Recent Publications (2007 – Present):

Articles, Books, Chapters, and Selected Book Reviews

Articles
Dunn, D. S., McCarthy, M., Baker, S., Halonen, J. S., & Hill, G. W., III. (2007). Quality benchmarks in undergraduate psychology programs. American Psychologist, 62, 650-670.

Dunn, D. S., & Elliott, T. R. (2008). The place and promise of theory in rehabilitation psychology research. Rehabilitation Psychology, 53, 254-267.

Dunn, D. S. (in press). Another view: In defense of vigor over rigor in classroom demonstrations. Teaching of Psychology.

Dunn, D. S., & Brody, C. (in press). Defining the good life following acquired physical disability. Rehabilitation Psychology.

Books
Dunn, D. S. (2009). Research Methods for Social Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dunn, D. S. (in press). The Practical Researcher: A Student Guide to Conducting Psychological Research (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dunn, D. S., Halonen, J. S., & Smith, R. A. (Eds.) (2008). Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Weiten, W., Lloyd, M. A., Dunn, D. S., & Hammer, E. Y. (2009). Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment in the 21st Century (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage.

Dunn, D. S. (2008). A Short Guide to Writing about Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Pearson Longman.

Dunn, D. S., Smith, R. A., & Beins, B. C. (Eds.) (2007). Best Practices for Teaching Statistics and Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Chapters
Dunn, D. S. (in press). The social psychology of disability. To appear in R. G. Frank, B. Caplan, & M. Rosenthal (Eds.), Handbook of rehabilitation psychology (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dunn, D. S. (in press). Teaching about disability: Cultures of experience, not expectation. In R. A. R. Gurung & L. Prieto (Eds.), Got culture? Best practices for incorporating culture into the curriculum. New York: Stylus.

Dunn, D. S. (in press). Interpreting the self through literature: Psychology and the novels of Wallace Stegner. In L. Benjamin (Ed.), Best of the teaching activities from the APA activity handbooks. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dunn, D. S., Elliott, T. R., & Uswatte, G. (in press). Happiness, resilience and positive growth following disability: Issues for understanding, research, and therapeutic intervention. To appear in S. J. Lopez (Ed.), The handbook of positive psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Dunn, D. S. (2007). Introducing writing in introductory psychology: Practical matters, teaching resources, and activities. In R.A. Smith’s Instructor’s resource manual for Weiten’s Psychology: Themes & variations (7th ed., pp. 885-902). Belmont, CA: Thompson.

Dunn, D. S., Smith, R. A., & Beins, B. C. (2007). Overview: Best practices for teaching statistics and research methods in the behavioral sciences. To appear in D. S. Dunn, R. A. Smith, & B. Beins (Eds.), Best practices for teaching statistics and research methods in the behavioral sciences (pp. 3-11). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Schmidt, M. E., & Dunn, D. S. (2007). Teaching research methods and statistics as a writing intensive course. In D. S. Dunn, R. A. Smith, & B. Beins (Eds.), Best practices for teaching statistics and research methods in the behavioral sciences (pp. 257-273). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dunn, D. S. (2008). Interpreting the self through literature: Psychology and the novels of Wallace Stegner. In L. Benjamin (Ed.), Best of the teaching activities from the APA activity handbooks (pp. 208-211). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dunn, D. S., Halonen, J. S., & Smith, R. A. (2008). Engaging minds: Introducing best practices in teaching critical thinking in psychology. In D. S. Dunn, J. S. Halonen, & R. A. Smith (Eds.), Teaching critical thinking in psychology: A handbook of best practices (pp. 1-8). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dunn, D. S., & Smith, R. A. (2008). Writing as critical thinking. To appear in D. S. Dunn, J. S. Halonen, & R. A. Smith (Eds.), Teaching critical thinking in psychology: A handbook of best practices (pp. 163-173). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Book Reviews
Dunn, D. S. (2007). Oh, the social psychologist and the economist should be friends [Review of Social psychology and economics]. PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (9).

Dunn, D. S. (in press). Only words: The social psychology of language revived. [Review of the book Social communication]. PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

Dunn, D. S., & Brody, C. (in press). Accurately assessing implicit attitudes: The IAT and beyond. [Review of Implicit measures of attitudes]. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Dunn, D. S., & Brody, C. (in press). Emotion regulation: Diverse perspectives and directions for research. [Review of Handbook of emotion regulation]. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.