Psychology Student Research
Many of our graduate and undergraduate students perform their own original research supervised by our faculty members. Their research findings are often presented to various conferences across the country. Below is a selection of some of the research that our students are conducting (click on the poster title to see an expanded image of the poster).
Attachment Trauma and Student Disengagement in School
Graduate Researcher: Melissa Cornish
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
The Behavioral Evidence of Mattering Measure (BEMM), Mattering to Fathers, and Adolescents' Adjustment over Time
Graduate Researchers: Yookyung Lee, Alexandra Morford
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Cookston
Change Over Time in Coparenting and Interparental Conflict Among Families of Adolescents
Graduate Researcher: Chase Boyer
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Cookston
Cognitive- versus Emotion-Based Involunatary Cognitions: An Informative Contrast fro the Reflexive Imagery Task
Graduate Researchers: Hyein Cho, Pareezad Zarolia, Anthony G. Velasquez
Faculty Advisor: Ezequiel Morsella
Do People with Schizophrenai Experience More Negative Emotion and Less Positive Emotion in Their Daily LIves? A Meta-analysis of Experience Sampling Studies
Graduate Researchers: Hyein Cho, Lindsey M. Lavaysse, Manpreet Kaur
Undergraduate Researcher: Yasmin Campos
Faculty Advisors: Daniel Fulford, David Gard
Explaining the Experiential Advantage through Positive Memories
Graduate Researcher: Ngoc-Han K. Nguyen
Faculty Advisor: Ryan Howell
External Control of the Stream of Consciousness: Stimulus-Based Effects of Unintentional Thought Sequences
Graduate Researchers: Sabrina Bhangal, Christinal Merrick, Melika Farina, Tiffany Jantz
Faculty Advisor: Ezequiel Morsella
Habituation Effects on Involuntary Cognitions: Evidence from the Reflexive Imagery Task
Graduate Researchers: Sabrina Bhangal, Allison K. Allen
Faculty Advisor: Ezequiel Morsella
The Impact of Child Abuse Trauma on Emotional Dysregulation and Academic Performance
Graduate Researcher: Haylie Mills
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Motivation in Children
Graduate Researcher: Winnie Chan
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
The Impact of Ethnic Identity and a Caring Culture on Adolescent Development
Graduate Researcher: Guadalupe Arambula
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
Loneliness and Expressive Suppression; The Role of Pessimism about Expressivity
Graduate Researcher: Pooya Razavi
Faculty Advisor: Seung Hee Yoo
The Polymodal Role of Consciousness in Adaptive Action: A Paradigm for Neuroimaging
Graduate Researcher: Donish Cushing
Faculty Advisor: Ezequiel Morsella
Posttraumatic stress disorder: Expecting the worst
Graduate Researcher: Callan Lujan
Faculty Advisors: Ezequiel Morsella, Mark Geisler
Purchasing Happiness; It's Written All Over Your Face
Graduate Researcher: Kristine Tom
Faculty Advisors: Ryan Howell, Mark Geisler
The Role of Attachment in the Development of Ethnic Identity among Second Generation Students
Graduate Researcher: Connie Chan
Faculty Advisors: Rita Rodriguez, Diane Harris
Shame Inhibits and Asian-American Adolescent's Development of an Achieved Ethnic Identity
Graduate Researcher: Stephanie Meier
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
Strong Ethnic Identity Moderates the Effects of Discrimination for Middle Eastern Adolescents
Graduate Researcher: Shereen Nassar
Faculty Advisor: Diane Harris
Thought stopping through sustained imagery: Involuntary subvocalizations and the sense of agency
Graduate Researchers: Hyein Cho, Allison K. Allen
Faculty Advisors: Carlos Montemayor, Ezequiel Morsella
Who Should I Talk to About Him? Guided Cognitive Reframing with Non-Parental Sources About the Father-Child Relationship
Graduate Researcher: Kenn Dela Cruz
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Cookston
Why are Some People More Creative Than Others? An Electrophysiological Approach
Graduate Researcher: Kristina Pfeifer
Faculty Advisor: Mark Geisler
Working Memory-Based Action Control: An Interference Paradigm for Neuroimaging
Graduate Researchers: Sabrina Bhangal, Anthony G. Velasquez, Andrew C. Garcia
Faculty Advisors: Mark Geisler, Ezequiel Morsella