The Psychology Department is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Michael Young as it's in-coming Department Head, and Young-Ah Park as an in-coming Assistant Professor in Industrial & Organizational Psychology!

Professor Downey's work cited in Fortune Management article.

Dr. Ron Downey’s work on job burnout was cited in a May 21st article in a CNNMONEY Fortune Management article on Employee Burnout
(http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/21/employee-burnout-around-the-corner-already-here/).  Downey said, “… that supervisors need to be trained on how to detect employee burnout and how to decrease or balance workloads to address it.” He also noted the reluctance of employers to “…change their expectations, hire more employees, reduce demands, and most won't do that," in order to reduce job burnout.

Ronald G. Downey and alumni present research at the 27th Annual Conference for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Diego CA in April of 2012.

Michael Smith from Talent Plus, Maura Mills from Hofstra University, and Ronald Downey a faculty member in the Psychology Department presented a paper: The Relative Importance of Key Work Constructs on Work Outcomes.

LaToya Malone from the US Air Force and Ronald Downey a faculty member in the Psychology Department presented a poster: Personality and Stress Reactions as Predictors of Pilot Trainee Performance.

Drs. Satoris Culbertson and Clive Fullagar, along with alumnus Maura Mills, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, volume 13.

Mills, M. J., Culbertson, S. S., & Fullagar, C. (2012). Conceptualizing and measuring engagement: An analysis of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13, 519-545.

Graduate students Taylor Wadian, Tammy Sonnentag, undergraduate Marcella Nichols, and Dr. Mark Barnett presented a paper titled "Children's evaluations of a typical and stigmatized storybook character: Evidence for (de)stigmatization-by-association" at the Midwest Social Development Consortium, University of Nebraska at Omaha, May, 2012.

Wadian, Taylor, Barnett, Mark, Sonnentag, Tammy, & Nichols, Marcella.  Children's evaluations of a typical and stigmatized storybook character: Evidence for (de)stigmatization-by-association.  Midwest Social Development Consortium, University of Nebraska at Omaha, May, 2012.

Graduate student, Adam Larson, Dr. Lester Loschky, and colleagues in the Physics Department published an article in the journal Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, in May. Their research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Madsen, A. M., Larson, A. M., Loschky, L. C., & Rebello, N. S. (2012). Differences in visual attention between those who correctly and incorrectly answer physics problems. Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 8(1), 010122-1-13.

Alumnus Dr. Amy Conner, graduate student Megan Miller, and Dr. Laura Brannon presented a poster at the Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, IL, May 2012.

Conner, A. E., Brannon, L. A., & Miller, M. M. A test of the automaticity assumption of compliance tactics: Using commitment and reciprocity to increase responsible drinking message processing. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 2012.

Graduate students Taylor Wadian, Tammy Sonnentag, former undergraduate Adrienne Struble, and Dr. Mark Barnett presented a paper at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 2012.

Wadian, Taylor, Barnett, Mark, Sonnentag, Tammy, & Struble, Adrienne. Children's evaluations of hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 2012.

Graduate student Tammy Sonnentag and Dr. Brenda McDaniel publish in the journal Self and Identity.

Sonnentag, Tammy L.& McDaniel, Brenda L. (in press). Doing the Right Thing in the Face of Social Pressure: Moral Rebels and Their Role Models Have Heightened Levels of Moral Trait Integration. Self and Identity.

Graduate student Whitney Jeter presented a paper as part of a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2012.

Jeter, Whitney K. (April, 2012). Five tips for being a successful graduate researcher. Paper presented as part of a symposium titled, Student Survival Skills for Statistics, Research, and the GRE (J. W. Grice, Chair) conducted at the 58th annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK.

Graduate student Tammy Sonnentag and Dr. Brenda McDaniel publish in the journal Self and Identity.

Sonnentag, Tammy L.& McDaniel, Brenda L. (in press). Doing the Right Thing in the Face of Social Pressure: Moral Rebels and Their Role Models Have Heightened Levels of Moral Trait Integration. Self and Identity.  

Graduate student Whitney Jeter presented a paper as part of a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2012.  

Jeter, Whitney K. (April, 2012). Five tips for being a successful graduate researcher. Paper presented as part of a symposium titled, Student Survival Skills for Statistics, Research, and the GRE (J. W. Grice, Chair) conducted at the 58th annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK.

Post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Tiffany Galtress, graduate student Andrew Marshall, and Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick published in the journal Behavioural Processes, volume 90.

Galtress, Tiffany, Marshall, Andrew T., & Kirkpatrick, Kimberly. (2012). Motivation and timing: clues for modeling the reward system. Behavioural Processes, 90, 142-153.

Graduate students Stephen Nettelhorst and Chelsea Schnabelrauch, undergraduate students Amy Webb and Lauren Eberting, and Dr. Laura Brannon presented a poster at the Southwestern Psychological Association Convention, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2012.

Nettelhorst, S. C., Brannon, L. A., Webb, A. D. R., Eberting, L. R., & Schnabelrauch, C. A. (2012, April). The effect of advertisement choice, sex, and need for cognition on attention. Poster presentation at the Southwestern Psychological Association Convention, Oklahoma City, OK.

Graduate students Whitney Jeter and Lora Peaden presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April, 2012.

Jeter, Whitney J. & Peaden, Lora E.  Men Debate, Women Manipulate: Early Environment and Mate Retention Tactics Impact Psychological Victimization. Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 2012.

Graduate student Trey Hill presented a paper as a finalist for the graduate student research competition at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK.

Hill, W. T. (April, 2012). Hand drumming as a cue for fitness-relevant traits. Southwestern Psychological Association, Oklahoma City, OK.

Dr. Gary Brase was invited to give a presentation to C-CHANGE program  at the University of Kansas, which is an NSF-funded IGERT program centered on the issues of Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment.  Dr. Brase's presentation was on how to use numbers that Inform and persuade people while communicating about climate change.

Brase, G.L. (2012, April). Communicating about Climate Change- How to use Numbers that Inform and Persuade. University of Kansas C-CHANGE (Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment) , NSF IGERT program, Lawrence, Kansas.

University of Texas - Brownsville students Patrick Flores and Jessica de los Santos, KSU doctoral student Bernardo de la Garza, and KSU Professor Richard Harris presented a poster Acquiring Foreign Language Vocabulary Through Linguistic Context at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association in Oklahoma City on April 14, 2012

Flores, P., de los Santos, J., de la Garza, B., & Harris, R.J.  Acquiring Foreign Language Vocabulary Through Linguistic Context. Poster presented at Southwestern Psychological Association meeting, Oklahoma City, April 12-14, 2012.  

Former graduate students Michael Smith, Maura Mills, and Andrew Wefald and Dr. Ron Downey published in Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17(1).

Smith, M. R., Rasmussen, J. L., Mills, M. J., Wefald, A. J., & Downey, R. G. (2012). Stress and performance: Do service orientation and emotional energy moderate the relationship? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17(1), 116-128.

Drs. Les Loschky and Sanjay Rebello (Physics), and Graduate Students Adrian Madsen (Physics) and Adam Larson presented a talk at the 7th biennial Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, in Santa Barbara, CA, in March 2012.

Madsen, Adrian, Larson, Adrian M., Loschky, Lester C. & Rebello, N. Sanjay (2012, March). Using scanmatch scores to understand differences in eye movements between correct and incorrect solvers of physics problems. Talk presented at the 7th biennial Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Santa Barbara, CA.

Graduate student Stephen Nettelhorst had a paper accepted for publication in the journal The New School Psychology Bulletin.

Nettelhorst, S. C., & Youmans, R. J. (in press). The effects of advertisement variation and need for cognition on product attitudes. The New School Psychology Bulletin, Accepted for Publication.

