MICHELLE M. WIRTH Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame 123B Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN EDUCATION TEACHING

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1 MICHELLE M. WIRTH Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame 123B Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN EDUCATION University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Department of Psychology. Post-doctoral trainee. Mentor: Heather C. Abercrombie, Ph.D. Supported by NIMH Emotion Research Training Grant (P.I.: Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Department of Psychology. M.A. 2003; Ph.D., Mentor: Oliver C. Schultheiss, Ph.D. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. B.A., Psychobiology, University of Notre Dame (2009-present): TEACHING Introduction to Biopsychology (PSY / 60501) Lecture course, survey of biopsychology / neuroscience, incl. sheep brain dissection / basic neuroanatomy. Topics in the Neurophysiology of Stress (PSY / 63533) Senior seminar; overview and special topics in the physiology and neuroscience of stress hormones and the HPA axis; read and discuss classic and current scientific literature. Applied Hormones and Behavior: incorporating measurements of cortisol and other hormones in psychology research (PSY 63540) Graduate seminar (also open to upper-level undergraduates) covering the theory and practice of incorporating hormone measurements in social science research. Capstone group research projects which have led to longer-term collaborative projects. Undergraduate Research. Supervising student research, including UROP independent projects and undergraduate theses. Please contact me for syllabi or other course-related information. TEACHING INTERESTS: Introduction to biopsychology (a.k.a. brain and behavior, physiological psychology); behavioral endocrinology (hormones and behavior); emotion and motivation; stress and the HPA axis; sex differences and reproductive physiology; evolutionary psychology; comparative psychology / animal cognition. Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan ( ): Mentorship and lab training: Training and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in laboratory research, Includes 5 who completed an undergraduate thesis or independent project. Graduate student instructor, Psychology as a research science (research methods course) 2 discussion sections; Introduction to psychology 2 discussion sections; Introduction to biopsychology - 3 discussion sections X 2 semesters. University of Michigan, PREVIOUS POSITIONS Post-doctoral trainee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Mentor: Heather Abercrombie. 1-MW

2 Graduate student research assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Mentor: Oliver Schultheiss. Laboratory Technician, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service P.I.s: Silvia Giraudo; Allen Levine. Research conducted concerned the involvement of the hypothalamic melanocortin system in consummatory behavior in rats. SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS National Institute of Aging (NIA)-sponsored pre-conference to Society for Affective Science (SAS) meeting (2014). One of 27 invitees identified as rising young stars to this workshop hosted by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Lis Nielsen. Large Social Sciences Research grant, 2014, fully funded ($9,759.00) by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), University of Notre Dame. See under Grant Support, below. Senior author on Best Poster Award winning poster (first author: Ph.D. student Allison Gaffey), International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference, August Henkels Lecture grant (University of Notre Dame, 2010): Received funding to help host Frans de Waal, Ph.D. (C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University; director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Center) to speak at Notre Dame January, 2011 ($3000). Provost s Initiative on Building Intellectual Community (University of Notre Dame, ): Received funding for Conversations on Brain, Mind and Behavior (interdisciplinary faculty group), cocoordinated with Jessica Payne ($4000 awarded, 2010; renewed in 2011.) Recipient, National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program (2007): Competitive program through NIH to help repay student loans for individuals doing clinically-oriented research. Pre-doctoral Awards: Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion Fellow (University of Wisconsin, 2006) Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference Student