Education

• 1995, Ph.D., Arizona State University. Clinical Psychology.
• 1994, Clinical Fellow in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
• 1990, M.A., Carleton University. Personality Psychology.
• 1988, B.A., Carleton University. Psychology.

Courses Taught

1. PSY 105: Introductory Psychology (click here to get course information) - offered spring and fall semesters
2. PSY 346: Personality Psychology (click here to get course information) - offered all semesters
3. PSY 425: Tests and Measures (click here to get course information) - not currently offered
4. PSY 525: Psychological Assessment I (click here to get course information) - offered spring semester
5. PSY 526: Psychological Assessment II (click here to get course information) - offered fall semester

Research Interests

• early detection of memory loss (for more info visit Memory Assessment and Research Services at: www.memoryassessment.com)
• motivational underpinnings of hypochondriasis, depression, anxiety, and pain
• personality as a predisposition for psychiatric disorders.
• fear responses to bio-terrorism and the mitigation of those responses
• the assessment of juror bias in criminal cases.

Research Opportunities for Students

• Good research assistants are always welcome. Please stop by or send me an email!

  • Assessing memory change
  • Ongoing research opportunities in the study of mood states and their assessment
  • Ongoing research opportunities in the study of hypochondriasis (preoccupation and fear of illness) and its relation to fears of bio-terrorism.
  • Ongoing research opportunities in the development and validation of scales to measure pretrial juror biases and understanding juror decision-making.

Select Publications

• Lecci, L., & Myers, B. (2008). Individual differences in attitudes relevant to juror decision making: Development and Validation of the Pretrial Juror Attitudes Questionnaire (PJAQ). Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 2010-2038.

• Lecci, L., & Cohen, D. J. (2007). Altered processing of health threat words as a function of hypochondriacal tendencies and experimentally manipulated control beliefs. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 211-224.

• Peterman, A., & Lecci, L., (2007). Personal projects in health and illness. In B. R. Little, K. Salmela-Aro, & S. D. Phillips (Eds.), Personal project pursuit: Goals, action, and human Flourishing (pp. 329-353). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Lecci, L. & Wirth, R. J. (2006). Methodological and practical issues in the experience, induction and assessment of mood states. In A. V. Clark (Ed.) The psychology of moods: New Research (pp. 37-55) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

• Johnson, J., Lecci, L. & Swim, J. (2006). Predicting perceived racism and acceptance of negative behavioral intergroup responses: Validating the JLS in a college and community sample of Blacks. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 421-431.

• Lecci, L. (2004). An essential tool for the treatment and study of adult hypochondriasis. [Review of the book Hypochondriasis: Modern perspectives on an ancient malady]. Contemporary Psychology, 49, 88-91.

• Lecci, L., MacLean, M. G., & Croteau, N. (2002). Personal goals as predictors of college student drinking motives, alcohol use and related problems. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62, 620-630.

• Lecci, L., & Myers, B. (2002). Examining the construct validity of the original and revised JBS: A cross-validation of sample and method. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 455-463.

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Click here for a description of previously funded research.

Address

Len Lecci, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Rd.
Wilmington, N.C., 28403-5612
phone: 910-962-7262 Fax: 910-962-7010
leccil@uncw.edu