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E-mail: mlavin@sbu.edu

Web Sites:

http://web.sbu.edu/psychology/lavin

http://web.sbu.edu/psychology

Home Address:

415 Madison Avenue

Olean, New York 14760

and

10 Benedict

Tarrytown, NY 10591

Marital Status: Married to Lydia (nee Sawczyn)

Children: Andrew Michael and John Paul

1. Educational Background

Ph.D., 1973 Northern Illinois University

Major Area: Experimental Psychology

Minor Area: Experimental Developmental Psychology

Dissertation Title: The establishment of the sensory

preconditioning effect using a

flavor-toxicosis training paradigm

Mentor: Dr. Samuel H. Revusky

M.A., 1970 Northern Illinois University

Major Area: Experimental Social Psychology

Minor Area: Experimental Psychology

Thesis Title: The role of associated anxiety in the

attitude-recall effect.

Mentor: Dr. Martin Kaplan

B.S., 1967 Loyola University (Chicago, Illinois)

Major : Psychology

Minor: Biology-Philosophy

2. Professional Organizations

American Psychological Association

Division III, American Psychological Association

Eastern Psychological Association

New York Academy of Sciences

Psi Chi

Endorser (National Coalition Against Television

Violence)

National Association of Researchers Concerned with

Media Effects

Transborder Media Association

Viewer for Quality Television (Member/Respondent)

Member of ACT (Action for Children's Television)

Culture and Communication Association

International Mass Media Research Association

American Psychological Society

Internet Dependence Research Group

3. Professional Teaching Experience

1985-2004 Full Professor,

Psychology Department

St. Bonaventure University

1982-1985 Full Professor and

Department Chairman of Psychology

St. Bonaventure University

1976-1985 Associate Professor of

Psychology

St. Bonaventure University

1971-1976 Assistant Professor of

Psychology

St. Bonaventure University

1968-1971 Graduate teaching assistantship having to do

with research concerning the various aspects of flavor

associations over long delays using illness

induced aversions. This work was conducted in the

research laboratory of S.H. Revusky.

1967-1968 Experimental Learning

Laboratory Assistant. Task

consisted of organizing and

maintaining an operant

animal laboratory.

4) Teaching Experience

Courses: Currently teaching 9 hours per year.

Courses taught include Undergraduate: Introductory Psychology,Advanced General ,

Operant/Animal learning Lab , BioPsychology, Learning and Memory,

Sociobiology and Animal Behavior,, Behavior Genetics, Senior Seminar,

History and Systems, Television and Human Behavior, Seminar in Intermet

Dependence in College Populations. Graduate: BioPsychology, Learning,

BioConstraints on Learning, Psychology of the Internet,

Incorporating the WWW for Classroom Instruction. Internet Dependence In Collegiate

Populations (Independent Study,Graduate)

5 ) References

Dr. Samuel H. Revusky Department of Psychology RetiredSan Diego		Dr. James Dalton International Studies Dept. Siena College Loudonville, NY 12211
Dr. David Carpenter Department of Psychology St. Bonaventure University St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 dcarp@sbu.edu		Dr. Denise Emer Department of Psychology Daemen College Buffalo, NY demer@daemen.edu
Dr. Robin Valeri Department Chair St. BonaventureUniversity rvaleri@sbu.edu		Dr. Harold Gelfand Department of Psychology St. Bonaventure University St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 hgelfand@sbu.edu
Dr. William McKim Memorial University St. John's Newfoundland AIC 557		Dr. Pamela McMahonCenter for Disease Control AND Research Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Edward Donnerstein University of California, Santa Barbara		Dr. Mary Barnas Psychology Department Marietta College Marietta, Ohio 45750
Dr. Robert Kubey SCILS Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ rkubey@scils.rutgers.edu		John Barrows Rutgers University/Nabisco barrowsj@nabisco.com

5. Research Specialization and interest (past and present)

Areas include social communications of food aversions,

sociobiological components of transferred food

aversion, sensory-sensory associations, drug

dependent learning, biological- genetic components

of learning. More recent: How Television influences

cognitive pacing and how history of TV viewing

interacts with several behavioral indices. Television Dependence. Collegiate

Internet Dependence I have explored the relationship between classroom

disruptive behavior, fear of adulthood, and high and

low television usage. Recently published and article on How

Most recently I have been exploring the variables that influence

television dependence such as negative mood state (loneliness,

anxiety), passive spillover and dependence, and classically conditioned

cues that predict television exposure. Have concentrated latest research

efforts on Internet Dependence and collegiate entanglements.

