Anne E. Stuart, PhD

Professor of Psychology

Dr. Anne E. Stuart has been a professor in the undergraduate psychology program since 2002. She has been instrumental in designing and revising the psychology program to meet the ever-changing needs of AIC students and support their success. Her specialty areas of teaching are social psychology, social influence, and human sexuality, as well as statistics and research methodology. She is passionate about working with AIC’s diverse student body and sees her role as a professor to provide a strong foundation from which students can explore and develop intellectually, interpersonally, and emotionally. Her teaching practices promote the development of transferable skills essential to success in any career or academic path. Dr. Stuart’s research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, specifically as it relates to undergraduate psychology. She serves as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship at AIC and has organized the Undergraduate Research Symposium since 2021. She will serve as Secretary for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association) from 2024 to 2027.

Degrees
Ph.D., Social/Personality Psychology, University at Albany
M.A., Social/Personality Psychology, University at Albany
B.A., Psychology, University of Hartford

Courses Taught at AIC

• PSY1200: Introduction to Psychology
• PSY2302: Statistics
• PSY2414: Psychology of Human Sexuality
• PSY2600: Foundations of Psychology
• PSY3607: Social Psychology
• PSY3609: Social Influence
• PSY4615: Experimental Methodology

Certifications and Memberships

• Association for Psychological Science
• Midwestern Psychological Association
• New England Psychological Association
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Society for the Teaching of Psychology – Secretary 2024 – 2027

Publications

• Stuart, A. E., Sego, S. A., & MacDonald, M. (2018). Everything I needed to know about being a professor I learned in Intro. In R. L. Miller and A. Martinez (Eds.) Teaching Tips: A Compendium of Conference Presentations on Teaching, 2016-2017. Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site: http://teachpysch.org/ebooks
• Sego, S., & Stuart, A. E. (2016). Learning to read empirical articles in general psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 43, 38-42. doi: 10.1177/0098628315620875
• Stuart, A. E., & Blanton, H. (2003). The effects of message framing on behavioral prevalence assumptions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 93-102. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.133
• Blanton, H., Stuart, A. E., & VandenEijnden, R. J. J. M. (2001). The effectiveness of social image appeals as a function of perceived behavioral norms and message framing; An introduction to deviance-regulation theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 848-858. doi: 10.1177/0146167201277007
• Powell, J. L, Matacin, M. L., & Stuart, A. E. (2001). Body-esteem: An exception to self-enhancing illusions? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1951-1978. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00212.x

Awards

• AIC Faculty Excellence Award 2022

Presentations

• Stuart, A. E., Sego, S. A., *Butkovic, D., *Dervan, G., & *Wildes, T. (2023, October 20). Assessment of quantitative literacy in a general education statistics course across different modes of instruction. [Poster]. Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Worcester, MA, United States.
• Stuart, A. E. (2022, October 25). How do you have class discussions when nobody wants to be divisive? [Participant Idea Exchange]. Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching, Virtual Conference.
• Sego, S. A., & Stuart, A. E. (2022, October 21). Hack your career: Leveraging service into professional development [Symposium]. Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
• Stuart, A. E., Sego, S. A., & Chambers, D. L. (2021, November 5). Revising statistics: Shifting from hand-calculations to computer-based analyses in a general education statistics course [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology.
• Stuart, A. E., Sego, S. A., Hanratty, L., & Hakala, D. (2020, October 24). Sink or swim? How to make the best of service expectations and come out stronger [Symposium]. Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester, MA, United States.
• *Barnes, G., *Comtois, J., *Narreau, S., Sego, S. A., & Stuart, A. E. (2020, October 24). College students’ experiences with the opioid crisis [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester, MA, United States.

Links

• Society for the Teaching of Psychology: https://teachpsych.org/
• Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology: https://www.psichi.org/

Socials
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anne-stuart-1694467