD R01HD086156-01. Pasupathi, M. (PI) & Wainryb, C. (co-PI). How can listeners help
adolescents narrate anger for emotion and self-regulation? (Direct Costs: 1,250,000.00).
Grants Awarded
NICHD R01HD067189-A1. Pasupathi, M. (PI) & Wainryb, C. (co-PI). When and how do
memory narratives function to regulate anger and sadness? (Direct Costs: (740,000.00).
June, 2007 – May, 2008. How adolescent and young adult refugees construct conceptions of
moral selfhood in narrating experiences of discrimination (Direct Costs: 10,000).
University of Utah, Institute for Public and International Affairs Seed Grant. PI: Monisha
Pasupathi. Co-PI Cecilia Wainryb.
September 2007-August 2009. Developing moral agency in the midst of war: Child-soldiers in
Colombia. (Direct costs: 35,000). Submitted February 2007 to the University of Utah
Research Foundation. PI: Cecilia Wainryb. Co-PI Monisha Pasupathi.
May 2007- April 2008. Developing Moral Identity in the Context of Culturally Sanctioned
Violence:Enga Children and Adolescents in Papua New Guinea. College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences Proposal Initiative Grant. (Direct costs: 4,000.00). PI: Cecilia
Wainryb. Co-PI: Monisha Pasupathi, Pauline Wiessner.
February 2004 – January 2005. Connecting Experiences with the Self. University Research
Committee Faculty Research Award, University of Utah. PI: Monisha Pasupathi.
Amount: $5,006.00.
August, 2002 – July, 2004. NIMH 1R03MH64462-01A1. Socially constructing memory and self.
PI: Monisha Pasupathi. $100,000.00.
February, 2000. Conversation and Memory for Personal Experience. University Research
Committee Faculty Research Award, University of Utah. PI: Monisha Pasupathi. Amount:
$5,974.36
April, 2000. Conversation, Memory, and Adult Age Differences. Proposal Initiative Grant from
the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Utah. PI: Monisha Pasupathi.
Amount: $4,000.00
Grants submitted and not funded.
Managing the undesired self: Can entertainment-oriented narration turn faults into foibles?
Pasupathi, M. (PI), McLean, K. C. (co-PI), & Wainryb, C. (co-PI). Submitted July 2010
to the National Science Foundation. Scored not competitive, not funded.
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Sometimes We Forgive, Sometimes We Don’t: Children Make Sense of Forgiveness in
Interpersonal and Group Conflicts. (Total costs: 187,267.00). Submitted January 2009 to
the Fetzer Institute. PI: Wainryb, Co-PI: Pasupathi. Declined.
Terrorist Havens in Geographic and Social Space. (Direct costs: 918,000.00). Submitted
October 2008 to the National Science Foundation. PI: George Hepner. Co-Investigator:
Monisha Pasupathi. Scored as competitive, not funded.
The making of the good and bad self: How children and adolescents construct conceptions of
themselves as moral agents in the context of helping and hurting others. (Direct costs:
320,000.00). Submitted July, 2007, January, 2008, and July, 2008 to the National Science
Foundation. PI: Pasupathi, Co-PI Wainryb. Twice scored as competitive but not selected
for funding.
1R21HD057145-01, 01A1, and 01A2. The making of the good and bad self: How children,
adolescents, and young adults construct conceptions of themselves as moral agents in the
context of helping and hurting others. (Direct costs: 275,000.00). Submitted January
2007, Spring 2007, and November 2008 to the National Institutes for Child Health and
Human Development. PI: Pasupathi, Co-PI Wainryb. Priority Scores: 216/175/185 (50th
percentile, 29th percentile, 33rd percentile).
1R01HD048758-01; Adolescent self-development in personal storytelling. (Direct costs:
1,125,000 over 5 years). Submitted June, 2004 to the National Institutes of Child Health
and Human Development. PI: Pasupathi. Unscored.
Edited Volumes
McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (Eds., 2010). Narrative development in adolescence: Creating
the storied self. New York: Springer.
Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (Eds., 2010). Silence and Memory. Special issue of Memory,
18.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Student co-authors are italicized)
Strauss, M. E., Pasupathi, M., & Chatterjee, A. (1993). Concordance between observers in
descriptions of personality change in Alzheimer’s disease. Psychology and Aging, 8,
475-480.
Strauss, M. E., & Pasupathi, M. (1994). Primary caregivers’ descriptions of Alzheimer patients’
personality traits: Temporal stability and sensitivity to change. Alzheimer Disease and
Associated Disorders, 8, 166-176.
Strauss, M. E., Stuckey, J. C., Pasupathi, M., & Moore, A. (1997). Accuracy of retrospective
descriptions of personality during the course of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Clinical
Geropsychology, 3, 93-99.
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Gross, J. J., Carstensen, L. L., Pasupathi, M., Tsai, J., Skorpen, C. G., & Hsu, A. Y. C. (1997).
Emotion and aging: Experience, expression, and control. Psychology and Aging, 12,
590-599.
Pasupathi, M., Stallworth, L. M., & Murdoch, K. (1998). How what we tell becomes what we
know: Listener effects on speakers’ long-term memory for events. Discourse Processes,
26, 1-25.
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L. L., Levenson, R. W., & Gottman, J. M. (1999). Responsive
listening in long-married couples: A psycholinguistic perspective. Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, 23, 173-193.
Pasupathi, M. (1999). Age differences in response to conformity pressure for emotional and nonemotional material. Psychology and Aging, 14, 170-174.
Carstensen, L. L., Pasupathi, M., Mayr, U., & Nesselroade, J. R. (2000). Emotional experience in
everyday life across the adult life span. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
79, 644-655.
Pasupathi, M. (2001). The social construction of the personal past and its implications for adult
development. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 651-672.
Pasupathi, M., & Staudinger, U. M. (2001). Do advanced moral reasoners also show wisdom?
Linking moral reasoning and wisdom-related knowledge and judgement. International
Journal of Behavioral Development, 25, 401-415.
Pasupathi, M., Staudinger, U. M., & Baltes, P. B. (2001). Seeds of wisdom: Adolescents’
knowledge and judgment about difficult life problems. Developmental Psychology, 37,
351-361.
Adams, C., Smith, M. C., Pasupathi, M., & Vitolo, L. (2002). Social context effects on story
recall in older and younger women: Does the listener make a difference? Journals of
Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, 28-40.
Pasupathi, M., Lucas, S., & Coombs, A. (2002). Conversational functions of autobiographical
remembering: Long-married couples talk about conflicts and pleasant topics. Discourse
Processes, 34, 163-192.
Hawley, P. H., Little, T. D., & Pasupathi, M. (2002). Winning friends and influencing peers:
Strategies of peer influence in late childhood. International Journal of Behavioral
Development, 26, 466-474.
Pasupathi, M., Henry, R. M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2002). Age and ethnicity differences in
storytelling to young children: Emotionality, relationality, and socialization. Psychology
and Aging, 17, 610-621.
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Pasupathi, M. (2003). Emotion regulation during social remembering: Differences between
emotions elicited during an event and emotions elicited when talking about it. Memory,
11, 151-163.
Staudinger, U. M., & Pasupathi, M. (2003). Correlates of wisdom-related performance in
adolescence and adulthood: Age-graded differences in ‘paths’ toward desirable
development. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 13, 239-268.
Pasupathi, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Age and emotional experience during mutual
reminiscing. Psychology and Aging, 18, 430-442.
Charles, S. T., & Pasupathi, M. (2003). Age-related patterns of variability in self descriptions:
Implications for everyday affective experience. Psychology and Aging, 18, 524-536.
Pasupathi, M., & Rich, B. (2005). Inattentive listening undermines self-verification in personal
storytelling. Journal of Personality, 73, 1051-1085.
McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (2006). Collaborative narration of the past and extraversion.
Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1219-1231.
Pasupathi, M., Weeks, T., & Rice, C. (2006). Reflecting on life: Remembering as a major process
in adult development. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 25, 244-263.
Pasupathi, M., & Mansour, E. (2006). Adult age differences in autobiographical reasoning in
narratives. Developmental Psychology, 42, 798-808.
Pasupathi, M., Alderman, K., & Shaw, D. (2007). Talking the talk: Collaborative remembering
and self-perceived expertise. Discourse Processes, 43, 55-77.
Pasupathi, M. (2007). Telling and the remembered self: Linguistic differences in memories for
previously disclosed and previously undisclosed events. Memory, 15, 258-270.
Pasupathi, M. (2007). Whither unity, and at what cost? Fragmentation in the life story. Human
Development, 50, 124-126.
Pasupathi, M., Mansour, E., & Brubaker, J. R. (2007). Developing a life story: Constructing
relations between self and experience in autobiographical narratives. Human
Development, 50, 85-110.
McLean, K. C., Pasupathi, M., & Pals, J. L. (2007). Selves creating stories creating selves: A
process model of narrative self development. Personality and Social Psychology Review,
11, 262-278.
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Thoman, D. B., Sansone, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2007). Talking about interest: Exploring the role
of social interaction for regulating motivation and the interest experience. Journal of
Happiness Studies, 8, 335-370.
Butner, J., Pasupathi, M., & Vallejos, V. (2008). When the facts just don’t add up: The fractal
nature of conversational stories. Social Cognition, 26, 670-699.
Drews, F. A., Pasupathi, M., & Strayer, D. L. (2008). Passenger and cell-phone conversations in
simulated driving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 392-400.
Hoyt, T., & Pasupathi, M. (2008). Blogging about trauma: Linguistic markers of apparent
recovery. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 4, 56-62.
Pasupathi, M., McLean, K. C., & Weeks, T. (2009). To tell or not to tell: Disclosure and the
narrative self. Journal of Personality, 77, 89-124.
Pasupathi, M., & Hoyt, T. (2009). The development of narrative identity in late adolescence and
emergent adulthood: The continued importance of listeners. Developmental Psychology,
45, 558-574.
Hoyt, T., Pasupathi, M., Smith, B. W., Yeater, E. A., Kay, V. S., & Tooley, R. E. (2010).
Disclosure of emotional events in groups at risk for PTSD. International Journal of Stress
Management, 17, 78-95.
Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C. (2010). On telling the whole story: Facts and interpretations in
autobiographical memory narratives from childhood through midadolescence.
Developmental Psychology, 46, 735-746.
