Christine Ruva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Psychology
 Phone: 941-359-4629
Fax: 941-359-4489
Office: SMC C249
Email: ruva@usf.edu
Curriculum
Vitae
Dr. Christine L. Ruva is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University
of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She held the position of Assistant Professor
on the University’s Tampa campus from August 2001 to 2003. In December 2001, Dr.
Ruva received obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of South
Florida in the area of Cognitive and Neural Sciences. She taught a variety or
psychology courses as a graduate student on the Tampa campus earning three
awards for teaching excellence. (more...) Dr. Ruva obtained her B.A. from the University
of Tampa. After receiving her B.A. degree she worked as a probation and parole
officer for the state of Florida where she held the position of sex offender
specialist.
Broadly construed, Dr. Ruva’s research interests fall in the area of
Psychology and Law. More specifically, her research focuses on applying
principles of memory, social perception, and group decision making to the areas
of jury decision making and eyewitness testimony. Dr. Ruva’s Dissertation
focused on the effects of negative pretrial publicity and jury deliberation
(collaborative memory) on juror’s ability to discriminate between information
obtained during trial and information gained prior to trial (source monitoring).
Her Thesis focused on jurors’ perceptions of child eyewitness as a function of
age and speech style. Her current research continues to examine the effects of
both positive and negative pretrial publicity on jury decision making and how
the deliberation process is affected by exposure to pretrial publicity.
Dr.
Ruva resides in Dunedin, Florida with her husband Ken Banas, an electrical
engineer, and their two Bichon Frises. When not working they enjoy biking the
Pinellas Trail, taking their dogs to dog beach, and camping in their RV
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Additional websites:
Personal and Psych Department (Tampa)
Recent Publications
Ruva, C. L., Guenther, C. C., & Yarbrough, A
(2011). Deciphering the effects of positive and
negative ptp: examining the roles of impression
formation, emotion and predecisional distortion.
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 38, 511-534, DOI: 10.1177/0093854811400823
Ruva, C. L. & LeVasseur, M. A. (2011). Behind
closed doors: The effect of pretrial publicity
on jury deliberations.
Psychology, Crime and
Law,
DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2010.502120
Research
Please click
here
for Dr. Ruva's Research site.
Directed Study/Directed Research:
This course involves students working as a research assistant on projects in the
areas of Psychology & Law and Applied Memory. Interested students should
contact Dr. Ruva at
ruva@usf.edu and REQUEST A RESEARCH ASSISTANT APPLICATION.
Teaching
To learn more about Dr. Ruva's classes visit
the following web site: http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~ruva/index.htm
Syllabi from recent semesters. Click on Course Prefix and Number to
review course syllabus.
Example PSY 4931
Courses for Spring 2012
Ref # 22124
DEP 4053 Sec: 521 Developmental
Psychology, M 12:00pm-2:50pm
Ref # 26476
PSY 4938 Sec: 591 Pro Seminar: Applying
Psychology to the Legal System, M 6pm-8:50pm
Ref # 26477
PSY 4938 Sec: 599 Pro Seminar: Applying
Psychology to the Legal System, M 6pm-8:50pm
Videoconference course from USFSM to USFSM @ North Port
Ref # 26577 SOP 4751 Sec: 521 Psychology Applied to Law, M
3:00pm-5:50pm
class meets 01/09, 02/06, 03/19, 04/23.
Courses for Fall 2011
Ref # 84602
EXP 4680C Sec: 591 Cognitive Psychology, R
6pm-8:45pm
Ref # 88814 PSY 3213 Sec: 523 Research Methods in Psych,
TR 4pm-5:45pm
Courses for Spring 2011
Ref # 16911
PSY 4931 Sec: 521 Psychology and Law, T
3:00pm-5:50pm
Ref # 15309
PSY 4931 Sec: 522 Psychology and Law, R 9:00am-11:50am
Ref # 17274
PSY 4931 Sec: 591 Senior Seminar: Applying Psychology to
the Legal System, T 6:00pm-8:50pm
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