Dr. Steven C Pitts
Professor · Tenured
About
Earned PhD in Social Psychology/Quantitative Methods from Arizona State University. A two year post-doc working with Dr. Laurie Chassin on risk and protective factors for COA (Children of Alcoholics). Examined intergenerational transmission of drinking and addiction. Joined UMBC in 2000 as a Quantitative Psychologist.Prefer collaborative research and have studied smoking cessation and acquisition; child abuse and neglect; treatment for substance abuse; identification of young people at risk of psychosis; and body size stigma.
Research interests
Longitudinal data analysis. Mental health. Psychosis risk. Stigma toward people with body modification (tattoos and piercings). Internalized and public stigma in LGBTQ populations. Disordered eatingTeaching interests
Statistics and Methods courses at the graduate level, including: OLS Regression, ANOVA, mediation, moderation, path analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Latent Growth Curve models, Hierarchical Linear Regression (multilevel modeling), mixture modeling. Social Psychology at the graduate level.Research Methods and statistics at the undergraduate level. Focus on experimental design, estimation and interpretation of interactions, mixed design ANOVA ("Split-Plot" ANOVA)
Education
- Ph D, Psychology — Arizona State University (1999)
- MA, Psychology — Arizona State University (1993)
- BA, Psychology — California State University, Northridge (1990)
- BA, Geography — California State University, Northridge (1988)