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Department of Psychology

2005 - 2006 Academic Year Conferences

(Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.)

July 2005

Baker, S.C., Apple, K., & Rybak, J.* . Student attitudes toward animals in an animal behavior class. Poster accepted for presentation at the 14th Annual International Society for Anthrozoology Conference, Niagara Falls, NY.

August 2005

The following posters and papers were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC:

  • Evans, S.W., Timmins, B.*, Serpell, Z., Buvinger, E., & Masse, C. Story comprehension and social functioning in adolescents with ADHD.
  • White, L.C., Barbour, K.*, Garrett, A*., Schill, T*., Vodra, A*., Schultz, B., & Evans, S.W. Academic underachievement and symptom severity in adolescents with ADHD.
  • Axelrod, J.L., Evans, S.W., & Burke, R. Pre- and in-service training to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in SBMH. In A. Wandersman & M. Weist, (Chairs), From Policy to Practice: Using Community Science to Promote School Based Mental Health. Symposium.
  • Saville, B.K. Comparison of interteaching and lecture
  • Jim Benedict and Kevin Apple conducted a continuing education workshop entitled Just-in-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology

Arnie Kahn was a discussant for the symposium Sexual Assault Prevention Programming for Men at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Joann Grayson presented a workshop entitled “How to be an effective witness” for the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Community Service Board.

September 2005

The following presentations were made at Engaging Minds: Best Practices in Teaching Critical Thinking Across the Psychology Curriculum conference, in Atlanta GA, September 30 - October1:

  • Natalie Kerr, Sherry Serdikoff, Tracy Zinn & Baker, Suzanne. Ten years later: Have we demystified critical thinking?
  • Sherry Serdikoff, Kenneth Barron, Kevin Apple, & Monica Reis-Bergan. Flohr, J.A., Sidman, C.L., & Halonen, J. Programmatic assessment of critical thinking.
  • Charles Harris. Incremental Critical Thinking.
  • Tracy Zinn, Bryan Saville, Natalie Kerr, Kenn Barron & Jeff Andre. Addressing critical thinking in the Statistics/Research Methods Sequence. (poster)
  • Katie Baughman & Tracy Zinn. Thinking in business and psychology industrial/organizational graduate programs. (Workshop).
  • Charles Harris. Designing an online psychology course to foster critical thinking.

Jim Benedict. Just-In-Time Teaching (JiTT) for science and humanities courses. Presentation sponsored by the Center for Faculty Innovation, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

October 2005

Brewster, J., Stoloff, M., Sanders, N*., Effectiveness of the Citizens Police Academy in Changing Attitudes, Beliefs and Behavior of Citizen Participants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, Scottsdale, AZ.

Brewster, J. Good Cop or Bad Cop. Madison Scholars Lecture. College of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Joann Grayson presented “Preparing for court” at the Virginia Counselors Association fall conference in Portsmouth, VA.

Kerr, N., West, J. & Adams, A. eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System: Collect Student Input through Handheld Devices in the Classroom. Presentation at the Center for Instructional Technology 3 rd Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Bill Evans presented Inspiring Leadership: It’s not about the power at the Educause conference in Orlando Florida.

Evans, W.F. The meaning of success. Invited Keynote Speaker for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Induction Convocation for JMU.

The following workshop & presentations were made at the CISAT Faculty Research Day poster session, October 7, 2005:

  • Jeffrey Andre, Katherine Losier*, Rachel Heiser*, Allison MeGehee*, & Cliff Campbell*. Investigating the effects of occusion time on the visual guidance of blind-walking, veering, and distance perception.
  • Suzanne Baker, Kevin Apple, & Jennifer Rybak*. Student attitudes toward animals in an animal behavior class.
  • Kenn Barron, Sara Finney, Donna Sundre, & Lisa Baranik. A comparison of general vs. specific measures of achievement goal orientation.
  • Natalie A. Kerr, Christine Brady*, Jeanne Donaghy*, Kellie Tucker* & Nelly Yuen*. The importance of performance feedback on self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation.
  • Joann Grayson. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter.
  • Vida Huber, Emily Akerson, Cynthia Cadieux, David Cockley, Karen Ford, Janet Glockner, Linda Hulton, Judith Rocchicciolli, Anne Stewart, Jennifer McCabe, Cheryl Talley, Thomas Dillon, & Cynthia O’Donoghue. IIHHS and Cross Disciplinary Education.
  • Aashir Nasim, R. Corona, S.O. Utsey, F.Z. Belgrave, & N. Fallah*. Cultural orientation as a protective factor against tobacco and marijuana smoking among African American young women.
  • Monica Reis-Bergan, Jamie Hoffman*, & Cannie Cambell*. A cognitive model of disordered eating: Exploring the role of appearance beliefs.
  • Sherry Serdikoff. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Examining altered reinforcement mechanisms.
  • Christopher Watts & Michael Hall. Timbral influences on pitch-matching accuracy.