Graduate student Stephen Nettelhorst and Dr. Laura Brannon had a paper accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Nettelhorst, S. C., & Brannon, L. A. (in press). The effect of advertisement choice, sex, and need for cognition on attention. Computers in Human Behavior, Accepted for Publication.

Dr. Brenda McDaniel's research on relationship flow has been recently covered on MSNBC.

Graduate students Stephen Nettelhorst, Megan Miller, and Dr. Laura Brannon presented  posters at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, January 2012.

Nettelhorst, S. C., & Brannon, L. A. (2012, January). The effect of advertisement choice on attention. Poster presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Miller, Megan M., & Brannon, Laura A. Self-monitoring and Health Behavior Variability. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California, January 2012.  

Graduate students Whitney Jeter and Tammy Sonnentag; undergraduate students Jaime Arreola, Samantha Coup, and Taylor Montgomery; former undergraduate students Jaree Basgall, Alex Elliott, and Stacy Schuster; and Dr. Brenda McDaniel presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Basgall, J., McDaniel, B., & Jeter, W. (2012, January). Emotion regulation predicts psychological abuse perpetration and victimization in romantic relationships above and beyond childhood psychological abuse. Poster presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Coup, S., Jeter, W., McDaniel, B., & Arreola, J. (2012, January). Positive-negative emotion ratios and flow-non flow behavior ratios predict psychological well-being and relationship health in romantic couples. Poster presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Graves, J., McDaniel, B., Elliott, A., Arreola, J., & Sonnentag, T. (2012, January). Age increases moral identity integration and differentially predicts the influence of positive and poor role models. Poster presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Montgomery, T., Jeter, W., & McDaniel, B. (2012, January). Body image, romantic attachment, and infidelity as predictors of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral jealousy in romantic relationships. Poster presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Schuster, S., Jeter, W., McDaniel, B., & Arreola, J. (2012, January). Chronic trauma and relationship closeness impact romantic couple relationship flow during conversation. Poster presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Dr. Mark Barnett and graduate students Tammy Sonnentag and Taylor Wadian published in the Newsletter of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, Volume 6.

Barnett, M. A., Sonnentag, T. L., & Wadian, T. W. (2012). Factors associated with children’s
acceptance or rejection of hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics. Interpersonal
Acceptance (Newsletter of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection),
6, 1-3.

Dr. Gary Brase, graduate student alumnus James Daugherty, and two undergraduates - Kat Orme and Rachel Helmke presented their research at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, CA.

Daugherty, J.R., Orme, K., Helmke, R. & Brase, G.L. (2012, January).  Impulsivity’s mediating
role on the relationship between time perception and intertemporal health behaviors.  Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
San Diego, CA.

Graduate student Lora Peaden, Dr. Gary Brase, and undergraduate Kale Monk presented their research at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Peaden, L., Brase, G., & Monk, K. (2012, January).  Sex differences in reactions to sexual and
emotional infidelity: A result of evolution or sociocultural factors? A systematic regression
analysis.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Dr. Gary Brase participated in a symposium on the influence of "Money as a Motivator" during the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Brase, G.L. (2012, January).  Participant payments push around performance: Money and other ways to get the results you want. In E. Bijleveld (Chair), Money as a motivator: From brain to behavior. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Graduate students Jericho Hockett, Jessica McManus, Stuart Miller, Tammy Sonnentag, Megan Strain, and Russ Webster; former graduate student Sara Smith; undergraduate students Jennifer Cooper, Lea Folsom, and Brooke Williams; former undergraduate students Mason Burns and Melissa Klein; and Dr. Donald Saucier presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Burns, M. D., McManus, J. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Honor beliefs and masculine courage: Real men don't back down. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Cooper, J., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Starters and closers: The effect of article placement on citation frequency in social/personality psychology journals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Folsom, L. A., Williams, B., Smith, S. J., Miller, S. S., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Justifying prejudice towards pregnant women:  Examining attitudes towards pregnant women on a college campus. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Hockett, J. M., Strain, M., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Rape myths, rape scripts, and actual rape scenarios: Differences in how rape victims are perceived. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Klein, M., Strain, M. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). “That’s terrible!”: Sexist humor in social situations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

McManus, J. L., & Saucier, D. A. (012). Social categorization and reactions to individuals with intellectual disabilities: An examination of appearance and identification factors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Miller, S. S., McManus, J. L., Webster, R. W., Smith, S. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Personal and media contact as predictors of affective prejudice toward various outgroups. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Sonnentag, T. L., Strain, M. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Relief and redemption: Undergraduates’ responses to the death of Osama bin Laden. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Strain, M. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Sexist humor in Facebook profiles: Like or dislike? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2012). Angels and demons are among us: Assessing people’s beliefs in pure good and pure evil. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Graduate student Brianna Sheppard, undergraduate Skyler Gross, alumni Sarah Pavelka and Melanie Hall and Dr. Matthew Palmatier had a paper accepted for publication in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Sheppard, A. Brianna, Gross, Skyler C., Pavelka, Sarah A., Hall, Melanie J. and Palmatier, Matthew I. (in press)  Caffeine increases the motivation to obtain non-drug reinforcers in rats. Drug and Alcohol Dependence,  Accepted for Publication.

Dr. Brase was an invited participant at a workshop on Evolution, Culture, and Reasoning, at the Inamori Center, Kyoto UNiversity, Japan on January 7th.  Dr. Brase also gave an invited presentation to the Psychology Department of Osaka City University in Osaka, Japan on January 11th.

Brase, G.L. (11 January 2012) The nature of human numerical representation and statistical reasoning.  Department of Psychology, Osaka City University, Japan.

Dr. Laura Brannon and graduate student Stephen Nettelhorst published a paper in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Nettelhorst, S. C., & Brannon, L. A. (2012).  The effect of advertisement choice on attention. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 683-687.

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.

Graduate student Neena Gopalan and Dr. Ronald G. Downey published
in the Assessment News Council of the International Personnel Assessment Council, volume 12.

Gopalan, N., & Downey, R.G. (2010). Report of Work-Family Issues of Classified Employees of Kansas State University. Assessment Council News, International Personnel Assessment Council, v., 12, p.15.

Graduate students James Daugherty, Jenna Rycek, and Whitney Jeter and Dr. Brenda McDaniel and Dr. Allen Eason published in the journal Personal Construct Theory & Practice, volume 7.

McDaniel, B. L., Daugherty, J. R., Rycek, J. M., Jeter, W. K., & Eason, E. A. (2010). "Reaching for the stars" and "Looking down from a pedestal": Do discrepancies between the self and positive or poor role models influence emotional adjustment? Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 7, 76-84.

Classic Holiday Movies Have Universal Appeal, Professor Says.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/dec10/christmasfilm120210.html

Graduate student Russell Webster and Dr. Donald Saucier published with colleagues in Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Grover, K. W., Miller, C. T., Solomon, S., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2010).
Mortality salience and perceptions of people with AIDS: Understanding the role of
prejudice. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32 (4), 315-327.

Graduate students Chris Waples, Will Weyhrauch, Angela Connell and Dr. Satoris Culbertson published in the December issue of the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Waples, C. J., Weyhrauch, W. S., Connell, A. R., & Culbertson, S. S. (2010). Questionable defeats and discounted victories for Likert rating scales. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 477-480.

Grad student Adam Larson, Dr. Lester Loschky, and undergraduate students Chris Wallace and Susie Goddard presented a poster at the Psychonomic Society Conference in St. Louis, MO.

Larson, A. M., Wallace, C., Goddard, S., & Loschky, L. C. (November, 2010).  The Effects of Scrambling Episode Components on Memory for a Picture Story: Not Understanding, But Recognizing What You Saw. Poster presented at the annual meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Drs. Satoris Culbertson and Clive Fullagar, along with former graduate student Maura Mills, published in the October issue of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Culbertson, S. S., Fullagar, C. J., & Mills, M. J. (2010). Feeling good and doing great: The relationship between psychological capital and well-being. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 15, 421-433.

