Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, recently had a paper titled “The reverse double standard in perceptions of student-teacher sexual relationships: The role of gender, initiation, and power published in the Journal of Social
Psychology. Student co-authors on the paper included 2008 graduate Braden Ackley and 2009 graduates Patrick Egan and Jenny Howell.

Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, and 2007 graduate Sarah Gomillion recently had a paper titled “The influence of media  role models on gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity” published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Giuliano and 2009 graduate Jenny Howell recently had a paper titled “The effects of expletive use and team gender on perceptions of coaching effectiveness” published in the Journal of Sport Behavior.

Sarah Gomillion (‘07), and Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, had a paper titled, “The influence of media role models on gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity” published in the Journal of Homosexuality.

Jenny Howell (‘09), Patrick Egan (‘09), Braden Ackley (‘08), and Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, had a paper titled, “The reverse double standard in perceptions of student-teacher sexual relationships: The role of gender, initiation, and power” published in the Journal of Social Psychology.

Jenny Howell (‘09) and Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, had a paper titled, “The effects of expletive use and team gender on perceptions of coaching effectiveness” published in the Journal of Sport Behavior.

Psychology majors Brooke Blomquist and Steffani Willems received a Psi Chi Regional Research Award for the poster they presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, April 7-9.The poster, titled “The Effects of Disclosure and Controllability of Stigmas on Likeability”, was written with Traci Giuliano, Professor of Psychology.

Several other SU Psychology students and faculty made presentations at the Southwestern Psychological Association Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, April 7-9. Derek Kuiper, Colin McCulloch, and Fernando Romero presented a poster titled “Change Blindness: Detection of Change in Magnitude and Belongingness”; Sarah Chatfield, Kayla Bogs, Kyla Flynn, and Kelsey Kurth presented a poster titled “Are Tattoos Lose-Lose? Perceptions of Women with Romantic vs. Memorial Tattoos” written with Traci Giuliano; Rebecca Eisenberg, Martha Simon, and Jessica Alonzo presented a poster titled “I Kissed a Girl: Perceptions of Blame and Relationship Stability Following Infidelity”, also written with Traci Giuliano; Margaret Durham and Lauren Hodgin presented a poster titled “Relationship Quality as a Mediator Between Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Functioning” written with Bryan Neighbors, associate professor of psychology; Kelly Finn, Hana Morton, and Alex Burbey presented a poster titled “Sexy-time Shopping: Multiparty Shopping and Women’s Consumer Behavior at Novelty Stores”.

Several students and faculty members presented their research at the Southwestern Psychological Comparative Association (SCPA) annual meeting held in conjunction with SWPA in San Antonio April 7-9.  Psychology Professor Jesse Purdy presented a paper titled “Exploring the Interaction Between New Technology and Old Ideas.” Purdy and seniors Elizabeth Anne Wilson and Alex Hall presented a paper titled “Retention of Learned Association following Metamorphosis in African Claw-toed Frogs.” Senior Carissa Winland and Psychology Professor Fay Guarraci presented a paper titled “Nice Guys Finish Last”: Mate Choice, Reproductive Success, and Testosterone in Rats. Senior Morgan Mingle presented a paper titled “Chimpanzee See; Chimpanzee Do: A Study of Social Learning and Handedness,” which was done in collaboration with William Hopkins from Agnes Scott College, Sarah Brosnan from Georgia State University, Lydia Hopper, Susan Lambeth, and Steven Schapiro from The University of Texas- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Mingle also presented a paper titled “Acoustic Preference for World Music in Chimpanzees,” which was done with Victoria Horner and Timothy Eppley from The Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Frans B. M. de Waal from Emory University. 

Fay A. Guarraci, associate professor psychology, has had a paper titled “Methamphetamine Enhances Sexual Behavior in Female Rats” accepted for publication in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. Co-authors on the paper include students Jessica Bolton, Alexandra Burbey, Brittany Ford, Charles Haycox, Sumith Jampana, Amber Marquette, Benjamin J Oakley, Laura Ornelas and Carissa Winland, along with Russell J Frohardt, associate professor of psychology at St. Edward’s University. 

Fay Guarraci, associate professor of psychology, had an article titled “Sex, Drugs and the Brain: The Interaction Between Drugs of Abuse and Sexual Behavior in the Female Rat” published in Hormones and Behavior.  