Cheryl Talley, Lauren Arms*, Nicole Ryan*, Steve Zivich*, & Britini Labrie*. Vagotomy attenuates performance on 8-arm radial maze: Reversal by D-glucose is trial dependent. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

The following faculty and students presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Wilmington, NC.:

  • Slezak, J. M.*, Webb, J. E.*, Hucks, A. D.*, Kincheloe, M. B.*, Hoffman, D. J.* & Serdikoff, S. L. 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 .
  • Zinn, T.E. gave a presentation on “Getting your students to ‘behave’ in the classroom.”

November 2005

Evans, W.F., Vogt, J. & Tarr, J. Inspiring leadership through a leadership studies minor. The International Leadership Association Conference Presentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hall, M.D., Watts, C.R., & Sommers, M.S. Acoustic models of vocal deception: A critical evaluation. Presented at the annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM), Toronto, Canada.

Wilde, B., Evans, S.W., Serpell, Z.N., Moore, S., White, C., & Buvinger, L. 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.

Stoloff, M. & Nida, S. Strategic Planning for Departments of Psychology. Workshop presented at the annual meetings of the Association of Department Heads of Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Nasim, A. Developing an after-school program for Harrisonburg adolescents: A concept-mapping approach. Mosier Fellowship Lecture, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

January 2006

Kevin Apple presented at the Center for Faculty Innovation (CFI) Workshop held at James Madison University on “Teaching Large Classes: Strategies for Success”.

Bill Evans presented a poster on “Inspiring leadership; It’s not about the power" at the EduCause National Conference Poster Presentation in Orlando, Fl.

Bryan Saville presented "From Laboratory to Lecture Hall: Using Behavior Analysis to Improve Your Teaching" at the Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.

Cheryl Talley presented at the Center for Faculty Innovation Workshop held at James Madison University on “Multicultural Teaching and Learning II: Evaluating and Enhancing Your Multicultural Proficiency”.

February 2006

Bill Evans was invited to present at the James Madison University Organization Networking Experience Leadership Conference about Leadership as Service.

The following faculty presented at the 18th Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Atlanta, GA.:

  • Natalie Kerr Lawrence, with M. Sullivan, & A. Spears were invited to present “Effective activities and demonstrations for teaching research methods".
  • Zinn, T. E., & Saville, B. K. Interteaching: Are quality points necessary? Poster presented.

Michael Stoloff & Lynn Cameron presented at the Center for Faculty Innovation (CFI) Workshop held at James Madison University on “Integrating Information Literacy to Improve Assignments”.

Zinn, T. E., & Saville, B. K. Interteaching: Are quality points necessary? Poster presented at the 18th annual Southeastern Teaching of Psychology conference. Altanta , GA.

March 2006

The following presentations were presented at the conference Creating Connections in School Mental Health 2006: A North American Update on Progressive Efforts to Support School-Based Mental Health Programming. Banff, Canada:

  • Evans, S.W. Coordinated school based care of children and adolescents with ADHD.
  • Evans, S.W. Developing Empirically Supported School Based Mental Health Treatments.

Amanda Lindberg* & Pam Gibson presented the paper "Work And Community Access for People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities" at the Work Stress and Health Conference, in Miami, FL

Kevin Apple presented at the Human Rights: A Growing World Without Them conference held at James Madison University. His topic was Human Rights Violations: Lessons Learned from Social Psychology.

The following students and faculty presented posters at the 2 nd annual Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis Conference in Harrisonburg, VA:

  • Zinn, T. E., & Saville, B. K. Interteaching: Are quality points necessary?
  • Houser, T.,* Knicely, K.,* & Saville, B. K. Maximizing, satisficing, and delay discounting in college students..

The following JMU Students and Faculty presented posters at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Baltimore, MD, March 16-19, 2006:

