Matthew W. Kirkhart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of Undergraduate Education

Office: Beatty Hall, Room 222D
Telephone: 410-617-5498
Email: MKirkhart@loyola.edu

Education:

• B.A. (Magna Cum Laude), West Virginia University, 1987
• M.A. (Clinical Psychology), West Virginia University, 1991
• Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), University of North Carolina
  at Greensboro, 1997
• Pre-doctoral Internship, Department of Clinical
  and Health Psychology
  Shands Hospital, University of Florida College of Health Professions
• Licensed Psychologist in Maryland

Scholarly Interests:

I have two primary research interests and several secondary interests. My first primary research
interest is in medical/health psychology, primarily focusing on those who have a serious or chronic
medical condition. This includes such things as factors that affect general adaptation and adjustment
to the medical conditions (i.e., adjustment to chronic pain conditions, adaptation to lifestyle changes
necessary to manage diabetes, etc.), and in the prediction of adjustment and adaptation to future
medical procedures (i.e., predicting adjustment post organ transplantation).

My second primary research interest is in basic research examining learning and memory. Primarily my
interest in this area lies in conscious and unconscious learning and memory, rule-governed behavior,
and a functional analysis of language in efforts to understand how verbal behavior affects other
behavior.

I have several secondary research interests some of which include mentoring and teaching in
psychology, adult psychopathology, and interpersonal psychotherapy models and methods.

Representative Publications:

Konig, A., Lating, J., & Kirkhart, M. W. (2007). Content of disclosure and health: Autonomic response 
     to talking about a stressful event. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 
     doi: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhm012.

Stapleton, A. B., Lating, J., & Kirkhart, M., Everly, G. S. Jr. (2006, September 6). Effects of Medical 
     Crisis Intervention on Anxiety, Depression, Posttraumatic Symptoms: A Meta-analysis. 
     Psychiatric Quarterly, published on http://www.springerlink.com/content/e660376273175657/

Christopher, M. S., Skillman, G. D., Kirkhart, M. W., & D'Souza, J. B. (2006). The effect of normative 
     and behavioral persuasion on help seeking in Thai and American college students. Journal of 
     Multicultural Counseling and Development, 34, 80-93.

Kirkhart, M. W. (2002). Validation of an explicit learning paradigm. Psychology and Education, 39, 
     40-45.

Sentz, D. S., Kirkhart, M. W., LoPresto, C., & Sobelman, S. (2002). Intrusive effects of implicitly 
     processed information on explicit memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 94, 241-250.

Kaminsky, K. J., & Kirkhart, M. W. (2001). A step beyond: Adding behavior analysis to the discussion 
     of evolution, natural selection, and the law. Florida Law Review, 53(5), 947-964.

Kirkhart, M. W. (2001). The function of declarative knowledge in implicit and explicit learning. Journal 
     of General Psychology, 128(4), 447-461.

Eyler, V. A., Diehl, K. W., & Kirkhart, M. (2000). Validation of the Lees-Haley Fake Bad scale for the 
     MMPI-2 to detect somatic malingering among personal injury litigants. Archives of Clinical 
     Neuropsychology, 15(8), 834-835.

Kirkhart, M. W. (2000). The effects of schizotypal thinking content on implicit and explicit learning. 
     Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior, 37(2), 10-28.

Course Offerings:

PY101: Introduction to Psychology
PY221: Psychology of Learning
PY222: Cognitive Psychology
PY707: Introduction to Clinical Experiences-Adult Intake Rotation
PY820: Cognition and Learning Theory
PY845: Therapy Models-Interpersonal Psychotherapy