Grad student Bernardo de la Garza and Prof. Richard Harris presented a paper at the Psychonomic Society Conference in St. Louis,MO.

Harris, R.J., & de la Garza, B. Acquiring foreign vocabulary through linguistic context: Where is the limit to vocabulary learning?  Psychonomic Society, St. Louis MO. Nov. 20, 2010.

Dr. Gary Brase and graduate students April (Jisook) Park and James Daugherty presented research at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference in St. Louis, MO this November.  James' presented research is on personality and temporal discounting, while April's research is on consumer decision making and regret.

Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2010, November). Temporal Discounting and the Big Five.  Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Park, J. & Brase, G.L. (2010, November). Consumers’ post-purchase regret: When do we experience the least amount of regret?  Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Graduate student Whitney Jeter and Dr. Brenda McDaniel presented at Kansas State University's Best Practices in Assessment Showcase.  Find more information at http://www.k-state.edu/assessment/resources/Fall10Showcase.htm

McDaniel, B. L., & Jeter, W. K. (November, 2010). Interactive forms of classroom assessment. Presentation given at Kansas State University's Best Practices in Assessment Showcase. Manhattan, Kansas.

Undergraduate Honors student Lindsay Cook and Dr. Richard Harris published in the Summer 2010 issue of Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Cook, L.G., & Harris, R.J. (2010) College students' perceptions of alcohol use in society and in entertainment television. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 15, 60-71.

Dr. Fullagar presented a paper at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Academy of Management.

Clive Fullagar presented a paper entitled "Is it a Trait, Is it a State?" at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Academy of Management in Grand Forks North Dakota, October 14-16.

Dr. Donald Saucier, graduate student Jericho Hockett, and former K-State undergraduate students Danielle Zanotti and Sarah Heffel published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Saucier, D. A., Hockett, J. M., Zanotti, D. C., & Heffel, S. (2010). Effects of racism on
perceptions and punishment of intra- and interracial crimes. Journal of Interpersonal
Violence, 25 (10), 1767-1784.

Four students receive fellowships for undergraduate research projects in psychology.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/sept10/psychdeptawards92410.html

Research project offers insight into superstitious behavior.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/sept10/superstition90210.html

Graduate students Kyle van Ittersum, Chris Waples, and Michael Stetzer, and Dr. Clive Fullagar and Dr. Patrick Knight presented a paper at the 5th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Copenhagen, Denmark in June, 2010.

Fullagar, C.J., Van Ittersum, K.W., Knight, P.A., Waples, C.J., & Stetzer, M. (2010). Finding flow: Lessons learned from Rock Band(R). Paper presented at the 5th European Conference on Positive Psychology, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 23 - 26, 2010.

Dr. Laura Brannon published in the International Journal of Tourism Research, volume 12. 

Reddy, S. G., York, V. K., Brannon, L.A.  (2010).  Travel for treatment:  Students’ perspective on medical tourism.  International Journal of Tourism Research, 12, 510-522.

Dr. Lester Loschky gave an invited colloquium talk on how we recognize the gist of scenes at the Psychology Department at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, in September.

Loschky, L.C. (2010, September) How do we understand the gist of a scene? Invited Colloquium at the Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Dr. James Shanteau publishes chapter, along with Brian Friel, Rick Thomas, John Raacke, and David Weiss, in Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios.

Shanteau, J., Friel, B., Thomas, R. P., Raacke, J., & Weiss, D. J.  Assessing expertise when performance exceeds perfection. In E. S. Patterson & J. E. Miller (Eds.), Macrocognition metrics and scenarios: Design and evaluation for real-world teams (pp.85-93). Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

Drs. Lester Loschky and Richard Harris and graduate students Manpreet Rai, Patricia Barros, and Ryan Hinds presented a talk at the Society for Text and Discourse meeting in Chicago on August 17, 2010.

Rai, M.K., Loschky, L.C., Harris, R.J., Barros, P., & Hinds, R.M. The effects of inferential complexity, stress, and working memory capacity on foreign and native English readers' comprehension of inferences.  Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, August 17, 2010.

Dr. Richard Harris, graduate student Michael Hinkin, and undergraduate students Tyrel Willimon and Andrew Miranda presented a poster at the Society for Text and Discourse Meeting in Chicago on August 17, 2010.

Harris, R.J., Hinkin, M.P., Willimon, T.W., & Miranda, A.T. Learning from Text in Subtitles and Soundtracks: The Role of Modality, Distraction, and Redundancy.  Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, August 17, 2010.

Graduate student April Park and Dr. James Shanteau published two chapters, along with Dr. Len Dalgleish, in the Psychology of Judicial Decision Making.

Dalgleish, L., Shanteau, J., & Park, A. (2010). Thresholds for action in judicial decisions. In D. Klein & G. Mitchell, (Eds.), The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making (pp. 165-181). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Shanteau, J., & Dalgleish, L. (2010). Expertise of court judges. In D. Klein & G. Mitchell, (Eds.), The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making (pp. 269-278). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Undergraduate from University of Puerto Rico studies romanitic jealousy through K-State research program.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/aug10/suroppsych80510.html

Recent PhD Mitch Ricketts and two undergraduates, Breanna McSpadden and Kristen Fernandez-Medina, along with Dr. James Shanteau published in journal Social Science & Medicine.

Ricketts, M., Shanteau, J., McSpadden B., & Fe rnandez-Medina, K. M. (2010 ).  Using stories to battle unintentional injuries: Narratives in safety and health communication. Socia l Science & Medicine, 70, 1441-1449.

K-State, Technical University in Turkey to work on Collaborative projects.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jun10/turkey62910.html

Dr. Mark Barnett and graduate students Jen Livengood, Tammy Sonnentag, Natalie Barlett, and Rachel Witham published an article, "Children’s anticipated responses to hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics: Role of peers’ desire to change, effort to change, and outcome," in the Journal of Genetic Psychology, volume 171.

Barnett, M. A., Livengood, J. L., Sonnentag, T. L., Barlett, N. D., & Witham, R. Y. (2010). Children’s anticipated responses to hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics: Role of peers’ desire to change, effort to change, and outcome. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 171, 262-269.

Russell J. Webster, graduate student, and Drs. Donald A. Saucier and
Richard J. Harris published in the Summer issue of The Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences (vol. 46).

Webster, R. J., Saucier, D. A., & Harris, R. J. (2010). Before the measurement of prejudice: Early psychological and sociological papers on prejudice. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46, 300-313. Abstract:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123579646/abstract.

Graduate students William Weyhrauch and Maura Mills and Drs. Satoris Culbertson and Clive Fullagar published in the June issue of the Journal of Extension, volume 48.

Weyhrauch, W. S., Culbertson, S. S., Mills, M. J., & Fullagar, C. J. (2010). Engaging the engagers: Implications for the improvement of extension work design. Journal of Extension [On-line], 48(3) Article 3FEA5. Available at http://www.joe.org/joe/2010june/a5.php.

Graduate student Tyler Freeman presented his Master's research with Dr. Lester Loschky at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston in May.

Freeman, T. E., Klinock, A., & Loschky, L. C. (2010). Low and high spatial frequencies are
useful for drawing. Presented at the 2010 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Boston, MA.

Russell J. Webster, graduate student in social/personality psychology,
presented a paper and poster at the American Educational Research
Association in May.

Webster, R. J., Benton, S. L., & Gross, A. (2010, May). Online versus paper survey delivery of college student ratings of instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO."

