Jennifer K. MacCormack Department of Psychology & Neuroscience University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 325 Davie Hall, CB# 3270 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 jkmaccor@unc.edu Education and Training Ph.D., Psychology and Neuroscience with Quantitative concentration, UNC-Chapel Hill expected 2020 Faculty advisor: Kristen A. Lindquist, Ph.D. M.A., Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC-Chapel Hill 2016 Faculty advisor: Kristen A. Lindquist, Ph.D. B.A., Psychology with Anthropology concentration, summa cum laude, North Carolina State University 2013 Faculty advisor: Amy G. Halberstadt, Ph.D. Research Program Bodily impacts on social affective experience and functioning Acute & chronic peripheral bodily changes (hunger, systemic inflammation, aging of peripheral nervous system, acute vs. chronic stress, disease models) Functional brain activity & connectivity for representations of allostasis, bodily sensations (interoception), and affect Individual and developmental differences in social affective functioning (emotion, social cognition) and emotion knowledge, as driven by the above peripheral and central processes. Grants and Fellowships 2018-2020 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Institute on Aging ($70,782) 2014-2015 UNC Center for Faculty Excellence Future Faculty Fellowship ($500) 2013-2014 American Psychological Association of Graduate Students & Psi Chi International Junior Scientist Fellowship ($1000) 2012-2013 NC State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Seed Grant ($2000) 2012-2013 NC State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Honors Thesis Grant ($1000) Honors and Awards 2017 UNC Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience teaching commendation for Introduction to Social Psychology course 2017 Fellow for Summer School in Social Neuroscience & Neuroeconomics 2017 Society for Affective Science Best Post Award 2016 UNC Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience teaching commendation for Psychology Research Methods course 2016 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Student Travel Award ($500) 2016 The UNC Christopher R. Agnew Research Innovation Award in Social Psychology 2016 UNC Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience Social Psychology Research Travel Award ($400) 2015 UNC Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience Dashiell Research Travel Award ($500) 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Honorable Mention Last updated: 09/17/2017
2013 NC State University Darnell Johnson Outstanding Graduating Senior in Psychology Award 2010-2013 NC State University Dean s List 2012 Inductee, Phi Beta Kappa, North Carolina State University Chapter 2012 Inductee, Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology, North Carolina State University Chapter Publications & Presentations Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bpaclwsaaaaj&hl=en Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles denotes undergraduate mentee 1. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (revise & resubmit). Feeling hangry? When hunger is conceptualized as emotion. Emotion. 2. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2017). The constitutive role of the body in emotion: Schachter s legacy for a psychological constructionist view of emotion. Emotion Review. 3. Rogers, M., L., Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., MacCormack, J. K., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2016). Maternal emotion socialization differentially predicts emotion regulation and lability in middle childhood. Emotion, 16, 280-291. 4. Lindquist, K. A., MacCormack, J. K., & Shablack, H. (2015). The role of language in emotion: Predictions from psychological constructionism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1-17. 5. Lindquist, K. A. & MacCormack, J. K. (2014). Constructionism is a multi-level framework for affective science. Emotion Review, 6, 134-139. Articles in Preparation or Under Peer-Review denotes undergraduate mentee 1. MacCormack, J. K., Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Rogers, M. L. (under review). Novel pathways to children s socioemotional competence: The differential effects of mothers emotion knowledge & complexity. 2. MacCormack, J. K., Davis, B. M., Henry, T. R., Oosterwijk, S., & Lindquist, K. A. (in prep). Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in older vs. younger adults emotion concepts. 3. MacCormack, J. K., & Muscatell, K. A. (in prep). Metabolic hormones for psychologists: New directions for leptin and ghrelin s roles in social cognitive and affective processes. 4. 5. MacCormack, J. K., Singh, D.*, Muscatell, K. A., & Lindquist, K. A. (in prep). Shared neural representations for body states and emotions: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis. 6. 7. MacCormack, J. K., Perry, J. M., & Lindquist, K. A. (in prep). Feeling stressed? Interoceptive ability moderates the relation between autonomic reactivity and the intensity of emotions. Chapters & Other Scholarship 1. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2016). Detection of emotion. SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Invited Talks 1. Interoceptive sensitivity and physiological reactivity differentially predict emotional and somatic experiences. Presented as a talk at the 2017 Society for Affective Science meeting in Boston, MA. 2. Feeling hangry? Conceptualizing hunger as emotion in context. Presented as a talk at the 2017 Colloquium on Research in Social & Personality Psychology (CRISPP) in April 2017. Last updated: 09/17/2017 2
