Curriculum Vitae

Mitchell T. Harden


Education

M.A., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2008 (en passant)

            Courses of Note: Multivariate Statistics, Psychopharmacology, Hormones, Brain and Behavior

            Research Manager for the B/N Rat Lab

            Certificate in University Teaching


B.A., Psychology, University of Southern Indiana, 2006

Courses of Note: Psychology of Fear, Psychopharmacology, and Physiological Psychology

Dean’s Advisory Council, psychology department representative

Officer for Psychology Club

           

Publications

Harden, M.T., Smith, S.E., Niehoff, J.A., McCurdy, C.R., Taylor, G.T. (2009) Anti-Depressive Effects of the κ-Opioid Receptor Agonist Salvinorin A in a Rat Behavioral Model. (in preparation)
Bloom, C.M., Harden, M.T.,and Slevin, R. (2009). Disgust, Obsessive–Compulsive Symptomatology, and Superstition: an Experimental Examination (in preparation)
Carter, K.L., and Harden, M.T. (2009). Tips and Techniques for Freeware AudioVisual Editing and Integration into PowerPoint (in submission)
Bloom, C.M., Venard, J.M., Harden, M.T., and Seetharaman, S. (2008). Affective Modulation of Non-Contingent Reinforcement: Fear & Superstition (unpublished manuscript)

Bloom, C.M., Venard, J.M., Harden, M., and Seetharaman, S. (2007). Non-contingent positive and negative reinforcement schedules of superstitious behaviors. Behavioural Processes, 75(1), 8-13.

Harden, M.T. (2006).Why chimps don’t read Kant: Dr. Joshua Greene’s study of the biological basis of morality. Amalgam, 1, 25-31.

Conference Presentations

Harden, M.T., Smith, S.E., Niehoff, J.A.(2009) Anti-Depressive Effects of the κ-Opioid Receptor Agonist Salvinorin A in a Rat Behavioral Model. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Harden, M.T., Smith, S.E., Niehoff, J.A.(2009) Anti-Depressive Effects of the κ-Opioid Receptor Agonist Salvinorin A on Behavior in Rats. Poster awarded 1st prize at Sigma Xi and UMSL Graduate School Research Fair, St. Louis, MO.

Lintzenich, P.M., Paul, R.H., Harden, M.T. (2008) Wii Can Help You Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day? Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science 20th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Bloom, C.M, Harden, M.T., Slevin, R., Fritz, C., Venard, J.M., Sharrett, L. (2007) Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Superstitious Conditioning in a Nonclinical Sample. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science 19th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Bloom, C.M., Venard, J.M., Harden, M.T., and Seetharaman, S. (2006). Fear and superstition: negative emotion modifies superstitious conditioning. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science 18th Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Harden, M.T. (2006). The bizarre phenomenon of toilet-seat hovering: using disgusting stimuli to illicit superstitious behavior. Talk presented at 25th Annual Mid-American Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Evansville, IN.

Harden, M.T. (2005).Why chimps don’t read Kant: Dr. Joshua Greene’s study of the biological basis of morality. Talk presented at 24th Annual Mid-American Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Franklin, IN.


Invited Talks

Harden, M.T. (2009).What is fear, and why do we love it? Talk presented at St Charles Community College Scary Movie Marathon, St. Peters, MO.

Harden, M.T. (2006).Why chimps don’t read Kant: Dr. Joshua Greene’s study of the biological basis of morality. Talk presented at International Society for Panetics Interdisciplinary Ethics Roundtable, Washington, DC.


Research Experience               
               Graduate Researcher in University of Missouri-St Louis Behavioral Neuroscience rat laboratory from fall 2006 to present. Experience includes management of Long-Evans rat colony, including breeding, euthanasia, necropsies, drug preparation and instruction of undergraduate research assistants.
               Graduate Research Assistant for Barbara Bucur, Ph.D., University of Missouri-St Louis, Cognition and Aging Research Laboratory Spring 2007 - Present. Experience includes development of experimental paradigms in E-prime, development of research scheduling tools, and recruitment of community participants age 60+.

               Research Assistant at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) in Spring 2008. Duties included web-based research, statistical analysis, data entry, and APA formatting.             

               Undergraduate research assistant with Southern Indiana Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (now at Providence) from 2005-2006. Experience included literature review, experimental design, IRB approval process, data collection, data analysis with SPSS, poster design and presentation, APA formatting and composition of journal submissions. 


Teaching Experience               
    Graduate Instructor at University of Missouri - St. Louis Spring 2010 teaching Biological Psychology
    Adjunct professor at St. Charles Community College from fall 2008 through present and temporary full-time Instructor appointment for spring semester 2009. Courses prepared include Introduction to Psychology, Biological Psychology, and Psychology on Film. Faculty mentor to new adjuncts beginning spring 2010.
    Teaching Assitant at University of Missouri - St. Louis for fall 2008 teaching lab section for Research Methods.

Professional Memberships
    American Psychological Association
        2009 Community College Teacher

    Association for Psychological Science

        2008 APS Student Research Award Competition Reviewer

        2007 APS Student Grant Competition Reviewer

        2007 Graduate Mentor

        2007 Campus Representative (UMSL)

        2005 Student Associate

Other Experience

    Blogger for PsychologyToday magazine: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-minded

    Information Technology professional for five years, expert typist and all around computer guy. Served three years as Disaster Recovery and Data Management systems engineer. In brief this involved managing large databases and other data sources and keeping secure copies available in the event of disaster; I'm good with computers and other technology.

    Online researcher for The Texperts from 2005-2007, which included web-based research to answer client generated questions in a variety of domains.



Contact Information

Mailing Address:

Mitch Harden

11201 Saint Matthias Lane

St Ann, MO 63074


Phone:
    h (314) 783 - 4006

   c (314) 753 - 7699

Email:
MTHarden@umsl.edu

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