Pasupathi, M., & Hoyt, T. (2010). Silence and the shaping of memory: How distracted listeners
affect speakers’ subsequent recall of a computer game experience. Memory, 18, 159-169.
Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C. (2010). Developing moral agency through narrative. Human
Development, 53, 55-80.
Rice, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2010). Reflecting on self-relevant experiences: Adult age differences.
Developmental Psychology, 46, 479-490.
Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2010). Political violence and disruptions in the development of
moral agency. Child Development Perspectives, 4, 48-54.
McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (2011). Old, new, borrowed, blue? The emergence and retention
of personal meaning in autobiographical storytelling. Journal of Personality, 79, 135-163.
Weeks, T. L., & Pasupathi, M. (2011). Stability and change self-integration for negative events:
The role of listener responsiveness and elaboration. Journal of Personality, 79, 469-498.
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McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (2012). Processes of identity development: Where I am and
how I got there. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 12, 8-28.
Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., & Twali, M. (2012). Relations between narrative construction of
ethnicity-based discrimination and ethnic identity exploration and pride. Identity: An
International Journal of Theory and Research, 12, 53-73.
Thoman, D. B., Sansone, C., Fraughton, T., & Pasupathi, M. (2012). How students socially
evaluate interest: Peer responsiveness influences evaluation and maintenance of interest.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 37, 254-265.
Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2013). “Two for flinching”: Children’s and
adolescents’ narrative accounts of harming their friends and siblings. Child Development,
84, 1459-1474.
Hoyt, T., Renshaw, K., & Pasupathi, M. (2013). Disclosure of combat events by Afghanistan and
Iraq War veterans. Military Behavioral Health, 1, 85-92.
Recchia, H. E., Wainryb, C., Bourne, S., & Pasupathi, M. (2014). The construction of moral
agency in mother-child conversations about helping and hurting across childhood and
adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 50, 34-44.
Jennings, L. E., Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (2014). “Intricate lettings out and lettings in”:
Listener scaffolding of narrative identity in newly dating romantic partners. Self and
Identity, 13, 214-230.
Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., Bourne, S., & Pasupathi, M. (in press). Children’s and adolescents’
accounts of helping and hurting: Lessons about the development of moral agency. Child
Development.
Book Chapters and non-peer-reviewed outlets (italicized names are student co-authors)
Carstensen, L. L., & Pasupathi, M. (1993). Women of a certain age. In S. Matteo (Ed.),
American women in the nineties: Today’s critical issues (pp. 66-78). Boston:
Northeastern University Press.
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L. L., & Tsai, J. L. (1995). Ageism in Interpersonal Settings. In B.
Lott & D. Maluso (Eds.), The social psychology of interpersonal discrimination (pp. 160182). New York: Guilford Press.
Pasupathi, M. (1996). Issues of age and health. In P. M. Kato & T. Mann (Eds.), Handbook of
diversity issues in health psychology (pp. 39-47). New York: Plenum Press.
Staudinger, U. M., & Pasupathi, M. (2000). Life-span perspectives on self, personality, and
social cognition. In F. I. M. Craik & T. A. Salthouse (Eds.), The handbook of aging and
cognition (2nd ed., pp. 633-688). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Pasupathi, M., & Staudinger, U. M. (2000). A “talent” for knowledge and judgment about life:
The lifespan development of wisdom. In K. A. Heller, F. J. Monks, R. J. Sternberg, & R.
Subotnik (Eds.), International handbook on giftedness and talent (2nd ed., pp. 141-267).
New York: Elsevier.
Pasupathi, M. (2002). Arranged marriages: What’s love got to do with it? In M. Yalom & L. L.
Carstensen (Eds.), Inside the American couple: New thinking, new challenges (pp. 211235). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Pasupathi, M., & Loeckenhoff, C. E. (2002). Ageist behavior. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism:
Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 201-246). Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press.
Richardson, M. J., & Pasupathi, M. (2005). Young and growing wiser: Wisdom during
adolescence and young adulthood. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Jordan (Eds.), A handbook of
wisdom: Psychological perspectives (pp. 139-159). New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Pasupathi, M. (2006). Silk from sows’ ears: Collaborative construction of everyday selves in
everyday stories. In D. McAdams, R. Josselson, & A. Lieblich (Eds.), Identity and story:
Creating self in narrative (pp. 129-150). Washington, DC: APA.
Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2009). Developing moral agency in the midst of violence:
Children, political conflict, and values. In I. A. Karawan, W. McCormack, & S. E.
Reynolds (Eds.), Values and violence: Intangible aspects of terrorism (pp. 169-188). New
York: Springer.
Weeks, T. L., & Pasupathi, M. (2010). Autonomy, identity, and narrative construction with
parents and friends. In K. C. McLean, & M. Pasupathi (Eds.), Narrative development in
adolescence: Creating the storied self (pp. 65-92). New York: Springer.
Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (2010). How silence affects memory, self, and society:
Foreword to the special issue. Memory, 18, 85-87.
Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (2010). Introduction: Where have you been, Where are you
going? Narrative identity in adolescence. In K. C. McLean & M. Pasupathi (Eds.),
Narrative development in adolescence: Creating the storied self (pp. xix-xxxiii). New
York: Springer.
