Dr. Melissa Acevedo
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-7938
Office location: Technology Building, Room 33
Email: melissa.acevedo@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department/Division: Social Science
Degree Information:
- B.A., Psychology, Yale University
- M.S., Psychology, Brown University
- PhD, Psychology, Brown University
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Psychology, University of Miami
Courses Taught:
- General Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Human Sexuality
- Adolescent Psychology
- Directed Independent Study in Psychology
Honors and Awards:
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Psi Chi
Publications:
- Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. (2004). Two egocentric biases for the decision to vote: The voter’s illusion and perceptions of personal relevance. Political Psychology, 25, 115-134.
- Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. (2005). Expectations of reciprocal choice and opponent cooperation as predictors of players’ own cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, American Journal of Psychology.
- Krueger, J., & Acevedo, M. (2002). Why Vote? Brown Alumni Magazine, November/December: 27, 87.
- Krueger, J., & Acevedo, M. (2008). Perception of self and other in the prisoner’s dilemma game: Outcome bias and evidential reasoning, American Journal of Psychology.
- Krueger, J. I., &Acevedo, M. (2005). Social projection and the psychology of choice. In M. D. Alice, D. Dunning & J. I. Krueger (Eds.), The self in social judgment. New York: Psychology Press.
- Krueger, J., & Acevedo, M. (2002). Why cooperate? Social projection as a cognitive mechanism that helps us do good. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 266.
- Krueger, J., Acevedo, M., & Robbins, J. (2005). Self as sample. In K. Fiedler & P. Juslin (Eds.). Information sampling and adaptive cognition.
- Krueger, J., Hasman, J., Acevedo, M., & Villano, P. (2003). The role of
- intergroup accentuation effects and social projection in perceptions of men’s and woman’s characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 108-116.
Presentations:
- Acevedo, M., & Cordova, D. (2000). Undermining the over-justification effect: The effects of effort and ability trait labels. Poster session presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, TN.
- Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. (2001). Two egocentric biases for the decision to vote: The voter’s illusion and perceptions of personal relevance. Poster session presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
- Acevedo, M., & Krueger, J. (2002). Do expectations of reciprocity or expectations of cooperation predict player’s choices in the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Poster session presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.
- Acevedo, M., & Laurenceau, J.P. (2004) Experience and expression of emotion inclose relationships: The role of relational interdependence on emotional authenticity in daily interactions. Poster session presented at the 5th Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
- Krueger, J., & Acevedo, M. (2004) Perceptions of self and other in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Poster Session presented at the 5th Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
- Krueger, J., Acevedo, M., & Robbins, J. (2002). Perceptions of similarities between self and social group: A matter of top-down or bottom-up inference? Talk presented at the Small-Group Meeting on Information Sampling as a Key to Understanding Adaptive Cognition in an Uncertain Environment, Heidelberg, Germany.
Institution Service or Academic Service:
- Past member of Faculty Senate
- Past Chair of Faculty Assessment Committee
- Past member of Faculty Senate Academic Technology Committee
- Past Program Review Fellow
- Past Co-Director of Ford Fellowship Program
- Past Distance Learning Faculty Assistant
- Past Advisor, Psychology Club
- Past presentations at Faculty Development Days
- Past Student Mentor on Connections Program
- Member of Search and Screen Committees for Faculty and Administration