Two recent Southwestern psychology graduates placed in national award competitions sponsored by Psi Chi, the national psychology honor society. Stacy Mathis placed first in the Psi Chi /J.P. Guilford Undergraduate Research Awards competition with her paper titled “Perceived Effectiveness of Self-Presentation Strategies Designed to Improve Perceptions of Shy Individuals.” This award came with a $1,000 prize. Kathryn Bollich placed second in the Psi Chi/Allyn & Bacon Psychology Award competition with her paper titled “From Shy to Fly: Strategies to Improve First Impressions of Shy Individuals.” This award came with a $650 prize. In all, 10 students from Southwestern have received awards in the Psi Chi national paper competitions in the past 12 years. All the students had Psychology Professor Traci Giuliano as their research advisor. Read more here.

Psychology students Kathryn Bollich, Whitney Laas, Lauren Margulieux and Stacy Mathis are presenting a paper titled “‘I’m Shy’: Improving Misperceptions of Shy Individuals through Acknowledgement” at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston May 27-30. The paper was written with Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology.

Psychology majors Meagan Anderson and Caitlyn Carnes are attending the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston May 27-30 to present a paper titled “Emotional Intelligence and Stress are Related to Trait Worry.” The paper was written with Paula Desmond, assistant professor of psychology.

Psychology majors Kathryn Bollich, Whitney Laas, Lauren Margulieux and Stacy Mathis received a Psi Chi Regional Research Award for the paper they presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association Meeting held in Dallas April 8-10. The paper, titled “‘Shy to ‘Fly’: Testing the Effectiveness of Self-Presentation Strategies of Shy Individuals,” was written with Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology.

Several other psychology students presented papers they had written at the conference. Stacy Mathis and Amanda Burkett presented a paper titled “When to Whistle-Blow: Factors that Effect Perceptions of Informants of Academic Cheating”; Anya Lopez-Fuentes presented a paper titled “Gender Differences for Negative Alcohol Consequences in Specific Areas of Functioning” written with Professor Bryan Neighbors; Kelsey Horick presented a paper titled “Peer Attachment Security and Eating Disorder Problem Dimensions Among College Women,” which was also written with Neighbors; Meagan Anderson and Caitlyn Carnes presented a paper titled “Examining the Relationship between Perceived Emotional Intelligence and Trait Worry” and another paper titled “Exploring the Relationship between Perceived Emotional Intelligence and Adaptiveness in Coping” that were written with Professor Paula Desmond; and Julia Poritz and Sarah Fritz presented a paper titled “Exploring Emotional Intelligence and Coping within a Transactional Model of Stress,” also written with Desmond.

Animal behavior major Jessica Bolton was one of two winners of the H. Wayne Ludvigson Memorial Student Prizes for best student paper presentations at the Southwestern Comparative Psychological Association annual meeting held in Dallas April 8-10. Bolton received the award for her talk titled “‘Who’s Your Daddy’: Kin Recognition in Prepubescent and Adult Rats,” which was based on a paper she wrote with Brittany Ford, Carissa Winland and Professor Fay Guarraci.

Several other psychology and animal behavior students presented papers at this conference. Morgan Mingle, Alexander Hall, Bolton and Guarraci presented a paper titled “The Paradoxical Effects of Morphine on Sexual Motivation in Female Rats,” Mingle and Professor Jesse Purdy presented a paper titled “Conditioned Anti-Predatory Behavior in Mulloway,” and Winland, Ford, Bolton and Guarraci presented a paper titled “Chronic Exposure to Methamphetamine Affects Sexual Behavior in Female Rats,” which was written in collaboration with Charles Haycox, Mark Maynard, Douglas Clements, Christine Wise and Professor Russell Frohardt from St. Edward’s University. Winland, Ford, Bolton and Guarraci also were collaborators on a paper titled “MePD Intracranial Infusions of Methamphetamine Have no Effect on Female Sexual Behavior,” which was presented by the same team from St. Edward’s.

Four psychology students are presenting papers at the Southwestern Psychological Association Meeting to be held in Dallas April 8-10. Kathryn Bollich, Whitney Laas, Lauren Margulieux and Stacy Mathis are presenting a paper titled “Introverted But Not Shy: A New Perspective on the Measurement Of Introversion” and another paper titled “Shy to ‘Fly’: Testing the Effectiveness of Self-Presentation Strategies of Shy Individuals.” The papers were written with Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology.