6. Sabbaticals (1st-1978-1979). Spent at Memorial

University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, conducting

research sponsored by Dr. S.H. Revusky's Research Grants.

While on sabbatical, I worked on a project which involved

trying to modify the food choices of Island Lynxes in relation to predating

upon Caribou calves. My second sabbatical reflected my change in research

interest and I spent a year(1987-1988).working in the television

laboratory of John Condry at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Research focused

on international television and the effect of transborder flow

of mass communication. Next sabbatical was spent with Robert Kubey (Spring, 1998) at Rutgers

University conducting research concerning Television and Internet Dependence in Collegiate

populations. see http://web.sbu.edu/psychology/lavin/

7. Research Publications

Revusky, S.H.,& Lavin, M.J., (1970). Cited in

Revusky, S.H., and Garcia, Bower and J.T. Spence

(eds.) Advances in The psychology of learning and motivation: Research theory.

New York: Academic Press (pgs. 34-36).

Revusky, S.H., & Lavin, M. J. Research (1970) cited in Revusky,

S.H., and Garcia, J. Learned associations over long

delays. In G.H. Bower and J.T. Spence (eds.) The

psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in

research theory. New York: Academic Press.(pgs. 38-39).

Lavin, M. J. (1976), The establishment of flavor-flavor

associations using a sensory preconditioning training procedure. Learning and

Motivation., 1, 173-183.

Lavin, M.J., Freise, B., & Coombes, S. (1982). Transferred flavor aversions

partner effect. Behavioral and Neural Biology., 28, 15-

33.

Stierhoff, K., & Lavin, M.J. (1982). Anosmic rats fail to exhibit the poisoned

partner effect. Behavior and Neural Biology, 34, 18-28.

Lavin, M. J. (1991). Perceptions of American of the Soviet Union Television Gazette, 48, 55-59.

Roll, J. &, Lavin, M. J. (1996). The magnitude of a conditioned taste aversion. Current

Psychology, 3, 226-232.

Lavin, M. J. (1999). Internet dependence and high and low sensation seekers. CyberPsychology

and Behaviorl 5 pgs 425-431

Kubey, R., Lavin, M. J. & Barrows, (2001) Internet Use and Collegiate Academic

Performance Decrement: Early Findings. Journal of Communication. 366-382

Lavin, M. J. & Yeun, N. (2004) Collegiate Internet Dependence and Loneliness. CyberPsychology

and Behavior

8. Paper Presentations

1. Kahn, I., and Lavin, M.J. (1971). Backward conditioned

aversions using Phenobarbital as a toxic agent: a

possible synergistic effect. Paper presented at

the Midwestern Psychological Association in

Detroit.

2. Lavin, M.J. (1972). The establishment of the sensory

preconditioning effect using distinct flavors as

sensory preconditioning stimuli. Paper presented

at the Midwestern Psychological Association in

Cleveland, Ohio.

3. Lavin, M.J. (1974). The effect of varying temporal interval

between preconditioned flavor stimuli on the

magnitude of the sensory preconditioning effect.

Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological

Association in Chicago Illinois.

4. Lavin, M.J. & Gorevan, M.A. (1977).

The effect of varying the interstimulus interval on the establishment

of olfactory associations. Paper presented at

forty-eighth annual meeting of the Eastern

Psychological Association ,Boston, Mass.

