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| Department of Psychology Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 Phone: 828.262.2738 Email:waringda@appstate.edu |
| Education |
| Ph.D., 1994, Washington State University, Experimental Psychology |
| M.A., 1988, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Applied Psychology |
| B.A., 1986, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Psychology |
| Research Interests |
| Cognitive psychology: Working memory, Individual differences, Education, Knowledge-based comprehension processes. Evolutionary psychology: Conformity, Persuasion, and Reciprocity. |
| Representative Publications |
| Gerrard, L. & Waring, D.A. (resubmitted). Serial position effects in primary and secondary memory processes. Submitted for publication in Perceptual and Motor Skills. |
| Hinson, J., & Waring, D.A. (in preparation). Perspective as an aid to mathematical story problem comprehension. For submission to Journal of Educational Psychology. |
| Niblock, A., & Waring, D.A. (in preparation). Influence of Academic Perspective on Performance. For submission to Journal of Educational Psychology. |
| Waring, D.A. (in preparation). Predictive inferences in text comprehension: Comparison of local and global elaborative processing. For submission to Discourse Processes. |
| Waring, D.A., & Whitney, P. (in preparation). The effects of comprehension task on the activation and incorporation of elaborative inferences. For submission to Discourse Processes. |
| McElroy, T., Seta, J. J., & Waring, D. (2007). Reflections of the Self: How Self-esteem Imposes onto Risky-choice Framing Tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 223-240. |
| Reed-Ashcraft, K., Waring, D.A., & Blanchard-Kittle, C. (2003). Facilitating Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Community Children's Mental Health: An Innovative field Model. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 5(3), 20-28. |
| Denniston, J., Waring, D.A., & Buskist, W. (2002). Charles Darwin Teaches Introductory Psychology. Contemporary Psychology, 48(2), 238-241. |
| Waring, D.A., Reed-Ashcraft, K., & Blanchard-Kittle, C. (2002). An interdisciplinary field training effort and preliminary evaluation. 14th Annual Conference Proceedings-A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL, 417-420. |
| Shelton, T., Baumhover, L., Reed-Ashcraft, K., Waring, D.A., Arbuckle, M., MacKinnon Lewis, C., Zipper, I.N., Leach, B., McCammon, S., & Cook, J. (2002). 14th Annual Conference Proceedings-A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL, 421-428. |
| Waring, D.A., Farthing, C., & Kidder-Ashley, P. (1999). Impulsive response style affects computer-administered multiple-choice test performance. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 26(2), 121-128. |
| Waring, D.A., & Kluttz, C.L. (1998). Effects of task on the activation of predictive inferences. Psychological Reports, 83, 1287-1296. |
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