Editorial Aresta

Títulos con Aresta: Geografías del Desarrollo Humano: Una Aproximación a la Psicología Cultural

Moisès Esteban es Licenciado en Filosofía y Psicología por la Universitat de Girona. Se ha especializado en psicología evolutiva y de la educación realizando el Doctorado Interuniversitario en Psicología de la Educación, coordinado por la Universitat de Barcelona. Su tesis le llevó a estudiar la construcción de la identidad en indígenas y mestizos de Chiapas, en cuya Universidad hizo dos estancias académicas. Ha ampliado estudios en el Institute of Psychological Science y el Leeds Social Science Institute de la Leeds University (Inglaterra). Actualmente es profesor adscrito al departamento de psicología de la Universitat de Girona y miembro del grupo de investigación “Cultura y Educación”. Ha escrito varios artículos sobre psicología cultural, psicología evolutiva y psicología de la educación además de cuatro libros.

Dr Simon Moss is a senior lecturer at Monash University. His primary research interest concerns how characteristics of organizations and societies, such as leadership, influence the psychological processes of individuals, such as their mood, creativity, intuition, engagement, honesty, and altruism. He is an author of “The Science of Management: Fighting fads and fallacies with evidence-based practices”.

Dr Moss is also a cofounder of Zenith Professional Development, a company that has collated every scientific discovery that contradicts prevailing management beliefs and practices. Using this database, he has developed a tool that identifies misconceptions in management. In addition, he has presented training programs to all levels of management—across a broad range of industries—that are designed to redress these misconceptions.

Ann Davidson is a clinical and forensic psychologist specialising in the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders and the related issues of trauma, offending, and violence risk assessment.

Titles with Aresta: The Media's Impact on children: A Handbook for Parents, Educators and Policymakers

Karyn Riddle is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She joined the department in the Fall of 2007.

Karyn received her undergraduate degree in Advertising with a minor in French from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1996. After graduation, Karyn worked in the media planning department of DDB Chicago for 5 years. She planned and executed national advertising campaigns for clients such as Betty Crocker Desserts, Hamburger Helper, Golden Grahams, JCPenney, FTD Flowers, and Lands’ End. She also contributed to the media plan for a successful new business pitch for Dell computers.

In 2001, Karyn left DDB Chicago and headed west to the University of California, Santa Barbara. She obtained her MA and PhD from the Department of Communication, focusing on the effects of exposure to media violence. During her time at UCSB, Karyn presented at numerous national and international conferences, receiving a top three student paper award from the Mass Communication Division of NCA in 2006. Her dissertation advanced a recent line of research attempting to provide a psychological explanation for the effects postulated by cultivation theory.

Currently, Karyn teaches classes related to her professional experience (e.g., Strategic Media Planning, Strategic Communication Campaigns) as well as classes related to her research interests (e.g., Mass Media and Youth, Effects of Mass Communication). One of her current research projects focuses on children’s fear responses to the mass media, with an emphasis on frightening images of violence and conflict in the broadcast news. She is also studying adults’ long-term memories for childhood exposure to violent and frightening entertainment media. Karyn is interested in understanding the differential effects of repeat exposure to mundane, sanitized violence versus exposure to one or a few highly memorable, vivid portrayals of graphic violence. She is also developing a scale for measuring long-term memories of everyday exposure to the mass media.

Karyn lives in Madison with her husband Mike and son Owen.