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Name Pronunciation Guide:
"Tian-Yee J-uh-ng"

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B.A.,(Hons.) University of Western Ontario, 1991
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1996

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Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Research Interests

I am generally interested in studying situations in which people fail to attend to all of the relevant information in their environment, and the reasons for this neglect. In my primary area of study, I am currently assessing how the restriction of cognitive capacity associated with alcohol intoxication affects the decision to engage in risky behaviors. For example, I have been studying how alcohol affects attitudes and intentions to drink and drive or have sex without a condom. When asked about their intentions to drink and drive, or to have intercourse without a condom, university students typically report that they would not engage in these behaviours. Accordingly, one might expect that the incidence of these health-risk behaviours would be relatively low. Instead, the incidence continues to be alarmingly high. The goal of my research is to examine why people engage in these behaviours that contradict their attitudes and intentions, even when doing so can have powerful negative consequences. Other research interests include attitudinal ambivalence, and the influence of romantic relationship properties on health outcomes.

Selected Publications

Wood, V. M., MacDonald, T. K., Charbonneau, D., & Urban, S. (in press). Adult Attachment and Spousal Reactions to Military Deployment Separations and Reunion. Personal Relationships.

Wallace, L. E., Patton, K. M., Luttrell, A., Sawicki, V., Fabrigar, L. R., Teeny, J., MacDonald, T.K., Petty, R. E., & Wegener, D. T. (in press). Knowledge moderates the relation between ambivalence and attitude-behavior consistency. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Quickert, R. E., Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., & MacDonald, T. K. (in press). Experiential avoidance biases mood-relevant thinking. Personality and Individual Differences.

MacDonald, T. K., Wood, V. M., & Fabrigar, L. R. (2019). “Digging in” or “Giving in”: Attachment-related threat moderates the association between attachment orientation and reactions to conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 1237-1254.

Smith, J. D., Corace, K. M., MacDonald, T. K., Fabrigar, L. R., Saedi, A., Chambers, A., MacFarlane, S., Valickis, D., & Garber, G. E. (2019). Application of the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify factors that influence hand hygiene compliance in long-term care. Journal of Hospital Infection, 101, 393-398.

Stone, R. C., Sweet, S., Perrier, M., MacDonald, T. K., Martin Ginis, K. A., & Latimer-Cheung, A. E. (2019). Exploring stereotypes of athletes with a disability: A Behaviours from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes map comparison. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 39, 339-358.

Leung, P. C., & MacDonald, T. K. (2018). Attitudes toward condom carriers: The role of gender. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 27, 215-225.

Vaughan-Johnston, T., Quickert, R., & MacDonald, T.K. (2017). Psychological Flexibility Under Fire: Testing the Incremental Validity of Experiential Avoidance. Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 335-349.

MacDonald, T. K., McKenna, & C. Mouck, L. C. (2016). The Person and the Partner: Individual differences moderate the relationship between partner feedback and condom use. AIDS and Behavior, 20, 185-196.

Corace, K., Srigley, J. A., Hargadon, D. P., Yu, D., MacDonald, T. K., Fabrigar, L. R., & Garber, G. 2016). Using behavior change frameworks to improve healthcare worker influenza vaccination rates: A systematic review. Vaccine, 34, 3235–3242.

Cappel, J., MacDonald, T. K., & Pukall, C. F. (2016). For new mothers, the relationship matters: Relationship characteristics and postpartum sexuality. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 25, 126-137.

Karimiha, G., Rehman, U., & MacDonald, T. K (2015). The Individual and Relational Risks of Providing Support to an Inconsolable Partner. Personal Relationships, 22, 604-620.

Srigley, J. A., Corace, K., Hargadon, D. P., Yu, D., MacDonald, T. K., Fabrigar, L. R., & Garber, G. (2015). Applying psychological frameworks of behavior change to improve healthcare worker hand hygiene: A systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection, 91, 202-210.

Carter, A. M., Fabrigar, L. R., MacDonald, T. K., & Monner, L. J. (2013). Investigating the Interface of the Investment Model and Adult Attachment Theory. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 661-672.

