Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscience (2009) - University of California, Los Angeles

B.A. Psychology (2004) - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

I am a cognitive/experimental psychologist (interests below). At Marist, I teach biopsychology and research methods courses, and I am the advisor to the Psychology Club. I'm passionate about teaching and I'm happy to involve dedicated students in my own research (and support student projects). I'm also happy to talk to students about graduate school.

Cognitive: (emotional)language; memory failures/subjectivity/malleability; controlled vs automatic behaviors; attention & conscious experience; mind-body relationship

Non-cognitive: pottery

Joseph McGuigan Dissertation Year Fellowship (UCLA), 2008-09

Shepard Ivory Franz Distinguished Teaching Award (UCLA), 2008

Distinguished Psychology Student (Mass. College of Liberal Arts), 2004

Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grant, 2003

Jay, T.B., & Janschewitz, K. (2012). The science of swearing. APS Observer, 25(5), 21; 40-41.

Janschewitz, K., & MacKay, D. (2011). Emotion and language. In Hogan, P. C. (Ed.), Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Janschewitz, K., & Jay, T.B. (2009). Slang and offensive language. In R.A. Shweder, T. R. Bidell, A. C. Dailey, S. D. Dixon, P. J. Miller, & J. Modell (Eds.), The child: An encyclopedic companion.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Janschewitz, K. (2008). Taboo, emotionally-valenced, and emotionally-neutral word norms. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 1065-1074.

Jay, T.B., & Janschewitz, K. (2008). The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research, 4, 267-288.

Jay, T.B. & Janschewitz, K. (2007). Filling the emotion gap in linguistic theory: Commentary on Potts’ expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics, 33, 215-221 .

Emotional/offensive/taboo language: cognitive, biological, social aspects

Cognitive control of attention and memory and its modulation by emotion

Sigma Xi

Association for Psychological Science

Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Janschewitz, K.L., & Jay, T.B. (2011). Child swearing: Frequency counts and sex differences from the 1980s and 2010. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Convention (Washington DC).

Steinhauer, M., Smith, D., Sun, J., Lowery, M., Clark, M., Mead, R., Burgess, A., Choudhury, F., Janschewitz, K., & Moody, E. (2011). Language induced arousal increases probability of source misattribution. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Convention (Washington DC).

Jay, T.B., Janschewitz, K.L., & Seeley, K. (2011). Poor memories of potty training. Poster Presented at Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (New York, NY).

Janschewitz, K.L., Cheung, F., Ornitz, E.M., Naliboff, B.D., & Knowlton, B.J. (2010). Passive coping is associated with increased acoustic startle reflex. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Convention (Boston).

Chan, Y. P., Janschewitz, K., & Knowlton, B. (2010, May). Cultural differences in pain experience: a comparison between Asian, Asian American, and Caucasian. Poster presented at the Tenth Annual Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Stanford, CA and Nineteenth Annual UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, UCLA, CA.

Janschewitz, K. (2009). Effects of pain catastrophizing and emotion on inhibitory control processes: Implications for psychological coping and symptom experience. Monthly lecture at UCLA Mindfulness & Integrative Medicine Seminar hosted by Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Janschewitz, K., & Knowlton, B.J. (2009). Pain catastrophizing associated with impaired inhibition in emotional go/no-go task. Poster presented in "Emotional Ups and Downs" session at Association for Psychological Science Convention (San Francisco).

Janschewitz, K., Khoo, T., & Knowlton, B.J. (2009). As association between maladaptive coping and inhibitory deficits in the Stroop task: Pain catastrophizing scores correlate with incongruent color naming times. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (San Francisco).

Janschewitz, K., & Knowlton, B.J. (2008). Directed forgetting performance correlates with psychological responses to pain. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (San Francisco).

Jay, T.B. & Janschewitz, K. (2006). Swearing with friends and enemies in high and low places. Paper presented in plenary session of Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness Conference (University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, U.K.).

Jay, T.B., & Janschewitz, K. (2005). Parent-child language values. Poster presented at American Psychological Society Convention (Los Angeles).

Janschewitz, K. (2004). Language processing with taboo stimuli. Paper presented in "Taboo Words and Memory" symposium at Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting (Washington D.C.).