Thomas Carpenter
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology
Seattle Pacific University
United States of America
Biography
Education: BS, Seattle Pacific University, 2004; MA, Baylor University, 2012; PhD, Baylor University, 2015. At SPU since 2014. Dr. Tom Carpenter’s areas of expertise include personality-social psychology, research methods, and statistics. His teaching focuses on introductory and advanced research methods and statistics in psychology as well as social and personality psychology. Dr. Carpenter’s research focuses on our hypocritical human nature: our propensity to ignore our overt preferences and standards and to transgress against ourselves and others. One line of research in this area focuses on implicit bias, the impulsive thoughts that can undermine our higher reasoning. Dr. Carpenter has developed new software methods for running the Implicit Association Test (IAT) using online survey software. A second line of research focuses on guilt, shame, and self-forgiveness, specifically focusing on the functions of ‘guilt-proneness’ and ‘shame-proneness’ as well as associations with the general ability to forgive the self. Finally, Dr. Carpenter has conducted research related to his area of teaching (statistics education).
Research Interest
Psychology
Publications
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Carpenter GS, Carpenter TP, Kimbrel NA, Flynn EJ, Pennington ML, Cammarata C, Zimering RT, Kamholz BW, Gulliver SB. Social support, stress, and suicidal ideation in professional firefighters. American journal of health behavior. 2015 Mar 1;39(2):191-6.
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Carpenter TP, Tignor SM, Tsang JA, Willett A. Dispositional self-forgiveness, guilt-and shame-proneness, and the roles of motivational tendencies. Personality and Individual Differences. 2016 Aug 31;98:53-61.
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Carpenter TP, Kirk RE. Are psychology students getting worse at math?: Trends in the math skills of psychology statistics students across 21 years. Educational Studies. 2017 May 27;43(3):282-95.
