Recent Graduates and Thesis Titles

Ingrid E. Hellstrom (currently)
Eschatological Thought and Religiosity: Patterns and Relationships
Michael Nielsen, advisor

Bryan Dawson (current)
Need title
Katherine Wiegand, advisor

2005
B. Zeus, Simeoni
Determination of the efficacy of prejudice measures
William McIntosh, advisor

Ben Simpkins
Connectives and Causal Relatedness in Expository Text
John Murray, advisor
After graduation: pursued a Ph.D. program in Human Factors Psychology at Wright State University

2005
W. Travis Suits
Need title
Janice Steirn, advisor
After graduation: pursued a Ph.D. program in Experimental Psychology at Auburn University

2005
Masami Ota
Stereotypes and Prejudice: Intergroup contact between Americans and Japanese
Amy Hackney, advisor
After graduation:

2004
Joseph Thaddeus Meeks: Maintaining Religious and Scientific Beliefs through Cognitive Complexity
After graduation: pursued a Ph.D. program in Cognitive Psychology at University of Georgia
John Murray, advisor

2004
Alexandra Morales
Acquisition of the oddity concept by a Harris Hawk
Janice Steirn, advisor

2004
Brandon Randolph-Seng
The Automatic Consequences of Religious Priming
Michael Nielsen, advisor

2003
Alyson L. Cantey
Advisor : John Murray
Thesis Title: Encoding Flexibility of Social Categories in Impression Formation

2002 Kelly A. Burke
Advisor: John Murray
Thesis Title: The Influence of an Opponent and Time Pressure in Risky Naturalistic Decision Making
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology at the University of Central Florida.

2002 Coretta L. Lucas
Advisor: Janice Kennedy
Thesis Title: The Effects of Sex, Race, & Family Structure on Perceptions of Children

2001 Keisha D. Butler
Advisor: Janie Wilson
Thesis Title: Prolactin Levels in Adult Rats Following Equivalent Exposure to Either the Open Field or Restraint and the Open Field
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology at Purdue University

2001 Kelli W. Taylor
Advisor: Elisabeth Sherwin
Thesis Title: Hope as a Predictor of Coping Style, Alcohol Expectancies, Stress, & Alcohol Use to Reduce Stress
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Social/Developmental Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University

2001 Jason D. Fors
Advisor: William McIntosh
Thesis Title: Self-Enhancement Styles Sorting Out Conflicting Evidence on the Effects of Self-Enhancing

2001 Jo Ann Spadafore
Advisor: William McIntosh
Thesis Title: Romantic Affairs and Attachment Style: An Evolutionary Perspective
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Tennessee State University

2000 Brandon Schmeichel
Advisor: William McIntosh
Thesis Title: The Influence of Self-Focused Attention on Time Estimation Behavior
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Florida State University

2000 Kyla A. Underhill
Advisor: Janice Kennedy
Thesis Title: Caregivers' Parenting Styles in Relation to Attachment and Social Competence in Preschoolers
After graduating, pursued a Ph.D. in Developmental/Clinical Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Recent Presentations Involving Current and Recent Graduate Students

Nielsen, M. E., Bainbridge, W. M. S., & Hellstrom, I. (April 8,
2006). Religious beliefs as predictors of attitudes toward cloning.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Psychological
Society, Valdosta, GA.

Nielsen, M. E., Randolph-Seng., B., Kujawski, J., & Winger, A. (2003, October). Effect of expectations on experiences with the Altered States of Consciousness Induction Device. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Norfolk, VA.

Cantey, A. & Murray, J. D. (2003, May). Traits and stereotypes in the construction of situation models. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.

Kennedy, J. H., & Taylor, K. W. (2003, April). Implications of attachment to mother and father on romantic and peer relationships among late adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Taylor, K. W., & Kennedy, J. H. (2002, April). Implications of adolescent attachment for social perception. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, New Orleans.

Simpkins, B. G., Suits, W. T., & Steirn, J. N. (March, 2003). Value Transfer in Conditioned Inhibition. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melborne Beach, FL.

