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2011 News

Graduate student Tyler Freeman and Dr. Lester Loschky published in the APA journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Freeman, T.E. & Loschky, L.C. (2011). High and low spatial frequencies are most useful for drawing. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5(3), 269-278.

Professor Ronald Downey and alumni Dr. Andrew Wefald (School of Leadership Studies), Dr. Maura Mills, and Dr. Michael Smith published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.

Wefald, A. J., Mills, M. J., Smith, M. R., & Downey, R. G. (2011, Oct. 27).A Comparison of Three Job Engagement Measures: Examining their Factorial and Criterion-Related Validity. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Advance Online publication. doi: 10.1111/j.1758-0854.2011.01059.x.

Professor Ronald Downey and alumni Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Maura Mills, and Dr. Andrew Wefald (School of Leadership Studies) published in Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Smith, M. R., Rasmussen, J. L., Mills, M. J., Wefald, A. J., & Downey, R. G. (2011, November 28). Stress and Performance: Do Service Orientation and Emotional Energy Moderate the Relationship? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0026064.

Dr. Richard Harris and student co-authors Rachel Peoples and Tyrel Willimon presented a paper Acquiring information from film: Subtitles and soundtrack working together (or not) at the Psychonomic Society meeting, Seattle, Nov. 5, 2011.

Harris, R.J., Peoples, R.N., & Willimon, T.W. Acquiring information from film: Subtitles and soundtrack working together (or not).  Seattle: Psychonomic Society, Nov. 5, 2011.

Dr. Richard Harris presented an invited workshop on Using Undergraduates as Teaching Assistants at the meeting of Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas at Fort Hays State U., Hays KS October 28, 2011.

Harris, R.J. Using Undergraduates as Teaching Assistants. Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas, Fort Hays State U., Hays KS October 28, 2011.

Investigating imagination: Research by graduate student Russ Webster shows we all experience fantasy differently, which determines how much we enjoy it.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/nov11/fantasy110811.html

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8802914-you-cant-help-loving-or-hating-twilight-study-suggests

Undergraduate student Jacob Clarke and Drs. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and Mary Cain presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society

Kirpatrick, Kimberly, Clarke, Jacob, & Cain, Mary E. (2011). Environmental enrichment effects on reward sensitivity. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA, USA, November, 2011.

Graduate student Andrew Marshall and Drs. Tiffany Galtress and Kimberly Kirkpatrick presented papers at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition

Marshall, Andrew T, & Kirkpatrick, Kimberly.  Probabilistic choice in rats. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Seattle, WA, USA, November, 2011.

Galtress, Tiffany, & Kirkpatrick, Kimberly. Individual differences in delay discounting. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Seattle, WA, USA, November, 2011.

Dr. Clive Fullagar presented the keynote address "Finding Flow: Lessons I Learned From Rock Band(R)" at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas, Hays, Kansas, October 2011.
Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues published in The Psychologist-Manager Journal, volume 14.

Leiva, P. I., Culbertson, S. S., & Pritchard, R. D. (2011). An empirical test of an innovation implementation model. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 14, 265-281.

Former graduate student Sara Smith, former undergraduates Danielle Zanotti and Amber Axelton, and Dr. Don Saucier published in the Journal of Homosexuality.

Smith, Sara J., Zanotti, Danielle C., Axelton, Amber M., & Saucier, Donald A. (2011). Individuals’ beliefs about the etiology of same-sex sexual orientation. Journal of Homosexuality, 58, 1110-1131.

Graduate student Whitney Jeter and Dr. Brenda McDaniel presented an invited presentation at the business meeting of the Clay Center Lions Club, Clay Center, Kansas, October, 2011

Jeter, W. K. & McDaniel, B. L. (2011, October). Beyond sticks and stones, tornadoes, and war: Chronic verbal abuse in the home, school, and neighborhood predicts youth trauma symptoms particularly in boys. Invited presentation given at the Clay Center Lions Club business meeting. Clay Center, KS.

Dr. Les Loschky and Dr. Sanjay Rebello (KSU Physics) received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

National Science Foundation (1138697): FIRE: Exploring Visual Cueing to Facilitate Problem Solving in Physics. (co-PI with Sanjay Rebello) $399,985 over 3 years.

Part of an interview with Dr. Laura Brannon appeared in the Today Show online (9/7/11)

Alexander, Brian  (9/7/11)  .“The bully inside:  Women who can’t take a compliment.”  Today Show website.  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44340053/ns/today-today health/t/bully-inside-women-who-cant-take-compliment/#.  

 

Dr. Matthew Palmatier and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, advanced online access available.