Webster, R. J., Benton, S. L., Woller, M., & Middendorf, J. (2010, May). Disciplinary distinctions of academic department chair and faculty ratings. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick, graduate student Ana Garcia and colleagues presented two posters at the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior annual meeting in San Antonio, TX May 27-29.

Kirkpatrick, K., Ghormley, D., Guevara, M., Garcia, A., Sears, T., Hansen, B.C., & Loschky, L.C. (2010). Scene gist categorization in pigeons. Annual Meeting of the Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, San Antonio, TX.

Garcia, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2010). Timing, reward processing and choice behavior in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Annual Meeting of the Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, San Antonio, TX.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick was awarded a R01 grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health.

National Institutes of Mental Health, R01 Project Grant, Timing, reward processing, and choice. Direct Costs: $875,000, 2010-2015.

Dr. Lester Loschky and colleague Dr. Alexander Varakin (Knox College) published an article in the Quarter Journal of Experimental Psychology in May.

Varakin, D.A., & Loschky, L.C. (2010). Object appearance and picture-specific viewpoint are not integrated in long-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(6), 1181-1200.

Dr. Lester Loschky and graduate student Adam Larson presented three posters at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Naples FL in May.

Loschky, L.C., Ellis, K.M., Hansen, B.C., Sears, T., Ringer, R., & Davis, J. (2010, May). Broadening the horizons of scene gist recognition: Aerial and ground-based views. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Larson, A.M., Loschky, L.C., Ringer, R., & Kridner, C. (2010, May). Attention modulates gist performance between central and peripheral vision. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Freeman T. E. & Loschky L. C. (2010, May). Scene masking is affected by contrast of the blank screens with the target and mask at short SOAs (The sequel). Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Faculty Extension Excellence Award given to Elaine Johannes.

Dr. Elaine Johannes (BS, 1979) is the recipient of the 2010 College of Human Ecology Extension Excellence Award. This award is presented to an extension faculty member who has developed a program with a significant theme that has benefited the people of Kansas.

Dr. Johannes is an assistant professor and extension specialist in youth development. She also coordinates the youth development master's program for the Great Plains Inter-institutional Distance Education Alliance and teaches course work in that program. Elaine Johannes has supported her work with numerous extramural grants. She is an active scholar in the promotion of healthy behaviors for youth.

The program for which Dr. Johannes is being recognized is titled Get It-Do It, a project designed to assist intergenerational teams in rural communities in building projects to meet defined health needs. The focus of the project is the creation of environments that promote healthful eating and fitness behaviors.

Dr. Johannes received her Bachelor's degree in psychology in 1979, her Master’s degree in adult and community counseling in 1982, and her PhD in lifespan human development in 2003, all from Kansas State University. She is a former Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar, recipient of numerous awards from K-State extension, and a National Extension Leader Development Fellow.

Dr. Ronald Downey and colleagues published in Journal of Managerial Issues, Volume XXII.

Wefald, A. J., Katz, J. P., Downey, R. G., & Rust, K.G., (Spring, 2010).  Organizational Slack, Firm Performance, and the Role of Industry.  Journal of Managerial Issues, 22, 1, 70-87.

Dr. Ronald Downey and colleagues published in the Journal of Applied Business Research, Volume 26.

Wefald, A. J., Katz, J. P., Downey, R. G., and Rust, K. G., (January/February, 2010).  Organizational Slack and Performance: The Impact of Outliers.  The Journal of Applied Business Research, 26, 1, 1-10.

Dr. Ronald Downey and colleagues published in College Student Journal, Vol. 44.

Eunhee, K., Newton, F. B., Downey, R. G., Benton, S. L. (March, 2010).   Personal Factors Impacting College Student Success:   Constructing College Learning Effectiveness Inventory (CLEI).  College Student Journal, 44, 1, 112-125.

Undergraduate Gabe Hughes, graduate student April Park, and Dr. Gary Brase present research at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting (April, 2010).

Park, J. & Brase, G.L. (2010, April). Putting More Cognitive Effort Helps Reduce the Level of Regret. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Society 82nd annual meeting, Chicago, IL.  

Park, J. & Brase, G.L. (2010, April). Varying Levels of Cognitive Effort Across Different Types of Consumer Products. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Society 82nd annual meeting, Chicago, IL.  

Hughes, G.A. & Brase, G.L. (2010, April). Perceptual bias in height estimation. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Society 82nd annual meeting, Chicago, IL.  

Brase, G.L. (2010, April). Recall of implicit deontics in selection task reasoning rules. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Society 82nd annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Mentor to Undergraduate Researchers and a Student Researcher Receive K-State Honors for their Work.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/may10/ugresearch50710.html

Nicole Simonson and Faculty mentor Dr. Brenda McDaniel presented a poster at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.  “Exploration of empathic concern and anger rumination through family conflict”.

Simonson, N. & McDaniel, B. L. (April, 2010).  Exploration of empathic concern and anger rumination through family conflict. Poster presented at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association convention. Chicago, IL.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and colleague published in the journal Learning and Motivation, volume 41.

Galtress, T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2010). Reward magnitude effects on temporal discrimination, Learning and Motivation, 41, 108-124.

Department of Psychology announced several scholastic awards at its recent spring banquet.

The Peterson Prize for the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Psychology is awarded to the undergraduate psychology major who excels in the classroom, in research, and in service to the department. This year the Peterson Prize was given to Danielle Zanotti from Yukon, OK. She graduated cum laude last December. In addition to her academic achievements, Danielle is the coauthor on a manuscript in press, two manuscripts under review, co-author of another manuscript in preparation, one as first author, and is the co-author of four conference presentations. She achieved all of these while a member of Kansas State University’s Women’s Basketball Team.

The E. J. Phares Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research is given to the student who has generated an outstanding research record. Dr. Phares performed groundbreaking work on locus of control. He served as department head for over 20 years. This year the E.J. Phares Prize was awarded to Mason Burns from Overland Park, KS. Mason was also the recipient of a Doreen Shanteau Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Mason is the coauthor on one manuscript under review, is the co-author of three manuscripts in preparation, one as first author, and is the co- author of four conference presentations, one as first author.

The Ronald G. and Dorothy J. Downey Award for Outstanding Dissertation Proposal in Industrial/Organizational Psychology was established to provide funds to help the recipient conduct his or her dissertation research. Ms. Maura Mill is the 2010 recipient of this award.

Developing Scholar, Jaime Arreola, along with Professors McDaniel and Fullagar and other undergraduate students, present poster at K-State's 10th Annual Developing Scholars Symposium.

Developing Scholar, Jaime Arreola, with support from K-State Faculty mentors Brenda McDaniel and Clive Fullagar and K-State student co-authors Alex Elliott, Kelli Loring, and Jaree Basgall, presented the poster "Examining flow and cortisol in intimate relationships after conflict and “happy times”" at Kansas State University's 10th annual developing scholars symposium.

During this ceremony, Jaime was awarded the James R. Coffman Award of Excellence for a First Year Scholar.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Ann Huffman, Stephanie Payne, Laura Koehly, and Carl Castro presented their paper "An examination of work-family conflict: Initial impact versus exposure time effects" at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology held April 8-10 in Atlanta, GA.

Culbertson, S. S., Huffman, A. H., Payne, S. C., Koehly, L. M., & Castro, C. A. (2010, April). An examination of work-family conflict: Initial impact versus exposure time effects. In R. Matthews (Chair), Examining work-family conflict: Initial impact versus exposure time effects. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Undergraduate students Jaree Basgall and Alex Elliott, along with Dr. Brenda McDaniel, presented award winning research at the Southwestern Psychological Association Conference.

Basgall, J. D., Elliott, A. C., & McDaniel, B. L. (April, 2010). Fostering better  relationships: Exploring early childhood influences and moral emotional development. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Southwestern Psychological Association Conference, Dallas, TX.  

