Amanda Kay Montoya

ABOUT ME

I am a new Assistant Professor at the University of California - Los Angeles in the Department of Psychology - Quantitative Area. I previously worked with Dr. Andrew Hayes in the Mechanisms and Contingencies Lab. I completed my PhD in Quantitative Psychology at the Ohio State University. I was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. I completed my M.A. in Psychology in Summer 2016, and my M.S. in Statistics in Winter 2016. I intend to complete my PhD in Psychology by Summer 2018. I graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Mathematics in 2013. My research interests include mediation, moderation, conditional process models, factor analysis, meta-analysis, and stereotyping.

EDUCATION

 North Seattle Community College

2009 - 2011  Associates Degree

University of Washington

2011 - 2013 B.S. Psychology (Minor: Mathematics)

Ohio State University

2014 - 2016  M.A. Quantitative Psychology

2014 - 2016  M.S. Statistics

2014 - 2018  PhD Quantitative Psychology 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Hayes, A. F., & Montoya, A. K. (2017) A tutorial on testing, visualizing, and probing an interaction involving a multicategorical variable in linear regression analysis. Communications Methods and Measures, 11(1), 1-30. [PDF]

Montoya, A. K., & Hayes, A. F. (2017). Two-condition within-participant statistical mediation analysis: A path-analytic framework. Psychological Methods, 22(1), 6-27. [PDF]

Cheryan, S., Ziegler, S., & Montoya, A. K., Jiang, L. (2017). Why have women entered some STEM fields more than others? Psychological Bulletin, 143(1), 1-35. [PDF]

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Hayes, A. F., Montoya, A. K., & Rockwood, N. J. (2017). The analysis of mechanisms and their contingencies: PROCESS versus structural equation modeling. Australasian Marketing Journal, 25(1), 76-81 [PDF].

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Stojek, M. K., Montoya, A. K., Drescher, C., Newberry, A., Sultan, Z., Williams, C. F., Pollock, N. K., & Davis, C. L. (2017) Fitness, sleep-disordered breathing, symptoms of depression, and cognition in inactive overweight: Mediation models. Public Health Reports, 132(Supplement 2), 65S - 73S.

VIDEOS

Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences

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I was recently asked to participate in filming a recruitment video for the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University. I really enjoyed having an opportunity to speak about why I chose Ohio State and why it's a great place for me and other students.

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To learn more about the graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at OSU visit their website.

Research Spotlight: Amanda Montoya

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As an undergraduate I had a role as an Undergraduate Research Leader and Mary Gates Scholar. The Undergraduate Research Program asked me to work with them to record a video about my thesis work and here it is!

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To learn more about the Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Washington visit their website.