2021 -- Current Visiting Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
2021 -- Current Instructor, Harvard Extension School
2020 -- 2021 Statistics Lecturer, Tufts University
2019 -- 2021 Postdoctoral College Fellow, Harvard University
EDUCATION
2019 Ph.D. Social-Personality Psychology, University of Rochester
Dissertation: When students perceive a HEAP of expectations: Development of the HEAP scale and an investigation of perceived parental expectations on student distress and academic performance
2016 M.A. Social-Personality Psychology, University of Rochester
Certificate in Quantitative Psychology
Thesis: Are they the same or are they different? Investigating the association between performance-approach and
performance-avoidance achievement goals
2013 B.A. Psychology with Honors, University of Chicago
Thesis: Students who believe intelligence can change are more likely to choke under pressure
FUNDING & AWARDS
Fellowships
2013-2019 Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull University Fellow ($36,000)
2015-2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow ($138,000)
2016-2017 Teaching-as-research Fellow ($1,500)
Grants & Awards
2023 Science Institute Grant, Fairfield University ($1939)
2022 Science Institute Grant, Fairfield University ($1000)
2020 Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development, Harvard University ($750)
2019 3-Minute Thesis winner, University of Rochester ($750)
2019 CSP dissertation grant, University of Rochester ($700)
2018 Emory Cowan award for best first-authored publication, University of Rochester's Clinical and Social Sciences in
Psychology Department
2016 GSA student travel award, University of Rochester ($300)
2015 Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) student poster award
2015 Dean's travel award, University of Rochester ($800)
2014 Dean's travel award, University of Rochester ($800)
2012 Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Internship Program ($4,000)
2009-2013 Merit Scholarship, University of Chicago ($40,000)
2009-2013 Dean's List, University of Chicago
2009 Social Science Sterling Scholar Finalist, Utah
2007 Energy Solutions Foundation Scholarship ($2,000)
Teaching Awards
2020 Certificate of Teaching Excellence -- Fall 2020
The Derek Box Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
2020 Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching -- Spring 2020
Office of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University
2019 Certificate of Teaching Excellence -- Fall 2019
The Derek Box Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
2018 Advanced Teaching Certificate
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Rochester
2016-2017 Teaching-as-research Fellow
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL)
Study 1: Freshman motivation: Change in achievement goals during transition to college
Study 2: Gender differences in students' sex-specific social comparisons and goal adoption for STEM and Non-STEM majors
PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
(Current count: 12)
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2024). A HEAP of perceived parental expectations: College students’ experience of high
academic expectations. The Journal of Experimental Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2024.2310686
Lurie, L.A., Hangen, E. J., Rosen, M. L., Crosnoe, R., & McLaughlin, K.A. (2023). Reduced growth mindset as a mechanism linking childhood
trauma with academic performance and internalizing psychopathology. Child Abuse & Neglect, 142, 105672.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105672
Elliot, A. J., Weissman, D. L., Hangen, E. J., & Thorstenson, C. A. (2020). Social comparison information, performance expectancy, and
performance goal adoption. Motivation Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000207
Oveis, C., Gu, Y., Ocampo, J.M., Hangen, E. J. & Jamieson, J. P. (2020). Emotion regulation contagion: Stress reappraisal promotes challenge
responses in teammates. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 149(11), 2187-2205. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000757
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2019). Highlighting the difference between approach and avoidance motivation enhances the
predictive validity of performance-avoidance goal reports. Motivation and Emotion, 43(3), 387-399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9744-9
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2019). Stress reappraisal during a mathematics competition: Testing effects on cardiovascular
approach-oriented states and exploring the moderating role of gender. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 32(1), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2018.1530049
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2019). Lay conceptions of norm-based approach and avoidance motivation: Implications for the
performance-approach and performance-avoidance goal relation. Journal of Personality, 87(4), 737-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12429
Chen, C., Shengquan, Y., & Hangen, E. (2018). Predicting achievement goals in the east and west: The role of grit among American and Chinese
university students. Educational Psychology, 38(6), 820-837. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2018.1458975
Jamieson, J. P., Hangen, E. J., Lee, H. Y., & Yeager, D.S. (2018). Author Reply: Arousal reappraisal as an affect regulation strategy. Emotion Review,
10(1), 74-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917724878
Jamieson, J. P., Hangen, E. J., Lee, H. Y., & Yeager, D.S. (2017). Capitalizing on appraisal processes to improve affective responses to social stress.