*This research was awarded a $300 Psi Chi Regional Research Award.*

Elliott, A. C., Basgall, J. D., & McDaniel, B. L. (April, 2010). Moral role models: Impact and influence on youth development. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Southwestern Psychological Association Conference, Dallas, TX.  

*This research was awarded a $300 Psi Chi Regional Research Award.*

Eason, E. A., Sitterle, D., McDaniel, B. L., Basgall, J. D., & Elliott, A. C. (April, 2010). Microaggressions and covert language in the dialogues of multicultural classrooms. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Southwestern Psychological Association Conference, Dallas, TX.  

Several undergraduate students in Dr. Lester Loschky's Visual Cognition Lab won awards, including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place in Session, at the Great Plains Student Psychology Conference, in March 2010.

McQuade, M., Badke, C.; & Hughes, G. (2010, March). Attention modulates gist performance between central and peripheral vision.  Talk presented at the 30th Annual Great Plains Student Psychology Convention, St. Joseph, MO. [Awarded 1st Place in Session]

Wallace, C. & Goddard, S. (2010, March). The effects of story structure and order on recognition memory for a picture story.  Talk presented at the 30th Annual Great Plains Student Psychology Convention, St. Joseph, MO. [Awarded 2nd Place in Session]

Ringer, R.V. & Davis, J. (2010, March). The effects of image rotation in scene gist recognition in ground-based versus aerial views.  Talk presented at the 30th Annual Great Plains Student Psychology Convention, St. Joseph, MO. [Awarded 3rd Place in Session]

 

Dr. Lester Loschky and graduate student Adam Larson published in the journal, Visual Cognition, in March 2010.

Loschky, L.C., & Larson, A.M. (2010). The natural/man-made distinction is made prior to basic-level distinctions in scene gist processing. Visual Cognition, 18(4), 513-536.

Dr. Mark Barnett and graduate students Natalie Barlett, Jennifer Livengood, Deb Murphy, and Katie Brewton published an article in the Journal of Genetic Psychology, volume 171.

Barnett, M. A., Barlett, N. D., Livengood, J. L., Murphy, D. L., & Brewton, K. E. (2010).  Factors associated with children's anticipated responses to ambiguous teases. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 171, 54-72.

Undergraduate student Ryan Ringer was awarded a $1,000 fellowship to research Aerial vs. Ground-based scene perception with Dr. Lester Loschky by the Kansas NASA Space Grant Consortium.  The award was one of only two given to undergraduates at Kansas State University.

K-State Study Shows People Not Only Judge Mothers Based On Work Status, But Also Value The Women's Children And The Mother-Child Relationships Differently.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb10/mothers21810.html
or http://ow.ly/18s1W

Dr. Kim Kirkpatrick and colleague published in Behavioral Neuroscience, volume 124.

Galtress, T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2010). The role of the nucleus accumbens core in impulsive choice, timing, and reward processing, Behavioral Neuroscience, 124, 26-43.

Dr. Lester Loschky and colleagues published an article in the journal Attention, Perception & Psychophysics in January 2010.

Loschky, L.C., Hansen, B.C., Sethi, A. & Pydimarri, T. (2010). The role of higher-order
image statistics in masking scene gist recognition. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics,
72(2), 427-444.

Graduate student James Daugherty and Dr. Gary Brase presented a poster at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference on January 30th, 2010.  Dr. Brase also presented a poster with Sandra Brase at SPSP.

Brase, G.L. & Brase, S.L. (2010, January). Baby Fever: Does it exist? Poster presented at
the 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas,
NV.

Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2010, January). Predicting evolutionary-relevant risk taking
with Big Five personality, time perspective, and temporal discounting. Poster presented at
the 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas,
NV.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Ann Huffman and Rachel Alden-Anderson published in the Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, volume 144.

Culbertson, S. S., Huffman, A. H., & Alden-Anderson, R. (2010). Leader-member exchange and
work-family interactions: The mediating role of self-reported challenge- and hindrance-
related stress. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 144, 15-36.

Don Saucier, associate professor of psychology; graduate students Po Sen Chu, Jericho Hockett, Leschia McElhaney, Jessica McManus, Sara Smith, Megan Strain, and Russell Webster; and undergraduate students Mason Burns, Megan Dwyer, Lea Folsom, Scott Fluke, Eric Hafner, Cathleen Klausing, and Danielle Zanotti presented posters at the annual
conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Burns, M. D., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). Revisiting the effects of political
orientation on prejudice toward minority groups. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
 
Chu, P. S., Saucier, D. A., Hafner, E., & Smith, S. J. (2010). Meta-Analysis of the
relationships between social support and psychological and behavioral well-being in
children and adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology.

Fluke, S., Webster, R. J., McElhaney, L., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). Cross your fingers: The
effects of pessimism and locus of control on belief in superstition. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
 
Folsom, L. A., Zanotti, D. C., Smith, S. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). The effects of gender-
role-relevant choices on perceptions of women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Hockett, J. M., Smith, S. J., Klausing, C., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). An umbrella of
dominance? An examination of oppressive beliefs in the context of rape. Poster presented
at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

McElhaney, L., Webster, R. J., Fluke, S., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). I believe I can fly:
Personality predictors of engagement in fantasy narratives. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

McManus, J. L., Dwyer, M., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). To help or not to help: How racism and
target race affect the decision to help. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Strain, M., & Saucier, D. A. (2010). Social vigilantism and assertion of religious beliefs:
Predicting belief defense and dissemination. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Dr. Mark Barnett and graduate students Tammy Sonnentag, Jen Livengood, and Rachel Witham presented two posters at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Las Vegas, NV in January.

Sonnentag, T. L., Livengood, J. L., Barnett, M. A., & Witham, R. Y. (January, 2010). Children’s anticipated responses to hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics: Role of peers’ desire to change, effort to change, and outcome. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Livengood, J. L., Barnett, M. A., & Sonnentag, T.L. (January, 2010). Perceptions of mothers and children in various work-family situations. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Dr. Don Saucier and graduate student Russell Webster published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in January 2010.

Saucier, D. A., & Webster, R. J. (2010). Social vigilantism: Measuring individual differences in belief superiority and resistance to persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36 (1), 19-32.

Using Hurricane Katrina as model, KSU psychologists find racial biases skew perceptions of how much help victims need.

When assessing the amount of help someone needs, people's perceptions can be skewed by their racial biases, according to a Kansas State University study. Donald Saucier, K-State associate professor of psychology, and psychology graduate students Sara Smith, Topeka, and Jessica McManus, Maineville, Ohio, surveyed undergraduate students a year after Hurricane Katrina to examine their perceptions of the hurricane victims and the helping response. A short news release is available at http://ow.ly/VfKn

 

K-STATE SOPHOMORE FROM OVERLAND PARK RESEARCHES THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES ELICITED FROM DIFFERENT MUSIC LYRICS.

Patriotic music may close minds, children's music may open them. Eduardo Alvarado, sophomore in pre-law from Overland Park, is looking at the behaviors elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs. He is working with Donald Saucier, associate professor of psychology. The preliminary findings showed that the patriotic songs had a negative effect on the research subjects, as shown through their responses to survey questions about other cultures and diversity. Songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" were meant to be neutral primes, but the researchers found that they stimulated a pro-social response. A short news release is available at http://ow.ly/MQoj

K-STATE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH SHOWS HOW POPULAR SONGS CAN CUE SPECIFIC MEMORIES.

Power of music lies beyond sound. Richard Harris, professor of psychology, found that people don't have to hear a song to evoke clear memories of a particular time in life. Rather, just thinking about the song is enough to spark nostalgia. Even though "Eye of the Tiger" was released in 1982, before the research subjects were born, Harris and students found that 24 percent reported that the song provoked a strong memory of high school sporting events. The research appeared in the journal Psychology of Music. A short news release is available at http://ow.ly/E7D3

K-STATE ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS USE THE VIDEO GAME ROCK BAND TO STUDY HOW PEOPLE ACHIEVE FLOW WHILE AT WORK, PERFORMING SKILLED TASKS.