Alex Anderson, associate director of Career Services, had an article published in the September issue of the NACE Journal, which is published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The article is titled “Campus Collaborations to Measure the Effect of Career Services on Student Outcomes: A Research Model and Case Study.” A 2008 graduate, Rachel Osborne, did the research for the project as an independent research project under Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology. The research looked for correlations between students’ post-graduation outcomes (e.g. employment, continuing education) and their contacts with Career Services (e.g. appointments, program attendance). NACE is the main national professional organization for career services staff and recruiters of college graduates.

Four presentations by students and faculty members in the Psychology Department won awards at the Southwestern Psychological Association annual meeting in San Antonio April 4-6. Sarah Gomillion (‘07) placed first in the graduate student paper competition for “The influence of media role models on gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity.” Her talk was based on her undergraduate honors thesis conducted under the supervision of Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology. Student Jessica Domino and Bryan Neighbors, associate professor of psychology, won a “Best Submission to the Psi Chi Program” award for their poster titled “Dimensions of intimate relationships and emotional functioning among college students.” There were two winners of H. Wayne Ludvigson Memorial Student Prizes for best student paper presentations. Benjamin Oakley won second place for “Methamphetamine enhances sexual motivation in female rats,” and Leah Christian and Brittany Ford won third place for “Unsafe Sex: Female sexual behavior in the presence of predator stimuli.” Both papers were supervised by Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology.

Faculty-student presentations at the conference included the following:

• “Battle of the sexes: Sex role and attitudes toward war” by Kathryn Bollich, Whitney Laas and Traci Giuliano
• “Putting the news to good use: The news media and volunteerism” by Kristen Davenport and Traci Giuliano
• “The relationship between coping strategies and negative emotions: Exploring gender differences” by Betsy Davis and Bryan Neighbors
• “The effects of word presentation rate on mood and creativity” by Marcos Duran, Melanie Wilmoth, Erika Anderson and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus
• “Moderating factors of the reverse sexual double standard in student-teacher relationships” by Patrick Egan, Jenny Howell, Braden Ackley and Traci Giuliano
• “Shoot the ball %$@&*#!: The impact of expletive use on coaching effectiveness” by Jenny Howell, Hailey Ormand and Traci Giuliano
• “Gender differences on scales of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems” by Hayley Humpert and Bryan Neighbors
• “The politics of Facebook: Gender and political orientation on a social-networking website” by Whitney Laas, Kathryn Bollich and Traci Giuliano
• “Can sexual receptivity be classically conditioned to an odor cue in female rats?” by Erica Navaira, Benjamin Oakley, Carissa Winland, Sumith Jampana, Tabitha Spencer, Leah Christian and Fay Guarraci
• “Gender equality extends to the bedroom: College student sexual risk taking” by Laura Thornton and Bryan Neighbors

Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, received a $4,900 grant to test the possibility that learning plays a role in the acquisition and performance of anti-predatory behavior in an endangered fish called the Oxylan Pygmy Perch, which is found in coastal fresh waters of eastern Australia. The funds will help him spend four months in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, working in an aquatic animal behavior and cognition lab associated with the Pet Porpoise Pool marine park and the University of Southern Cross.

A collaborative faculty project has been funded for 2009 out of Southwestern’s three-year, $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for collaborative faculty projects. Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, and Maha Zewail Foote, assistant professor of chemistry, received $16,600 to continue their collaborative research. The two are combining psychology and biochemistry to investigate the adaptive significance of female mate choice on the reproductive success of different potential fathers in Long-Evans rats.

Seven faculty members have been named 2008 recipients of awards from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund. The fund provides monetary awards for the continuing education and development of full-time faculty members of United Methodist colleges and universities in Texas. Southwestern received a total of $13,620 in grant money from the fund this year. Faculty members receiving awards include Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, professor of psychology, who will use her funds to conduct several studies to determine whether speeding presentation rates can enhance learning, problem solving and task performance among adolescents. Five students will assist her on the research project.

