Department News
Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments
Fall, 2008 
Spring, 2009
Dissertation Defense
Jessica Long, Paradoxical Effects of Shock: The Role of Shock Intensity and Interresponse Times Followed by Shock, April 27, 2009. Chair Mike Perone
Josh Masse, Examining the Efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with High-functioning Autism, May 1, 2009. Chair: Cheryl McNeil
Sarah Stoner, Goal Framing of Health Related Behaviors: What Factors Contribute to the Persuasiveness of a Message? May 11, 2009. Chair: Barry Edelstein
Rebecca Widoe, Characterizing the Relation Between Depressive Symptoms and Parkinson's Disease in a Sample of Swedish Twins. May 11, 2009. Chair: Amy Fiske
Eric Goedereis, A Daily Process Analysis of Short-term Physical Activity Goal Pursuits in Midlife: Changes in Goal Processes, Physical Activity, and Subjective Well-being. May 12, 2009. Chair: Julie Patrick
Matt Goldfine, An Examination of Adolescent Nicotine Withdrawl Symptoms: A validation of the nicotine Withdrawl Assessment for Youth, May 13, 2009. Chair: Steven Branstetter
Matt Whited, The Influence of Forgiveness and Apology on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Mental Stress. May 13, 2009. Chair: Kevin Larkin
Emily Bower, End-of-Life Care Training in Medical School: An Examination of Medical Student's Knowledge, Attitudes, Preparedness to Provide Care, and the Hidden Curriculum, May 15, 2009. Chair: Barry Edelstein
Dissertation Proposal
Marion Young, Late-Preterm and Full-Term Infant Sleep: Relations with Material Cognitions and Nocturnal Behaviors, February 10, 2009. Chair: Katherine Karraker
Joe McFall , Effectiveness of Strategies for Solving Everyday Problems During Early and Later Adulthood: A Reexamination of the Everyday Problem Solving Inventory, February 25, 2009. Chair: JoNell Strough
Megan Clegg-Kraynok, Nonmedical Psychostimulant Use and Sleep Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults, April 9, 2009. Chair: Hawley Montgomery-Downs
Lauren Penwell, Validation of the Calgary Symptoms of Stress Inventory (C-SOSI) for Predicting Adherence to a Stress Reduction Technique, May 4, 2009. Chair: Kevin Larkin
Chelsea Ale, An Indicated Prevention Parenting Intervention for Shyness and Social Withdrawl in Preschool Children, May 15, 2009. Chair: Tracy Morris
Jessica Stoltzfus, Shy Toddlers' Responses to an Unfamiliar Social Setting: The Effect of Maternal Sensistive, Intrusive, and High Warmth Behaviors, May 15th, 2009. Chair:Katherine Karracker
Advanced to Doctoral Candidacy
Lauren Penwell, January 28, 2009.
Chad Brice, April 1, 2009.
Brian Creasy, April 1, 2009.
Christine Gould, April 15, 2009
Katrina McKoy, April 15, 2009
Laurie Ragatz, April 15, 2009
Danielle Tomczewski, May 11, 2009
Thesis Defense
Sarah Stahl, Health Promotion During Midlife: The Influence of Internal Health Focus of Control and Future Time Perspective. April 7, 2009. Chair: Julie Patrick
Andrew Lightner, An Experimental Analysis of Preference for Rate Building. April 8, 2009. Chair: Claire St. Peter Pipkin
Andrea Jones, How Influential Are They? The Role of Parents, Social Support, Attachment and Autonomy in College Students' Liklihood to Experience Social Anxiety. Chair: Tracy Morris
Anne Foreman, Negative Reinforcement by Timeout from Avoidance: The roles of Shock-Frequency Reduction and Response-Effort Reduction. May 6, 2009. Chair: Mike Perone
Leigh Schrimpf, Choice Between Schedules of Reinforcement With and Without Response-Packing Requirements. May 8, 2009. Chair: Mike Perone
Merideth Smith, Gender Differences in the Impact of Percieved Social Support on the Relation Between Disability and Depressive Symptoms. May 11, 2009. Chair: Amy Fiske
Toshi Kuroda, An Experimental Analysis of Jackpotting. May 13, 2009. Chair: Andy Lattal
Thesis Proposal
Sally Huskinson, Effects of Acute and Repeated Administration of Diazepam on Delay Discounting in Lewis and Fischer 344 Rats. March 25, 2009. Chair: Karen Anderson
Joanna Prout, Dyadic Interaction: The Effects of Controlling and Critical Behavior versus Warm and Responsive Behavior on Participant Behavior and Emotional Response, February 27, 2009. Chair: Tracy Morris
August Holtyn, Escape from Stimuli Correlated with Transitions Across Lean and Rich Schedules of Reinforcement. January 26, 2009. Chair: Mike Perone
Ellen Brosh, A Comparison of Methods for Evaluating Descriptive Analyses. April 2, 2009. Chair: Claire St. Peter Pipkin
Tonya Marsteller, Effects of Fixed-Time Reinforcement Schedules on Resurgence of Problem Behavior, April 29, 2009. Chair: Claire St. Peter Pipkin
Bobby Phillips, Dissociating the Reinforcing and Discriminative Roles of a Warning in a Free-Operant Avoidance Situation, April 30, 2009. Chair: Mike Perone
Rebecca Schwartz, Emotional Intelligence and Facial Affect Recognition Among College Psychopaths versus Controls, May 1, 2009. Chair: Bill Fremouw
Lisa DiDonato, Sex Segregation and Young Adults' Gender-typed Attitudes about Occupation. May 12, 2009. Chair: JoNell Strough
Suzan Clemens, Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Childbirth Stages of Change Questionnaire, May 6 2009. Chair: Dan McNeil
Jennifer Morey, The Sharing of and Reactions to Positive Events in romantic Relationships, May 15, 2009. Chair: Amy Gentzler
Sarra Nazem, Migraines and Death by Suicide, May 14, 2009. Chair: Amy Fiske
James Henrie, Religiousness, Future Time Perspective, and Death Anxiety Among Adults, May 14, 2009. Chair: Julie Patrick
Christopher Krebs, Effects of d-amphetamine on delay discounting with different baselines, May 15, 2009. Chair: Karen Anderson
Michael Nadorff, Insomnia Symptoms, Nightmares and Suicidal Ideation in a University Sample, May 6, 2009. Chair: Amy Fiske
Awards
The Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis has named Carlos Cancado as one of two winners of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Fellowship for 2009.
Eric Goedreis, is an inaugural winner of the Nicholas Evans Award for Advising Excellence for 2009.