Posters 3. Feeling hangry? Misattributing hunger as emotion. Presented as a talk at the 2016 Society for Affective Science meeting in Chicago, IL. denotes undergraduate mentee 1. MacCormack, J. K., Perry, J. M., & Lindquist, K. A. (2018). The differential effects of interoceptive sensitivity and autonomic reactivity on emotional experience. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in March 2018. 2. MacCormack, J. K., Perry, J. M., & Lindquist, K. A. (2017). Interoceptive sensitivity and physiological reactivity differentially predict emotional and somatic experiences. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in April 2017. *Blind reviewed and selected for a poster spotlight **won best poster award 3. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2017). Feeling hangry? Conceptualizing hunger as emotion in context. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in January 2017. 4. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2016). Feeling hangry? Misattributing hunger as emotion. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in March 2016. *Blind reviewed and selected for a poster spotlight 5. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2016). Aging impacts on emotion embodiment: Older adults emotion knowledge and self-reported experience is less interoceptively-focused than younger adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in January 2016. 6. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2016). Feeling hangry? Misattributing hunger as emotion. Presented at the Emotion Preconference before the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in January 2016. 7. MacCormack, J. K., Davis, B. M., & Lindquist, K. A. (2015). Emotion concept knowledge contains less interoceptive information in older versus younger adults. Presented at the 2015 Colloquium on Research in Social & Personality Psychology (CRISPP) in April 2015. 8. MacCormack, J. K., Davis, B. M., & Lindquist, K. A. (2015). Emotion concept knowledge contains less interoceptive information in older versus younger adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in April 2015. 9. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2015). Not everyone essentializes emotions: Exploring the construct of emotion incrementalism. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in January 2015. 10. MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2015). Not everyone essentializes emotions: Exploring the construct of emotion incrementalism. Presented at the Emotion Preconference before the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in January 2015. 11. MacCormack, J. K., Rogers, M., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014). Mothers interoceptive knowledge contributes to their emotion understanding and socialization of children s socioemotional skills. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in April 2014. 12. Rogers, M., MacCormack, J. K., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014). Mothers maladaptive emotion regulation serves as a mediator between maternal emotion beliefs and children s socioemotional outcomes. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science in April 2014. 13. MacCormack, J. K., Rogers, M., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014). The value of early emotion understanding: Children s regulatory complexity and socioemotional competence in school. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in February 2014. 14. Rogers, M., MacCormack, J. K., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014). Mothers maladaptive emotion regulation serves as a mediator between maternal emotion beliefs and children s socioemotional outcomes. Presented at the Last updated: 09/17/2017 3
