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Freelance researcher with expertise in social psychology, experimental design, and quantitative methods

Profile Summary

I received my PhD in Social Psychology (with a Quantitative minor) in May 2018 after completing my dissertation with the support of a fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. I carried out my doctoral studies psychology under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Barnes, and I have continued in her lab as a postdoctoral fellow, mentoring undergraduates and graduate students and concluding several ongoing research projects. My own research program has focused on issues that arise at the intersection of morality, imagination, and narrative. Much of my published work concerns the psychology of fiction and nonfiction narrative: how the stories we engage with in TV and print affect our personal narratives and how we interact with the world. I have also worked as a data specialist for an educational grant. My statistical expertise has allowed me to collaborate on various projects (e.g., I did the analyses for an article in the Journal of Human Evolution). I have extensive experience designing studies (randomized experiments and correlational projects) and using the Qualtrics platform to collect data (see my blog about data collection: https://jessicaeblack.org/research/). I work with SAS, SPSS, MPlus, and R. I have extensive experience with tests and measurement (both classical test theory and IRT), and have developed 3 of my own scales. My most recent project involves scraping data from Twitter to explore what makes young adult book film adaptations successful. Fee discount for grad students and introductory projects.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Research
• ☆ Social Psychology
• ☆ Fiction
• ☆ Research Methodology

Services

• Writing
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

Imagination & Development Lab, University of Oklahoma

August 2018 - Present

Adjunct Professor

Cameron University

August 2018 - December 2018

Dissertation Fellow

Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, University of Oklahoma

August 2017 - August 2018

Data Specialist

K20 Center

November 2014 - August 2018

Lecturer

Humboldt State University

August 2012 - May 2013

Supplemental Instructor

Humboldt State University

January 2010 - May 2012

Teacher

St. Michael's School (Madrid Spain)

January 2005 - July 2009

Education

PhD (Psychology)

University of Oklahoma

- Present

MA

Humboldt State University

August 2009 - May 2012

BS in Foreign Service

Georgetown University

August 1989 - May 1993

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes(2021). Pushing the boundaries of reality: Science fiction, creativity, and the moral imagination . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. American Psychological Association ({APA})

Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes(2021). Fiction and morality: Investigating the associations between reading exposure, empathy, morality, and moral judgment . Psychology of Popular Media. American Psychological Association ({APA})

Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes(2020). Morality and the imagination: Real-world moral beliefs interfere with imagining fictional content . Philosophical Psychology. 33. (7). p. 1018--1044. Informa {UK} Limited

Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes(2020). Recognition as a measure of television exposure: Multiple measures and their relationship to theory of mind . Psychology of Popular Media. 9. (3). p. 287--296. American Psychological Association ({APA})

Jennifer L. Barnes, Jessica E. Black (2020). What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

(2019). Tell me a story: Religion, imagination, and narrative involvement . Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.

(2019). What you read and what you believe: Genre exposure and beliefs about relationships . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Stephanie C. Stern, Brianne Robbins, Jessica E. Black, Jennifer L. Barnes(2019). What you read and what you believe: Genre exposure and beliefs about relationships . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 13. (4). p. 450--461. American Psychological Association ({APA})

(2019). An IRT Analysis of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test . Journal of Personality Assessment.

(2019). Who can resist a villain? Morality, Machiavellianism, imaginative resistance and liking for dark fictional characters . Poetics.

Jessica E. Black, Stephanie C. Capps, Jennifer L. Barnes(2018). Fiction, genre exposure, and moral reality . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 12. (3). p. 328--340. American Psychological Association ({APA})

Jessica Black, Jim Moore, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Gen'ichi Idani, Alex Piel, Fiona Stewart(2017). Chimpanzee vertebrate consumption: Savanna and forest chimpanzees compared . Journal of Human Evolution. 112. p. 30--40. Elsevier {BV}

(2017). Game-Based Learning and Information Literacy . International Journal of Game-Based Learning.

Jessica Black, Maria Eugenia Panero, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Thalia R. Goldstein, Jennifer L. Barnes, Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner(2017). No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to Kidd and Castano’s commentary on Panero et al. (2016) . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 112. (3). p. e5--e8. American Psychological Association ({APA})

Black, J.E., Barnes, J.L.(2017). Measuring the unimaginable: Imaginative resistance to fiction and related constructs . Personality and Individual Differences. 111. p. 71-79.

Panero, M.E., Weisberg, D.S., Black, J., Goldstein, T.R., Barnes, J.L., Brownell, H., Winner, E.(2017). No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to kidd and castano's commentary on Panero et al. (2016) . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 112. (3). p. e5-e8.

Black, J.E., Capps, S.C., Barnes, J.L.(2017). Fiction, Genre Exposure, and Moral Reality . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Jessica Black, Maria Eugenia Panero, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Thalia R. Goldstein, Jennifer L. Barnes, Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner(2016). Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111. (5). p. e46--e54. American Psychological Association ({APA})

(2016). Impossible or Improbable . Imagination, Cognition and Personality.

Panero, M.E., Weisberg, D.S., Black, J., Goldstein, T.R., Barnes, J.L., Brownell, H., Winner, E.(2016). Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111. (5). p. e46-e54.

Black, J.E.(2016). An introduction to the moral agency scale: Individual differences in moral agency and their relationship to related moral constructs, free will, and blame attribution . Social Psychology. 47. (6). p. 295-310.

Black, J.E., Reynolds, W.M.(2016). Development, reliability, and validity of the Moral Identity Questionnaire . Personality and Individual Differences. 97. p. 120-129.

Black, J.E., Barnes, J.L.(2015). The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition . Poetics. 52. p. 32-43.

Black, J., Barnes, J.L.(2015). Fiction and social cognition: The effect of viewing award-winning television dramas on theory of mind . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 9. (4). p. 423-429.

Black, J. E., & Reynolds, W. M. (2013). Examining the relationship of perfectionism, depression, and optimism: Testing for mediation and moderation. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 426–431. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.012 .

DATA SET

Jessica E. Black(2016). Moral Agency Scale . PsycTESTS Dataset. American Psychological Association ({APA})