Refling, E. J., Calnan. C., Fabrigar, L. R., MacDonald, T. K., Johnson, V. C., & Smith, S. M. (2013). To Partition or Not to Partition Evaluative Judgments: Comparing Measures of Structural Ambivalence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 387-394.

Ng, A., Hynie, M., & MacDonald, T. K. (2012). Culture Moderates the Pliability of Ambivalent Attitudes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 1313-1324.

Ebel-Lam, A., Fabrigar, L., MacDonald, T. K., & Jones, S. (2010). Balancing causes and consequences: The proportionality principle in explanations for complex social events. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 348-359.

Fabrigar, L.R., Wegener, D T., & MacDonald, T.K. (2010). Distinguishing between prediction and influence: Multiple processes underlying attitude-behavior consistency. In C.R. Agnew, D.E. Carlston, W.G. Graziano, & J.R. Kelly (Eds.), Then a miracle occurs: Focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research. New York, NY: Oxford University Press

Waller, K., & MacDonald, T.K. (2010). Trait Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Initiator Status on Emotional and Cognitive Responses to Romantic Relationship Dissolution. Journal of Personality, 78, 1271-1299.

Ebel-Lam, A.P., MacDonald, T.K., Zanna, M.P., & Fong, G.T. (2009). An Experimental Investigation of the Interactive Effects of Alcohol and Sexual Arousal on Intentions to Have Unprotected Sex. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 226-233

MacDonald, T.K., & Hynie, M. (2008). Ambivalence and Unprotected Sex: Failing to Predict Sexual Activity is associated with Decreased Condom Use. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 1092-1107.

Klein, W. M.P., Geaghan, T.R., & MacDonald, T.K. (2007). Unplanned Sexual Activity as a Consequence of Alcohol Use: A Prospective Study of Risk Perceptions and Alcohol Use among College Freshmen. Journal of American College Health, 56, 317-323.

Hynie, M., MacDonald, T.K., & Marques, S. (2006). Self-conscious emotions and self-regulation in the promotion of condom use. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1059-1071.

Starzyk, K.B., Holden. R.R., Fabrigar, L.R., & MacDonald, T.K. (2006). The Personal Acquaintance Measure: A Tool for Appraising One's Acquaintance with Any Person. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 833-947.

Ditto, P.H., Pizarro, D.A., Epstein, E., Jacobson, J.A., & MacDonald, T. K. (2006). Motivational Myopia: Visceral Influences on Risk Taking Behavior. Journal of Behavioral Decision-Making, 19, 99-113.

Dal Cin. S., MacDonald, T.K., Fong, G.T., Zanna, M. P., & Elton, T.E. (2006). Remembering the Message: Using a Reminder Cue to Increase Condom Use Following a Safer Sex Intervention. Health Psychology, 25, 448-443.

Fabrigar, L.R., MacDonald, T.K., & Wegener, D T. (2005). The origin and structure of attitudes. In D. Albarracin, B.T. Johnson, & M.P. Zanna (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes and attitude change. (pp. 79-124). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

B.A., Smith College, 1996
Ph.D., Cornell University 2003

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Research Interests

My research focuses on the development of language, communication, and social cognition. Current projects investigate social information gathering, statistical language learning, the representation of the social world, and how children’s abilities in these domains change with age. I am also interested in , the relations between language, culture, and cognition, and children's memory.

Selected Publications

Giardini, F., Fitneva, S.A., Tamm, A. (2019). "Someone told me": Preemptive reputation protection in communication. PLoS ONE, 14(4): e0200883.

Mangardich, H. & Fitneva, S. A. (2019). Gossip, reputation, and language. In F. Giardini, & R. Wittek (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fitneva, S. A. (2018). The acquisition of evidentiality. In A. Aikhenvald (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (pp. 185-201). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fitneva, S. A., & Christiansen, M. C. (2017). Developmental changes in cross-situational word learning: The inverse effect of initial accuracy. Cognitive Science, 41, 141–161. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12322

Fitneva, S.A., Pile Ho, E., & Hatayama, M. (2016). Japanese and Canadian children’s beliefs about child and adult knowledge: A case for developmental equifinality? PLoS ONE 11(9): e0163018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163018

Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science. 349(6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716