Travel Award, (2006) Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (University of Michigan, 2005) Pillsbury Graduate Research Award (University of Michigan, 2004) Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship, (NSF; 2003; 2002.) Rackham Travel Award (University of Michigan, 2002; 2006; 2006) Rackham Regents Fellowship (University of Michigan, 2001) REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Underline indicates Notre Dame student Wirth, M. M., Gaffey, A. E., Martinez, B. S., Effects of intranasal oxytocin on steroid hormones in men and women. Neuropsychobiology, 71(4): Wirth, M. M., Hormones, stress, and cognition: The effects of glucocorticoids and oxytocin on memory. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1: NIHMSID # Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M., Stress, rejection, and hormones: Cortisol and progesterone reactivity to laboratory speech and rejection tasks in women and men [v2; ref status: indexed, F1000Research, 3:208 (doi: /f1000research ) Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M., Hoks, R. M., Jahn, A. L., Abercrombie, H. C., Circulating cortisol levels after exogenous cortisol administration are higher in women using hormonal contraceptives: Data from two preliminary studies. Stress 17(4): MW

3 Abercrombie, H. C., Wirth, M. M., Hoks, R. M., Inter-individual differences in trait negative affect moderate cortisol s effects on memory formation: Preliminary findings from two studies. Psychoneuroendocrinoloy 37(5): PMCID: PMC Wirth, M. M., Beyond the HPA axis: progesterone-derived neuroactive steroids in human stress and emotion. Frontiers in Endocrinology 2:19 (Special Issue: Neurosteroids). doi: /fendo Wirth, M. M., Scherer, S. M., Hoks, R. M., Abercrombie, H. C., The effect of cortisol on emotional responses depends on order of cortisol and placebo administration in a within-subjects design. Psychoneuroendocrinology 36(7): PMCID: PMC Stanton, S. J., Wirth, M. M., Waugh, C. E. and Schultheiss, O. C., Endogenous testosterone levels are associated with amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex responses to anger faces in men but not women. Biological Psychology 81(2): PMCID: PMC Brown, S. L., Fredrickson, B. L., Wirth, M. M., Poulin, M. J., Meier, E. A., Heaphy, E. D., Cohen, M. D. & Schultheiss, O. C., Social intimacy increases salivary progesterone in humans. Hormones and Behavior 56(1): PMCID: PMC Schultheiss, O. C., Wirth, M. M., Waugh, C. E., Stanton, S. J., Meier, E. A., Reuter-Lorenz, P., Exploring the motivational brain: Effects of implicit power motivation on brain activation in response to facial expressions of emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 3(4): PMCID: PMC Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C., Basal testosterone moderates responses to anger faces in humans. Physiology & Behavior 90(2-3): Wirth, M. M., Meier, E. A., Fredrickson, B. L., Schultheiss, O.C., Relationship between salivary cortisol and progesterone levels in humans. Biological Psychology 74: Bomberg, E. M., Grace, M. K., Wirth, M. M., Levine, A. S., Olszewski, P. K., Central ghrelin induces feeding driven by energy needs not reward. Neuroreport 18(6): Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C., Effects of affiliation arousal (hope of closeness) and affiliation stress (fear of rejection) on progesterone and cortisol. Hormones and Behavior 50: Wirth, M. M., Welsh, K. M., Schultheiss, O. C., Salivary cortisol changes in humans after winning or losing a dominance contest depend on implicit power motivation. Hormones and Behavior 49: Schultheiss, O. C., Wirth, M. M., Torges, C. M., Pang, J. C., Villacorta, M. A., Welsh, K. M., Effects of implicit power motivation on men's and women's implicit learning and testosterone changes after a social victory or defeat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 88(1): Schultheiss, O. C., Pang, J. C., Torges, C. M., Wirth, M. M., Treynor, W. F. C., Perceived facial expressions of emotion as motivational incentives: evidence from a differential implicit learning paradigm. Emotion 5(1): Schultheiss, O. C., Wirth, M. M., Stanton, S. J., Effects of affiliation and power motivation arousal on salivary progesterone and testosterone. Hormones and Behavior 46: Olszewski, P. K., Wickwire K., Wirth, M. M., Levine, A. S., Giraudo, S. Q., Agouti-related protein: appetite or reward? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 994: Olszewski, P. K., Wirth, M. M., Shaw, T. J., Grace, M. K., Levine, A. S., Peptides that regulate food intake: effect of peptide histidine isoleucine on consummatory behavior in rats. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 284(6): R Wirth, M. M., Olszewski, P. K., Levine, A. S., Giraudo, S. Q., Effect of Agouti-related protein on development of conditioned taste aversion and oxytocin neuronal activation. Neuroreport 13(10): MW