Levin, M. E., Weaver, M. T., Palmatier, M. I., Caggiula, A. R., Sved, A. F., and Donny, E. C. Varenicline dose-dependently enhances responding for non-pharmacological reinforcers and attenuates the reinforcement-enhancing effects of nicotine. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Online Access Available.

Former undergraduate student Laura (Dare) O'Brien, current undergraduate Melanie Hall, and Dr. Matt Palmatier published in the journal Psychopharmacology. The paper is currently available online (DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2439-5).

Palmatier, M. I., O'Brien, L. C., and Hall, M. J. (2011). The role of conditioning history and reinforcer strength in the reinforcement enhancing effects of nicotine in rats. Psychopharmacology DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2439-5

Dr. Gary Brase contributed a chapter for an edited collection of essays, introducing evolutionary psychology ideas to readers in China.

Brase, G.L. (2011). Three evolutionary hypotheses about how numerical formats fit with the design of the human mind.  In X.T. Wang & Y.J. Su (Ed.) Thus Spake Evolutionary Psychologists. (pp. 127-135) Peking University Press, Beijing, China. (Chinese/English edition).

Dr. Gary Brase and collaborator Sandra Brase published an article in the APA journal "Emotion"

Brase, G. L. & Brase, S. L. (2011) Emotional regulation of fertility decision making: What is the nature and structure of “baby fever”?  Emotion (released online on Aug 15, 2011, doi: 10.1037/a0024954).
The website is: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-18048-001/

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Ann Huffman from Northern Arizona University and Adriane Sanders from University of Memphis published in the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, volume 4.

Huffman, A. H., Sanders, A. M., & Culbertson, S. S. (2011). Work-family research has a public relations problem: Moving from organizational nicety to necessity. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 4, 410-413.

Dr. Lester Loschky was awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as Primary Investigator to measure a person's breadth of attention while engaged in real-world activities such as watching movies, driving a car, or flying an airplane. The grant is in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is for $1.4M (total costs) over 3 years.

Office of Naval Research (#GRANT10846128): A New Measure of the Useful Field of View (UFOV): The Gaze-Contingent Peripheral Blur Detection Task. (PI) $1,049,788 total costs over 3 years

Dr. Brenda McDaniel was awarded a two-year grant to examine the structure and consistency of character in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Total Costs: $199,429

Structure and Consistency of Character. B. L. McDaniel (PI). The John Templeton
Foundation in collaboration with Wake Forest University. The Character Project: New
Frontiers in Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology. 08/01/11-08/01/13. Total Costs:
$199,429.

Dr. Valerie York, Dr. Laura Brannon, and graduate student Megan Miller presented a poster at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2011.

York, Valerie K., Brannon, Laura A., & Miller, Megan M. Comparing the effectiveness of responsible drinking messages tailored to three possible "personality conceptualizations." National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2011.

Graduate student Jessica McManus, former undergraduate student Kelsey Feyes, and Dr. Don Saucier published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

McManus, Jessica L., Feyes, Kelsey J., & Saucier, Donald A. (2011). Knowledge and contact as predictors of attitudes toward individuals with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28 (5), 579-590.

Dr. Gary Brase presented both a paper and a poster at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, held in Montpellier, France.

Brase, G.L. (2011). Not all pictures are worth a thousand words: Differential effectiveness of visual aids in statistical reasoning. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Montpellier, France, June 29th - July 3rd, 2011.

Brase, G.L. (2011). Errors in memory of conditional rules: new evidence of domain-specific reasoning processes. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Montpellier, France, June 29th - July 3rd, 2011.

Graduate student Russ Webster and Dr. Don Saucier published in the journal Imagination, Cognition, and Personality.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). I believe I can fly: Re-examining individual differences in imaginative involvement. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 30(4), 425-445.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick was elected as an at-large member to the Executive Board of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association. Her three-year term will begin in August of this year.
Graduate student Tammy Sonnentag and Dr. Mark Barnett presented a paper at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Riverside, California, June, 2011.

Sonnentag, T. L., & Barnett, M. A. The moral rebel: Characteristics and perceptions. 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Riverside, California, June, 2011.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and graduate students Chris Waples and Beth McHenry published two research briefs in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives.

Graduate student Beth McHenry and Dr. Satoris Culbertson published a research brief in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives, volume 25.

Waples, C. J., & Culbertson, S. S. (2011). Best laid plans: Can whistleblowing on project problems be encouraged? Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(2), 80-82.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick, Dr. Tiffany Galtress, and graduate students Ana Garcia, Angela Crumer, and Andrew Marshall presented three posters and a talk at the annual meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior in Denver, CO, May 2011.

