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Kendall Beals, curriculum vitae (last update: July 10, 2019)

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Address:

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital

1601 23rd Avenue South

Room / Suite

3050

Nashville, Tennessee

37212


Cell:

+1 (978)852-0787


Email:

kbeals@umass.edu, linkedin.com/in/kendall-beals

Intro
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
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

Education
Grants & Fellowships
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  • Undergraduate Teacher's Assistant for Adolescent Psychology (undergraduate course). Department of Psychological Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2018

Teaching
LANGUAGES

English (first language)

Spanish (proficient)

Languages
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

Skills
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

Referees
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