2007 - 2008 Academic Year Conferences

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

June 2007

The following posters and symposiums were presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Staunton, VA: 2007, June

Andre, J.T., & Barron, K.E. The JMU residential psychology learning community: A 5 year review.
Brewster, J. Peer Tutoring in Abnormal Psychology.
Hulleman, C.S., & Barron, K.E. Motivational planning in the classroom: Understanding and applying contemporary motivation theory in your classroom.
Lovell, S., Grayson, J.H., & Lindberg, A.* Knowledge to action: Making learning come alive through fieldwork.

Clark, T.T., Belgrave, F.Z., & Nasim, A. (2007, June). Risk and protective factors for substance use among urban African American adolescents considered at-risk. Black Graduate Student Annual Conference in Psychology. Howard University, The Graduate School, Department of Psychology.

Evans, S.W. (2007, June). Interventions for adolescents with ADHD based on a model of core cognitive deficits. Invited address presented at the First International Congress on ADHD, Wuerzburg, Germany.

Nasim, A., Belgrave, F.Z., & Owens, K. (2007, June). The buffering effects of culture on community disorganization and drug use among rural African American adolescents. Society for Prevention Research.

Nasim, A., Jagers, R.J., Belgrave, F.Z. (2007, June). Culture, peer deviance, and alcohol use among urban African American youth. Society for Prevention Research.

Van Eck, K.*, Serpell, Z., Creasy, B.*, & Evans, S.W. (2007, June). Assessing Initial Use of Substances with a High Risk Group of Young Adolescents. Poster presented at annual Society for Research Prevention Conference, Washington, D.C.

August 2007

The following posters and symposiums were presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA., August 2007:

Baker, S. C. Benchmarks for undergraduate psychology programs: Using a developmental framework for academic program evaluation.
Dudly, J.M., Evans, S.W., Ross, J.M.*, & Shore, T.* ADHD treatment development and implementation for adolescents.
Johnson, J., Nasim, A., & Belgrave, F.Z. Psychosocial predictors of sex attitudes and behaviors among at-risk, urban African American adolescents.
Lawrence, N.K., Ansburg, P.I., & Gurung, R.A.R. The state of the scholarships of teaching and learning in psychology.
Lawrence, N.K., Ansburg, P.I., & Gurung, R.A.R. Models of excellence in fostering the scholarship of teaching.
Lawrence, N.K., Gurung, R.A.R., Ansburg, P.I., Alexandra, P.A., & Johnston, D.E. Scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology: Current status, future directions.
Serdikoff, S.L. & Erb, J.P.* Examining procedural details of the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure in rats: Effects of time-of-day, duration, and frequency of probe tests.
Serdikoff, S.L., & Hoffman, D.L.* Evaluating the effects of alternative antidepressant interventions on anhedonia using the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure.
Yoder, J.D., Fischer, A.R., & Kahn, A.S. How students explain gender differences helps set our feminist agenda.

Barron, K.E., Brown,A. R.*, Kaliski, P.K.*, & Finney, S. J. (2007, August). Achievement goals, theories of intelligence, and well-being. Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Budapest, Hungary.

Blasko-Drabik, H., Hall, M., Kazmerski, V., & Blasko, D. (2007, August). Does musical experience influence auditory & visual attentional interference? Poster presented at the 2007 Meething of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Hall, M.D., Beauchamp, J.W., Storey, C.*, & Sushner, S.* (2007, August). Spectral and temporal contributions to timbre identification. Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

September 2007

Andre, J. (2007, September). Undergraduate students and the research experience. Invited talk presented at James Madison University Third Annual General Education Student Conference, Harrisonburg, VA.

Harris, C. M., Cameron, S. L., Amato, H. K., & Martino-McAllister, J. (2008, September). Displacing Wikipedia: Information literacy for first-year students. Annual conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Ashville, NC.

Koepfler, J.*, Barker, D.*, Brewster, J., & Stoloff M.L. (2007, September). Using the MMPI-2 to predict aggressiveness in police officers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, Springfield, MA.