Kirkpatrick, K., & Galtress, T. (2011). Motivation and timing . Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Denver, CO.

Galtress, T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2011). The effect of changes in motivational state on timing . Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Denver, CO.

Garcia, A., Crumer, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2011). Individual differences in impulsive choice behavior in different strains of rats. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Denver, CO.

Marshall, A., MacInnis, M. L. M., Freestone, D., & Church, R. M. (2011). The effect of stimulus probability and position on simultaneous temporal processing . Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Denver, CO.

Graduate student Manpreet Rai, Drs. Lester Loschky and Richard Harris, and graduate students Nicole Peck, and Lindsay Cook (now at Columbia University) published a paper in the March 2011 issue of Language Learning.

Rai, M.K., Loschky, L.C., Harris, R.J., Peck,. N.R., & Cook, L.G. (2011). The effects of stress and working memory on foreign language readers’ inferential processing during comprehension. Language Learning, 61(1), 187-218.

Graduate student Stephen Nettelhorst and Dr. Laura Brannon presented a poster at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May, 2011.

Nettelhorst, Stephen N., & Brannon, Laura A. Message order effects as a function of strength and need for cognition. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May 2011.

Graduate student Manpreet Rai and Dr. Richard Harris presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington DC, May 2011.

Rai, M.K., & Harris, R.J. Children’s working memory performance on the Brown-Peterson Task Compared to Adults. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, May 26 - 29, 2011.

Dr. Lester Loschky and colleagues Drs. Gregory Zelinsky (SUNY Stony Brook) and Christopher Dickinson (Appalachian State U.) published in the journal Memory & Cognition, volume 39.

Zelinsky, G.J., Loschky, L.C. & Dickinson, C.A. (2011). Do object refixations during scene viewing indicate rehearsal in visual working memory? Memory & Cognition, 39(4), 600-613.

Graduate student Adam Larson, Undergraduate students Chris Wallace, Margarita McQuade, Caitlyn Badke, and Dr. Lester Loschky presented a poster at the 11th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May, 2011.

Larson, A. M., Wallace, C., McQuade, M. M., Badke, C. C., & Loschky, L. C. (May, 2011).  The Impact of Scrambling the Order of Episode Components on Perceived Events and Recognition Memory for a Picture Story.  Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Dr. Valerie York, Dr. Laura Brannon, and graduate student Megan Miller presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 2011.

York, Valerie K., Brannon, Laura A., & Miller, Megan M.  Tailoring to personality and context in responsible drinking messages. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 2011.

Congratulations to the following Psychology Ph.D. Candidates who have recently successfully defended their Dissertations!!  Dr. Kimberly Raddatz (4/26), Dr. Sara Smith (4/26), Dr. Michael Smith (4/27), and Dr. Mark Po-Sen Chu (4/28).  The Psychology Department is very proud of you all!!
Congratulations to Dr. Donald Saucier for his selection as a 2011 recipient of the Kansas State University Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!!

Click for an article describing this award, and Dr. Saucier's thoughts on teaching.

 

Drs. Satoris Culbertson, Ron Downey, Clive Fullagar, and Patrick Knight and graduate students Angela Connell, Neena Gopalan, Michael Smith, Christopher Waples, and William Weyhrauch presented several papers at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2011.

Harvey, V., Downey, Ronald, Schneider, B, Blustein, D., Quick, J., & Muchinsky, P. (2011, April). Toxic Emotions: Considering the Hidden Consequences of the Recession. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL

Best R., Smith, Michael, Gopalan, Neena, Wefald, Andrew, & Downey, Ronald (2011, April). Environmental and Burnout Influences on Hospital Workers’ Mental Health. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Hays-Thomas, R, & Downey, Ronald (2011, April). Past, Present, and Future of Master's Programs in I-O. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL

Downey, Ronald, Wright, T., & Quick, J. (2011, April). Leadership: The Highs and Lows. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL

Freeman,Tyler E., Waples, Christopher J., Fullagar, Clive J., & Knight, Patrick A. Timelessness and Flow. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Connell, Angela R., & Culbertson, Satoris S. (2011, April). Development and validation of a gender role stereotypes scale. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Culbertson, Satoris S. (Chair). (2011, April). Employment interview research: Where do we go next? Panel discussion, with panelists Murray Barrick, Allen I. Huffcutt, Therese H. Macan, and Michael A. McDaniel, presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL. 

