Carolyn E. Adams-Price

PERSONAL INFORMATION

BUSINESS ADDRESS
Department of Psychology
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39759-6161
(601) 325-7658

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

1979 BA with honors in psychology
Merrill College
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

1983 MA in social/devel. psychology
Brandeis University

1988 Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology
West Virginia University

1988-1990 Postdoctoral fellow
Institute of Gerontology
University of Michigan

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Everyday cognition and aging. Creativity and aging. Aging and writing. Aging and everyday memory, including memory for drug advertisements. Cognition and chemotherapy. Dependency stereotypes and aging. Eyewitness memory. Gender differences.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Psychology and aging. Memory. Developmental Psychology. Gender differences. Social psychology. Adolescence.

WORK EXPERIENCE

8/94-present Associate professor of psychology
Mississippi State University

8/92-8/2001 Chair, Gerontology Program

8/90-8/94 Assistant professor of psychology
Mississippi State University

8/88-8/90 Postdoctoral fellow
Institute of Gerontology
300 North Ingalls
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2007

8/87-8/88 Psychology instructor
Washington & Jefferson College

ACADEMIC HONORS

1979 Honors in Psychology
U.of California, Santa Cruz

1983-1986 Swiger Predoctoral Fellow
West Virginia University
1986-1987 National Institute of Justice
Predoctoral Fellow

1988-1990 Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Gerontology
University of Michigan

HIGHLIGHTS OF UNIVERSITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE

9/83-6/87 Member, WVU Gerontology Center Research Committee

9/86-5/87 Student representative to Psychology faculty meetings

9/90-present Member, MSU Gerontology Committee

9/90-present Member, MSU Women's Studies Committee

8/92-8/00 Chair, MSU Gerontology Program

9/92-present Chair, Psychology Dept. Library Committee

8/95-8/97 Elected member, MSU Academic Review Board

10/02-present Elected representative to Holland Faculty Senate

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Datan, N. & Adams-Price, C. (1987). Intelligence in old age: A realistic approach. In G. Lesnoff-Caravaglia (Ed.), Handbook of applied gerontology (pp. 173-183). New York: Sage Press.

Barre, D. & Adams-Price, C. (1987). Employing all the carpenter's tools: A review of the 1986 West Virginia Life-Span Conference on Methodological Innovations. Human Development, 30, 119-122.

Adams-Price, C. & Greene, A. L. (1990). Secondary attachments and adolescent self-concept. Sex Roles, 22, 187-198.

Greene, A. L. & Adams-Price, C. (1990). Adolescents' secondary attachments to celebrity figures. Sex Roles, 23, 335-347.

Adams-Price, C. E. (1991). The texture of adult life. Contemporary Psychology, 36, 57.

Adams-Price, C. E. and Perlmutter, M. (1992). Eyewitness memory research: A case study in everyday memory. In R. West & J. Sinnott (Eds.), Everyday memory and aging: Current research and methodology (pp. 246-259). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Adams-Price, C. (1992). Eyewitness memory and aging: Predictors of verbal recall and person identifications. Psychology and Aging, 7, 602-608.

Adams-Price, C. (1993). Age, education, and literacy skills of adult Mississippians. The Gerontologist, 33, 741-746.

Adams-Price, C. (1994). Can artificial intelligence explain age changes in literary creativity? Behavior and Brain Sciences, 17, 532.

Adams-Price, C. (1995). Cognitive aging in the twenty-first century: The old are spared. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 221.

Adams-Price, C. E. & Robertson, C. (1997). Attitudes toward dependent and independent activities in older adults: At what ages should older adults go places and do things. In C. A. Noble & R. J. F. Elsner (Eds.), An odyssey in aging: Symposium from the 1997 Student Convention in Gerontology and Geriatrics, (pp. 81-109). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Gerontology Center.

Moulton, J. & Adams-Price, C.(1997). Homosexuality, heterosexuality, and cross-dressing: Perceptions of gender discordant behavior. Sex Roles, 37, 441-450.

Adams-Price, C. (1998). Age, writing, and creativity. In C. Adams-Price (Ed.), Creativity and Successful Aging: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches, New York: Springer.

Adams-Price, C. (1998). Creativity and Successful Aging: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches. New York: Springer.

Adams-Price, C., Henley, T., & Hale, M. (1998). A phenomenological study of aging. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 47, 263-277.

Adams-Price, C. & Chandler, S. (2000). The Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary: Evolution of an online women's mailing list. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 3, 811-816.

Tucker, R.C. & Adams-Price, C. E. (2001). Ethics in the mentoring of gerontologists: Rights and responsibilities. Educational Gerontology, 27, 185-197.

Morse, L. W., Jacquin, K. M., & Adams-Price, C. E. (November, 2002). Cognitive deficits in breast cancer patients with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation: An exploration of everyday cognition and related factors. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association, Chattanooga, TN. Proceedings published at www.msera.org, Session 8.1.

Goodman, M., Oppenheimer, B., Codling, J., & Adams-Price, C. (In press). Audience perceptions of strong female characters on television. Communication Research Reports.

Adams-Price, C., Dalton, W., & Sumrall, R. (In press). Victim Blaming in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults: Variations on the Severity Effect. Paper to be published in the Journal of Adult Development.

Morse, L.W., Jacquin, K.M., Adams-Price, C.E., Morse, D.T., & Wells-Parker, E. (In press). A validity study of the Positive Psychology Protective Profile. Paper submitted to Psychological Reports.

Adams-Price, C., Henley, T.B., & Griffey, J. J. (Accepted pending revision). Teasing, sexual harassment, and pubertal development. Paper submitted to the Journal of Adolescence.

Adams-Price, C. (Under revision). Reader responses to short stories by old and young amateur writers. Paper submitted to Creativity Research Journal.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Community Integration and Older Adults: A Workshop for Community Leaders, Eldercare Professionals, and Others Concerned about Our Changing Society. Miniconference organized by C. Adams-Price, and sponsored by Mississippi Gerontological Society, MSU Gerontology Program, and the Starkville Banking Association. May, 1995.

Adams-Price, C. Well-being and function in the very old: A miniconference. Half-day conference organized by C.Adams-Price for professional caregivers. May,1994.

Bryant, C., Sullivan, S., Robbins-Herring, K., & Adams-Price, C. (Co-chairs). Women's wisdom and story telling. Three-day international academic conference organized by MSU Women's Studies held in May, 2000.

Murray, M., Adams-Price, C., & Robbins-Herring, K. (Co-chairs). Mending rifts: Going beyond stereotypical views on Islam. Program presented at MSU October, 2001.

GRANT ACTIVITY

Adams-Price, C. (1986). Eyewitness memory and aging: Recall and recognition of persons and objects in a crime scene. Doctoral research grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Funding: $9000 for one year.

Adams-Price, C. (2002). Cognitive deficits and driving in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Research grant funded by Institute for Rural Health, Safety, and Security, Social Science Research Center, $25,000.

Adams-Price, C. (PI), Morse, L., & Wells-Parker, E. (2002, November). Pilot study on breast cancer, chemotherapy, and UFOV. Research grant submitted to the National Institute on Aging. $70,273. Currently under review.
Priority score: 145.