Curriculum Vitae
Kiel Loren Van Ness
Home Address: 235 Turkey Trot Drive
Lexington, VA 24450 • Phone: (540) 784-8957
Email: klvanness@mail.roanoke.edu
Personal Web Page: http://tinyurl.com/c4alopt
Educational Background
Currently Attending:
Roanoke College, Salem VA
Major: B.A. Psychology
Concentration: Human Development
Expected Graduation Date: May 2013
Professional Experience
Research Experience:
Fall 2009
Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Duties: Assisting with running studies, as well as data collection and entry.
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Buchholz, Ph.D.
Research Practicum:
Spring 2011—Fall 2011
Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Duties: Creating a research proposal for a study that examined the effects of personality
on film preferences.
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Buchholz, Ph.D.
Independent Study:
Spring 2012—Present
Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Duties: Conducting my own research study, in addition to entering and analyzing the
data. The findings of the study will be presented at the 2013 APS Conference.
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Buchholz, Ph.D.
Webmaster:
Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Duties: Organizational Web and Resource Management.
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Buchholz, Ph.D.
Spring 2012—Present
Professional Certification
National Institute of Health Certification: successfully completed the NIH Web-based
training course “Protecting Human Research Participants”.
Certification Link: http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/cert.php?c=535871
Conference Presentations
Bankert, M., VanNess, K., Hord, L., Pena, S. Keith, G., Urecki, C., & Buchholz, C. (2012,
February). Individual preferences for uncertainity: An ironically pleasurable stimulus.
Poster to be presented at the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Southeastern
Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Urecki, C., Keith, G., Hord, L., VanNess, K., Pena, S., Bankert, M., & Buchholz, C. (2012,
February). Examining close-mindedness and uncertainty’s effects on the likelihood to
hire ex-convicts. Poster to be presented at the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Buchholz, C., Pena, S., Hord, L., Keith, G., VanNess, K., Bankert, M., & Urecki, C. (2012,
February). The effects of cognitive load and complexity on music preference. Poster to be
Presented at the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological
Association, New Orleans, LA.
Bankert, M., Buchholz, C., Hoover, B., VanNess, K., Babbitt, A. & Urecki, C. (2011,
March). Examining the relationship between individual differences in musical knowledge
and music preference. Poster presented at the eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA.
Buchholz, C., Babbitt, A., VanNess, K., Hoover, B., Urecki, C., & Bankert, M. (2011,
March). Cognitive ability and the complexity of music: Complex systems seeking complex
stimuli. Poster presented at the eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, Cambridge, MA.
Urecki, C., Buchholz, C., Marsh, G., VanNess, K., Hoover, B., & Bankert, M. (2011,
March). The complexity of melancholy: Music preference and the perception of
music. Poster presented at the eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, Cambridge, MA.
Published Abstracts
Bankert, M., Buchholz, C., Hoover, B., VanNess, K., Babbitt, A. & Urecki, C.
(2011). Examining the relationship between individual differences in musical knowledge
and music preference. [Abstract] Eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, 92.
Buchholz, C., Babbitt, A., VanNess, K., Hoover, B., Urecki, C., & Bankert, M. (2011). Cognitive
ability and the complexity of music: Complex systems seeking complex
stimuli. [Abstract] Eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, 16.
Urecki, C., Buchholz, C., Marsh, G., VanNess, K., Hoover, B., & Bankert, M. (2011). The
complexity of melancholy: Music preference and the perception of
music. [Abstract] Eighty first annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, 17.
Activities
• Member of Eastern Psychological Association (EPA)
• Member of Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA)
• Employee at R/C State Theater in Lexington, Virginia (July 2007-Present)
• Member of PsiChi honor society
• Volunteer for Roanoke City Schools, tutoring students after school. (2009)
• Assisted Dr. Buchholz with the running of SIMSOC (a simulated society game) for his Social
Psychology class.
Professional Interests
• Counseling and therapy.
• Influences of personality on religious and political beliefs.
• Educational methods.
• How personality affects learning ability.
• Personality’s influence on taste in movies and music.
References
Christopher Buchholz, Ph.D.
Psychology Professor
Roanoke College
Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 375-4904
Mary Camac, Ph.D.
Psychology Professor
Roanoke College
Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 375-2474
Andreea Mihalache-O’Keef, Ph.D.
Public Affairs Professor
Roanoke College
Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 375-5297