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WAR AND PEACE LAB
Bernhard Leidner, Ph.D.
Quinnehtukqut J. McLamore, curriculum vitae
(last update: March 22, 2020)
Address:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Psychology of Peace and Violence Program
135 Hicks Way, Tobin Hall, Room 624
Amherst, MA 01003
Cell:
Email:
Country of Birth:
United States
Citizenship:
American
Hello, I'm Quinnehtukqut!
As of Fall 2021, I am a sixth-year PhD student in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. I received my BA in Psychology and Biology from Bard College, New York, in 2016. Currently, my research interests center on narratives about conflict, ingroup glorification, the psychology of dehumanization and infrahumanization, and, more broadly, how conflicts become tied to what it means to be a member of the group. An additional direction in my research focuses on psychophysiology, stress and coping, and how motivational states in response to stress are linked to reactions to ingroup-perpetrated violence. A longer-term goal in my research is to investigate bidirectional links between ingroup glorification, narratives, and infrahumanization.
My most recent work focuses on stress, stress appraisal, and coping with stress, and how it relates to intractable conflicts. I am also interested in how group identity forms in relation to emerging conflicts.
Intergroup conflict, violence, and peace
Justice
Policy attitudes, conflict resolution, and political extremism
Morality, moral disengagement and morality shifting
Collective/social identity
Group processes and intergroup relations
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
2016-Ongoing
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Psychology of Peace and Violence Program,
PhD in Psychology, expected 2022
2012-2016
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
B.A. in Biology and Psychology
Senior Project: (Psychology): Mad Men or Bad Men? The Effect of Male-Typical Borderline Personality Disorder Traits on Lay Evaluation of Psychiatric Need.
Senior Project (Biology): Towards a Gnotobiotic Zebrafish Model for Testing Gut-Brain Relationships in Anxiety Disorders.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
SPSP Travel Award ($500), SPSP, 2019
Reader’s Digest Foundation Scholarship, 2016
Reader’s Digest Foundation Scholarship, 2015
John C. Boylan Scholar Award, 2014
2015-2016 Seniors to Seniors Grant, Bard College ($700)
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Coauthor on Small Research Grant ($1,500), SPSP, 2018
Senior to Seniors Grant ($700), Bard College, 2015-2016
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
McLamore, Q., Adelman, L., & Leidner, B. (2019). Challenges to Traditional Narratives of Intractable Conflict Decrease Ingroup Glorification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45 (12), 1702-1716.
Zhao, X., Fuxjager, M., McLamore, Q., & Marler, C. (2019). Rapid effects of testosterone on social decision-making in a monogamous California mice (Peromyscus californicus).Hormones and Behavior, 115, 104544.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
McLamore, Q., Leidner, B. Park, J., Hirschberger, J., Li, M., Reinhard, D., & Beals, K. (February 2020). Rise to the Challenge: Cardiovascular Measures of Challenge States are Linked to Non-Defensive Responses to Ingroup-Perpetrated Violence. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
McLamore, Q., Hirschberger, G., Leidner, B., & Li, M. (July 2019). To Defend or Not to Defend? Reconciling When Low Glorifiers are Defensive or Non-Defensive of Ingroup-Committed Violence. Data Blitz Talk presented at International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.
McLamore, Q., Hirschberger, G., Leidner, B., & Park, J. (July 2019). How Physiological Reactions to Past Collective Trauma of Suffering and Perpetrating Intergroup Violence Can Facilitate or Prevent Intergroup Violence in the Present. Data Blitz Talk presented at International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.
McLamore, Q., Adelman, L., Leidner, B. (June 2019). Challenges to Traditional Narratives of Intractable Conflict Decrease Ingroup Glorification. Talk presented at Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.
McLamore, Q., Adelman, L., Leidner, B. (February 2019). Challenges to Traditional Narratives of Intractable Conflict Decrease Ingroup Glorification. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.
McLamore, Q., Adelman, L., Leidner, B. (July 2018). Challenges to Traditional Narratives of Intractable Conflict Decrease Ingroup Glorification. Talk presented at International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
McLamore, Q., Hirschberger, G., Leidner, B., & Li, M. (March 2018). Responses to In-Group Perpetrated Collective Trauma Across Nations: Low-Glorifying Israelis, but not Americans, are Defensive of the Ingroup. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
McLamore, Q., Adelman, L., Leidner, B. (June 2017). Challenges to Traditional Narratives of Intractable Conflict Decrease Ingroup Glorification. Talk presented at “Challenging the Narratives of Intractable Conflict,” European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Medium Sized Conference at Queen’s University College, Belfast, Ireland.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Junior Writing (undergraduate course; Psychology 392, Section 5). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2020.
Junior Writing (undergraduate course; Psychology 392, Section 1). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fall 2019.
Statistics in Psychology (undergraduate laboratory sections; Psychology 240). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2019.
Statistics in Psychology (undergraduate laboratory sections; Psychology 240). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2018.
MENTORSHIP
Graduate Student Mentor for one UMass undergraduate Student, Spring 2020.
Graduate Student Thesis Oversight & Mentorship for one UMass undergraduate student, Fall 2019-Spring 2020.
Graduate Student Thesis Oversight & Mentorship for one UMass undergraduate student, Spring 2019.
Undergraduate Independent Project Mentorship/Oversight for one UMass undergraduate student, Spring 2019
Undergraduate Independent Project Mentorship/Oversight for one UMass undergraduate student, Fall 2018
LANGUAGES
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
English (First Language)
Latin American Spanish (Intermediate)
SKILLS
Statistics & Data Analysis:
SAS
SPSS
R (Basic)
Methodology Consultant
(2019-present)
Technical Skills:
Impedance Cardiography
MindWare IMP
MindWare HRV
OpenShot
Experiment Programming:
Qualtrics
SurveyMonkey
Office & Organization:
MS Office
Video editor
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. Brian Lickel
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Phone: 1-(413)-577-0493
Email: BLickel@psych.umass.edu