4 Olszewski, P. K., Wirth, M. M., Shaw, T. J., Grace, M. K., Billington, C. J., Giraudo, S. Q., Levine, A. S., The role of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the regulation of consummatory behavior: immunohistochemical evidence. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 281(2): R Olszewski P. K., Wirth M. M., Grace M. K., Levine A. S., Giraudo S. Q., Evidence of interactions between melanocortin and opioid systems in regulation of feeding. Neuroreport 12(8): Wirth, M. M., Giraudo, S. Q., Effect of Agouti-related protein delivered to the dorsomedial hypothalamus on intake of a preferred versus a non-preferred diet. Brain Research 897(1-2): Wirth, M. M., Olszewski, P. K., Yu, C., Levine, A. S., Giraudo, S. Q., Paraventricular hypothalamic α- melanocyte-stimulating hormone and MTII reduce feeding without causing aversive effects. Peptides 22(1): Wirth, M. M., Giraudo, S. Q., Agouti-related protein in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: effect on feeding. Peptides 21(9): Book chapters: UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS Wirth, M. M., Gaffey, A. E., Hormones and emotion: stress and beyond. In: Harmon-Jones, E. & Robinson, M. D. (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion and Cognition. Guilford Press, New York, NY. Schultheiss, O. C., Wirth, M. M., Biopsychological aspects of motivation. In: J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Eds.), Motivation and action, 2 nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. Encyclopedia entries: Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M., Physiological Arousal. In: Alex C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M., Psychophysiological Measures. In: Alex C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp Book reviews: Hollocher, H., Pence, C. H., Ramsey, G., Wirth, M. M., A path to success? A review of Evolution, Development, and the Predictable Genome by David L. Stern. Evolution and Development. Hollocher, H., Fuentes, A., Pence, C. H., Ramsey, G., Sportiello, D. J., Wirth, M. M., Review of: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Boyd, B., Belknap Press, 2010.) The Quarterly Review of Biology 86(2): Letters: Wirth, M. M., Stanton, S. J., Gaffey, A. E., Liening, S. H., Letter in response to Ackermann et al., "Testosterone levels in healthy men are related to amygdala reactivity and memory performance". Psychoneuroendocrinology 37(9): Wirth, M. M., Abercrombie, H. C., Response to Letter to the Editor re: The effect of cortisol on emotional responses depends on order of cortisol and placebo administration in a within-subjects design. Psychoneuroendocrinology 36(7): Manuscripts in preparation / under review: 4-MW

5 Wirth, M. M., Corning, A., Davoli, C. C., Brockmole, J. R., Martinez, B. M., Gaffey, A. E., Buckley, C. Eating disorder symptoms modulate an Attentional Blink in response to food images. (In preparation) Gaffey, A. E., Bergeman, C. M., Clark, L. A., Wirth, M. M. The HPA axis and resilience to stress in older adults. (In preparation) Wirth, M. M., Gaffey, A. E., Cunningham, T. J., & Villano, M. Effects of intranasal oxytocin on psychophysiological responses to emotional pictures in men. (In preparation) Invited workshop: PRESENTATIONS Wirth, M. M. Assessing steroid hormones in saliva: a 3-day workshop. Invited to present at University of Iowa, Department of Sociology, October, Invited talks: Oxytocin and (social) cognition: A critical review and alternate perspective. Invited to present at Adapted Mind Adapted Body: The Evolution of Human Social Behavior and its Neuroendocrine Regulation, Erice, Sicily, Italy, June Oxytocin and Human Cognition. Invited to present at Midwest Psychological Association (MPA) conference, Social Neuroendocrinology symposium, Chicago, IL, May Not just social: Evidence for broader effects of oxytocin on human cognition. Invited to present at the Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, Not just social: Evidence for broader effects of oxytocin on human cognition. Invited to present at University of New Orleans (UNO) Department of Psychology, January, Stress hormones, mood, and emotion. Invited to present at University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology, October, Conference presentations: Underline indicates Notre Dame student Gaffey, A. E., Bergeman, C. M., Wirth, M. M. Age-related