CLAUDIA BRUMBAUGH

Title	Assistant Professor
Area	Social-Personality Psychology
Ph.D.	University of Illinois
Office	369 Razran
E-mail	claudia.brumbaugh@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone	718-997-3250
Website

Professional Activities:

Society Memberships:
    American Psychological Association
    Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    American Psychological Society
    Eastern Psychological Association

Research Description:

My research focuses on uncovering the processes that lead people to experience similar thoughts and emotions across different relationships. The framework of adult attachment theory, coupled with social-cognitive paradigms, has been especially useful in guiding my research. I plan to continue to research questions such as the following: Do people’s desires for predictability and to confirm their existing beliefs sometimes sabotage their interpersonal growth? How do people select their social environments and what leads them to make those choices? What level of awareness do people have over their relational choices? How do people of different attachment types “fit” with their social environments and what are the features they value most in others?

Selected Publications:

   Brumbaugh, C.C. & Fraley, R.C. (in press). Adult attachment and dating strategies: How do insecure people attract mates? Personal Relationships.

   Wood, D. O., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2009). Using revealed mate preferences to evaluate market force and differential preference explanations for mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

   Brumbaugh, C. C., & Fraley, R. C. (2007). Transference of attachment patterns: How important relationships influence feelings toward novel people. Personal Relationships, 14, 369 – 386.

   Fraley, R. C., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2007). Adult attachment and preemptive defenses: Converging evidence on the role of defensive exclusion at the level of encoding. Journal of Personality, 75, 1033 – 1050.

   Brumbaugh, C. C., & Fraley, R. C. (2006). The evolution of attachment in romantic relationships. In M. Mikulincer & G. Goodman (Eds.), The dynamics of romantic love: Attachment, caregiving, and sex (pp. 71 – 101). New York: Guilford Press.

   Fraley, R. C., Niedenthal, P. M., Marks, M. J., Brumbaugh, C. C., & Vicary, A. (2006). Adult attachment and the perception of emotional expressions: Probing the hyperactivating strategies underlying anxious attachment. Journal of Personality, 74, 1163 – 1190.