54th Annual Research Festival

On Wednesday, June 4th, the Department of Psychology hosted its 54th Annual Research Festival featuring the research conducted by 11 students—clinical students present at the end of their second year in the program and all other students present at the end of their first year. Presentations of research spanning all areas within the department took place in two adjacent rooms at the Waterfront Activity Center.

Talks and titles of all participating graduate speakers include:

Urmi Pandya, Child Clinical -  Alcohol-related perceived parental approval: The moderating role of identity exploration

Priya Dahiya, Child Clinical - Organization-Level Predictors of Low Secondary Traumatic Stress in Lay Counselors Delivering Adapted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Youth in Kenya

Onyx Scheuer, Adult Clinical -  Associations Between Polygenic Risk Scores and Psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

Caroline Marohasy Wright, Adult Clinical - Cortisol Reactivity and Subjective Distress During Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD

Huanchen Cai, Social Psychology & Personality - Do masculine defaults drive sexist expectations and behaviors?

Alice Aizza, Developmental - The Role of Labels in Early Working Memory Strategies

Siying Zhang, Developmental -  The Language of Causality: How Children Understand and Explain Causal Relationships

Xinguo Zhang, Developmental - Understanding Black Children’s Experiences of Overt and Covert Racial Discrimination in Middle Childhood

Tina Zhao, Cognition & Perception - Individual Differences in Declarative vs. Procedural Decision-Making: Testing White Matter Microstructure as a Neural Predictor

Aoi Hunsaker, Neural Systems & Behavior - Did the brain “hear” that?: Developing electrophysiology tools to measure hearing sensitivity across animals

Martha-Root Mbah, Neural Systems & Behavior -  The Medial Prefrontal Cortex is Implicated in Adaptive Decision-Making Strategies