Mary Turner DePalma

Professor, Psychology

Selected Conferences

Garcia-Ferres, E. A., & DePalma, M. T. (2018, March). Malleability, controllability and the self-conscious emotions in a health context. 89th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 

DePalma, M.T., Farsi, M., & Branneman, M. (2016, April). Thinking outside the lab: Overcoming obstacles in the collection of quality online data. 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.

DePalma, M.T., Bajoghli, H., Mostafavi, S. & Farsi, M. (2015, April). The relationship between self-blame, other-blame, depression, and diabetes self-care. 36th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Antonio, TX.

DePalma, M.T., Feeney, J., Diamond, A., Farsi, M., Kaczor, S., Osterweil, C., Park, G., Sattenspiel, M., Towner, C., Epstein, R., Falconieri, M.,  Hetterich, M., & Vizgaitis, A. (2014, April). Concerns about conducting health research on the Amazon MTurk platform. 35th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

DePalma, M.T., Feeney, J., Diamond, A., Farsi, M., Kaczor, S., Osterweil, C., Park, G., Sattenspiel, M., Towner, C., Epstein, R., Falconieri, M., Hetterich, M., & Vizgaitis, A. (2014, April). Behavioral consequences of counterfactual communication of disease information. 35th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

DePalma, M.T., Bajoghli, H. & Mostafavi, S. (2013, October). Psychometric properties of the summary of diabetes self-care activities in an Iranian sample. American Diabetes Association 6th Disparities Partnership Forum, Arlington, VA.

DePalma, M.T., Green, Z., & Copek, R. (2013, March). Counterfactual communication of diabetes information influences perceptions and charitable behavior. 34th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA.

DePalma, M.T., Green, Z., Copek, R., Hicks, J., & Lividini, R. (2012, April). The relationship between depression and diabetes self-care. 33nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, New Orleans, LA.

DePalma, M.T., Moser, C., & Earl, E. (2011, April). Exposure to upward counterfactuals increases victim blame. 32nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.

DePalma, M.T., Broadwell, K., Metzger, J., Calabrese, L., & Zaremba, B. (2009, October). Investigating racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between psychosocial variables and diabetes self-management. International Diabetes Federation 20th World Diabetes Congress, Montreal, Canada.

DePalma, M.T., Hewlett, D., & Boydston, S. (2007, November). The relationship between conceptions of illness causality and diabetes self-care activities. 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (in partnership with CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Care), Alexandria, VA.

DePalma, M.T., Hewlett, D., & Boydston, S. (2007, June). Diabetes self-efficacy predicts diabetes self-care. 67th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, Chicago, IL.

DePalma, M.T., Rollison, J., Bona, J. & Camporese, M. (2006, March). Perceptions of responsibility for diabetes onset and illness intrusiveness. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

DePalma, M.T., Prone, L., Ditt, J., Bona, J. & Anderson, J. (2005, March). The effects of mitigating circumstances and outcome magnitude on perceptions of blame. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

DePalma, M.T., Rollison, J. & Sosler, C. (2005, March). Psychometric properties of internet and standard administration versions of four Just World scales. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Shepard, D., & DePalma, M.T. (1998, February). Integrating the theories of counterfactual thinking and judgments of responsibility. Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Charlton, A., DePalma, M.T., & Madey, S.F. (1994, October). Perceived responsibility for illness onset and the allocation of scarce resources. New England Psychological Association 34th Annual Meeting, Hamden, CT.

DePalma, M.T., Borack, J., Madey, S.F. (1994, April). Perceived responsibility and retention of HIV/AIDS information. Paper presented at The Society of Behavioral Medicine Fifteenth Annual Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA.

DePalma, M.T., Madey, S.F, & Spost, M., Cole, R., Diakakis, J., Tillman, C., Borack, J., Hinkis, A., Belmont, H., & Meshnick, J. (1993, April). The effect of perceived patient responsibility on commitment to help. Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA.

DePalma, M.T. (1992, May). Attributions of responsibility for disease onset effect quality of care ratings. Ithaca College Spring Faculty Development Conference, Ithaca, NY.

Madey, S.F., DePalma, M.T., Bahrt, A.E. & Beirne, J. (1992, April). Attributions of responsibility and observer characteristics on the perception of patients. Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.