Accomplishments: Department of Psychology
Aldo Barrita, Shane Kraus, Rachael Robnett, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) and Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) recently published a paper titled, "The Illegal Threat": The Presumed Illigality Microaggressive Experience Scale in the journal of Translational Issues in Psychological Science. This research project aimed…
Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Maegan Nation (both Psychology) published a new paper in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, "Negative Affect as a Mediator Between Exposure to Fitspiration and Thinspiration and Disordered Eating Behaviors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study." They found that, among young women with…
Brenna Renn and Tess Walker (both Psychology) published the results for their fully remote randomized controlled trial of Sanvello, a commercially-available digital mental health app in an article titled, "Naturalistic use of a digital mental health intervention for depression and anxiety: A randomized clinical trial." The main trial outcome…
Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology) was awarded the 2023 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research and the 2024 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Service from the Asian American Psychological Association. The two awards recognize Wong-Padoongpatt's distinguished research and service contributions to the…
Bailey M Way, Todd Jennings, & Shane Kraus Members of the (all Psychology) recently published several works.
The first paper, "Age Verification to Access Online Pornography: An Unproven Strategy With Untested Repercussions" was published in Sex Offender Law Report.
The second paper "Evaluating the factor structure and…
Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded an Early Career Research Grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention entitled "Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Women Sexual Assault Survivors: A Proof-of Concept and Feasibility Study" ($139,728). This funding will help her to investigate and identify risk factors for suicidal thoughts and…
Associate professor Rochelle Hines (Psychology) was awarded a renewal NIH R15 grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for a project titled, "Early GABAergic signaling influences axon morphology and cortical cell polarity." Hines is the graduate coordinator and associate director for the interdisciplinary…
Renato M. Liboro, Lianne Barnes, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio (all Psychology), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), recently published a peer-reviewed article in the Social Sciences journal entitled, "Lifetime Experiences of Housing Insecurity among Gay Men Living with HIV at…
Anthony King, Ting Tong, Danielle Le, Donna Sim, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published an article titled, "Adverse childhood experiences, health risk factors, and significant problems with substances and behaviors among U.S. college students" in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
Anthony King, Shane Kraus, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published an article titled, "Can positive play deficits explain the associations between posttraumatic stress symptoms, gambling motives, and problem gambling? Results of a national U.S. sample," in the Journal of Gambling Studies.
Kara Christensen Pacella and Nicole Short (both Psychology) with co-authors from Sanford Research, North Dakota State University, and University of Kansas published a new article, "Using Item Response Theory to Identify Key Symptoms of Insomnia in a Sample of University Students with Probable Eating Disorders" in Eating and Weight Disorders-…
Ryan A. Wirt, Talha Soluoku, Ryan M. Ricci, and James M. Hyman (all Medicine and Psychology) published a study, "Temporal information in the anterior cingulate cortex relates to accumulated experiences," in the journal Current Biology. In this paper, they present analysis of neural recording data that shows that the brain tracks time by counting…