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Timothy
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Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Utah |
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Contact Information |
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Timothy
W. Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251
Office: 1320 Social And Behavioral Science Building
Office Phone: (801) 581-5087
E-mail: tim.smith@psych.utah.edu |
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Education |
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| Post-Doctoral
Fellow |
Brown
University (Program in Medicine, 1983) |
| Pre-Doctoral
Fellow |
Brown
University (Clinical Psychology, Program in Medicine, 1982) |
| Ph.D. |
University
of Kansas (Clinical Psychology, 1982) |
| M.A. |
University
of Kansas (Clinical Psychology, 1980) |
| B.A. |
Gettysburg
College (Psychology, 1977) |
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Research Interests |
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Most
of my research addresses personality and social risk factors for cardiovascular
disease. I am interested in the application of theory and methods
from the interpersonal tradition in clinical, personality, and social
psychology to the conceptualization and assessment of psychosocial
risk factors for disease, and to the study of the psychophysiological
mechanisms linking risk factors to disease. A basic premise of this
perspective is that personality characteristics are reciprocally related
to characteristics of the social environment. Over long periods of
time and throughout the course of personality and social development,
people shape and are shaped by their relationships and the social
contexts they inhabit. This transactional process through which people
influence and are influenced by social contexts, in turn, can impact
the individual's risk for serious illness.
As reflected in the following list of recent publications, I am also
interested in risk factors and processes in the specific social context
of close personal relationships (e.g., marriage). I am also interested
in using the same interpersonal concepts and methods to study the
process of adjustment to chronic medical illness.
Recent studies and papers illustrating these interests are listed
below. I would particularly recommend the Smith and MacKenzie (2006) *** in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology; the Smith, Ruiz, and Uchino (2000) Health Psychology paper;
the Baron, Smith et al (2007) Journal of Behavior Medicine paper, Smith, Glazer et al (2004) paper in Journal of Personality, and the Smith et al (2007) Psychosomatic medicine paper.
Our current major projects include two studies on marital
interaction, cardiovascular reactivity, and cardiovascular risk. One
of these involves younger couples, and the other involves middle-aged
and older couples. The former, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, examines cardiovascular and Neuroendocrine responses during couple interactions. The latter project - funded by the National Institute
of Aging - reflects our growing interest in studying the psychosocial
risk process from the perspective of adult development and aging,
and examines the association of psychosocial risk factors and physiological
reactivity with coronary artery disease assessed with CT scans. In
other projects, we are examining a variety of interpersonal determinants
of the magnitude and nature of cardiovascular stress responses, such
as the personality trait of hostility, the act of anger expression,
and internal representations of social ties. |
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Honors & Awards |
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President,
Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association,
2001-2002.
Member, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
University of Utah Distinguished Research Award, 1998.
American psychosomatic Society, Early Career Award, 1992.
Division of Health Psychology, APA, Early Career Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Health Psychology |
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Selected Publications |
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Baron, K. G., Smith, T.W., Butner, J., Nealey-Moore, J., Hawkins, M.W., & Uchino, B.N. (2007). Hostility, anger, and marital adjustment: concurrent and prospective associations with psychosocial vulnerability. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 1-10.
Hamman, H., Smith, T.W., Smith, K.R., Ruiz, J.M., Kircher, J.C., Botkin, J.R. (in press). Interpersonal responses among sibling dyads tested for BRCA1/2 gene mutations. Health Psychology,
Holt-Lunstad, J., Uchino, B.N., Smith, T.W., & Hicks, A. (2007). On the importance of relationship quality: The impact of ambivalence in friendships on cardiovascular functioning. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33, 278-290.
Nealey-Moore, J.B., Smith, T.W., Uchino, B.N., Hawkins, M.W., & Olson-Cerny, C. (2007). Cardiovascular reactivity during positive and negative marital interactions. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, in press.
Smith, T.W. (2007). Measurement in health psychology research. In R. Silver & H.S. Friedman (Eds.), Foundations of Health Psychology, (pp 19-51). Oxford Press.
Smith, T.W., & Uchino, B.N (2007). Measuring physiological processes in biopsychosocial research:Basic principles amid growing complexity. In L.J. Lueken and L.C. Gallo (Eds.), Handbook of Physiological Methods in Health Psychology. Sage.
Smith, T.W., Uchino, B.N., Berg, C.A., Florsheim, P., Pearce, G., Hawkins, M., Hopkins, P.N., & Yoon, H.C. (2007). Hostile personality traits and coronary artery calcification in middle-aged and older married couples: Different effects for self-reports versus spouse-ratings. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 441-448.
Gallo, L.C., Smith, T.W., & Cox, C. (2006). Socioeconomic status, psychosocial processes, and perceived health: An interpersonal perspective. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 109-119.
