Accomplishments: Department of Psychology
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been awarded a grant (R16GM153536) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project, "Testing a Dual-Process Mechanistic Model Linking Food Insecurity and Loss-of-Control Eating." Funding of $400,000 in direct costs will support a study examining daily associations between food…
Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder) in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Face as a multidimensional construct: Cross-cultural validation of the Loss of Face Scale in Taiwan and the United States," in Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Gambling in a U.S. Census Matched Sample: Examining Interactions between Means and Motives in Predicting Problematic Outcomes," in the Journal of Gambling Studies.
Graduate student Alexis Rice, undergraduate student Marian Espina, graduate student Tra Bui, and professor Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "The Influence of Learning Cues and Model Attractiveness on Children's Attention and Imitation," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.
Members of the Baby & Child Rebel Lab presented, "Face Recognition and Racial Biases: The Role of Social Experience," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.
Members included Kirsty Kulhanek (graduate student), Kindy Insouvanh (graduate student), Marian Espina (undergraduate student),…
Graduate students Rodica Constantine and Kindy Insouvanh and professors Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "Perceptual Learning in Infants Across Domains," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California.
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews.
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Lidia Wossen (both Psychology) with colleague Kelsey Hagan from Virginia Commonwealth University recently published, "Low Overlap and High Heterogeneity Across Common Measures of Eating Disorder Pathology: A Content Analysis" in Assessment. In their paper, they find that common eating disorder measures…
Assistant professor Renato Liboro (Psychology) is this year's recipient of the Top Tier Award. Liboro actively contributes to several core area of UNLV’s Top Tier 2.0 initiatives, including Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; Community Partnerships; Student Achievement; Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion; UNLV Academic…
Bailey Way and Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Nicholas Borgogna (Texas Tech University) recently published a paper, "Multicultural Considerations for the Psychometrics of the Brief Pornography Screen," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
In addition, Kraus and colleagues also recently published a paper, "Problematic…