Fay Guaracci, assistant professor of psychology, and Maha Zewail-Foote, assistant professor of chemistry, have had a paper accepted for publication in Physiology & Behavior. The paper is titled “Reproductive success and mate choice in Long-Evans rats” and reports on a study in which they combined psychology and biochemistry to investigate the adaptive significance of female mate choice on the reproductive success of different potential fathers. The research was done with former students Abby Diehl, Anastasia Benson, and Kuan H. Lee.

Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, presented his award-winning documentary, “The World of Weddell Seals,” to an audience at Centre College this week and gave a talk titled “Umwelt: Exploring the Self-Worlds of Human and Non-Human Animals.”

Five Southwestern faculty members have received Mundy and Jones Fellowships for 2008-09. The fellowships provide a total of $42,000 that will be used to fund collaborative research projects with students. Faculty members receiving the fellowships include: Traci Giuliano, professor of psychology, who received a $9,100 Mundy Fellowship for a research project that will involve junior psychology majors Braden Ackley, Patrick Egan and Jenny Howell. The team will study whether men are punished more than women in cases involving student-teacher relationships. They plan to present their work at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in May 2009.

Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, has had a paper accepted for publication in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. The paper is titled “Intracranial Infusions of Amphetamine into the Medial Preoptic Area but not the Nucleus Accumbens Affect Paced Mating Behavior in Female Rats.” Several students from Southwestern and St. Edward’s University collaborated with her on the paper, along with a faculty member from St. Edward’s.

Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, professor of psychology and education at Southwestern, has been selected to receive the 2007 Exemplary Teaching Award from the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church. Each year the Board allows the university to designate one teacher to receive this award. Criteria for receiving the award include excellence in teaching; civility and concern for students and colleagues; commitment to value-centered education; and service to students, the institution and the community. Muir-Broaddus has taught psychology and education at Southwestern since 1990. She currently serves as chair of the Psychology Department and chair of the Division of Social Sciences. “Jacquie is a wonderful teacher and scholar,” said Provost Jim Hunt. “She also has done outstanding work as a department chair and division chair.” Previous recipients of the award include Eric Selbin, Dan Hilliard, LaVonne Neal, Traci Giuliano, Suzanne Buchele and Dirk Early.

Department of Psychology students and faculty made another impressive showing at the Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) annual meeting in Fort Worth April 5-7, 2007. Presentations included “Latent Growth Modeling” by Richard Osbaldiston; “Group attachment and eating disorder problem dimensions among college females” by Jessica Vandivier, Jessica Harper, Diana De Luna and Bryan Neighbors; “Weddell Seal Mating Strategies: Vocalizations, Behaviors and Social Interactions” by Ludivine Russell and Jesse Purdy; “‘Her-she’ snacks: The relationship between gender and chocolate consumption” by Hailey Ormand, Patrick Egan and Traci Giuliano; “Gender and health-awareness: The relationship between gender and beverage choice” by Rachel Osborne, Braden Ackley and Traci Giuliano; “The Effect of mPOA Lesions on Paced Mating Behavior” by Amanda Covington, Matt Gilbertand Fay Guarraci; “Disruption of Olfactory Cues Affects Paced Mating Behavior, but not Mate Selection in the Female Rat” by Sarah McCracken, Milly Lee and Fay Guarraci; “Beyond the picket lines: Self-monitoring and political activism in college students” by Shelly Tang, Andrew Yusran and Traci Giuliano; and “Characterization of Human Milk Donors” by Richard Osbaldiston and Leigh A. Mingle. In addition, two submissions to the Psi Chi program earned $300 Best Submission awards. These were “ZZZs to As: The effects of limited sleep on executive functioning” by Leigh Mingle, Sally Redden, Shelly Tang and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, and “Classroom crushes: An exploration of student-instructor attraction” by Emily Travis and Traci Giuliano.

Jennifer Lovell ‘06, Abby Diehl ‘06, Elizabeth Joyce ‘07, Jenifer Cohn ‘06, Jose Lopez ‘06 and Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, had a manuscript titled “Some Guys Have All The Luck: Mate Preference Influences Paced-Mating Behavior in Female Rats” accepted for publication in Physiology & Behavior.