Pasupathi, M., & Weeks, T. L. (2011). Integrating self and experience in narrative as a route to
adolescent identity construction. In T. Habermas (Ed.), The development of
autobiographical reasoning in adolescence and beyond. New Directions for Child and
Adolescent Development, 131, 31-43.
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Pasupathi, M., Pasupathi, V. C., & Armintor, B. (December, 2011). Theories of creativity in a
historical lens. Clio’s Psyche, 281-283.
Pasupathi, M. (2013). Making meaning for the good life: A commentary on the special issue.
Memory, 21, 143-149.
Pasupathi, M. (2014). Constructing the good enough self: Parent-child conversations and moral
development from an identity framework. In C. Wainryb & H. Recchia (Eds.), Talking
about right and wrong: Parent-child conversations as contexts for moral development (pp.
389-415). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Pasupathi, M. (2014). Identity development: Dialogue between normative and pathological
developmental approaches. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 113-120.
Pasupathi, M., Mansfield, C. D., & Weeks, T. L. (in press). Me and my stories. In T. Holtgraves
(Ed.), Handbook of language and social psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pasupathi, M. (in press). Autobiographical reasoning and my discontent: Alternative paths from
narrative to identity. In M. Syed & K. C. McLean (Eds.), Handbook of identity
development. New York: Oxford University Press.
Manuscripts under Review
Pasupathi, M., Billitteri, J., Mansfield, C., Wainryb, C., Hanley, G., & Taheri, K. (under review).
Regulating emotion and identity by narrating harm.
Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., Mansfield, C. D., & Bourne, S. (under review). The feeling of the
story: Narrating to regulate anger and sadness.
Mansfield, C., Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. C. (under review). Does interpreting growth from
transgressions facilitate adaptive functioning or does adaptive functioning facilitate
interpreting growth?
Weeks, T. L., & Pasupathi, M. (under review). Integrating experiences within the self:
Sharing meaning about novel experiences enhances self-integration.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Pasupathi, M., Oldroyd, K., & Wainryb, C. (in prep). On wanting revenge, and thinking it the
right thing to do.
Pasupathi, M., Fivush, R., McLean, K., Greenhoot, A., & Wainryb, C. (in prep). On Style and
Sensitivity: Incorporating conceptions of intraindividual variability into understandings of
narrative identity.
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Mansfield, C., Pasupathi, M., Billiterri, J., Oldroyd, K., & Wainryb, C. (in prep). Can meaningoriented narration help resolve self-discrepant experiences?
Other Publications
Strauss, M. E., & Pasupathi, M. (1991). Memory disturbances in aging and depression:
Similarities and differences. Biological Psychiatry, 2, 109-111.
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen L. L., Turk-Charles, S., & Tsai, J. L. (1998). Emotion and aging. In
H. Friedman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of mental health (Vol 2, pp. 91-101). San Diego:
Academic Press.
Pasupathi, M., & Baltes, P. B. (2000). Wisdom. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
psychology (Vol. 8, pp. 249-253). Washington, DC: APA.
Pasupathi, M. (2009). Arranged marriages. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of
human relationships (pp. 114-116). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Pasupathi, M. & Weeks, T. L. (2009). Storytelling. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of human relationships (pp. 1598-1600). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Pasupathi, M., Recchia, H. E., & Wainryb, C. (2010). Moral agency for all of us. Letter to the
Editor. Human Development.
Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (in press). Beyond post-traumatic stress: Pressing questions about
the psychological impact of political violence on children. Extra Muros.
McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (forthcoming). Narrative approaches to identity development in
adolescence. In R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of adolescence. New York: Springer.
Invited Academic Talks
Pasupathi, M. (2000, May). Conversations and constructing the personal past: Culture, identity,
and relationships. Presentation at the NIA workshop on aging and social relationships,
(Ron Abeles, Laura Carstensen, and Robert Levenson, organizers), Institute for
Personality and Social Research, Berkeley, California.
Pasupathi, M. (2004, March). Self-Construction in Personal Storytelling. Invited colloquium,
Psychology Department, Northern Illinois University
Pasupathi, M. (2006, March). Unacknowledged ghost writers: Stories, listeners, and selves.
Presentation for the University of Toronto, Mississauga’s Psychology Colloqiuium series.
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Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2007, March). Beyond PTSD: Pressing questions about the
psychological impact of political violence on children. Talk presented at the conference
Values and violence: Intangible aspects of terrorism. University of Utah.
Pasupathi, M. (2013, March). The feeling of the story: Narrating to regulate negative emotion.
Invited colloquium for the University of Zurich, March 25, 2013.
Pasupathi, M., (2013, June). Events, stories, selves. Invited keynote for the Center for the Study
of Autobiographical Memory annual conference, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Community/Continuing Education Research Presentations
Pasupathi, M. (2005, March). If worms could talk… Paper presented for the symposium Life as a
worm: Memory and the fragmentary nature of experience. Third annual Utah Symposium
on Science and Literature, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pasupathi, M. (2005, April). How Minds (and Brains) are Social. Talk presented to the Osher
Institute’s “A Meeting of Minds” symposium. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Pasupathi, M. (2006, October). The Development of Autobiographical Memory. Talk presented
to the Child Psychiatry residents at the University of Utah Medical School. Salt Lake
City, Utah, USA.
