My research in the past decade has focused on the emotions of guilt and shame. My colleagues and I have studied intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of guilt and shame including the assessment of guilt- and shame-proneness as well as how the emotions are induced by others. We have also looked at gender differences in guilt- and shame-proneness and most recently, cross-cultural differences.

I recently have begun to study higher order thinking processes in college students. Specifically, my colleagues and I have begun to look at the effectiveness of using Keller's PSI system within a computer-adaptive framework (CAPSI) developed by Joseph Pear to increase student engagement and higher order thinking in undergraduate psychology courses. To see more about the research being done on CAPSI, see http://www.capsi.org or http://www.webcapsi.com.

Finally, my third area of research centers on judgment and decision-making, specifically behavioral economics. I am interested in why and how students engage in temporal discounting with regard to their schoolwork. I have collected data on these phenomena for the past five years and am looking forward to publishing my results in this area (see my presentations on this topic).

Primary Interests:

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Judgment and Decision Making
Personality, Individual Differences
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Judgment and Decision Making
Personality, Individual Differences

Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Crone-Todd, D. E., Eyre, H. L., Hutchens, S. A., Jones, J. R., & Pear, J. J. (2007). The effect of changing grading criteria on student writing. Behavior Analyst Today, 8(1), 35-42.
Eyre, H. L. (2007). Keller's personalized system of instruction: Was it a fleeting fancy or is there a revival on the horizon? Behavior Analyst Today, 8(3), 317-324.
Eyre, H. L., Crone-Todd, D. E., Jones, J. R., & Hutchens, S. A. (2006). Using CAPSI to increase student engagement in general psychology. Delta Education Journal, 3(1), 33-40.
Ferguson, T. J., Eyre, H. L., & Ashbaker, M. (2000). Unwanted identities: A key variable in shame-anger links and gender differences in shame. Sex Roles, 42, 133-157.
Ferguson, T. J., Stegge, H., Eyre, H. L., Vollmer, R., & Ashbaker, M. (2000). Context effects and the (mal)adaptive nature of guilt and shame in children. Journal of Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 126, 319-346.
Hutchens, S. A., Jones, J. R., Crone-Todd, D. E., & Eyre, H. L. (2006). Engaging and assessing students in online courses. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 10(1), 110-115.
Smith, R. H., Eyre, H. L., Powell, C. A. J., & Kim, S. H. (2006). Relativistic origins of emotional reactions to events happening to others and to ourselves. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 357-371.
Smith, R. H., Webster, J. M., Parrott, W. G., & Eyre, H. L. (2002). The role of public exposure in moral and nonmoral shame and guilt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 138-159.

Other Publications:

Eyre, H. L. (2004). The Shame and Guilt Inventory: A New Scenario-Based Measure of Shame- and Guilt-Proneness. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Ferguson, T. J., Brugman, D., White, J., & Eyre, H. L. (2007). Shame and guilt as morally warranted experiences. In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robbins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research (pp. 330-348). New York: Guilford.
Ferguson, T. J., & Eyre, H. L. (2000). Engendering gender differences in shame and guilt: Stereotypes, socialization, and situational pressures. Invited chapter in A. Fischer (Ed.), Gender and emotion: Social psychological perspectives (pp. 254-276). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Courses Taught:

PSY 413 - Social Psychology II
PSY 414 - Psychology of Emotion
PSY 433 - Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSY 450 - History and Systems of Psychology
PSY 555 - Behavior Analytic Approaches to Instruction

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Presentations

Hypothetical vs. Real-Time Effort Discounting of Extra Credit
Discounting of Exam Grades, Extra Credit, and Delayed Money
Real-Time Computer-Based Temporal Discounting in College Students
Temporal Discounting of Hypothetical and Real Extra Credit Points
Effort Discounting of Exam Grades
How Does Temporal Discounting Relate to Traditional Personality Variables?
Comparing Three Computerized Methods of Assessing Delayed Discounting
The Shame and Guilt Inventory: Further Validation of a New Scenario-Based Measure

Other Files

Shame and Guilt Inventory
Linked publication: Eyre, H. L. (2004). The Shame and Guilt Inventory: A New Scenario-Based Measure of Shame- and Guilt-Proneness. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Heidi L. Dempsey
Department of Psychology
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL 36265
United States

Phone: (256) 782-5895