Jennifer Bates started doing research with me in the late summer and helped put together the IRB proposal and materials for our first project. She was also responsible for a bulk of the data collection. Next semester, she will be doing her own research project.

Amalie Laurich joined our reseach team a few weeks into the semester. She helped me with the data collection and will be taking a lead role in a research project next year.

One of our projects has been submitted as a poster presentation for the Eastern Psychological Association conference next spring.

If you are a student at Stevenson and want to get involved in research please email me at dschurtz@stevenson.edu

Schurtz, D.R., Combs, D.J.Y., Powell, C.A.J., Smith, R.H. & Kim, S.H. (in press). The awe inspired and social nature of goose bumps. Motivation and Emotion.

Schurtz, D.R., Cerel, J. & Rogers, P. (2010). Myths and Facts about Suicide from Individuals Involved in Suicide Prevention. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 40 (4), 346-352.

DeWall, C. N., Silvia, P. J., Schurtz, D.R. & McKenzie, J. (in press). Taste sensitivity and aesthetic preferences: Is taste a metaphor? Empirical Studies of the Arts.

DeWall C. N., MacDonald, G., Webster, G. D., Masten, C., Baumeister, R. F., Powell, C., Combs, D., Schurtz, D. R., Stillman, T. F., Tice, D. M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2010). Tylenol reduces social pain: Behavioral and neural evidence. Psychological Science, 21, 931-937.

 Twenge, J.M., Gentile, B., DeWall, C.N., Ma, D.S., Lacefield, K., & Schurtz, D.R. (2010). Birth cohort increases in psychopathology among young Americans, 1938-2007: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the MMPI. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 145-154.

DeWall, C.N., Baumeister, R.F., Gailliot, M. & Schurtz D.R. (2010). Acting on limited resources: Self-regulatory depletion and personality. In R. Hoyle (Ed.) The Handbook of Self-Regulation and Personality. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Smith, R.H. & Schurtz, D.R. (2010). Resentment. In H. Pasler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Mind, 1st edition. New York: Sage.

Combs, D.J.Y., Powell, C.A.J., Schurtz, D.R. & Smith, R.H. (2009). Politics and schadenfreude: The secretly happy thing about a poor economy and death. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(1), 635-646.

Smith, R.H., Powell, C.A.J., Combs, D.J.Y. & Schurtz, D.R. (2009). Exploring the when and where of schadenfreude. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3(4),530-546. 

Powell, C.A.J., Smith, R.H. & Schurtz, D.R. (2008). Schadenfreude caused by an envied person’s pain. In R.H. Smith (Ed.), Envy: Theory and Research. New York: Oxford University Press.

I am a new faculty member here at Stevenson but I have a long history in the Baltimore region. I grew up in Perry Hall and attended Towson University for my BS (Psychology/Criminal Justice) and MA (Experimental Psychology) degrees. I went to the University of Kentucky to obtain my Ph.D.

My research interests include: emotions, social comparisons, mindfulness and whatever my students seem to be interested in (this semester it looks like forgiveness).