Lisa A. Fast, Ph.D. MiraCosta College Department of Behavioral Sciences Email: lfast@miracosta.edu

 

Education

Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology: University of California, Riverside, 2008.

M.A. in Social and Personality Psychology: University of California, Riverside, 2005.

B.A. in Psychology: University of California Riverside, 2002. (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

A.A. in University Studies: MiraCosta College, 2000. (Phi Theta Kappa).

 

Current Status

 

I am currently a full-time instructor at MiraCosta College, which is where my journey began. I teach Physiological Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Introductory Psychology.

 

Teaching

 

Instructor, MiraCosta College, Fall 2009 – present

 

    Courses Taught                                       

    Physiological Psychology  

    Abnormal Psychology

    Introductory Psychology

 

Instructor, La Sierra University, Fall 2008 – Spring 2009

 

    Courses Taught                                       

    General Psychology         

    Personality Psychology                                   

 

Instructor, University of California, Riverside, Summer 2005 – Spring 2008

 

    Courses Taught                                       

    Clinical Psychology                                        

    Personality Psychology                                   

    Clinical Psychology                                            

 

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside, Summer 2004 – Spring 2008

 

Courses Taught                                       

    Abnormal Psychology                                    

    The Brain and Behavior    

    Statistical Procedures

    I/O Psychology               

    Research Methods           

    Personality Psychology     

    Introductory Psychology  

    

Research

 

My research primarily examines the expression of personality through language.  I study the relationship between the words that people use and their personalities as rated by themselves, their acquaintances, and direct observations of behavior. I am also interested in the bases of accurate personality judgment and social judgment and my research examines the personality characteristics and behaviors related to such judgment.

 

From May 2008 through June 2009, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Riverside. I worked with a multidisciplinary team of researchers on the Mathematical ACTS project, funded by NSF. The main goal of our research is to increase mathematics achievement.

 

link to ACTS project

 

Publications

Fast, L., Lewis, J., Bryant, M., Bocian, K., Cardullo, R., Rettig, M., & Hammond, K. (in press). Does Math Self-efficacy Mediate the Effect

of the Perceived Classroom Environment on Standardized Math Test Performance? Journal of Educational Psychology. link

 

Funder, D., & Fast, L. (in press). Personality in social psychology. In Gilbert, D. & Fiske, S. (Eds.), The Handbook of Social

            Psychology (5^th Ed.).

 

Fast, L., & Funder, D. (in press). Authority, entitlement, and depressive symptoms: Gender differences in the correlates of self-referent

word use. Journal of Personality.  link

 

Fast, L., & Funder, D. (2008). Personality as manifest in word use: Correlations with self-report, acquaintance-report, and behavior.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 334 – 346. link

 

Fast, L., Reimer, H., & Funder, D (2008). The social behavior and reputation of the attributionally complex. Journal of Research in

            Personality, 42, 208 – 222. link

 

Conferences and Presentations   (Note: my name changed from Greve to Fast in July 2007)

Fast, L. (2007). The reputational and behavioral correlates of attributional complexity. Talk

presented at the area meeting for Social-Personality Psychology. University of California,

Riverside.

 

Greve (Fast), L., & Funder, D. (2006). Personality and language: How our words reveal us. Poster

presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Palm Springs, CA.

 

Reimer, H., Greve (Fast), L., & Funder, D. (2006). Personality correlates of attributional complexity.

Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Palm

Springs, CA.

 

Wagerman, S., Greve (Fast), L., Taga, K., & Funder, D (2006). You did what where? Behavioral

correlates of situational affordances. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the

Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs, CA.

 

Greve (Fast), L. (2006). Personality as manifest in language: Self-report, acquaintance-report, and

behavioral correlates. Talk presented at the area meeting for Social-Personality Psychology.

University of California, Riverside.

 

Letzring, T., Greve (Fast), L., & Funder, D. (2005). Behaviors of accurate judges. Poster presented at the

annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

 

Greve (Fast), L. (2005). Personality and language: Do our words reveal us? Talk presented at the area

meeting for Social-Personality Psychology. University of California, Riverside.

 

Wagerman, S., Greve (Fast), L., Funder, D., & Wright, L. (2004). Personality correlates of academic

achievement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social

Psychology, Austin, TX.

 

Greve (Fast), L. (2002). Evaluating Freudian slips of the tongue from a psycholinguistic perspective. 

Paper presented at the annual UCLA Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference.

 

Honors/Awards

       Travel Grant, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2008

Psi Chi’s Award of Appreciation, 2006

Graduate Student Association Grant, University of California, Riverside, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008

Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, 2003-2004

Rose Spector Memorial Scholarship, Mira Costa College, 2000 

Margaret Servos Memorial Scholarship, Mira Costa College, 1999