Nilam Ram is currently an assistant professor in PSU

http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hdfs/faculty/ram.html

My current research interests have grown out of a history of studying change. After finishing an undergraduate degree in economics at Columbia University I worked as a foreign currency derivatives trader, studying the movement of world markets as they went up, went down, and went sideways. Later, I moved on to the study of human movement, completing a MS in kinesiology at the University of Colorado. Now, as a quantitative psychology student at the University of Virginia specializing in longitudinal research methodology, I examine psychological processes - studying short-term changes in emotion, personality, and cognition, how they develop over the course of the lifespan, and how longitudinal study designs can contribute to our understanding of human behavior.

Publications

    
• Ram, N., & Nesselroade, J. R. (in press). Modeling intraindividual and intracontextual change: Operationalizing developmental contextualism. In T. D. Little, J. A. Bovaird, & N. A. Card (Eds.). Modeling ecological and contextual effects in longitudinal studies of human development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    
• Ram, N., Riggs, S., Skaling, S., Landers, D. M., & McCullagh, P. (in press). A comparison of modelling and imagery in the acquisition and retention of a motor skill. Journal of Sport Sciences.

    
• Bowles, R. P., & Ram, N. (in press). Using Rasch measurement to investigate volleyball skills and inform coaching. Journal of Applied Measurement.

    
• Chow, S. M., Grimm, K., Fujita, F., & Ram, N., (in press). Exploring cyclic change in emotion using item response models and frequency-domain analysis. In A. Ong & M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology. Oxford University Press.

    
• Ram N., Rabbitt, P., Stollery, B., & Nesselroade, J. R. (2005). Cognitive performance inconsistency: Intraindividual change and variability. Psychology & Aging, 20, 623-633.

    
• Ram, N., Chow, S. M., Bowles, R. P., Wang, L., Grimm, K., Fujita, F., & Nesselroade, J. R. (2005). Examining interindividual differences in cyclicity of pleasant and unpleasant affect using spectral analysis and item response modeling. Psychometrika, 70, 773-790.

    
• Chow, S. M., Ram, N., Boker, S. M., Fujita, F., & Clore, G. (2005). Capturing weekly fluctuation in emotion using a latent differential structural approach. Emotion, 5, 208-225.

    
• Nesselroade, J. R., & Ram, N. (2004). Studying intraindividual variability: What we have learned that will help us understand lives in context. Research in Human Development, 1, 9-29.

    
• Ram, N., Starek, J., & Johnson, J. (2004). Race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation: Still a void in sport and exercise psychology? Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 26, 250-268.

    
• Ram, N., & McCullagh, P. (2003). Self-modeling: Influence on psychological processes and physical performance. The Sport Psychologist, 17, 220-241.

    
• Ram, N., & Erickson, C. A. (1991). Gross national product: Actual and potential. In F.N. Magill (Ed.), Survey of social sciences: Economics (pp. 922-927). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.