changes in diurnal cortisol in a community sample. Data blitz talk (presented by A. Gaffey), Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting, Long Beach, CA, February, Gaffey, A. E., Martinez, B. M., Lienhoop, T. G., Wirth, M. M. Physiological response to social-evaluative stress in gay men. Poster, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference, Montreal, Canada, August Gaffey, A. E., Lienhoop, T. G., Martinez, B. M., Wirth, M. M. Acute stress improves men s working memory performance. Poster, American Psychological Association (APA) convention, Washington, D.C., August *2014 APA Division 6 Outstanding Poster Award Winner Cunningham, A. J., Wirth, M. M., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Blomeke, K., Rawding, J., Payne, J. D. Alcohol s effect on the cortisol awakening response. Poster, Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Boston, MA, April Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. Effects of oxytocin on corrugator muscle response to emotional pictures in men. Data blitz talk (presented by A. Gaffey), Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting, Austin, TX, February, MW

6 Gaffey, A. E., Martinez, B. S., Wirth, M. M. Sex differences in oxytocin s influence on working memory and steroid hormones in humans. Poster, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference, Leiden, Netherlands, August *2013 ISPNE Best Poster Award Winner Gaffey, A. E., Wirth M. M., Hoks, R. M., Jahn, A. L., Abercrombie, H. C. Circulating cortisol levels after exogenous cortisol depend on individuals' sex and hormonal birth control use. Poster, ISPNE, Leiden, Netherlands, August Gaffey, A. E., Tixier, R. M., Martinez, B. S., Wirth, M. M. Intranasal oxytocin effects on men s autonomic nervous system and emotional reactivity. Poster, Wisconsin Emotion Symposium, Madison, WI, April, Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. Intranasal oxytocin effects on autonomic activity in men. Data blitz talk (presented by A. Gaffey), Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, Gaffey, A. E., Nuttall, A., Cunningham, A., Mattingly, S., Wirth, M. M., Valentino, K., Payne, J. D. Child abuse moderates cortisol s relationship to memory. Talk (presented by A. Gaffey), ISPNE conference, New York, NY, September, Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. Intranasal oxytocin effects on women s hormones. Poster, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) conference, Madison, WI, June Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. Physiological and affective responses to stress predict depressive symptoms change over time. Poster, Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference, Chicago, IL, May Mattingly, S., Kensinger, E. A., Wirth, M. M., Mickley-Steinmetz, K., Cunningham, A., Chambers, A., Payne, J. D. The Impact of Stress and Cortisol on Tradeoff Effects in Long-Term Memory. Poster, Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference, Chicago, IL, May Christoffel, K. C., Gaffey, A. E., Brooks, J. A., Pruitt, T., Wirth, M. M. Don t ask now, ask later: Closeness and temporal distance differentially affect willingness to help. Poster, Midwest Cognitive Science Conference (MWCSC), Bloomington, IN, May Gaffey, A. E., Brooks, J. A., Martinez, B. S., Wirth, M. M. When to phone a friend? Stress predicts social support seeking. Poster, Midwest Psychological Association (MPA) conference, Chicago, IL, May Mattingly, S., Kensinger, E. A., Wirth, M. M., Payne, J. D. The influence of post-encoding stress on emotional memory trade-offs. Poster, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Chicago, IL, March Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. The utility of progesterone in social stress. Poster, Society for Psychophysiology Research (SPR) conference, Boston, MA, September Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. The strain of isolation: Cortisol reactivity to rejection and affiliation after stress. Poster, Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference, Washington D.C., May Hendriks, E. A., Wirth, M. M. Self-compassion buffers negative affect but does not moderate cortisol response following the Trier Social Stress Task. Poster, Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference, Washington D.C., May Wirth, M. M., Monticelli, R. M., Jackson, D. C., Abercrombie, H. C. Corrugator and startle responses predict memory for emotional pictures: differential effects of emotion category. Poster, Society for Psychophysiology Research (SPR) conference, Austin, TX, October Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C. Relationships Between Progesterone and Implicit Affiliation Motivation. Talk (presented by M. Wirth), SPR conference, Savannah, GA, October MW

