Roles and Interests
Interests: social cognition, intergroup relations, intergroup bias, meditation (including mindfulness), affect/emotion, pain
Education
BS, University of Mary Washington, 2001, Psychology
MS, Illinois State University, 2005, Cognitive Science
PhD, Experimental Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts, 2010
Professional Membership
American Pain Society
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Mindfulness-based Therapy and Research Interest Group
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Recent Publications (2010-Present)
Hunsinger, M., Livingston, R., & Isbell, L. (in press). "Spirituality and intergroup harmony: Meditation and racial prejudice" in Mindfulness
Salmoirago-Blotcher, E., Hunsinger, M., Lucas, M., Fischer, D., & Carmody, J. (in press). "Mindfulness-based stress reduction and change in health-related behaviors" in: Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Hunsinger, M., Livingston, R., & Isbell, L. (2013). "The impact of loving-kindness meditation on affective conditioning and cognitive control" in: Mindfulness, 4(3), 275-280
Baer, R., Carmody, J., & Hunsinger, M. (2012). "Weekly changes in mindfulness and perceived stress in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program" in: Journal of Clinical Psychology, 68(7), 755-765
Hunsinger, M., Isbell, L., & Clore, J. (2012). "Sometimes happy people focus on the forest and sad people focus on the trees: Context dependent effects of mood in impression formation" in: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(2), 220-232
Stout, J. G., Dasgupta, N., Hunsinger, M., & McManus, M. (2011). "STEMing the tide: The effect of educational environments on women’s participation in engineering and mathematics" in: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(2), 255-270
Conference Presentations (2010-Present)
Hunsinger, M., Livingston, R., & Isbell, L. (2011, May). "Spiritual paths to intergroup harmony: The relationship between meditation and prejudice" paper presented at the American Psychological Society annual meeting, Washington, D.C.