The following posters were presented at James Madison University’s annual CISAT Faculty Research Day, Harrisonburg, VA. September 2007:

Andre, J.T. Exploring the persistence of visual guidance information using path triangulation.
Baker, S.C. Education in a virtual environment: Experiences with Second Life.
Grayson, J.H. Virginia Child Protection Newsletter.
Hall, M.D. Does musical experience influence auditory & visual attentional interference?
Henriques, G., Keffer, S.L., Abrahamson, C.E. Examining the Effectiveness of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Reducing Anxiety in JMU Undergraduates.
Irons, J.G. The reinforcer preference task: A novel choice procedure for assessment of incentive.
Reis-Bergan, M.J. Self-directed learning: Information literacy skills in a capstone course.
Saville, B.K. Effort discounting in college students.
Serdikoff, S.L. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory (DDT) of attention deficit/hyperactivity.
Zinn, T.E. The effects of syllabus detail on student perfections of instructor effectiveness.

October 2007

The following posters were presented at the 24th annual Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis conference, Athens, GA. October 2007:

Capik, N.A.*, Robertson, R.H.*, Egan, T.E.*, Kopp, J.P.*, Hoffman, D.J.*, & Serdikoff, S.L. The effects of saccharin concentration on saccharin consumption and preference: Implications for research involving the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure.
Gisbert, A.*, Kopp, J.*, & Saville, B.K. The relation between delay discounting and Internet use in college students.
Gesualdi, C.R.*, Kopp, J.*, & Saville, B.K. Effort discounting.
Kiel, K.A.*, Jarvis, B.P.*, Robertson, L.M.*, Kopp, J.P.*, & Serdikoff, S.L. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory (DDT) of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in an animal model: Resistance to change following variable-interval reinforcement.
Saville, B.K., Kopp, J.*, & Gesualdi, C.R.* Does context affect effort discounting?
Serdikoff, S.L. & Erb, J.P* Examining procedural details of the chronic mild stress (CMS) procedure in rats: Effects of time-of-day, duration, and frequency of probe tests.
Serdikoff, S.L. & Hoffman, D.L.* Evaluating the effects of alternative antidepressant interventions on anhedonia using the Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure.

The following symposiums and posters were presented at the 6th annual meeting of Best Practices of APA’s Division 2: Beginnings and Endings: Best Practices for Introducing and Bringing Closure to the Undergraduate Psychology Major conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2007:

Barron, K.E., Andre, J. T., Buch, K., & Spaulding, S. Learning communities as a vehicle for introducing the psychology major symposium.
Lawrence, N.K. Students’ misconceptions about psychology.
Lovell, S. & Grayson, J.H. Capping the undergraduate experience: Making learning come alive through field work.
Reis-Bergan, M. J. & Cameron, L. Self-directed learning: Information literacy skills in a capstone course.
Serdikoff, S.L. Honors thesis as a capstone experience: A possible perfect ending.
Zinn, T.E., Reis-Bergan, M., & Baker, S.C. Ten things I hate about my capstone – and a few ways to fix them.

Abrahamson, C.E. (2007, October). Evaluating the need to enhance instructional based technology with rapport building techniques. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Atlanta, GA.

Baker, S.C., Ball T., Cheverton, S., Kruck, S., Liu, C., & Quinn, M. (2007, October). Second Life: It’s an educational tool not a game. Workshop presented through the James Madison University’s Center for Instructional Technology, Harrisonburg, VA.

Grayson, J. H. (2007, October). Innovative ideas for challenging populations. Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Kazmerski, V., Blasko, D., Blasko-Drabik, H., Hall, M.D., Walker, A., & McQueeney, K. (2007, October). Cross-modality attentional training effects of musical experience. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA.

Kiel, K. A.*, Jarvis, B. P.*, Robertson, L. M.*, Kopp, J. P.* & Serdikoff, S. L. (2007, October). Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory (DDT) of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in an animal model: Resistance to change following variable-interval reinforcement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Athens, GA.

Lovell, S.E. & Grayson, J. H. (2007, October). Capping the undergraduate experience: Making learning come alive through fieldwork. Beginnings and Endings: Best Practices for Introducing and Bring Closures to the Undergraduate Psychology Major, Atlanta, Georgia.

Pastor, D., Barron, K.E., Miller, B.J., & Davis, S.L. (2007, October) A latent profile analysis of college student’s achievement goal orientation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT.

Saville, B.K. (2007, October). The gospel of learning – but do we practice what we preach? Invited keynote address given at the annual Northeastern Teaching of Psychology conference, Danbury, CT.

