Meaghan N Altman

Meaghan N Altman, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Lecturer

    Psychology

    University of California, Merced (Merced, CA)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Evolutionary Psychology, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
     
    M.S., Experimental Psychology, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
     
    B.A., Psychology, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    E. John Capaldi (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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  • Research:
    My research is concerned with how variables that have impacted our differential reproduction during the course of evolutionary history influence social decision making (e.g. certain types of moral decisions)
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  • Other Experience:

    2008-2011 Graduate Instructor

    2007-2011 Academic Althletic Mentor

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  • Honors:

    2011 Department of Psychological Science David A. Santogrossi Graduate Instructor Award

    2011 College of Health and Human Sciences nominee for The Purdue University Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award

    2010 Purdue University Summer Research Grant

    2010 Department of Psychology Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

    2009 Purdue University Summer Reaserch Grant

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Meaghan Altman's Posters and Presentations (5)

  • Are the trolley problems all relative? Influences of kinship on moral decision making. (presentation)

    Meaghan N Altman

    25th annual Tri-State + confrence; 04/2011
  • Memories of reward and nonreward regulate the extinction and reacquision of both excitatory and inhibitory associations (presentation)

    Meaghan N Altman, E. J. Capaldi

    23rd annual TriState + ; 04/2010
  • The Effects of Memory of Reward on Rats’ Reacquisition in Two Pavlovian Studies (presentation)

    Meaghan N Altman

    21st annual Tri-State + , University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; 04/2008
  • Evolutionary Explanations of Cooperative, Social, and Other Behaviors Since Darwin. (presentation)

    E. John Capaldi & Meaghan N Altman

    Purdue University; 03/2007
  • Selfishness or Selflessness: An Evolutionary Evaluation of Altruistic Behavior (poster)

    Meaghan N Altman & E. John Capaldi

    Purdue University, Wes Lafayette, IN; 10/2006

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