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Research
Interests:
My research focuses on how individual differences in physiology manifest themselves in human social behavior. Specifically, I am interested in how steroid hormones, such as testosterone and cortisol, influence behavior in cooperative contexts and in response to threat (either social or physical). My research incorporates elements of traditional social psychology, personality psychology, social endocrinology, and behavioral neuroscience with an applied interest in health psychology.
Education:
I began attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 2001, and received my B.A. in Psychology in the spring of 2005. After graduation I worked as the lab manager of the Human Motivation and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, under Dr. Oliver Schultheiss. In the Fall of 2006 I entered the Ph.D. program in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where I work with Dr. Robert Josephs. I am currently in my fifth year and am expecting to complete my degree in the spring of 2012.
I currently have three general lines of research.
The first line of research examines how physiological and neurobiological mechanisms influence behavioral responses to health threats. Specifically, how individual differences in anxiety, testosterone levels, and genetic variations contribute to some men’s tendency to ignore important and distressing medical information, with an interest in identifying the mechanisms underlying these problematic under-reactions. This work utilizes social endocrinology and behavioral genetics to address issues of personality and health psychology.
You can find out more information about Dr. Josephs’s research here and more information about my fellow graduate student Jacqueline Evans’s research on stress and affiliation here.
Publications:
Liening, S.H., Swann, W., & Josephs, R.A. (submitted for publication). Dual processes regulate dominance-related activities: Explicit dominance predicts self-reported desire for status, implicit dominance predicts prosocial dominance.
Ristvedt, S., Josephs, R.A., & Liening, S.H. (2012). Hormonal and genetic influences on assessments of unfavorable health information. Psychology and Health. [please email for a pdf]
Liening, S.H., Mehta, P.H., & Josephs, R.A. (in press). Competition. To appear in Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd edition, edited Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. Academic Press: San Diego, CA. [pdf]
Schultheiss, O.C., Patalakh, M., Rawolle, M., Liening, S.H., & MacInnes, J.J. (2011). Referential competence is associated with motivational congruence. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 59-70. [pdf]
Stanton, S.J., Liening, S.H., & Schultheis, O.C. (2011). Testosterone is positively associated with risk-taking in the Iowa Gambling Task. Hormones and Behavior, 59, 252-256. [pdf]
Liening, S.H., Stanton, S.J., Saini, E.K., & Schultheiss, O.C. (2010). Salivary testosterone, cortisol, and progesterone: Two-week stability, interhormonecorrelations, and effects of time of day, menstrual cycle, and oral contraceptive use on steroid hormone levels. Physiology and Behavior, 99, 8-16. [pdf]
Schultheiss, O.C., Liening, S.H., & Schad, D. (2008). The reliability of a Picture Story Exercise measure of implicit motives: Estimates of internal consistency, sum score, and ipsative retest stability. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1560-1571. [pdf]
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Liening, S.H., Swann, W., & Josephs, R.A. (in preparation). The importance of social interaction on the predictive utility of self-report measures and testosterone.
Liening, S.H., Davis, T., Evans, J., Beevers, C., Loving, T.J., Thompson, I., Pollock, B., Wassersug, R., van Honk, E.J., & Josephs, R.A. (in preparation).The effects of androgens on cognition: A review of cognitive changes while undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2012). Explicit versus implicit measures of dominance: Predictive utility of self-reported dominance versus testosterone depends on social context. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Deigo, CA. [pdf]
Liening, S.H., Ristvedt, S., & Josephs, R.A. (2011). Early detection behaviors among men: Testosterone, anxiety, and the dismissal of threatening medical information. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.[pdf]
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2010). The influence of dominance, narcissism, and testosterone on high status behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. [pdf]
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2009). Abusing Power: Dominance and narcissism in positions of high status. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. [pdf]
Talks and Guest Lectures:
Note: Some talks contain results that are not yet published, and thus their slides are not available online. If you would like a copy of the slides, please contact me via email at liening@utexas.edu
The Charles Bronson effect: The role of testosterone, anxiety, and genetic variation in early detection behaviors. (2010)
Social endocrinology. (2010)
Dominance and prosocial behavior. (2010)
Implicit motive scoring: Winter integrated coding system. (2009, 2007)
Contact Information:
Scott Liening
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychology
1 University Station A8000
Austin, TX 78712-0187
liening@utexas.edu
http://www.scottliening.com/
512.471.0691
Office: Seay Building (SEA) 3.426H
Elsewhere on ScottLiening.com:
To learn a little bit about me personally, click here: Personal.
To learn about my consulting availability, click here: Consulting.
To return to the home page, click here: Home.