Ruiz, J.M., Uchino, B.N., & Smith, T.W. (2006). Hostility and sex difference in the magnitude, duration, and determinants of heart rate response to forehead cold pressor: Parasympathetic aspects of risk. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 60, 274-283.
Segerstrom, S. & Smith, T.W. (2006). Physiological pathways from personality to health: The cardiovascular and immune systems. In M. Vollrath (Ed.). Handbook of Personality and Health, (pp 175-194). Chichester, England, Wiley.
Smith, T.W. (2006). Personality as risk and resilience in physical health. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 227-231.
Smith, T.W., & Glazer, K. (2006). Hostility, marriage, and the heart: The social psychophysiology of cardiovascular risk in close relationships. In D.R. Crane and E.S. Marshall (Eds.), Handbook of families and health: Interdisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 19-39). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Smith, T.W., & MacKenzie, J. (2006). Personality and risk of physical illness. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2, 435-467.
Uchino, B.N., Berg, C. A., Smith, T.W., Pearce, G., & Skinner, M. (2006). Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: Evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with age. Psychology and Aging, 21, 231-239.
Spring, B., Pagoto, S., Kaufman, P.G., Whitlock, E.P., Glasgow, R.E., Smith, T.W., Trudeau, K.J., & Davidson, K.W. (2005). Invitation to a dialogue between researchers and clinicians about evidence-based behavioral medicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine,30, 125-127.
Bloor, L. E., Uchino, B.N., Hicks, A., Smith, T.W. (2004). Social relationships and physiological functions: The effects of recalling social relationships on cardiovascular reactivity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 28, 29-38.
Smith, T.W., & Glazer, K.M. (2004). Coronary heart disease and essential hypertension in primary care. In L. J. Haas (Ed.), The handbook of primary care psychology (pp.385-397). New York: Oxford University Press.
Smith, T.W., Glazer, K., Ruiz, J.M., & Gallo, L.C. (2004). Hostility, anger, aggressiveness and coronary heart disease: An interpersonal perspective on personality, emotion and health. Journal of Personality, 72, 1217-1270.
Smith, T.W., Orleans, C.T., & Jenkins, C.D. (2004). Prevention and health promotion: Decades of progress, new challenges, and an emerging agenda. Health Psychology, 23, 126-131.
Smith, T.W. & Ruiz, J.M. (2004). Personality theory and research in the study of health and behavior. In T. Boll (Series Ed.), R. Frank, J. Wallander, & A. Baum (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of clinical health psychology: Vol. 1. Models and perspectives in health psychology (pp. 143-199). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Smith, T.W., Ruiz, J.M., & Uchino. B.N. (2004). Mental activation of supportive ties, hostility, and cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress in young men and women. Health Psychology, 23, 476-485.
Smith, T.W., & Suls, J. (2004). Introduction to the special section on the future of health psychology. Health Psychology, 23, 115-118.
Gallo, L.C., Smith, T.W., & Ruiz, J.M. (2003). An interpersonal analysis of adult attachment style: Circumplex descriptions, recalled developmental experiences, self-representations, and interpersonal functioning in adulthood. Journal of Personality, 71, 141-181.
Holt-Lunstad, J., Uchino, B.N., Smith, T.W., Olson-Cerny, C., & Nealey-Moore, J. (2003). Social relationships and ambulatory blood pressure: Structural and qualitative predictors of cardiovascular function during everyday social interactions. Health Psychology, 22, 388-397.
Smith, T.W.(2003). Health psychology. In I.B. Weiner (Series Ed.), J.A. Schinka & W. Velicer (Vol. Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology (Vol. 2): Research methods (pp. 241-270). John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ.
Smith, T.W., Gallo, L.C., & Ruiz, J.M. (2003). Toward a social psychophysiology of cardiovascular reactivity: Interpersonal concepts and methods in the study of stress and coronary disease. In J. Suls & K. Wallston (Eds.), Social psychological foundations of health and illness (pp. 335-366). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Nealey, J.B., Smith, T.W., & Uchino, B.N. (2002). Cardiovascular responses to agency and communion stressors in young women. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 395-418.
Smith, T.W., Kendall, P.C., & Keefe, F.J. (2002). Behavioral medicine and clinical health psychology: A view from the decade of behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 459-462.
Smith, T.W., Kendall, P.C., & Keefe, F.J. (Eds.) (2002). Behavioral medicine and clinical health psychology. Special issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, whole issue #3, 457-864.
Smith, T.W., & Ruiz, J.M. (2002). Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: Current status and implications for research and practice. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 548-568.
Smith, T.W., & Ruiz, J.M. (2002). Coronary heart disease. In A.J. Christensen & M. Antoni (Eds.), Chronic physical disorders: Behavioral medicine’s perspective (pp 83-111). Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK.
