2020 Research Convocation

Kansas State University
Psychological Sciences

Welcome!

As we do every year, our graduate students have gathered their poster presentations of research from over the past year (2020) and created a convocation. This year is different in many ways -- some conference presentations happened normally, many in the spring or summer were cancelled, and some were moved online. To accommodate these variations, without getting too complicated, we have decided on video presentations of posters.

You will find eight poster presentations below, all of which involve our graduate students and a very large number of which also include some of our undergraduate researchers. They are shown in chronological order, by the conference at which they were initially presented. (If you want to view a presentation in full screen mode, please open it within YouTube.)

If you are an undergraduate psychology student at K-State, you can find information about the research labs in the department --including opportunities for getting involved as a research assistant, under Undergraduate Research Opportunities on our undergraduate program information page.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Sex differences in social interactions of fear- and avoidance-conditioned rats

Alyssa Scott, Katie Rodriguez, Tessa Maze, Jonathan Andrusak, Felipe Deihle, Greg Erickson, & Maria M. Diehl
Please send questions, comments, or congratulations regarding this poster to Maria Diehl Faryna
[Please note: Suppression of bar pressing is calculated by comparing the number of presses during the tone with number of presses 30 seconds BEFORE the tone using this equation: (pretone presses - tone presses) / (pretone presses + tone presses) = suppression ratio]

GRADUATE RESEARCH

Adults’ attitudes toward obese children, adolescents, and adults and tax-funded programs to combat obesity

The Wild Wild Web: Anonymity and Racial Prejudice in Online Culture

Tiffany J. Lawless & Donald A. Saucier
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
New Orleans, LA – February 27-29, 2020
Please send questions, comments, or congratulations regarding this poster to Tiffany Lawless

A** Kicking and Care Taking: Masculine Honor Beliefs and Individuals’ Priorities in Socializing Children

No Laughing Matter: Perceptions of Subversive Racial Humor Under the Threat of Appearing Racist

Stuart S. Miller, Tiffany J. Lawless, Conor J. O’Dea, & Donald A. Saucier
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
New Orleans, LA – February 27-29, 2020
Please send questions, comments, or congratulations regarding this poster to Stuart Miller

But it's okay when I do it: An examination of masculine honor and virtue in predicting perceptions of street harassment behaviors

Slava Prokhorets & Donald A. Saucier
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
New Orleans, LA – February 27-29, 2020
Please send questions, comments, or congratulations regarding this poster to Slava Prokhorets

Role of kappa-opioid receptors in conditioned fear in high vs. low alcohol drinking rats

An FMRI investigation of the effects of aging and semantic knowledge on event segmentation

Maverick E. Smith, Laura E. Martin, Morgan G. Brucks, & Heather R. Bailey
61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
November 19-21, 2020
Please send questions, comments, or congratulations regarding this poster to Maverick Smith