CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
07/2008-Present Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Thompson Rivers University
EDUCATION
2006 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Thesis: Effects of mindfulness meditation training on emotion flexibility
Supervisor: Dr Philip David Zelazo
2001 Master of Arts, Clinical Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Thesis: Alcohol and impulsivity: A re-examination of the effects of alcohol intoxication on delay discounting in humans
Supervisor: Dr Mary C. Olmstead
1998 Psychology B.Sc. (Honours) – First Class, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Thesis: Effects of alcohol and benzodiazepines on episodic and semantic memory
Supervisors: Dr Peter Wright, Dr Brian Tiplady
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles – Published (*denotes student co-author):
Parker, P. C., & Daniels, L. M., Ortner, C. N. M., & Tulloch, S. L. P. (2024). Examining the relationship between collegiate athletes’ setback-related Control beliefs, rumination, and psychosocial outcomes: A mediation analysis. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1-11. DOI: 10.1123/jsep.2023-0296
Ortner, C. N. M., *Stoney, M., & *Horst, A. (2023). Reappraisal affordances: A replication of Suri et al. (2018) and investigation of alternate predictors of reappraisal choice. Cognition and Emotion, 37(5), 1006-1013. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2216446.
Ortner, C. N. M., *Chadwick, L., & *Pennekamp, P. (2022). Do motives matter? Short- and long-term motives as predictors of emotion regulation in everyday life. Emotion, 22(7), 1625-1638. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000989)
Ortner, C. N. M., *Grapes A., & *Stoney, M. (2021). The effect of temporal goals on emotion regulation choice: A replication and extension. Cognition and Emotion, 35(6), 1248-1255. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1937947
Ortner C. N. M. & *Pennekamp, P. (2020). Emotion malleability beliefs and event intensity and importance predict emotion regulation in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences, 159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109887
Williams, J., Huggins, C., Zupan, B., Willis, M., Van Rheenen, T., Sato, W., Palermo, R. Ortner, C., … Lowe, L. (2020). A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 112, 503-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.014
Ortner, C. N. M., *Chadwick, L., & *Wilson, A. (2018). Think ahead before you regulate: A focus on future consequences predicts adaptive down-regulation of negative emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 896-908, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9705-3
Ortner, C. N. M., *Corno, D., *Fung, T. Y., & *Rapinda, K. (2018). The roles of hedonic and eudaimonic motives in emotion regulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 120, 209–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.09.006
Ortner, C. N. M., *Briner, E. L., & Marjanovic, Z. (2017). Believing is doing: Emotion regulation beliefs predict emotion regulation behavioral choices and subsequent subjective well-being. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1248
Ortner, C. N. M., *Ste Marie, M., & *Corno, D. (2016). Cognitive costs of reappraisal depend on both emotional stimulus intensity and individual differences in habitual reappraisal. Plos One, 11(12), e0167253. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167253
Ortner, C. N. M. (2015). Divergent effects of reappraisal and labeling internal affective feelings on subjective emotional experience. Motivation and Emotion, 39(4), 563-570. Doi: 10.1007/s11031-015-9473-2
Ortner, C. N. M., & Zelazo, P. D. (2014). Responsiveness to a mindfulness manipulation predicts affect regarding an anger-provoking situation. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 46(2), 117-124. doi: 10.1037/a0029664
Ortner, C. N. M. & *de Koning, M. (2013). Effects of regulating positive emotions through reappraisal and suppression on verbal and non-verbal recognition memory. PLoS One, 8(4), e62750. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062750.
Ortner, C. N. M., Zelazo, P. D., & Anderson, A. K. (2013). Effects of emotion regulation on concurrent attentional performance. Motivation and Emotion, 37(2), 346-354. doi: 10.1007/s11031-012-9310-9
Ortner, C. N. M., Kilner, S. J., & Zelazo, P. D. (2007). Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 271-283.
Ortner, C. N. M., MacDonald, T. K., & Olmstead, M. C. (2003). Alcohol decreases impulsivity in a delay discounting task in humans. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 38, 151-156.
Tiplady, B., Harding, C., McLean, D., Ortner, C., Porter, K., & Wright, P. (1999). Effects of ethanol and temazepam on episodic and semantic memory: A dose-response comparison. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental, 14 (4), 263-269.
Peer-reviewed journals – Under review:
*Ortner, C. N. M., Armstrong, M., & Ulmer, E.J. Emotion regulation, climate distress, and climate action in climate activist and student samples. Manuscript submitted to Discover Psychology, Special Issue: Climate Change and Human Behavior: Society’s Challenges towards Sustainable Futures. Major revisions requested, currently under revision for re-submission.
*Armstrong, H. E., Parker, P.C., & Ortner, C. N. M. Emotions and climate change: The role of emotion regulation in climate action. Manuscript submitted to Emotion. Major revisions requested, currently under revision for re-submission.
Symposium Presentations:
Ortner, C. N. M. (2011). Learning to let go: The affective consequences of mindfulness. Symposium at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science.
Non-academic Publications:
Ortner, C. N. M. (12 July, 2013). Rice and randomness [Letter to the editor]. Guardian Weekly. http://www.theguardian.com/global/2013/jul/09/guardian-weekly-letters-12-july