Students, faculty, and recent graduates of the Psychology Department captured many of the undergraduate research awards at the Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) annual meeting in Austin April 13-15. First place in the Undergraduate Research Competition went to Emily Taylor, Mark Morrow and Richard Osbaldiston for “Size matters: Perception of nutrition through serving sizes.” Southwestern students also won four of 10 cash awards given for the best abstracts submitted to the Psi Chi program. These research groups are Christine Chalmers, Samantha Borrego, Candace Tribble and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus for “Autism and executive functions: The effect of motivational/attentional accomodations;” Sarah Gomillion for “Explaining changes in voting preference over time in university students;” Carlee McConnell and Elissa Lewis for “Prejudice and partisanship: The connection between racial and political attitudes;” and Mary Beth Pinnell, Molly Peterson and Bryan Neighbors for “Internal and external factors associated with sexual risk-taking in college students.” In addition, Jessica DeFilippo, Elissa Lewis and Bryan Neighbors presented “Gender specificity in parental and romantic attachment;” Elissa Lewis, Mary Ann Erwin-Hartley ‘04, Jessica DeFelippo and Bryan Neighbors presented “Loves me not: Current parental attachment and personality dysfunction.” Richard Osbaldiston chaired the Society for Applied Multivariate Research Workshop “Introduction to meta-analysis.”

Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, and Staci Benson ‘05 co-authored a manuscript ”Coffee, Tea and Me: Moderate Doses of Caffeine Affect Sexual Behavior in Female Rats,” which was accepted for publication in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.

Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, and junior Melanie Stanzer have been awarded a $1,500 grant from the Journal of Emergency Medical Services in cooperation with Pre-hospital Care Research Forum (PCRF) to conduct a study on the psychological well-being of paramedics. The project titled “Stress, Social Support and Partner Preference of Paramedics” was one of the two proposals nationwide that were funded. Stanzer has been invited to present the results from her study at the 2005 Emergency Medical Service Today Conference and Exposition. Her results also will be published in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

Senior psychology major Abby Riggs won first place in the Psi Chi/J.P. Guilford national paper competition. The award honors the best undergraduate empirical paper in psychology and comes with a $1000 stipend. Her paper, “‘His and her’ heart attacks: The effects of gender relevance on women’s receptiveness to health-related information,” was based on research conducted with Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and fellow students Erin Crockett and Aubrey Buckert.

Southwestern University was well represented at the 50th annual Southwestern Psychological Association Convention in San Antonio last week. Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, presented the invited Psi Chi lecture titled “The Future and Promise of Psi Chi: The National Honor Society in Psychology.” Paper presentations were also made by Elizabeth Cheaney and Purdy, titled “New Procedure for Assessing Foraging Strategies in Fish”; Fay Guarraci, “The Neurobiology of Paced Mating Behavior in the Female Rat”; Purdy, Nichole Buehler and Sheralyn Chilson, “Empirical and Functional Analyses of Trills in Male Weddell Seals”; and Nicole Buehler, Margaret Remkus and Cristy Torres, et. al titled “Additional Assessments of Laterality in Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes). Southwestern University students and faculty also contributed numerous poster presentations: Genevieve Pruneau, Bryan Neighbors, assistant professor of psychology, and Elizabeth Vera presented “Attachment and Psychopathology: Attachment Security, Axis I Symptoms, and Gender.” Rebecca Stelter, Ashley Still, Kamini Verma, and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, professor of psychology, presented “Who Dunnit? Attractiveness Stereotypes and Children’s Responses to Leading Questions.” Ashley Hadsell, Neighbors, and Erin L. Leverenz presented “Are Parental Attachment Security and Adult Romantic Attachment Styles Related?” Abigail Riggs, Erin Crockett and Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, presented “Pink Slips and Black Cats: The Relationship Between Stress and Superstition.” Nicole Blanchett, Erin Puckett, Sarah Barnett and Muir-Broaddus presented “Life After College?: Factors Influencing Seniors’ Post-Graduation Plans.” Aubrey D. Buckert, Genevieve Pruneau and Giuliano presented “Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All: Perceptions of Individuals Demonstrating Male Answer Syndrome.” Tara Cummings, Neighbors, Ellen Gass and Amy Casbeer presented “Interparental Conflict Associated with Parent-Young Adult Child Attachment Security.” Mary Ann Erwin, Neighbors, Elizabeth Vera, and Heidi Tesch presented “Dimensions of Romantic Attachment and Symptoms of Psychopathology.” And, Brandy Ledbetter and Neighbors presented “Eating Disorder Traits and Romantic Attachment.” Notably, Southwestern University students won five of the 12 Psi Chi Undergraduate research prizes awarded at the conference. The papers first-authored by Nicole Blanchett, Aubrey Buckert, Mary Ann Erwin, Brandy Ledbetter, and Abby Riggs each won $300 for being among the best papers submitted by members of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society for Psychology.