Smith, T.W., & Spiro, A. III. (2002). Personality, health and aging: Prolegomenon for the next generation. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 363-394.
Uno, D., Uchino, B.N., & Smith, T.W. (2002). Relationship quality moderates the effect of social support given by close friends on cardiovascular reactivity in women. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine,9, 243-262.
Ruiz, J.M., Smith, T.W., & Rhodewalt, F. (2001). Distinguishing narcissism and hostility: Similarities and differences in interpersonal circumplex and five factor correlates. Journal of Personality Assessment, 76, 537-555 .
Smith, T.W. (2001). Religion and spirituality in the science and practice of health psychology: Openness, skepticism, and the agnosticism of methodology. In T.G. Plante & A.C. Sherman (Eds.), Faith and health (pp 355-380). New York: Guilford Press.
Smith, T.W., & Gallo, L.C. (2001). Personality traits as risk factors for physical illness. In A. Baum, T. Revenson, & J. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of health psychology (pp 139-172). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Gallo, L.C., Smith, T.W., & Kircher, J.C. (2000). Cardiovascular and electrodermal responses to support and provocation: Interpersonal methods in the study of psychophysiologic reactivity. Psychophysiology, 37, 289-301.
Smith, T.W., Ruiz, J.M., & Uchino, B.N. (2000). Vigilance, active coping, and cardiovascular reactivity during social interaction in young men. Health Psychology, 19, 382-392.
Gallo, L.C., & Smith, T.W. (1999). Patterns of hostility and social support: Conceptualizing psychosocial risk factors as characteristics of the person and the environment. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 281-310.
Rich, M.A., Smith, T.W., & Christensen, A.J. (1999). Attributions and adjustment in end-stage renal disease. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 23, 143-158.
Smith, T.W., & *Gallo, L.C. (1999). Hostility and cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction. Psychosomatic Medicine, 61, 436-445.
Gallo, L.C., & Smith, T.W. (1998). Construct validation of health-relevant personality traits: Interpersonal circumplex and five-factor model analyses of the aggression questionnaire. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 5, 129-147.
Smith, T.W., Gallo, L.C., Goble, L., Ngu, L.Q., & Stark, K. (1998). Agency, communion, and cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction. Health Psychology, 17, 537-545.
Smith, T.W., & Gerin, W. (1998). The social psychophysiology of cardiovascular response: Introduction to the special issue. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 243-246.
Smith, T.W., Nealey, J.B., Kircher, J.C., & Limon, J.P. (1997). Social determinants of cardiovascular reactivity: Effects of incentive to exert influence and evaluative threat. Psychophysiology, 34, 65-73.
Wiebe, D.J., & Smith, T.W. (1997). Personality and health: Progress and problems in psychosomatics. In R. Hogan, J.A. Johnson, & S.R. Briggs, (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp 891-918). New York: Academic Press.
Miller, T.Q., Smith, T.W., Turner, C.W., Guijarro, M.L., & Hallett, A.J. (1996). A meta-analytic review of research on hostility and physical health. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 322-348.
Smith, T.W., & Christensen, A.J. (1996). Positive and negative affect in rheumatoid arthritis: Increased specificity in the assessment of emotional adjustment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 18, 75-78.
Smith, T.W., Limon, J.P., Gallo, L.C., & Ngu, L.Q. (1996). Interpersonal control and cardiovascular reactivity: Goals, behavioral expression, and the moderating effects of sex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1012-1024.
Christensen, A.J. & Smith, T.W. (1995). Personality and patient adherence: Correlates of the five-factor model in renal dialysis. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 18, 305-313.
Smith, T.W., & Nicassio, P.C. (1995). Psychological practice in chronic medical illness: Clinical application of the biopsychosocial model. In P.C. Nicassio & T.W. Smith (ed.), Psychosocial management of chronic illness (pp. 1-31). American Psychological Association: Washington, DC.
Christensen, A.J., Wiebe, J.S., Smith, T.W., & Turner, C.W. (1994). Predictors of survival among hemodialysis patients: Effects of perceived family support. Health Psychology, 13, 521-525.
Smith, T.W. (1994). Concepts and methods in the study of anger, hostility, and health. In A.W. Siegman & T.W. Smith (ed.), Anger, hostility, and the heart (pp. 23-42). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Smith, T.W., Christensen, A.J., Peck, J.R., & Ward, J.R. (1994). Cognitive distortion, helplessness, and depressed mood in rheumatoid arthritis: A four-year longitudinal analysis. Health Psychology, 13, 213-217.
Smith, T.W., O'Keeffe, J.L., & Christensen, A.J. (1994). Cognitive distortion and depression in chronic pain: Association with diagnosed disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 195-198.
