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Phone 352-523-3665

E-mail tammy.zacchilli@saintleo.edu

Tammy Lowery Zacchilli

 

Education

2003-2007                                 Texas Tech University                Lubbock, TX

Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology

  • Specialization:  Social Psychology
  • Informal Minor: Statistics
  • Advisor:  Clyde Hendrick
  • Research Interests:  Conflict in close relationships, ostracism
  • Dissertation title:  The relationship between conflict, communication, sex, and relationship satisfaction in dating relationships
  • Dissertation defense date:  February 2, 2007
  • Graduation date:  May 2007
  • Cumulative GPA (4.0 point scale):  3.8

 

 

2001-2003                         Augusta State University            Augusta, GA

Master of Science in Psychology

  • GPA (4.0 point scale):  4.0
  • Thesis title:  The need to belong and positive versus negative responses to ostracism

 

1997 - 2000                          Kennesaw State University        Kennesaw, GA

Bachelor of Science

§  Major: Psychology, Minor: Sociology

§  Cumulative GPA (4.0 point scale): 3.64, GPA in Psychology: 3.83

 

1995-1997                         Floyd College                              Rome, GA

 

Professional experience

Saint Leo University

Fall 2008

Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Teaching 1 section of Introductory Psychology
  • Teaching 2 sections of Research Methods I
  • Teaching 1 section of Developmental Psychology
  • Advisor for SLU 100 class

 

Summer 2008

Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Teaching 1 section of Seminar in Ethics, Legal & Professional Issues

 

 

 

 

Spring 2008

Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Teaching 1 section of Social Psychology
  • Teaching 1 section of Research Methods II
  • Teaching 1 section of Close Relationships
  • Teaching 1 section of Developmental Psychology
  • Teaching 1 section of Graduate Developmental
  • Assisting 1 Honor Student with Honors Project
  • Directed study with 3 undergraduate students

 

December 2007-Febuary 2008

Faculty Designer for Developmental Psychology

  • Designed a developmental psychology course for the College of Online Learning

 

Fall 2007

Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Teaching 3 sections of Introductory Psychology
  • Teaching 1 section of Research Methods
  • Teaching 1 section of Graduate Personality
  • Assisting 1 Honor Student with Honors Projects
  • Informal directed study with undergraduate psychology major

 

September 2007

WebCT Training

 

 December 2007

PIE Training

 

Texas Tech University

 

Spring 2007

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Instructor for 2 lab sections of Statistical Methods
  • Create and grade lab assignments
  • Teach use of SPSS
  • Provide assistance to students during office hours

 

 

Fall 2006

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Instructor for 1 section of Psy 3400-Statistical Methods
  • Instructor for 2 lab sections of Statistical Methods
  • Lectured over various statistical tests and assumptions
  • Taught hand and computer calculations for stats tests
  • Created and graded homework, lab assignments, and tests
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours

 

 

Fall 2006

Statistics Consultant

  • Provide statistical consulting services to graduate students working on their theses
  • Provide consulting services to faculty member and research lab for publication

 

October 2006

Personal Response System Workshop

  • Attended workshop describing the use of Interwrite Personal Response Systems
  • Learned how to use software and clickers to create questions, create a roster, and manage a gradebook

 

 

 

Summer 2006

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Instructor for 1 section of Psy 3306-Personality Psychology
  • Created and graded exams
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours
  • Lectures and facilitated discussion covering personality theories

 

Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Instructor for 2 sections of Psy 3306-Personality Psychology
  • Created and graded exams
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours
  • Lectures and facilitated discussion covering personality theories

 

Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Instructor for 2 sections of Psy 3306-Personality Psychology
  • Created and graded exams
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours
  • Lectures and facilitated discussion covering personality theories

 

Summer 2005

Research Assistant

  • Data entry
  • Literature search

 

 

Spring 2005

Teaching Assistant

  • Assisted with graduate course in Advanced Correlations and Factor Analysis
  • Graded homework and assisted with grading of tests
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours

 

Spring 2005

Teaching Assistant/Instructor

  • Psychology 1300- Introductory Psychology Instructor
  • Gave lectures and provided in-class assignments covering Introductory Psychology
  • Created and graded tests
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours

 

 

 

Fall 2004

Teaching Assistant

  • Assisted with graduate course in ANOVA
  • Graded homework and assisted with grading of tests
  • Provided assistance to students during office hours

 

Fall 2004

Guest Lecturer

  • Gave two guest lectures for a psychology course in close relationships. Lecture topics include sexuality and conflict
  • Gave a lecture on factorial ANOVA for undergraduate statistics course

 

Summer 2004

Teaching Assistant

  • Taught one lab section for undergraduate Psychology of Learning course
  • Prepared lab assignments
  • Taught students how to train Sniffy, the virtual rat
  • Graded papers
  • Taught APA format

 

Summer 2004

Teaching of Psychology Seminar

  • Seminar included discussions of ethics, classroom disturbances, and plagiarism as well as other important issues
  • Powerpoint and WebCT training
  • Practice lectures with feedback from other graduate students and the instructor

 

2003-2004                   

Research Assistant

  • Running participants through cognitive psychological experiment in lab
  • Supervision of other experimenters
  • Made copies of informed consent forms and saved data

 

 

2003-2007

Close Relationship Research Group

§  Attended research meetings every two weeks.

