School of Natural and Social Sciences Department of Psychology

Heidi R. Riggio
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Office: KH D3083
Phone: (323) 343-5167
FAX: (323) 343-2281
Email: mailto: /

IntroductionTeaching InterestsResearch Interests
Educational BackgroundSchedule & Office Hours

Introduction

Teaching is a central part of my career that I enjoy very much. I especially enjoy teaching undergraduate students, and working with undergraduate and graduate students on independent research projects. I enjoy teaching in areas such as introductory and social psychology, research methods and statistics, personality, sex and gender, psychology of the family, and critical thinking. I have been teaching at the university level since 1996, and at CSULA since Fall 2005.

Teaching Interests

I am currently teaching several different courses at Cal State L.A., including Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Statistics, Sex & Gender, and Theories of Personality.

Research Interests

My research interests are in social psychology with particular emphasis on attitudes in interpersonal relationships; attitudinal and relationship consequences of parental divorce and marital conflict; adult family relationships, including adult sibling and adult child-parent relationships; maternal employment and adult offspring family and work attitudes; political attitudes and resistance to persuasion; social and nonverbal communication skills.

Representative Professional Activities

Date / Publications/Presentations
In press / Riggio, H.R., & Weiser, D.A. (in press). Attitudes toward marriage: Embeddedness and outcomes in personal relationships. Personal Relationships.
In press / Riggio, H.R. (in press). Political party, strength of identification, and knowledge and attitudes toward Bush v. Gore. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
2006 / Riggio, H.R., & Fite, J.E. (2006). Attitudes toward divorce: Embeddedness and outcomes in personal relationships. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 2935-2962.
2006 / Riggio, H.R., & Desrochers, S. (2006). Maternal employment: Relations with young adults’ work and family expectations and self-efficacy. American Behavioral Scientist, 49, 1328-1353.
2006 / Riggio, H.R. (2006). Structural features of sibling dyads and attitudes toward sibling relationships in young adulthood. Journal of Family Issues, 27, 1233-1254.
2006 / Riggio, H.R., & Halpern, D.F. (2006). Understanding human thought: Educating students as critical thinkers. In W. Buskist & S. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of the teaching of psychology. New York: Blackwell.
2005 / Desrochers, S., Halpern, D.F., Tan, S.J., & Riggio, H.R. (2005). The end of clinical psychology as we know it? A response to Snyder and Elliott's Four Levels Matrix Model. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 1175-1178.
2004 / Riggio, H.R. (2004). Parental marital conflict and divorce, parent-child relationships, social support, and relationship anxiety in young adulthood. Personal Relationships, 11, 99-114.
2004 / Riggio, R.E., & Riggio, H.R. (2004). Self-report measures of emotional and nonverbal expressiveness. In V. Manusov (Ed.), Beyond words: A sourcebook of methods for measuring nonverbal cues. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2003 / Riggio, R.E., Riggio, H.R., Salinas, C., & Cole, E.J. (2003). The role of social and emotional communication skills in leader emergence and effectiveness. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7, 83-103.
2002 / Riggio, H.R., & Riggio, R.E. (2002). Extraversion, Neuroticism, and emotional expressiveness: A meta-analysis. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 26, 195-218.
2002 / Halpern, D.F., & Riggio, H.R. (2002). Thinking critically about critical thinking: Workbook to accompany Thought and knowledge: An introduction to critical thinking (4th ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2001 / Riggio, H.R. (2001). Relations between parental divorce and the quality of adult sibling relationships. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 36, 67-82.
2000 / Riggio, H.R. (2000). Measuring attitudes toward adult sibling relationships: The Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17, 707-728.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Social Psychology, 2001
ClaremontGraduateUniversity
Claremont, California
M.A., Experimental Psychology, 1996
CSU Fullerton
Fullerton, California
B.A.,Psychology,1993
CSU Fullerton
Fullerton, California

Fall 2007 Office Hours/Teaching Schedule

Psy 202, Descriptive Statistics, MW 9:50-11:30am

Psy 202, Lab MW 11:40am-1:20pm

Psy 418A, Theories of Personality, MW 1:30-3:10pm

Office hours: MW, 3:30-4:30pm; Tuesday, 10am-12pm; Thursday by appointment.