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Behavior Analysis Concentration

Hoffman, D. J., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2006, May). Assessing the ability of Kava Kava to reduce the effects of the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure using an animal model. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta, GA.

Hoffman, D. J., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2006, August). Examining the ability of Kava Kava to attenuate the effects of the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) Procedure. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association , New Orleans, LA.

Serdikoff, S. L., Webb, J. E., Hucks, A. D., Kincheloe, M. B., Hoffman, D. J., & Catania, A. C. (2006, March). Assessing reinforcement mechanisms in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

Slezak, J. M., Webb, J. E., Hucks, A. D., Kincheloe, M. B., Hoffman, D. J. & Serdikoff, S. L. (2005, October; 2006, March). Using the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) as an animal model to examine the effects of delay-of-reinforcement in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Wilmington, NC and the Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis, Harrisonburg, VA.

Clinical Psychology Concentration

Barry, C. L., Burnett, J. B., & Henriques, G. R. (2006, March). Cross-validation of the Influence Matrix with the NEO-FFI. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD. 

Burnett, J. B., Barry, C. L., & Henriques, G. R. (2006, April).  Cross-validation of the Influence Matrix with the IIP. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of Virginia Psychological Association, Virginia Beach, VA.

Cordon, S. L. (2005, April). Adult attachment styles and the cultivation of mindfulness. Poster presented at the annual spring meeting for the Virginia Psychological Association, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Eldreth, D., Vanderwert, R. E., Perez-Edgar, K., Hardin, M., Van Eck, K., & Fox, N.A. (2006, March). The Role of Temperament and Response Inhibition. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

Evans, S. W., Allen, J., Moore, S., & Strauss, V. (2005). Measuring symptoms and functioning of youth with ADHD in middle schools. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33, 695-706.

Evans, S. W., Dowling, C., & Brown, R. (in press). Psychosocial treatment of adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In K. McBurnett, L. Pfiffner, R. Schachar, G.R. Elliott, & J. Nigg (Eds.), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Evans, S. W., Green, A., & Serpell, Z. N. (2005). Community participation in the treatment development process using assessment and Community Development Teams. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 765-771.

Evans, S.W., Langberg, J., Raggi, V., Allen, J., & Buvinger, E. (2005). Development of a school-based treatment program for middle school youth with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 9, 343-353.

Evans, S. W., Moore, S., Serpell, Z. N. & Creasy, B. (2006, August). Why best practices for outcome assessment are often clinically irrelevant. In E. Youngstrom (Chair), Evidence-based assessment for children. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Evans, S. W., Schultz, B., Serpell, Z. N., & Fallah, N. (2006, August). Challenging Horizons: A coordinated care program for adolescents with ADHD. In T. Power (Chair), Innovations in treating ADHD in schools: Behavioral and ecological approaches. Symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Evans, S. W., Serpell, Z., & White, C. (2005). The Transition to middle school: Preparing for challenge and success. Attention! (CHADD), June, 29-31.

Evans, S. W. &(2005). Finding their niche: The role of master’s programs in scientist/practitioner model graduate training. The Behavior Therapist, 28, 123-124.

Evans, S. W., Timmins, B., Serpell, Z., Buvinger, E., & Masse, C. (2005, August). Story comprehension and social functioning in adolescents with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.

Evans, S. W., Timmins, B., Sibley, M., White, L. C., Serpell, Z. N. & Schultz, B. (2006). Developing coordinated, multimodal, school-based treatment for young adolescents with ADHD. Education & Treatment of Children, 29, 359-378.

Evans, S. W. & White, L. C. (2005). Book Review of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: State of the science/best practices. Journal of Attention Disorders, 9, 369-370.

Evans, S. W., Williams, A., Schultz, B., & Weist, M. (2004). Behavioral assessment in schools. In C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 267-275). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Inc.

Fallah, N., Buvinger, E. C., Evans, S. W., Schultz, B., & Serpell, Z. N. (2006, August). Outcomes of school-based psychosocial interventions for adolescents with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Gibson, P. R., & Cordon, S. L. (2004). Speaking from and about marginalized places. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28, 438-439.

Grove, A., Evans, S. W., Finney, S., & Thompson, J. (2005, March). Predicting barriers to children’s mental health care: A path model. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Martin, J., Van Eck, K., & Perez-Edgar, K. (2006, April). Behavioral and neural correlates of self-monitoring inadolescence: The role of individual differences. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Masse, C., Evans, S. W., Brown, R., & Grove, A. (2005). What parents and teachers should know: Effective treatments for youth with ADHD. In C. Franklin, M.B. Harris, & P. Allen-Meares (Eds.), School Social Work and Mental Health Worker’s Training and Resource Manual.

Paulson, D., Henriques, G., Rogers, S., Andre, J., & Pappas, J. (2006, March). The Effect of Negative Affect on the Perception of Egocentric Distance. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Sibley, M., Creasy, B., Evans, S. W., Serpell, Z. N. & Fallah, N. (2006, August). Predictors of strain in caregivers of adolescents with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Van Eck, K., Eldreth, D., Vanderwert, R., & Fox., N. A., (2006, March). Behavioral inhibition identified at 24 months predicts externalizing behavior throughout childhood. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

Van Eck, K., Martin, J., & Perez-Edgar, K. (2006, April). Relations between individual differences in error monitoring strategies and personality in adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, San Francisco, CA.