What Rock Band can teach us about the workplace. By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, Kansas State University students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve flow while at work or while performing skilled tasks. Clive Fullagar, a professor, and Patrick Knight, an associate professor, found that -- like Goldilocks -- most people achieve flow with work that is neither too easy nor too hard but just right. A short news release is available at http://ow.ly/MQpd

Graduate student James Daugherty and Dr. Gary Brase published in the January 2010 issue of Personality and Individual Differences.

Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2010). Taking Time to be Healthy: Predicting Health Behaviors with Delay Discounting and Time Perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(2), 202–207.

Graduate student James Daugherty and Dr. Gary Brase presented research at the annual meetings of he Psychonomic Society and the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.

Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2009, November). Predicting health-related risk behaviors with Delay Discounting and Time Perspective Measures. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

Brase, G.L. (2009, November). Parsing the cognitive stream: Partitioning of events asa  factor in judgments under uncertainty. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

Brase, G.L. (2009, November). Big number effects in direct numerical comparisons. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Drs. Loschky and Harris, graduate students Manpreet Rai and Patricia Barros, and (former) undergraduate student Lindsay Cook presented a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston, MA.

Loschky, L.C., Rai, M.K., Harris, R.J., Barros, P.C., & Cook, L.G. (2009, Nov). Effects of stress, working memory capacity, and inferential complexity on foreign language reading comprehension. Talk presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Assistant Professor Palmatier published in Psychopharmacology

Matthew I. Palmatier et al. (2009). Bupropion and nicotine enhance responding for nondrug reinforcers via dissociable pharmacological mechanisms in rats. Psychopharmacology, 207, 1432-2072.

K-STATE STUDENT ADVANCES TO FINALS IN MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/nov09/mshallfinal110609.html

Dr. Clive Fullagar published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, volume 82. 

Fullagar, C.J. & Kelloway, E.K. (2009). Flow at work: An experience sampling approach.  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82(3), 595-615.

Dr. Lester Loschky gave an invited colloquium at Wichita State University.

Loschky, L.C. (2009, Oct). How We Understand The Gist of a Scene. Talk presented at Wichita State University Psychology Dept, Wichita, KS.

Research by graduate student Adam Larson and Dr. Lester Loschky has been covered by Science Daily, and United Press International.

Kansas State University (2009, October 18). Findings About Veracity Of Peripheral Vision Could Lead To Better Robotic Eyes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 19, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2009/10/091015102043.htm

Study shows peripheral vision importance. (2009, October 19). United Press International, Retrieved October 19, 2009, from http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/10/19/Study-shows-peripheral-vision-importance/UPI-96381255984617/

 

Dr. Richard Harris and graduate student Natalie Brown Barlett published an article on advertising to children in an edited volume published by the University of Chicago Press.

Harris, R.J., & Brown, N.D. (2009). Advertising. In R.A. Schweder (Ed.), THE CHILD: AN ENCYCLOPEDIC COMPANION. (pp. 34-36.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dr. Brenda McDaniel and colleagues published in the Journal of Moral Education.

McDaniel, B. L., Grice, J. W., & Eason, E. A. (2010). Seeking a Multi-Construct Model of Morality. Journal of Moral Education, 39 (1).

Dr. Don Saucier and his graduate students Jessica McManus and Sara Smith published a chapter in the edited book The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior.

Saucier, D. A., McManus, J. L., & Smith, S. J. (2009). Discrimination against out-group members in helping situations. In S. Sturmer & M. Snyder (Eds.), The psychology of prosocial behavior: Group processes, intergroup relations, and helping (pp. 103–120). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and collaborators Dr. Matt Pizzo and Dr. Pamela Blundell published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior in September 2009.

Pizzo, M. J., Kirkpatrick, K., & Blundell, P. J. (2009). The effect of changes in criterion value on differential reinforcement of low rate schedule performance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 92, 181-198.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and collaborator Dr. Tiffany Galtress presented a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Psychobiology Section of the British Psychological Society, Windermere, UK.

Kirkpatrick, K., & Galtress, T. (2009). The effect of changes in reward magnitude and delay on impulsive behaviour in the Nucleus Accumbens Core. Annual Meeting of the Psychobiology Section of the British Psychological Society, Windermere, UK.

Graduate student Adam Larson and Dr. Lester Loschky published in the Journal of Vision.

This article is available online at: http://www.journalofvision.org/9/10/6/

Larson, A. M., & Loschky, L. C. (2009). The contributions of central versus peripheral vision to scene gist recognition. Journal of Vision, 9(10):6, 1-16, http://journalofvision.org/9/10/6/, doi:10.1167/9.10.6. 

Dr. Gary Brase published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making.

This article is available online at: http://journal.sjdm.org/vol4.5.html

Brase, G.L. (2009). How Payments to Research Participants Alter Task Performance. Judgment and Decision Making.4(5), 419–428.

FOUR K-STATE STUDENTS RECEIVE FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Four Kansas State University psychology students were selected to receive the first Doreen Shanteau Undergraduate Research Fellowships. The $500 awards support upper-division undergraduate students in psychology for their work with a faculty mentor on psychological research. The fellowships were established by K-State's James Shanteau, university distinguished professor of psychology, in memory of his wife, Doreen. Students must be nominated for the award.

The fellowship recipients will conduct their research projects during the 2009-2010 school year in collaboration with their faculty mentors, and will be expected to present their findings at the K-State psychology department's annual Undergraduate Research Convocation at the end of the spring semester and to submit their findings for publication in a psychology journal.

Award recipients, all seniors in psychology, and their projects are:

Laura Dare, Manhattan, will study the relationship between the ability of nicotine to enhance experience and impulsive choice, such as choosing small immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards. Dare predicts that rats who are more impulsive will be more sensitive to the reward-enhancing effects of nicotine and will test her prediction using a paradigm in which rats will respond for sucrose reinforcers in a delay-choice task. Her project, in behavioral neuroscience, will be done with Matthew Palmatier, K-State assistant professor of psychology.

Scott Fluke, Olathe, will study how individuals may use superstition to reduce the anxiety they may feel as a result of their mortality. Fluke predicts that when participants are provided with the opportunity to use superstition, they will increase their perceptions of control and lower their degrees of anxiety, and will consequently better manage their fear of death. He will conduct his project in social psychology with K-State's Donald Saucier, associate professor of psychology.

Mason Burns, Overland Park, will examine how an individual's levels of narcissism -- inflated feelings of self-worth -- influence his or her reaction to positive or negative feedback following a mortality salience cue. Burns predicts that individuals higher in narcissism will be more likely to respond anti-socially after they receive negative feedback from potential dating partners and have had their mortality made salient. He will conduct his social psychology project with K-State's Saucier.

Emily Reinhardt, Poland, Ohio, will study if enriched rearing conditions during childhood and adolescence will reduce the symptoms of anxiety in rats. Reinhardt predicts that rats raised in enriched conditions with novel stimuli will have their levels of anxiety reduced more quickly than rats raised in other conditions, and will test her prediction using a Pavlovian conditioning paradigm. She will conduct her project in behavioral neuroscience with Mary Cain, K-State associate professor of psychology.

K-STATE RESEARCHERS FIND THAT EMPLOYEES WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THEIR WORK HAVE HAPPIER HOME LIFE

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/aug09/worklife82409.html

Two Psychology Majors, Jamie Parker and Becky Steinert, were selected as McNair Scholars.

