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Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow
Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience

E-mail: sutina@mail.nih.gov
Education:
2006 Ph.D., Psychology (Personality), University of California, Davis
1999 B.A., Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, with High Honor in Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Professional Experience:
2006-Present

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

2002-2006

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

2002-2003 Coordinator, Personality/Social Area Colloquium, University of California, Davis
2000-2005

Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis;
Courses include: General Psychology*, Research Methods in Psychology*, Personality and Social Development*, Personality Theory, Introduction to Clinical Psychology*, and Environmental Awareness   * Indicates guest lectured

   
Awards and Grants :
2010              NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence
2008              Citation poster award, annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Association, Baltimore, MD.
2006              Best Student Poster, International Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia
2005              Society for Personality and Social Psychology Travel Grant
2000-2006    University of California Departmental Block Grant Award
Publications:
  1. Sutin, A. R., Scuteri, A., Lakatta, E. G., Tarasov, K. V., Ferrucci, L., Costa, P. T., Schlessinger, D., Uda, M., & Terracciano, A. (in press). Trait antagonism and the progression of arterial thickening: Women with antagonistic traits have similar carotid arterial thickness as men. Hypertension.

  2. Terracciano, A., Tanaka, T., Sutin, A. R., Sanna, S., Deiana, B., Lai, S., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., Ferrucci, L., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (in press). Genome-wide association scan of trait depression. Biological Psychiatry.

  3. Sutin, A. R., Beason-Held, L. L., Dotson, V. M., Resnick, S. M., & Costa, P. T. (in press). Regional cerebral blood flow correlates of neuroticism differ by sex and prospectively mediate neuroticism and depressive symptoms among older women. Journal of Affective Disorders
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  4. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Uda, M., Ferrucci, L., Schlessinger, D., & Terracciano, A. (in press). Personality and metabolic syndrome. Age

  5. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T. Jr., Wethington, E., & Eaton, W. W. (in press). Turning points and lessons learned: Stressful life events and personality trait development across middle adulthood. Psychology and Aging.

  6. Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Wethington, E., & Eaton, W. W. (2010). Perceptions of stressful life events as turning points are associated with self-rated health and psychological distress. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 23, 479-492.

  7. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2010). Correlates and phenomenology of 1st and 3rd person memories. Memory, 18, 625-637.

  8. Sutin, A. R., Terracciano, A., Deiana, B., Naitza, S., Ferrucci, L., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., & Costa, P. T. Jr. (2010). High neuroticism and low conscientiousness are associated with interleukin-6. Psychological Medicine, 40, 1485-1493.

  9. Sutin, A. R., Terracciano, A., Ferrucci L., & Costa, P. T. (2010). Teeth grinding: Is emotional stability related to bruxism? Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 402-405.

  10. Sutin, A. R., Terracciano, A., Deiana, B., Uda, M., Schlessinger, D., Lakatta, E., & Costa, P. T. (2010). Cholesterol, triglycerides, and the Five-Factor Model of personality. Biological Psychology, 84,186-191.

  11. 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. (2010). BDNF Val66Met is associated with introversion and interacts with 5-HTTLPR to influence neuroticism. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, 1083-1089.

  12. 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.

  13. Sutin A. R., & Costa, P. T. (2010). Reciprocal influences of personality and job characteristics across middle adulthood. Journal of Personality, 78, 257-288.

  14. Sutin, A. R., Beason-Held, L. L., Resnick, S. M., & Costa, P. T. (2009). Sex differences in resting-state neural correlates of Openness to Experience among older adults. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2797-2802.

  15. Sutin, A. R. (2009). Visual perspective and genetics: A commentary on Lemogne and colleagues. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 831-833.

  16. 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.

  17. Sutin, A. R., & Gillath, O. (2009). Autobiographical memory content and phenomenology mediate attachment style and psychological distress. Journal of Counseling Psychology,  56, 351-364.
  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

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

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

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

  28. Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2005). Continuity and correlates of emotions and motives in self-defining memories. Journal of Personality, 73, 793-824.
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