Culbertson, Satoris S., & Huffman, A. H. (2011, April). Using experimental design to understand work-family conflict. In A. H. Huffman & S. S. Culbertson (Chairs), Researching outside the box: Exploring work-family research beyond cross-sectional approaches. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Huffcutt, A. I., Culbertson, Satoris S., & Weyhrauch, William S. Employment interview reliability: Updating Conway, Jako, and Goodman (1995). Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Huffman, A. H., & Culbertson, Satoris S. (Chairs). (2011, April). Researching outside the box: Exploring work-family research beyond cross-sectional approaches. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Weyhrauch, William S., & Culbertson, Satoris S. (2011, April). Performance appraisal purpose and rater expertise: Effects on rating error. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Weyhrauch, William S., & Culbertson, Satoris S. (2011, April). Teamwork self-efficacy: Development and validation of a new scale. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Faculty members Mary Cain, Kimberly Kirkpatrick, and Matthew Palmatier delivered an invited symposium as the state representatives for Kansas at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011. They were also awarded with a travel grant from the Southwestern Psychological Association to support their cost of attendance.

Cain, Mary E.  Environmental and individual difference factors for reward sensitivity. 
Invited symposium contribution at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological 
Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011.

Kirkpatrick, Kimberly. Reward processing, timing, and impulsivity. Invited symposium
contribution at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San
Antonio, TX, April 2011. 

Palmatier, Matthew I. The effect of nicotine on reward motivated behaviors in rats. Invited
symposium contribution at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological
Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011.

Dr. Patrick Knight and alumnus Dr. Maura Mills published in the journal The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, volume 48.

Mills, Maura J., Knight, Patrick A., Kraiger, Kurt, Mayer, William, & LaFontana, Kathryn (2011).  Developing and managing I-O online:  What's behnid the virtual classroom?  The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 48, 31-37.


RESEARCH: From Impulse Buys To Penny-Wise, Research Explores How To Avoid Post-Purchase Regret
http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/apr11/regret40711.html

Our KSU contingent made us proud at this year's Great Plains Students Psychology Conference at Washburn University March 18-19.  ALL KSU presentations and posters won a prize in their session, mostly first prizes. These included:


1. Kathy Nguyen and Michael Smith, Evaluating the mediation effect of engagement on health-turnover intentions (1st) (Sponsored by Dr. Andrew Wefald) 
2. Jorge Piocuda, Social moving quoting and applications of the demonstration theory (2nd) (Sponsored by Dr. Richard Harris)
3. Adrienne Struble, Tammy Sonnentag, Jennifer Livengood, and Taylor Wadian, An investigation of the experiences and attitudes of CASA volunteers. (1st) (Sponsored by Dr. Mark Barnett)
4. Chris Wallace, Perceiving events in picture stories. (1st) (Sponsored by Dr. Lester Loschky)

Graduate students Tammy Sonnentag, Jennifer Livengood, and Dr. Mark Barnett presented a paper titled, "The moral rebel: Assessment and perceptions of adolescents" at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, March, 2011.

Sonnentag, Tammy L., Barnett, Mark A., & Livengood, Jennifer L.  The moral rebel: Assessment and perceptions of adolescents. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, March 2011.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and alumnus Maura Mills published in the journal Human Resource Development International, volume 14.

Culbertson, S. S., & Mills, M. J. (2011). Negative implications for the inclusion of citizenship performance in performance ratings. Human Resource Development International, 14, 23-38.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson, alumnus Maura Mills, and colleague Ann Huffman published in the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, volume 4.

Culbertson, S. S., Mills, M. J., & Huffman, A. H. (2011). Implications of overqualification for work-family conflict: Bringing too much to the table? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 4, 252-255.

 

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleague Robert Jones published in the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, volume 4.

Jones, R. G., & Culbertson, S. S. (2011). Why performance management will remain broken: Authoritarian communication. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 4, 179-181.

 

Undergraduate student Adrienne L. Struble, graduate students Tammy L. Sonnentag, Jen L. Livengood, and Taylor W. Wadian, and Dr. Mark A. Barnett presented a paper at the Great Plains Students' Psychology Convention, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, March, 2011.


Struble, A. L., Sonnentag, T. L., Barnett, M. A., Livengood, J. L., & Wadian, T. W.  An investigation of the characteristics, experiences, and attitudes of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers. Great Plains Students' Psychology Convention, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, March, 2011.

 

Graduate students Heather Hilgenkamp & Jisook April Park, along with professor Gary Brase, presented their research -"What Affects Your Purchase Intent: Brand Name or Price?"- at the 2011 Society of Consumer Psychology Conference in Atlanta, GA.

