EDUCATION                                                                                                                                    

2007 - present                         Miami University, Oxford, OH
Dept. Of Psychology

                                                Degree: Ph.D., Social Psychology; expected May 2010

 

2005 - 2007                             Miami University, Oxford, OH
Dept of Psychology

                                                Degree: M.A., Social Psychology

 

2000  - 2004                             Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

Degree: B.A. Psychology, Philosophy; Cum Laude

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS                                                                                   

2009 - 2010                             Miami University Dissertation Scholarship - Psychology, $18,000.00

2009 - 2010                             Marjorie Post Farrington Scholarship, $1,000.00

2009 - 2010                             Graduate Research Forum Presentation Award, $300.00

2008 - 2009                             Midwestern Psychological Association Graduate Research Award

2008 - 2009                             Psychology Department Small Grant Fund, $300.00

2008 - 2009                             Miami University Graduate School Dissertation Grant, $600.00

2007 - 2008                             Patrick Capretta Memorial Research Achievement Scholarship, $300.00

2007 - 2008                             Miami University Graduate Student Achievement Award, $300.00

2006 - 2009                             Graduate Student Association Travel Award, $400.00

2006 - 2009                             Graduate School - Dean’s Travel Award, $400.00

2006 - 2007                             Miami University Graduate School Thesis Grant, $600.00

2006 - 2007                             Psychology Department Small Grant Fund, $600.00

2006 - 2007                             CELT Small Grant for Teaching Improvement, $200.00

2006 - 2007                             SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award Co-Winner- First Place, $2,500.00

2005 - 2006                             Psychology Faculty Commendation

2005 - 2006                             CELT Small Grant for Teaching Improvement, $250.00

2005 - 2006                             GSTEP Grant for Teaching, $250.00

2005 - 2006                             Parents Council Award for Community Leadership

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                        

Bernstein, M. J., Sacco, D. F., Young, S. G., Hugenberg, K., & Cook, E. (accepted pending minor revisions). Being ‘in’ with the in crowd: The effects of social exclusion and inclusion are enhanced by shared ingroup status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Brown, C. M., Sacco, D. F., & Claypool, H. M. (in press). A preference for genuine smiles following social exclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

 

Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (in press). Rejected by the nation: The electoral defeat of candidates included in the self is experienced as personal rejection. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Claypool, H. M. (in press). Obama’s win is a gain for Blacks? Changes in implicit prejudice following the 2008 election. Social Psychology.

 

Young S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Hugenberg, K. (in press). When do Own-Group Biases in face recognition occur? Encoding versus recognition. Social Cognition.

 

Young, S.G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (in press). Intergroup salience decreases recognition for same-race faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

 

Sacco, D. F. & Bernstein, M. J. (in press). A video introduction to psychology: Using technology to facilitate interest and participation in psychology research. Journal of Teaching Psychology.

 

Hugenberg, K., Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., & Bernstein, M.J. (in press). Social cognitive influences on the processing of emotion and identity recognition. To appear in A.J. Calder, G. Rhodes, J.V. Haxby, and M. H. Johnson, (Eds.), The Handbook of Face Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2009). Social inclusion facilitates interests in mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 11-27.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Brown, C. M., Sacco, D. F., & Claypool, H. M. (2008). Adaptive responses to social exclusion: Social rejection improves detection of real and fake smiles. Psychological Science, 19, 981-983.

 

Shriver, E., Young, S. G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M. J., & Lanter, J. (2008). Class, race, and the face: Social context modulates the cross-race effect in face recognition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 260-274.           

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2007). The cross-category effect: Mere social categorization is sufficient to elicit an own-group bias in face recognition. Psychological Science, 18, 706-712.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION                                                 

Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Sacco, D. (revise and resubmit). The categorization-individuation model: An integrative account of the cross race recognition deficit. Psychological Review.

 

Ratcliff, N., Shriver, E., Hugenberg, K., & Bernstein, M. J. (revise and resubmit). The allure of power: The effect of status on face memory. Social Psychology.

 

Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (under review). “I’m a red personality type and you’re not”: Evidence of ingroup overexclusion in minimal group settings. European Journal of Social Psychology.

 

Claypool, H. M., Housley, M. K., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M. J., & Mackie, D. M. (in preparation). Us and them: Familiarity disambiguates group membership.

 

Sacco, D. F., Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. J. (in preparation). Social inclusion leads to increased sexual aggression.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS                                                                                          

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Claypool, H. M. (2010, January). The electoral loss of a preferred candidate included in the self is experienced as personal rejection. Poster to be presented at the 11^th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

 

Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2010, January). Obama’s win is a gain for African Americans? Changes in implicit racial prejudice following the 2008 US Presidential election. Poster to be presented at the 11^th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

 

Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2009, May). Ostracism and person perception: Exclusion by ingroup members hurts more. Paper presented at the 81^st annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2009, May). The own group bias in face recognition: An encoding, not recall effect. Paper presented at the 81^st annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Claypool, H. M., Jones, I., & Grobe, M. (2009, May). Rejection leads to differential behavioral intentions towards real/fake smiles. Poster presented at the 81^st annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Baldwin, M., Morton, K., Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2009, May). Making prejudice salient: External motivation to control prejudice and the CRE. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the 21^st Association of Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

 

Baldwin, M., Morton, K., Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2009, May). External motivation to control prejudice as a moderator of the CRE. Poster presented at the 81^st annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2009, April). Social inclusion leads to reprioritization of basic motives. Paper presented at the 89^th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.

