Brief bios and contact links are provided for the primary authors of the HFS.
Laura Yamhure Thompson, Ph.D.
Laura Yamhure Thompson received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 2003. She completed a pre-doctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital and the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance and the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her research regarding forgiveness as a moderator of the relationship between stress and psoriasis severity. She and her mentor, C. R. Snyder, collaborated on the Heartland Forgiveness Project, a program of research to develop a model, definition, and measure of forgiveness (i.e., the Heartland Forgiveness Scale). She is currently a licensed psychologist in the state of Hawaii.
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C. R. (Rick) Snyder, Ph.D.
C. R. Snyder (1944-2006) was Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and he was editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology for 12 years. Well known for his work at the interface of clinical, social, personality, and health psychology, his theories pertained to how people react to personal feedback, the human need for uniqueness, the drive to excuse transgressions, and the hope motive. One of the foremost researchers studying positive psychology, he developed the field of hope into a self-sustaining field of study. His prominence as a researcher in the area of positive psychology was indispensable in the creation and funding of the Heartland Forgiveness Project. Dr. Snyder was a mentor to Laura Yamhure Thompson and countless others in the field of psychology. He is dearly missed.
LESA HOFFMAN, PH.D.
Lesa Hoffman received her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Quantitative Psychology at the University of Kansas in 2003, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State University. In the fall of 2006, she joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology. Lesa Hoffman was the quantitative specialist for the Heartland Forgiveness Project. The focus of her current research is the integration of advanced quantitative methods (e.g., multilevel, structural equation, and item response modeling) to the examination of psychological and developmental processes, particularly within the study of cognitive aging. Recent projects have focused on the role of visual attention in predicting impairment in older drivers, the methodological barriers to examining longitudinal changes in cognition, and innovation applications of multilevel modeling for within-person designs. She teaches graduate courses in quantitative methods, such as latent trait measurement models, multilevel models for longitudinal data, and advanced multilevel models.
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Authors
Brief bios and contact links are provided for the primary authors of the HFS.
Laura Yamhure Thompson, Ph.D.
Laura Yamhure Thompson received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 2003. She completed a pre-doctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital and the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance and the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her research regarding forgiveness as a moderator of the relationship between stress and psoriasis severity. She and her mentor, C. R. Snyder, collaborated on the Heartland Forgiveness Project, a program of research to develop a model, definition, and measure of forgiveness (i.e., the Heartland Forgiveness Scale). She is currently a licensed psychologist in the state of Hawaii.
» Contact Laura Yamhure Thompson, Ph.D.
C. R. (Rick) Snyder, Ph.D.
C. R. Snyder (1944-2006) was Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and he was editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology for 12 years. Well known for his work at the interface of clinical, social, personality, and health psychology, his theories pertained to how people react to personal feedback, the human need for uniqueness, the drive to excuse transgressions, and the hope motive. One of the foremost researchers studying positive psychology, he developed the field of hope into a self-sustaining field of study. His prominence as a researcher in the area of positive psychology was indispensable in the creation and funding of the Heartland Forgiveness Project. Dr. Snyder was a mentor to Laura Yamhure Thompson and countless others in the field of psychology. He is dearly missed.
LESA HOFFMAN, PH.D.
Lesa Hoffman received her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Quantitative Psychology at the University of Kansas in 2003, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State University. In the fall of 2006, she joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology. Lesa Hoffman was the quantitative specialist for the Heartland Forgiveness Project. The focus of her current research is the integration of advanced quantitative methods (e.g., multilevel, structural equation, and item response modeling) to the examination of psychological and developmental processes, particularly within the study of cognitive aging. Recent projects have focused on the role of visual attention in predicting impairment in older drivers, the methodological barriers to examining longitudinal changes in cognition, and innovation applications of multilevel modeling for within-person designs. She teaches graduate courses in quantitative methods, such as latent trait measurement models, multilevel models for longitudinal data, and advanced multilevel models.
» Contact Lesa Hoffman, Ph.D.