Education

 

Ph.D

 

North Dakota State University

Social Psychology

2005

Dissertation: Using metaphor to promote happiness: Will directing people to attend up make them “feel up”?

Chair: Michael D. Robinson

 

M.S.

                                 

North Dakota State University

Experimental Psychology

2002

Thesis: A comparison of human aggression committed by groups and individuals: An interindividual-intergroup discontinuity.

Chair: Verlin B. Hinsz

 

B.S.

 

North Dakota State University

Psychology

2000

 

A.A.S.

 

Bismarck State College

Electronics’ Technology

1993

 

Professional Positions

 

2005 - Present		Assistant Professor of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
2005		Post-Doctoral Researcher, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.  Advisor: Michael D. Robinson.
2001 - 2004		Graduate Research Assistant, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.  Advisor: Michael D. Robinson.
2001		Research Consultant, North Dakota State University’s World Wide Web Instructional Committee, Fargo, ND.
2000 - 2001		Graduate Research Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.  Advisors: George Gaither, Thomas Holtgraves.
1998 - 2000		Undergraduate Research Assistant, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.  Advisor: James Council.
1993 - 1998		Product Service Specialist, Bently Nevada Corporation, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Teaching Experience

 

General Psychology

Social Psychology

Introduction to Statistics  

Experimental Social Psychology

 

Research Interests

 

Implicit social cognition

Aggression in groups and individuals

Personality and emotion

Personality and attention

Evaluative processes related to affective metaphor

Prosocial behavior

 

(Send an email to bmeier@gettysburg.edu if you would like a copy of a chapter or paper listed below)

 

Publications – Book Chapters

 

Cohen, T. R., Meier, B. P., Hinsz, V. B., & Insko, C. A. (in press). Competitive group interactions: Why they exist and how to overcome them. S. Schuman (Ed.), The handbook for working with difficult groups. New York: Jossey-Bass.

 

Moller, A. C., & Meier, B. P. (in press). Developing an experimental induction of flow: Effortless action in the lab. In B. J. Bruya (Ed.), Effortless Attention: A New perspective in the cognitive science of attention and action. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Meier, B. P. (2008). Experiments, shock. In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Editor in Chief), International encyclopedia of the social sciences (2^nd ed., pp. 62-63). Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference.

 

Meier, B. P. (2008). Zimbardo, Philip. In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Editor in Chief), International encyclopedia of the social sciences (2^nd ed., p. 178). Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference.

 

Publications – Journal Articles

 

Meier, B. P., & Dionne, S. (in press). Downright sexy: Verticality, implicit power, and perceived physical attractiveness. Social Cognition.

 

Toburen, T., & Meier, B. P. (in press). Priming God-related concepts increases anxiety and task persistence. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

 

Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (in press). Bring it on: Angry facial expressions potentiate approach-motivated motor behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

Hauser, D. J., Carter, M. S., & Meier, B. P. (2009). Mellow Monday and furious Friday: The approach-related link between anger and time representation. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1166-1180.

 

Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Tamir, M., Wilkowski, B. M., & Ode, S. (2009). Behavioral facilitation: A cognitive model of individual differences in approach motivation. Emotion, 9, 70-82.

 

Wilkowski, B. M., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Carter, M. S., & Feltman, R. (2009). “Hotheaded” is more than an expression: The embodied representation of anger in terms of heat. Emotion, 9, 464-477.

 

Goetz, P. W., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2008). Attentional training of the appetitive motivation system: Effects on sensation seeking preferences and reward-based behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 120-126.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Caven, A. J. (2008). Why a big mac is a good mac: Associations between affect and size. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 46-55.

 

Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (2008). Bringing out the agreeableness in everyone: Using a cognitive self-regulation model to reduce aggression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1383-1387.

 

Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (2008). Approach, avoidance, and self-regulatory conflict: An individual differences perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 65-79.

 

Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What’s “up” with God?: Vertical Space as a representation of the divine. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 699-710. 

 

Meier, B. P., Hinsz, V. B., & Heimerdinger, S. R. (2007). A framework for explaining aggression involving groups. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 298-312.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Crawford, L. E., & Ahlvers, W. J. (2007). When ‘light’ and ‘dark’ thoughts become light and dark responses: Affect biases brightness judgments. Emotion, 7, 366-376.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (2007). Aggressive primes activate hostile information in memory: Who is most susceptible? Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 23-34.

 

Meier, B. P., Sellbom, M., & Wygant, D. B. (2007). Failing to take the moral high ground: Psychopathy and the vertical representation of morality. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 757-767.

 

Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Ode, S. (2007). Introversion, inhibition, and displayed anxiety: The role of error reactivity processes. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 558-578.

 

Weger, U. W., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Inhoff, A. W. (2007). Things are sounding up: Affective influences on auditory tone perception. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 517-521.