7 Hall, J. L., Waugh, C. E., Stanton, S. J., Wirth, M. M., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Schultheiss, O. C. Implicit Motivation in the Brain: The Role of Implicit Power and Affiliation Motivation on Neural Responses to Angry Facial Expressions. Talk, SPR conference, Savannah, GA, October Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C. Evidence for progesterone as a stress-responsive affiliation hormone in humans. Poster, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference, Leiden, Netherlands, August Stanton, S. J., Wirth, M. M., Waugh, C. E., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Schultheiss, O. C. Brain activation in response to facial expressions of anger: the role of testosterone. Poster, ISPNE conference, Leiden, Netherlands, August Wirth, M. M., Meier, E. A., Fredrickson, B. L., Schultheiss, O.C. Relationship between salivary cortisol and progesterone levels in humans. Poster, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN), Pittsburgh, PA, June Wirth, M. M., Stanton, S. J., Waugh, C. E., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Schultheiss, O. C. Brain activation in response to facial signals of dominance and submission: the role of implicit power motivation. Poster, Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference (SPSP), Palm Springs, CA, January Stanton, S. J., Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C. Effects of perceivers implicit power motivation on attentional orienting to Pavlovian-conditioned cues of anger and joy. Poster, SPSP, Palm Springs, CA, January Wirth, M. M., Schultheiss, O. C. Implicit motives and facial expressions of emotion. Talk (presented by M. Wirth), American Psychological Association (APA) conference, Toronto, Ontario, August Wirth, M.M., Pang, J. S., Torges, C. M., Villacorta, M. A., Treynor, W. F. C., Lee, T. M., Schultheiss, O. C. Testosterone moderates the effect of anger faces on implicit sequence learning. Poster, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, Orlando, FL, November Olszewski, P. K., Wirth, M. M., Grace, M. K., Giraudo, S. Q., Billington, C. J., Calo, G., Guerrini, R., Levine, A.S. Antagonism of the nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) receptor causes anorexigenic effects and delays extinction of LiCl-induced conditioned taste aversion (CTA). Poster, SfN conference, San Diego, CA, November Wirth, M. M., Giraudo, S. Q. Effect of Agrp on POMC mrna expression. Talk, North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) conference, Quebec City, Quebec, October Wirth, M. M., Giraudo, S. Q. Agouti-related protein and leptin in regulation of body weight. Poster, Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) conference, Philadelphia, PA, July Olszewski, P. K., Wirth, M. M., Shaw, T. J., Grace, M. K., Billington, C. J., Giraudo, S. Q., Levine, A. S. The role of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the regulation of consummatory behavior: immunohistochemical evidence. Talk, SSIB conference, Philadelphia, PA, July Wirth, M. M., Olszewski, P. K., Levine, A. S., Giraudo, S. Q. Effect on food intake of hypothalamic Agouti-related protein: energy or reward mechanism? Talk, NAASO conference, Los Angeles, CA, November Olszewski, P. K., Shaw, T. J., Grace, M. K., Wirth, M. M., Billington, C. J., Levine, A. S. Effect of peptide histidine isoleucine on consummatory behavior in rats. Poster, SfN conference, New Orleans, LA, November Wirth, M. M., Giraudo, S. Q. Agouti-related protein effect on food intake: mechanism of action. Poster, NAASO conference, November GRANT SUPPORT Current 7-MW

8 Bi-Annual Spring 2014 Large Social Sciences Research grant, $9, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), University of Notre Dame Can oxytocin s (pro)social effects be explained by its effects on working memory? 