Russell J. Webster, graduate student, won the Diversity Fund Travel Award at the annual conference of the Midwest Psychological Association.
Graduate student Russ Webster won the Diversity Fund Travel Award for
the annual conference of the Midwestern Psychological Association, May
1-3, 2008 in Chicago, IL. Russ is advised by Dr. Don Saucier.
Dr. Gary Brase presented a talk on his research at the
Oklahoma/Kansas Judgement and Decision Making Conference.
Brase, G.L. (2008, April). Do pictures promote nested-set or frequency representations in judgments under uncertainty? Paper presented at the Oklahoma/Kansas Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.
Dr. Richard Harris spoke at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Forum and at the Esther G. Maynor Honors College Annual Banquet.
Dr. Richard Harris was the plenary speaker at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke "Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Forum." Harris, R.J. Myths about the Media: Evil Mind Control or Good Clean Fun? Pembroke NC April 23, 2008.
He also spoke at the Esther G.
Maynor Honors College Annual Banquet that same day and place. The title
of his speech was "Honors Students: Part of a Very Special Community."
Undergraduate researcher Jane Grdinovac shares interests
Undergraduate student Jane Grdinovac recently gave a presentation on her work at the 13th annual K-State Research Forum, and was interviewed by the K-State Collegian. The article has also been picked up by KSU Media Relations.
Former graduate student Chris Barlett, Dr. Harris, and undergraduate student Callie Bruey published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, in April 2008
Barlett, C.P., Harris, R.J., & Bruey, C. (2008). The effect of the amount of blood in a violent video game on aggression, hostility, and arousal. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 44, 539-546.
Dr. Saucier, graduate student Jericho Hockett, and former undergraduate student Andrew Wallenberg published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, in April 2008
Saucier, D. A., Hockett, J. M., & Wallenberg, A. S. (2008). The impact
of racial slurs and racism on the perceptions and punishment of violent
crime. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23 (5), 685-701.
Former graduate student Chris Barlett, graduate student Chris Vowels, and Dr. Saucier published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, in April 2008
Barlett, C. P., Vowels, C. V., & Saucier, D. A. (2008). Meta-analyses of the effects of media images on men's body-image concerns. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 27, 279-310.
Study finds teasing may be more damaging than once thought
Jennifer Livengood presented a poster, "Factors associated with children's emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous teases," based on the work of Dr. Barnett's research group at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 7th - 9th. A brief report on this study was released as a News Release by the Kansas State University Media Relations Office.
Dr. Gary Brase published in the journal, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in April 2008.
Brase, G.L. (2008). Frequency interpretation of ambiguous statistical
information facilitates Bayesian reasoning. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 15(2), 284-289.
Dr. Mary Cain and colleagues Emily Denehy and Michael Bardo published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, in March 2008
M.E. Cain, E.D. Denehy, & M. T. Bardo. (2008). Individual Differences in Amphetamine Self-Administration: The Role of the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology, Volume 33(5), pages 1149-1161.
Graduate student Adam Larson and undergraduate student Brandon Dooley presented at the Great Plains Student Psychology Convention, in March 2008, and won second place in their session.
Adam Larson and Brandon Dooley presented a talk entitled, "Is Central or Peripheral Visual Information Preferred When Limited in Processing Scenes?" at the Great Plains Student Psychology Convention in Emporia, Kansas, March 15th.
Dr. Don Saucier and graduate students Jessica McManus and Russell Webster presented posters at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, February 7-9,
2008 in Albuquerque, NM.
McManus, J. L., & Saucier, D. A. (2008). The role of financial cost in discrimination. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2008). Terror management and sexual prejudice: The effects of mortality salience on heterosexuals’ attitudes toward gay men and lesbians. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Graduate student Russell Webster won two awards at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, February 7-9, 2008, in Albuquerque, NM
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Russell Webster won two awards at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology:
The SPSP Diversity Fund Travel Award
The SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award
Dr. Mark Barnett and graduate students Natalie Brown and Jennifer Livengood presented posters at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting Feb 7-9, 2008.
Dr. Mark Barnett and his graduate students presented two posters at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 7th - 9th.
Natalie Brown presented a
poster, "The measurement and correlates of interpersonal
manipulativeness in young children," based on her thesis work.
Jennifer Livengood presented a poster, "Factors associated with children's emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous teases," based on the work of Dr. Barnett's research group.
Dr. Lester Loschky and graduate student Adam Larson published in the Journal of Vision in January 2008.
Loschky, L.C. & Larson, A. M. (2008). Localized information is necessary for scene categorization, including the Natural/Man-made distinction. Journal of Vision, 8(1):4, 1-9.
Dr. Lester Loschky, colleagues Dr. Amit Sethi and Dr. Daniel Simons, graduate student in CIS Tejaswi Pydimarri, and undergraduate students Daniel Ochs and Jeremy Corbeille published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance in December 2007.
