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B.A. 1983, Davidson College, Psychology

M.A. 1989, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Thesis Title: Redefining the work ethic

M.A. 1992, Ohio State University, Social Psychology
Thesis Title: Depression and the impression formation continuum: Piecemeal processing despite the availability of category information.
Supervisor: Dr. Gifford Weary

Ph.D. 1995, Ohio State University, Social Psychology
Dissertation topic: The effects of causal uncertainty on social judgment: Use of conscious and nonconscious inferences in attributional judgments.
Supervisor: Dr. Gifford Weary

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University, 1995-2001.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University, 2001-present.
Acting Chair, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University, Fall term 2001.

Selected Publications (click on the article to view the abstract)

Edwards, J. A., & Weary, G. (1993). Depression and the impression formation continuum: Piecemeal processing despite the availability of category information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 636-645.

Weary, G., Marsh, K. L., Gleicher, F., & Edwards, J. A. (1993). Depression, control motivation, and the processing of information about others. In G. Weary, F. Gleicher, & K. L. Marsh (Eds.), Control Motivation and Social Cognition (pp. 255-287). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Weary, G., & Edwards, J. A. (1994). Individual differences in causal uncertainty. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 308-318.

Weary, G., & Edwards, J. A. (1994). Social cognition and clinical psychology: Anxiety, depression, and the processing of information about others. In R. Wyer & T. Srull (Eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition (2nd Ed., Vol. 2). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Weary, G., & Edwards, J. A, & Jacobson, J. (1995). Depression research methodologies in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: A reply. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 885-891.

Weary, G., & Edwards, J. A. (1996). Causal uncertainty and related goal structures. In R. M. Sorrentino & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation and Cognition (Vol. 3, pp. 148-181). New York: Guilford Press.

Edwards, J. A. (1998). Effects of causal uncertainty on the dispositional attribution process. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 109-135.

Edwards, J. A., & Weary, G. (1998). Antecedents of causal uncertainty and perceived control: A prospective study. European Journal of Personality, 12, 135-148.

Edwards, J. A., Weary, G., & Reich, D. A. (1998). Causal uncertainty: Factor structure and relation to the Big Five personality factors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 451-462.

Jacobson, J. A., Weary, G., & Edwards, J. A. (1999). Certainty and depression: Causal uncertainty versus depressive predictive certainty. Social Cognition, 17, 19-45.

Edwards, J. A., Weary, G., von Hippel, W., & Jacobson, J. A. (2000). Depression and impression formation: The role of trait and category diagnosticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 462-473.

 Weary, G., Jacobson, J. A., Edwards, J. A., & Tobin, S.  (2001).  Chronic and temporarily activated causal uncertainty beliefs and stereotype usage. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81,  206-219.

Edwards, J. A., Lanning, K., & Hooker, K.  (2002).  Jungian personality theory and social information processing.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 432-450.

Edwards, J. A.  (2003).  The interactive effects of processing preference and motivation on information processing: Causal uncertainty and the MBTI in a persuasion context.  Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 89-99.

Kumagai, Y., Daniels, S. E., Carroll, M. S., Bliss, J. C., & Edwards, J. A.  (In press).  Causal Reasoning Processes of People Affected by Wildfire: Implications for Agency-Community Interactions and Communication Strategies.  Western Journal of Forestry.

Nelson, H. W., DeHart, K. N., Hooker, K., Lanning, K., & Edwards, J. A.  (in press).  The Volunteer Experience: Factors Important to Success in the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Role.  The Gerontologist.

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