Emotion Review, 10(1), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917693085
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2016) The opposing processes model of competition: Elucidating the effects of competition on risk-
taking. Motivation Science, 2(3), 157-170. https://dx.doi.org/ 10.1037/mot0000038
Jamieson, J. P., Peters, B. J., Greenwood, E. J. & Altose, A. (2016). Reappraising stress arousal improves performance and reduces evaluation
anxiety in classroom exam situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 579 - 587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616644656
Manuscripts in preparation
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (in prep). Empowering or distressing: College students' perceptions and reactions to high academic
expectations.
Seitchik, A. & Hangen, E. J. (in prep). Do you push me or do I push myself?: How internal and external evaluation influence stereotype threat effects.
Drazan, J. F., Hangen, E. J., & Loya, A. K. (in prep). Sports biomechanics increases STEM interest among youth athletes within school wide STEM
outreach intervention.
PUBLISHED CHAPTERS/ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
(Current count: 4)
Jamieson, J. P. & Hangen, E. J. (2021). The roles of appraisal and perception in stress responses and leveraging appraisals and mindsets to improve
stress responses. In Hazlett-Stevens (Ed.). Biopsychosocial Factors in Stress, and Mindfulness for Stress Reduction. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Jamieson, J. P., & Hangen, E. J. (2020). Stress reappraisal: Optimizing acute stress responses in motivated performance contexts. In G. Walton &
A. Crum (Eds.), Handbook of Wise Interventions: How Social Psychology Can Help People Change. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Hangen, E. J., & Elliot, A. J. (2016). Achievement Motives. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackleford (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual
Differences. Springer International Publishing.
Greenwood, E. J., Korn, R. M., & Elliot, A. J. (2015). Achievement and the self: Approach and avoidance as self-growth and self-protection. In
Guay, F., McInerney, D. M., Craven, R., & Marsh, H. W. (Eds.), Self-concept, motivation and identity: Underpinning success with research and practice (5th ed.) Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED TALKS
(Current count: 13)
**Mentored student
Hangen, E. J. , Tomlin K., Cannity K., **Benz, B. (February, 2024). Proven performance vs. unproven potential: Gender bias in the evaluation of potential hires. Accepted research spotlight. Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2024. Virtual session.
Drazan, J. F., Hangen, E. J., & Loya, A. K. (February, 2024). Broader impacts: Building on areas of shared interest for effective STEM engagement
among youth. Accepted podium presentation. Orthopedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2024. Finalist for New Investigator Recognition
Award (NIRA)
Seitchik, A. E., & Hangen, E. J. (February, 2023). Do you push me or do I push myself? How internal and external sources of evaluation influence stereotype
threat effects. Accepted research spotlight. Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2023. Virtual session.
Hangen, E. J., Lurie, L., Crosnoe, R.L., & McLaughlin, K.A. (April, 2021). Adversity and Mind-Sets: Mind-Sets mediate childhood adversity on school
performance and anxiety. Accepted paper. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting 2021. Virtual Conference.
Hangen, E. J. (January, 2020). Fostering student motivation in online course design. Invited research talk at HarvardX. Cambridge, MA.
Hangen, E. J. (April, 2019). Who are students competing against? Comparisons to male or female classmates for performance goals. Accepted paper.
American Education Research Association Annual Meeting 2019. Toronto, CA.
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (May, 2018). Reappraising stress during a mathematics competition: Motivation and performance effects for men
and women. Accepted symposium talk. Social Psychologists Around Wester New York Conference 2018. Buffalo, New York.
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (August, 2017). The effects of beliefs about approach and avoidance on the quality and predictive utility of
performance goals. Accepted symposium talk. Social Psychologists Around Wester New York Conference 2017. Rochester, New York.
Hangen, E. J. (June, 2017) Gender differences in students’ sex-specific social comparisons and goal adoption for STEM and Non-STEM majors. Accepted
paper. Teaching-As-Research Annual Conference. Cornell, NY.
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (April, 2017). The impact of respondents’ approach and avoidance beliefs on performance goals self-reports.
Accepted paper. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting 2017. San Antonio, TX.
Greenwood, E. (May, 2016). Are they the same or are they different? Investigating the unexplained association among performance goals. Accepted
symposium talk. Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2016. New York, NY.
Greenwood, E. (May, 2014). Competition and Performance: Motivational orientations and physiological responses. Accepted symposium talk. Social
Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2014. New York, NY.
Greenwood, E., Park, D., & Beilock, S. (June, 2013). Students who believe intelligence can change: More likely to “choke under pressure”. Invited oral
presentation at University of Chicago Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013. Chicago, IL.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
(Current count: 16)
**Mentored student
Hangen, E. J., Daumiller, M., & Chen, C. (February, 2022). Expected to Excel: Examining Cross-Cultural Differences in Perceived Parental Expectations on
Performance and Distress. Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2022. Virtual session.