Loschky, L.C., Sethi, A., Simons, D.J., Pydimari, T., Ochs, D., & Corbeille, J. (2007). The Importance of Information Localization in Scene Gist Recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(6), 1431-1450.
Dr. Lester Loschky and colleague Gary Wolverton published in the journal ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications in December 2007.
Loschky, L.C. & Wolverton, G.S. (2007). How Late Can You Update Gaze-contingent Multi-resolutional Displays Without Detection? ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 3(4):24, 1-10.
Dr. Donald Saucier and graduate students Sara Smith and Jessica McManus published in the Journal of Race and Policy, in November 2007.
Saucier, D. A., Smith, S. J., & McManus, J. L. (2007). The possible role of discrimination in the rescue response after Hurricane Katrina. Journal of Race and Policy, 3 (1), 113-121.
Graduate students Neena Gopalan and Michael Smith and undergradate student Anthony Savastano presented at the PERK Conference, in November 2007.
Gopalan, N., Smith, M.R., Savastano, A. (2007). Does Work-Family Conflict Partially Mediate Between Emotional Labor and Possible Resultant Burnout?. 26th Annual PERK Conference, Wichita, Kansas.
David Gill passed his Ph.D. Oral Exam on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
**Congratulations, David!! **
Kelley Watson passed her Ph.D. Oral Exam on Monday, November 12, 2007.
** Congratulations Kelley!! **
Mitch Ricketts passed his Ph.D. Oral Exam on Friday, November 9, 2007.
** Congratulations, Mitch!! **
Graduate students Christopher Vowels and Jason Brunner spoke at the American Evaluation Association's annual meeting in November 2007.
Christopher Vowels and Jason Brunner gave an oral presentation,
"Integrating Client Education with the Evaluation Process" at the
American Evaluation Association's annual meeting in Baltimore, MD held
Nov. 7-10, 2007. Financial support was provided by the Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation.
Graduate students Jason Brunner and Christopher Vowels served as co-authors on a technical report published through the Army Research Institute in July 2007.
Jason Brunner and Christopher Vowels served as co-authors on a technical report published through the Army Research Institute. Zbylut, M.L., Brunner, J.M., Vowels, C.L., & Kim, J.M. (2007, July). Case method instruction: 25 minutes of discussion can make a difference. (ARI Technical Report 1203). Arlington, VA: US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral & Social Sciences.
Report is
available at:http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA472171
Dr. Gary Brase published an online article in the Jounal of Extension in August 2007.
Gary L. Brase, H.E. Stelzer (August 2007). Education and Persuasion in Extension Foresty: Effects of Different Numerical INformation Formats, Vol 45, Number 4, Article Number 4FEA1. Available online in the Journal of Extension.
Dr. Richard Harris published a chapter in the Handbook of Applied Cognition in 2007.
Richard J. Harris, R.J. Cady, and C.P. Barlett (2007). Media. In F.T. Durso (ed.), Handbook of Applied Cognition (2nd ed.) Chichester UK: John Wiley and Sons.
Dr. Richard Harris published in Aggressive Behavior in 2007.
Richard J. Harris, C.P. Barlett, and R. Baldassaro (2007). Longer you play, the more hostile you feel: Examination of first person shooter vido games and aggression during video game play. Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, pages 1-12, 2007.
Dr. Matthew Palmatier presented at the APA Convention in August, 2007.
Invited presentation (August 19th -- part of the APA Convention in San Francisco 8/17-8/20): Palmatier, M. I. Characterizing the complex reinforcing properties of nicotine using a novel model of self-administration. Early-Career Investigator Poster Session and Social Hour co-sponsored by NIDA, NIAAA, and APA's Divisions 28 & 50.
Dr. Matthew Palmatier published in Psychopharmacology in August, 2007.
Paper in press: Palmatier, M. I., Liu, X., Matteson, G. L., Caggiula, A. R., & Sved, A. F. (in press) Conditioned reinforcement in rats established with self-administered nicotine and enhanced by non-contingent nicotine. Psychopharmacology (online first, 8/6/07).Dr. Mark Barnett
Mark Barnett wrote the section on "Moral Development" in the Encyclopedia of Social Psychology released by Sage Publications in August, 2007.New Faculty
The Psychology Department is excited to welcome 3 new faculty members who will be arriving this summer: Dr. Gary Brase (Cognitive/Human Factors Division), Dr. Matthew Palmatier (Behavioral Neuroscience/Animal Learning Division), and Dr. Satoris Youngcourt (Industrial/Organizational Division)
Dr. Richard Harris presented at Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition in July 2007.
R.J. Harris and L.G. Cook, Autobiographical memory for watching
movies
that made us uncomfortable: Where does the discomfort come from?
Presented at meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory
and
Cognition, Bates College, Lewiston ME, July 26, 2007.
