Ithaca College

On March 1 and 2, nineteen students representing five Ithaca College Psychology Department research teams presented posters about their research at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in New York, NY.

The research teams, authors and names of the posters are below. Students who presented at the conference are in bold font.

Clinical and Mental Health Research (Professor Hugh Stephenson): Emily Hess, Emma Weiss, Kira Singer, Alex Gray, Michael Yeung, Sophie Hancock, Itati Abadie

• PSYCHOPATHY AND GENDER: RELATIONSHIPS WITH AGGRESSION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
• THE ROLE OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN PREDICTING AGGRESSION, SELF-HARM, AND RESILIENCE
• FEELING LOW? INCREASES IN DEPRESSION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: 2009-2015
• PSYCHOPATHY: THE RELATIONSHIPS WITH INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS, AND ANXIETY SENSITIVITY

Developmental and Educational Psychology (Professor Judith Pena Shaff): Christina Carden, Melanie Malcomson, Emma Nigrosh, Cara Schanbacher, Greta O’Hara  

• NEVER MISS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY: A PROGRAM EVALUATION

Emotional and Physiological Influences in Cognition (Professor Brandy Bessette-Symons): Madison Colby, Joseph Smith, Alyssa Rodriguez

• REDUCED RECOGNITION ACCURACY FOR EMOTIONAL PICTURES IN IMMEDIATE LONG-TERM MEMORY
  

Humor (Professor Barney Beins): Mary Crilly, Brian Dahlin

• THE POSSIBLE INCOMPATIBILITY OF ORIENTATION TO LAUGHTER AND PERSISTENCE

Social Judgment (Professor Leigh Ann Vaughn): Abigail Coons, Noah Fisk, Christie Flock, Sarah Lamoureux, and Sophia Stanford

• SELF-EXPLORATION, SELF-CONTROL, AND SUPPORT OF FUNDAMENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
• THE LANGUAGE OF SELF-EXPLORATION AND SELF-CONTROL IN KEY LIFE SCENES

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