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Jaime Cloud

(she/her)

Associate Professor, Psychological Sciences Department

503-838-9211 | cloudj@wou.edu
TODD 311

Personal Website

At WOU since

09/16/2013

Office Hours

MonTuesWedsThursFri
10:00 - 12:00 (in-person, walk-in)  12-2 (online, by appointment) 
https://calendly.com/jaimecloud/office-hours

Course schedule

Winter 2023
CRNCourseTitleTimesLocation
20837 PSY467 QUANTITATIVE METHODS - ONLINE CRS

Vitae

Link to vitae

Education

2006 – 2012 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology

2002 – 2005 B.A. Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Psychology, Magna Cum Laude
Special Honors in Psychology

Teaching focus

Evolutionary Psychology

Research areas

FEMALE STATUS
Status-striving/status-signaling
Sex-specific determinants of status
Status hierarchy negotiation
Interpersonal consequences of social position

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Conspicuous/luxury consumption
Advertising strategies
Brand positioning
Buyer behavior

PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
Female waist-to-hip ratio
Facial and bodily components of attractiveness
Physical attractiveness and female intra-sexual competition
Status benefits of attractiveness

Grants and funding

2011 American Business Women’s Association Grant
American Business Women’s Association, Austin Chapter

2011 James W. and Ruth B. Pennebaker Social Psychology Endowment for Excellence
University of Texas at Austin

2006 – 2010 Psychology Department Professional Development Award
University of Texas at Austin

2008 Wilhelmina Pegram Robertson Scholarship
University of Texas at Austin

2006 Department of Psychology Recruitment Fellowship
University of Texas at Austin

Professional experience

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

2013 – present Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
REVIEWER

Psychological Science
Evolution and Human Behavior
Personality and Individual Differences
Evolutionary Psychology
European Journal of Personality
Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
Nature
SPSP Graduate Student Committee Outstanding Research Award
APS Student Grant Competition
APS Student Research Award

Undergraduate courses taught

Introduction to Psychology
Research Methods and Application
Applied Psychological Statistics
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolution and Social Behavior
Human Mating
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Social Cognition and Decision Making
Health Psychology
Psychology of Consumer Behavior
Art of Advertising

Publications and Presentations

Information coming soon...

Professional memberships

Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Society for Consumer Psychology (JCP; Division 23 of the APA)
Psi Chi




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