2013 Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association

On March 2 and 3, 2013, 22 students representing  from 6 research teams presented 11 posters about their research at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in New York, NY. The students were supported by a School of Humanities and Sciences Educational Initiative Grant of $4138. The research teams and their research were as follow (EPA attendees are in bold font):

Cognitive Development (Professor Nancy Rader): Joshua Leimer, Ted Alhanti, Briana Farringer, Stephanie Miller, Rebecca Post, Megan Long, Nadine Cohen, Glendenise McPherson, Yuberky Reyes, and Allegra Damari

• Infants' Attention to a Speaker's Mouth Relates to Mother's Level of Education
• Window to the Mind: Pupil Dilation Reveals Attention Processing in Early Word Learning
• The Effect of Speakers’ Gestures on Word Learning in Low-functioning ASD Children

Developmental and Educational Psychology (Professor Judith Pena Shaff): Brittany Raftis, Abigail Fink, Abigail Dixon, Ashley Braziel, Brendan Shaw

• Developing Cultural Competence Through Service Learning Courses
• Creating Economic Opportunity: an Evaluation of Financial Education Program Effectiveness - This poster received a 2^nd place award for poster presentation.  

Clinical and Mental Health Research (Professor Hugh Stephenson): Alex Moin and Sophia Terazawa

• Psychostimulant Use: Prescription, Recreational, and Patterns of Substance Abuse

Emotional and Physiological Influences in Cognition (Professor Brandy Bessette-Symons): Katie Straka, Jessica Blake, Mary Kate Fain, Kalie MacKenna, Tiffany DeRidder, Melanie Ziegler, Lauren Masser, Andrew Lemieszewski, and Emma Knighton

• The Influence of Emotion on Recognition Decision Processing Times
• The Influence of Arousal and Valence in Recognition Memory Performance

Humor (Professor Barney Beins): Natalie Mendes and Daniel Leibel

• The Tangled Web of Humor, Fear of Laughter, and Sexism

Social Judgment (Professor Leigh Ann Vaughn): Miranda Gehris, Jesse Held, Brittany Carey, Ashlyn Velte, Katrina Vega, Julian Bevan, and Eileen Grandel

• Regulatory Focus and Sensation Seeking
• How Global Versus Local Processing Affects Self-Compassion

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2012 Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association

On March 2 and 3, 2012, 26 students from 5 research teams presented 11 posters about their research at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in Pittsburgh, PA. The students were supported by a School of Humanities and Sciences Educational Initiative Grant of $3000. The research teams and their research were:

Humor:

• SENSE OF HUMOR: ARE WE ALL ABOVE AVERAGE? KENDRA DOYCHAK, CARLY HERSCHMAN, PAM FERRANTE, AND BERNARD C. BEINS
  
• TAKING OFFENSE: PERSONALITY AND GENDER-BASED JOKES. SAMANTHA SHERRY, JAMIE LEFEVBRE, BRAD JOHNSON, CHé ALBOWICZ, BERNARD C. BEINS

Cognitive Development:

• A DEVELOPMENTAL SHIFT IN EYE-GAZE PATTERNS TO A SPEAKER’S FACE: FROM INFANTS TO TODDLERS. ELIZABETH VAN FLEET, LAURA TRAFIDLO, SAMUEL BOYLES, KELSEY PUDNEY, NANCY RADER
  
• GAZE PATTERNS TO A SPEAKER’S FACE IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING AND ASD CHILDREN. ELICIA CELINE WARTMAN, TYLER SEYMOUR-HAWKINS, NANCY RICCARDI, NANCY RADER
  
• A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF EYE GAZE PATTERNS IN INFANCY: A CASE STUDY. TYLER SEYMOUR-HAWKINS, KELSEY PUDNEY, NANCY RICCARDI, LAURA TRAFIDLO, ELIZABETH VAN FLEET, ELICIA WARTMAN, NANCY RADER

Clinical and Mental Health Research:

• PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSION: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AS A MEDIATING FACTOR. KASI ALLISON, MONICA CONCORS, ROBERT CRAIG, JACQUELINE SHINALL, HUGH STEPHENSON
• DIMENSIONS OF TREATMENT EXPERIENCE WITH PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MEDICATION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY. CHLOE DYBA, NIKKI BEAUDETTE, RICKY GRANDERSON, KAITLYNN BARBARITZ, HUGH STEPHENSON

Social Judgment:

• MINDFULNESS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREDICTORS OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. ARIELLE MANGANIELLO, ANDREW BLOSS, BENJAMIN HEISLER, KATHERINE STEIN, VANESSA SMALETZ, LEIGH ANN VAUGHN
  
• THE EFFECT OF REGULATORY FOCUS ON THE MOTIVATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF DREAMS. VANESSA SMALETZ, KATHERINE STEIN, ANDREW BLOSS, ARIELLE MANGANIELLO, BENJAMIN HEISLER, LEIGH ANN VAUGHN

Developmental and Educational Psychology:

• ON BLACK ICE: STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES BASED ON RACE. MICHAEL A TATE, JOELLE FINGERHUTT, JUDITH PENA-SHAFF
• RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ACCELERATED CLASSES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. ANDREW B.G. FISCHER, HEATHER L. MORIHARA, SEREN M. OZKAN, KATHERINE E. TWITCHELL, JUDITH PENA-SHAFF

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2011 Eastern Psychological Association Conference

Students from Leigh Ann Vaughn's, Nancy Rader's, Bill Hudenko's, and Barney Bein's research teams presented their research at the annual Eastern Psychological Conference in Cambridge, MA.

2010 EPA Conference

 Students from Leigh Ann Vaughn's and Barney Bein's research team presented their research at the annual Eastern Psychological Conference in New York City.

2009 Sigma Xi Conference

 Students from Leigh Ann Vaughn's research team presented at the Sigma Xi research conference at Oswego University in Oswego, NY.

2009 EPA Conference

 Students from Professor Bill Hudenko's and Barney Bein's research teams presented their research at the Eastern Psychological Association's annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

2008 EPA Conference

 Students attended the Eastern Psychological Association's conference in Boston, MA.

2008 ECSC

2008 Whalen Symposium

 Psychology students presented the results of their research at the annual Whalen Symposium on the Ithaca College campus.

2007 EPA Conference

 Students attended the 2007 Eastern Psychological Association conference in Philadelphia, PA.

2005 Scranton Conference

Ithaca College Psychology Students made presentations at the University of Scranton Psychology Conference. This is the 18th year our students have submitted their work for presentation at Scranton.

2005 ECSC

Psychology students from the Adult Development, Cognitive Develoment, Humor, and Psychology of Television and Other Media Research Teams presented the results of their research at the 2005 Eastern Colleges Science Conference. In addition, students conducing independent research projects also presented their work. The meeting took place at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT.

2005 Whalen Symposium

Psychology students presented the results of their research at the annual Whalen Symposium on the Ithaca College campus.

2004 University of Scranton Psychology Conference

Students from the Humor Research Team (Prof. Beins), the Human Motivation Research Team (Prof. DePalma), the Cognitive Development Research Team (Prof. Rader), and the Positive Psychology Research Team (Prof. Vaughn) presented the results of their research at the 2004 University of Scranton Psychology Conference.

Students at the APS convention

Tom O'Rourke and Sandra Schwartz present their research findings with Prof. Leigh Ann Vaughn at the 2004 convention of the American Psychological Society in Chicago.

ECSC 2004

Students from the Humor Team (Prof. Beins), the Cognitive Development Team (Prof. Rader), and the Media Psychology Team (Prof. Scheibe) presented the results of their research at the 2004 Eastern Colleges Science Conference.