Two psychology research groups were awarded Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grants in national competition. Nicole Blanchett, Sarah Barnett, Erin Puckett, and Professor Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus were awarded $1170 to study “Predictors of Decision-making among College Seniors,” and Aubrey Buckert, Kathryn Hodges, Annie Peters, and Professor Jesse Purdy were awarded $1440 to study “The Role of Congruence between the CS and US and the Role of the US in Determining the nature of the CR in Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis).”

Southwestern University was represented by 27 students and five faculty at the 49th annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association in New Orleans in mid-April. A number of students and faculty made research presentations: Jesse Purdy, “Social interactions in Weddell seals, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica;” Michelle Thibodeau, Beth Goetz, Bryan Neighbors, Amanda Seale, Sara Skladal and Desiree Whitley, “Are sorority members at greater risk for developing eating disorders?;” Jill Hogue, Matthew Hall and Traci Giuliano, “Girls just wanna have…FARM (Female Athletic Role Models);” Beth Goetz, Michelle Thibodeau, Bryan Neighbors, Desiree Whitley, Sara Skladal and Amanda Seale, “Eating disorder symptoms: Comparing women from small and large colleges;” Alexa Hampel, Miriam Matthews and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, “Planning for the future: Decision-making among college seniors;” Stephanie Braccini and Steven Schapiro, “The use of a bimanual task to assess tool use, handedness, and grip preferences among chimpanzees;” Maggie Remkus and Steven Schapiro, “The effects of the presence of an infant on the behavior of socially-housed adolescent female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes);” Maria Kasper and Steven Schapiro, “The number of adult males in a group affects the activity patterns of socially housed male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes);” Wade Kothmann, Jesse Purdy and Steven Schapiro, “Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) learn an eyes open/eyes closed stimulus discrimination task?;” and Rebecca Stelter, Aeron Aanstoos, Stephanie Orin and Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, “Influence of attractiveness stereotypes and cognitive abilities on children’s suggestibility.” Special congratulations to Jill Hogue and Michelle Thibodeau who won Psi Chi Regional Research Awards of $300 for their excellent submissions.

The research lab of Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, presented four papers at the national meeting of the American Psychological Society this summer in Atlanta, Ga: (1) Giuliano, Jennifer Knight ‘00, and seniors Kelly Turner and James Lundquist presented “Like Mike or Mia? The Selection and Influence of Elite Athletic Role Models;” (2) James Lundquist, Giuliano, and senior Krista Wilke presented “The emergence of professional female athletes as role models;” (3) Jennifer Knight and Giuliano presented “The impact of heterosexist portrayals on perceptions of male and female athletes;” and (4) Kelly Turner, Giuliano, James Lundquist, and Jennifer Knight presented “Twice as nice: The double burden of contemporary female athletes.”

Jennifer Knight ‘00, now in the I/O Ph.D program at Rice, and Associate Professor of Psychology Traci Giuliano recently learned that their article titled, “Blood, Sweat, and Jeers: The Impact of the Media’s Heterosexist Portrayals on Perceptions of Male and Female Athletes,” will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Sport Behavior.

The Mundy Faculty Fellowships for 2002-03 include a project entitled: Professional Female Athletes: Role Models and Heroes for the 21st Century by Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and James Lundquist ‘03.

Associate Professor of Psychology Traci Giuliano and her former student Jennifer Knight, Southwestern class of 2000, recently had their research about the media’s portrayal of female athletes featured in the June 2002 issue of Allure magazine. Their paper, “He’s a Laker; she’s a ‘looker’: The consequences of gender-stereotypical portrayals of male and female athletes by the print media,” was originally published in the interdisciplinary journal Sex Roles. According to Knight, currently a graduate student in the industrial/organizational psychology program at Rice University, their research found that “when media focus on more peripheral aspects, like attractiveness or marital status, people de-value women as athletes.” Allure, which is geared toward “the professional modern woman interested in fashion, beauty and fitness,” has a national circulation of more than 875,000.

