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A Warm Welcome to:

  • Clinical Psychologist Dr. Casey Trainor, the newest member of the psychology faculty!
  • Lucinda Mahalia Zell, born December 29 to Dr. Anne Zell and her husband.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Michael Nedelsky on his retirement.
  • our 2011 graduates!
  • Augie Symposium and Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2011 presenter Erika Jacobson

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Recent Faculty Publications and Presentations:

  • Exline, J. J., Zell, A. L., Bratslavsky, E., Hamilton, M., & Swenson, A. (in press). People-pleasing through eating: Sociotropy predicts greater eating in response to perceived social pressure. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
  • Exline, J. J., Zell, A. L., & Lobel, M. (in press). Sidestepping awkward encounters: Avoidance as a response to outperformance-related discomfort. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
  • DeWall, C. N., Zell, A. L., Deckman, T., Gailliot, M. T., & Baumeister, R. F. (in press). Approach and avoidance motivation following childhood social acceptance and rejection. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Psychology of Hate. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
  • Bujarski, S., Feldner, M. T., Lewis, S. F., Babson, K. A., Trainor, C. D., Leen-Feldner, E., Badour, C. L., & Bonn-Miller, M. O. (in press). Marijuana use among traumatic-event exposed adolescents: Posttraumatic stress symptom frequency predicts coping motivations for use. Addictive Behaviors.
  • Helder, E. & Erhardt, M.L. (2012, May). Older adults can use distributed retrieval practice to learn names, but get little benefit from three retrievals. Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science convention, Chicago, IL: May 25-27, 2012.
  • Helder, E. & Lima, O. K. (2012, January). Incorporating primary sources in an intro course through student presentations of classic research. Poster presented at the 34th annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Pete Beach, FL: January 3-6.
  • Helder, E. & Shaughnessy, J.J. (2011).  Self-Generated Retrievals While Multitasking Improve Memory for Names. Memory, 19, 968-974.
  • Lima, O. K. & Rives-East, D. (2011, October). Building bridges: Honors courses that join the sciences and humanities. To be presented at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Jacobson, E. J. & Helder, E. (2011 May). An internal locus of control is associated with problem-focused coping at work. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science convention, Washington, DC: May 26-29, 2011.
  • Helder, E. (2011 May). Attentional filters help screen-out advertisements during an Internet search task. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science convention, Washington, DC: May 26-29, 2011.
  • Lima, O. K. (2011, March). Expanding our interdisciplinary perspective on development. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Teaching Institute, Montreal, Canada.
  • Downer, J. T., Booren, L. M., Lima, O. K., Luckner, A. E., & Pianta, R. C. (2010).  The Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS): Reliability and validity of a system for observing preschoolers’ competence in classroom interactions.  Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25, 1-16.
  • Zell, A.L., & Exline, J.J. (2010). How does it feel to be outperformed by a "good winner? Prize sharing and self-deprecating as appeasement strategies. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.