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Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow
Laboratory of Personality and Cognition

E-mail: sutina@mail.nih.gov
Education:
1999

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, with High Honor in Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

2006Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Professional Experience:
2000-2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
2002-2003 Coordinator, Personality/Social Area Colloquium, University of California, Davis
2002-2006

Subject Pool Coordinator, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

2006-Present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National
Institute on Aging, NIH

Scientific and Professional Societies:
2001-Present

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

2006-Present

Association of Research in Personality

1999-Present

Sigma XI

Awards and Grants :
2000-2006     University of California Departmental Block Grant Award
2005              Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Grant
2006              Best Student Poster, International Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia
2008             Citation award poster, American Psychosomatic Society

2010              NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence

Advanced Training :
2006              Muthén and Muthén Short Course on Latent Variable and Growth Curve Modeling (2 days)
2006              APA Advanced Training Institute on Longitudinal Methods in Structural Equation Modeling (5 days)

2009              Functional MRI Visiting Fellowship at the MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (5 days)

Publications:
  1. Terracciano, A., Sutin, A. R., McCrae, R. R., Deiana, B., Ferrucci, L., Schlessinger, D., Uda, M., & Costa, P. T. (2009). Facets of personality linked to underweight and overweight. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 682-689.

  2. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P.T., Miech, R., & Eaton, W. W. (2009). Personality and career success: Concurrent and longitudinal relations. European Journal of Personality, 23, 71-84.

  3. Weiss, A., Sutin, A. R., Duberstein, P. R., Friedman, B., Bagby, R. M., & Costa, P. T. (2009). The personality domains and styles of the Five-Factor Model are related to incident depression in Medicare recipients aged 65 to 100. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 591-601.

  4. Sutin, A. R., & Gillath, O. (2009). Autobiographical memory content and phenomenology mediate attachment style and psychological distress. Journal of Counseling Psychology,
    56, 351-364.

  5. McCrae, R. R., & Sutin, A. R. (2009). Openness to Experience. In M. R. Leary and R. H. Hoyle (Eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior (pp. 257-273). New York: Guilford.

  6. Sutin, A. R., & Costa, P. T. (2009). The Five-Factor Model. In S. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (pp. 387-391). Wiley-Blackwell.

  7. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2008). When the “I” looks at the “me”: Autobiographical memory, visual perspective, and the self. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1386-1397.

  8. Löckenhoff, C. E., Sutin, A. R., Ferrucci, L., & Costa, P. T. (2008). Personality, subjective health, and vulnerability: The association between NEO-PI-R and SF-36 in advanced age differs across samples that vary in impairment levels. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1334-1346.

  9. Sutin, A. R. (2008). Autobiographical memory as a dynamic process: Autobiographical memory mediates basic tendencies and characteristic adaptations. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1060-1066.

  10. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2008). Going forward by drawing from the past: Personal strivings, personally meaningful memories, and personality traits. Journal of Personality, 76, 631-663.

  11. McCrae, R. R., & Sutin, A. R. (2007). New frontiers for the Five-Factor Model: A preview of the literature. Personality and Social Psychology Compass, 1, 423-440.

  12. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2007). Phenomenology of autobiographical memories: The Memory Experiences Questionnaire. Memory, 15, 390-411.

  13. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2005). Continuity and correlates of emotions and motives in self-defining memories. Journal of Personality, 73, 793-824.
Publications in press:
  1. Sutin, A. R., Beason-Held, L. L., Resnick, S. M., & Costa, P. T. (in press). Sex differences in resting-state neural correlates of Openness to Experience among older adults. Cerebral Cortex.

  2. Sutin A. R., & Costa, P. T. (in press). Reciprocal influences of personality and job characteristics across middle adulthood. Journal of Personality.

  3. Sutin, A. R. (in press). Visual perspective and genetics: A commentary on Lemogne and colleagues. Consciousness and Cognition.

  4. Sutin, A. R., McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (in press). The neuroscience of personality traits: Descriptions and prescriptions. To appear in J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

Manuscripts under review:
  1. Sutin, A. R., Terracciano, A., Deiana, B., Naitza, S., Ferrucci, L., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., & Costa, P. T. (under review). High neuroticism and low conscientiousness are associated with interleukin-6.

  2. Sutin, A. R., Beason-Held, L. L., Dotson, V. M., Resnick, S. M., & Costa, P. T. (under review). Regional cerebral blood flow correlates of neuroticism differ by sex and prospectively
    mediate neuroticism and depressive symptoms among older women.

  3. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Wethington, E., & Eaton, W. W. (under review). Turning points and lessons learned: Stressful life events and personality trait development across middle adulthood.

  4. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (under review). Correlates and phenomenology of 1st and 3rd person memories.

  5. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Wethington, E., & Eaton, W. W. (under review). Turning points, but not lessons learned, are associated with physical and psychological health trajectories.

  6. Terracciano, A., Tanaka, T., Sutin, A. R., Deiana, B., Balaci, L., Sanna, S., Olla, N., Maschio, A., Uda, M., Ferrucci, L., Schlessinger, D., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (under review). BDNF Val66Met is associated with introversion and interacts with 5-HTTLPR to influence neuroticism.

Posters and Presentations:
  1. Sutin, A. R., Beason-Held, L. L., Resnick, S. M., & Costa, P. T. (2008, March). Replicated rCBF correlates of Openness to Experience: Common and sex-specific findings. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Baltimore, Maryland.

  2. Page, W. F., Sutin, A. R., & Costa, P. T. (2007). Genetic influences on personality in old age. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  3. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2007, January). Correlates and consequences of memory phenomenology. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, Tennessee.

  4. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2006, July). The phenomenology of autobiographical memories. Poster presented at the International Conference on Memory. Sydney, Australia.

  5. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2006, January). The emotion regulation function of visual perspective. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Palm Springs, California.

  6. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2005, January). The role of attachment in the retrieval and evaluation of personally meaningful memories. Paper presented in the symposium, “Attachment and Cognition” (O. Gillath & R. Edelstein, Chairs).  Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.  New Orleans, Louisiana.

  7. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2005, January). The role of visual perspective in self-defining memories. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, Louisiana.

  8. Stockdale, G. D., & Sutin, A. R. (2005, January). A three-factor scale for assessing autobiographical memory characteristics. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.  New Orleans, Louisiana.

  9. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2004, July). Correlates and consequences of achievement attributions across college: A longitudinal study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Honolulu, Hawaii.

  10. Sutin, A. R. & Robins, R. W. (2003, February). Measuring implicit power with the IAT. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Los Angeles, California.

  11. Sutin, A. R. & Robins, R. W. (2002, February). Emotions and motives in self-defining memories. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
    Social Psychology. Savannah, Georgia.

  12. Sutin, A. R. & Shilkret, R. (2000, March). Academic self-concept and self-handicapping among learning disabled college students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychology Association. Baltimore, Maryland.

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