Pasupathi, M. (2009, April). Memory, story, self. Talk presented to the Forum for Questioning
Minds, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Pasupathi, M. (2011, March). Are you your brain? Presentation for the Leonardo series
“Leonardo after hours”, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Pasupathi, M. (2011, November). Talk for Utah TOPSS (Teachers of Psychology in the
Secondary Schools).
Pasupathi, M. (2012, March). Talk for the Counseling Center Interns.
Conference Posters and Presentations
Strauss, M. E., & Pasupathi, M. (1992, August). Personality assessment in neuropsychiatric
disorders through informant reports. Paper presented in symposium Advances in the
assessment of the five-factor model (R. McCrae, chair), at the annual meetings of the
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Pasupathi, M. (1993, November). Conflict in long-term marriages. Paper presented in
symposium The benefits of long-term marriage: Cognitive, affective, and physiological
parameters (L.L. Carstensen & J. M. Gottman, co-chairs), at the annual meetings of the
Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
Pasupathi, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (1994, July). Storytelling to children from a lifespan
perspective. Paper presented in symposium The Self and Social Relationships in Late
Life (L. L. Carstensen & J. Smith, co-chairs), at the meetings of the International Society
for the Study of Behavioral Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Pasupathi, M. (1995, June). Adult age differences in emotion experience and expression. Poster
presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Society, New York City,
NY.
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Carstensen, L. L., Pasupathi, M., & Mayr, U. (1996, July). Emotional experience in the daily
lives of older and younger adults. Paper presented in symposium Mixed Emotions in
Everyday Life (K. Fingerman, chair), at the annual meeting of the American
Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.
Carstensen, L. L., & Pasupathi, M. (1996, August). When nursing home entrance leads to
positive outcomes. Paper presented in symposium The Dynamics of Gains and Losses in
Adult Development and Aging (J. Smith, chair), at the annual meetings of the
International Congress for Psychology, Montreal, Canada.
Pasupathi, M. (1996, August). Storytelling: Age and ethnicity. Paper presented at symposium
APA Minority Fellows (J. Jones, chair), at the annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Pasupathi, M., Sjostrom, S., & Richardson, J. (1996, November). Lifespan perspectives on
stressful events. Paper presented at the meetings of the Gerontological Society of
America, Washington, DC.
Pasupathi, M. (1997, August). Adult age differences in social conformity. Poster presented at
the meetings of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Pasupathi, M., & Staudinger, U. M. (1998, May). Seeds of wisdom: Adolescents’ knowledge
and judgment about difficult matters of life. Poster presented at the annual meetings of
the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Pasupathi, M., & Staudinger, U. M. (1998, September). Adolescents’ knowledge about difficult
and uncertain life situations: The role of family context. Poster presented at the annual
meetings of the German Society for Psychology, Dresden, Germany.
Stallworth, L. M., Pasupathi, M., & Murdoch, K. (1998, October). How what we tell becomes
what we know: Listener effects on speakers’ long-term memory for events. Paper
presented in symposium Experimental approaches to the construction of meaning and
social identity (F. Pratto, chair), at the annual meetings of the Society for Experimental
Social Psychology, Lexington, KY.
Pasupathi, M. (1998, November). What happens to Theory of Mind after middle childhood? A
glimpse from work on wisdom-related knowledge and judgment in adolescents. Paper
presented at mini-conference Theory of Mind: What Causes Change? Freiburg
University, Freiburg, Germany.
Pasupathi, M. (2000, November). Socioemotional selectivity theory and talk about the personal
past. Paper presented for symposium Emotion & Aging (S. Charles and H. Fung, cochairs), at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington,
DC.
02/26/15
Lucas, S., & Pasupathi, M. (2001, April). Wanted: Adolescent friends to help attain both identity
and intimacy. Poster presented at the bi-annual meetings of the Society for Research on
Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Pasupathi, M., & Lucas, S. (2001, July). Self and memory in narrative reconstructions of the
past. Paper presented in symposium Advances in Autobiographical Memory Research:
Implications for Development and Personality (B. Woike, chair). 3rd International
Congress on Memory. Valencia, Spain.
Pasupathi, M., Lucas, S., & Coombs, A. (2001, July). Conversational functions of
autobiographical memory: Long-married couples talk about conflicts and pleasant topics.
Paper presented for symposium Functions of Autobiographical Memory (S. Bluck & T.
Habermas, co-chairs), at the 3rd International Congress on Memory, Valencia, Spain
Pasupathi, M., & Lucas, S. (2001, August). Constructing the self in the context of recollection.
Paper presented for symposium Advances in Autobiographical Memory: Implications for
Personality and Developmental Psychology (B. Woike, chair), at the American
Psychological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
Loeckenhoff, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2001, August). Causes and consequences of agedifferentiated vs. ageist behavior. Paper presented in symposium Ageism: Current Theory
and Research on Prejudice Against Older Persons (T. Nelson, chair), at the annual
meetings of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Pasupathi, M., & Rich, B. (2003, August). Socially constructing memory and self in storytelling:
Listener effects. Paper to be presented in symposium Narrative Construction of Self -Autobiographical Memory, Social Narration, and Well-Being (J. Pals & A. McLean, cochairs), at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Toronto,
Canada.
