Psychology Dept. Presents Research

Research
Psychology Department students and faculty will present 17 posters and an invited workshop at the Annual Western Psychological Association (WPA) conference in Vancouver, BC, May 3rd -7th . The meeting is the nation’s largest regional psychology conference with 1500-2000 attendees each year.

Psychology Department students and faculty will present 17 posters and an invited workshop at the Annual Western Psychological Association (WPA) conference in Vancouver, BC, May 3rd -7th . The meeting is the nation’s largest regional psychology conference with 1500-2000 attendees each year.

Students will present research posters on a range of topics. Graduate student presenters include Alyssa Nguyen on Galvanic skin response, Michael Porter on environmental and racial attitudes (two presentations), Breanne Porter on commons dilemma and violence prevention (two presentations), Nate Weinstein on attitudes toward seeking psychological help, and Amelia Coulter on sexual risk taking.

Undergraduate presentations will be delivered by Christina Eichar on fluoridation attitudes and reactions to affirmative action (two presentations), Kacy Pula on heat, pollution, and hate crimes, and Samantha Stephenson on skin conductance.

Gregg Gold, Associate Professor of Psychology, along with student Alyssa Nguyen, will present a poster titled "Is Everybody Stoned but Me? Freshmen Perceptions of Drug Use." Bettye Elmore, Professor of Psychology, will present posters titled "Body Image, Self-efficacy, Social Distance and Appearance," "Addressing the Concerns of Heterosexual Adolescents as a Means of Deconstructing Stereotypes of LGB Adolescents," and “"Social Distance and Loneliness as they Relate to Headphone Use" along with students Socorro Valdez, Brittaini Graham, and Robert Crane.

Chris Aberson, Associate Professor of Psychology, will present a two-hour talk on Applied Power Analysis as part of the 6th Annual Statistical Workshop Series and will chair another workshop. Each year, the statistics workshop series is among the conference’s most popular events, with 80-100 attendees at each daily session.

This year’s presentations continue the Psychology Department’s tradition of collaborative faculty-student research. This year, 35 HSU students earned authorship on presentations. Since 2000, HSU students and faculty have collaborated on more than 100 conference presentations.