WAR AND PEACE LAB
Bernhard Leidner, Ph.D.
Kendall Beals, curriculum vitae (last update: July 10, 2019)
Address:
Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
1601 23rd Avenue South
Room / Suite
3050
Nashville, Tennessee
37212
Cell:
Email:
kbeals@umass.edu, linkedin.com/in/kendall-beals
Hello, I'm Kendall Beals!
I'm a former Lab Manager for the War and Peace Lab in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. I received my BS in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. I am interested in how people with severe mental health disorders, like schizophrenia, perceive and respond to affective stimuli as well as clinical decision making. My past research experience focused on dehumanization and implicit biases towards minority groups, effects of mentorships, and cognitive dissonance. In my spare time, I volunteered for the school's student EMS squad as an EMT-B. I started working in this lab as a Research Assistant in the Summer of 2017. I graduated in May 2018 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. My research interests include how people with psychotic disorders perceive and respond to affective stimuli, understanding social cognition through the disease development, and clinical interventions. I love training dogs and working as a mentor. After graduation I worked as a lab manager and helped run 2 federally funded studies and trained 45 research assistants between both labs. I am now a research assistant for a lab involving novel interventions for patients with schizophrenia at the Sheffield Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Severe Mental Health Disorders (ex. Schizophrenia)
Perception and reactions to affective stimuli
Stress and Coping
Decision Making
Social identity
Group processes and intergroup relations
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
2014-2015
University of Albany, Albany, NY, USA
Pursued BS in Biology
2015-2018
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
BS in Psychology
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Undergraduate Teacher's Assistant for Adolescent Psychology (undergraduate course). Department of Psychological Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2018
LANGUAGES
English (first language)
Spanish (proficient)
SKILLS
Statistics & Data Analysis:
SAS
SPSS (Proficient)
R Studio (Basic)
NVivo
LIWC
Acknowledge
Mindware (HRV, IMP, GSR)
EPrime
RedCap
Experiment Programming:
Qualtrics
SurveyMonkey
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Web programming:
Wix
Google Pages
Office & Organization:
MS Office
Google Drive
Miscellaneous:
Certified Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Coder
EMT-B Certified
CPR/First Aid Certified
REFEREES
Prof. Bernhard Leidner
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 639, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Phone: 1-(413)-545-0087
Email: BLeidner@psych.umass.edu
Prof. Linda M. Isbell
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Email: Lisbell@psych.umass.edu
Prof. Nilanjana Dasgupta
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Email: nd@umass.edu