November 2007

Davidson, K. (November 3-5, 2007). Creative Techniques to Manage Stress. P. Buckley Moss Foundation for Children’s Education Creative Mind Conference, Lynchburg, VA.

Evans, S.W., Serpell, Z., Sibley, M.*, VanEck, K.*, & Shultz, B. (2007, November). Developing interventions targeting social functioning of youth with ADHD. Paper to be presented as part of the Innovations in the Assessment and Measurement of Children and Adolescents with ADHD: Implications for Developing Effective Interventions symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Irons, J. G., Correia, C. J., Brice S. E., Bradford, D. E., & Simmons, L. W. (2007, November). The reinforcer preference task: A novel choice procedure for assessment of incentive adequacy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

Roche, J. & Hall, M. D. (2007, November). Bimodal integration mechanisms for phonemes and emotional expressions during speech. Poster presented at the annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM), Long Beach, CA.

Simmons, L., Bradford, D. E., Brice, S. E., Martin, K., Irons, J.G. & Correia, C.J. (2007, November). A brief abstinence test for college student smokers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Psychological Association, Birmingham, AL.

Shore, T.*, Serpell,Z, & Evans, S.W. (2007, November). Maternal characteristics and family conflict as predictors of parenting style among mothers of pre-adolescent youth with ADHD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Stoloff, M.L. (2007, November) Making departmental web pages and e-mail work. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of Heads of Departments of Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

December 2007

Grayson, J. H. (2007, December). Fracture in the family: Child abuse in the United
States. James Madison University Honors Symposium, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Grayson, J. H. (2007, December). VCPN Featured at the Prevention Comes First Conference, Richmond, VA.

January 2008

The following posters and symposiums were presented at the 30th annual National Institute of the Teaching of Psychology conference in St. Petersburg, FL.

Christopher, A. N., Hakala, C., Koenig, C. S., Marek, P., & Saville, B. K. Under new management: Editorial and submission procedure changes at Teaching of Psychology.
Saville, B. K. Should I even bother?: The effects of relative exam weight on studying.
Zinn, T.E. But I really tried! Designing your class so that students can see the link between their effort and their outcomes. .

February 2008

Baker, S. C. (2008, February). “Why do we need to know this?”: What psychology students can learn from animal behavior. Invited Talk, Davidson College Dept of Psychology, Davidson, NC, Feb 22, 2008.

Hall, M. D. (2008, February) Re-visiting spectral and temporal dimensions of timbre. University of Virginia Psychology Department’s Cognitive Luncheon.

Saville, B. K. (2008, February). Knowing psychology, teaching psychology: We preach, but do we practice? W. Harold Moon Invited Keynote Address given at the 20th Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference. Atlanta, GA.

Zinn, T.E. (2008, February). Living on the edge: The value of failure, making mistakes, and screwing up. Invited keynote address given at the Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference. Atlanta, GA.

March 2008

The following posters were presented at the 54th annual Southeastern Psychological Association, Charlotte, NC., March 2008:

Bradshaw, C. * Hook up or date: Which gender benefits?
Hall, M. D. Common pitfalls in communicating with graduate programs.
Hall, M. D. Components to the successful mentoring of undergraduate research.
Huddleston, J.*, Chevalier, C.* & Andre, J. Exploring the characteristics of blind-walking to targets.
Jamie Claytor*, Maria Gandolfo*, Kiah Malick*, Charley Martin*, Jacklyn McMillan*, Kimberly Rodgers*, Rebecca Seay*, & Ellen Webne*. Effects of sex of subject, gender of assailant, and gender of victim on perceptions of rape.

The following posters and symposiums were presented at the 79th Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA. March 2008.

