Aaron
Shilling and Gen Kasa are research assistants
for two studies being conducted in Dr. Sheryl Reminger’s lab.
The first study, Physiological Links to Attention, Cognition, and Emotion, is designed toexamine how emotionally salient information affects attention and physiological responses. Aaron has been measuring skin conductance responses, a measure of sweat gland activity, that occur in response to emotional stimuli.
The second study, Neurological Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Treatment, is designed to investigate how cancer treatments may impact neuropsychological function and quality of life. Gen has been manipulating magnetic resonance brain images to measure the volumes of brain structures that may be negatively impacted by cancer and its treatment.
Jennifer Ladage, Tori McColez & Ali Janezic are research assistants for a study Dr. Marcel Yoder is conducting that investigates the area of person perception; the study of how we form impressions of other people. Using the Social Relations Model of person perception, developed by David Kenny, the group is addressing questions about how our personality and thoughts about ourselves influence how we see other people, how accurate we are in judging others, and how accurately we predict how others view us.
Kate Vernor, Monica Qualls, Dawn Tompkins, & Lyudmila Olifiruk are research assistants in Dr. Keith Burton’s lab. The group is conducting a study investigating the psychophysiology of emotion, emotion chronometry, and emotion regulation. Additionally, Dawn Tompkins is conducting her own study of emotional experience and psychophysiology in the menstrual cycle under Dr. Burton’s supervision.
Heidi Fisher, Isaac Moore, and Jessica Neighbors (not pictured) are assisting Dr. Jason Barker with his ongoing research project investigating differences in the cognitive processes involved in reading between skilled and less skilled readers. The two research assistants are also conducting independent research. Heidi is testing the hypothesis that violent video game players become desensitized to violent images in a study titled, “Pupil Dilation in Response to Violent Images.” Isaac is conducting a study about how one’s self- image can be manipulated by both implicit and explicit factors which is titled, “Shyness and Self Presentation.”
Savannah Berg and Joshua Friedman are research assistants in Dr. Karen Mooney's lab. The current research project is a short-term longitudinal study involving 7th and 10th graders. The group is examining the different patterns of quality in adolescents' friendships and how friendship quality is associated with adjustment outcomes (e.g., self-esteem, behavior problems). Also of interest is how friendship quality patterns change over time and whether changes in a friendship's quality are associated with changes in adjustment.