3/11/14 3/10/16 P.I.: Michelle Wirth NIA 1 R21 AG Glucocorticoid sensitivity and well-being in aging: bi-directional relationships 9/30/12 8/31/14; No-cost extension through 8/31/15 P.I.: Michelle Wirth NIA 2 R01 AG The Notre Dame Study of Health and Well-Being (competitive renewal) 9/1/11 8/31/16 P.I.: Cindy S. Bergeman Role: Co-investigator, 0.5 calendar months support Marsden Fund (New Zealand federal funding agency) full research proposal. What makes us share food with others? The role of the neurohormone oxytocin in social aspects of eating behaviour. P.I.: Pawel K. Olszewski -- University of Waikato, New Zealand. Role: Co-investigator , University of Wisconsin Post-doctoral traineeship, NIMH Institutional NRSA: T32 MH The Emotion Research Training Grant P.I.: Richard J. Davidson Role: Post-doctoral trainee. Post-doctoral research supported in part by: 1K08 MH HPA & Emotional Information Processing in Depression P.I.: Heather C. Abercrombie Role: Served as a co-investigator , University of Michigan National Science Foundation BCS Facial expressions as motivational incentives P.I.: Oliver C. Schultheiss Role: Served as a co-investigator. Office of the Vice President for Research Grant, University of Michigan Effects of implicit motives on brain activation in response to facial expressions of emotion: An fmri investigation P.I.: Oliver C. Schultheiss Role: Key Personnel. STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS & THESES SUPERVISED Graduate student awards and honors: Extramural Awards: Allison Gaffey - National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship, covering her tuition and stipend for 3 years of predoctoral study. 8-MW

9 Allison Gaffey was selected to serve as the Biopsychology Representative on the American Psychological Association (APA) Science Student Council 2014 Allison Gaffey was a recipient of an APA Dissertation Research Award ($1000) 2014 Allison Gaffey s poster received the Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) APA Convention Outstanding Student Poster Award 2014 Allison Gaffey - APA Science Directorate APA Convention Graduate Student Travel Award ($1000) Allison Gaffey - Young Investigator Travel Fellowship ($800) for the 2014 International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) annual conference (August 19-22, 2014 in Montréal, Quebec) 2013 Allison Gaffey s poster received Best Poster Award at the ISPNE meeting (Aug. 2013, Leiden, Netherlands) 2011 Allison Gaffey was awarded an APA Graduate Student Conference Travel Award ($200) 2011 Allison was selected by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for a Travel Assistance Award to attend the annual APS Conference Intramural Awards: Allison Gaffey received an Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA) to help fund her dissertation project, A Profile of Intranasal Oxytocin Effects on Human Memory, Stress and Physiology ($2500) 2013 Allison Gaffey received a Notre Dame Notebaert Professional Development Fund Graduate Student Professional Development Award ($2400) and a Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant ($400) for travel to the ISPNE conference In Leiden, Netherlands 2012 Allison Gaffey received an ISLA Graduate Student Professional Development Award ($1000) for travel to the ISPNE conference in New York, NY Allison Gaffey received the Graduate Research Award through the Earnest Swarm Notre Dame Psychopathology Research Fund to help fund the project, "Biological Vulnerability to the Development of Psychopathology. ($1500) Allison received an ISLA Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA) to help fund her Master s Thesis Project, Oxytocin Effects on Human Affect and Cognition. ($2000) 2011 Allison received ISLA Graduate Student Professional Development and Graduate Student Union funds for travel to the Society for Psychophysiology Research (SPR) conference 2011 Allison received an ISLA Graduate Student Professional Development Award for travel to the Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference Undergraduate presentations and posters: (underline indicates undergraduate student) Owens, S., Gaffey, A. E., Wirth, M. M. Hormonal Dysregulation as a Risk Factor for Depression in Early Adulthood. Poster, Midwest Psychological Association (MPA) conference, Chicago, IL, April Gaffey, A. E., Martinez, B. M., Lienhoop, T. G., Wirth, M. M. Evaluator Gender and Attractiveness Influence Physiological Responses to Social-Evaluative Stress in Gay Men. Poster, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference, Montreal, Canada, August Gaffey, A. E., Lienhoop, T. G., Martinez, B. M., Wirth, M. M. Acute stress improves men s working memory performance. Poster, American Psychological Association (APA), Washington, D.C., August Gaffey, A. E., Tixier, R. M., Martinez, B. S., Wirth, M. M. Intranasal oxytocin effects on men s autonomic nervous system and emotional reactivity. Poster, Wisconsin Emotion Symposium, Madison, WI, April, Christoffel, K. C., Gaffey, A. E., Brooks, J. A., Pruitt, T., Wirth, M. M. Don t ask now, ask later: Closeness and temporal distance differentially affect willingness to help. Poster, presented at the Midwest Cognitive Science Conference (MWCSC), Bloomington, IN, May Martinez, B. S. & Wirth, M. M. Effects of a socially evaluated cold pressor test on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and memory retrieval. Poster, presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), St. Louis, MO, November, won a best poster award at ABRCMS. 9-MW

