Arlene Stillwell

Title: Chair/ Professor
Department: Psychology
Phone: 4808
Fax: 2677
E-mail: stillwam@potsdam.edu
Office: Flagg Hall 156
Webpage: http://www2.potsdam.edu/stillwam/stillwell.html

Ph.D. Case Western Res. University Cleveland Ohio

Awards

Each year, graduating seniors are asked by the Career Planning Office to list faculty who had a positive impact on their years at SUNY Potsdam. In the 2006 survey, Dr. Stillwell was listed thus by 25 or more students. Along with Dr. Rick Williams, her colleague in the Psychology Department, Dr. Stillwell is one of three professors college-wide to be honored with this recognition twice. In the 2007 survey, Dr. Stillwell was chosen as one of 12 SUNY Potsdam professors elected as stronly influencing at least 11 students.

President's Award for Excellence in Academic Advising (2004)

Research & Other Interests

The study of the stories that people tell about significant events from their lives (autobiographical narratives), including narratives of anger, guilt, revenge, and unrequited love. The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001.

Campus & Other Service Positions

Campus Academic Awards Committee

Psychology Department Honors Committee and Chair, Assessment Committee

UUP Executive Committee

Selected Publications

Baumeister, R. F., Stillwell, A. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2001). Interpersonal aspects of guilt: Evidence from narrative studies. In G.W. Parrott (Ed.) Emotions in social psychology: Essential readings (pp. 295-305). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.

Stillwell, A. M., & Baumeister, R. F. (1997). The construction of victim and perpetrator memories: Accuracy and distortion in role-based accounts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1157-1172.

Baumeister, R. F., Stillwell, A. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (1994). Guilt as interpersonal phenomenon. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 243-267.

Baumeister, R. F., Stillwell, A. M., & Wotman, S. R. (1990). Victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal conflict: Autobiographical narratives about anger. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 994-1005.

Selected Conference Presentations

Stillwell, A. M. (2005). When perpetrators are also victims: The experience of revenge. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Del Priore, R. E., & Stillwell, A. M. (2003). Show me the extra credit! Incentives and procrastination behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.