Professor Engle-Friedman earned her BS at the State University of New York at Binghamton; MS Northwestern University; Ph.D in Clinical Psychology. Northwestern University;   Clinical Internship, Brown University; Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Brown University

My research focuses on sleep deprivation and its effect on next-day performance.   The work in our lab is primarily concerned with next-day effortful behavior and how choices, requiring effort, change when people get no sleep or less sleep than the amount they believe is optimal.    Ongoing projects are examining circadian rhythm differences in effortful choice behavior and the involvement of the frontal lobe in these behaviors.   Upcoming projects will examine mood and stress, with and without sleep loss, and their contributions to behavioral choices.   I am very proud of our lab and of the many undergraduates who are co-authors on papers, presenters of our research at national conferences, co-principal investigators on projects or who are research assistants helping to conduct the experiments of other students.  

In a separate research program, I am examining the relationship between a person's height, stereotypes of height and stereotypic behavior of others concerning persons of various heights.

I teach The Psychology of Sleep, Health Psychology and The Psychology of the Interview and I am the advisor to the Baruch College Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology) chapter.

I member of the American Psychological Society, the Sleep Research Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.   I am a co-chair of the international sleep organization, Women in Sleep and Rhythms Research (WiSRR).

I have been the Baruch College Ombuds since Fall, 2002.

Selected Publications :

Engle-Friedman, M., Riela, S. Golan, R. Ventuneac, A.M., Davis, C.M., Jefferson, A.D., Major, D. (2003). The effect of sleep loss on next day effort .   Journal of Sleep Research , 12 , 113-124.    

Engle-Friedman, M. (1994).   Primary Insomnia.   In Last CG and Hersen M. (Eds)., Adult Behavior Therapy Casebook .   Plenum Press, New York.

Engle-Friedman, M., Bootzin, R.R., Hazlewood, L., & Tsao, C. (1992). An evaluation of behavioral treatments for insomnia in the older adult.   Journal of Clinical Psychology , 48 (1), 77-90.   Clinical Psychology Publishing Company, Brandon, VT.

Engle-Friedman, M., Baker, E.A. & Bootzin, R.R.   (1985).   Reports of wakefulness during EEG identified stages of sleep.   Sleep Research , 14 , 152.

Email address: mindy_engle-friedman@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3815
Fax: 646-312-3781

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Professor Mindy Engle-Friedman
Department of Psychology
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, New York 10010

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