Dr. James Juergensen

Associate Professor
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Dr. James Juergensen

Associate Professor

Psychological Sciences & Counseling

jejuergensen@ysu.edu

  • Education
    • 2014

      Ph D, Experimental Psychology

      Case Western Reserve University

      Dissertation/Thesis Title — "How Reappraising Approach-Motivated Positive Affect Can Alter Automatic Action-Tendencies, Breadth of Attention, and Future Behavior"

    • 2012

      MA, Experimental Pscyhology

      Case Western Reserve University

      Dissertation/Thesis Title — "How Approach-Motived Positive Affect and Emotion Regulation Alter Attentional Focus and Decision-Making"

    • 2009

      BA, Psychology

      Youngstown State University

      Dissertation/Thesis Title — "The Effects of Differing Motives and Social Influences on Poker Playing Style"

  • Intellectual Contributions
    • 2019

      "Reward sensitivity relates to automatic approach motivation for exercise: Preliminary validity for the Exercise-Approach Avoidance Task."

      C. May, J. Juergensen

      Open Science Journal of Psychology, volume 6, issue 2, p. 24-28

    • 2018

      "Stop pushing me away: Facebook addiction relates to implicit approach motivation for Facebook stimuli."

      J. Juergensen, C. Leckfor

      Psychological Reports

    • 2018

      "More Than Money: Experienced Positive Affect Reduces Risk-Taking Behavior on a Real-World Gambling Task."

      J. Juergensen, J. Weaver, C. May, H. Demaree

      Frontiers in Psychology, volume 9, issue 2116

    • 2016

      "New Challenges to Active Learning Initiatives"

      J. Juergensen, T. Oestreich, Y. Brian, M. Kenney

      Educause Review

    • 2016

      "Yum, cake!: How reward sensitivity relates to automatic approach motivation for dessert food images."

      C. May, J. Juergensen, H. Demaree

      Personality and Individual Differences, issue 90, p. 265-268

    • 2015

      "Approach-motived positive affect and emotion regulation alter global-local focus and food choice"

      J. Juergensen, H. Demaree

      Motivation and Emotion, issue 39, p. 580-588

    • 2015

      "Active Learning at Case Western University"

      J. Juergensen, T. Oestreich, Y. Brian, M. Kenney, K. Skapin, W. Shapiro

      Educause Review

    • 2014

      "A fallacious “Gambler’s Fallacy”?"

      H. Demaree, J. Weaver, J. Juergensen

      Cognition, p. 168-170

    • 2013

      "Surprise is predicted by event probability, outcome valence, outcome meaningfulness, and gender"

      J. Juergensen, J. Weaver, K. Burns, P. Knutson, J. Butler, H. Demaree

      Motivation and Emotion

    • 2012

      "). Subjective time perception and behavioral activation strength predict delay of gratification ability"

      A. Corvi, J. Juergensen, J. Weaver, H. Demaree

      Motivation and Emotion, p. 483-490