Kandi Jo Turley-Ames
My research program emphasizes the importance of strategy in social cognition and cognitive processes. I have focused on two research areas, counterfactual thinking and working memory. My counterfactual research has demonstrated how different counterfactual strategies serve different purposes. My research on working memory has focused on identifying strategy differences between those with more or less working memory capacity. My research suggests that strategy differences influence measurements of working memory capacity. It is not only how much working memory one has that is important, but also how one chooses to use his/her working memory.
It is my hope that these two lines of research will provide insight in to the underlying principles associated with effective strategy utilization. Once we can identify the processing strategies associated with different cognitive/social cognitive tasks and determine the types of strategies that can be learned, then we can teach optimal strategy utilization that will yield improved performance on a variety of tasks. Each area has contributed substantially to a more comprehensive approach to research on strategy differences in social and cognitive processes.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Interpersonal Processes
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Budd, D., Whitney, P., & Turley, K. J. (1995). Individual differences in working memory strategies for reading expository text. Memory & Cognition, 23, 735-748.
- Guajardo, N. R., & Turley-Ames, K. J. (2004). Preschoolers' generation of different types of counterfactual statements and theory of mind understanding. Cognitive Development, 19, 53-80.
- Ricks, T., Turley-Ames, K. J., & Wiley, J. (2007). Effects of working memory capacity on mental set due to domain knowledge. Memory and Cognition 35, 1456-1462.
- Sanna, L. J., Meier, S., Parks, C. D., Kassin, B. R., Lechter, J. L., Turley-Ames, K. J., & Miyake, T. M. (2003). A game within inches: Spontaneous use of counterfactuals by broadcasters. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 455-475.
- Sanna, L. J., Meier, S., & Turley-Ames, K. J. (1998). Mood, self-esteem, and counterfactuals: Externally attributed moods limit self-enhancement strategies. Social Cognition, 16, 267-286.
- Sanna, L. J., Turley-Ames, K. J., & Meier, S. (1999). Mood, self-esteem, and simulated alternatives: Thought-provoking affective influences on counterfactual direction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 543-558.
- Sanna, L. J., & Turley, K. J. (1996). Antecedents to spontaneous counterfactual thinking: Effects of expectancy violation and outcome valance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 906-919.
- Sanna, L. J., Turley, K. J., & Mark, M. M. (1996). Expected evaluation, goals, and performance: Mood as input. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 323-335.
- Turley-Ames, K. J., & Whitfield, M. M. (2003). Strategy training and working memory task performance. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 446-468.
- Turley, K. J., Sanna, L. J., & Reiter, R. L. (1995). Counterfactual thinking and perceptions of rape. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 285-303.
Courses Taught:
- Cognitive Processes
- History of Psychology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Senior Seminar
- Sensation and Perception
Kandi Jo Turley-Ames
Department of Psychology
Box 8112
Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8112
United States of America
- Phone: (208) 236-3890
- Fax: (208) 282-4832