Jessamy Comer

Research Interests

My research interests focus on the adolescents' relationships with parents. Specifically, I am interested in how adolescents' development of autonomy affects adolescent-parent relationships. Additionally, I am interested in examining what factors influence adolescents' decisions to disclose or not disclose information about their everyday lives to their parents.

Presentations

Comer, J. E., & Smetana, J. G. (2010, March).  Associations between parent-adolescent discrepant perceptions of family decision-making and adolescents' disclosure to parents.  Poster symposium presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.

Comer, J. E., & McDowell, D. J. (2007, March).  Parental behavior and children's social competence:  differences between dyadic and triadic interation.  Poster session presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Publications/Manuscripts

• Smetana, J. G., Rote, W. M., Jambon, M., Tasopoulos-Chan, M., Villalobos, M., & Comer, J. (in press). Developmental changes and individual differences in young children's moral judgments.  Child Development.
• Comer, J. E., & Smetana, J. G. (2010). Discrepant parent-adolescent perceptions of family decision-making and adolescents' conflict with and disclosure to parents.  Manuscript in preparation.
• Rowatt, W.C., Powers, C., Targhetta, V., Comer, J., Kennedy, S., & LaBouff, J. (2006). Development and initial validation of an implicit measure of humility relative to arrogance, Journal of Positive Psychology, 1, 198-211.

Teaching

Courses Taught:

• Developmental Child Psychopathology - Fall 2011
• Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science (at Nazareth College) - Summer 2011
• Reasoning and Writing in the College - Fall 2010

• Psychology of Parenting - Fall 2007, Summer 2009.
• Social and Emotional Development - Summer 2007, 2008.
• Introduction to Psychology-Summer 2007

Professional Honors and Awards

• 2010-2011 - Breadth Fellowship, University of Rochester
• 2010 - Helen and Vincent Nowlis Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester
• 2009-2010 - Breadth Fellowship, University of Rochester
• 2005 - Psychology Department Academic Achievement Award, Baylor University
• 2004 - Election to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Baylor University