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Mary Kayyal

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Mary Kayyal, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

Psychology

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-999-8378

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Spruce Hall 0180

Education

2014Boston CollegePhD
2009Boston CollegeMA
2006Boston CollegeBA

Teaching

  • Statistics in Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • Culture and Emotion

Programs

Courses

Introduction to study in the disciplines of the College of Arts & Sciences. This course facilitates a successful transition to college life by engaging students in a structured curriculum of academic and life skills enhancement and encouraging the development of enduring relationships between students, faculty and advisors, and classmates.

An introduction to analysis of quantitative data in psychology, including probability, descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, analysis of variance and data analysis by computer.

An introduction to analysis of quantitative data in psychology, including probability, descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, analysis of variance and data analysis by computer.

Research

Research interests

  • Emotion Perception
  • Emotion and Moral Judgments
  • Development of emotion categories across cultures

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

  • Kayyal, M.H. & Russell, J.A. (2013).
    Language and Emotion: Certain English-Arabic Translations Are Not Equivalent
    Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32, 261-271.
  • Kayyal, M.H. & Russell, J.A. (2013).
    Americans and Palestinians Judge Spontaneous Facial Expressions of Emotion
    Emotion, 13, 891-904.
  • Kayyal, M.H. & Widen, S.C. (2013).
    Monsters and Growling Dogs: A Dual-Source Theory of the Child's Concept of Fear
    Psychological Topics, 2, 367-382.

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