 John H. Yost, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Dolan E 379
Telephone: (216) 397-4735
E-mail: jyost@jcu.edu
Background Information:
- B.A., Temple University, Phila, PA, 1985
- M.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1990
- Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1992
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO,
1991-1992
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio
State University, 1992-94
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY,
1994-1995
- Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, 1995-2001
- Associate Professor, John Carroll University, 2001-
Current Research Interests:
- The Social-Cognitive Transactional Model of Shyness. A
program of research investigating negative impressions formed of shy persons and the
consequences of these impressions in perpetuating shyness and social anxiety in shy
persons. Collaborators in this program include JCU undergraduates Dawn Loiacono and
Nicole Smeader.
- Protective Intolerance. A program of research proposing
a new self-protection strategy. Protective Intolerance is the tendency for
individuals to be intolerant of their own negative characteristics in others. This
program has been pursued in collaboration with JCU undergraduate Christine Fako.
- Control Motivation and Olfactory Sensitivity. A program of
research investigating greater olfactory sensitivity in individuals with a high desire or
need for control. This program is in collaboration with JCU undergraduate Lisa
Justice.
- An Attributional Model of Overachievement Behaviors. Overachievers,
in this collaborative research program with Robert Arkin of Ohio State University, are
defined as individuals who have a high need for successful outcomes (NSO) and high
self-doubt (i.e., doubt that their ability is commensurate with past successes).
According to this model, overachievers expend extreme amounts of effort in
order to ensure success (and because they doubt they have the ability to achieve success
in the absence of extreme effort). This extreme effort expenditure can obscure
ability as a cause for success, thus perpetuating self-doubt and feeding the
overachievement cycle further. Other collaborators include Kirsten Poehlmann of Ohio
State, Kathy Oleson of Reed College, and JCU undergraduates Amy Koenig and Jennifer Sorby.
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