White, L. C., Barbour, K., Garret, A., Schill, T., Vodra, A., & Evans, S. W. (2005, March). Academic underachievement in adolescents with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

White, L. C., Barbour, K., Garrett, A., Schill, T., Vodra, A., Schultz, B., & Evans, S. W. (2005, August). Academic underachievement and symptom severity in adolescents with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.

White, L. C., Evans, S. W., Torre, C., Sibley, M., Brown, R. & Schultz, B. (2006, October). An organization intervention for adolescents with ADHD: Patterns of responding. Poster presented at the Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology: Translating Research into Practice, Lawrence, Kansas.

Wilde, R., Evans, S. W., Serpell, Z. N., Moore, S., White, L. C., & Buvinger, E. C. (2005, November). Behaviors leading to social acceptance and rejection in young adolescents with ADHD: Implications for social skills interventions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington D.C.

Cognitive Science

Fries, K., Basabe, C., Kimmelman, A., Pappas, J., Sottolano, M., & Rogers, S. (2005, March). Contribution of Voice Recognition to Eyewitness Identification. Paper presented at the Virginia Psychological Association Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia.

Roche, J. & Hall, M. D. (2006, May). Processing differences in the auditory-visual integration of emotions and speech. Poster presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Sciences, New York.

Quantitative Psychology Concentration

Baranik, L. E., Barron, K. E., Finney, S. J., & Sundre, D.A. (2005, April). A comparison of general vs. specific measures of achievement goal orientation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Baranik, L., Masse, C., Brown, R., Evans, S., Barron, K., & Barnett, L.  (2004, November). Achievement goal orientation and academic efficacy among adolescents with ADHD.  Paper presented at the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy  (AABT) convention, New Orleans, LA. 

Burgdorf, E., Esposito, L., Gallinot, H., Kahn, A. S., Komarovsky, I., Lau, A., Rathi, V., Richards, S., Shiflet, C. (2005, March). “Hooking-up and Self-esteem”. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association.

Davis, S. L., & Finney, S. J. (in press). Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 66, 318-330.

Fairchild, A., & Finney, S. J. (2006). Investigating Validity Evidence for the Experience in Close Relationships-Revised Questionnaire. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 66, 116–135.

Fairchild, A., Horst, S. J., Finney, S. J., & Barron, K. E. (in press). Evaluating Existing and New Validity Evidence for the Academic Motivation Scale. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 30, 331–358.

Horst, S. J., Finney, S. J., & Barron, K. E. (2005, April). Validity Evidence for a Measure of Social Goal Orientation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Kaliski, P. K., & Finney, S. J, (May, 2006). Uncovering the multidimensional structure and item-wording method effect of the Scales of Psychological Well-Being (SPWB). Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, May 2006.

Kaliski, P., Finney, S., & Horst, J. (2006, May). Does Socioeconomic Status Influence Achievement Goal Adoption? An Investigation of Group Differences using Structured Means Modeling. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Kaliski, P., Rezner, L., Walker, C., & Barron, K. (2005, April). Qualitative phase of an exploratory mixed method investigation of college classroom climates. Poster presented at the meeting of the Virginia Psychological Association, Williamsburg, VA.

Lau, A. R. & Finney, S. J. (2006, May). Measuring diversity orientation: The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity short form. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Miller, B. K., & Finney, S. J. (2005, April). Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Equity Preference Questionnaire. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

Pastor, D., Kaliski, P., & Weiss, B. (2006, May)  A meta-analytic review of college students’ gains in general education. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Young, H. & Finney, S. J. (August, 2005). A latent means analysis of the motive to avoid failure among students from different social class backgrounds. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association

Walker, C., Rezner, L., Kaliski, P. & Barron, K. (2006, April). An exploratory mixed method investigation of college classroom climates. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Weiss, B. A., Kaliski, P. K., Barron, K. E. (2005, April).  Examining the long-term consequences of achievement goal orientation on general education.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Virginia Psychological Association (VPA), Williamsburg, VA.

Wise, S. L., Owens, K., Yang, S. T., Weiss, B. A., Kong, X., Kissel, H. L., & Horst, S. J. (2005, April).  An investigation of the effects of self-adapted testing on examinee effort and performance in a low-stakes achievement test.  Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).

Other

Baranik, L. E., Lance, C., Lau, A. R., & Barron, K. E. (2006, May). Measurement invariance for the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.

Barron, K. E., Evans, S. W., Baranik, L. E., Serpell, Z. N. & Buvinger, E. (2006). Achievement goals of students with ADHD. Learning Disability Quarterly, 29, 137 – 158.

Erb, J. P., Reis-Bergan, M. & Serdikoff, S. L. (2006, March). The role of dispositional forgiveness and crime severity in predicting college students’ attitudes toward the punishment of offenders. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

Lau, A. R. & Kahn, A. S. (2006, March). College women’s experiences of street harassment. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Nasim, A., Roberts, A., Harrell, J. P., & Young, H. (2005). Non-cognitive predictors of academic achievement for African Americans across cultural contexts. Journal of Negro Education, 74, 344-358.

Noll, N. E., & Kahn, A. S. (2005, April). Inferring power: The effect of gender on judgments of causality in social interactions. Paper presented at the Spring Convention of the Virginia Psychological Association, Williamsburg, VA.

Pappas, J. B., Fries, K., Lawson, S., Rose, K., & Rogers, S. (2006, March). Into the Monster’s Den:  Investigating the Pleasure Paradox of Cinematic Horror. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Young, H. & Nasim, A. (October, 2004). White racial identity and cross-cultural adaptability: An exploratory analysis. Annual Diversity Challenge Conference, Boston, MA.