Fitneva, S. A., & T. Matsui (2015). The emergence and development of language across cultures. In L. A. Jensen (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published online October 2014. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199948550.013.8

Fitneva, S. A. (2014). Evidential markers. In P. Brooks, & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development (pp. 204-206). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Fitneva, S. A., Lam, N. H. L., Dunfield, K. A. (2013). The development of children’s information gathering: To look or to ask? Developmental Psychology, 49, 533-542. DOI:10.1037/a0031326

Fitneva, S. A. (2012). Beyond answers: Questions and children’s learning. In J.P. de Ruiter (Ed.) Questions: formal, functional, and interactional perspectives, (pp. 165-178). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fitneva, S. A., & Christiansen, M. H. (2011). Looking in the wrong direction correlates with better word learning. Cognitive Science, 35, 367-380.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. C., & Fitneva, S. A. (2011). Arbitrariness of the sign: Learning advantages from the structure of the vocabulary. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(3), 325-347.

Ceci, S.J., Fitneva, S. A., & Williams, W. M. (2010). Representational constraints on the development of memory and metamemory: A developmental-representational synthesis. Psychological Review, 117, 464-495.

Fitneva, S. A. (2010). Children's representation of child and adult knowledge. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11, 458-484.

Fitneva, S. A., & Dunfield, K. A. (2010). Selective information seeking after a single encounter. Developmental Psychology, 46(5), 1380-1384.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. C., Farmer, T. A., & Fitneva, S. A. (2010). Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity. The Mental Lexicon, 5, 281-299.

Fitneva, S. A. (2009). Evidentiality and trust: The role of informational goals. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 125, 49-61.

Fitneva, S. A., Christiansen, M. H., & Monaghan, P. (2009) From sound to syntax: phonological constraints on children's lexical categorization of new words. Journal of Child Language 36(5), 967-997.

Fitneva, S. A., & Song, Y. (2009). The comprehension of "left" and "right" in a referential communication task. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2687-2691). Cognitive Science Society.

Matsui, T., & Fitneva, S. A., (2009). How do we know what we know: evidentiality in cognitive development New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 125, 1-11.

Fitneva, S. A. (2008). Evidentiality in Bulgarian children's reliability judgments. Journal of Child Language 35(4), 845-868. (Download pdf)

Fitneva, S. A. & Spivey, M. J. (2004). Context and language processing: The effect of authorship. In J. Trueswell & M. Tanenhaus (Eds.), World Situated Language Use: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic and Computational Perspectives on Bridging the Product and Action Traditions, (pp. 317-327). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Spivey, M. J., Richardson, D. C., & Fitneva, S. A. (2004). Memory outside of the brain: oculomotor indexes to visual and linguistic Information. In J. Henderson and F. Ferreira (Eds.), The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action: Eye Movements and the Visual World (pp. 161-189). New York: Psychology Press.

Fitneva, S. A. (2001). Epistemic marking and reliability judgments: Evidence from Bulgarian. Journal of Pragmatics, 33(3), 401-420.

Name Pronunciation Guide:
"SHEE-La JAY-me-sun"

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Background and Interests

Dr. Sheelagh Jamieson is a registered Clinical Psychologist in the province of Ontario and the Director of the Psychology Clinic at Queen’s. She holds a B.A. from the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin) and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Queen’s University, Kingston.

Since 1992, Dr. Jamieson has worked in a range of clinical settings. These include early intervention programs for families and young children at-risk, child and adolescent psychiatry, residential treatment for children and youth, pediatric rehabilitation, as well as in private practice with children, adolescents, and adults. She is also a former Professor and First Year Coordinator in the Behavioural Psychology degree program at St. Lawrence College, Kingston.

Dr. Jamieson enjoys working with children who have attachment issues, behaviour problems (including problems with aggression, impulse control, and anger management), learning difficulties, autism, and ADHD. Other areas of interest include helping individuals of all ages cope with issues related to anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. She practices using a variety of theoretical frameworks including applied behaviour analysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing, systems theory, psychodynamic principles, and attachment theory.

Dr. Jamieson also very much enjoys working with and mentoring students and witnessing their growth and professional development.