Emotion Preconference before the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in February 2014. 15. Halberstadt, A. G., MacCormack, J. K., Shull, R. H., & Castro, V. L. (2013). Mothers emotional complexity supports children s social skills. Presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April 2013. Research Experience & Skills Carolina Affective Science Laboratory with Dr. Kristen A. Lindquist University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Social Neuroscience & Health Laboratory with Dr. Keely A. Muscatell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill May 2013 Present Aug 2016 Present Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behaviors Laboratory with Dr. Amy G. Halberstadt Children s Understanding of Emotion in Dyadic Interactions NSF Grant North Carolina State University Jan 2011 May 2013 Statistics: linear regression, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, times series analysis as relevant to physiology and neuroimaging data Autonomic: electrocardiogram, cardiac impedance, respiration, blood pressure, skin conductance, photophlethmysography, facial electromyography. Modified Whitehead heartbeat detection task measuring interoceptive ability Biomarkers: leptin, ghrelin, testosterone, cortisol, alpha-amylase, pro-inflammatory cytokines Technical: SPSS, R, MPlus for statistical analyses; Eprime and Matlab for presenting experimental stimuli; Mindware s BioLab for peripheral physiology data collection and scoring Neuroimaging: fmri experimental design, data collection, and preprocessing pipeline; first and second-level analyses in SPM (i.e., univariate), connectivity analyses in CONN toolbox; functional coordinate meta-analyses in NeuroElf Teaching and Mentoring Experience Primary Instructor of Record **Awarded teaching commendation from the department PSYC260 Social Psychology 45 students Fall 2017 PSYC270 Psychology Research Methods 10 students Summer 2017 PSYC260 Social Psychology 45 students ** Spring 2017 PSYC270 Psychology Research Methods 40 students ** Fall 2016 PSYC260 Social Psychology 45 students Fall 2015 PSYC190 The Science of Emotion 20 students Spring 2015 Assistant Instructor PSYC101 Introduction to Psychology, Dr. Frederick Wiss Spring 2016 PSYC101 Introduction to Psychology, Dr. Frederick Wiss Fall 2014 PSYC260 Social Psychology, Dr. Kristen Lindquist Spring 2014 PSYC085 Psychology of Emotion, Dr. Kristen Lindquist Fall 2013 PSYC416 Psychology of Emotion, Dr. Amy Halberstadt Fall 2011 Last updated: 09/17/2017 4
Senior Theses Mentored 2017-2018 Adrienne Bonar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The role of interoceptive ability in disordered body beliefs 2016-2017 Jenna Perry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interoceptive and autonomic differences in emotional intensity * Honors Undergraduate Research Award from UNC s Office of Undergraduate Research 2015-2016 Andrea Zuniga, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Individual differences in interoceptive emotion knowledge and emotion experience * David Bray Peele Memorial Research Award from UNC s Dept. of Psych and Neuro 2014-2015 Brian Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interoceptive differences in older vs. younger adults emotion concepts * Honors Undergraduate Research Award from UNC s Office of Undergraduate Research * Lindquist Undergraduate Excellence Research Grant from UNC s Dept. of Psych and Neuro Students Mentored 2017-2018 Adrienne Bonar, Elizabeth Chavez, Macy Frazier, Kate Nicholson, Mariam Shabih, Andrea Stein 2016-2017 Adrienne Bonar, Thelma Bost, Elizabeth Chavez, Grace DeSena, Elaine Hager, Marianna Jones, Kyra Kapsaskis, Jasper Mark, Margaret McAllister, William Ohley, Heather Ortega, Jenna Perry, Saleha Rana, Mariam Shabih, Allen Tirado 2015-2016 Adrienne Bonar, Kyra Kapsaskis, Margaret McAllister, Andrea Zuniga 2014-2015 Brian Davis, Nick Hatcher, Hanna Hoke, Samantha Richards, Jared Scruggs, Jake West, Anna Zeng 2013-2014 Madison Evans, Hanna Hoke, Chloe Opper, Emily Orr Professional Affiliations American Psychosomatic Society Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Society for Affective Science Society for Psychophysiological Research Society for Personality and Social Psychology Professional and Public Service Committee Roles 2017-2018 Society for Affective Science Student Committee Chair, head of Student Events & Outreach Team 2016-2017 Society for Affective Science Student Committee Vice Chair, head of Student Social Media Team 2015-2016 Society for Affective Science Student Committee Secretary, head of Student Diversity Team 2013-2015 UNC Student Imaging Association, Founding Member, Secretary Ad-hoc Reviewer for: *indicates multiple reviews Emotion* Emotion Review Imagination, Cognition, & Personality Journal of Experimental Psychology-General Last updated: 09/17/2017 5
Psychophysiology* Social Ontology Public Outreach April 2016 Nov 2016 Nov 2015 Fall 2015 Nov 2014 Fall 2014 North Carolina Science Festival booth on What is an emotion? North Carolina Scientific Research & Education Network presentation: Middle School and High School Core Curriculum Lesson Plans on the Science of Emotion: Methods and Data North Carolina Scientific Research & Education Network presentation: Middle School and High School Core Curriculum Lesson Plans on the Science of Emotion: Methods and Data Carolina Affective Science Laboratory Public Outreach Coordinator North Carolina Scientific Research & Education Network presentation: Middle School and High School Core Curriculum Lesson Plans on the Science of Emotion: Methods and Data Carolina Affective Science Laboratory Public Outreach Coordinator Last updated: 09/17/2017 6