10 Martinez, B. S. & Wirth, M. M. Effects of a Socially Evaluative Cold Pressor Task on Hypothalamic-Pituitary- Adrenal Axis Activity and Memory Retrieval. Oral presentation (one of only 11 selected out of 100+ student presenters) at Notre Dame s 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Notre Dame, IN, August, Kline-Quiroz, C. & Wirth, M. M. Stress and Aggression: Relationships between Aggressive Feelings, Behavior, and the Stress Hormone Cortisol. Poster, presented at the Notre Dame Undergraduate Scholars Conference, Notre Dame, IN, May, Dissertation committees: Tony Cunningham (mentor: Jessica Payne) TBA. Allison Gaffey (mentor: Michelle Wirth) A Profile of Intranasal Oxytocin Effects on Human Memory, Stress and Physiology. Proposed Fall 2013; defended Spring Alexis Chambers (mentor: Jessica Payne) The Effect of Mood on Memory Consolidation. - Proposed Spring 2014; defended Spring Anne Johnson (mentor: Bradley Gibson), Determining the Effects of Acute Stress on Executive Functioning Among Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Completed Fall Andrea Tamplin (mentor: G.A. Radvansky), Inference from emotional items within and across events. Completed Summer Master s Thesis committees: Mitchell Kajzer (mentors: Charles Crowell and Mike Villano) Memorability of Computer Security Posters as Affected by Message Type. Proposed July 2013 / completed Dec Tony Cunningham (mentor: Jessica Payne) - The interactions of sleep, stress and depression and their effect on emotional memory consolidation. Proposed July 2013 / completed Aug Alexis Chambers (mentor: Jessica Payne) The Effect of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories. Completed Jan Allison Gaffey (mentor: Michelle Wirth) Oxytocin Effects on Human Affect and Cognition. Completed July First-Year Projects supervised: Brandy Martinez, TBA, Allison Gaffey, Hormonal and behavioral effects of rejection stress: a comparison to the Trier Social Stress Task. (2011) completed Fall 2011 Undergraduate Senior Theses supervised: Sarah Owens, Hormonal Dysregulation as a Risk Factor for Depression in Early Adulthood, Honors Thesis, Thomas Lienhoop, TSST Panel Composition: Effects of Gender and Attractiveness on Physiological Responses to Social-Evaluative Stress in Gay Men, Glynn Family Honors Program Thesis, Christina Buchanan, Effects of Oxytocin on Autonomic Responses to Stress. Glynn Family Honors Program Thesis, Kelly Miller, The Effect of a Night s Sleep on Social Closeness and Altruistic Feelings Kelsey Christoffel, Oxytocin and Testosterone in Female Social Cognition. Honors Thesis, McNair Program REU student projects supervised: Yanet Ruvalcaba (Florida International University), project title TBA. Brandy Martinez (Florida International University), The effects of the Social Evaluative Cold Pressor Task on cortisol, mood, and emotional memory retrieval: A pilot study. (2011) Selected for oral presentation in Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement summer REU symposium, 8/5/11 (10 out of 120+ students selected). Won travel award and poster award for presentation at ABRCMS. Undergraduate Research Opportunites (UROP) independent projects supervised: Erica Mitchell, The Impact of Stress on Working Memory. (Summer 2013.) Catherine Buckley, Oxytocin and the Suppression of Hunger. (Summer 2013.) 10-MW

11 Thomas Lienhoop, HPA axis negative feedback & cognition (Summer 2013.) Glynn Family Honors Program summer research funding for full-time work. Christina Buchanan, The Effect of Oxytocin on Autonomic Responses to Stress. (Summer 2012.) Glynn Family Honors Program summer research funding for full-time work. Ryan Tixier, Effects of Oxytocin on Cognition. (Summer 2012.) Kelsey Christoffel, Effects of a social closeness manipulation on empathy. (Oct ) Awarded $2250 in research funds to help support Senior Honors Thesis. Cristina Kline-Quiroz, The Effect of Aggression on the Body's Stress Response. (Summer 2010.) Mark Tancredi, Short-term Stress, Long-term Illness: How stress affects food choices. (Summer 2010.) : (at University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Psychology) Undergraduate Senior Theses supervised: Cindy Burzinski: Effect of Exogenously-Elevated Cortisol During Learning on Forgetting Senior Thesis. Camilia Cenek: Tunnel Vision : Effects of Cortisol on Perceptual Focus Senior Honors Thesis. Brittany Nanzig: The Effects of Cortisol on Working Memory and Long-term Memory Formation Senior Honors Thesis and Hilldale Award Project. Sean Scherer: The Effects of Exogenously-Elevated Cortisol in Inhibiting Habituation to Emotionally Arousing Contexts Independent Project / capstone for Biology major. 