Catherine Rawn

I am now officially a UBC Peer Reviewer of Teaching. In this role I will be reviewing people’s teaching to give formative feedback. Learn more about the process from the link above. Each reviewer only completes about 2-3 reviews per year. In September, Sunaina and I are planning to review each others’ teaching using this model. I’m very excited about it!

After a lengthy, lengthy revision process my theoretical paper has been accepted for publication at PSPR, which is the top review journal within social/personality psychology. I’m thrilled with this news! The first draft of this paper formed one of my comps requirements in December 2006. Then I adapted it for the intro to my dissertation proposal, then the intro to my dissertation. I first submitted to PSPR in May 2009, just before my dissertation defense last year, revised it in December, and again in May/June 2010. Wow! What a process! I learned so much through those various drafts about writing and thinking and collaborating. Kathleen Vohs, my co-author, was a powerful, amazing force for facilitating that learning. Here’s the citation:

Rawn, C. D., & Vohs, K. D. (in press). People Use Self-Control to Risk Personal Harm: An Intra-Interpersonal Dilemma. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

This morning was my photo shoot for an article being written about my Psyc 208 class. In that class we focus on applying social psychological principles for learning effectively. The article will be featured in the next UBC Reports, due out in early August. Exciting!