Atkins, B. L.*, Gesualdi, C. R.*, & Saville, B. K. Is effort discounting best described by a hyperbolic or exponential function?
Erb, J. P.*, Jarvis, B. P.*, Kiel, K. A.*, & Irons, J. G. Cigarette smoking among college students: Characterization and contingency management.
Finely, D., Goodwin, K., Wesp, R., & Zinn, T.E. Entering the academic marketplace: Advice from the experts.
Gisbert, A. R.*, Kopp, J.*, Telesco, C.*, & Saville, B. K. Internet addiction and impulsivity in college students.
Irons, J. G. & Correia, C. J. Oh the places we’ll go: Contingency management as a research tool and clinical intervention for substance abuse. Invited address.
Kasey, J. C.*, Kushwaha, M.*, Luci, K.*, Stanley, M.*, Ackerman, E.*, Stewart, A., & Talley, C. James Madison University’s building multicultural competency workshop: A new mode for training students and professionals.
Kopp, J. P.*, Erb, J. P.*, Jarvis, B. P.*, Irons, J. G., & Serdikoff, S. L. Assessing the Dynamic Developmental Theory (DDT) of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in an animal model: Resistance to change following variable-interval reinforcement.
Marchuk, K.*, Huffer, E.*, & Zinn, T.E. I feel better when you do worse: A look at maximization and social comparison.
Robertson, R. H.*, Capik, N. A.*, Egan, T. E.*, Kopp, J. P.*, Hoffman, D. J. & Serdikoff, S. L. The effects of saccharin concentration on saccharin consumption and preference: Implications for research involving the Chromic Mild Stress (CMS) procedure.
Saville, B. K. Interteaching: Bringing behavioral education into the 21st century. Invited address.
Saville, B. K. University teaching. In L. J. Bittner & J. Young (Chairs). Teaching psychology as a career in high school and college. Paper presention.
Shalon, J.N.*, Slater, M.*, Irby, S.*, & Zinn, T.E. Reactions to male and female professors’ helping and civic virtue behaviors.
Thachik, S.L.*, Zinn, T.E., Irby, S.*, Shalon, J.N.*, & Slater, M.* Are you ready for the real world?: An evaluation of two career development courses.
Thompson, M. N.*, & Saville, B. K. Interteaching, delay discounting, and effort discounting.
Varfolomeeva, V.L.*, Kopp, J.*, Irby, S.*, & Zinn, T.E. Entitlement in college students.
Wheeler, K.Y.*, Mason, C.*, & Zinn, T.E. Maximization, regret, and major satisfaction in college students.

The following posters were presented at the 4th annual Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis conference in Harrisonburg, VA:

Atkins, B. L.*, Gesualdi, C. R.*, & Saville, B. K. Effort discounting in a sample of college students.
Gisbert, A. R.*, Kopp, J.*, & Saville, B. K. The relation between delay discounting and self-reported Internet use in college students.
Saville, B. K., Zinn, T. E., & Serdikoff, S. L.. Interteaching: The impact of prep guides.

Abrahamson, C.E., (2008, March). Storytelling as instructional pedagogy. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching – West, Pomona, CA.

Evans, W.F. (March 2008). Current life meaning research. Invited talk for the JMU Psychology Club, Harrisonburg, VA.

Wickline, P.*, Brewster, J., & Stoloff, M. L. (March, 2008). A Qualitative Study of the Pre-employment Personality Functioning of 100 Police Officers Using the Rorschach Comprehensive System. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, New Orleans, LA.

April 2008

The following posters were presented at the 22nd annual National Conference of Undergraduate Research:

Brown, A.* Living the good life in college: A multidimensional approach to measuring the life satisfaction of college students.
Koepfler, J.* Using the MMPI-2 to predict aggressiveness in police officers: A longitudinal study.

The following posters were presented at the 5th annual Undergraduate Research Conference of the Colonial Academic Alliance:

Smiley, W.*. Community context and college student adjustment.
Potelunas, J.*. Understanding the lonely: Exploration of factors related to loneliness in first year college students.
Williams, T.*, Psychological responses to injury and the role of the athletic trainer.

Gardner, K.* (2008, April). Group techniques for a delusions and hallucinations group. Poster presented at the Virginia Psychological Association.

Grayson, J. H. (2008, April). Child sexual abuse prevention: How effective? Prevention
Works: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Richmond, Virginia.

Grayson, J. H. (2008, April). VCPN featured at Prevention Works: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Conference, Richmond, VA.

Kahn, A. S. (2008, April). Rape or just a bad night? Responses from victims and observers. Keynote address to the Radford Conference on Gender.

Makara, K. A., Barron, K. E., & Apple, K. J. (2008, April). Linking achievement goal theory to adaptive outcomes. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.

