Kim Matheson, PhD

email: kimmatheson@pigeon.carleton.ca

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SUMMARY OF RESEARCH:

- Embracing a negative social identity (Intergroup Processes)

- Overcoming differences in opinion (Intragroup Processes)

- Looking for support (Interpersonal Processes)

- Coping with life's stresses (Intrapersonal Processes)

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

Gill, R. & Matheson, K. (in press). The role of emotion in perceptions of discrimination and collective action taking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Goldenberg, I. & Matheson, K. (in press). The relation between inner representations and coping in recovering from traumatic experiences. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Goldenberg, I., Matheson, K. & Mantler, J. (in press). The assessment of emotional intelligence: A comparison of performance-based and self-report methodologies. Journal of Personality Assessment.

Matheson, K., Kelly, O. Cole, B., Tannenbaum, B., Dodd, C. & Anisman, H. (in press). Parental bonding and depressive affect: The mediating role of coping resources. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Kress, P. & Matheson, K. (in press). Understanding sadomasochism: An examination of current perspectives. Journal of Homosexuality.

Mantler, J., Matejicek, A., Matheson, K., & Anisman, H. (in press). Coping with employment uncertainty: Strategies of employed and unemployed workers. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Anisman, H., & Matheson, K. (2005) Anhedonia and depression: Caveats of animal models. Neuroscience Biobehavioral Review, 29, 525-546.

Matheson, K. & Cole, B. (2004). Coping with a threatened group identity: Psychological and neuroendocrine responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 777-786.

Offman, A. & Matheson, K. (2004). Women's sexual identity as a function of the quality of their relationship. Sex Roles, 51, 551-560.

Matheson, K. & Anisman, H. (2003). Systems of coping associated with dysphoria, anxiety, and depressive illness: A multivariate profile perspective. Stress, 6, 223-234.

Matheson, K., Cole, B., & Majka, K. (2003). Dissidence from within: Examining intragroup reactions to attitudinal opposition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 161-169.

Terrance, C. & Matheson, K. (2003). The effects of posttraumatic stress disorder nomenclature on the success of the plea of battered women who kill. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27, 37-45.

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