Psychology student news 2013-2014
Erin Tobin has been selected to receive an APS Scholar Award from the American Psychosomatic Society for her talk that she will be presenting at the APS meeting in San Francisco in March, entitled, "Youth expressions of positive affect in daily life mediate the association between maternal responsiveness and improved inflammation status in youth with asthma." She was one of only 12 graduate students and postdocs selected for this prestigious award, which comes along with a nice monetary award.
Elyse Thakur has been selected as a recipient of a 2013 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award of $1000.
Her dissertation is titled, "The effects of emotional awareness and expression training and relaxation training for people with irritable bowel syndrome: A randomized trial"
Congratulations Rhiana Wegner! On behalf of the Fall 2013 Grant-in-Aid Program Committee members and The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), we are delighted to inform you that your proposal has been selected to receive a grant in the amount of $1,000. The announcement of this award will be made in an upcoming SPSSI Newsletter.
Stefan Terleckyj, an undergraduate major in psychology, and a placekicker/punter on the Wayne State football team, earned a preseason accolade prior to the start of the 2013 season. He was named to the Fred Mitchell Award Watch List for the third consecutive season. The Fred Mitchell Award highlights excellence on the football field and in the community.
The Watch List for the Fred Mitchell Award includes 34 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), Division II, III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) collegiate place-kickers that were nominated by their colleges for excellence on the football field and in the community. Stefan is one of 12 Division II kickers to receive the honor.
One of our psychology undergraduates, Lesia Onyskiw, just received a cash award and travel funds for a poster she presented at the 2013 summer institute of the International Society for Human Ethology, held at the University of Michigan, August 6-9. The poster title is "Proxmity and touching as methods of mate guarding." Kraig Shattuck served as her advisor on the study, which is part of his own research sponsored by the same organization. He was second author of the poster. Kraig also presented a talk at the meeting. Lesia has been attending meetings of our research group on marriage across cultures.
Two Psychology Graduates, Karen M. Rodrigue, Ph.D. (2007, Advisor: N. Raz) and Kristen Kennedy, Ph.D. (2007, Advisor: N. Raz) were featured in the Observer as rising stars by the American Psychological Society.
Kristyn Wong, a doctoral student in Psychology, won first place for her research poster Protective Effects of Reflective Functioning Among Depressed Survivors of Child Maltreatment (Wong, K., Stacks, A., Beeghly, M., Trentacosta, C. & Muzik, M.) at the Wayne County Community Mental Health Research Advisory Conference in January.
Kraig Shattuck, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, has been awarded the International Society for Human Ethology's Owen F. Aldis scholarship. This highly competitive and prestigious award is designed to promote excellence in empirical research in human ethology. Kraig's proposal, "Proximity, touching, and testosterone: An observational study of proximity and touching when used as mate guarding techniques in humans," is an observational study of the behavior of couples exposed to potential alternative mates.