Christensen, A.J., & Smith, T.W. (1993). Cynical hostility and cardiovascular reactivity during self-disclosure. Psychosomatic Medicine, 55, 193-202.
McGonigle, M.M., Smith, T.W., Benjamin, L.S., & Turner, C.W. (1993). Hostility and nonshared family environment: A study of monozygotic twins. Journal of Research in Personality, 27, 23-34.
Brown, P. C., & Smith, T.W. (1992). Social influence, marriage, and the heart: Cardiovascular consequences of interpersonal control in husbands and wives. Health Psychology, 11, 88-96.
Smith, T.W. (1992). Hostility and health: Current status of a psychosomatic hypothesis. Health Psychology, 11, 139-150.
Smith, T.W., & Williams, P. G. (1992). Personality and health: Advantages and limitations of the five factor model. Journal of Personality, 60, 395-423.
Pope, M. K., & Smith, T.W. (1991). Cortisol excretion in high and low cynically hostile men. Psychosomatic Medicine, 53, 386-392.
Smith, T.W., Baldwin, M., & Christensen, A. J. (1990). Interpersonal influence as active coping: Effects of task difficulty on cardiovascular reactivity. Psychophysiology, 27, 429-437.
Smith, T.W., Allred, K. D., Morrison, C. A., & Carlson, S. D. (1989). Cardiovascular reactivity and interpersonal influence: Active coping in a social context. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 209-218.
Smith, T.W., Pope, M. K., Rhodewalt, F., & Poulton, J. F. (1989). Optimism, neuroticism, coping and symptom reports: An alternative interpretation of the Life Orientation Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 640-648.
Hardy, J. D., & Smith, T.W. (1988). Cynical hostility and vulnerability to disease: Social support, life stress, and physiological response to conflict. Health Psychology, 7, 447-459.
Smith, T.W., Peck, J., Milano, R. A., & Ward, J. (1988). Cognitive distortion in rheumatoid arthritis: Relationship to depression and disability. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 412-416.
Smith, T.W., Pope, M. K., Sanders, J. D., Allred, K. D., & O'Keeffe, J. L. (1988). Cynical hostility at home and work: Psychosocial vulnerability across domains. Journal of Research in Personality, 22, 525-548.
Smith, T.W., Turner, C. W., Ford, M. H., Hunt, S. C., Barlow, G. K., Stults, B. M., & Williams, R. R. (1987). Blood pressure reactivity in adult male twins. Health Psychology, 6, 209-220.
Zurawski, R. M., Smith, T.W., & Houston, B. K. (1987). Stress management for essential hypertension: Comparison with a minimally effective treatment, predictors of response to treatment, and effects on reactivity. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 37, 453-462.
Smith, T.W., Aberger, E. W., Follick, M. J., & Ahern, D. K. (1986). Cognitive distortion and psychological distress in chronic low-back pain. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 573-575.
Smith, T.W., & Anderson, N. B. (1986). Models of personality and disease: An interactional approach to Type A behavior and cardiovascular risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 1166-1173.
Follick, M. J., Smith, T.W., & Ahern, D. K. (1985). The Sickness Impact Profile as a measure of health status in chronic low back pain. Pain, 21, 67-76.
Smith, T.W., & Frohm K. D. (1985). What's so unhealthy about hostility? Construct validity and psychosocial correlates of the Cook and Medley Ho scale. Health Psychology, 4, 503-520.
Follick, M. J., Abrams, D. B., Smith, T.W., Henderson, L. O., & Herbert, P. N. (1984). Behavioral intervention for weight loss: Contrasting acute and long-term effects on lipoprotein levels. Archives of Internal Medicine, 144, 1571-1584.
Follick, M. J., Smith, T.W., & Turk, D. (1984). Psychosocial adjustment following ostomy. Health Psychology, 3, 305-517.
Smith, T.W., Houston, B. K., & Zurawski, R. M. (1984). Irrational beliefs and the arousal of emotional distress. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 31, 190-201.
Smith, T.W., Houston, B. K., & Zurawski, R. M. (1984). Finger pulse volume as a measure of anxiety in response to evaluative threat. Psychophysiology, 21, 260-264.
Smith, T.W., Ingram, R. E., & Brehm, S. S. (1983). Social anxiety, anxious self-preoccupation, and recall of self-relevant information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 1276-1283.
Smith, T.W., Snyder, C. R., & Perkins, S. (1983). The self-serving function of hypochondriacal complaints: Physical symptoms as self-handicapping strategies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 787-797.
Smith, T.W., & Brehm, S. S. (1981). Person perception and the Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 1137-1149.
Smith, T.W., & Greenberg, J. (1981). Depression and self-focused attention. Motivation and Emotion, 5, 323-331.
Smith, T.W., & Pittman, T. S. (1978). Reward, distraction, and the overjustification effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 565-572. |
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