A number of psychology students and faculty presented their research in April at the 48th annual Southwestern Psychological Association Convention in Corpus Christi. Jesse Purdy, professor, presented an invited lecture and conversation hour titled “The World of Weddell Seals in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.” Two papers won cash awards in the Psi Chi Undergraduate Paper competition. These included a paper by students Susan Cates, Jenny George, Christina Young, Sarah Fuentes, and Jacquie Muir-Broaddus, associate professor, titled “Fatty Fatty Two by Four: Children’s perceptions of teasing,” and a paper by students Sara Sabzevari, Laney Walden, Ashlie Brown and Muir-Broaddus titled “Teacher knowledge and practices with respect to ADHD.” Student Audrey Dickey, Steve Schapiro, associate professor, et al., presented “Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) personality dimensions and correlated behavior,” and student Stephanie Braccini presented a paper co-authored by Michelle Hook, Wade Kothmann, and Steve Schapiro titled “Hand preferences during a bimanual task in a large sample of socially-housed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).” SU students and faculty also contributed two poster presentations. Bryan Neighbors, assistant professor of psychology, students Sara Skladal, Michelle Thibodeau, Desiree Whitley, Beth Goetz and Amanda Seale presented “A correlational analysis of parent-adolescent relationship dimensions and peer deviance,” and Sarah Fuentes, Christina Young, Jenny George, Susan Cates and Muir-Broaddus presented “The relationship between teasing and self-esteem.”

Senior psychology major Liz Dodd, along with co-authors Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and psychology majors Jori Boutell and Brooke Moran, recently had an empirical paper accepted for publication. The paper, “Respected or rejected: Perceptions of women who ignore vs. confront sexist remarks,” will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal “Sex Roles.”

Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, had a paper “Student Presentations of the Life and Work of Prominent Social Psychologists” published in the most recent issue of the pedagogical journal “Teaching of Psychology.”

Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and Jennifer Knight ‘00, recently had a paper accepted for publication. The paper is titled, “He’s a Laker; she’s a ‘looker’: The consequences of gender-stereotypical portrayals of male and female athletes by the print media.” The article is currently in press at the interdisciplinary journal Sex Roles.

SU psychology majors Allison Dickson, Keri Cass, and Clint Morris ‘01 recently had an article they co-authored with Traci Giuliano accepted for publication. Their paper titled “Eminem vs. Charlie Pride: Race, stereotypes, and perceptions of rap and county music performers” is currently in press at the “Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research.” First author Allison Dickson also won third place in the Psi Chi/Allyn & Bacon 2000 National Paper Competition for this paper, making her the fifth SU psychology student in four years to place in the top three in this prestigious national competition.

Jacqueline Muir-Broaddus, Departments of Psychology and Education, and psychology graduates Dalila Medina and Carney Soderberg had a paper accepted for publication in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. The paper is titled “Neuropsychological test performance of children with ADHD relative to test norms and parent behavioral ratings.

Several psychology students and faculty members recently presented their research at the annual Southwestern Psychological Association meeting in Houston. Traci Giuliano, associate professor of psychology, and Jennifer Knight ‘00, presented “They’ve got next: The conception of female athletes as role models for young athletes;” Liz Dodd, Traci Giuliano, Jori Boutell & Brooke Moran presented, “Respected or rejected: Perceptions of women who ignore vs. confront sexist remarks;” Ashley Rittmayer, Megan Honey, & Traci Giuliano presented, “What’s taxing them? An assessment of occupational stress;” Allison Dickson, Traci Giuliano, & Keri Cass presented “Eminem vs. Charley Pride: Race, stereotypes, and perceptions of performers;” Deann Dixon, Katie Kirkendall, Traci Giuliano, & Ann Raney presented “The bold and the beautiful: the effects of physical attractiveness and extraversion on desirabiility;” Ana Vazquez, Katie Kirkendall, Shawna Hudson, Laura Starzynski, & Bryan Neighbors, assistant professor of psychology, presented “Adolescent risky sexual behavior and parental relationship quality;” Sarah Greenberg, Sarah Peterson, and Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, presented “Aversive sign tracking in fathead minnows: It’s not as simple as moving away from the CS or the US;” and Jesse Purdy, Deann Dixon, Aleta Estrada, and Ryan Suarez presented “Short Term and Long Term Habituational, and Dishabituation in Cuttlefish (Sepia pharanois).”