§  Collected data on respect in mature adults to assist Clyde and Susan  Hendrick in  validating their respect scale.

§  Collected data on conflict in romantic couples

Augusta State University

 

Spring 2003                 

Teaching Assistant

  • Assisted students in learning about administration and scoring of psychological tests including IQ tests and achievement tests
  • Graded protocols and videos

 

Fall 2002                     

Teaching Internship

  • Prepared lecture notes and taught Introductory Psychology during five class sessions
  • Created and graded quizzes
  • Maintained class website

 

8/2001-5/2003                 

Graduate Assistant

§  Collected, entered, and analyzed data

§  Assisted with test administration

§  Kept records of grades and attendance for undergraduate Psychology classes

 

                               Community Mental Health Center

01/2002-04/2003                                                                            Augusta, GA

Behavioral Specialist

  • Administered psychological tests to mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons
  • Wrote reports to assist with Medicaid waivers

 

                                    Medical College of Georgia

9/2001-2/2003                                                                                              Augusta, GA

Student Research Assistant

§  Distributed and collected nametags of students participating in study

§  Data entry

Presentations and Publications

Presentations

Lowery, T. D., & Hammock, G. (2001, March).  The relationship of personality and psychological and physical aggression in dating relationships.  Poster session presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Lowery, T. D., & Richardson, D. S. (2001, November).  Anxiety and affiliation in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  Poster session presented at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists Conference, Knoxville, TN.

Lowery, T. D., & Richardson, D. S. (2002, March).  Anxiety and affiliation on September 11, 2001.  Poster session presented at the Phi Kappa Phi  Student Conference at Augusta State University, Augusta, GA.

Lowery, T. D., & Richardson, D. S. (2002, March).  Anxiety and affiliation on September 11, 2001.  Poster session presented at the Southeastern Psychological Society Conference, Orlando, FL.

Lowery, T. D., & Richardson, D. S. (2002, October).  Indirect and direct   aggression in the workplace. Poster session presented at the meeting of   the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists, Augusta, GA.

Lowery, T. D., & Widner, S. (2003, March).  Models predicting use of psychological aggression by dating and married couples.  Poster session  presented at the  Phi Kappa Phi student conference at Augusta State University, Augusta, GA.

Lowery, T. D., & Widner, S. (2003, March).  Models predicting use of psychological aggression by dating and married couples.  Poster session presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Richardson, D. S., & Lowery, T. D. (2003, March).  Indirect and direct     aggression in the workplace.  Paper presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Zacchilli, T. L., & Richardson, D. S. (2004, March).  The need to belong and positive versus negative responses to ostracism.  Poster session      presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Maki, R., Wheeler, A. E., & Zacchilli, T. L. (2004, November).  When are the unskilled unaware?  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. S. (2005, April).  The development   of the Romantic Partner Conflict Scale.  Poster session presented at the  annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association,     Nashville, TN.

Zacchilli, T. L. (2007, September).  The Romantic Partner Conflict Scale:  A      new scale for measuring conflict in dating relationships.  Paper presented at the Saint Leo University Faculty Colloquium.

Zacchilli, T. L, Hendrick, S. S., & Hendrick, C. (2007, January).  The Romantic Partner Conflict Scale:  A new scale for measuring conflict in dating   relationships.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of   the Society       for Personality and Social Psychology in Memphis, TN.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, S., Hendrick, C., Taler, C., & Wallis, A. (2008,  January).  The relationship between conflict and physical and mental        health in dating relationships.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, NM.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. (2008, March).  Evaluation of      three self-esteem measures in close relationship research.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Charlotte, NC.

Valerio, C., & Zacchilli, T. L. (2008, March). Is personality related to use of conflict strategy.  Poster presented at the CEPO poster presentation            at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Charlotte, NC.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. (2008, July).  Respect makes a difference.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research in Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Morris, W., Zacchilli, T. L., Tatko, A., & Valerio, C. (2009, February). Bad boy, good girl.  When do opposites attract in romantic relationships?       Abstract accepted for poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Tampa, FL.