Hilgenkamp, H., Park, J. A., & Brase, G. (2011, Feb). What Affects Your Purchase Intent: Brand Name or Price? Poster presented at the 2011 Society of Consumer Psychology Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Post-doctoral fellow Dr. Tiffany Galtress and graduate students Angela Crumer, Ana Garcia, and Andrew Marshall, in collaboration with undergraduate students Jacob Clarke and Marina Vilardo, Dr. Mary Cain and Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick, presented at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Melbourne, FL.

Garcia, A., Vilardo, M., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2011). Factors influencing impulsive choice behavior in different strains of rats. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

Marshall, A., Clarke, J., Crumer, A., Cain, M., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2011). Differential rearing environment effects on impulsive action and impulsive choice in rats. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

 

Galtress, T., Crumer, A., Garcia, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2011). Individual differences in impulsive choice behavior. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

Dr. Brenda McDaniel and colleagues publish a chapter in an edited book, Indigenous Mental Health and Healing on Turtle Island: A Multifaceted Approach.

Robbins, R., Eason, E. A., Colmant, S., Burks, D., & McDaniel, B. L. (In press). Gifts of the Seven Winds drug and alcohol prevention model for American Indians. In S. Stewart, R. Moodley, & T. Beaulieu (Eds.), Indigenous Mental Health and Healing on Turtle Island: A Multifaceted Approach.

Kimberly Kirkpatrick delivered an invited address at the 25th anniversary meeting of the Texas Applied Behavior Analysis meeting, Galveston, Texas.

Kirkpatrick, K. (2011, February). Individual differences in impulsivity. Invited address presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Texas Applied Behavior Analysis association, Galeston, TX.

Graduate student Russ Webster and Dr. Don Saucier published in the Journal of Homosexuality.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Terror management and sexual prejudice: The effects of mortality salience on heterosexuals’ attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. Journal of Homosexuality, 58, 402-426.

Dr. Brenda McDaniel and colleagues publish a chapter in an edited book, Indigenous Mental Health and Healing on Turtle Island: A Multifaceted Approach.

Robbins, R., Eason, E. A., Colmant, S., Burks, D., & McDaniel, B. L. (In press). Gifts of the 
Seven Winds drug and alcohol prevention model for American Indians. In S. Stewart, R. Moodley, & T. Beaulieu (Eds.), Indigenous Mental Health and Healing on Turtle Island: A Multifaceted Approach.

 

Graduate student Russ Webster and Dr. Don Saucier published a chapter with a colleague in the edited book, The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?

Webster, R. J., Saucier, D. A., & Parks, G. S. (2011). New bottle, same old wine: The GOP and race in the age of Obama. In G. S Parks & M. W. Hughey (Eds.), The Obamas and a (post) racial America (pp. 266-284). Oxford University Press.

 

Graduate student James Daugherty, along with Professor Gary Brase, presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio, Texas this January

Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2011, January). Validation of Domain-Specific Risk-Taking with Three Temporal Perspective Measures.  Poster presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas.

Graduate students Mason Burns, Jericho Hockett, Jessica McManus, Stuart Miller, Sara Smith, Megan Strain, and Russ Webster; undergraduate students Ed Alvarado and Lea Folsom; former undergraduate students Josh Davis, Scott Fluke, Ally Herme, Emily Horrell, Rachel King, Cat Klausing, and Danielle Zanotti; and Dr. Don Saucier presented at the annual conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Burns, M. D., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). The effects of rejecting false feedback
on mood and prejudice toward outgroup and ingroup members. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Davis, J., Burns, M. D., McManus, J. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Honor, aggression, and
masculinity as predictors of men’s sport perceptions and experiences. Poster presented at
the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Folsom, L. A., Zanotti, D. C., Klausing, C. D., Miller, S. S., Alvarado, E., Smith, S. J., &
Saucier, D. A. (2011). Examining the relationships between religiosity and sexual
prejudice in helping scenarios. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology.

Fluke, S. M., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Re-examining the form and function of
superstition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology.

Hockett, J. M., Smith, S. J., Klausing, C. D., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Rape myth consistent
information and gender differences in rape victim perceptions: A meta-analysis. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

McManus, J. L., Hermé, A. C., King, R. L., Horrell, E. K., & Saucier, D. A. (2011).
Outgroup homogeneity effects in perceiving individuals with disabilities. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Miller, S. S., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Spanning the political divide: Why are
liberals and conservatives prejudiced toward different groups? Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Strain, M. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Effects of exposure to anti-gay humor on individuals’
tolerance of discrimination. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2011). Flying without wings: Re-examining individual
differences in imaginative involvement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology.