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Chair of Psychology,
Associate Professor
2001 - Present

Office: 
Rm. 218, Haldeman-Thiessen
Phone: 309-457-2384
Email:
jwertz@monm.edu

Spring '08 Office Hours: 
           Tues, Thurs: 10 AM to Noon
           Wednesday:  1 to 2 PM

Education:

B.S., Allegheny College, PA
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, PA

Dr. Joan Wertz

Courses

Intro to Liberal Arts (INTG101)       Intro to Psychology (Psyc101)
Research Methods I (Psyc201)       Research Methods II (Psyc202)Social Psychology (Psyc233)          Health Psychology (Psyc239)
Drugs and Behavior (Psyc303)        Biopsychology (Psyc318)
Cognition (Psyc320)                     Readings in Psych (Psyc415)
Senior Research (Psyc420)

Research Interests

My research interests center around attempting to understand human drug use, drug craving and addiction.  In order to do this, I draw on a number of subfields of psychology, including health, biopsychology, cognition, behavioral, and clinical psychology.  Two ways that I have approached this issue are by using cue exposure techniques and by examining attentional biases to drug stimuli (by using the Modified Stroop Task).

Other research interests include the links between religious or spiritual faith and physical health, and psychological influences on pain perception.

Recent Publications:

Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Wertz, J.M., Perrott, M.A., & Peters, A.R.
          (2005). The effects of alcohol on cigarette craving in heavy smokers
          and tobacco chippers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 263-270.

Waters, A.J., Sayette, M.A., & Wertz, J.M. (2003). Carry-over effect can modulate emotional Stroop effects.  Cognition and Emotion, 17, 501-509.

Sayette, M.A., Wertz, J.M., Martin, C.S., Cohn, J.F., Perrott, M.A., & Hobel, J. (2003).  Effects of smoking opportunity on cue-elicited urge: A facial coding analysis. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 11, 218-227.

Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Hull, J.G., Wertz, J.M., & Perrott, M.A. (2003). Effects of nicotine deprivation on craving response covariation in smokers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 110-118.

Wertz, J.M., & Sayette, M.A. (2001).  A review of the effects of perceived
          drug use opportunity on self-reported urge. Experimental and Clinical
          Psychopharmacology, 9
, 3-13.

Wertz, J.M. & Sayette, M.A. (2001). Effects of smoking opportunity on attentional bias in smokers.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 15, 268-271.

Sayette, M.A., Cohn, J.F., Wertz, J.M., Perrott, M.A., & Parrott, D.J. (2001). A psychometric evaluation of the Facial Action Coding System for assessing spontaneous expression. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 25, 167-186.

Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Perrott, M.A., & Wertz, J.M. (2001). Parental alcoholism and the effects of alcohol on semantic priming. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 409-417.      

Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Perrott, M.A., Wertz, J.M., & Hufford, M.R. (2001).  A test of the appraisal-disruption model of alcohol on stress. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62, 247-256.

Sayette, M.A., Martin, C.S., Wertz, J.M., Shiffman, S., & Perrott, M.A. (2001).  A multidimensional analysis of cue-elicited craving in heavy smokers and tobacco chippers.  Addiction, 96, 1419-1432.

 
   

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