Psychology Newsletter April 2020

Announcements

Excellent work and a big congratulations to Whitney Dominick who successfully defended her dissertation: "The impact of dolphins on children's mental health: Longitudinal analyses of three interaction programs." Victoria O’Connor was the winner of the Social Sciences’ best presentation award at the Oakland University Graduate Student Research Conference, and Yzar Wehbe was the winner of the Social Sciences’ best poster presentation. Great job! Congratulations to Rachel James and Domenic Roberto who were the recipients of the Shelby Jane Seyburn Fall Travel Grant, which helped them travel to present at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference.

Events

Apr 9th 4-6 PM: Victoria O’Connor and Dr. Kana Taku will present an online stats workshop, hosted by the Writing Center.

Whitney Dominick celebrating a successful PhD Defense with her committee members, Drs. Kana

Taku, Lakshmi Raman, and Jennifer Vonk

Award winners from the OU Graduate Student

Research Conference, including Psychology graduate students, Yzar Wehbe and Victoria O’Connor (left)

Publications

Mieda, T., Taku, K., & Oshio, A. (in press). Dichotomous thinking and cognitive ability. Personality and Individual Differences. Mitchell, V.E., & Welling, L.L.M. (Accepted). Not all progestins are created equally: Considering unique progestins individually in psychobehavioral research. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. Orille, A. (2020). Sociosexual behavior. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior and Cognition. Ray, T.N. & Parkhill, M.R. (in press). Heteronormativity, disgust sensitivity, and hostile attitudes toward gay men: Potential mechanisms to maintain social hierarchies. Sex Roles.

Dr. Lisa Welling and her lab meet remotely as the campus transitions to remote operations to practice

safe social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Department of Psychology Pryale Hall (248) 370-2300

Recent Presentations Adams, B., Elam, T., O’Brien, C., & Taku, K. (2020, March, Conference Postponed). Examining the relationship between resilience and optimism. Poster to be presented at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters Annual Meeting, Lawrence Technological University, MI. Eberly Lewis, M. B. & Schmidt, M. B. (2020, March). The Significance of Target, Grade, and Empathic Concern in Early Adolescents’ Giving Behavior. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, CA. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]

Hanna, A., Eberly Lewis, M. B., Schmidt, M. B. (2020, March). Reassurance Seeking and Publicity Seeking in Early Adolescents: Correlates of Other-Oriented and Self-Oriented Prosocial Behavior. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, CA. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]. James, R. M., Roberto, D., & McDonald, M. M. (2020). True Crime Consumption as Defensive Vigilance: Psychological Mechanisms of a Rape Avoidance System. Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. [Cancelled due to COVID-19] James, R. M., Roberto, D., & McDonald, M. M. (2020, March). True Crime Consumption as Defensive Vigilance: Psychological Mechanisms of a Rape Avoidance System. Poster presented at Oakland University Graduate Student Conference. Rochester, Michigan. Lawson, S. C., Eberly Lewis, M. B., Laible, D., Carlo, G., & Slater, J. (2020, March). Adolescent Reception of Mothers’ Moral Messages: Moderation through Empathy and Perspective Taking. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, CA. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]. Lunge, J. M., Mitchell, V. E., Wysocki, A., Tratner, A. E., Welling, L. L. M. (2020, March). Rape avoidance across the menstrual cycle using a virtual paradigm. Talk given at the Graduate Student Research Conference at Oakland University. Rochester, Michigan. Lunge, J. M., & Welling, L. L. M. (2020, March). Hormonal contraceptives and disgust: Does progestin dose and generation impact disgust sensitivity? Oakland University Department of Psychology's Research Colloquium. Rochester, Michigan. (Cancelled)

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Margosian, S., Hickey, K., & Taku, K. (2020, March, Conference Canceled). Medical student attitudes toward communicating about death and caring for dying patients. Poster to be presented at the Class of 2020 Embark Capstone Colloquium. O’Brien, C., & Rothig, O. (2020, March). The relationship between parents’ education level and children’s openness and personal growth. Poster presented at the Oakland University Graduate Student Research Conference. Orille, A., McWhinnie, R., Brady, S., & Raffel, T. (2020). Positive effects of acclimation temperature on the critical thermal maxima of Ambystoma mexicanum and Xenopus laevis. Oakland University Graduate Research Conference. Pado, K. (2020, March). Perfectionism in medical professionals increasing deliberate rumination and posttraumatic growth. Poster presented at the Oakland University Graduate Student Research Conference. Rothig, O., & Fraus, K. (2020, March). A sense of personal growth and creative behaviors among children. Poster presented at the Oakland University Graduate Student Research Conference. Rothig, O., O’Brien, C., Fraus, K., & Taku, K. (2020, March, Conference Postponed). Components of posttraumatic growth and their relationships with creativity. Oral presentation to be made at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters Annual Meetings, Lawrence Technological University, MI. Slater, J. J., Eberly Lewis, M. B., McGinley, M., Lawson, S. (2020, March). Predicting Maternal and Paternal Helicopter Parenting from Sympathy and Narcissism: Differences by Parent Gender. Poster to be presented at the meeting of Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]. Wehbe, Y. S. (2020, March 19–22). A priori predictions about the paranoid style from Error Management Theory: Could conspiratorial ideation have helped solve ancestral problems? [Conference session]. University of Miami Conspiracy Theories Conference, Miami, FL, United States. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]. Wehbe, Y. S. (2020, March 6). Could conspiratorial thinking have helped solve ancestral problems? Using evolutionary theory and error management theory to explore novel predictors of conspiracism and superstition. [Poster presentation]. Oakland University Graduate Student Research Conference, Rochester, MI.