Leslie D. Kirby
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Leslie Kirby is the CEO of the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. The JCA is an integrated Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Center, and Jewish Family Services organization that also has an award-winning Jewish Preschool and camp (Center Day Camp). In addition, we have a newly formed community foundation.
Prior to her current role, Dr. Kirby spent 18 years as a professor at Vanderbilt University, where her research focused on stress and coping. She then became the Founder and CEO of the Kirith Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting, disseminating, and applying social science research for the public good. Dr. Kirby's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Positive Psychology Network.
Dr. Kirby has also done psychology-related consulting, including groups and organizational management. A particular area of expertise is helping organizations deal effectively with stress in the workplace.
In addition, Dr. Kirby is an active and engaged philanthropist, including extensive experience with Jewish communal organizations.
Areas of specialization: Emotions, Appraisals, Stress, Coping, Positive Psychology, Organizational Structure & Management, Conflict & Negotiation
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Group Processes
- Health Psychology
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C.A., & Kirby, L. D. (2004). Anxiety detecting robotic system – Towards implicit human-robot collaboration. Robotica, 22, 85-95.
- Smith, C. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2009). Putting appraisal in context: Toward a relational model of appraisal and emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 1352-1372. DOI: 10.1080/20699930902860386
- Smith, C.A.. & Kirby, L.D. (2009). Relational antecedents of appraised problem-focused coping potential and its associated emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 481-503. DOI: 10.1080/02699930802009464
- Smith, C. A., & Kirby, L. D. (2005). With no one-to-one linguistic mapping, how do we decide what is, or is not, a distinct emotional state? Psychological Inquiry, 16, 37-41.
- Smith, C. A., & Kirby, L. D. (2004). Appraisal as a pervasive determinant of anger. Emotion, 4, 133-138.
- Wright, R. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2003). Cardiovascular correlates of challenge and threat appraisals: A critical examination of the biopsychosocial analysis. Personality and Social Psychological Review, 7(3), 216-233.
- Wright, R. A., & Kirby, L. D. (2001). Effort determination of cardiovascular response: An integrative analysis with applications in social psychology. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 33, pp. 255-307. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- Yih, J., Sung, B., Kirby, L.D., & Smith, C.A. (under review). Determination and Interest, Unlike Other Positive Emotions, Narrow the Scope of Attention. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Other Publications:
- Kirby, L.D., Morrow, J. & Yih, J. (2014). The challenge of challenge: Pursuing determination as an emotion. In Tugade, M., Shiota, M. & Kirby, L. D. (Eds.). The Handbook of Positive Emotions (pp. 378-395). New York: Guilford.
- Kirby, L.D., Tugade, M., Morrow, J., Ahrens, A. & Smith, C.A. (2014). Vive la différence: The ability to differentiate positive emotional experience and well-being. In Tugade, M., Shiota, M. & Kirby, L. D. (Eds.), The Handbook of Positive Emotions (pp. 241-255). New York: Guilford.
- Smith, C. A., David, B. & Kirby, L. D. (2006). Emotion-eliciting appraisals of social situations. In J. Forgas (Ed.) Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 85-101). New York: Psychology Press.
- Smith, C. A., & Kirby, L. D. (2013). On the sociality of emotion-eliciting appraisals: Two aspects. In J. Gratch & S. Marsella (Eds.). Social emotions in nature and artifact: Emotions in human and human-computer interaction. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Smith, C. A., & Kirby, L. D. (2011). The role of appraisal and emotion in coping and adaptation. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.). Handbook of Stress Science: Biology, Psychology, and Health (pp. 195-208). New York: Springer.
- Smith, C. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2001). Affect and cognitive appraisal: From content to process models. In: J. Forgas (Ed.). Handbook of affect and social cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Smith, C. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2001). Breaking the tautology: Toward delivering on the promise of appraisal theory. In K. Scherer, A. Schorr & T. Johnstone (Eds.), Appraisal theories of emotion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Smith, C. A. & Kirby, L. D. (2000). Consequences require antecedents: Toward a process model of emotion elicitation. In J. Forgas (Ed.). Feeling and thinking: The role of affect in social cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Creativity
- Emotion
- Positive Psychology
- Small Group Behavior
- Social Psychology
Leslie D. Kirby
Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine
1342 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04102
United States of America
- Phone: (207) 772-1959