5. Foley, T. J., & Lavin, M. J. (1977). Generalization of a

shock induced flavor aversion. Paper presented at

the Forty-ninth Annual Convention of the

Midwestern Psychological Convention ,

Chicago, Ill.

6. Stierhoff, K., Estrella, T., & Lavin, M. (1980). A further investigation of

Lavin's transferred flavor aversion effect. Paper presented at the

Fifty-first Convention of the Eastern Psychological

Association in Hartford, Connecticut.

7. Lavin, M. & Estrella, T.(1980). The poisoned-partner effect

using conspecifics separated by a screen.

Presented at the annual meeting of the Chemical

Senses and Intake Society. University of

Connecticut.

8. Fetkovich, G., Hessler, M., & Lavin, M. (1982). Misery loves

company: Recovering from poison in the presence

of a nonpoisoned conspecific. Paper presented at

the fifty-third meeting of the Eastern

Psychological Association conference held in

Baltimore, Md.

9. Lavin, M. & Hansen, D. (1983). Desensitization and television

violence: Can it generalize to non-media

situations. Presented at a conference sponsored

by the surgeon general on Violence and the Mass

Media. George Washington University, Washington,

DC.

10. Lavin, M. & Waring, S. (1986). The differential use of

television to alleviate boredom by frequent and

infrequent television users. Paper presented at

the Eastern Psychological Convention held in New

York, NY.

11 Lavin, M. (1987). The effect of low and high television

viewing and parental control of television on

classroom behavior. Paper presented at the Eastern

Psychological Association Convention, Washington,

DC.

12. Lavin, M. J., Goernert, P., Wrobel, E., & West, D. (1987). The effect

of television viewing frequency and parental media control on

adolescent classroom behavior. Paper presented at the Eastern

Psychological Convention, Arlington, Va.

13. Lavin, M. International state of television. Paper

presented at the Human developmental center,

Cornell University, 1988.

14. Lavin, M. (1989).The effect of Soviet Television on Americans' Attitudes

toward the Soviet Union.Paper presented the American Psychological Society

Convention held in Washington, DC.

15. Lavin, M. (1989).The effect of state-run television on

Americans' attitudes toward the sender country: An

data update. Paper presented at the Culture and

Communication Convention at Temple University,

Philadelphia, Pa..

16. Roll, J. & Lavin, M. (1990). Paper submitted. The effect of

varying CS hedonics on the magnitude of a learned

flavor aversion. Eastern Psychological Convention,

Philadelphia, Pa.

17. Roll, J. & Lavin, M. (1990). The effects of manipulating CS

hedonic value on subsequent flavor aversions. Paper presented at the

American Psychological Convention in Dallas, Texas.

18. Lavin, M. J., Burke, M., & Habermaier, W. (1991). The effect of

television viewing frequency on adolescents’ fear of adulthood. Paper

presented at the Eastern Psychological Convention, New York, New

York.

9 Kendall, J. & Lavin, M. J. (1992). Coronary heart disease proness: The

relationship between type A/B behavior, self-acceptance, and hostility.

Paper presented at Eastern Psychological Association held in Boston,

Mass.

20. Lavin, M.J. & Rotenberg, J. (1995). Television dependence: A learning

perspective. Paper presented at the eastern Psychological Convention, Boston,

Mass.

21 Jurecki, M, & Lavin, M. J. (1996). The effect of media-generated ideal

female body and neutral imaging on high and low eating disordered

females.Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Convention,

Philadelphia, Pa.

22. Johnson, S. & Lavin, M. J. (1996). A re-examination of the television

motivation correlates. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological

Convention, Philadelphia, Pa.

23. Lavin, M. & Geer, L. (1997). Contrasting differences between internet

and television dependence. Poster to be presented at the American

Psychological Association Conference in Chicago.

24. Lavin, M. & Trenz, B. (1997). Senior Citizen television dependence, loneliness and

habitat arrangement. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological

Association in Washington DC.

25. Lavin, M. J. & Rotenberg, J. (1998). Compensatory learning variables associated

with television dependence. Paper presented at EPA, Boston.

