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Professor
John L. Andreassi
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Professor John L. Andreassi
earned a Ph.D. in experimental-physiological psychology at
Case Western Reserve University. He has worked as an engineering
psychologist at Dunlap and Associates, as director of the
Life and Behavioral Sciences Laboratory at the U.S. Naval
Training Devices Center, associate professor of psychology
at New York University, and professor of psychology at Baruch
College and the Graduate Center at the City University of
New York. He has authored over 70 journal articles and technical
reports.
Professor Andreassi's main research interests
are event-related brain potentials and perceptual activities
and cardiovascular reactivity under stress, research which
has been sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He is Editor-in-Chief
of the International Journal of Psychophysiology
(since 1988) and is a member of the American Psychological
Association and the International Organization of Psychophysiology
(Vice President for Academic Affairs). His biography appears
in American Men of Science and Who's Who in
America.
My current research
concerns cardiovascular reactivity as a function of variables
such as job strain, personality, and stress. Job strain is
defined as the combination of psychological demand along with
low decision latitude as to how the work is carried out. The
personality variables that have been examined in my laboratory
include Type A/B behavior and hostility.
In some recent research
we have found that both male and female Type A have higher
cardiovascular reactivity (blood pressure and heart-rate changes)
compared to Type Bs in tasks designed to produce stress. The
same hold true for the hostile personality in that high hostiles
demonstrate greater reactivity than low hostiles. Current
projects involve taking ambulatory measures of cardiovascular
reactivity as participants complete a computer simulation
of stock transactions. After completion of the computer task
participants wear the ambulatory monitor for an additional
period of time outside the laboratory. A measure of ongoing
life stress in being used to assess whether those with high
levels of stress differ from persons with low levels. Consistency
of reactivity from laboratory to real life settings will also
be examined. An additional variable is the effect of potential
auditory distractor on performance of the computer task and
cardiovascular reactivity. Another area of research involves
the influence of work pacing (external vs. self pacing) and
gender on cardiovascular reactivity. The research is conducted
in a well-equipped psychophysiology laboratory.
Selected Publications
- Andreassi, J.L. (2000) Psychophysiology:
Human Behavior and Physiological Response (4th edition).
New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (458 pages).
- Fichera, L.V., and Andreassi, J.L. (2000).
Cardiovascular reactivity during public speaking as a function
of personality variables. International Journal of Psychophysiology
, 37, 267-273.
- Fichera, L.V., and Andreassi, J.L. (1998).
Stress and personality as factors in women's cardiovascular
reactivity. International Journal of Psychophysiology
, 28, 143-157.
E-Mail: John
_ Andreassi@baruch.cuny.edu
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