Accomplishments: Department of Psychology
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at University of Kentucky (led by Matthew Southward, Ph.D.) and the Ohio State University recently published in Journal of Affective Disorders, "Protective factors in borderline personality disorder: A multi-study analysis of conscientiousness, distress tolerance, and self-compassion."
Kristin Vierra, Aldo Barrita, Gloria Wong-Padoongatt and Rachael Robnett (all Psychology) published a paper, "Critical action to redress systemic oppression: a person-centered approach," in the Frontiers in Psychology Journal. Their study explores what drives people to engage in more versus less impactful forms of action to resist…
Aldo Barrita and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (both Psychology) published a paper, "Ethnic Identity and Resilience: A moderated mediation analysis of protective factors for Self-blame and racial microaggressions," in the Frontiers in Psychology Journal. Their results assess how different levels of resilience and racial identity can…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Kansas published an article in Eating Behaviors, "Prospectively predicting naturalistic exposure to fitspiration and thinspiration in young women with disordered eating by leveraging an ecological momentary assessment design." This is the first publication from Christensen…
Kasra Ghaharian (International Gaming Institute), Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Shane W. Kraus (Psychology), Ashok Singh (Hospitality), and Bo Bernhard (Office of Economic Development) published an article titled, "Evaluating the generalizability of payment behavioral profiles across gambling brands," in International Gambling…
Aldo Barrita, Michelle Strong, Janelle Ferraris, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published a paper, "Drugs and racial microaggressions: A mediation analysis of racism, mental health, and coping strategies," in the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment. Their results highlight how people of color might engage in…
Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, Lianne Barnes, and Renato M. Liboro (all Psychology), and the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab team, recently published their article, "Pandemic upon Pandemic: Middle-Aged and Older Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV Coping and Thriving during the Peak of COVID-19," in the International Journal of…
Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues from University of California, San Diego (led by Brittany Bohrer, Ph.D.), University of Kansas, and Children's Mercy Hospital-Kansas published a paper on their new mobile phone app for treating eating disorders in International Journal of Eating Disorders: "A multiple-baseline study of a…
Christopher Kearney (Psychology) published the fourth edition of Psychopathology and Life: A Dimensional Approach via Cengage. This textbook presents a contemporary, science-based view of psychopathology that emphasizes the individual first. The textbook features clinical cases and real first-person narratives that help students view abnormal…
Aldo Barrita, Richard Chang, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published a paper, "Assumptions of immigration status: A moderated mediation analysis of racial microaggressions and internalization impacting Latinx and Asian college students," in the Journal of Social Psychology of Education.
Karli Nave, Joel Snyder, and Erin Hannon (all Psychology) published a paper titled, "Sustained musical beat perception develops into late childhood and predicts phonological abilities," in the journal Developmental Psychology. Nave is a former Ph.D. student in the department of psychology and Snyder and Hannon are faculty in the department of…
Breanne D. Yerkes, Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, Julie F. Beasley, Erin E. Hannon, and Joel S. Snyder published a paper titled, "Acoustic and Semantic Processing of Auditory Scenes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders," in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. This work was based on Yerkes' Ph.D. dissertation.…