26. Kubey, R., Lavin, M. J. Lavin, & Barrows, J. (1999). Internet dependence and

Internet difficulties. Presented at International Communication

Association Convention held in San Diego.

27. Lavin, M. J. (1999). Internet dependence and collegiate entanglements. Invited Paper

presented Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, R. I.

28 Lavin, M. J. (1999). Internet dependence and sensation seeking. Paper presented at

the American Psychological Convention in Boston.

29 Lavin, M. J. , Allen, R. (2000). Collegiate Internet dependence and trait and stait

loneliness in Collegiate populations. Paper submitted to the Eastern Psychological

Association in Washington, D/ C.

30 Lostracco, L., & Lavin, M. J. (2002) Content Dependent Memory in

Standardized Testing: Influence of Study Environment and Test Environment

On a Recognition Tast. (Pager submitted to the American Psychological Society in

presented in New Orleans.)

31 Lavin, M., Yuen, N., Weinman, M & Kozak. K. (2002) Internet

Dependence in the Collegiate Population: The Role of Shyness.(Papered

presented at the American Psychological Society Meeting in New Orleans).

32 Lavin, M. (2004) Use of Technology as a Pedagogical Tool. Paper to be presented at

the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawii

9) Current research interest: Television dependence and variables associated with dependence The role of leaning in the formulation of television dependence. Paper in preparation to be submitted to Communication Research. In addition, most recent interest focus on Internet entanglement and dependence in collegiate populations. Currently we are exploring personality characteristics associated with collegiate Internet dependence such as sensation seeking and loneliness. And most recently I have been exploring the relationship between Internet Dependence and Loneliness in Collegiate Populations.

10) Grants received

1. University Research Grant-In-Aid. (1972). Topic:

Ontological investigation of flavor-flavor associations.

2. University Research Grant-In-Aid, (1974). Topic:

Decreasing alcohol dependency using a taste-aversion

therapy.

3. University Research Grant. (1978): Socially communicated

illness cues.

4. University Research Grant. (1980): The effect of induced

peripheral anosmia on transferred flavor aversions.

5. Applied for TV research grant-CBS. 1984 Rejected.

6. Received University Research Grant to purchase materials

necessary for media effects research (e.g., physiological

measures, Sanyo VCR, and for purchase of foreign

television videos). Received 1987.

7. NSF grant for incorporating computer and physiological

laboratories into undergraduate courses. Spent six weeks at

Colorado State University in 1991 learning the techniques associated

with computer and physiological labs.

Presented a paper summarizing that CSU at the American Psychological Convention

in San Francisco, 1991.

11) University awards and Committees

1. Structured an Animal Research Center and Holding Area.

2. Colloquium coordinator

3. Member of the University Judiciary Board/Arbitration

Board/appeals Board.

4. Faculty advisor for Psi Chi

5. Committee for the re-evaluation of campus computer

functioning.

6. Coordinator of Animal Research Laboratory (mice, rats,

rabbits, hamsters, chipmunks, and degus).

7. Department representative to the Graduate School Council

8. Director of International Studies Committee

9. Faculty Evaluation Recommendation and Tenure Committee

(1988-1994)

10. Visiting Scholar Committee (1987-1997).

11. Director of the Graduate Program (1987-2000)

12. Grievance Committee (1998-2000)

13. Electronic and Computer Classroom Enhancement Committee (1998-

14. University Web Site Committee (1999-

15. Visiting Scholar Committee (1999=

16. Professional Excellence Award, 2000

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17) Member of the University Diversity Committee (2001-

18) Diversity SubCommittee: Student Recruitment and Student Life SubCommittee

19) TLMT -Team (enhancing teaching via technology.

20) Teaching faculty to construct "web page" via Front Page

21) Department web master http://home.sbu.edu/psycholgoy

12) Computer Skills: SYSTAT, SPSS, Power Point demonstration ability, web site

construction, Internet graphic design. Web Page design. Photo editing

via the Internet, Excel and Word expertise..