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Research
Interests: My research interests fall
into two parts. The first is concerned with emotion
processing in normal adults and in brain-damaged patients.
My most recent work in this area has been with patients with
Alzheimer's disease, where we have been looking at the
ability of patients to recognize emotion in voices, drawings
of emotional situations, and videotaped vignettes displaying
emotions in facial expressions, gestures and body movements.
The second part of concerned with the development and
maintenance of body image and weight-related attitudes in
adolescent and young adult women; related to this is work on
the impact of the transitional event of menarche (the first
menstruation) on body image and other aspects of
psychosocial development. My most recent work looks at body
image and related issues cross-culturally, in diverse groups
of college women. Students have been involved in all aspects
of my work; of the current papers listed, two are
co-authored with students (Purvi Sangani and Amy
Benavage).
Recent
Publications: Koff, Elissa, Deborah
Zaitchik, Joann Montepare, and Marilyn S. Albert.Emotion
processing in the visual and auditory domains by patients
with Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the International
Neuropsychological Society. 5: 32-40, 1999. Koff, Elissa and Amy
Benavage. Breast size perception and satisfaction , body
image, and psychological functioning in Caucasian and Asian
college women. Sex Roles. Vol. 38, Nos. 7/8,
1998 Borod, Joan C and Elissa
Koff, Sandra Yecker, Cornelia Santschi and J. Michael
Schmidt. Facial asymmetry during emotional expression:
gender, valence and measurement technique.
Neuropsychologia. Vol. 36 No.11: 1209-1215,
1998 Koff, Elissa and Purvi
Sangani. Effects of Coping Style and Negative Body Image on
Eating Disturbance. International Journal of Eating
Disorders. 22: 51-56, 1997. Bauman, Connie L. and
Elissa Koff. Effects of wellness, fitness and sport skills
programs on body image and lifestyle behaviors.
Perceptual and Motor Skills. 84: 555-562,
1997. Borod, Joan C, Cornelia
Santschi Haywood, and Elissa Koff. Neuropsychological
aspects offacial asymmetry during emotional: A review of the
normal adult literature. Neuropsychology Review.
7:41-60, 1997.