Hangen, E. J., Jamieson, J. P., & Elliot, A. J. (February, 2021). The Cost of High Expectations: Associations of student performance and distress with student
beliefs about their parents’ high academic expectations. Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2021. Online conference.
Hangen, E. J., Elliot, A. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (April, 2020). A HEAP of parental expectations: A measure of student beliefs about their parents’ expectations.
Accepted Poster. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting 2020. San Francisco, CA. (Conference cancelled).
**Weissman, D. L., Hangen, E. J., Thorstenson, C. A., & Elliot, A. J. (2018). Competition and performance goals: The moderating effect of perceived
competence. Poster presented at the 19th annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, Atlanta, GA.
**Weissman, D., Hangen, E. J., Thorstenson, C., & Elliot, A. J. (2017) The influence of perceived competence on performance goal adoption. Poster
presented as the Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2017. Rochester, NY.
Hangen, E. J. (2017) Freshman motivation: Change in achievement goals during the transition to college. Poster presented at Teaching-As-Research
Research Day 2017. Rochester, New York.
**Sherwood, M., **Yidi, M., Greenwood, E. J. & Elliot, A. J. (2016). Self-esteem, contingent self-esteem and achievement goals: Different associative patterns
between general and conditional self-esteem on goal adoption. Poster presented at the Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2016. Syracuse, New York.
**O’Donnell, A. & Greenwood, E. J. (2016). Associations between mindfulness, private self-consciousness and need for cognition. Poster presented at the
Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2016. Syracuse, New York.
**Grella, E., **Guo, Y. & Greenwood, E. J. (2016). Different associations with preference for consistency and various personality traits. Poster presented at
the Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2016. Syracuse, New York.
**Calarco, K., Greenwood, E. J., Peters, B., & Eliot, A. J. (2016). Writing about people who are unconditionally-accepting or conditionally-accepting of
oneself: Linguistic analysis of differences between attachment styles. Poster presented at the Social Psychologists Around Western New York Conference 2016. Syracuse, New York.
Greenwood, E. J. & Elliot, A. J. (2016). Same goal or two different goals? Investigating the unexplained positive association among performance goals.
Poster presentation at the American Educational Research Association 100th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
Greenwood, E. J. & Elliot, A. J. (2016). The same or different? How lay beliefs about approach and avoidance explain the association between performance
achievement goals. Poster presentation at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology 17th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Greenwood, E., Jamieson, J., & Elliot, A. (2015). Competition and risk-taking behavior: The differential effects of competition on physiological reactivity.
Poster presentation at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology 16th Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA. Winner of Society of Personality and Social Psychology 2015 Student Poster Award
Park, D., Greenwood, E., Ramirez, G., Gunderson, E., Levine, S. & Beilock, S. (2013) Students who believe in the malleability of intelligence show a
pronounced negative relation between anxiety and performance. Poster presentation at Cognitive Development Society VIII Biennial Meeting. Mephis, TN.
Greenwood, E., Park, D., & Beilock, S. (2013). Incremental theorists: Resilient to anxiety but more susceptible to choking. Midwestern Psychological
Association Conference, Psi Chi division, 2013.
Greenwood, E., Richey, L., Zepeda C., Bernacki M., Belenky D. & Nokes-Malach T. (2012). Science Diaries Writing Intervention: Examining Motivation and
Performance in Science. Poster presented at Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center 2012 Summer Internship Poster Session, Pittsburgh, PA.
