Psychology Department

Recent Presentations

Published Abstracts and Talks Co-Presented by Reed Psychology Students and Current Faculty Within the Last Five Years at Professional Meetings and Conferences

(Students' names appear in bold type. Presentations are listed in chronological order.)

2023

Kassin, L., Castellano, A., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Holmes, K.J. (2023, July). Linguistic distancing andemotion regulation in English and Spanish. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society, Sydney, Australia.

Schimmel, E., Madar, C.G., Wu, S.H., Shan, L., Waldorf, N., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2023, July).Does experiencing an “inner voice” predict language-driven categorical perception? Poster presented at the 45thAnnual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

Shan, L., Greenwald, D., Boldt, T., Truong, B., Gonzalez, G., Chen, C., & Corpus, J. H. (2023, March). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in bilingual schoolchildren. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.

Wu, S.H., Corpus, J.H.. (2023, March). Understanding the perceived costs of academic engagement during the first year of college. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.

2022

Baker, H., Dziedzic, H., Easthausen, S., Egermeier, E., James F., Rook, E., & Corpus, J. H. (2022, April). Predictors of paternal sensitivity: The role of infant gender and paternal support for gender equality. Poster presented at the Society for the Study of Human Development 2021-22 Conference Series.

Baker, N., Li, C., Madar, C., & Anderson, K.G. (2022). Location and perceived gender match on willingness to use alcohol. Poster presented at the Research Society on Alcohol Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida.

Barone, S. & Pitts, M. (2022). Investigating the appearance of perceptual richness: A systematic review. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, July, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Corpus, J. H., Robinson, K.A., & Liu, Z. V. (2022, April). A Self-Determination Theory approach for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on college students’ motivation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2022). EEG bifurcation dynamics in a no-report visual awareness paradigm. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, May, St Pete Beach, FL.  

Fenner, M., Pitts, M., Wen, E., Bennet, M., Sarig, A., Mudrik, L., & Schurger, A. (2022). A no-report dichoptic color fusion EEG paradigm for isolating NCCs. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, July, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Franklin, A. & Pitts, M. (2022). “Laurel & Yanny”: EEG neural correlates of an auditory bistable language stimulus. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, July, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Krishnamurthy, R., & Holmes, K. J. (2022, November). Verbal descriptions and graph-reading skills predictclimate graph interpretation accuracy. Poster presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Krishnamurthy, R., Elpers, N., Thibodeau, P. H., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2022, July). Exploring the role of pragmatic reasoning in linguistic framing effects. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada and online (hybrid).

Li, C.Y., Holmes, K. J., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2022, November). An unconscious effect of Chinese classifiers onobject categorization. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA.

Liu, A. & Pitts, M. (2022) Spatial attention control mechanism modulated by subliminal stimuli. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 12-16, San Diego CA. [POSTER PDF]

Liu, Z. V. & Corpus, J. H. (2022, April). A mixed-methods approach to understanding adaptive and maladaptive patterns of motivational change. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Madar, C., Elpers, N., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2022, July). Mapping the structure of metaphorical concepts of undergraduate research mentoring. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada and online (hybrid).

Marghetis, T., Holmes, K. J., Star-Lack, M., & Chacon, S. (2022, July). A systematic investigation of spatial cognition around the globe. Invited talk for the symposium on Dimensions of Diversity in Spatial Cognition: Culture, Context, Age, and Ability at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada and online (hybrid).

Montano, I., Rajendran, A., Allison, L., Nicolacoudis, A., Mudrik, L., Sarig, A., Schurger, A., & Pitts, M. (2022) Triangulating neural correlates of consciousness. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 12-16, San Diego CA. [POSTER PDF]

Nicolacoudis, A., Allison, L., Montano, I., Rajendran, A., Fenner, M., Pitts, M., Sarig, A., Mudrik, L., & Schurger, A. (2022) Triangulating consciousness: A no-report dichoptic color fusion EEG paradigm for isolating NCCs. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 12-16, San Diego CA. [POSTER PDF]

Pitts, M. Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., & Cohen, M. (2022). Distinct EEG bifurcation dynamics in report and no-report conditions of a visual masking paradigm. Talk presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, July, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2021

Colvin, K. J., Brigande, A. M., Dao, O., Darwich, J. G., & Currie, P. J. (2021). Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) signaling in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) mediates neuropeptide-Y (NPY) and ghrelin stimulated operant responding for food and alcohol reward. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 13-17 November].

Darwich, J. G., Herrington, J. A., Harshaw, C., Brigande, A. M.Leif, E. B., & Currie, P. J. (2021). Ghrelin mitigates acetaminophen (APAP)-induced developmental abnormalities in rats. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 13-17 November].

Davis, L., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2021, May). How victim framing shapes attitudes towards police violence. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention.

Herrington, J. A., Darwich, J. G., Harshaw, C., Brigande, A. M., & Currie, P. J. (2021). Behavioral effects of perinatal acetaminophen and ghrelin exposure in rats. [Presented at the Fifty-fourth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychobiology, Chicago, IL, November 10-12].

Holmes, K. J., Star-Lack, M., Elpers, N., Flusberg, S. J., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2021, November). Factors predicting the metaphoricity of compound words. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (virtual).

Lei, C. & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. Labeling emotions in a native and foreign language: An ERP study on emotion regulation in bilinguals via affect labeling. Research talk at the 7th Annual Symposium on Language Research at UC Davis (Virtual), May, 2021.

Liu, Z. V., Scherfling, N., & Corpus, J. H. (2021, April). Contingent self-worth as a predictor of motivational change over the first semester of college. In A. Lavigne (Chair), How beliefs about self relate to motivation and cognition. Paper presented at the virtual annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Wu, S., Elpers, N., Doherty, E. M., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2021, July). Pragmatic reasoning ability predicts syntactic framing effects on social judgments. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (virtual).

Yin, B., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2021, May). “I’m the real victim”: Self-victim framing and perceptions of sexual assault. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention.

2020

Corpus, J.H., Robinson, K.A., & Wormington, S.V. (2020, April). Trajectories of motivation and their academic correlates over the first year of college.  Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. http://tinyurl.com/szo48t7 (Conference Canceled.)

DeFor, M. & Oleson, K.C. (2020, February). Why (don't) we talk about race: Exploring the relationship between academic social norms and faculty members' perceptions of conducting race talk in the college classroom. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Garrison, E., MacCalman, M., Clifton, R., Harper, L., Zapolski, T., & Anderson, K.G. (2020). The effects of sex, gender identity, and dimensional gender expression on drinking behavior. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44s1, 174a.

Harris, A. & Oleson, K.C. (2020, February). The effects of microaggressions on predictors of academic success. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Killen, H.S. Halperin, M.C. & Currie, P.J. (2020). An investigation into the role of the VTA in reward signaling using optogenetic protocols. Murdock Trust: Science Research Program Conference (Life Sciences, Virtual). Portland, OR,15 October.

Moran, H., & Corpus, J.H. (2020, February). Mindset as a predictor of academic achievement and academic buoyancy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science, Portland, OR.

Ortego, K., Pitts, M., & Cohen, M. (2020). Neural correlates of visual awareness and task-relevance in a no-report masking paradigm. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting, June, online.

Scherfling, N.B., & Corpus, J.H. (2020, February). Intelligence mindset, goal endorsement, and perceptions of feedback among college students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science, Portland, OR

2019

Bastacky, J.M.R., Dunn, D.P., Halperin, M.C., Killen, H.S., Margolis, E.B., & Currie, P.J. (2019). VTA kappa opioid receptor stimulation paired with CRF elicits conditioned place aversion, but kappa stimulation alone does not. Program No.151.13. 2019. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 19-23 October].

Beck, K., Daniel, E., DeFor, M., Hayworth, K., Peterson, M., & Oleson, K.C. (2019). Politics in the classroom: Exploring faculty self-disclosure of political ideology. Poster presented at the 15th Meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, San Diego, CA.

Corpus, J.H., & Biesanz, C.H. (2019, April). Shifts in motivation and belonging as predictors of college student retention: A mixed-methods approach. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Dunn, D.P., Engel, L., Dao, O., Gee, S., Halperin M.C., Hayworth, K., Kanter, M.E., Kessler, K.K., Killen, H.S., Kohn, J., Leif, E.B., O’Kelley-Bangsberg, M., Walworth, C., Wong, D., & Currie, P.J. (2019). Central ghrelin 1a and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation modulates D-amphetamine conditioned place preference. Program No.156.12. 2019. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 19-23 October].

Engel, L., Howell, E., & Currie, P. J. (2019). Estrogen receptor 𝛼 and 𝛽 modulation of ethanol withdrawal induced anxiety in female rats. Program No.237.18. 2019. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 19-23 October].

Garland, K., Hackenberg, T.D., & Franceschini, A.C. (2019). Social Enrichment Effects on Demand for Food With Fixed and Random Outcomes.  Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Glass, J., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2019). Demand and Preference for Specific and Generalized Reinforcers in Pigeons: Does Economic Context Matter? Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Goldstein, C. & Oleson, K.C. (2019). I think you think: Perceived entity theory, gender, and undergraduates’ sense of school belonging across academic majors. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Gutowsky, K., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2019). Repetitive Behavior in a Rat Model of Autism. Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Hackenberg, T.D., Wan, H., & Kirkman, C.F. (2019). Do Rats Share Food?: Tests with the Social-Release Paradigm. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled, “The experimental analysis of social behavior: Experimental approaches to the study of operant social behavior.” Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Hackenberg, T, Kirkman, C.F., Wan, H., & Franceschini, A. C. (2019). Behavioral economics of food and social reinforcement.  Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled, “Reinforcement in nonhuman animal social behavior.”  Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Stockholm.

Johnson, M.S., Kanter, M.J., Corlett, A.G., Halperin, M.C., Kessler, K.K., Killen, H.S., Leif, E.B., Markowitz, N.M., Pastor, R., & Currie, P.J. (2019). Brain-Cannula Mapping: Effects of Ghrelin on Metabolic, Limbic, and Mesolimbic Reward Signaling. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, 20 October.

Killen, H.S., Halperin, M.C., Corlett, A.G., Engel, L., Johnson, M.S., Kanter, M.E., Kessler, K.K., Leif, E.B., Markowitz, N.M., & Currie, P. J., (2019). Hypothalamic GLP-1 Signaling in Energy Metabolism. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Il, 20 October.

Kirkman, C.F., Wan, H., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2019).  Assessing Cross-Price Interactions Between Food and Social Reinforcement.  Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Kyroudis, A., Ortego, K., Hillyard, S., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2019). Neural correlates of visual awareness and taskrelevance in a no-report masking paradigm. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, June, London Ontario, CA.

Martinez-Picazo, P., & Corpus, J.H. (2019, October). Self-efficacy and the regulation of motivation. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development. Portland, OR.

MacCalman, M. & Anderson, K.G. (2019). The impact of gender match vs. mismatch on willingness to drink alcohol. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43s1, 113a.

Murphy, R.R. & Oleson, K.C. (2019). When awareness isn’t enough: Joint effect of bias awareness and perceived changeability on prejudice. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Naveed, T., & Corpus, J.H. (2019, October). Academic self-handicapping and its correlates in early adolescence. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development. Portland, OR.

Ortego, K., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2019, March). EEG signatures of perceptual reversals of bistable visual and linguistic stimuli. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.

Ortego, K., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2019). EEG signatures of perceptual reversals of bistable visual and linguistic stimuli. Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, June, London Ontario, CA.

Wan. H., Kirkman, C.F., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2019).  Failure to Find Altruistic Behavior in Rats. Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Chicago.

Willson, J.S.G., & Corpus, J.H. (2019, October). Mindfulness, consent, gender identity, and sexual orientation: Health education in elementary school. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development. Portland, OR.