Curriculum Vitae

                                                               Amber E. DeBono

 

Home Address:                                                         

6211 Carriage House Apt. 4                                         Home Phone: (347) 534-9566

Albany, NY 12203                                                       Cell Phone: (917) 497-0645

                                                                                   

E-mail: Amberdebono@yahoo.com                             U.S. Citizen

 


EDUCATION           

 

Ph.D.                           State University of New York at Albany

In Progress                 Social Psychology

 

M.A.                           Hunter College, City University of New York

06/2005                       Psychology

                                    Thesis: Cast Away – Social Exclusion and Social Aggression:  The Roles

                                                of Self-Esteem and Anger

                                    Advisor: Tracy A. Dennis, Ph.D.

·        Developed my master’s thesis on angry and aggressive reactions to social exclusion which included 72 subjects

·        Prepared own IRB protocol for thesis work

·        Analyzed all data and prepared my thesis manuscript entitled “Cast Away – Social Exclusion and Social Aggression:  The Roles of Self-Esteem and Anger” which is being prepared for publication

·        GPA: 3.6

 

B.A.                             University of Arizona

12/2001                       Psychology major, Spanish minor

·        Graduated Magna Cum Laude

·        Spirit of Discovery and Provost Scholarships

·        Honors Student

·        Completed coursework in 3½ years

·        GPA: 3.9

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

12/2005 – 08/2006      Research Assistant, New York State Psychiatric Institute

·        Recruiting pregnant women who are using crack/cocaine, marijuana, or on methadone treatment for a research study on infant brain development.

·        Identifying and obtaining approval for new sites

·        Assessing participants with the following measures: Hamilton Anxiety and Depression scales, Drug History Questionnaire, Psychosocial Evaluations, Concepts of Development Scale, and Family Environment Scales

·        Working with multiple IRBs to recruit participants from hospitals and other treatment centers

·        Documenting recruitment procedures and progress

·        Assisting participants to find housing and other social services

 

05/2004 – 08/2005      Project Coordinator, Emotion Regulation Laboratory – Hunter College

·        Coordinating multiple studies including research on preschoolers’ emotions, attention, and ERP (Event-related potentials) in relation to mood

·        Developing IRB proposals and protocols

·        Supervising 17 research assistants, managing between 4 and 8 studies, and reporting all research progress to Dr. Dennis

·        Composing manuscripts and grant proposals

·        Managing data entry projects in Excel, SPSS, and SAS

·        Responsible for reporting adverse events in research studies

 

12/2003 – 05/2004      Graduate Research Assistant

Emotion Regulation Laboratory

Hunter College, CUNY

Director: Dr. Tracy Dennis

·        Managing undergraduate research assistant projects including coding and rating emotional faces

·        Running experiments on the relationship between attention and emotion

·        Assisting in development of the Preschoolers’ Emotions Project (PEP) which investigated how children regulate their emotions

 

05/2002 – 08/2003      Mental Health Technician, Cottonwood de Tucson

·        Counseling patients at an inpatient drug rehabilitation center

·        Leading group therapy sessions

·        Charting patients' progress in their treatment plans

·        Working and collaborating with therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists on treatment plans

 

12/2001 – 05/2003      Graduate Research Assistant

Psychology Department, Evolutionary Psychology

University of Arizona

Primary Investigators: Drs. Aurelio Figueredo and Alexander Weiss

·        Recruiting subjects for Sensational Interests Questionnaire (SIQ-R)

·        Entering data from hundreds of questionnaires into an Excel spreadsheet

·        Attending weekly meetings on the SIQ-R projects

·        Acknowledged in “Sensational Interests as a Form of Intrasexual Competition” in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences

 

06/2000 – 08/2003      Volunteer, Casa De Los Niños

·        Counseling 2 and 3 year-olds in a home for abused and neglected children

·        Monitoring visits with parents and children

·        Engaging in play therapy

·        Taking care of the children

 

01/2000 – 12/2001      Undergraduate Research Assistant

Psychology Department, Evolutionary Psychology

University of Arizona

Primary Investigator: Dr. Alexander Weiss

·        Entering data from hundreds of questionnaires into an Excel spreadsheet

·        Attending weekly meetings on the SIQ-R project

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

 

Spanish (fluent in spoken and written Spanish)

                                   

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

1998 – 2001                Honors Student, University of Arizona

2000, Spring               Dean’s List, University of Arizona

1999, Spring               Dean’s List with Distinction, University of Arizona

1998, Fall                    Dean’s List, University of Arizona

1998 – 2001                Provost Scholarship, University of Arizona

1998 – 2001                Spirit of Discovery Scholarship, University of Arizona

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

DeBono, A. E., Betaudier, T., Gonzalez, N., Alvarez, S., & Dennis, T. A. (2005, May).  Cast

Away – Social Exclusion and Social Aggression:  The Roles of Self-Esteem and Anger. 

Symposium paper presented at the Annual American Psychological

Society Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

DeBono, A. E., Betaudier, T., Alvarez, S., Ahmed, I., & Dennis, T. A. (2005, April). Cast Away: 

Social Exclusion, Self-Esteem, Anger and Social Aggression. Talk presented at the

 Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY.

DeBono, A. E., Alisauskas, J., & Dennis, T. A. (2004, April). Anger Regulation and Persistence.

Talk presented at the Hunter College Annual Psychology Convention, New York, NY.

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

American Psychological Association - Member

American Psychological Society - Member

Society for Personality and Social Psychology - Member

 

References

Available upon request