TEACHING
(Sections taught: 37)
IR = Instructor Ratings
Fairfield University
General Psychology Fall 2023 (IR: 4.94/5.00)
Social Psychology - Section 1 Fall 2023 (IR: 4.64/5.00)
Social Psychology - Section 2 Fall 2023 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Fall 2023 (IR: 4.87/5.00)
General Psychology - Section 3 Spring 2023 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
General Psychology - Section 4 Spring 2023 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Social Psychology Spring 2023 (IR: 4.85/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Spring 2023 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
General Psychology Fall 2022 (IR: 4.94/5.00)
Social Psychology Fall 2022 (IR: 4.89/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Fall 2022 (IR: 4.94/5.00)
Current Issues in Social Psychology Fall 2022 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
General Psychology Spring 2022 (IR: 4.93/5.00)
Social Psychology Spring 2022 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences - Section 1 Spring 2022 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences - Section 2 Spring 2022 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
General Psychology Fall 2021 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Social Psychology - Section 1 ` Fall 2021 (IR: 4.95/5.00)
Social Psychology - Section 2 Fall 2021 (IR: 4.77/5.00)
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Fall 2021 (IR: 4.95/5.00)
Harvard Extension School
Psychology of Competition and Peak Performance (Mixed) Spring 2023 (IR: 4.80/5.00)
The Power of Others: Social Influence and Persuasion (Mixed) Summer 2022(IR: 4.89/5.00)
Psychology of Competition and Peak Performance (Mixed) Spring 2022 (IR: 4.80/5.00)
The Power of Others: Social Influence and Persuasion (Graduate) Summer 2021(IR: 4.91/5.00)
Winning: The Psychology of Competition (Pre-College) Summer 2021 (IR: 4.88/5.00)
Tufts University
Statistics for Behavioral Sciences Spring 2021 (IR: 4.50/5.00)
Statistics for Behavioral Sciences Fall 2020 (IR: 4.55/5.00)
Harvard College
The Power of Others: Social Influence and Persuasion Spring 2021 (IR: N/A)
Driven to Succeed: Understanding Human Motivation Fall 2020 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Psychology of Competition and Peak Performance Fall 2020 (IR: 4.96/5.00)
The Power of Others: Social Influence and Persuasion Spring 2020 (IR: 4.64/5.00)
Driven to Succeed: Understanding Human Motivation Spring 2020 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Psychology of Competition and Peak Performance Fall 2019 (IR: 4.88/5.00)
University of Rochester
Graduate Teaching Program for Psychology Department (Co-Instructor) Summer 2019 (IR: N/A)
Winning: The Psychology of Competition (pre-college course) Summer 2018 (IR: N/A)
Social Psychology and Individual Differences Summer 2018 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Summer 2016 (IR: 5.00/5.00)
Guest Lecturer:
Behavioral Medicine, Lecture on stress and arousal reappraisal Fall 2019, Fall 2018
MENTORSHIP
Honor Theses
2018 Laura Duntley, A Meta-theoretical approach to SOC training for low resource settings
2017 David Weissman, Competition and performance goals: The moderating effect of perceived competence
2017 Jennifer Hennig, Injury process of student-athletes
Independent Research Projects
2017 David Weissman
2017 Danielle Branton
2016 Matthieu Sherwood
2016 Maria Yidi
2016 Amanda O’Donnell
2016 Emily Grella
2016 Katy Calarco
2016 Lily Guo
2016 Julian Nin
Total Undergraduate Research Assistants (co-supervised)
2023 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 2
2020 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistant: 1
2019 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 28 (19 returning, 9 new)
2018 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 23 (14 returning, 9 new)
2018 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 26 (20 returning, 6 new)
2017 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 27 (21 returning, 6 new)
2017 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 36 (27 returning, 9 new)
2016 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 31 (7 returning, 24 new)
2016 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 27 (15 returning, 12 new)
2015 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 32 (27 returning, 5 new)
2015 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 33 (8 returning, 25 new)
2014 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 26 (11 returning, 15 new)
2014 Spring Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 22 (15 returning, 7 new)
2013 Fall Semester - Undergraduate research assistants: 18
ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE TRAINING
Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Item Response Theory, Measurement development, Structural Equation Modeling
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Education Research Association (AERA; Special Interest Group: Motivation in Education)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2022 Spring Psychology Advising Night for Undergraduates, Fairfield University
2021 Fall Psychology Advising Night for Undergraduates, Fairfield University
2021-2022 Meetings for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Fairfield University
2019 American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting reviewer
2018-2019 Psychology SONA committee, University of Rochester
2018-2019 Graduate representative for social psychology faculty meetings, University of Rochester
2018 American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting reviewer
2017 Graduate organizing group travel fund reviewer, University of Rochester
2014-2016 Social psychology graduate student liaison, University of Rochester
2014-2015 Social psychology graduate student committee co-chair, University of Rochester
2013 Graduate organizing group travel fund reviewer, University of Rochester
2011-2012 Vice president University of Chicago's Psi Chi chapter, University of Chicago
Ad-hoc reviewer
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
Acta Psychologica
British Journal of Social Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology Review
European Journal of Personality
Gifted Child Quarterly
International Journal of Conflict Management
International Journal of Medical Informatics
International Journal of Psychology
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Educational Psychology
Journal of Management & Organization
Motivation and Emotion
Motivation Science
Motriz. Journal of Physical Education
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Scientific Reports
Sex Roles
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology