Find out more here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/convention/call-for-submissions#.VGlqp_nF9oN. If you are interested in attending, please contact Dr. Denise Friedman. We are currently organizing travel and accommodations to try and make costs manageable. Travel grants are available for most students!
Check out her profile: https://www.psyc.jmu.edu/psycsciences/people/meisen.html.
Tour the Salem Veterans Administration Hospital–November 19th
Contact Alex Grant afgrant@mail.roanoke.edu by November 15th to RSVP or for questions.
Nikki Hurless will attend graduate school at St. Louis University in the Fall. She will work with Dr. Terri Weaver focusing on interpersonal violence. Nikki received a competitive research assistantship. We can’t wait to call her Dr. Hurless!
Sara Dorrance and her research mentor, Dr. Friedman, received a competitive summer research grant from the national honor society in psychology for their work in the field of cyberpsychology. Their project will focus on how time away from technology impacts well-being in college students. Congrats, Sara!
Sara Dorrance received a summer scholar award to investigate the benefits of time away from technology on psychological and physical outcomes in college students. She will be working with Dr. Denise Friedman this summer to design and pilot her study.
Breanna Wright received a full assistantship and summer compensation to attend Stony Brook University where she will pursue a PhD in Political Science. Breanna is specifically interested in political psychology which she was the focus of her honors in the major project. Dr. Friedman and Breanna are preparing her honors paper for publication now.
https://www.livescience.com/37988-facebook-jealousy-gpa.html
This story was picked up by tons of national papers and translated into multiple languages! At one point, you got over 15 pages of Google search hits for this interview. The paper is currently under review with 6 student co-authors – Ben Hudson (applying to grad school for I/O in the Fall), Sylis Nicolas (pursuing MS at Oakland University), Molly Howser (obtained Masters in Speech Language Pathology from Radford University and will be working in Frederick County Public Schools starting in 2014), Kristen Lipsett (works at Perkins School for the Blind), Laura Pope (obtained Masters in I/O psychology from Radford University), and Ian Robinson (pursuing doctorate in dentistry at VCU).
Lauren Stinespring, Rita Yoe, Taylor Smiley, and Chava Urecki examined the effects of violent music and gender on aggression.
Courtney McKern, Lauren Miller, Hunter Gentry, and Ben Gilson examined the effects of text format and notetaking strategy on test scores.
Tori Long, Eden Caldwell, Amanda Newman, Brandon Turner and Julia Florea examined the effects of personality and performance evaluation on academic performance.
Emily Gaston, Ginny Keith, Julia Boudrye, and Breanna Wright examined the effects of personality and misattribution of arousal on attraction.
Carmen Graves, Katy Hurst, Alexis Coyne, and Emily Rinker examined the effects of health behavior, natural stimuli, and optimism on willpower.
Yuki Yamazaki, Kristen Robinson, Kacy Dillon, and Hazel Smitson examined the effects of encoding strategy and presentation order on memory for foreign language words.
Cortlandt Halsey, Aldijana Mekic, Noel Weakley, and Jennifer Klenzman examined whether consuming a candy thought to aid or harm recall actually effected recall performance.
Kiel Van Ness, Colleen Weber, Anne Watson and Caroline Casey examined the effects of music and mood on attraction.
