Jackson, Sherri L. 1962-

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JACKSON, Sherri L. 1962-

PERSONAL: Born July 7, 1962, in Fort Rucker, AL; daughter of Kenneth (a teacher) and Eleanor (a secretary) Jackson; married Richard Griggs (a professor), July 5, 1991. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Attended Houghton College, 1980-82; North Adams State College, B.A. (psychology), 1984; University of Florida, M.S. (psychology), 1986, Ph.D. (psychology), 1988.


ADDRESSES: Home—5128 Northwest 57th Lane, Gainesville, FL 32653. Offıce—Department of Psychology, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 32211.


CAREER: Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL, assistant professor, 1988-93, associate professor, 1993-98, professor of psychology, 1998—, faculty chair, 2002-03. University of Florida, guest speaker, 1990, 1991. Member of scientific review committee for Duval County, 1988-96, and Friends of the Library, Alachua County, FL, 1992—; judge of high-school science fairs.


MEMBER: American Psychological Association, Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs, Council of Undergraduate Teaching in Psychology, American Association of University Professors (president, 1999-2002), Southeastern Psychological Association, Alpha Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.


WRITINGS:

(With R. A. Griggs) Study Guide to Accompany Invitation to Psychology by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris, Addison Wesley Longman (New York, NY), 1998, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2002.

Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical-Thinking Approach, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 2003.


Contributor to periodicals, including Social Science Perspectives Journal, British Journal of Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Thinking and Reasoning, and Teaching of Psychology.


WORK IN PROGRESS: Statistics Plain and Simple, a textbook, for Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA).

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