Alexandra Frazer
Graduate Student
akf207@lehigh.edu

Academic History
Masters of Arts in Psychology, 2007
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, 2005
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

Research Interests
I am generally interested in research in cognitive psychology. My general interests include psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, speech processing, language production and comprehension, as well as auditory perception. My previous work has been on sentence structure when non-professional writers describe interpersonal and sexual violence; specifically I have found that people’s selection of active or passive voice in descriptions of spousal violence is often influenced by the gender of the victim relative to the gender of the perpetrator. Currently, I am more focused on sentence production, and I am exploring the areas of syntactic representation and syntactic priming with Dr. Padraig O’Seaghdha in his Language Production Lab.

Publications & Presentations
Frazer, A.K. (2007). Positive and negative events, gender, and the use of
the active and passive voice. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Northern Arizona University.

Frazer, A.K. & Miller, M.D. (2007, in revision). Gender of attacker and victim affects sentence structure in descriptions of interpersonal violence.

Frazer, A.K. & Miller, M.D. (April, 2007). Gender of attacker and victim affects sentence structure in descriptions of interpersonal violence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver CO.

Frazer, A.K. & Miller, M.D. (April, 2005).  Male-on-Female Versus Female-on-Male Violence: Gender and Verb Voice in Newspaper Stories.  Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Phoenix AZ.

Professional & Honors Organizations
Sigma Alpha Lambda, Honor Society
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science Member