Judith Ann Perry Personal Data Home Address: Work Address 16707 Worthington San Antonio, Texas 78248 (210) 764 0823 E-mail: judith.perry@utsa.edu University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Psychology San Antonio, Texas 78249 Education University of California at Davis, B.A. Psychology, 1975 California State University at Sacramento, M.A. Psychology, 1979 University of Tromsø, Norway, Ph.D. Psychology, 2002 Relevant Work Experience University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas) 2013 - present Senior Lecturer and Internship coordinator. Duties include teaching Introduction to Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Social Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotypes, Theories of Learning, Adulthood and Aging and Attitudes. University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas) 2006 2013 Lecturer II Duties include teaching Introduction to Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Social Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotypes, Theories of Learning, Adulthood and Aging and Attitudes. University of Tromsø (Tromsø, Norway) February 2002 2005 Assistant Professor of Health Psychology Duties included teaching courses in health psychology, stress management, eating disorders, and sleep disorders, as well as assisting students with yearly research projects and completion of Master s theses. In addition to my work with students, I had personal research duties, including planning and running studies, managing budgets and grants, and producing research articles and conference presentations. Administrative duties included being a member of the regional ethics committee. Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights, Kentucky) September 2003 June 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor. Duties included teaching Introduction to Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Health Psychology. In addition to my teaching duties, I had research responsibilities, including planning and running studies and producing research articles.
University of Tromsø (Tromsø, Norway) April 1997 January 2002 Graduate research student Duties included: collecting, processing and analyzing data for research projects, teaching courses in research methods, and assisting students with yearly projects and Master s theses. University of Tromsø (Tromsø, Norway ) September 1996 - March 1997 University Lecturer. Duties included: teaching and assisting students with yearly projects and Masters theses. University of Tromsø (Tromsø, Norway) Feb 1995- August 1996 Project leader. Duties included: collecting, processing and analyzing data for two-year longitudinal project on winter depression, in addition to assisting students and other researchers in the project with methods and statistics. Teaching Experience Introduction to Psychology Motivation and Emotion Theories of Learning Social Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotypes Attitudes Health Psychology Quantitative Methods using SPSS Research Methods Psychology of Personality Seminars in the Development of the Self and Stereotype Models related to Gender and Weight. Teaching Interests Social Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotypes Attitudes Motivation and Emotion Psychology of Personality Health Psychology Introduction to Psychology Administrative Experience UTSA Honors college. (2007 present) Reader on 2 honors thesis and Scholarship selection committee (2). Faculty Senate 2011 2013 I replaced the non-tenure track representative from COLFA when she became ill and could not continue her duties. I will finish out her term. Core Curriculum Committee Psychology department 2010 to present. Tromso, Norway Served on the following committees: Graduate Planning Committee (1999-2001), Research Committee (2000-2001), Psychology Department Steering Committee (1998-2000), Regional Ethics Committee (2005). Coordinator of Mellomfag (a special topics program, including a thesis, that was the only means of obtaining an undergraduate minor in psychology), 2002 2003.
Scientific Articles Neilands, T., Silvera, D. H., Perry, J. A., Richardsen, A. M, & Holte, A. (2008). A validation and short form of the Basic Character Inventory. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 161-168. Perry, J. A., Silvera, D. H., Neilands, T. B., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Hanssen, T. (2008). A study of the relationship between parental bonding, self-concept and eating disturbances in Norwegian and American college populations. Eating Behaviors, 9 (1), 13-24. Verplanken, B., Herabadi, A.G., Perry, J.A., & Silvera, D.H., (2005) Consumer Style & Health, The Role of Impulsive Buying in Unhealthy Eating. Psychology & Health, 20, 429-441. Skoe, E. E. A., Cumberland, A., Eisenberg, N., Hansen, K., & Perry, J. (2002). The relations of sex and gender-role identity to moral cognition and prosocial personality traits. Sex Roles, 46, 295-309. Perry, J. A., Silvera, D. H, Rosenvinge, J., Holte, A., (2002). Are oral, obsessive, and hysterical personality traits related to disturbed eating patterns? A general population study of 6313 males and females. The Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 405-416. Perry, J. A, Silvera, D. H, Rosenvinge, J., Neilands, T. B., Holte, A. (2001) Seasonal Eating Patterns in Norway: A Non-clinical Population Study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 4, 307-312. Rosenvinge, J. H., Perry, J. A., Bjørgum, L., Bergersen, T. D., Silvera, D. H., & Holte, A. (2001). A new instrument measuring disturbed eating patterns in community samples: Development and validation of a 5-item scale (EDS-5). European Review of Eating Disorders, 9,123-132. Silvera, D. H., Neilands, T. B., & Perry, J. A. (2001). A Norwegian translation of the Self-Liking and Competence Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 417-427. Johansen, S. N., Jacobsen, H., Rosenvinge, J. H., Perry, J. A., & Silvera, D. H. (1998). Eating pattern and self-esteem in overweight women. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 3, 33-36. Silvera, D. H., Bergersen, T. D., Bjørgum, L., Perry, J. A., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Holte, A. (1998). Analyzing the relation between self-esteem and eating disorders: Differential effects of Self-Liking and Self-Competence. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 3, 95-99.
