During the Night there fell on them a panic, for causeless terrors are said to come from the god Pan.

Pan, as painted by Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse

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Ancient greeks knew the god Pan to spark sudden fear, providing us with the word panic.  Appropriately, the PAN lab is dedicated to psychological & neuroscientific investigations of fear.

 

The lab, recently moved from Southern Indiana (then known as SIAN) is investigating several areas of interest while training undergraduates for a lifelong love of quality research & scholarship. 

 

Below you can find a sample of our recent work as well as a couple of fun random things.  You can also find a list of our current projects as well information about both past and present lab members by using the menu on the right.

 

 

 

 

Providence College Affective Neuroscience Lab

Providence College

Department of Psychology

116 Albertus Magnus Hall

1 Cunningham Square

Providence RI, 02908

Interested in research?  Contact us:

Phone: 401.865.2613

Fax: 401.865.1227

E-mail: cbloom@providence.edu

Palladino, J.P., Bloom, C.M.  (2007).  Motivation & Emotion.  In W.F. Buskist & S.F. Davis (Eds.), 21st Century Psychology. 

 

Bloom, C., Venard, J., Harden, M., Seetharaman, S. (2007).  Non-contingent positive and negative reinforcement schedules of superstitious behaviors.     Behavioural Processes, 75, 8-13.

 

Lamkin, D. M., Bloom, C. M., Michaels, Z., Barnett, J. K. (2007).  Performance predicts natural killer cell activity after an acute time-limited stressor:  support for the toughness model of arousal & health. Stress & Health, 23 (3), 169-173.

Harmon-Vukić, M. E. & Bloom, C. (2009). Teaching habituation effects with zombies. Poster presentation.   National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. St. Pete Beach, Florida.

 

Carter, K.,  Slevin, R.,  Tuley, M., & Bloom, C.  (2008).  The face in the crowd effect: Evolutionary preparedness or feature discrimination.  Psychonomic Society Conference.  Chicago, Il.

 

Bloom, C., Harden, M., Slevin, R., Fritz, C., Venard, J.  (2007).  Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms and superstitious conditioning in a non-clinical sample.  Presentation, Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

 

Bloom, C., Venard, J., Harden, M., & Seetharaman, S. (2006).  Fear Modulates non-contingent reinforcement.  Presentation, American Psychological Society, New York City, NY.

 

Bloom, C.M., Davenport, D.G., Morgan, S.D.  (2000).  Higher order conditioning in a discriminated conditioned punishment phobia model.  Presentation, Midwestern Psychological Assocation.  Chicago, IL.

 

Morgan, S.D., Davenport, D.G., Bloom, C.M.  (2000).  Conditioned punishment versus signaled avoidance as a model for phobia.  Presentation, Midwestern Psychological Association.  Chicago, IL.

 

Davenport, D.G., Morgan, S., Bloom, C.M., Dyche, J.S.  (1998).  Discriminated punishment model of phobia.  Presentation, Midwestern Psychological Association.  Chicago, IL.

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