Biography Rebecca Turner is a professor in the Organizational Psychology Division of Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University in San Francisco, where she teaches courses on social psychology in organizations, group dynamics and organizational assessment. Her career is focused on applying psychological concepts and principles to organizational challenges. As a consultant to businesses and non-profit organizations, Dr. Turner focuses on the “people side of business”, working with individuals and groups to enhance leadership effectiveness and to conduct research that informs their decision-making and planning. She has also provided training to organizational leaders in areas that draw upon research and theory in the social sciences, including developing stronger working relationships with business partners, resolving conflicts, and facilitating change during organizational and management transitions.
Dr. Turner currently serves as Board Secretary/Treasurer of Division III, Industrial/Organizational and Consulting Psychology, for the California Psychological Association (CPA) and holds memberships in two divisions of the American Psychological Association - the Division of Consulting Psychology and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). In 2003, Dr. Turner was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the San Francisco Mental Health Board, which elected her as Chair in 2004. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Suicide Prevention. For the past two decades, Dr. Turner has been a faculty member at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and subsequently California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant where she conducted research on interpersonal relationships and emotion, and their impact on health and risk behaviors. In work that was funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, she was the first psychologist to publish empirical research exploring human attachment and oxytocin, the hormone neuroscientists have identified as promoting social attachments. At UCSF, she has been an affiliated faculty member for the postdoctoral program in psychology and medicine, Center for Health and Community, and also co-facilitated professional development groups for medical students. At CSPP, Dr. Turner served as Director for the Ph.D. Program on the San Francisco campus from 2000 to 2003.
Previous and Current Positions - 2007-present. Professor, Organizational Psychology Division, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University, San Francisco
- 1994-present. Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Program in Psychology and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- 2003-2007. Professor, California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Alliant International University, San Francisco
- 1994-2003. Core Faculty, Asst. to Assoc. Professor, Alliant International University (formerly named California School of Professional Psychology)
- 2000-2003. Director, PhD Program in Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco
- 1994-1995. Registered Psychologist, Westside Crisis and Outpatient Clinic, San Francisco, CA
- 1988-1994. Assistant Professor, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Dept. of Pediatrics, and Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- 1981-1984. Organizational Consultant, Aurora Associates International, Washington, DC
Professional Activities and Community Service - Secretary/Treasurer, Division III: I/O and Consulting Psychology, California Psychological Association (present)
- Board Member, San Francisco Suicide Prevention (present)
- Member, Task Force for Behavioral Health Innovations, Department of Public Health, City of San Francisco (2005-06)
- Chair, San Francisco Mental Health Board (2004-2007)
- Member, 2007 Convention Program Committee, California Psychological Association
Consulting and Research Areas - Executive/Organizational Consultant
- Social science research applied to businesses and organizational consulting
- Quantitative and interview methods in organizational studies, including survey design and analysis
- Meeting facilitation and conflict resolution
- Organizational assessment
- Research on emotion and social psychological perspectives
- Certified in Leadership 360 by Management Research Group
- Certified in SYMLOG, a team assessment method
Courses Taught - Organizational Assessment
- Group Dynamics in Organizations
- Social Psychology in Organizations
- Research Seminar
- Research Issues in Human Development
- Introduction to Professional Psychology
Professional Memberships - American Psychological Association (APA)
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Div. 14, APA)
- Society for Consulting Psychology (Div. 13, APA)
- California Psychological Association
- Bay Area Applied Psychologists
- Social Psychology Network
Education - Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- PhD, Social Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- MS, Psychology, Radford College, Radford, Virginia
- University of Vermont Overseas Program at University of Nice
- BS, BA Psychology, French, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Selected Publications and Presentations - Turner, R.A. (2007). Leadership success: Does personality matter? The California Psychologist, 40, 10-14.
- Turner, R.A. (in press). Culture wars at work: Interpersonal subtlety, emotional expression, and the self-concept. Consulting Psychology Journal.
- Turner, R.A., Blanton, J. Finkelman, J., & Ferdman, B. (2007, April). Finding your niche: From diverse backgrounds to diverse careers in consulting psychology. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the California Psychological Association. Costa Mesa, CA.
- Ditzen, B., Neumman, I., Bodenmann, G., vonDawans, B., Turner, R. A., Ehlert, U., & Heinrichs, M. (2007). Effects of different kinds of couple interaction on cortisol and heart rate responses to stress in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32, 565-574.
- Gonzaga, G.C., Turner, R. A., Keltner, D., Campos, B. & Altemus, M. (2006). Romantic love and sexual desire in close relationships, Emotion, 6, 163-179.
- Howard, I., Turner, R. A., Olkin, R., & Mohr, D. C. (2006). Therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between interpersonal problems and depression outcome in a cohort of multiple sclerosis patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62, 1197-1204.
- Turner, R. A. (2004, May). Mapping the physiological pathways underlying positive social connections. Invited workshop presenter, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Stover, C.S., Van Horn, P., Turner, R.A., Cooper, B., & Lieberman, A. (2003). The effects of father visitation on preschool-aged witnesses of domestic violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 1149-1166.
- Turner, R.A., Altemus, M., Yip, D.N., Kupferman, E., Fletcher, D., Bostrom, A., Lyons, D. & Amico, J. (2002). Effects of positive and negative emotion on oxytocin, prolactin and ACTH in women. Stress, 5, 269-276.
- Turner, R.A., Altemus, M., Enos, T., Cooper, B. & McGuinness, T.L. (1999). Preliminary research on plasma oxytocin levels in healthy, normal cycling women: Investigating emotional states and interpersonal distress. Psychiatry, 65, 97-113.
- Knutson, B., Wolkowitz, O.M., Cole, S.W., Chan, T., Moore, E.A., Johnson, R.C., Terpstra, J., Turner, R.A., & Reus, V. (1998). Serotonergic intervention alters a major dimension of normal personality. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 373-379. [Reprinted in J.T. Cacioppo, et al. (Eds.) (2002). Foundations in Social Neuroscience, pp. 1039-1091.]
- Park, C., Moore, P., Turner, R. A., & Adler, N.E. (1997). The role of constructive thinking and optimism in psychological and behavioral adjustments during pregnancy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 584-592.
- Moore, P., Turner, R.A., Park, C., Adler, N.E. (1996). The impact of behavior and addiction on psychological models of cigarette and alcohol use during pregnancy. Addictive Behaviors, 21, 645- 658.
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