Kennedy, J. H., & Taylor, K. W. (2002, September). Adolescent attachment and gender-role orientation: An examination of the self and others. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the European Association for Research in Adolescence, Oxford, England.

Taylor, K. W., & Kennedy, J. H. (2002, September). Adolescent attachment and negative coping: A test of the tension reduction vs. relaxation hypothesis. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the European Association for Research in Adolescence, Oxford, England.

Murray, J. D., & Burke, K. A. (2002, March). Predictive inferences and reading skill: Off-line assessment of encoding. Presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Orlando, FL.

Kennedy, J. H., Kennedy, C. E., & Taylor, K. W. (2002, February). Assessment of attachment in children and adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Chicago.

Burke, K. A., & Murray, J. D. (2001, November). The influence of an opponent in risky naturalistic decision making. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Orlando, FL.

Kennedy, J. H., & Taylor, K. W. (2001, August). Adolescent attachment and behavior: Gender and the use of negative coping strategies. Paper presented at the 10th annual European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Upssala, Sweden.

Kennedy, J. H., & Taylor, K. W. (2001, June). Adult attachment style, coping, and stress: Eating behavior vs. alcohol use by men and women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto.

Kennedy, J. H., & Taylor, K. W. (2001, June). Adult attachment style, coping, and stress: Eating behavior vs. alcohol use by men and women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto.

McIntosh, W.D. & Schmeichel, B.J. (2001, May). Collectors and collecting: A social-psychological perspective. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Taylor, K., & Kennedy, J. H. (2001, May). Coping style, situational stress, and alcohol use as a function of attachment orientation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Kennedy, J. H., & Underhill, K. A. (2001, April). Parental childrearing styles and social competence in preschool children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

McIntosh, W.D., Schmeichel, B.J., & Taylor, K.W. (2000, May). Retrospective time estimation as a function of task enjoyability and linking happiness to goal attainment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Taylor, K. W., Underhill, K. A., & Kennedy, J. H. (2000, April). The relationships between adult attachment style, hope, coping style, and situational stress on alcohol consumption to reduce stress in college students. Poster presented at the biennial Conference on Human Development, Memphis.

Underhill, K. A., & Kennedy, J. H. (2000, April). Security of attachment and parenting style. Poster presented at the biennial Conference on Human Development, Memphis.

McIntosh, W. D., Schwegler, A., & Terry-Murray, R. M.(1999, March). Threat and television viewing in the United States, 1960-1990. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Savannah, GA.

Mills, P. S., McIntosh, W. D., Smith, S. M., & Bazzini, D. G. (1998, March). Alcohol in the movies: Characteristics of drinkers and nondrinkers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Mobile, AL, March, 1998.

Salter, R., Nielsen, M. E., & Richards-Little, E. K. (1998, March). Religious Self-Disclosure as a Norm Violation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Mobile, Alabama.

Schwegler, A. F., Sherwin, E., Murray, J., & McIntosh, W. D. (1998, March). Hope,
self-esteem and aggressive reactions to an ego-threat. Paper presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Mobile, AL.

 

Publications Involving Current and Recent Graduate Students

George-Joseph, G. & Smith, E.W. L. (in press). The dream world in Dominica. Dreaming

Nielsen, M. E., & Randolph-Seng, B. (in press). Psychology, religion
and the Internet. In D. Wulff (Ed.), Handbook of the psychology of
religion. New York: Oxford.

McIntosh, W.D. & Schmeichel, B.J. (In press) Collectors and collecting:
A social psychological perspective. Leisure Sciences.

Nielsen, M. E., & Randolph-Seng, B. (2004). Religious groups. Applied
developmental science encyclopedia, p. 925-927. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.

Nielsen, M. E., & Randolph-Seng, B. (2004). Religious groups. Applied developmental science encyclopedia, p. 925-927. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Murray, J. D., & Burke, K. A. (2003). Activation and encoding of predictive inferences:† The role of reading skill,† Discourse Processes, 35, 81-102.

McIntosh, W. D., Schwegler, A. F., & Terry-Murray, R. M. (2000). Threat and television viewing in the United States, 1960-1990. Media Psychology, 2, 35-46.