Research in Psychology

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PSELL

PSELL = Psychology Student Experiential Learning Lab
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Faculty Research Interests (updated for Summer 2011)

Christopher Ralston The Effect of Including Undocumented Offense and Supervision Data on the Predictive Accuracy of the JSORRAT-II
Janet Gibson The Odd-even Effect in Math and Sudoku
Nancy Rempel-Clower Neural Pathways Underlying Emotion Processing in the Rat
Andrea Tracy Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Cognitive and Motivational Deficits in Diet-induced Obesity

 

Summer Research Links

Students Present Research...

Students co-author papers

  • Horst, J. S., Ellis, A. E., Samuelson, L. K., Trejo, E., Worzalla*, S., Peltan*, J., & Oakes, L. M. (2009). Flexible Categorization in Infancy: Same Objects, Same Session, Two Different Categorical Distinctions. Developmental Science, 12(1), 96-105.
  • Hye-Sang Chang coauthored a paper based on summer research she conducted at Stanford Medical School:
    Brooks, J. O., Chang, H.*, & Krasnykh, O. (2009). Metabolic Risks in Older Adults Receiving Second-Generation Antipsychotic Medication. Current Psychiatry Reports, 11, 33-40.

Student presentations

  • Connelley, K. H.*, Sinnett, L. M., Allison, J. C., & Rahman, M. J. (2010, May). "Role interpretations as a mechanism for personality consistency." Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
  • Sinnett, L. M. & White, C. (2010, May). "Experimentally manipulated but naturally occuring situational variation causes trait variation." Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
  • Baumgartner, H., Karapetyan, A.,* Ellis, A. E., & Oakes, L. M. (2010, March). "Infants‘ visual short-term memory for faces." Poster presented at the 17th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Chollet, L.* & Seawell, A. H. (2010, May). "Personal perceptions and well-being in sexual relationships among college students." Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
  •  Harrington, A. L. *, Khou, C. *, & Seawell, A. H. (2010, May). " The role of hope in illness perceptions among older women with osteoarthritis." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Khou, C. *, Harrington, A.*, & Seawell, A. H. (2010, May). "The role of illness perceptions and hope in marital satisfaction among women with OA." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Nelson, E. F.*, & Seawell, A. H. (2010, May). "Education and communication: prevention of intimate partner violence." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Rempel-Clower, N.L and Peterson, S*. (2010). "Connections from the amygdala to the orbitofrontal cortex in the rat." Program No. 98.11. Neuroscience Meeting Planner, San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.
  • Tolcha Mesele* & Kelsey Picken* (Janet M. Gibson, Faculty Sponsor). "You Look Like a Bob: The Impact of Descriptors on Face Identification and Association." Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago.
  • Michele A. Moore*, Frederick A. Peterson* & Misato Sawada* (Janet M. Gibson, Faculty Sponsor). "The Effect of Anagrams on the Stroop Effect." Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago.
  • Paul Kramer* & Michael Inman* (Janet M. Gibson, Faculty Sponsor). "The Jumbling Effect: How Schematic Representations Mediate Change Blindness." Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago. Winner of a Psi Chi Award
  • Jordan C. Allison*, Kathleen H. Connolley* (Laura M. Sinnett, Faculty Co-Author). "SIMulated Personality: Trait Levels and Situational Affordances in Personality Perception." Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago.
  • Sarah M. Luetzow* (Laura M. Sinnett, Faculty Co-Author). "Situational Influences on State Personality While Playing a Board Game." Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago.
  • Asani H. Seawell, Lynn Chollet*, Christina Khou*, Anna Harrington*. "Writing about Forgiveness: Implications for Mood, Empathy, and Health." Poster presented at the Spring 2009 Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (MPA), Chicago.
  • Gibson, J. M., & Chang, H.* "Working Memory Modulates the Odd-Even Effect in Sudoku Puzzles and Math Problems." (MAP research). Spring 2009 annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco.
  • Peterson, S.*, and Rempel-Clower, N. (2009) "Basolateral and basomedial amygdala projections terminating in the orbitofrontal cortex of the rat display laminar patterns suggesting functionality." Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Poster Session, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
  • Johnson, B.*, and Rempel-Clower, N. (2009) "An investigation of the neural connections between the orbitofrontal cortex and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis." Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Poster Session, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
  • Ellis, A., & McDoniel, M.* (April 2009). "Infants’ Visual Exploration of Happy and Sad Facial Expressions." Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of The Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
  • Ellis, A. E., Cesa, A. *, & Worzalla, S. L. * (March, 2007) "The Way You Move, The Way You Look: Infants’ Changing Attention to Object Appearance and Object Function." Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of The Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

* Indicate a Grinnell College student author.

(Hidden section)Photo Gallery of student presentations

at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, Spring 2009.during Family Weekend, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (end hidden section)