Conference Presentations Silvera, D. H., & Perry, J. A. (2004). Oh what a tangled web we weave, at least when we have high self-esteem. 5 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Perry, J. A., & Silvera, D. H. (2004). Exploring the implicit and explicit structure of a fat stereotype. 5 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Perry, J. A., Silvera, D. H., & Verplanken, B. (2001). Ambivalent stereotyping of obesity. Annual meeting of the European Group of Process Studies in Decision Making conference, Lviv, Ukraine. Perry, J. A., & Silvera, D. H., (2000). Seasonal Variation in Eating Satisfaction in Norway. The Midwestern Association of Psychology Conference 2000. Perry, J. A., & Silvera, D. H., (2000). A Study of Self-esteem and Ego-Identity Formation in a General Norwegian Late Adolescent Population. The Society for Research in Identity Formation Meeting 2000. Perry, J.A., Rosenvinge, J.H., Bergersen, T.D., Bjørgum, L., Silvera, D.H., & Holte, A. (1997). Eating disturbances at 70 0 N. The Third London International Conference on Eating Disorders. Bjørgum, L., Bergersen, T.D., Rosenvinge, J.H., Perry, J.A., Silvera, D.H., & Holte, A. (1997). Finding the needle in the haystack: Development of a new instrument for the screening of at-risk subjects. The Third London International Conference on Eating Disorders. Silvera, D.H., Perry, J.A., Bergersen, T.D., Bjørgum, L., Rosenvinge, J.H., & Holte, A. (1997). Self-liking and self-competence: Conflicting messages within the eating disordered individual. The Third London International Conference on Eating Disorders.
References Perilou Goddard, Ph.D. Northern Kentucky University Department of Psychology Nunn Drive Highland Heights, Kentucky 41099 Phone: (859) 572-5463 E-mail: goddard@nku.edu Jane Kroger, Ph.D University of Tromsø Institute of Psychology Tromsø, Norway, 9037 Phone: work +47 77 64 63 23 FAX +47 77 64 56 10 E-mail: jkroger@psyk.uit.no Tor Neilands, Ph.D. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) University of California, San Francisco 74 New Montgomery, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: (415) 597-9236 FAX: (415) 597-9213 E-mail: TNeilands@psg.ucsf.edu
Teaching Experience and Interests Since I arrived at the University of Texas at San Antonio in January, 2006, I have taught three or four courses each semester. These courses have included Introduction to Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Theories of Learning, Social Psychology of Prejudice and Stereotypes, and Attitudes. Prior to my arrival at UTSA, I worked in the professional program of Psychology at The University of Tromsø (Norway). This program is a degree program that integrates broad academic training across all domains of psychology with practical work in clinical psychology. This is the highest level degree typically attained by Norwegians who do work related to psychology after graduation, including everything from psychological counseling to organizational psychology. Admission to the professional program generally follows two years of university courses in basic psychology, and the professional program itself lasts five years. The resulting degree is generally viewed as being at a level higher than a Master s Degree from the United States but lower than a Ph.D. Within this program, my teaching responsibilities included teaching courses in Health Psychology, Research Methods, Basic Statistics, Intermediate Statistics, and Introduction to Psychology, in addition to supervising. I also supervised 1-2 projects per year at a level approximately equivalent to that of a Master s Thesis, in addition to 4-6 smaller projects related to intermediate degree requirements. The University of Tromsø does not provide formal teaching evaluations for teaching courses. I do have formal teaching evaluations from my time at UTSA, and my ratings have typically been in the category representing the 70 th to 90 th percentile. Those ratings are available upon request.
Research Interests My research can be divided into three domains: (1) eating disturbances; (2) stereotypes; and (3) survey development and translation. The overall aim of my dissertation was to study individual difference factors that potentially increase the risk for the development of eating disorders. Specifically, this research examined personality, attachment and self-concept development as predictors of disturbed eating patterns, as well as studying the effect of seasonality and light variations on eating disturbances. My current research has involved exploring the implicit and explicit structure of a Fat Stereotype. Recent research has suggested that stereotype content might be subdivided into competence and warmth dimensions. The competence dimension contains characteristics such as independent, self-assured and smart, whereas the warmth dimension includes characteristics such as good-natured, sincere and friendly. Research related to stereotypes of overweight people, however, has traditionally emphasized a unidimensional negative view of overweight people, focusing on implicit and explicit negative attitudes and stereotypes toward overweight individuals. For example, overweight people are characterized as more slovenly, idle, and pleasure seeking but less attractive, intelligent, and self disciplined than normalweight individuals. My survey work has involved developing new instruments as well as developing translations of existing instruments. In particular, I have been closely involved with a large-scale translation project to produce validated Norwegian versions of many commonly used questionnaires related to social psychology and consumer psychology.