  • Michelle Shores* & Jeffrey Andre. Effects of Color, Wings and Position on the Magnitude of the Combined Müller-Lyer and Ponzo Illusion.
  • Jeffrey Andre, Michael Hall, Heidi Jennings*, & Katie Fox*. Exploring Whether There is an Auditory Correlate to Tunnel Vision.
  • Kristen Hollie Frieds*, Sheena J. Rogers, Aaron M. Kimmelman*, Jesse B. Pappas*, & Michael A. Sottolano*. Contribution of Voice Recognition to Eyewitness Identification.
  • Suzanne Baker & L. Brooke Poerstel*. Effect of Cage Size on Development of Behavioral Stereotypies in Deer Mice, Peromyscus Maniculatus
  • Sherry L. Serdikoff, Janie E. Webb*, Andrew D. Hucks*, M. Brad Kincheloe*, Daniel J. Hoffman*, Jane T. Slomski* & A. Charles Catania . Assessing Reinforcement Mechanisms in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
  • Haley Gleason*, Chiqita M. Cross*, Claudia E. Howell*, Ann L. Wengel*, Erin S. Peacock*, & Steven W. Evans. Potential Sources of Strain for Parnets of Children with ADHD.
  • Pamela Elizabeth Schardin*, Jeanne M. Donaghy*, Emily A. Barlow*, Claudia E. Howell*, & Steven W. Evans. Parent/Child Agreement on the Issues Checklist.
  • Daniel Paulson*, Gregg Henriques*, Sheena Rogers, Jeff Andre, & Jesse Pappas*. Effect of Negative Affect on Estimation of Egocentric Distance.
  • Chelsea Wieczorek*, & Tracy E. Zinn. How Do Students Perceive Intelligence and Diversity?
  • Tracy E. Zinn, Kimberly A. Marchuk*, Bridget S. Schultz*, & John F. Magnotti*. Are Students Customers? The Students’ Viewpoint.
  • John Magnotti*, Bridget S. Schultz*, Kimberly A. Marchuk*, & Tracy E. Zinn. Does Effort Still Count? More on What Makes the Grade.
  • Jennifer Nicole Pic* & Jeffrey Andre. The Effect of Cue Relevance and Stimulus Contrast on Performance and Recall in Word Searches.
  • J. Philip Erb*, Jr., Monica Reis-Bergan, & Sherry L. Serdikoff. Attitudes Towards Criminal Sentencing Options: Dispositional Forgiveness and Crime Severity.
  • Jesse Pappas*, Kristen Fries*, Katie Rose*, Sandy Lawson*, & Sheena Rogers. Into the Monster’s Den: Investigating the Pleasure Paradox of Cinematic Horror.
  • Magen Lynn Sier*, Suzanne C. Baker, & Sherry L. Serdikoff. Preferred Associates in a Zoo Giraffe Herd.
  • Melissa A. Zaleski*, Andrew D. Hucks*, Elizabeth A. Dalanis*, & Sherry L. Serdikoff. A Comparison of Programmed Instruction and Programmed Instruction with Interteaching.

The following students and faculty made these presentations at the Annual Meetings of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) in Atlanta, GA, March 16-19:

  • Lau, A.R*.& Kahn, A.S. College Woman’s Experiences of Street Harassment.
  • Aufderhaar, K.*, Corbett, B*., Hall, A*., Heiser, R*., Milligan, K*, & Neary, J*. Resisting Rape. (Arnie Kahn, Research Advisor)

The following students and faculty presented at the Virginia Youth Tobacco Project Conference in Richmond, VA.:

  • Panagrahi, B.*, Belgrave F.Z., & Nasim, A. The effect of sibling tobacco use on African American adolescent tobacco use.
  • Belgrave, F.Z., Corona, R., Canino, G., Nasim, A. What do we know about racial/ethnic differences and youth smoking and nicotine addiction?
  • Serpell, Z.N., Timmins, B.*, Evans, S.W., Moore, S.* and Buvinger, L. Tobacco-related outcomes of a school-based psychosocial program for youth with ADHD.

April 2006

The following paper and poster were presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA:

  • Barron, K.E., Baranik, L.E. *, & Finney, S.J. Mastery-avoidance at work: Discriminant and construct validity.
  • Walker, C.*, Kaliski, P.K.*, Rezner, L. *, & Barron, K.E. The Qualitative Phase of an Exploratory Mixed Method Investigation of College Classroom Climates.

The following Psychology Majors are among the students selected to represent JMU at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Ashville North Carolina:

  • J. Philip Erb *, The Role of Dispositional Forgiveness in Predicting College Students’ Attitudes Towards the Punishment of Offenders. (Supervisor: Dr. Sherry Serdikoff).
  • Andrew Hucks *, The Role of Instructions and Self-Generated Rules on College Students’ Performance on a Probability Matching Task. (Supervisor: Dr. Sherry Serdikoff).
  • Jessica Major *, Perceived Interaction Between Peers and Family and its Relationship to Academic Achievement and Social Networks in College. (Supervisor: Dr. Monica Reis-Bergan)
  • Elizabeth McGee *, Academic Performance and Satisfaction with Interteaching: Do Level of Achievement, Motivation and Gender Play a Role? (Supervisor: Dr. Tracy Zinn)
  • Rebecca Oliver *, Hierarchal Information Processing in Dyslexia: Visual Persistence and Processing Speed of Local Stimuli and Global Stimuli (Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Andre)

Thomas, S.*, Keller, L.*, & Talley, C. presented a poster on The Effects of Methylene Blue on Rat Performance in the 8-arm Radial Maze for the SYNAPSE conference at Davison College .