Pasupathi, M., & Charles, S. (2003, November). Self-related functions of social remembering
across adulthood. Presented as part of the symposium Functions of Autobiographical
Remembering (M. Diehl, chair), at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of
America, San Diego, California, USA.
Pasupathi, M. (2004, July). Conversational Remembering, Self, & Aging. Presented as part of
the invited symposium Life Reflections in Old Age (Ellen B. Ryan, chair), at the
International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, University Park, PA,
USA.
Drews, F. A., Pasupathi, M., Strayer, D. L. (2004, September). Passenger and Cell-Phone
Conversations in Simulated Driving. Paper presentation (also published in proceedings)
at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, LA, USA.
02/26/15
Hanley, L., Pasupathi, M., & Mansour, E. (2005, April). Integrating agency and communion:
One kind of wisdom. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Research
on Adult Development, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Mansour, E., Pasupathi, M., & Hanley, L. (2005, April). Emotional responses to self-relevant
events: Adult age differences. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
Research on Adult Development, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
McLean, K., & Pasupathi, M. (2005, February). Extraversion and Memory Telling. Poster
presentation at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
Richardson, M., & Pasupathi, M. (2005, April). Narrator identities in adolescent remembering
with parents and peers. Presented as part of the symposium, Emerging Self-Narratives in
Adolescence (Tilman Habermas and Robyn Fivush, co-chairs), at the biennial meetings
of the Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Pasupathi, M., Weeks, T., & Liu, T. (2005, August). Socially constructing narrative identity:
Some thoughts on told and untold tales. Presented as part of the symposium Growth
stories: Narrative identity development and its empirically emerging principles. (Jack
Bauer, chair) at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association,
Washington, DC, USA.
Pasupathi, M., & Richardson, M. (2005, August). Collaborative construction of self in
adolescent-parent and adolescent-peer remembering. Presented as part of the symposium
Telling stories: The social contexts and functions of autobiographical remembering.
Nicole Alea and Kate McLean, (co-chairs), at the annual meetings of the American
Psychological Association, Washington, DC, USA.
Rice, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2006, March). The Life Impact of Like Me and Not Like Me
Experiences. Paper presented as part of a symposium on emergent adulthood (K.
McLean, organizer) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence,
San Francisco, CA.
Hoyt, T., & Pasupathi, M. (2006, May). Disclosure of Combat Events. Poster presented at the
annual meetings of the American Psychological Society, New York City, NY, USA.
Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., & Bezemer, D. (2007, April). Children's and adolescents'
conceptions of personhood as embedded within interpersonal narratives. Poster
presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development,
Boston, MA, USA.
02/26/15
Pasupathi, M., McLean, K., & Weeks, T. L. (2007, July). Silences in self narrative: The told and
untold narrative self. Paper presented as part of the symposium There is more to silence
than silence: Leaving things unsaid shapes memory and the self (chairs R. Fivush & W.
Hirst), biennial meetings of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition,
Lewiston, ME, USA.
Pasupathi, M., (2009, February). The incremental predictive power of narrating on well-being
indicators. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Incremental validity of narratives
as predictors of psychological health (chair J. Lodi), annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL, USA.
Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., & Bellazetin, A. (2009, April). The implications of experiences of
discrimination for the development of ethnic identity in late adolescence. In the
symposium Discrimination, exclusion, and identity development (chairs S. Horn & C.
Wainryb). Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver,
CO, USA.
Pasupathi, M., Wainryb, C., & Wiessner, P. (2009, April). Why we fight: Bosnian and Enga
youths’ accounts of sociopolitical conflicts in Yugoslavia and Papua New Guinea. In the
symposium Beyond PTSD: Developmental Implications of Political Violence (chairs C.
Wainryb & M. Pasupathi). Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child
Development, Denver, CO, USA.
Wainryb, C., Pasupathi, M., Posada, R., & Wiessner, P. (2009, April). Moral agency and
revenge: War-displaced children in Colombia and Papua New Guinea speak about
experiences of interpersonal harm. In the symposium Beyond PTSD: Developmental
Implications of Political Violence (chairs C. Wainryb & M. Pasupathi). Biennial
meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO, USA.
Pasupathi, M., & Hoyt, T. (2009, May). Silence and the shaping of memory: Listener distraction,
schematic inferences, and subsequent memory for a computer game. In the symposium
How memory is shaped by social interaction: Effects of conversation and collaboration
(chairs G. Echterhoff & A. Memon). Annual meetings of the American Psychological
Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
McLean, K., & Pasupathi, M. (2009, May). Old, new, borrowed, & blue? The emergence and
retention of personal meaning in autobiographical storytelling. In the symposium The
relevance of narrative theory and methods for approaching diverse problems (chair J.
Adler). Annual meetings of the American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA,
USA.
Weeks, T., & Pasupathi, M. (2009, June). Adolescents’ autonomy and identity negotiation with
mothers vs. friends: Processes, issues, and outcomes. Paper presented at the meetings of
the Jean Piaget Society, Park City, UT, USA.
02/26/15
McLean, K. C., & Pasupathi, M. (2009, July). Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue? The emergence
and retention of meaning in autobiographical storytelling. Poster presented at the
Association for Research in Personality, Chicago, IL.
