Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology
B.S., Fitchburg State University, M.S., Ph.D., Tufts University
Phone: (603) 899-4294 Email:
Courses Taught
Social Psychology
Theories of Personality
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Child and Adolescent Development
Adult Development
Psychology of Learning
Health Psychology
Psychology and the Law
Theories of Intimate Violence
Research Interests & Expertise Areas
Finding a positive side to psychological disorders
Disgust sensitivity
Early developmental factors and their influence on personality
Publications and Presentations
Brugger, A., Adams Lariviere, L., Mumme, D. L. & Bushnell, E. (2007). Doing the right thing: Infants’ selections of actions to imitate from observed event
sequences. Child Development, 78(3), 806-824.
Mumme, D. L., Bushnell, E. W., DiCorcia, J. A., & Adams Lariviere, L. (2007). Infants’ use of gaze cues to interpret others’ actions and emotional responses. In Flom, R., Lee, K. & Muir, D. (Eds.), Gaze-following: Its development and significance. (pp. 143-171). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Professional Memberships
Institutional Review Board and the Academic Standards Committee, Faculty Co-Advisor
for Psi Chi
Conferences Attended
Dominello, N.H., Lesniak, B., MacCarty, T., Buddington, L., Privitera, G., Anastasi,
T., Matthews, S., & Spott, E. (2019). Digital learning techniques for on-ground and online psychology
classrooms. Presentation conducted at the 25th annual meeting of the Northeast Conference
for Teachers of Psychology, Manchester, NH.
Mumme, D. L., Gradwohl, N. & Adams Lariviere, L. (2007). Bug juice: Do disgust messages
help children follow the laws of contamination? Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. Adams Lariviere L., Gradwohl, N. & Mumme, D. L. (2005). Piecemeal or wholesale: How
do children acquire emotional concepts? Symposium conducted at the 17th annual convention of the
American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Mumme, D. L., Adams-Lariviere, L., Fuchs, R. & Bushnell, E. W. (2002). Infants’ use
of gaze to choose objects and learn what to do with them. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting
of the International Society for Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
