SALLY S. DICKERSON Dept. of Psychology and Social Behavior School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine 4558 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway Irvine, CA 92697-7085 Email: sdickers@uci.edu Phone: (949) 824-4556 Fax: (949) 824-3002 EDUCATION 2004 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Major Area: Social Psychology Minor Area: Health Psychology 2000 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles Major Area: Social Psychology 1998 B.A. Southern Methodist University, magna cum laude Major: Psychology, with Departmental Distinction Minor: Biological Sciences PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2004-present Assistant Professor Department of Psychology & Social Behavior University of California, Irvine 1998-2004 Research and Teaching Assistant Department of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 Sage Young Scholars Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology recognizing exceptional individual achievements in social and/or personality psychology 2009 Elected to membership as a Fellow; Society for Experimental Social Psychology 2008 Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (recipient of both the School of Social Ecology & University-wide awards) 2005 Theoretical Innovation Prize, Honorable Mention, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, for the Dickerson & Kemeny (2004) meta-analysis
Sally S. Dickerson 2 2005 ISI Essential Science Indicators citation analysis designated the Dickerson & Kemeny (2004) meta-analysis as a hot paper and the most highly cited new paper in Psychology/Psychiatry (September, 2005) 2005 Presentation selected for the American Psychosomatic Society s conference opening session data blitz, which highlights the most exciting findings of the year in psychosomatic medicine (one of seven chosen) 2004 Charles & Sue Young Graduate Student Award (awarded to 3 UCLA graduate students in the arts and sciences for exemplary academic achievement, research, and university citizenship) 2004 Citation Poster, American Psychosomatic Society 2004 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Award 2003-2004, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1999-2001 2003 Health Emotions Research Institute Travel Award 2002 Harold H. Kelley Award, UCLA (honoring an exceptional research paper addressing basic issues or theory in social psychology) 2002 PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Scholars Award 2002 American Psychosomatic Society Scholars Award 2001 Outstanding Student Poster Award, Division 38 (Health Psychology) 2001-2003 National Research Service Award (Institutional), National Institute of Mental Health, Health Psychology Training Grant Fellowship 1998-1999 University Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles 1998 Phi Beta Kappa 1998 Psi Chi 1994-1998 University Scholarship, Southern Methodist University 1994-1995 Meadows Dance Scholarship, Southern Methodist University GRANTS 2007-2010 National Science Foundation (BCS-0720066) Social-evaluative threat, self-conscious emotion, and cortisol reactivity. Principal Investigator ($298,199). 2007-2009 American Psychology and Law Society Interdisciplinary Grant Variants of psychopathy and physical health: The role of stress reactivity. Co-Principal Investigator ($5,000). 2006-2007 Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing, and Library Resources Single Investigator Innovation Grant (UCI). Social-evaluative threat and cortisol responses: Generalizing from the laboratory to everyday
Sally S. Dickerson 3 experiences. Principal Investigator ($8,200) 2005-2008 Institute for Brain, Aging & Dementia (UCI). Stressor reactivity among spousal caregivers: Linking psychological & physiological processes. Co-Investigator ($30,000) 2005-present General Clinical Research Center (UCI) awarded funding for running cortisol assays for the following studies: Social-evaluative threat and cortisol responses: Generalizing from the laboratory to everyday experiences (Principal Investigator) Positive, negative, and mixed social responses: Emotional and physiological reactivity to stressful situations (Principal Investigator) Social-evaluative threat and physiological reactivity to stressful situations (Principal Investigator) Approach/avoidance goals & physiological reactivity to stressful situations (Principal Investigator) Social-evaluative threat: Does the number of evaluators influence cortisol reactivity? (Principal Investigator) Stressor reactivity among spousal caregivers: Linking psychological and physiological processes (Co-investigator) 2000-2004 Research funding obtained at UCLA: Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology Seed Grant, $19,500 UCLA General Clinical Research Center grant (for nursing support) UCLA Graduate Division Research Grant UCLA Psychology Department Research Grant (Dissertation research) UCLA Psychology Departmental Research Grant (Masters research) PUBLICATIONS *denotes graduate or undergraduate student co-author BOOK Blascovich, J., Dickerson, S. S., Mendes, W. B., & Vanman, E. (in press). Social Psychophysiology. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (in press). Physiological effects of social threat: Implications for health. To appear in J. Cacioppo & J. Decety, (Eds). Handbook of Social Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. Dickerson, S. S. (in press). Physiological responses to experiences of social pain. To appear in G. MacDonald and L. Jenson-Campbell (Eds.), Social Pain: A Neuroscientific, Social, and Health Psychology Analysis. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Sally S. Dickerson 4 Dickerson, S. S., Gable, S. L., Irwin, M. R., Aziz, N., & Kemeny, M. E. (2009). Socialevaluative threat and proinflammatory cytokine regulation: An experimental laboratory investigation. Psychological Science, 20, 1237-1244. Zoccola, P. M.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S.* (2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following an acute psychosocial stressor. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 771-775. Lam, S.*, Dickerson, S. S., Zoccola, P. M.*, Zaldivar, F. (2009). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a social-evaluative speech task. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1355-1362. Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2009). Psychobiological responses to social self threat: Functional or detrimental? Self & Identity, 8(2), 270-285. Dickerson, S. S., & Zoccola, P. M.* (2009). Toward a biology of social support. In S. Lopez & C. R. Snyder (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (2 nd edition, pp. 519-526). New York: Oxford University Press. Zoccola, P. M.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Rumination and cortisol responses to laboratory stressors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 661-667. Dickerson, S. S. (2008). Emotional and physiological responses to social-evaluative threat. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(3), 1362-1368. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek, P. J.*, & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Social evaluation but not mere social presence elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory stressor task. Health Psychology, 27(1), 116-121. Gruenewald, T. L., Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2007). A social function for the self-conscious emotions: Social-self preservation theory. In J. Tracy, R. Robins, & J. Tangney (Eds.), Self-Conscious Emotions 2 nd Ed. (pp. 68-87). New York: Guilford Press. Bower, J. E., Ganz, P. A., Dickerson, S. S., Petersen, L., Aziz, N., & Fahey, J. L. (2005). Diurnal cortisol rhythm and fatigue in breast cancer survivors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30(1), 92-100. Stetler, C., Dickerson, S. S., & Miller, G. E. (2004). Uncoupling of social zeitgebers and diurnal cortisol secretion in clinical depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29(10), 1250-1259. Aziz, N., Irwin, M. R., Dickerson, S. S., & Butch, A. W. (2004). Spurious tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-6 production by human monocytes using endotoxincontaminated Vacutainer blood collection tubes. Clinical Chemistry, 50(11), 2215-2216.
Sally S. Dickerson 5 Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). When the social self is threatened: Shame, physiology, and health. Journal of Personality, 72(6), 1192-1216. Dickerson, S. S., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., Kim, K. H., & Fahey, J. L. (2004). Immunological effects of induced shame and guilt. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66(1), 124-131. Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). Acute stressors and cortisol responses: A theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research. Psychological Bulletin, 130(3), 355-391. Taylor, S. E., Dickerson, S. S., & Klein, L. C. (2002). Toward a biology of social support. In C. R. Snyder and S. Lopez, (Eds.), The Handbook of Positive Psychology (pp. 556-569). New York: Oxford University Press. Davison, K. P., Pennebaker, J. W., & Dickerson, S. S. (2000). Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups. American Psychologist, 55, 205-217. Translated into: Davison, K. P., Pennebaker, J. W., Dickerson, S. S., & Noferi, G. (2001). Chi parla? La psicologia sociale dei gruppi di auto-aiuto nella malattia. Bollettino de Psicologia Applicata, 234, 3-19. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND OTHER WRITINGS Dickerson, S. S. (2009). Shelley E. Taylor (biography). In S. L. Lopez (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 984-985). Boston: Blackwell Publishing. Lam, S.* & Dickerson, S. S. (2009). Stress and relationships. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. Dickerson, S. S., & Mycek, P. J.* (2007). Health psychology. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), The encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. 415-419). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Kemeny, M. E., Gruenewald, T. L., & Dickerson, S. S. (2004). Shame as a basic emotional response to threats to the social self: Behavioral, physiological, and health effects (Commentary). Psychological Inquiry, 15(2), 153-160. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW/IN PROGRESS Dickerson, S. S. & Gable, S. L. (2009). Avoidance motives and goals: Effects on cognitive appraisals, emotion, physiology, and performance. Under revision. Robbins, M. L.*, Dickerson, S. S., Epstein, E. B.*, & Zaldivar, F. (2009). Effects of the potential for evaluation on cortisol: A preliminary investigation. Under review. Dickerson, S. S., Robbins, M. L.*, Epstein, E. B.*, Zoccola, P. M.* & Zaldivar, F. (2009). Valence of audience feedback and cortisol responses to social-evaluative threat. In preparation.
