Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Gann, A. and Shears, C. (2017). The Effects of Temperature on Perceived Social Attitudes. Poster Presentation at UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, May 5, Los Angeles, CA.
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Gann, A. and Shears, C. (2017). Temperature Effects on Perceived Social Attitudes. Poster Presentation at Western Psychological Association Convention, April 29, Sacramento, CA.
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Karrmann, S. and Shears, C. (2017). Optimal Visual Search Elements in Small Scale Map Design. Poster Presentation at Western Psychological Association Convention, April 27, Sacramento, CA.
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Shears, C. Amirazizi, S. Leavy, K. Jerome, L. (2017). Hemisphere Differences for Negative Emotions. Poster Presentation at Western Psychological Association Convention, April 27, Sacramento, CA.
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*Karrmann, S. and Shears, C. (2017). Optimal visual search elements in small scale map design. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing: Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics: Springer Books, xxx-xxx.
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Hamilton, N. Shears, C. (2016). Internalizing behaviors and everyday conduct disorders. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
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Smith, M. and Shears, C. (2016). More Than Man’s Best Friend: Effects of Dog Presence on Cognition. Poster presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO.
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Shears, C., Amirazizi, S., Ariza, A., Cohen, A. and Smith, M. (2016). To Type or to Talk? That is the Question. Poster presented at Chapman University Undergraduate Research, May 11, Chapman University.
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Smith, M. and Shears, C. (2016). More Than Man’s Best Friend: Effects of Dog Presence on Cognition. Poster presented at Chapman University Undergraduate Research, May 11, Chapman University.
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Hamilton, N. and Shears, C. (2016). The Effects of Virtual Stimuli and Pre-existing Levels of Internalizing Behavior on Heart Rate and Antisocial Behavior. Poster presented at Chapman University Undergraduate Research, May 11, Chapman University.
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Whitesides, J., Shears, C., and Dana, E. (2016). Level Up: The effects of Video Games on Cognition. Poster presented at Chapman University Undergraduate Research, May 11, Chapman University.
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Amirazizi, S. and Shears, C. (2016). Are bilinguals on the same emotional page as monolinguals? Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
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Smith, M. and Shears, C., (2016). More than man’s best friend: Effects of dog presence on cognition. Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
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Shears, C., Amirazizi, S., Lee, H. R., Kim, J. C., Jerome, L, Hamilton, N., and Smith, M. (2016). Demanding domains: Comprehension under dual task differs by knowledge domain. Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
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Shears, C., Ariza, A., Kim, J., Sam, E. (2015). Emotional Balance: Inferences in the Left and Right Hemispheres Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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Ariza, A., Shears, C., Bond, M., Lam, M., Sam, E., Cohen, A. (2015). Why doesn’t Negative Behave? Inferences from emotional language. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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Cohen, A., Shears, C., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Sam, E., Smith, M. (2015). Individual Differences in Processing Emotional Language: or how you feel influences how you comprehend. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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Shears, C., Smith, M., Amirazizi, S., Ariza, A., Bond, M., Cohen, A. To type or to talk? That is the question. (2015). Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
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*Shears, C. and Gauvain, M. (2015a). Acquired Brain Injury Results in Specific Impairment of Planning Knowledge. Brain Impairment, 16 (1), 1-18.
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*Shears, C. and Gauvain, M. (2015b). Mapping High vs Low Planning Knowledge in Survivors of Brain Injury. Brain Impairment, 16, (1), 1-7.
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Shears, C., Ariza, A., Kim, J., Sam, E., Bond, M. Lam, M., Flax, S. (2014). Hemisphere Differences: Inferences and Emotional Language. Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, April 2014.
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Ariza, A. and Shears, C. (2014). Do you quit? Resilience in First Generation College Students.
Talk presented at Orange County Graduate Women in Science, University of California,
Irvine. Won First Prize ($250) in undergraduate category.
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Ariza, A. and Shears, C. (2014). Do you quit? Resilience in First Generation College Students. Talk presented at UCLA’s Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference.
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Shears, C., Ariza, A., Sam, E., Kim, J., Bond, M. (2014). Insights into Inferencing: Quantifying Thinking. Poster presented for Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Long Beach, California.
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Shears, C., Ariza, A., Sam, E., Kim, J., Flax, S., and Onorati, F. (2013). Moving beyond the keys: Talk Aloud Protocols to Measure What’s on Your Mind. Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
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Gulino, P. and Shears, C. (2013). Cinema and the Brain. Panelist presenter at The University Film and Video Association Conference, hosted by Chapman University.
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Shears, C., Flax, S., Brown, C., Ariza, A., Onorati, F. (2013). Too weird to categorize? Are inferences supported by category-resistant valences? Poster presented at The Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society April 2013.
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Onorati, F., Flax, S., Shears, C. (2013). Emotional language effects on memory. Poster presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Reno, Nevada.
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*Head, J., Shears, C., Neumann, E., & Helton, W. S. (2013). Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Text-Speak Processing, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, xx-xxx.
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*Head, J., Shears, C., Neumann, E., & Helton, W. S. (2013). Novel word processing. American Journal of Psychology, 126 (3), 323-333.
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*Head, J. R., Neumann, E., Russell, P., Helton, W. S., Shears, C. (2013). New Zealand text-speak word norms and masked priming effects. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 42 (2)31-42.
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Shears, C., Barr, S., Flax, S., and Brown, C. (2012). If the left-hemisphere is reading and the right-hemisphere is feeling, what happens when you read about feelings? Poster presented at Psychonomics Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Head, J., Helton, D, Neuman, E. Russell, P. and Shears, C. (2011)Text-speak processing. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's Procedures.
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Cabral, J. and Shears, C. (2010). Are you aware? Context effects on emotional ratings. Psi Chi Journal of undergraduate research.
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Shears, C., Hawkins, A., Varner, A., Lewis, L., Heatley, J., Twachtmann, L. (2008). Knowledge-based inferences across the hemispheres: Domain makes a difference. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2563-2568.
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Shears, C., Miller, V., Ball, M., Hawkins, A., Griggs, J., Varner, A. (2007). Cognitive demand differences in causal inferences: Characters’ plans are more difficult to comprehend than physical causation. Discourse Processes, 43, 1-24.
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Chiarello, C., Kacinik, N., Shears, C., Arambel, S., Halderman, L., and Robinson, Cathy (2006). Exploring cerebral asymmetries for the verb generation task. Neuropsychology, 20, 88-104.
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Miller, V. and Shears, C. (2005). Emotion vs language processing across the cerebral hemispheres: Apathy as an emotional and semantic construct. Brain and Cognition, 60, 304-32.
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Shears, C. and Chiarello, C. (2004). Knowledge-based inferences are NOT general. Discourse Processes, 38, 31- 55.
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Shears, C. and Weiss, E. (2004). Inference vs Control sentences: Are readers able to detect our intended differences? Brain and Cognition, 57, 195-197.
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Chiarello, C., Shears, C., Liu, S., Kacinik, N. (2004). Influence of Word Class Proportion on Cerebral Asymmetries for High and Low Imagery Words. Brain and Cognition, 57, 35-38.
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Shears, C. and Gauvain, M. (2004). Mapping comprehension of planning knowledge. Presentation as a talk at Psychonomic Society Annual Conference, St. Paul, MN.