Jen Labrecque, Graduate Student

Jen Labrecque

Graduate Student
mailing address: 206 Soc-Psych Durham, NC 27708
office: 206 Soc-Psych
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phone: 919-660-5639

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Research Summary:
 I am interested in memories for real world events and the impact of emotion on those memories. I recently completed my first year of graduate study working with my primary advisor, Dr. David Rubin, and conducting my practicum with Dr. Kevin LaBar. In my current project I show participants a video that arouses a great deal of both positive and negative emotional arousal, and I collect self-report and psychophysiological measures of this arousal. I am particularly interested in how well participants' verbal reports of their perceived emotion correspond with their measured physiological arousal. Next I plan to compare both these self-report and psychophysiological measures with participants' performance on a related memory task for the emotional video they saw to determine if emotional intensity in this case is predictive of memory accuracy.

Representative Publications:

  1. Valiquette, C. M., McNamara, T. P., & Labrecque, J. S. (2007). Biased representations of the spatial structure of navigable environments. Psychological Research, 71, 288-297.