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Bio
Adam is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Beck lab. He received both his MA and BS at UC Davis. He broadly studies well-being and personality change using both nomothetic and idiographic approaches. He is specifically interested in understanding the role of sexual and gender minority experiences and minority stress processes in such patterns of change. When the weight of the world isn’t getting him down, he enjoys going to concerts, breweries, and trivia nights with his friends.
Education and Degree(s)
- MA, Psychology, UC Davis, 2023
- BS, Psychology, UC Davis, 2019
- BS, Animal Science, UC Davis, 2019
Courses
- PSC 162 - Introduction to Personality Psychology (Summer Session 1 2024)
Research Interests & Expertise
- Personality and Well-Being Change
- Sexual and Gender Minority Experiences
- Travel and Study Abroad
Publications
- Nissen, A.T & Beck, E. D. (under review). The Joy is Mine: Re-centering the Person in the Study of Well-Being. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3xvfw
- Nissen, A. T. & Beck, E. D. (under review). Linking person-specific network parameters to between-person change. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pvubn
- Nissen, A.T., Bleidorn, W., Lenhausen, M. R., & Hopwood, C. J. (in press). Leisure travel and life satisfaction in a Dutch sample. Personality Science. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/awvns
- Nissen, A. T. & Beck, E. D. (in press). Contextualizing Personality Development Requires a Persons-In-Contexts Framework: A comment on Klimsta and McLean (2024). European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hrua7
- Nissen, A.T., Bleidorn, W., Ericson, S., Hopwood, C. J. (2022). Selection and socialization effects of studying abroad. Journal of Personality, 90(6), 1021-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12712
Membership and Service
- 2022-2024 Out in STEM (oSTEM) Graduate Student Committee President