
Leslie Buddington
Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology
Affiliation
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EDUCATION
- B.S., Fitchburg State University
- M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
COURSES TAUGHT
- Social Psychology
- Theories of Personality
- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
- Child and Adolescent Development
- Adult Development
- Psychology of Learning
- Health Psychology
- Psychology and the Law
- Theories of Intimate Violence
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS
- Finding a positive side to psychological disorders
- Disgust sensitivity
- Early developmental factors and their influence on personality
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Memberships
- Institutional Review Board and the Academic Standards Committee, Faculty Co-Advisor for Psi Chi
Conferences Attended
- Dominello, N.H., Lesniak, B., MacCarty, T., Buddington, L., Privitera, G., Anastasi,
T., Matthews, S., &
Spott, E. (2019). Digital learning techniques for on-ground and online psychology classrooms. Presentation conducted at the 25th annual meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Manchester, NH - Mumme, D. L., Gradwohl, N. & Adams Lariviere, L. (2007). Bug juice: Do disgust messages
help children
follow the laws of contamination? Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA - Adams Lariviere L., Gradwohl, N. & Mumme, D. L. (2005). Piecemeal or wholesale: How
do children
acquire emotional concepts? Symposium conducted at the 17th annual convention of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA - Mumme, D. L., Adams-Lariviere, L., Fuchs, R. & Bushnell, E. W. (2002). Infants’ use
of gaze to choose
objects and learn what to do with them. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Brugger, A., Adams Lariviere, L., Mumme, D. L. & Bushnell, E. (2007). Doing the right thing: Infants’ selections of actions to imitate from observed event sequences. Child Development, 78(3), 806-824.
Mumme, D. L., Bushnell, E. W., DiCorcia, J. A., & Adams Lariviere, L. (2007). Infants’ use of gaze cues to interpret others’ actions and emotional responses. In Flom, R., Lee, K. & Muir, D. (Eds.), Gaze-following: Its development and significance. (pp. 143-171). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.