 

Engel, S. G., Robinson, M. D., Wonderlich, S. J., Meier, B. P., Wonderlich, S. A., Crosby, R. D., Steffen, K. J., & Mitchell, J. E. (2006). Does the avoidance of body and shape concerns reinforce eating disordered attitudes? Evidence from a manipulation study. Eating Behaviors, 7, 368-374.

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2006). Does “feeling down” mean seeing down?: Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 451-461.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Gaither, G. A., & Heinert, N. J. (2006). A secret attraction or defensive loathing?: Homophobia, defense, and implicit cognition. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 377-394.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (2006). Turning the other cheek: Agreeableness and the regulation of aggression-related primes. Psychological Science, 17, 136-142.

 

Robinson, M. D., Kirkeby, B. S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Stuck in a rut: Perseverative response tendencies and the neuroticism/distress relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 78-91.

 

Robinson, M. D., Mitchell, K. A., Kirkeby, B. S., & Meier, B. P. (2006). The Self as a container: Implications for implicit self-esteem and somatic symptoms. Metaphor and Symbol, 21, 147-167.

 

Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Unstable in more ways than one: Reaction time variability and the neuroticism/distress relationship. Journal of Personality, 74, 311-344.

 

Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Agreeableness and the prolonged spatial processing of antisocial and prosocial information. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1152-1168.

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2005). The metaphorical representation of affect. Metaphor and Symbol, 20, 239-257.

 

Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2005). Rotten to the core: Neuroticism and implicit evaluations of the self. Self and Identity, 4, 361-372.

 

Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Vargas, P. T. (2005). Extraversion, threat categorizations, and negative affect: A choice reaction time approach to avoidance motivation. Journal of Personality, 73, 1397-1436.

 

Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Solberg, E. C. (2005). What shields some can shackle others: The approach-related consequences of threat categorization vary by agreeableness. European Journal of Personality, 19, 575-594.

 

Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Zetocha, K. J., & McCaul, K. D. (2005). Smoking and the implicit association test: When the contrasting category determines the theoretical conclusions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27, 201-212.

 

Meier, B. P., & Hinsz, V. B. (2004). A comparison of human aggression committed by groups and individuals: An interindividual-intergroup discontinuity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 551-559. 

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Does quick to blame mean quick to Anger?: The role of agreeableness in dissociating blame and anger. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 856-867.  

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Why the sunny side is up: Associations between affect and vertical position. Psychological Science, 15, 243-247.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2004). Why good guys wear white: Automatic inferences about stimulus valence based on brightness. Psychological Science, 15, 82-87.

 

Robinson, M. D., Storbeck, J., Meier, B. P., & Kirkeby, B. S. (2004). Watch out! That could be dangerous: Valence-arousal interactions in evaluative processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1472-1484.

 

Gaither, G. A., Sellbom, M., & Meier, B. P. (2003). The effect of stimulus content on volunteering for sexual interest research among college students. The Journal of Sex Research, 40, 240-248.

 

vonMatthiessen, P. M., Sansone, R. A., Meier, B. P., Gaither, G. A., & Shrader, J. (2003). Zoonotic diseases and at-risk patients: A survey of veterinarians and physicians. AIDS, 17, 1404-1406. 

 

Hoffman, P. K., Meier, B. P., & Council, J. R. (2002). A comparison of chronic pain between an urban and rural population. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 19, 213-224.

 

Nordenstrom, B. K., Council, J. R., & Meier, B. P. (2002). The “big five” and hypnotic suggestibility. International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, 50, 276-281.

 

Sansone, R. A., Todd, T., & Meier, B. P. (2002). Pretreatment ECGs and the Prescription of Amitriptyline in an Internal Medicine Clinic. Psychosomatics, 43, 251-252.

 

Sansone, R. A., Whitecar, P., Meier, B. P., & Murry, A. (2001). The prevalence of borderline personality among primary care patients with chronic pain. General Hospital Psychiatry, 23, 193-197.

 

Manuscripts in Review or in Preparation

 

Carter, M. S., Meier, B. P., Konrath, S. H. (manuscript in preparation). Face-ism and the self: Do big heads only occur when representing others?

 

Landau, M. J., & Meier, B. P. (manuscript in review). A metaphor-enriched social cognition.

 

Meier, B. P., Landau, M. J., & Hauser, D J. (manuscript in preparation). Body spatial location and affective experience.

 

Meier, B. P., Moeller, S., & Robinson, M. D. (manuscript in review). Sweet taste preferences and experiences predict agreeable personalities and behavior.

 

Meier, B. P., Moller, A. C., & Chen, J. (manuscript in review). Embodied real estate: North-south coordinates bias housing location preference and price.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Carter, M. S., & Hinsz, V. B. (manuscript in review). A kernel of truth in the beauty is good” stereotype: A zero-acquaintance analysis involving agreeableness and extraversion.

 

Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (manuscript in review). Counting to Ten (Milliseconds): An Affective Processing Perspective on Individual Differences in Anger.

 

Invited Talks

 

Meier, B. P. (November, 2009). A metaphor-enriched psychology. Invited talk at Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.