 

Housley, M. K., Claypool, H. M., Hugenberg K., Bernstein, M. J., & Mackie, D. M. (2009, January). Familiarity and ingroup perceptions: Previous mere exposure makes others seem like one of us. Poster presented at the 10^th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2008, June). Moderators of the ingroup overexclusion effect: A minimal groups setting. Poster presented at the 7^th biennial meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2008, May). “I’m a green personality type and you’re not”: Evidence of ingroup overexclusion in minimal group settings. Paper presented at the 80^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Brown, C., & Claypool, H. M. (2008, May). Social rejection initiates an adaptive response when discriminating among real and fake smiles. Paper presented at the 80^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Shriver, E., Young, S. G., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M. J., & Lanter, J. (2008, May). Social context modulates the cross race effect in face recognition. Paper presented at the 80^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., Hugenberg, K., Shriver, E., & Lanter, J. (2008, May). The CRE and the CCE; Group categorizations mitigate the CRE. Paper presented at the 80^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Hugenberg, K., & Lanter, J. (2008, May). The cross-category effect: mere social categorization is sufficient to elicit an own-group bias in face recognition . Poster presented at the 20^th annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

 

Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2008, May). Interest in mating increases following social acceptance. Poster presented at the 20^th annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

 

Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., & Paternite, C. (2008, May). A video introduction to psychology:

Enhancing research interest and participation. Poster presented at the 20^th annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

 

Claypool, H. M., Hugenberg, K., Housley, M. K., & Bernstein, M. J. (2007, September). Us and them: Familiarity and perceived group membership. Symposium paper presented at the British Psychological Society Social Section Conference: Groups, Politics, and Organizations, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

 

Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., Hugenberg, K., & Lanter, J. (2007, May). The own group bias in facial recognition: A cross categorization effect. Paper presented at the 79^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., Hugenberg, K., & Lanter, J. (2007, May). The effect of race and cross-categorization on face recognition. Poster presented at the 19^th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, D.C.

Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2007, May). Subtyping as a means of buffering group identification. Poster presented at the 79^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2007, January). Threats from within the ingroup. Subtyping moderates changes ingroup identification. Poster presented at the 8^th annual meeting of SPSP in Memphis, TN.

Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2007, January). An own group bias in facial recognition: A cross categorization effect. Poster presented at the 8^th annual meeting of SPSP in Memphis, TN.

 

Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2006, May). Fluency and the ingroup overexclusion effect. Paper presented at the 78^th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2006, May). Regulatory focus and the ingroup overexclusion effect. Poster presented at the 18^th annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

 

Bernstein, M. J. (2000, April). The relationship between tutors and professors: An analysis of the effect of level of communication between tutors and faculty and the improvement in grades and overall satisfaction of the tutee. Paper presented at the 14^th annual meeting of the National Tutoring Association, Nashville, TN.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINGING                                                                        

Miami University; Overall Instructor Ratings: 1 (poor) - 5 (excellent) Scale: 4.80 Overall

2009 - Spring                           Instructor, Social Cognition, 4.97

2008 - Fall                               Instructor, Social Psychology of Stigma, 4.95

2008 - Spring                           Co-Instructor, Introduction to Social Psychology, 4.63 

2008 - Spring                           Co-Instructor, Introduction to Psychological Methods, 4.51

2007 - Fall                               Instructor, Introduction to Social Psychology, 4.90

2007 - Summer                        Instructor, Psychological Statistics , 4.86

2007 - Spring                           Instructor, Psychological Statistics Laboratory, 4.95

2006 - Fall                               Instructor, Psychological Statistics Laboratory (2 Sections), 4.70

2006 - Fall                               Graduate Student Teaching and Enhancement Program

2005 - Fall                               Teaching Assistant: Psychology of Women

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION AND MENTORSHIP                                                                    

Graduate student supervisor of the following undergraduate students independent studies:

·  Matt Baldwin (First author poster presented at 2 national conferences)

·  Lauren Bangert (Honors Thesis Committee, Independent research)

·  Alex Intorcio (First author poster presented at national conferences, University funded research)

·  Nathanial Ratcliff (Honors Thesis Committee, Independent research)

PROFESSRIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE                                                                    

2008 - 2009                             Graduate Student Representative to the Psychology Faculty

2008 - 2009                             University Graduate Program Review Committee

2006 - 2009                             Graduate Council Representative to the University

2007 - 2008                             Undergraduate Research Symposium Moderator                                

2007 - 2008                             Graduate Council Student University Financial Assistance Committee

2007 - 2008                             Graduate Student Advisory Committee to the Graduate Dean

2007 - 2008                             Psychology Department Intro to Psychology Video Design Work

2007 - 2008                             APSSC Student Grant Competition Reviewer

2006 - 2008                             APSSC RiSE-UP Research Award Competition Reviewer

2006 - 2008                             Associated Student Government Executive Board

2006 - 2008                             University Graduate Budgetary Committee

2006 - 2008                             Graduate Student Association President

2005 - 2008                             Community Counseling and Crisis Center, Victim Advocate

2005 - 2008                             Graduate Student Representative for Psychology Department

2005 - 2006                             Oxford Family Resource Center, Program Evaluation

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS                                                                                                  

The American Psychological Society              

Midwestern Psychological Association

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Psi Chi

 

JOURNAL REVIEWING                                                                                                                

2009 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

2009 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for the European Journal of Social Psychology

2009 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for Social Influence

2009 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for Social Psychology

2008 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for Cognition and Emotion

2008 - present                         Ad hoc reviewer for The Psychological Record

 

CONSLUTING                                                                                                                                 

2009 - present                         Grant Funded Consultant for Procter and Gamble