*Site last updated on 2.27.2012
Research
Interests:My research focuses on how individual differences in physiology manifest themselves in human social behavior. Specifically, I am interested in how steroid hormones, such as testosterone and cortisol, influence behavior in cooperative contexts and in response to threat (either social or physical). My research incorporates elements of traditional social psychology, personality psychology, social endocrinology, and behavioral neuroscience with an applied interest in health psychology.
Education:
I began attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 2001, and received my B.A. in Psychology in the spring of 2005. After graduation I worked as the lab manager of the Human Motivation and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, under Dr. Oliver Schultheiss. In the Fall of 2006 I entered the Ph.D. program in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where I work with Dr. Robert Josephs. I am currently in my fifth year and am expecting to complete my degree in the spring of 2012.
I currently have three general lines of research.
The first line of research examines how physiological and neurobiological mechanisms influence behavioral responses to health threats. Specifically, how individual differences in anxiety, testosterone levels, and genetic variations contribute to some men’s tendency to ignore important and distressing medical information, with an interest in identifying the mechanisms underlying these problematic under-reactions. This work utilizes social endocrinology and behavioral genetics to address issues of personality and health psychology.
You can find out more information about Dr. Josephs’s research here and more information about my fellow graduate student Jacqueline Evans’s research on stress and affiliation here.
Publications:
Liening, S.H., Swann, W., & Josephs, R.A. (submitted for publication). Dual processes regulate dominance-related activities: Explicit dominance predicts self-reported desire for status, implicit dominance predicts prosocial dominance.
Ristvedt, S., Josephs, R.A., & Liening, S.H. (2012). Hormonal and genetic influences on assessments of unfavorable health information. Psychology and Health. [please email for a pdf]
Liening, S.H., Mehta, P.H., & Josephs, R.A. (in press). Competition. To appear in Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd edition, edited Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. Academic Press: San Diego, CA. [pdf]
Schultheiss, O.C., Patalakh, M., Rawolle, M., Liening, S.H., & MacInnes, J.J. (2011). Referential competence is associated with motivational congruence. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 59-70. [pdf]
Stanton, S.J., Liening, S.H., & Schultheis, O.C. (2011). Testosterone is positively associated with risk-taking in the Iowa Gambling Task. Hormones and Behavior, 59, 252-256. [pdf]
Liening, S.H., Stanton, S.J., Saini, E.K., & Schultheiss, O.C. (2010). Salivary testosterone, cortisol, and progesterone: Two-week stability, interhormonecorrelations, and effects of time of day, menstrual cycle, and oral contraceptive use on steroid hormone levels. Physiology and Behavior, 99, 8-16. [pdf]
Schultheiss, O.C., Liening, S.H., & Schad, D. (2008). The reliability of a Picture Story Exercise measure of implicit motives: Estimates of internal consistency, sum score, and ipsative retest stability. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1560-1571. [pdf]
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Liening, S.H., Swann, W., & Josephs, R.A. (in preparation). The importance of social interaction on the predictive utility of self-report measures and testosterone.
Liening, S.H., Davis, T., Evans, J., Beevers, C., Loving, T.J., Thompson, I., Pollock, B., Wassersug, R., van Honk, E.J., & Josephs, R.A. (in preparation).The effects of androgens on cognition: A review of cognitive changes while undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2012). Explicit versus implicit measures of dominance: Predictive utility of self-reported dominance versus testosterone depends on social context. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Deigo, CA. [pdf]
Liening, S.H., Ristvedt, S., & Josephs, R.A. (2011). Early detection behaviors among men: Testosterone, anxiety, and the dismissal of threatening medical information. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.[pdf]
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2010). The influence of dominance, narcissism, and testosterone on high status behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. [pdf]
Liening, S.H. & Josephs, R.A. (2009). Abusing Power: Dominance and narcissism in positions of high status. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. [pdf]
Talks and Guest Lectures:
Note: Some talks contain results that are not yet published, and thus their slides are not available online. If you would like a copy of the slides, please contact me via email at liening@utexas.edu
The Charles Bronson effect: The role of testosterone, anxiety, and genetic variation in early detection behaviors. (2010)
Social endocrinology. (2010)
Dominance and prosocial behavior. (2010)
Implicit motive scoring: Winter integrated coding system. (2009, 2007)
Contact Information:
Scott Liening
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychology
1 University Station A8000
Austin, TX 78712-0187
liening@utexas.edu
http://www.scottliening.com/
512.471.0691
Office: Seay Building (SEA) 3.426H
Elsewhere on ScottLiening.com:
To learn a little bit about me personally, click here: Personal.
To learn about my consulting availability, click here: Consulting.
To return to the home page, click here: Home.
*Site last updated on 2.27.2012