May 2008

The following faculty were invited to be presenters at the20th annual Association of Psychological Science Institute in Chicago, IL:

Apple, K. J. (2008, May). Building rapport in large courses with Just-in-Time Teaching. 15th annual APS-STP Teaching Institute, Chicago, IL.
Apple, K. J. & Munhall, P. J. (2008, May). Positive impressions: More important than group membership in the ultimate attribution error.
Buskist, W., & Irons, J.G. (2008, May) Workshop: Discovering (or rediscovering) your teaching self: Developing your teaching philosophy.
Olvando, C., Baker, S. C., Dunn, D. S. (2008, May). Building bridges: Why college faculty should go back to high school.
Serdikoff, S. L. (2008, May). What does all this learning stuff have to do with teaching, anyway? 15th annual APS-STP Teaching Institute, Chicago, IL.

The following symposiums and posters were presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis in Chicago, IL.

Capik, N. A.*, Robertson, S. H.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. The effects of valerian root on anxiety in an animal model using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM).
Erb, J. P.*, Kiel, K. A.*, Jarvis, B. P.*, Irons, J. G., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2008, May). Reducing smoking in college students using a percentile schedule with fixed-value voucher reinforcement: A feasibility study.
Irons, J. G., & Correia, C. J. (2008, May). A brief abstinence test for college student smokers.
Irons, J. G., & Correia, C. J. (2008, May). The value of abstinence from smoking test: A novel choice procedure for assessment of incentive adequacy. A paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis in Chicago, IL.
Jarvis, B. P.*, Erb, J. P.*, Kiel, K. A.*, Irons, J. G., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2008, May). Toward increasing the cost-effectiveness of contingency management: Using percentile schedules and escalating quality of reinforcement in an intervention designed to reduce smoking in college students.
Kiel, K. A.*, Erb, J. P.*, Jarvis, B. P.*, Irons, J. G., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2008, May). Examining immediate and delayed reinforcement in a contingency management.
Robertson, S. H.*, Capik, N. A.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. Assessing the putative anxiolytic effects of chronic Kava administration in rats using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM).
Saville, B. K. An analysis of effort discounting in college students.
Zinicola, A.*, Byland, A. N.*, Sorg, A. N.*, Vasi, A. E.*, Irons, J. G., & Saville, B. K. (May, 2008). Contingency management in the classroom.
Zinn, T. E. (May 2008) Using stimulus equivalence to teach drug names. Empirically validated learning efficiency.

Buskist, W., & Irons, J. G. (2008, May). Reflectively evaluating and developing your teaching skills. Invited workshop to be held at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

June 2008 (Anticipated)

The following presentations will be made at the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (ETOP) hosted by James Madison University:

Apple, K. J., Barron, K. E., Irons. J. G., Lawrence, N. K., Reis-Bergan, M. J., Saville, B. K., & Zinn, T. E. (2008, June). A few of our favorite things: Activities and demonstrations for teaching psychology.
Buch, K., Barron, K. E., & Spaulding, S. (2008, June). The what, why, and how of creating a Psychology Learning Community.
Talley, C., Serpell, Z., & Pastor, D. (2008, June). Sociocultural instruction within the General Education Curriculum: Using multicultural training to enhance learning objectives.

July 2008 (Anticipated)

Luci, K.; Kasey, J.C., Kushwaha, M., Stanley, M., Ackerman, E., Stewart, A., & Talley, C. (2008, July). Promoting multicultural awareness in pre-professional health care service providers. International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 19th International Congress. Bremen, Germany.

August 2008 (Anticipated)

The following symposiums and posters will be presented at the August 116th annual American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Baker, S. C. (2008, August). Education in a virtual world: An introduction to Second Life.
Baker, S. C., Lantinga, S., & Frantz, S. (2008, August). Workable course policies: Meaning what we say.
Frantz, S., Frickle, R., & Baker, S.C. (2008, August). Why do you have a syllabus? And do you really need one?
Kahn, A. S. (2008, August). Workshop: Teaching the Psychology of Women.
Irons, J. G. (2008, August). Schmidtke, K. A., Johnson, J., Martin, K.*, & Sylvester, M.* Does Caffeine Function as a Flavoring Agent in Sodas?: A systematic Replication of Griffiths and Vernotica (2000).