The effects of nature on life aspirations and well-being
Personal autonomy
Attributions in helping relationships
Mindfulness
Sexual orientation identification
Self-regulation
Presentations
DeHaan, C. R., Weinstein, N., & Ryan, R. M. (2009). The Natural Path to Freedom: The Effect of Nature on Salience of Introjects. Presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
DeHaan, C. R., Weinstein, N., & Ryan, R. M. (2009). The Natural Way to Strive: Aspirations in the Context of Natural and Non-Natural Environments. Presented at the 2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Exposition, Rochester, NY.
Manuscripts Under Review
Weinstein, N., DeHaan, C. R., & Ryan, R. M. (2009). Attributed motivation and the recipient experience: Perceptions of other, self, and the helping relationship. Manuscript under review.
Research Experience
Motivational Research Lab | Research Assistant
January 2006 – May 2006
Responsibilities Conducted the Trier Social Stress Test experimental protocol for a study of cortisol levels in reaction to specific social stressors. Responsibilities included running the protocol, acting as a confederate, managing equipment and coordinating with other research assistants.
Motivational Research Lab | Research Lab Coordinator and Experimenter
September 2006 – May 2009
Responsibilities Responsible for lab organization and staff scheduling, Collaborated to design a number of experimental, diary, and longitudinal studies examining human motivation with relation to nature, prosocial recipient attributions, dyad processes, and emotion regulation.
Motivational Research Lab | Research Lab Coordinator and Implicit Task Designer
May 2009 – Present
Responsibilities Coding of software for new priming and implicit tasks to be used in current and future experiments, recruiting and collecting data for a longitudinal study of freshmen at the university, overseeing undergraduate research assistants in the lab, working with researchers in other departments on a counseling transcript coding system.
Graduate Student Supervisor Andrew K. Przybylski, M.A.
Faculty Advisor Richard M. Ryan, Ph.D.
Relevant Work Experience
Website Administrator | Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies
November 2008 – Present
Responsibilities Designing, implementing and maintaining a new website for the Skalny Center, as well as for individual staff members and related events and conferences.
Information Technology Intern | J.F. Ahern Company
June 2008 – Present
Responsibilities Investigates new solutions (such as software packages and workflows) for staff members, works with staff members to identify solutions to best suit their needs, works with various software companies on implementation of new solutions, assists in the migration from old software, presents various options to relevant IT staff, implements new solutions.
Computer Assistant III | Information Technology Center at the University of Rochester
September 2006 – Present
Responsibilities Assists patrons with any relevant issues they may have, such as computer and internet troubleshooting, with a specialty in multimedia technologies such as Adobe Creative Suite, iMovie and Dreamweaver/HTML Programming.
Professional Affiliations
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Student Member
Software Proficiency
Software Packages Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, SPSS
Languages PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, PXLab
Relevant Skills
Statistical analysis
Implicit attitude measurement
Techniques for immersion in environments
Relevant Coursework
Psychology General Psychology, Neural Foundations of Behavior, Biopsychology of Behavior, Social and Emotional Development, Theory of Personality and Psychotherapy, Statistics in Psychology, Statistics for Social Sciences, Human Motivation and Emotion, Clinical Psychology, Seminar in Humanistic Psychology, Research in Human Motivation, Honors Seminar and Research
Computer Science Computer Programming, Data Structures, Computation and Formal Systems, Computer Organization, Programming Language Design and Implementation