Publications

Maki, R. H., Shields, M., Wheeler, A. E., & Zacchilli, T. L. (2005).  Individual differences in absolute and relative metacomprehension accuracy.     Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, 723-731.

Garos, S., Kluck, A., Beggan, J. K, Martindale, J., Wheeler, A. E., & Zacchilli,      T. L. (2008).  Temptation bias: Can self-enhancement limit the           influence of gender stereotypes? Sex Roles, 58(5-6), 311-329.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, S., & Hendrick, C. (2008).  Romantic conflict and          its resolution.  In S. J. Lopez (Ed.), Positive psychology. Exploring the   best in people, (Vol. 3, pp 49-67). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Zacchilli, T. L., Hendrick, S., & Hendrick, C. (under review).  The Romantic   Partner Conflict Scale:  A new scale to measure conflict in dating relationships.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Hendrick, S., Hendrick, C., & Zacchilli, T. L. (in process).  The nature of       respect in close relationships. 

Awards/Honors  received

Recipient of a Graduate Student Teaching Award-Instructor of an Advanced Course (2007)

Teaching Assistant award finalist (2007)

Graduate School Travel Award (2006-2007)

Departmental Travel Award (2006-2007)

Selected as an Outstanding Faculty member by at least one graduating senior (May 2006)

Departmental scholarship recipient at Texas Tech University (2005-2006)

Teaching Assistant award finalist (2005)

Departmental scholarship recipient at Texas Tech University (2004-2005)

Departmental Travel Award (2005)

Graduate School Travel Award (2005)

Departmental scholarship recipient at Texas Tech University (2003-2004)

Departmental Travel Award (2004)

Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (March, 2003)

Selected for recognition in Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities (November, 2002)

Elected Psi Chi President Augusta State University Chapter (April, 2002)

Inducted into Golden Key National Honor Society (Winter, 2001)

Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Award Recipient (2001)

Inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology (Spring, 2000)

Graduated cum laude (December, 2000)

Foundation Scholarship Recipient-Floyd College (1995-1996)

Professional memberships

Member of the International Association for Relationship Research (2008-)

Member of the Association for Psychological Science (2007)

Student Affiliate of the American Psychological Association (2004-2006)

Member of Society for the Teaching of Psychology (2003- )

Member of the Experimental Council at Texas Tech University (2003- )

Full Member of the Southeastern Psychological Association (2003- )

Student Affiliate of the Southeastern Psychological Association (2000-2003)

Student Affiliate of the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists (2001- )

Student Affiliate of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2001- )

 

Service to the discipline & community

Faculty Senator for University Senate (2008-)

Member of Technology Advising Committee (2008-)

Co-Advisor for Psychology Club

Consulting Editor for the Journal of Scientific Psychology

Served on Psychology Club’s Career Panel (2008)

Serving on a subcommittee of the Major Learning Outcomes Committee

Chaired a poster session at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (March 2008)

Participated in Community Service Day (January 2008)

Served as a reviewer for Southeastern Psychological Association’s annual meeting (November, 2007)

Participated in the President’s Reception (Open House)

Participated in Community Service Day (November 2007)

Involvement in the SLU 100 Advising Course (Fall 2007)

Faculty Advisor for Gamma Upsilon (2007-present)

Served as a reviewer for Southeastern Psychological Association’s annual meeting (November, 2006)

Served as a reviewer for Southeastern Psychological Association’s annual meeting (November, 2005)

Served as a reviewer for Southeastern Psychological Association’s annual meeting (November, 2004)

Participated in the Komen Race for a Cure for Breast Cancer (October, 2004)

Assisted with information table on social psychology and graduate schools at the Undergraduate Workshop on Graduate School at Texas Tech (October, 2003)

Assisted Deborah Richardson, APA Division 9 Program Chair, with preparation of abstract submissions for reviewers for annual conference (Fall, 2002)

Served on the arrangement committee for the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists in October, 2002

Participated in the Walk for Autism (October, 2002)

Assisted with the Bert Yancy Memorial Golf Tournament to raise money for local mental health organizations (2001 & 2002)

Represented Augusta State University at the Undergraduate conference at  Kennesaw State University (Spring, 2002)

Tutor for high school and college students (Fall 1998)

Mentor for middle school at-risk student (1996)

 

References

Kevin Kieffer, PhD, Chair

Saint Leo University

Psychology Department

kevin.kieffer@saintleo.edu

 

Clyde Hendrick, PhD                     

Texas Tech University

Department of Psychology

Lubbock, TX 79409-2051      

806-742-3711  Ext. 248                 clyde.hendrick@ttu.edu

Darcy Reich, PhD                         

Texas Tech University

Department of Psychology

Lubbock, TX 79409-2051 

806-742-3711   Ext. 237                 darcy.reich@ttu.edu

 

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