The McNair Scholars Program is a comprehensive program structured to prepare undergraduates for successful careers as graduate students, professors, and professional researchers. Students in the program are paired with K-State faculty in their field of interest for summer research projects. The students present their work at the end of the summer and some continue their research projects into the fall semester.

Jamie Parker is in the process of collecting data on a psychology study examining applicant responses to employment interview questions. He is  working with Drs. Lester Loschky and Satoris Culbertson in our department.

Becky Steinert studied people’s perception of time and the influence of the presence of a clock to understand time-related stressors. Her project advisers are Fred Newton, Director of Counseling Services, and Eun-Hee Kim, Research Analyst for Counseling Services.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and graduate student Maura Mills published in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives, in August 2009.

Mills, M. J., & Culbertson, S. S. (2009). High-involvement work practices: Are they really worth it? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23, 93-95.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and graduate student William Weyhrauch published in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives, in August 2009.

Weyhrauch, W. S., & Culbertson, S. S. (2009). Creating a performance incentive system: Can risk, distortion, and manipulation be successfully balanced? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23, 98-100

Graduate students Jericho Hockett and Sara Smith, Dr. Donald Saucier, and colleagues Bethany Hoffman and Adam Craig published in the journal Violence Against Women.

Hockett, J. M., Saucier, D. A., Hoffman, B. H., Smith, S. J., & Craig, A. W. (2009). Oppression through acceptance? Predicting rape myth acceptance and attitudes toward rape victims. Violence Against Women, 15 (8), 877-897.

Sara Smith, graduate student in psychology, Amber Axelton, former undergraduate in psychology, and Don Saucier, associate professor in psychology, published in the journal Sex Roles.

Smith, S. J., Axelton, A. M., & Saucier, D. A. (2009). The effects of contact on sexual prejudice: A meta-analysis. Sex Roles, 61, 178-191.

Graduate student Rosemary Coolon and Dr. Mary Cain published in the journal Behavioural Pharmacology, volume 20.

Coolon, R.A. & Cain, M.E. (2009). Individual differences in response to novelty and the conditioned locomotor effects of nicotine. Behavioural Pharmacology, 20(4), 322-329.

K-STATE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCHERS STUDY HOW CHILDREN VIEW AND TREAT THEIR PEERS WHO HAVE UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jul09/childtraits73009.html

Dr. McDaniel and students presented several posters at the Association for Research in Personality Conference this July.

McDaniel, B. L., Houltberg, B. J., & Morris, A. S. (July, 2009). Role Models and the Moral Development of At-Promise Youth. Poster presented at the 1st annual Association for Research in Personality Conference.  Evanston, IL.    

Berger, S. J., Brown, C. G., & McDaniel, B. L. (July, 2009). Exploring Morality through Family Dynamics and Individual Differences.  Poster presented at the 1st annual Association for Research in Personality Conference.  Evanston, IL.

Brown, C. G., Berger, S. J., & McDaniel, B. L. (July, 2009). A Comparison of Spirituality and Religion through Moral Emotions.  Poster presented at the 1st annual Association for Research in Personality Conference.  Evanston, IL.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Wendy Boswell, Abbie Shipp, and Stephanie Payne published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, in July 2009.

Boswell, W. R., Shipp, A., Payne, S. C., & Culbertson, S. S. (2009). Changes in newcomer job satisfaction over time: Examining the pattern of honeymoons and hangovers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 844-858.

K-State Psychologist discusses how "Not all famous people die in 3s." (Click here for link to Salina.com article)

Graduate students Adam Larson, Tyler Freeman, and Katrina Ellis, and other students of Dr. Lester Loschky coauthored four posters presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in May.

Larson, A.M., Loschky, L.C., Pollack, W., Bjerg, A., Hilburn, S., & Smercheck, S. (2009, May).  Variation in scene gist recognition over time in central versus peripheral vision.  Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Freeman, T.E. &  Loschky, L.C. (2009, May).  Inter-stimulus screen contrast affects scene masking in early processing.  Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. 

Loschky, L.C., Hansen, B.C., Fintzi, A., Bjerg, A., Ellis, K., Freeman, T., Hilburn, S., & Larson, A. (2009, May). Basic level scene categorization is affected by unrecognizable category-specific image features. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

 

Varakin, D.A. & Loschky, L.C. (2009, May). Object appearance is not integrated with scene viewpoint in long-term memory.  Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Dr. Lester Loschky and colleague Dr. Alex Varakin (Knox Coll.) presented a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in April.

Varakin, D.A. & Loschky, L.C. (2009, April). From where did I see that?  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

K-STATE PSYCHOLOGISTS LOOK AT SOME REASONS BEHIND THE FASCINATION WITH FIREWORKS

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jun09/fireworks62509.html

K-STATE SOPHOMORE FROM OVERLAND PARK RESEARCHES THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES ELICITED FROM DIFFERENT MUSIC LYRICS

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jun09/ealvarado62309.html

Graduate student Rosemary Coolon and Dr.Mary Cain published in the
journal Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, volume 93.

Coolon, R.A. & Cain, M.E. (2009). Effects of mecamylamine on nicotine-induced conditioned hyperactivity and sensitization in differentially reared rats. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 93(1), 59-66.

Dr. Mary Cain and Psychology graduate students Rosemary Coolon and
Margaret Gill published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research,
volume 202.

Cain, M.E., Coolon, R.A., & Gill, M.J. (2009). The contribution of the central nucleus of the amygdala to individual differences in amphetamine-induced hyperactivity. Behavioural Brain Research, 202(1), 11-18.

Mark Barnett, graduate students Tammy Sonnentag, Natalie Barlett, Jen
Livengood, and undergraduate Rachel Witham presented a paper, "Children's perceptions of and anticipated responses to peers with various undesirable characteristics," at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, May, 2009.

Sonnentag, T. L., Barlett, N. D., Livengood, J. L., Barnett, M. A., & Witham, R. Y. (May, 2009). Children's perceptions of and anticipated responses to peers with various undesirable characteristics. Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco.

Dr. Gary Brase and colleagues presented research at the Human Behavior
and Evolution Society meeting in May, 2009.

Fiddick, L., Lee, S. Oda, R., Brase, G., Tamura, R., & Hiraishi, K. (May, 2009). Reason and the passions are not opposed: They are domain-specific. Paper presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting, Fullerton, CA.

Dr. Richard Harris published the fifth edition of his textbook A COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATION in May 2009.

Harris, R.J. (2009).  A COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATION (5th ed.).  New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis.

Graduate student Russ Webster, his undergraduate research assistants,
Mason Burns and Margot Pickering, and their adviser Dr. Donald Saucier, presented a poster on political conservatism and prejudice at the annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco, CA, from May 22-25, 2009.

Webster, R. J., Burns, M., Pickering, M., & Saucier, D. A. (2009, May). /Justification and suppression factors mediate the relationship between political orientation and prejudice/. Poster presented at the annual conference for the Association for Psychological Science, San
Francisco, CA.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and colleague Dr. Tiffany Galtress published in
the journal Learning and Motivation.

Galtress, T. & Kirkpatrick, K. (2009). Reward value effects on timing in the peak procedure. _Learning and Motivation_, _40_, 109-131.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Pedro Leiva, Jaime Henning, and
Shawn Post-Priller published in the journal Canadian Journal of Career
Development, in April 2009.

Culbertson, S. S., Leiva, P. I., Henning, J. B., & Post-Priller, S. (2009). The role of personality and goal orientation in student preferences for job attributes. Canadian Journal of Career Development, 8(1), 39-49.

Dr. Mary Cain will receive a Commerce Bank Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at the College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony.

Professor Harris gave keynote adress at 15th Annual Undergraduate
Symposium in April 2009.

Richard Harris gave the keynote address "Myths about the Media: Evil Mind Control or Good Clean Fun?" at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium at Assumption College, Worcester MA, April 7, 2009.

