Undergraduate Research Assistants
Julia Capestrain, Nicole Landreth, and Wesley Hill are research assistants in Dr. Karen Mooney's lab. They are currently working on a project that examines how college students’ relationships with parents, best friends, and romantic partners are associated with individual adjustment (self-concept, academic performance, and various characteristics and behaviors). Julia, Nicole, and Wes have been adminsitering the study questionnaires, entering the data, and working on poster submissions to present at conferences in Spring 2012. Julia Capestrain is also using this dataset to test her own hypothesis about differences in the quality of romantic relationships for traditional and nontraditional students. She will be presenting her findings in May 2012 at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
Kristoffer Barrington and Millicent Schusselle are currently research assistants in Dr. Karen Pressley's lab. They are conducting a study that examines the different viewing conditions (long versus short viewing times) of emotional faces that will allow for automatic and fast grabbing of attention. Kristoffer and Millicent have performed related literature searches and lab presentations as well as collecting the data.
Martha Rubio is working with Dr. Shuang-Yueh Pui on a project examining the effect of choice set size (large or small) on
whether people choose to defer their choice among indecisives and
decisives. Martha is active in the data collection and data entry stages of this study. They hope to be able to analyze the data and submit the results of the study to a conference in the spring semester. Kristen Langelier is assisting Dr. Pui on a project examining the predictors and outcomes
of the interaction between school and work domains among college
students. Kristen has been extensively involved in conducting the literature review, designing the study, uploading the web survey, and
collecting the data for this study. They hope to complete data collection in
the spring semester. Jodi Fishburn has been working with Dr. Pui on a project that
investigates the relationship between work-school conflict and healthy eating and exercise behaviors among working college students. Jodi has been actively involved in conducting the literature review, designing the
study, and submitting the IRB application for this study. They are currently preparing materials to apply to a national research grant for this study.
Patrick Abler, Lucy Parker, and Stacey Windisch have been working with Dr. Frances Shen on a project studying the impact of internalized stereotyping on the career self-efficacy,
outcome expectations, and choice among Asian Americans. They presented the
preliminary findings from this study
with Dr. Shen at the 2011 APA Convention in Washington DC. 
They
continue to work on completing further data collection this year, with additional help from Andrew Hathaway, Robert Torrence, Elise Vass, and Shah Hasan.
Rebecca Goldsborough has been collaborating with Dr. Shen on a project examining whether parental attitudes and social support buffer the impact of
discrimination on the psychological well-
being and development of
internalized homo-negativity among Asian American LGB persons. They presented part of their preliminary findings at the 2011 APA Convention in Washington DC in August. They have since made some modifications to this study and continued with data collection this year. This semester, Linden Kovarik, Tammie Lomprez, Ashley Pearson, and Michael Myers assisted with the data collection.
Katie Easton and Nathan Harmening have been working with Dr. Carrie Switzer on the Educational Aspirations study this semester. This study examines the differences between traditional and
nontraditional aged college students in their motivation to go to college, the
perceived barriers to attending college and their academic self-efficacy in college. Katie and Nathan have been administering the study questionnaires and entering the data that has been collected into a statistical database. Rachel Tohme, Lucy Parker, and Michael Stephens have been working on an additional phase of the study that is focused on collecting information from students from underrepresented groups.
Laura Lovgren is currently working with Dr. Marcel Yoder in the data entry/analysis phase of a study on person perception, which focuses on how the mode of interaction (face to face versus video versus photo) affects our judgments of others.
