Faculty: Stephen Briner, PhD

Stephen Briner, PhD

Stephen Briner, PhD

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Department

Email
stephen_briner@williamjames.edu
Pronouns
he/him
Degree Major/Emphasis Institution Year
PhD Experimental Psychology DePaul University 2010
MS Psychology University of Memphis 2007
BA English (Minor: Psychology) Lyon College 2003

Courses

  • CA601, Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior
  • PS600, History and Systems

Research and Practice Interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Learning from Narratives
  • Communication and Empathy

Publications and Presentations

Selected Publications
  • Briner, S.W., Schutzenhofer, M.C., and Virtue, S.M. (2018). Hemispheric processing in conventional metaphor comprehension: The role of general knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 114, 100-109.
  • Clinton, J.A., Briner, S.W., Sherrill, A.M., Ackerman, T., and Magliano, J.P. (2017). The role of cinematic technique in understanding character affect. Scientific Study of
  • Literature, 7. 177-202.
  • Foy, J.E., LoCasto, P.C., Briner, S.W., and Dyar, S. (2017) “Would a madman have been so wise as this?” The effects of source credibility and message credibility on validation. Memory and Cognition, 45, 281-295.
  • Yukhymenko, M., Briner, S.W., Magliano, J.P., Lawless, K., Burkett, C., McCarthy, K.S., Lee, C.D., and Goldman, S.R. (2016). Development and initial validation of the
  • Literature Epistemic Cognition Scale (LECS). Learning and Individual Differences, 51, 242-248.
Selected Presentations
  • Briner, S.W., and Basel, P. (2019, July). Reading fiction and theory of mind: Impact of individual stories and reader characteristics. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Text and Discourse, New York, NY.
  • Briner, S.W. (2019, March). Blame the jockey: Impact of individual stories on theory of mind. Spoken presentation delivered at the annual meeting for the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Briner, S.W. (2018, September). I’m not a number, am I? Spoken presentation delivered at the Hersher Institute’s First Annual TEDx event, Fairfield, CT.
  • Briner, S.W., Brown, A., Mayne, N., Monferrato, G., and Simeone, M. (2018, July). Reading fiction and theory of mind: The impact of reader preferences and emotional cohesion gaps. Spoken presentation delivered at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Text and Discourse, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Prior Experience

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology, Sacred Heart University
  • Senior Visiting Research Specialist, Learning Sciences Research Institute, The University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Instructor, Department of Psychology, DePaul University
  • Instructor, Department of Psychology, Chicago State University