Faculty and graduate students had 17 presentations at the annual conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New Orleans, LA on April 2-4.

Poster (14-18): When does emotional labor predict emotional exhaustion and life (dis)satisfaction? Presented by Gopalan and Culbertson, Thursday April 2, 2009.

Poster (26-4): Fitting engagement into a nomological network.  Presented by Wefald and Reichard, Thursday April 2, 2009.

Poster (26-3): Engagement and Flow:  Different Degrees of the Same?  Presented by Rupayana, Thursday April 2, 2009.

Poster (26-2): Flow and Performance Anxiety.  Presented by Fullagar, Knight, and Sovern, Thursday April 2, 2009.

Poster (91-31): Rating Multisource Feedback Ratings:  A Guide to Validating Multisource Systems.  Presented by Steele, Thursday April 2, 2009.

Poster (123-20): The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale:  An Evaluation of Two Versions.  Presented by Mills, Culbertson, and Fullagar, Friday April 3, 2009.

Symposium (135): Unemployment in Economic Hard Times.  Presented by Downey, Wanberg, Noordzij, Paul, Koen, and Song, Friday April 3, 2009.

Symposium (Chairs) (129): Exploring Allies, Enemies, and (Lack of) Boundaries in Work-Family Interactions.  Presented by Mills and Culbertson, Friday April 3, 2009.

Symposium (129): Engagement:  Positive boundary spanning between work and family.  Presented by Fullagar, Culbertson, and Mills, Friday April 3, 2009.

Poster (183-17): Occupational Vision Standards in Selection:  A Review of the Literature.  Presented by Steele, Friday April 3, 2009.

Poster (166-18): Identifying Interventions for Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Training.  Presented by Foster, Friday April 3, 2009.

Poster (224-12): An Examination of a Model Predicting Quality LMX Relationships.  Presented by Connell and Culberston, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Poster (238-16): Performance appraisal reactions:  The role of feedback and goal orientation.  Presented by Culbertson, Henning, and Payne, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Poster (263-13):The Impact of Psychological Capital on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-being.  Presented by Culberston, Fullagar, and Mills, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Symposium (267): New Developments in the Study of Interpersonal Mistreatment at Work.  Presented by Selden and Downey, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Poster (299-26): Examining the Effect of Core Self-evaluations on Pay Plan Preferences.  Presented by Sovern and Knight, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Symposium (305): Peer Assessments:  A quarter century after getting the good news.  Presented by Downey and Steele, Saturay April 4, 2009.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson published in the journal Academy of Management Perspectives, in February 2009.

Culbertson, S. S. (2009). Do satisfied employees mean satisfied customers? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23, 76-77.

Culbertson, S. S. (2009). Absenteeism: Escaping an aversive workplace or responding to resulting illness? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23, 77-79.

Dr. Kim Kirkpatrick, and collaborators Dr. Matthew Pizzo, Dr. Tiffany Galtress, and Dr. Pamela Blundell combined to present three posters at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL in March 2009.

Wilkinson, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2009). Tracking and capture of constant and sinusoidal velocities in pigeons and humans. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

Galtress, T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2009). Reinforcer magnitude effects on temporal discrimination. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

Pizzo, M. J., Kirkpatrick, K., & Blundell, P. (2009). Changes in criterion value alter performance on DRL schedules. International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL, USA.

Ryan Ringer, undergraduate student working with Dr. Loschky and graduate student Adam Larson, presented a talk on their research at the Great Plains Student Psychology Convention in March 2009.

Ringer, R. (2009, March). The roles of central versus peripheral vision in scene gist recognition over time. Talk presented at the 29th Annual Great Plains Student Psychology Convention, Kearney, NE.

An interview with Dr. Daniel J. Simons, on Health Issues related to Visual Awareness research, recorded during his visit to KSU, was aired on KPR Radio.

During a recent visit to the KSU Psychology Department, Dr. Daniel J. Simons (University of Illinois) gave an interview with KPR Radio on Health Issues related to Visual Awareness research. To listen to the interview, click here.

 

K-STATE RESEARCHER FINDS THAT YOUTHS ARE MOST INFLUENCED BY NEGATIVE FAMILY MEMBERS AND BY POSITIVE ADULTS OUTSIDE THE FAMILY

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb09/rolemodel22609.html

Dr. Mary Cain and graduate student Margaret Gill presented at the 42nd
annual Winter Conference on Brain Research. Dr. Cain was the recipient
of the 2009 Ann Kelley Memorial Travel Fellowship sponsored by the
Winter Conference on Brain Research.

Cain, M. & Gill, M. (2009). "Environmental Solutions: Enrichment as a Means of Prevention and Intervention". Talk presented at the 42nd annual Winter Conference on Brain Research.

Gill, M. (2009). "The Effects of Differential Rearing on Amphetamine-Induced c-fos Expression in the Basolateral Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens". Poster presented at the 42nd annual Winter Conference on Brain Research.

Dr. Don Saucier, graduate students Mark Chu, James Daugherty, Jessica
McManus, Sara Smith, and Russ Webster, and undergraduate students Mason Burns, Leschia McElhaney, Margot Pickering, and Danielle Zanotti
combined to present five poster presentations at the annual conference for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in February 2009.

Chu, P. S., Smith, S. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2009). The impact of culture on social support, communication values, and coping strategies.

McElhaney, L., Webster, R. J., Pickering, M., Burns, M., Daugherty, J. R., & Saucier, D. A. (2009). Near and far: How does thinking about ingroup and outgroup members’ deaths at home and afar affect terror management responses?

Pickering, M., Burns, M., McElhaney, L., Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2009). Red and blue: Does motivation to control prejudice mediate the relationship between political orientation and prejudice?

Smith, S. J., McManus, J. L., Zanotti, D. C., & Saucier, D. A. (2009).  Preaching to and beyond the choir: Selective exposure to prejudice reduction efforts.

Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2009). Gender role beliefs mediate increased sex differences in sexual prejudice following mortality salience.

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Bob Pritchard, Kenneth Malm, and
Anders Agrell published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, in February 2009.

Pritchard, R. D., Culbertson, S. S., Malm, K. & Agrell, A. (2009).  Improving performance in a Swedish police traffic unit: Results of an intervention. Journal of Criminal Justice, 37, 85-97.

Graduate student, Amanda Higley, recognized for excellence in research. The honor includes a $1,000 travel award so she can present her research at a scientific meeting. For more details, click here.

Dr. Mark Barnett, graduate students Natalie Barlett, Jennifer Livengood,
and Tammy Sonnentag, and undergraduate student Rachel Witham presented two papers at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Tampa, Florida in February, 2009.

Sonnentag, T. L., Barlett, N. D., Barnett, M. A., Livengood, J. L., & Witham, R. Y. Undergraduates' perceptions of the desirability of specific personality traits and body types.  Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL, February, 2009.

Witham, R. Y., Livengood, J. L., Barnett, M. A., Barlett, N. D., Sonnentag, T. L. Factors associated with individual differences in the liking of children. Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL, February, 2009.

Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick and her former graduate student Dr. Anna
Wilkinson published in the journal Animal Cognition in January 2009.

Wilkinson, A., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2009). Visually-guided capture of a moving stimulus by the pigeon (/Columba livia/). Animal Cognition, 12, 127-144.

K-State Psychology Research Shows How Popular Songs Can Cue
Specific Memories.

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jan09/memory12009.html

Dr. Satoris Culbertson and colleagues Travis Tubré and Shawn Post-Priller published in The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, in January 2009.

Culbertson, S. S., Tubré, T. C., & Post-Priller, S. (2009). Laying down the law: Engaging Industrial/Organizational Psychology undergraduate students on employment legal issues.  The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 46(3) 21-27.

 

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