My name is Kari Terzino, and I am a 5th year doctoral student at Iowa State University. On this page, you will find information related to my research and research interests.
My main research interests lie within the areas of the self, forgiveness, and culture. To learn more about my research interests and the projects I am currently involved with, please click HERE.
I was very fortunate to be a recipient of a National Science Foundation fellowship to conduct my thesis research in Japan. I worked with Dr. Ken-ichi Ohbuchi and his graduate student Naomi Takada at Tohoku University. Both Dr. Ohbuchi and Naomi are interested in forgiveness research. With their assistance, I was able to collect data for my Master's thesis examining cultural differences in forgiveness.
I received the Exceptional Thesis Research Excellence Award in 2008. In addition, my thesis was the University runner-up for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award in 2008, and I was the recipient of the Peer Research Award from the ISU Graduate and Professional Student Senate in 2008.
I was recently awarded the Campbell-Borgen International Travel Fellowship. Beginning April 2009, I will be a Visiting Research Scholar at Radboud University in the Netherlands. I will be working with Dr. Johan Karremans. In addition to collecting data for my dissertation and coordinating future collaborative efforts, I plan to travel to several universities in the Netherlands to present my research.
ABOUT ME AND MY COLLABORATORS:
I attended Purdue University for my undergraduate degree, where I worked with several esteemed professors: Dr. Duane Wegener (attitudes and stereotyping); Dr. Ximena Arriaga (violence in intimate relationships); Dr. James Nairne (human memory and cognition); and Dr. Amanda Diekman (social role theory; sex differences). Dr. Diekman also directed my Honors Thesis.
At Iowa State University, I work with Dr. Susan Cross, who is interested in the role of the self in cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social processes, with a particular interest in cultural variation in these processes. To learn more about our lab and other projects Dr. Cross and her students are working on, please click HERE.
I also collaborate with Dr. Nathaniel Wade, who is interested in forgiveness, particularly developing forgiveness interventions. To learn more about Dr. Wade's group counseling clinic, Network, go here.
In addition, I am working with Dr. Zlatan Krizan, who is interested in how personality shapes how one perceives one's future, worth, and place in social context. We are currently working on a project concerning narcissism and social comparison. To learn more about other projects in Dr. Krizan's lab, visit the SSPEL webpage.
I had the fortunate opportunity to work with Dr. Frank Fincham, who is now at Florida State University, from 2004-05. Dr. Fincham is an extremely productive forgiveness researcher, and he also conducts research on marriage and family relationships.