Villalobos, M. Gabrielsen, T., Pasupathi, M., Miller, J. (2009). Can Temperament add to our
understanding of early autism? Differences between toddlers who screen positive for
autism v. developmental delay. International Meeting for Autism Research.
Thoman, D., Sansone, C., Pasupathi, M., Arizaga, J. (January, 2010). How conversation partners
affect the development of students’ interest and motivation. Poster presented at the
annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Pasupathi, M., Morar, V., & Wainryb, C. (March, 2010). What narratives may reveal about
variations in the experience of being the victim of ethnicity-based discrimination. In the
symposium, Innovative approaches to understanding experiences of discrimination:
Insights from narrative psychology. (chair Moin Syed). Biennial meetings of the Society
for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.
Weeks, T. L., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2010). Identity construction in mother-teen conversations:
Stability and change. In the symposium, Conversations and stories: Adolescent
development in the context of conversations about the self, family, and conflict. (Chair
Kate McLean). Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence,
Philadelphia, PA.
Weeks, T. L., & Pasupathi, M. (May, 2010). Mother and teen talk about memories: Identity in the
making. In the symposium, Collaborative Learning and Remembering II (Chairs: Suparna
Rajaram & William Hirst). Annual meetings of the American Psychological Society,
Boston, MA, USA.
Pasupathi, M., & Weeks, T. L. (June, 2010). Like and unlike me: Identity challenge in parentadolescent dialogues. Presentation at the workshop: Adolescent narrative identity in
dialogue and monologue. Organizer: Tilman Habermas. Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Germany.
Odonnell, N., Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (June, 2010). “Just Say Sorry”:
Experiences of forgiveness and ideas for revenge in children and adolescents. Poster
presented at the annual meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, St. Louis, MO, USA.
O’Donnell, N., Recchia, H. E., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2011). Children’s and
adolescents’ narrative accounts of their forgiveness experiences. Poster presented at the
biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
02/26/15
Wainryb, C., Recchia, H. E., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2011). Helping and hurting: The
construction of moral agency in children’s conversations with their mothers. Paper
presented as part of the symposium: Parent-Child conversations as contexts for moral
development (Chaired by C. Wainryb & H. E. Recchia), biennial meetings of the Society
for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Pasupathi, M. (April, 2011). When meaning-making and well-being don’t correlate: Emergent
adults narrate everyday self-discrepancies for entertainment goals. Poster as part of the
poster symposium: Meaning-making in adolescents’ personal narratives: Is more always
better? (organized by A. F. Greenhoot).
Recchia, H. E., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2011, June). “I didn’t mean to hurt her but I was
just so mad”: Children’s and adolescents’ narrative accounts of harming their younger
siblings and friends. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean Piaget Society,
Berkeley, CA.
Twali, M., Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C. (2011, June). Types of ethnicity-based discrimination
and implications on ethnic identity. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean
Piaget Society, Berkeley, CA.
Pasupathi, M., Twali, M., & Wainryb, C. (2011, June). Memories for positive versus negative
experiences of discrimination and their relations with ethnic identity. Paper presented as
part of the symposium “Autobiographical memory, self, and well-being”(chair Robyn
Fivush) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and
Cognition, New York City, NY, USA.
Pasupathi, M., Mansfield, C., & Wainryb. C. (2012, January). Conflicted Agency and Emotions
in Self-Relevant Experiences. Paper presented as part of the symposium “Authoring an
agentic life: The powerful theme of agency in personal narratives” (Chairs Jon Adler and
Dan McAdams) at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.
Mansfield, C., Pasupathi, M., & McLean, K. (2012, January). Assessing links between
psychological well-being and the narration of growth in stories of personal
transgressions. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.
Mansfield, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2012, March) How Goals and Modes of Narration Influence
Identity and Well-being in Emergent Adulthood. Paper presented at the Society for
Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, B.C. March, 8-10.
Pasupathi, M., Drews, F. A., Stefanucci, J., & Wainryb, C. (2013, January). Body-focused
narration of sedentary activity reduces subsequent caloric intake. Poster presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA, USA. January 17-20.
02/26/15
Mansfield, C., Pasupathi, M., Taheri, K., & Wainryb, C. (2013, January). Narrating wrongs we
do to others: Relationships with well-being and moral disengagement. Paper presented in
the symposium: From Crisis to Catalyst: The narrative transformation of difficulty into
self-development, chaired by Jack Bauer and Jonathan Adler. Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA, USA. January 17-20.
Bourne, S., Recchia, H. E., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (June, 2013). Interpreting others’
emotions, needs, and thoughts: The development of moral agency in mother-child
conversations about harm and help. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean
Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, USA.
Faulconbridge, O., Recchia, H. E., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (June, 2013). “I was so mad
that I didn’t want to forgive him”: Children’s and adolescents’ descriptions of their
reasons for forgiveness and nonforgiveness. Poster presented at the annual meetings of
the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, USA.
Scirocco, A., Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., Pasupathi, M. (2013). Moral socialization in motherchild conversations about hurting siblings and friends. Poster presented at the Association
for Moral Education society meetings.
Mansfield, C. D., & Pasupathi, M. (February, 2015). Exploring psychological situations and their
threats: Are specific kinds of negative events associated with specific threats to adaptive
functioning? Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.
