Department of
Psychological and Brain Sciences

• 2022 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Indiana University Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2021, 2019, 2009
• FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching) membership, inducted in 2011

• P101 - Introductory Psychology I
• P102 - Introductory Psychology II
• P155 - Introduction to Psychological and Brain Sciences
• P299 - Sophomore Honors Seminar
• P315 - Developmental Psychology
• P324 - Abnormal Psychology
• S105 - Intensive Freshman Seminar: Psychology of College Life

• Identity
• Emotions
• Sentiment Socialization and Deviance
• Alcohol Treatment
• Affect Control Theory research program

Lisa Thomassen. "An Alcoholic is Good and Sober: Sentiment Change in AA". Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 23: 177-200, 2002.

Lisa Thomassen. "AA Utilization After Introduction In Outpatient Treatment". Substance Use and Misuse 37 (2), 239-253, 2002.

Lisa Thomas. "AA Exposure and Sentiment Convergence". Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Vol. 21, No. 3 (May,1997): 130A.

Lisa Thomas (with David R. Heise). "Mining the Error Variance and Hitting Paydirt: Discovering Systematic Variation in Social Sentiments". Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 36, No.2 (1995): 901-914.

Lisa Thomas (with David R. Heise). "Predicting Impressions Created by Combinations of Emotions and Social Identity". Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 52, No.2 (1989) : 141-148.