Sally S. Dickerson 6 Zoccola, P. M.* & Dickerson, S. S. (2009). Assessing the relationship between rumination and cortisol: A review. In preparation. PRESENTATIONS INVITED UNIVERSITY COLLOQUIA 2010 Carnegie Mellon University, Social Psychology Colloquium 2009 University of California, Irvine, Stress Research Colloquium 2009 University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Psychology Research Colloquium 2008 University of California, Irvine, Nursing Sciences Colloquium 2007 University of California, Los Angeles, Health Psychology Colloquium 2007 Furman University, Departmental Colloquium 2006 University of California, Santa Barbara, Social Area Colloquium 2006 University of Southern California, Social Area Colloquium 2006 University of California, Irvine, Departmental Colloquium 2006 University of Birmingham (UK), Dept. of Sport and Exercise Sciences 2004 University of California, San Diego, Social Area Colloquium 2004 University of Texas, Austin, Social Area Colloquium 2003 University of Chicago, Departmental Colloquium 2003 University of Virginia, Departmental Colloquium 2003 State University of New York, Buffalo, Departmental Colloquium 2003 University of California, Irvine, Departmental Colloquium 2003 University of California, Los Angeles, Psychoneuroimmunology Colloquium 2003 University of California, Los Angeles, Social Psychology Colloquium 2003 University of California, Los Angeles, Health Psychology Colloquium 2002 University of California, San Francisco, Health Psychology Colloquium 2002 State University of New York, Stony Brook, Departmental Colloquium 2002 University of California, Los Angeles, Psychoneuroimmunology Colloquium 2001 University of California, Los Angeles, Health Psychology Colloquium 2000 University of California, Los Angeles, Social Psychology Colloquium CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS Dickerson, S. S. (2010). Social-evaluative threat: Identifying the elements associated with cortisol reactivity. To be presented in the symposium A biopsychosocial model of threats to social belonging: Perspectives from across the spectrum of social psychology at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. Dickerson, S. S. (2009). Social-evaluative threat, self-conscious emotion, and cortisol reactivity. Presented in the invited symposium Social endocrinology at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Portland, ME.
Sally S. Dickerson 7 Pressman, S. D., Dickerson, S. S., & Rohleder, N. (2009). Going on the Academic Job Market: Tips from Recent Hires. Roundtable workshop presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Chicago, IL. Dickerson, S. S. (2008). Acute social threats: Effects on physiological stress responses. Paper presented in the symposium Social Threat and its Consequences at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Kemeny, M. E., Dickerson, S. S., & Gruenewald, T. L. (2007). The impact of social-evaluative threat on self-conscious cognitions and emotions as well as peripheral physiology. Paper presented in the Self-Conscious Emotions Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Zaldivar, F. P. (2007). Measures of rumination differentially predict cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hungary. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2007). The social nature of shame: Self-conscious emotions, cortisol reactivity, and health. Paper presented in the Self and Identity Pre-Conference, at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Dickerson, S. S. (2006). Threats to the social self: Effects on emotion, physiology, and health. Invited address, presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA. Dickerson, S. S. (2006). Threats to the social self: Effects on self-conscious emotions and HPA activity. Invited address, presented at the Facilitating Psychology in Psychoneuroimmunology conference, University of Birmingham, England. Dickerson, S. S. (2005). When the social self is threatened: Effects on emotional, proinflammatory, and HPA responses. Invited plenary symposium presentation, PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society, Denver, CO. Dickerson, S. S. (2005). Motivational processes: Effects on emotional, physiological, and health outcomes. Invited symposium chair, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Dickerson, S. S. (2005). The effects of approach and avoidance goals on emotional and cortisol responses to psychological stressors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Dickerson, S. S., Gable, S. L., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., & Irwin, M. R. (2005). Socialevaluative threat and proinflammatory cytokine activity: An experimental laboratory investigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Vancouver, CA.