Oldroyd, K., Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C. (February, 2015). The differential psychological
impact of positive and negative parenting experiences on identity. Poster presented at the
annual meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA,
USA.
Oldroyd, K., Pasupathi, M., & Wainryb, C. (March, 2015). Are mothers who see themselves as
growing from negative experiences warmer parents? Poster presented at the Biennial
meetings of the SRCD, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Faulconbridge, O., Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., Posada, R., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2015). I
forgave him cuz he showed he was sorry: Adolescents’ reasons for forgiveness and
nonforgiveness in different cultural contexts. Poster presented at the Biennial meetings of
the SRCD, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2015). Associations between relationship
quality and children’s narrative accounts of transgressions against friends. Poster
presented at the Biennial meetings of the SRCD, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Scirocco, A., Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (March, 2015). Are maternal moral
socialization strategies sensitive to sibling conflict features and relationship quality?
Poster presented at the Biennial meetings of the SRCD, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
02/26/15
Scirocco, A., Recchia, H., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (June, 2015). Mother-child
conversations about hurting siblings and friends: Similarities and differences in maternal
approaches to moral socialization. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean
Piaget Society, Toronto, CA, USA.
Recchia, H., Sarmiento-Dusson, V., Wainryb, C., & Pasupathi, M. (June, 2015). “What does it
mean to forgive?” Children’s and adolescents’ evolving understandings of forgiveness.
Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, CA, USA.
02/26/15
Student Supervision
Role
Successful Completion?
PhD Level
Chair/co-chair
Committee
Chair/Co-chair
Committee
Mike Richardson
Atara MacNamara
Trisha Weeks
Cade Mansfield
Masha Komolova
Resigned
Yes
Yes
In progress
Yes
Stacy Eddings
Le Ngu
Dustin Thoman
Beverly Brehl
Roberto Posada
Andy Dohanos
(communications)
Cheryl Brohard (nursing)
Susan Matney (nursing)
Emma Mansour
Dotan Castro (business
school, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)
Guy Itschakov (business
school, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)
Emma Mansour (counseling)
Ryan Nagy
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Completed
In progress
Completed
Completed
In progress
Yes
Resigned
Masters Level
Sarah Lucas
Cora Rice
Tao Liu
Vladimir Morar
Nick O’Donnell
Stacia Bourne
Michelle Twali
Jake Billitteri
Kris Oldroyd
Katie Symanowski
Yes
Yes
Yes
Terminated
Resigned
In progress
In progress
In progress
In progress
In progress
Michelle Skinner
Marcy Langley
Yes
Terminated
02/26/15
Role
Vanessa Vallejos
Holly Bell
Successful Completion?
Yes
Resigned
UROP/Senior Thesis
Primary Mentor
Ben Rich
Dave Shaw
Luke Hanley
Monica Forsman
Jed Brubaker
Stuart Walker
Esther Ellison*
Tim Hoyt*
Jennica Galloway
Kiana Taheri
Kris Oldroyd
Grace Hanley
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes (Honors thesis)
Yes
Completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
02/26/15
Professional Memberships
American Psychological Association (divisions 7, 8, 20)
Society for Research on Child Development
Society for Research on Adolescence
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition
Society for Personology
Reviewing Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of Personality
Editorial Board, Psychology and Aging
Action Editor, Memory
Ad-Hoc Reviewer for:
American Psychologist
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Developmental Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
Consciousness and Cognition
Memory
Discourse Processes
International Journal of Behavioral Development
International Journal of Aging and Human Development
Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
Journal of Research on Personality
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Motivation and Emotion
Proposal review
National Science Foundation
William T. Grant foundation
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Fonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftliche Forschung (Austrian version of the National
Science Foundation)
02/26/15
Community and Disciplinary Service
National
Membership Chair, 2001-2003. Division 20 "Adult Development and Aging", American
Psychological Association.
Reviewer, National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), 2003.
Departmental
Professional Issues and Ethics Committee, Summer 2011 - present
Developmental Area Coordinator, Fall 2009- present
Undergraduate committee (Fall 2001 – Summer 2011, chair Fall 2006- 2009)
Diversity committee, Psychology Department, University of Utah (1999-2001).
Measurement/Design ad-hoc curriculum committee (Fall 2002 – Fall 2003).
Clinical/Diversity search committee (2002-2003).
Clinical/Neuroscience search committee (2000-2001).
Ad-hoc committee on graduate recruitment (2000-2001).
Developmental Area Brown Bag coordinator (1999-2000).
University & Community
University Research Committee, August 2010 – present.
Advisory Board, Utah Symposium on Science and Literature, September 2004-present
Area Explorations Curriculum Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, August 20042007.
College curriculum committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, August 2008-August
2010.
Academic Appeals and Misconduct Committee, College of Health – October 2003-July
2006
Presentation for the CSBS advisory board (February, 2003).
Organizer of presentation to the "Youth teaching Youth" high school program (April,
2001).
Mentor, high-school interns from "Youth teaching Youth" (September 2001 thru June
2002).
Member, internal review committee for the Department of Linguistics. Spring 2001.
SROP mentor, Summer 2000.
Successful Aging," presentation to the Murray Stake of the LDS Church, September,
2000.