Matthew Weeks - Centenary College of Louisiana

Matthew Weeks
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Centenary College of Louisiana

Current Courses:
General Psychology
Social Psychology
Introduction to Reseach Methodology

Contact Information:
Centenary College of Louisiana
2911 Centenary Blvd.
Shreveport, LA 71134
(318) 841-7268
rmweeks@centenary.edu

Professional Employment History

Position	Institution	Term of Position
Assistant Professor	Centenary College of LA	July (2003) to present
Visiting Assistant Professor	Centenary College of LA	August (2002) to July (2003)
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow	The University of Memphis	August (2001) to July (2002)
Part-time Assistant Professor	Rhodes College	August (2001) to May (2002)
Adjunct Faculty	Christian Brothers University	January (2001) to March (2001)
Adjunct Faculty	Southwest Tennessee Comm. Coll.	Summer (1999) and Spring (2000)

Educational History

Degree	Institution
Doctor of Philosophy (August, 2001) Major: Social Psychology	The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152
Master of Science (December 1998) Major: General Psychology	The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152
Bachelor os Science (May 1996) Major: Psychology	Kentucky Weslayan College Owensboro, KY 42301

Teaching Interests

General Psychology *	Thinking and Cognitive Processes *
Social Psychology *	The Psychology of Learning and Memory *
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (w/ lab) *	Human Growth and Development *
Research Methodology (w/ lab) *	The Psychology of Religion
Prejudice and Stereotyping	Group Dynamics
Social Cognition

* Denotes previously taught courses

Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Stewart, T. L., Weeks, M., & Lupfer, M.B. (In Press). Spontaneous Stereotyping: A matter of prejudice? Social Cognition.

Weeks, M., & Lupfer, M. B. (2000). Religious attributions and proximity of influence: An investigation of direct interventions and distal explanations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 39, 348-362.

Lupfer, M. B., Weeks, M., & Dupuis, S. (2000). How pervasive is the negativity bias in judgments based on character appraisal? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1353-1366.

Houston, D. A., Sherrill-Mittleman, D., & Weeks, M. (2000). The enhancement of feature salience in dichotomous choice dilemmas. In J. Baron, G. Loomes, & E. Weber (Eds.), Conflict and tradeoffs in decision making: Essays in honor of Jane Beattie. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Works in Preparation

Weeks, M. & Lupfer, M. B. Complicating race: The confounding relationship between racial and social class categorizations. Revised and resubmitted at editorial request.

Weeks, K. P., Allen, D. G., & Weeks, M. Feeling busy, feeling guilty, or feeling biased? The effects of cognitive load, compunction, and prejudice on selection interview decisions. Manuscript in progress.

Conference Presentations

Weeks, K. P., Allen, D. G., & Weeks, M. (2003, November). Feeling busy, feeling guilty, or feeling biased? The effects of cognitive load, compunction, and prejudice on selection interview decisions. Paper scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association.

Weeks, M. & Lupfer, M. B. (2003, May). Social Class and Race in Social Judgments: An Important Conjunction? Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-fifth annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, K. P., Allen, D. A., & Weeks, M. (2003, March). The influence of prejudice on selection interview evaluations. Paper presented at the annual conference of Southwest Academy of Management, Houston, Texas.

Weeks, M. & Lupfer, M. B. (2002, February). The relationship between racial and social class categorizations. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology third annual meeting, Savannah, GA.

Weeks, M. & Lupfer, M. B. (2001, May). The relationship between racial and social class prejudice. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-third annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M. & Houston, D. A. (2000, May). Cynicism, Feature Salience, and Political Judgments. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-second annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lupfer, M. B. & Weeks, M. (2000, May). Is appraising people “by content of their character” just another category-based judgment?. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-second annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M. & Lupfer, M. B. (2000, February). Examining the distal use of religious attributions. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology first annual meeting, Nashville, TN.

Stewart, T. L., Weeks, M., Lupfer, M. B., & Weeks, K. P. (2000, February). Spontaneous stereotyping: A matter of prejudice? Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology first annual meeting, Nashville, TN.

Lupfer, M. B., Weeks, M., & Dupuis, S. (1999, May). How pervasive is the negativity bias when judging another’s character. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-first annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M. & Houston, D. A. (1999, May). Which alternative do I prefer (reject)? Feature salience in choice dilemmas. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-first annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M. & Houston, D. A. (1999, May). Preference and rejection judgments: Feature salience in choice dilemmas. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-first annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M., Lupfer, M. B., & Houston, D. A. (1999, May). An on-line examination of social expectancy’s effects at encoding. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventy-first annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lupfer, M. B., Dupuis, S. E., Weeks, M., Weeks, K. P., Rimmer, K., & Eddy, D. (1998, May). The diagnosticity of negative vs. positive character information. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventieth annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Weeks, M. & Houston, D. A. (1998, May). Feature screening in the Cancellation-and-Focus Model of Choice. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association seventieth annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Person, N., Pomeroy, V., & Weeks, M. (1998, August). Tutor dialogue moves in naturalistic tutoring. Presented as part of the symposium on Autotutor: A computer tutor that simulates human tutorial dialogue at the Society for Text and Discourse eighth annual meeting, Madison, WI.

Last updated: 8/15/03