Maria Parmley
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Science
Phone: 508-767- 7586
Email: mparmley@assumption.edu
B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst;
M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University.
Sample Courses Taught:
General Psychology, Social Psychology, Women’s Images, Statistics, Research Methods, and Research Seminar.
Sample of Publications:
Parmley, M., & Cunningham, J. G. (2008). Children’s gender-emotion stereotypes in the relationship of anger to sadness and fear. Sex Roles, 58, 358-370.
Zhang, F., & Parmley, M. (2011). What your best friend sees that I don’t see: Comparing female close friends and casual acquaintances on the perception of emotional.
Parmley, M., & Cunningham, J. G. (in preparation). Is she mad or sad, and how about him? Age, gender, and context effects on emotion perception.
Zhang, F., & Parmley, M. (in preparation). Decoding emerging emotional expressions as a function of relational context and emotion attention.
Sample of Presentations:
Parmley, M., & Zhang, F. (2010, May). Decoding emerging emotional expressions as a function of relational context and emotion attention. American Psychological Society, Boston, MA.
Zhang, F., & Parmley, M. (2009, May). What your best friend sees that I don’t see. American Psychological Society, Boston, MA.
Parmley, M., & Zhang, F. (2009, February). Your face says it all: Intimacy and the Perception of Emotional Expressions. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Zhang, F., & Parmley, M. (2008, July). Comparing Close Friend Dyads and Casual Acquaintance Dyads on the Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion. The 12th European Conference on Facial Expression, Geneva, Switzerland.
Parmley, M., & Cunningham, J. G. (2005, April). Is She Mad or Sad, and How about Him? Age, Gender, and Context Effects on Emotion Perception. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Parmley, M., & Cunningham, J. G. (2004, April). Perceiving anger and sadness: How might age, gender, and contextual ambiguity influence the process? Conference on Human Developmental, Washington, DC.
