People - [ Faculty Bios - Jared W. Keeley ]

Education

• B.A., Knox College, 2002
• M.S., Auburn University, 2005
• Ph.D., Auburn University, 2009

Research Interests

• Clinical Cognition - I study how mental health professionals think, particularly in the areas of diagnosis and case conceptualization.
• Classification of Psychopathology - How are various mental disorders understood and organized? I investigate current issues surrounding the DSM; problems, strengths, and how professionals interact with the manual.
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - I empirically investigate issues of the college classroom including how students optimally learn, what techniques are effective in teaching, and how learning/good teaching are assessed.

Representative Publications

• Flanagan, E., Keeley, J. W., & Blashfield, R. K. (2008). An alternative hierarchical organization of the mental disorders of DSM-IV. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 693-698.
• Keeley, J. W., Zayac, R. M., & Correia, C. J. (2008). The curvilinear effect of statistics anxiety on test performance: There is an optimal level. Statistics Education Research Journal, 7, 4-15.
• Blashfield, R. K., Keeley, J. W., & Burgess, D. B. (2008). Classification. In P. Blaney & T. Millon (Eds.). Oxford textbook of psychopathology (2nd ed.; pp. 35-57). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Buskist, W., Keeley, J. W., & Irons, J. (2008). Evaluating and improving your teaching. In B. Perlman, L. I. McCann, & S. H. McFadden (Eds.). Lessons learned: Practical advice for the teaching of psychology (Vol. 3; pp. 163-172). Washington, DC: Association for Psychological Science.
• Keeley, J. W., Burgess, D. R., & Blashfield, R. K. (2008). The DSM. In S. F. Davis & W. Buskist (Eds.). 21st century psychology (pp. 253-261). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
• Keeley, J. W., Smith, D., & Buskist, W. (2006). The Teacher Behavior Checklist: Factor analysis of its utility for evaluating teaching effectiveness. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 84-90.