Darcy A. Reich
IN MEMORIAM
Professor Darcy Reich died of colon cancer on September 12, 2014, in Lubbock, Texas. In her honor, the Texas Tech University Department of Psychology established the Dr. Darcy Reich Graduate Scholarship.
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- Darcy Anna Reich, Lubbock, Texas (Daily Jefferson County Union)
- Darcy Anna Reich (Legacy.com)
My primary research interests concern the automatic and controlled processes by which expectations, including pessimism and optimism, influence social judgments and social interactions, and the processes by which people attempt to correct for such biases. Some questions examined in my lab include: How do expectations influence our judgments about other people? How and when might we try to correct for the resulting bias, and how successful are we? Which correction strategies are likely to be successful, and which are likely to backfire? Under what circumstances might we actually elicit behavior from other people that confirms our own pessimistic or optimistic expectations?
My lab group is currently examining the roles of extremity, approach and avoidance goals, perspective-taking, and motivational variables in overcoming a variety of expectancy-related biases in social judgments and behaviors.
Primary Interests:
- Causal Attribution
- Interpersonal Processes
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Bayer, V, Robert-McComb, J, J., Clopton, J. R., Reich, D. A. (2017). Investigating the influence of shame, depression, and distress tolerance on the relationship between internalized homophobia and binge eating in lesbian and bisexual women. Eating Behaviors, 24, 39-44.
- Brock, T. C., Green, M. C., & Reich, D. A. (1998). New evidence of flaws in the Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 53(1), 62-63.
- Brock, T. C., Green, M. C., Reich, D. A., & Evans, L. M. (1996). The Consumer Reports study of psychotherapy: Invalid is invalid. American Psychologist, 51(10), 1083.
- Casa de Calvo, M. P., & Reich, D. A. (2010). Spontaneous correction in the behavioral confirmation process: The role of naturally-occurring variations in self-regulatory resources. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29(4), 351-364.
- Edwards, J. A., Weary, G., & Reich, D. A. (1998). Causal uncertainty: Factor structure and relation to the Big Five personality factors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 451-462.
- Hendrick, C., Hendrick, S. S., & Reich, D. A. (2005). The brief sexual attitudes scale. The Journal of Sex Research, 43(1), 76-86.
- Humphreys, J. D., Clopton, J. R., & Reich, D. A. (2007). Disordered eating behavior and obsessive compulsive symptoms in college students: Cognitive and affective similarities. The Journal of Treatment and Prevention,15(3), 247-259.
- Morgan, R. D., Garland, J. T, Rozycki, A. T., Reich, D. A., & Wilson, S. (2007). Group therapy goals: A comparison of group therapy providers and male inmates. The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 30(2), 159-172.
- Reich, D. A. (2004). What you expect isn't always what you get: The roles of extremity, optimism, and pessimism in the behavioral confirmation process. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 199-215.
- Reich, D. A., & Arkin R. M. (2004). Self-doubt, attributions, and the perceived implicit theories of others. Self and Identity, 5(2), 89-109.
- Reich, D. A., Green, M. C., Brock, T. C., & Tetlock, P. E. (2007). Biases in research evaluation: Inflated assessment, oversight, or error-type weighting? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(4), 633-640.
- Reich, D. A., & Mather, R. D. (2008). Busy perceivers and ineffective suppression goals: A critical role for distracter thoughts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(5), 706-18.
- Reich, D. A., & Weary, G. (1998). Depressives' future-event schemas and the social inference process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1133-1145.
- Smith-Genthôs, K. R., Reich, D. A., Lakin, J. L., & Casa de Calvo, M. (2015). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 179-182.
- Weary, G., & Reich, D. A. (2001). Attributional effects of conflicting chronic and temporary outcome expectancies: A case of automatic comparison and contrast. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 562-574.
- Weary, G., Reich, D. A., & Tobin, S. J. (2001). Constraints on behavior categorization: The role of chronic expectancies in the dispositional inference process. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 62-75.
- Weary, G., Tobin, S. J., & Reich, D. A. (2001). Chronic and temporary distinct expectancies as comparison standards: Automatic contrast in dispositional judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 365-380.
- Wichman, A. L., Reich, D. A., & Weary, G. (2006). Perceived likelihood as a measure of optimism and pessimism: Support for the Future Events Scale. Psychological Assessment, 18(2), 215-219.
Other Publications:
- Weary, G., & Reich, D. A. (2000). Attribution theories. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Correlational Methods/Factor Analysis
- Automaticity and Control in Social Behavior
- Human Motivation: A Social Psychological Approach
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Research Methods