STEVEN JAY LYNNProfessor of Psychology
Director of the Psychological Clinic
Ph.D., Indiana University
Internship: Alameda County Mental Health Services, Oakland, California
Post-doctoral fellowship: Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan
Area: Clinical Psychology
E-mail: slynn@binghamton.edu
Phone: 607-222-6891
Office: Clearview, Room 58
Curriculum vitae (.pdf, 170.6kb)
Consulting Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology ; North American Editor, Contemporary Hypnosis ; Associate Editor, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis ; Advisory Editor, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis ; Associate Editor, Sleep and Hypnosis ; Editorial Board, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice ; Editorial Board, Imagination, Cognition and Personality ; Editorial Board, Romanian Journal of Psychotherapy ; Editorial Advisor Board, Journal of Cultic Studies: Psychological Manipulation and Society ; Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences ; Consultant, Consumer Reports on Health ; Fellow: American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology, American Academy of Forensic Psychology, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis; Diplomate, American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP: Clinical, Forensic); Director of the Psychological Clinic, Binghamton Univiersity; Past President: APA Division of Psychological Hypnosis (30); Forensic consultant (attorneys, courts): eyewitness and repressed memories, competence, insanity.
Hypnosis, dissociation, memory, mindfulness/acceptance, experimental psychopathology, and science versus pseudoscience.
Current or upcoming projects: The effects of sleep deprivation versus improving sleep on dissociation; hypnosis and memory; PTSD flashbacks; hypnotic treatment of smoking cessation; hypnosis and poor body image; construct validation of a scale to assess “ultrasensitive people;” and construct validation of an acceptance scale.
My commitment to students is unwavering: to train versatile and "complete" clinical scientists who are critical thinkers, excellent researchers, and effective clinicians. Our laboratory is very active, and students are considered junior colleagues in every respect. Students have the freedom to initiate their own projects under my supervision, as well as contribute to ongoing projects in the laboratory. Creativity, independence, and the ability to work well with others are highly valued.
Barnes, S., & Lynn, S. J. (in press). Mindfulness and depression: A longitudinal study. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. (Special issue on mindfulness and depression, Edited by Lynn & Honeycutt)
Lynn, S. J., & Green, J. P. (in press). The sociocognitive and dissociation theories of hypnosis: Toward a rapprochement. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. (In special issue on the sociocognitive perspective of hypnosis, Edited by Lynn & Green).
Lilienfeld, S., Lynn, S.J., Ruscio, J, & Beyerstein, B. (2010). 50 great myths of popular psychology: Shattering widespread myths and misconceptions about human behavior (Translated into Spanish, Romanian, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lynn, S. J., Boycheva, E., Deming, A., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Hallquist, M. N. (2009). Forensic hypnosis: The state of the science. In J. Skeem, K. Douglas, & S. O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Psychological science in the courtroom: Controversies and consensus. New York: Guilford.
Giesbrecht, T., Lynn, S. J., Lilienfeld, S., & Merckelbach, H. (2008). Cognitive processes in dissociation: An analysis of core theoretical assumptions. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 617-647.
