Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 8. Source pages: 11, 12.
Assn for Psychological Science Hosts La. Researchers
An array of psychology researchers presented their work at the 29th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, held at the end of May in Boston.
Universities and colleges represented by Louisiana researchers included Centenary, Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, Loyola, Tulane, University of Louisiana Lafayette, University of Louisiana Monroe, and Xavier.
From Centenary, Melissa Kohberger presented work on “Conformity on Test Performance.”
Also from Centenary, Ethan Rice presented, “Football and Alcohol: Effects of Fandom and Game Importance on Expected Consumption.”
Daniella Cash presented, “Evaluating the Differential Impact of Statement Type and Practice on Deception Detection.” She is affiliated with Louisiana State University.
Victoria Felix from Louisiana Tech University presented, “External Health Locus of Control and Perceived Stress Predict Sleep Quality.”
Mallory Garza, also from Louisiana Tech University, presented, “Getting to the Core: Examining Interpersonal Problems and Level of Personality Psychopathology.”
Michael Garza presented, “Personality Differences in Different OCD Subtypes.” Garza is from Louisiana Tech University.
Mercedes Gremillion, also from LaTech, presented, “Sleep Quality and General Well-Being As Predictors of Life Satisfaction.”
LaTech’s Frank Igou presented, “Ageism in Employee Selection.”
Mary Iseral, from Louisiana Tech University presented two studies, “Sleep and Stress: Relationship to Food Intake in Males and Females,” and also “Gender, Race, and OCD Diagnosis and Differences in the Big-5 Personality Traits.”
Michael Saunders, also from LaTech, presented, “Does Gender and STEM Major Choice Lead to Differences in Motivation, Achievement and Goals?”
From Loyola University, Erin Dupuis presented, “The Short-Term Effect of Objectifying Media Exposure on Women’s Perceptions of Cat-Calling in a Virtual Reality Simulation.”
Tulane’s Lisa Chinn presented, “Sensorimotor Body Maps Integrate with Visual Input during the First Two Years.”
Emily Ann Lewis, from Tulane, presented her work, “Instructional Predictors of Kindergarten Mathematics Achievement in the U.S. and China.”
And Aaron Moss, also from Tulane, presented, “Should People Acknowledge or Deny Personal Prejudice? “
Coming from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Raven Noelle Douglas presented, “Examining the Role of Anxiety Symptoms and Poor Sleep Quality on Migraine Symptoms.”
Nadia Khansa presented, “The Impact of Victim Race and SES on Perceptions of Sexual Assault,” Khansa is also from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL).
Hung-Chu Lin presented, “Behavioral Responses to Disruption of Conversational Flow,” and Lin is with ULL.
Robert Michael presented, “The Influence of Ordered Questions on Susceptibility to Misinformation.” Michael is affiliated with ULL.
ULL’s Melanie Schanke presented, “Prior Sexual Violence Education Increases Men’s Willingness to Intervene in a Hypothetical Scenario.”
From the University of Louisiana at Monroe, William McCown presented, “Trait Procrastination Is Associated with Longer Choice Time to Aesthetically Similar Items.”
Jennifer Gibson, from Xavier University, presented, “Service-Learning Outcomes for Undergraduate Psychology Students.”
Michael Poggioli, also with Xavier University, presented, “The Relationship Between College Women’s University Identity and Responses to Cyberbullying on Twitter.”
John Witry presented, “Cyberbullying on Twitter: Bystander Responses to the Bully.” Witry is with Xavier University.
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