Katelyn Yael McKenna-Kaynan

Software Engineer

Angular.js app coming soon

I'm a dedicated full stack developer with enthusiasm for designing attractive and efficient web applications. I particularly enjoy developing with modern frameworks such as Angular and React. I am passionate about learning and working with new languages, skills, and cutting-edge tech. I enjoy tackling complex problems and creating beautiful, simple, accessible and intuitive designs.

I've conducted ground-breaking research into the psychological effects of Internet use, online relationship formation and maintenance, online group dynamics, and the implications of online interactions for bringing tolerance, understanding and peace between conflicting groups.

When not coding, you'll find me conducting research into the psychological effects of cutting-edge web developments, working in my vegetable garden, conducting animal rescues, or immersing myself in my next "I want to know!" computer language.

• Liberman, B. E., Seidman, G., McKenna, K. Y. A., & Buffardi, L. E. (2011). Employee job attitudes and organizational characteristics as predictors of cyberloafing. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 2192-2199.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., Samuel-Azran, T., & Sutton-Balaban, N. (2009). Virtual meetings in the Middle East: Implementing the contact hypothesis on the Internet. Israel Journal of Conflict Resolution, pp. 63-86.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. (2009). Attraction on the Internet. In H. T. Reis and S. Sprecher (Eds). Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, Sage Publications.
• Amichai-Hamburger, Y., McKenna, K.Y.A., & Samuel-Azran, T. (2008). E-empowerment: Empowerment by the Internet, Computers in Human Behavior, 24, pp. 1776-1789.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. (2008). Influences on the nature and functioning of online groups. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. (2008). MySpace or your place: Relationship initiation and development in the wired and wireless world. In S. Sprecher, A. Wenzel, & J. Harvey (Eds.) Handbook of Relationship Initiation, Lawrence Erlbaum.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. (2007). A progressive affair: Online dating to real-world mating. In Whitty, M. T., Baker, A. J., & Inman, J. A. (Eds.) Online Match-Making, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Joinson, A., McKenna, K. Y. A., Postmes, T., & Riefs, U. D. (Eds.). (2007). Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, Oxford Press.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. (2007). Through the Internet Looking Glass: Expressing and Validating the Selves. In A. Joinson, K. Y. A. McKenna, T. Postmes, and U. D. Riefs (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, Oxford Press.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Seidman, G. (2006). Considering the interactions: The effect of the Internet on relationships. In R. Kraut and M. Brynin Eds.) Computers, phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology.
• McKenna, K. Y. A. & West, K. J. (2007). Give me that online-time religion: The role of the Internet in spiritual life. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, pp. 942-954.
• Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & McKenna, K. Y. A. (2006) The contact hypothesis reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 7. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/amichai-hamburger.html
• McKenna, K. Y. A. , & Seidman, G. (2005). You, me and we: Self, identity and interpersonal processes in electronic groups. In Y. A. Hamburger (Ed.) The social net: The social psychology of the Internet, Oxford Press.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., Buffardi, L. & Seidman, G. (2005). Self Presentation to Friends and Strangers Online. In Karl-Heinz Renner, Astrid Schutz,& Franz Machilek (Eds). Internet and Personality, Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. (Chapter is in German; English version available on request).
• McKenna, K. Y. A. & Seidman, G. (2005). Getting social online: Implications for social psychology and group processes. In W. R. Walker & D. Hermann (Eds.) Cognitive Technology: Essays on the transformation of thought and society, MacFarland and Company, Inc.
• Bargh, J. A., & McKenna, K. Y. A. (2004). The Internet and social life. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 573-590.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Bargh, J. A. (Eds.) (2002). Interpersonal and group processes on the Internet.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Green, A. S. (2002). Virtual group dynamics. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 6, 116-127.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., Green, A. S., & Gleason, M. J. (2002). Relationship formation on the Internet: What’s the big attraction? Journal of Social Issues, 58, 9-32.
• Bargh, J. A., McKenna, K. Y. A., & Fitzsimons, G.J. (2002). Can you see the real me? The activation and expression of the ‘true self’ on the Internet. Journal of Social Issues, 58, 33-48.
• Bargh, J. A., Fitzsimons, G.J., & McKenna, K. Y. A. (2002). The self, online. In S. Spencer & S. Fein (Eds.), Motivated social perception: The 9th Ontario Symposium on Social Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., Green, A. S., & Smith, P. K. (2001). Setting the sexual self free: The consequences of Online sexual expression. Journal of Sex Research.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2000). Plan 9 from Cyberspace: The implications of the Internet for personality and social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol 4, 1, 57-75.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Bargh, J. A. (1999). Causes and consequences of social interaction on the Internet: A conceptual framework. Media Psychology, 1, 249-269.
• McKenna, K. Y. A., & Bargh, J. A. (1998). Coming out in the age of the Internet: Identity ‘de-marginalization’ from virtual group participation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 681-694. (Reprinted in J. Levine & R. Moreland (Eds.) (2006), Key Studies in Group Processes. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.)