Kevin Apple conducted a lecture/discussion on the social psychology of the Holocaust and genocide during James Madison University ’s Holocaust Remembrance Week 2006: Remembering the Past, Working for the Future.

The following students represented JMU at the Colonial Athletic Alliance (CAA) Conference held at James Madison University:

  • Stacey Langsner* present her thesis research on "The Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Music on Relaxation States and Reading Comprehension (Monica Reis-Bergan, Research Advisor).  
  • Jason Kain* presented his thesis research on “Linking College Students' Adaptive and Maladaptive Behaviors to Achievement Goal Theory: An Exploratory Mixed-Method Design” (Kenn Barron, Research Advisor).

Craig Abrahamson was the keynote speaker at the JMU Honors Program Honors Award Ceremony, April 20.

Thomas, S.*, Keller, L.*, & Talley, C. presented a poster on The Effects of Methylene Blue on Rat Performance in the 8-arm Radial Maze for the SYNAPSE conference at Davison College .

The following students and faculty were invited to talk and presented posters at the annual meeting of the Virginia Psychological Association in Virginia Beach:

  • Gottlieb, S.* & Rogers, S.J. Exploring the Affective Responses to Art.
  • Hess, S. M.* , Cooper, S. J.*, Rudy, J. L.*, Sacks, J. S.*, & Kerr, N. A. Teaching efficacy among college professors.
  • Kain, J.*, Makara, K*. , Gandolfo, M.* & Barron, K. Linking College Students' Adaptive and Maladaptive Behaviors to Achievement Goal Theory: An Exploratory Mixed-Method Design.
  • Hess, S. M.*, Cooper, S. J.*, Rudy, J. L.*, Sacks, J. S.*, & Kerr, N. A. (2006). Teaching efficacy among college professors.
  • Kerr, N.A. The impact of announced chapter quizzes on students' self-efficacy and exam performance.

The following faculty were invited keynote speakers at the annual Auburn University Department of Psychology Teaching Festival:

  • Bryan Saville presesnted Using psychology to teach psychology.
  • Tracy Zinn presented Embracing frustration: How this negative emotion can improve our teaching.

May 2006

Baranik, L.E.*, Lance, C., Lau, A.*, & Barron, K.E. Measurement Invariance for the 2 x 2 Achievement Goal Framework for a Work Domain. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.

The following posters were presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta , GA. :

  • Hoffman, D. J.*, & Serdikoff, S. L.Assessing the ability of Kava Kava to reduce the effects of the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure using an animal model.
  • Kincheloe, M. B. *, & Serdikoff, S. L.Using the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) as an animal model for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): Assessing impulsivity with a concurrent chains procedure.
  • Webb, J. E .*, & Serdikoff, S. L.Using the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) as an animal model to examine delay-of-reinforcement gradients in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).

The following faculty and students presented at the Association for Psychological Science conference, New York, NY.:

  • Bryan Saville presented for the APS-STP Teaching Institute at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference this May. His topic is “From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side: An Alternative Approach to Teaching Research Methods”.
  • Roche, J.* & Hall, M.D. Processing differences in the auditory-visual integration of emotions and speech.
  • Zinn, T.E., Saville, B.K., Burnett, J.*, Cordon, S.*, Kincheloe, B., &, Noll, N.* Interteaching: A component analysis.
  • Zinn, T.E., Magnotti, J.F.*, Marchuk, K.A.*, & Schultz, B.S.* When does effort count? Student perceptions of how grades should be determined.
  • Zinn, T.E., Crowley, D.M.*, & Gesualdi, C.* Student entitlement and students’ views of themselves as customers.
  • Zinn, T.E., Marchuk, K.A.*, Schultz, B.S.*, Magnotti, J.F.*, & Baughman, K.* Are students customers? Students views from two universities.
  • Zinn, T.E., Saville, B.K., Burnett, J.*, Cordon, S.*, Kincheloe, B., & Noll, N.* Interteaching: A component analysis.

June 2006

James Benedict conducted a NSF Chautauqua Short Course for college teachers on “Just-in-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology” held at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia .

Craig Abrahamson presented “Do Community Values, Ideals and Beliefs Affect Manifestations of Trauma?” at the IV World Congress on Traumatic Stress forum on “Trauma and Community: Global perspectives and responses” held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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