1/5/15 National / international: SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member, Editorial Board, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology (Springer) Co-organizer (with Elizabeth Page-Gould), Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference, prior to the 2014 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference, February 13, 2014, Austin, TX. Association for Psychological Science (APS) member. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) member. Society for Psychophysiology Research (SPR) member. Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) member. Ad hoc reviewer for scientific journals, including Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavioral Neuroscience; Biological Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Developmental Psychobiology; Hormones and Behavior; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Research in Personality; Motivation and Emotion; Neuropsychobiology; Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews; Psychological Science; Psychology & Aging; Psychoneuroendocrinology. University of Notre Dame: Unique initiatives: Member, Steering Committee, new cross-college undergraduate major in Neuroscience and Behavior Member, Psychology-Biology planning committee for creation of a cross-college Neuroscience and Behavior undergraduate major at Notre Dame Ad-hoc planning committee, Neuroscience of Stress and Adaptation, proposal for the Advancing Our Vision Initiative, University of Notre Dame Mentor, Notre Dame s Building Bridges Program program which pairs freshman from underrepresented groups with faculty mentors in their fields of interest Member, Evolution Working Group -- Notre Dame interdisciplinary faculty group producing reviews of books related to evolution and behavior Co-coordinator (with Jessica Payne), Conversations on Brain, Mind and Behavior (CBMB) -- interdisciplinary faculty discussion group; competitive proposal received funding from Provost s Office MW

12 2011; funding from College of Science Projects include leading a graduate student journal club; inviting speakers; helping build a new Brain and Mind major/concentration at Notre Dame Faculty coordinator, Student Association for Mind, Brain and Behavior (SMBB), student group promoting interest / education / career development in brain sciences, University of Notre Dame Member, Coordinating Committee, Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. First symposium: October 10-12, Second symposium: October 4-6, Notre Dame. Long-standing committees / typical service: Member, College Council, College of Arts & Letters, University of Notre Dame Psychology Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, University of Notre Dame Psychology Department Website Committee, University of Notre Dame Psychology Department Space Committee, University of Notre Dame Psychology Department Publicity and Events Committee, University of Notre Dame. Community: Volunteer, Riverbend Community Math Center. Lead activities in a summer program designed to enrich the math and science educations of local students grades ( Selected training activities: OTHER NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS National Institute of Aging (NIA)-sponsored pre-conference to Society for Affective Science (SAS) meeting (NIH Neuroscience Center, Rockville, MD, 2014). One of 27 invitees identified as rising young stars invited by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Lis Nielsen as part of goals to stimulate innovative research, foster collaborations, and inspire younger researchers to take a lifespan approach to affective science questions. Grant Writers Seminars and Workshops (GWSW) Grant-writing workshop, Selected for yearlong workshop participation. University of Notre Dame. Wisconsin Emotion Symposium. University of Wisconsin, 2006, 2007, 2008, (Discussant: 2007, 2008). Grant-writing seminar. Semester-long class led by Dr. Susan Ellis Weismer, Department of Communication Disorders. University of Wisconsin, Preparing Future Faculty Seminar. Summer-long program; competitive admission. University of Michigan (Center for Research on Learning and Teaching), Introduction to fmri. Two-week summer workshop. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 2004; MW