Dr. Molly Maxfield is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department. She received her graduate training at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (M.A. in 2005, Ph.D. in 2009). She completed a predoctoral internship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, specializing in cognitive and behavioral assessment. She received her B.A. from Skidmore College in 1999. She teaches undergraduate courses in social psychology and graduate courses in clinical interviewing and cognitive and personality assessment. Dr. Maxfield’s research interests include social cognition and successful aging processes. More specifically, she is interested in how older adults’ cognitive functioning impacts their ability to develop and maintain strategies for coping with the challenges of late life. She has been active in the investigation of older adults’ methods for coping with awareness of mortality. Clinical interests include cognitive and personality assessment of older adults, as well as how environmental conditions can influence older individuals’ cognitive performance. Representative publications: Cohen, F., Solomon, S., Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2004). Fatal attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders. Psychological Science, 15, 846-851. Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., Cox, C., Kluck, B., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., &     Weise, D. (2007). Age related differences in responses to thoughts of one’s     own death:  Mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressions.     Psychology and Aging, 22, 341-353. Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2008). Age differences in the effects of mortality salience on the correspondence bias. Manuscript in preparation. Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Davis, H. P. (2009). The role of cognitive functioning in older adults’ terror management strategies.  Manuscript in preparation. Maxfield, M., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2008). Mortality salience effects on the life expectancy estimates of older adults as a function of neuroticism. Manuscript in preparation. Maxfield, M., & Segal, D. L. (2008). Psychotherapy in non-traditional settings: A case of in-home cognitive-behavioral therapy with a depressed older adult. Clinical Case Studies, 7, 154-166. Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Maxfield, M. (2006). On the unique psychological import of the human awareness of mortality: Theme and     variations. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 328-356. Segal, D. L., Maxfield, M., & Coolidge, F. L. (2008). Diagnostic interviewing. In M. Hersen, & A. M. Gross (Eds.) Handbook of clinical psychology, Volume 1: Adults (pp. 371-394). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.