Background
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I was born in Fort Wayne, IN and lived there for most of my life. I received my B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University at Fort Wayne. While there I worked in several research labs, including with Drs. Carol Lawton and Jay Jackson. The projects in these labs were also conducted in collaboration with Drs. Michael Bendele and Elaine Blakemore, as well as other undergraduate students. The research topics ranged from gender differences in working memory (Lawton, Blakemore, Bendele, Rose, O'Rourke, & Rehil, 2004) to group identification and its influences on responses to social dilemmas (Jackson, Martin, Rose & Rehil, 2004; Jackson, Rose, & Rehil, 2004; Jackson, Rose, Rehil, & Melenia, 2003; Rose, J. & Brewer, A., & Jackson, J.W., 2002). In addition, I worked on an independent research project (under the supervision of Jay Jackson) that examined how person memory is influenced by trait stereotypicality, trait valence, and whether the target person is an ingroup/outgroup member (Jackson & Rose, 2007; Rose & Jackson, 2003). After graduating I was undecided about graduate school, so I tried my luck at using my psychology B.A. in the "real world". My first job after graduating was as a case manager for adolescent boys with emotional problems. This was both a rewarding and challenging career. The most substantial outcome of working there was that it provided me with the motivation I needed to go to graduate school. In the fall of 2004, I came to the University of Iowa as a graduate student in Personality and Social Psychology. While here I have primarily worked with Drs. Paul Windschitl and Jerry Suls. Many of the projects I have conducted here at Iowa have involved social comparisons. That is, situations where people compare themselves to others on some dimension, such as their risk for developing a particular disease or their abilities at intellectual tasks. Some of the projects I have conducted in this area have looked at how cognitive biases (e.g., egocentrism) influence whether people are biased when they judge their comparative status regarding risk (Rose, Windschitl, & Suls, 2007), competitive outcomes (Rose & Windschitl, 2008; Windschitl, Rose, Stalkfleet, & Smith, in press), and affective states (Rose& Krizan, 2007). I have also been involved in a project investigating cross-cultural differences in social comparisons of risk (Rose, Endo, Windschitl & Suls, in press), as well as the moderating role of mood on such judgments (Rose & Krizan, 2007). Additionally, following a tornado in April, 2006, we conducted several longitudinal studies investigating perceptions of risk and emergency preparedness (Rose, Suls, Windschitl, Smith, & Stalkfleet, 2007). Relatedly, I have conducted work to investigate some of the differences in measuring risk perceptions, and their implications for predicting worry and intentions to reduce one's level of risk (Rose, 2008; Rose, Suls, & Windschitl, 2008). Other than research directly related to comparisons and risk perception, I have also conducted projects on (1) how people use consensus or base rate information (i.e., information about how many others in a given population engage in particular behavior) to change their judgments about a target person's and population's traits (Rose & Windschitl, 2007; Rose, Windschitl, & Jensen, 2008), (2) the basic processes of making probability vs. comparative judgments (Smith, Windschitl, & Rose, 2007) and (3) decision making in children and adults (Levin et al, in progress). |