 

Meier, B. P. (April, 2009). Throwing a punch or turning the other cheek: Aggression and self-regulation. Invited talk at the University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

 

Meier, B. P. (February, 2009). Throwing a punch or turning the other cheek: Aggression and self-regulation. Invited talk at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

 

Meier, B. P. (October, 2008). Throwing a punch or turning the other cheek: Aggression and self-regulation. Invited talk at the Psychology Synergy Conference, Westminster, MD.

 

Meier, B. P. (October, 2007). The metaphorical representation of affect: How vertical space guides affective experience. Invited talk at the University of Richmond.

 

Meier, B. P. (November, 2004). The metaphorical representation of affect. Invited talk at North Dakota State University.

 

Meier, B. P. (March, 2004). Being bush-whacked: Exposure to President Bush primes aggressive thoughts and behaviors. Invited talk at North Dakota State University.

 

Presentations

Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2010). Bring it on: Angry facial expressions potentiate approach-motivated motor behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2010). I’m so angry I’m seeing red.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

 

Meier, B. P. (May, 2009). Body in mind: Social dimensions of embodied metaphor. Symposium chair at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

 

Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2009). “Hotheaded” is more than an Expression: The embodied representation of anger in terms of heat. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

 

Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2009). Bringing out the agreeableness in everyone: Using a cognitive self-regulation model to reduce aggression. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa Bay, FL.

 

Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., & Toburen, T. M. (February, 2008). Hearts of gold atop dirty soles: How body spatial location guides affective experience. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

 

Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., Ode, S. & Meier, B. P. (February, 2008). Neuroticism and cognitive control: Toward an interactive framework. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

 

Hauser, D. J., Wilson, K. D., & Meier, B. P. (May, 2007). Something’s “up” on the side: Affect, vertical space, and reference frame. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

 

Troop-Gordon, W., & Meier, B. P. (2006, July). Retaliatory motives during interpersonal conflicts: Does increased revenge-seeking lead to increased aggression? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Caven, A. J (2006, January). The bigger the better: Associations between affect and size. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.   

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2005, February). Assumptions about stimulus valence based on vertical position. Symposium talk at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.  

 

Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2005, January). On feeling down and attending down: Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention. Symposium talk at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

 

Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2005, January). Pausing in thought or ready to fight: Trait anger and task switching behavior following violent thoughts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, L. A.

 

Konrath, S., Meier, B. & Schwarz, N. (2004, July). President Bush as an aggressive prime. Paper presentation at the International Society of Political Psychology, Lund, Sweden. 

 

Konrath, S. H., Meier, B. P., & Schwarz, N. (2004, May). Seeing President Bush: Presidential primes increase impressions that others are aggressive. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.     

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004, May). Agreeable people and the self-regulation of hostile thoughts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.     

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004, January). Down and out: Negative affect and vertical selective attention.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.   

 

Zetocha, K., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & McCaul, K. D. (March, 2004). Assessing smokers? and non-smokers? implicit and explicit attitudes towards smoking: Are they different? Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

 

Hinsz, V. B., Meier, B. P., & Gatheridge, B. (2003, May). Group and individual aggressive actions toward other groups and individuals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.  

 

Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2003, May). Blame accessibility, anger, and the moderating role of agreeableness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.  

 

Meier, B. P., Holtgraves, T. M., Rahman, O., & Hall, J. (2002, February). Testing models of socially desirable responding. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.

 

Gaither, G. A., Meier, B. P., Sellbom, M., & Janssen, E. (2001, November).  The penis as an eliciting stimulus for sexual inhibition: Partial support for a dual control model of sexual arousal.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

 

 

Nordenstrom, B., Meier, B. P., Hoffman, P. K., Juntunen, B., Omvig, M. A., & Council, J. R. (1999, August). Personality and health in nonresponders. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.       

 

Ad Hoc Reviews

 

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Cognition and Emotion

Cognitive Therapy and Research

European Journal of Social Psychology

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Journal of Personality

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Language and Cognitive Processes

Memory and Cognition

Motivation and Emotion

Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Public Opinion Quarterly

Psychological Science

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

 

Grant Support

 

2009	University of Kent Small Grant Award: The influence of mood on attention.  Total Amount: £1,000.  In collaboration with Ulrich Weger and Tim Hopthrow.
2007 - 2008	Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Fund: The metaphorical representation of affect: Examining a developmental perspective.  Total Amount: $3,000.
2006 - 2007	Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Fund: The body’s role in evaluative behavior: The relation between affect and vertical body space.  Total Amount: $1,500.
2005 - 2006	Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Fund: Aggression in groups: The target effect.  Total Amount: $1,700.
2004	Martin Seligman Research Alliance: Using metaphor to promote positive affect.  Total Amount: $2,000.
2003 - 2004	North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Sponsored by the National Science Foundation): Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Total Amount: $29,000.

 

Awards and Honors

 

2004	North Dakota State University, College of Science and Mathematics’ Ph.D. Student Research Award.

 

Professional Memberships

 

American Psychological Society

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

 

References