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Curriculum Vitae
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Texas A&M University Phone 979-***-****
Department of Psychology Fax: 979-***-****
4235 TAMU Email: **********@****.***
College Station, TX 77843-4235
EMPLOYMENT:
2005
PresentTexas A&M University, Assistant Professor
of Psychology
EDUCATION:
2005
Ph. D., Florida State University (Social Psychology)
Ego depletion, working memory, and the executive function of self
2000
M. S., Georgia Southern University (Experimental Psychology)
Self-focused attention and subjective time
1996
B. A., University of Nebraska (Psychology)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Big 12 Faculty Fellowship
APA Dissertation Research Award
NIH NIMH National Research Service Award
SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award
Mensa Award for Excellence in Research
Brigham Award in Social Psychology
Florida State University Teaching Fellowship
SPSP Summer Institute in Social Psychology
SPSP Student Travel Award
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
I have broad interests in social and personality psychology, particularly the human
capacity for self-control. My research examines willpower, choice, memory, and emotion
regulation.
PUBLICATIONS:
FUNDING HISTORY:
Funded
TITLE: Differentiating impulse strength from self-control strength as causes of self-
control failure
AGENCY: National Science Foundation (NSF-BCS0921276)
AMOUNT: $374,865
FUNDING PERIOD
: 09/2009-08/2012
ROLE: PI (Co-PI: Eddie Harmon-Jones)
TITLE: Working memory and the self-regulation of emotion
AGENCY: TAMU Faculty Research Enhancement Award
AMOUNT: $4000
FUNDING PERIOD:
2008
-09 academic year
ROLE: PI
TITLE: Differentiating the causes of self-control failure
AGENCY: BIG 12 Conference Big 12 Faculty Fellowship
AMOUNT: $1400
FUNDING PERIOD: 2007-08 academic year
ROLE: PI
TITLE: Contributions of impulse strength and self-control strength to trait self-control
AGENCY: TAMU Psychology Department Collaboration Seed Grant
AMOUNT: $2000
FUNDING PERIOD: 2007-08 academic year
ROLE: PI (Co-PI: Eddie Harmon-Jones)
TITLE: Cognitive reappraisal and memory for emotional stimuli
AGENCY: TAMU Psychology Department Collaboration Seed Grant
AMOUNT: $2000
FUNDING PERIOD: 2007-08 academic year
ROLE: PI (Co-PI: Steve Smith)
TITLE: Effects of executive resource depletion on memory
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health (F31 MH069139)
AMOUNT: $28,835
FUNDING PERIOD: 2004-2005
ROLE: PI (Co-PI: Roy Baumeister)
Graduate students supervised:
Shane Bench, MS committee (member)
Jill Burpo, MS committee (member)
Ryan Caskey, MS committee (chair)
Analesa Clark, MS committee (member)
Milagros Evardone, Ph. D. committee (member)
Philip Gable, MS committee (member) and Ph. D. committee (member)
Cindy Harmon-Jones, MS committee (chair)
Thomas Price, MS committee (member)
Jerrell Smith, Ph. D. committee (member)
Jeannine Tamez Ph. D. committee (member)
Undergraduate honor s thesis supervised:
Sara Cristina Duke
INVITED COLLOQUIA:
Rice University
(October 2009)
University of Texas
at Austin (April 2009)
Oklahoma State University
(March 2008)
University of Texas
at Austin (April 2007)
Baylor University
(March 2006)
Trinity University
(November 2005)
University of Wyoming
(January 2005)
University of South Florida
(January 2005)
University of California
Los Angeles (January 2005)
Texas A&M University
(December 2004)
Rutgers University
(December 2004)
University of Wisconsin
Madison (December 2004)
Santa Clara University
(December 2004)
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:
*
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
*Denotes student co-author
*Harmon-Jones, C., Schmeichel, B. J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2009, February). Facial
expressions of anger and determination perceived as similar. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Schmeichel, B. J. (2009, February). The role of working memory capacity in psychological
self-defense. In J. Green and L. Newman (Chairs), Motivated forgetting: The who, the when,
and the why. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Schmeichel, B. J. (2008, July). Ego depletion and cognitive load: What s the difference
In A. Bertrams (Chair), Self-regulatory strength and ego depletion: A decade later.
Symposium conducted at the meeting of the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin,
Germany.
Schmeichel, B. J. (2008). (Chair). Cognitive control and emotion regulation: Applying
cold processes to hot emotional impulses. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of
the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Schmeichel, B. J., & Demaree, H. A. (2008, May). Working memory and emotion regulation.
In B. J. Schmeichel (Chair), Cognitive control and emotion regulation: Applying cold
processes to hot emotional impulses. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the
Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Vohs, K. D., *Mead, N. & Schmeichel, B. J. (2008, March). Self-regulatory resource
depletion strengthens feelings and urges. Paper presented at the Sydney Symposium for
Social Psychology, Sydney, Australia.
*Harmon-Jones, C., Schmeichel, B. J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008, February). Symbolic self-
completion motives expressed in Internet communications. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Schmeichel, B. J., & Demaree, H. A. (2008, February). Emotion regulation and working
memory: Agile minds behind still surfaces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
*Caskey, R., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2007, January). Making memorable choices: The role of
executive control in the self-choice effect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Gailliot, M. T., Baumeister, R. F., DeWall, C. N., Maner, J. K., Plant, E. A., Tice, D.
M., *Brewer, L. E., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2007, January). Self-control relies on glucose as
an energy source: Glucose fuels the self-regulatory engine. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Schmeichel, B. J., & *Caskey, R. (2006, November). Updating working memory or inhibiting
predominant response tendencies temporarily reduces the capacity for executive control.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.
Schmeichel, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., DeWall, C. N., & Vohs, K. D. (2006, January). Is
the conscious self a help, a hindrance, or an irrelevance to the creative process Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm
Springs, CA.
Vohs, K. D., *Mead, N., Schmeichel, B. J., & *Bruyneel, S. (2005, September-October).
Self-regulatory resource depletion makes people more extreme in their emotions and
judgments. In S. Ramanathan (Chair), Dynamics of self-regulation. Symposium conducted at
the annual meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, San Antonio, TX.
Schmeichel, B. J. (2005, May). Ego depletion reduces working memory capacity. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Baumeister, R. F., *Dewall, C. N., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2004, April). Creativity,
consciousness, and free will: Experimental findings. Paper presented at the 6th Toward a
Science of Consciousness conference sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies,
Tempe, AZ.
Demaree, H. A., Schmeichel, B. J., *Robinson, J. L., *Pu, J., & Everhart, D. E. (2004,
October). Up- and down-regulating negative emotional expressions. In I. Mauss (Chair), The
psychophysiology of emotion regulation: Understanding how, when, and for whom it works.
Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research,
Santa Fe, NM.
Schmeichel, B. J., Demaree, H. A., & *Robinson, J. L. (2004, February). Exaggerating
emotional expression: Physiological and cognitive effects. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. (Graduate
Student Poster Award Winner)
SERVICE:
To department
Nicole Baxter White Award (2009) selection committee
Graduate Studies Committee (2005-present)
Job Search Committee (2008-2009 academic year)
Job Search Committee (2007-2008 academic year)
Job Search Committee (2006-2007 academic year)
Job Search Committee (2005-2006 academic year)
Faculty-Staff Liaison committee (2005-2007)
To college
Fasken Teaching Symposium, Invited Panelist (2007)
To university
Dissertation Research Awards reviewer:
American Psychological Association, Science Directorate (2008)