Student Perception Project

Recent Papers & Presentations

Andrews, B. (2005). Subjective overachievement and risky task choices: An issue for academia or daily life? Reed College senior thesis.

Arkin, R. M., Oleson, K. C. & Carroll, P. J. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of the Uncertain Self.  New York: Taylor and Francis.

Arkin, R. M. & Oleson, K. C. (1998). Self-handicapping. In J. M. Darley & J. Cooper (Eds.) Attribution and social interaction: The legacy of Edward E. Jones (pp. 313 - 347). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Asmundson, I. (1999). Self-enhancers' use of protective strategies in evaluative situations: Implications for performance, self-esteem, and the adaptiveness of overly positive self-evaluation. Reed College senior thesis.

Carroll, P. J., Arkin, R. M., & Oleson, K. C. (2010). Introduction. In R. M. Arkin, K.C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.) Handbook of the Uncertain Self.  New York: Taylor and Francis.

Hilarides, B. (2006). Coming out and passing: Disability identity management in higher education. Reed College senior thesis.

McCollum, J. (2005) Acting in other’s best interests: Self-handicapping and other-enhancement for friends and strangers. Reed College senior thesis.

Macindoe, A. (2000). An examination of how level of perceived control an implicit theories of intelligence affect likelihood to self-handicap.Reed College senior thesis.

Oleson, K.C., Booth, M., Grueneisen, A., Lynch, S., & Yen, T. Y. (2009). Concern for Performance or Ability: Differing Contingencies of Self-Worth for Subjective Overachievers and Self-Handicappers. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Fl.

Oleson, K. C., Ziegler, S., & Federow, M. (October, 2008). Phenotypic Expressions of Self-Doubt in Academic Contexts. In R. M. Arkin & P. J. Carroll (Chairs). The Uncertain Self. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, Sacramento, CA.

Oleson, K. C., Poehlmann, K. M., Yost, J. H., Lynch, M. E., & Arkin, R. M. (2000). Subjective overachievement: Individual differences in self doubt and concern with performance. Journal of Personality, 68, 3, 491 - 524.

Oleson, K. C. & Steckler, M. T. (2010). The phenotypic expressions of self-doubt in academic contexts: Strategies of self-handicapping and subjective overachievement. In R. M. Arkin, K.C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.) Handbook of the Uncertain Self. New York: Taylor and Francis.

Oleson, K. C. (August, 2008). Invited Discussant. In P. J Carroll & R. M. Arkin (Chairs) Uncertainty in Self: Perspectives from Personality, Clinical, and Social Psychology. Panel presented at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Oleson, K.C., Armstead, A. L., Busto, N. E., Lee, E. S., Lesko, A. C., Ransom, J. L., Robinson, K. A., Rivera, A. M., Sandler, J. R., Waichunas, D. E., & Weingarten, E. (February, 2002). Overachievers’ self-esteem: Contingent on their academic performance. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.

Oleson, K.C, Poehlmann, K.M., & Ross, L. L. (August, 1999). Subjective overachievement: Individual differences in self-doubt and concern with performance. In K. M. Poehlmann & K. C. Oleson (Chairs). Self-doubt in thoughts, feelings, and actions. Paper presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Oleson, K. C., Busto, N. E., Foster, J. H., Lee, E. S., Ridberg, R. B., & Seldera, M. A. (February, 2000). Achievement goals of overachievers and self-handicappers. Paper presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, TN.

Parks, A. C., & Oleson, K. C. (May, 2003). Self-Handicappers' and Overachievers' Achievement Goals: Examining the Mastery-Approach/Mastery-Avoidance Distinction. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

Parks, A. C., Waichunas, D. E., Walker, S. N., Edelson, N. S., & Oleson, K. C. (February, 2002). Depression and social life in self-handicappers: An examination of possible relationships. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science. Forest Grove, OR.

Poehlmann, K. M., Lynch, M. E., & Oleson, K. C. (June, 1999). Subjective overachievers and self-handicappers: Sources of self-worth. In R. M. Arkin & K. C. Oleson (Chairs) Beyond self-esteem: Self-protection, threat, and worth. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO.