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PSELL | Students present research | Faculty Research Interests | Summer Research Links
PSELL = Psychology Student Experiential Learning Lab
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| Lynn Chollet '10, Christina Khou '11, and Anna Harrington '10 (not pictured), Writing about Forgiveness: Implications for Mood, Empathy, and Health | Paul Kramer '09 and Mike Inman '09, The Jumbling Effect: How Schematic Representations Mediate Change Blindness (Psi Chi Regional Research Award) |
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| Sarah Luetzow '09 and Prof. Laura Sinnett (not pictured), Situational Influences on State Personality While Playing a Board Game | Jordan Allison '09, Kathleen Connolley '10 (not pictured) and Prof. Laura Sinnett (not pictured), SIMulated Personality: Trait Levels and Situational Affordances in Personality |
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| Zlatena Theodore '10, Direct and Indirect Memory Influences on Recognition and Word-stem Completion Tests | Mike Inman '09 and Paul Kramer '09, The Jumbling Effect: How Schematic Representations Mediate Change Blindness | Anna Harrington '10, Illness Perceptions among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Comparison of Perceptions among Individuals with Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis |
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| Kevin Potter '09, Our Memory of Memory: The Relation between Self-Report and Experimental Methods | Rebecca van den Honert '09, Generation of fukutin expression vector to facilitate study of congenital muscular dystrophy | Valerie Stimac '09, Child and Adult Gender Categorization: An Eye Tracking Study |
Ann Ellis:
My research program explores the development of perception, attention, categorization, and memory in young children. I hope to clarify how children perceive, attend to and learn to distinguish social objects (e.g. dad vs. not-dad) and physical objects (e.g. car vs. dog). I primarily work with children who are under the age of 2, but occasionally I have ventured into research with older children. I have an ongoing research collaboration with Lisa Oakes, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Davis, and my students have occasionally have had the opportunity to work in both Professor Oakes's lab and in my lab on collaborative projects. My students and I use a variety of methodologies, such as habituation, object handling, and eye tracking, to present children with opportunities to group and respond to faces and objects in different ways. Currently, we are focusing on eye tracking as a measure of infants' perception of faces and learning of object properties. We record participants' behavior w
ith the faces and objects and assess other skill development, such as language and motor abilities, to explore how such development is related to perception, attention, categorization, and memory.
David Lopatto:
David Lopatto maintains diverse research interests in learning. He is lead analyst on the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) survey funded by HHMI. He also directs the SUREay (academic year) survey project and in collaboration with partner institutions serves as lead analyst on the Classroom Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) survey project. He is the author of Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE): First Findings (Cell Biology Education, 2004). Professor Lopatto has served as a consultant on assessment projects concerning the impact of undergraduate research experiences on learning, attitude, and career choice. With the assistance of talented students, Prof. Lopatto has maintained an ongoing summer research program extending his interest in learning to include mixed design quantitative/qualitative investigations of epistemological development and career choice. For more information please visit these links:
http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/feb2009/perspectives/factor.html
http://www.pkal.org/people/index.cfm?person=1296
http://www.cur.org/Quarterly/mar03/essentialUR.pdf#search=%22David%20Lopatto%22
http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/psychology/faculty/dl/sure&cure/
http://web.grinnell.edu/science/ROLE/
Nancy Rempel-Clower:
My research investigates neural circuits involved in emotional processing.
The projects planned for this summer involve neuroanatomical tracing of pathways between specific brain regions implicated in anxiety and/or fear.
To accomplish this, we will inject a tracer dye into a specific brain region in rats, and then analyze the distribution of neurons that send input to this region and the distribution of axon terminals that represent the output of this region. Research activities will include stereotaxic surgery on rats, histological processing of brain tissue, and analysis of brain sections using a specialized computer system. Student researchers are expected to be detail-oriented, willing to engage in tedious tasks, enthusiastic about reading and discussing empirical literature, and comfortable working on collaborative endeavors. Coursework in physiological psychology and experience working with animals are a plus.
Laura Sinnett:
I have requested funds to support two MAP students for summer 2009. One of the students need not have experience working in a research lab; the other student is a returning student who was involved in developing our summer research goals. Note that this 10 week project will run from June 15 until August 21 (three weeks later than the traditional summer research time).
The general goal of my current research program is to document the dynamic functioning of personality across different social situations. Specifically, I am interested (a) in the extent to which personality traits wax and wane across time-both short- and long-term, (b) in predicting these changes in personality on the basis of situational features, and (c) in exploring mechanisms that can account for these changes. We will work this summer on two related projects, both of which will entail looking at the relationships between personality and situations. One of the projects will be quasi-experimental and will examine personality processes across a six months; the other project will be experimental and will focus on short-term personality processes. Actual activities will include preparing experimental materials, running participants, entering and analyzing data, regular meetings, consistent engagement with the empirical literature, and writing a paper that also may be developed into a poster presentation.
Required skills include working well with others on collaborative projects, moderate familiarity and skill with statistics and statistical packages, and attention to detail. Familiarity with personality and social psychology is also a plus.
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