Sally S. Dickerson 8 Gable, S. L., Dickerson, S. S., & Strachman, A. N. (2004). Social avoidance motivation, social stressors, and health. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research, Madison, WI. Kemeny, M. E., Dickerson, S. S., & Gruenewald, T. L. (2004). The physiological impact of threats to the social self and shame. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2002). Acute stressors and cortisol reactivity: A meta-analytic review. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Barcelona, Spain. Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2002). Predicting cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stressors: A meta-analytic review. Paper presented at the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Senior Faculty/Trainee Colloquium, Madison, WI. Kemeny, M. E., Dickerson, S. S., Weitzman, O., Anton, P., & Fahey, J. L. (2001). Negative self-appraisals, shame, the immune system and health. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS Zoccola, P. M.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S.* (2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following an acute psychosocial stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Chicago, IL. Lam, S.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Zoccola, P. M.* (2009). Emotion regulation in everyday life. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Zoccola, P. M.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S.* (2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following a laboratory stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Munoz, E.*, Piazza, J. R.*, Charles, S. T., & Dickerson, S. S. (2008). Control beliefs when faced with the uncontrollable: Perceptions influence emotional outcomes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, Maryland. Johnston, A. R.*, Diaz. C. P.*, Kennealy, P. J.*, Skeem, J. L., & Dickerson, S. S. (2008). Self-conscious emotions in primary and secondary psychopathy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA. Lam, S.*, Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a social-evaluative speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD.
Sally S. Dickerson 9 Dickerson, S. S., Robbins, M. L.*, Epstein, E. B.*, & Zaldivar, F. (2008). The valence of audience feedback and cortisol reactivity to social-evaluative threat. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, Dickerson, S. S., & Emmerson, N. A.* (2008). Trait perseverative cognition and stressor-related intrusive thoughts predict poorer sleep quality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Lam, S.*, Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P.J.*, & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a socially-evaluative speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Dickenson, L. L.* & Dickerson, S. S. (2007). Adverse early family environment associated with increased adult cardiovascular reactivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, & Zaldivar, F. P. (2007). Social evaluation, but not inattentive presence of another, elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hungary. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, & Zaldivar, F. P. (2007). Social evaluation but not inattentive presence of another elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, & Dickerson, S. S. (2007). Rumination: Assessment and relationship to cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J.*, & Dickerson, S. S. (2006). Social context matters: Social evaluation but not inattentive presence of another elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Society, New York, NY. Dickerson, S. S. (2004). Social-evaluative threat and proinflammatory cytokine responses to acute stress: A preliminary meta-analysis. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatics Society, Orlando, FL. Dickerson, S. S., & Gable, S. L. (2004). Emotional and physiological effects of avoidance motives and goals following an acute stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Dickerson, S. S., & Gable, S. L. (2003). Effects of approach and avoidance motives and goals on cortisol levels following an acute stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Phoenix, AZ.
Sally S. Dickerson 10 Bower, J. E., Ganz, P. A., Dickerson, S. S., & Fahey, J. L. (2003). Flattened diurnal cortisol rhythms in breast cancer survivors with persistent fatigue. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society, Amelia Island, FL. Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2002). Predicting cortisol reactivity to acute psychological stressors: A meta-analytic review. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society, Madison, WI. Dickerson, S. S., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., Kim, K. H., & Fahey, J. L. (2001). Induced shame and guilt increase proinflammatory cytokine activity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. Dickerson, S. S., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., Kim, K. H., & Fahey, J. L. (2001). Immunological effects of induced shame and guilt. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Monterey, CA.. Dickerson, S. S., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., Kim, K. H., & Fahey, J. L. (2000). Effects of induced shame and guilt on proinflammatory cytokine activity. Poster presented at the UC Health Psychology Conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Courses Health Psychology Human Stress Research Seminar in Health Psychology Field Study Social Ecology of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Graduate Courses Psychobiology of Stress Research in Health Psychology PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychological Association Division 8, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Division 38, Health Psychology Association for Psychological Science American Psychosomatic Society Society for Experimental Social Psychology AD HOC REVIEWER Anxiety, Stress, & Coping Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry
Sally S. Dickerson 11 Biological Psychology Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Current Directions in Psychological Science International Journal of Behavioral Medicine International Journal of Psychophysiology Health Psychology Hormones and Behavior Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Journal of Psychosomatic Research National Science Foundation Personality and Individual Differences Personality and Social Psychology Review Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Psychological Bulletin Psychological Science Psychoneuroendocrinology Psychopharmacology Psychophysiology Psychosomatic Medicine Sexuality Research and Social Policy Social Science and Medicine Social Psychological and Personality Science Stress DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Advisory Board, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (2008-present) PSB Chair Nominating Committee, Transition Team Committee member (2009) Social/Personality Faculty Search Committee (2005-2006, 2008-2009) Graduate Admissions Committee, Health Psychology (2005, 2006) Space Committee (2006, 2009) Phi Beta Kappa nominations for the School of Social Ecology (2005-2009) Faculty Advisor, Gamma Phi Beta (2004-present) Grader, Comprehensive Exams (Health Psychology; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009; Social Psychology, 2008) Member, Merit and Promotion Committees (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009)