Master of Science in Psychological Science Program

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

August 2017 – December 2019

Accomplishments are listed by date, most recent to oldest

Poster presentations

Ding, H., Sahakyan, L., Whitlock, J. (2019, November). Directed Forgetting of Same-Race and Other-Race Faces. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 

Crawford, C. M., Griffith, J. M., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L. (2019, September). Implicit beliefs about emotions in youth: Associations with temperamental negative emotionality and depression.Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Buffalo, NY.

Goodwin, G.J., Modi, H. H., Skymba, H. V., Davis, M. M., Weldon, A. L., Heller, W., Rudolph, K. D. (2019, September). Fixed Emotion Mindsets Contribute to Gender Differences in Internalizing Symptoms. Poster presented at Society for Research on Psychopathology, Buffalo, NY.

Ballew, K., Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2019, May). An individual differences investigation of the relationship between visuospatial working memory capacity and inefficient search. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, J., Ballew, K., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2019, May). Do people’s visual ability skill predict search efficiency under difficult search conditions? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Chan, A., Karpel, H., Herera, C., Goodwin, G.J., Thienemann, M., Farhadian, B., Willet, T., Mellins, E., Frankovich, J. (2019, April). Children with sudden onset neuropsychiatric symptoms: inflammation markers, arthritis, enthesitis and concurrent autoimmune/inflammatory diseases.Poster presented at the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Annual Scientific Meeting, Louisville, KY

Crawford, C. M., Griffith, J. M., & Hankin, B. L. (2019, April). Caregiver depression and anxiety: Associations with youth emotion regulation strategy use. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL.

Griffith, J. M., Crawford, C. M., Oppenheimer, C. W., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L. (2019, April). Parenting and youth onset of depression across three years: Examining the influence of observed parenting on child and adolescent depressive outcomes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL.

Yang, B., Xu, J., Zhang, F., Buetti, S. (2019, April) Does time perception of emotional events vary across Asian and Westerner participants? Poster presented at UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Crawford, C.M., Eckland, N.S., & Berenbaum, H. (2019, March). Emotion awareness predictors of the concordance between actual and ideal affect. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Boston, MA.

Kern, S., Laurent H. (2019, March). Childhood Maltreatment History Predicts Mother’s Trauma-Related Symptoms via HPA Axis Regulation With her Infant. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting for The Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Weiner, D.S., & Laurent, S. M. (2019, February). For worse or for better, the richer or poorer: Documenting the (counter-intuitive) wealth-based moral judgment gap. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Chong, L.L., Clevenger, J., Diddi, D., Wang, Z.Y., Chong, M.J., Beck, D. (2019). Confusions in Humans and State-of-the-Art Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.Poster presentation at the 26^th Object Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Memory Conference (OPAM), Montreal, Canada.

Shannon J., Rhyann R. L., & Hunter C.D. (2019) Religious and Spiritual Coping Among African Americans and Caribbean Blacks (2019). University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Researchers Initiative Poster Symposium, Urbana, IL.

Finnegan, M.K., Kern, S., Newberry, D., Heller, W., Laurent, H. (2018, November). Addressing the Atlas Concordance Problem in fMRI. Poster presented at the Annual Convention for the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Hoang, T. M., Neville, H. A., Smith, A. F., Valgoi, M., Schlosser, M., Cha-Jua, S. K., & Fiesta, J. (2018, August). Police recruits’ motivation to hear and evaluate messages in multicultural education: Do racial beliefs matter. Poster to be presented at the 125^th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Tu, N., Phan, W. M. J., Song, Q. C., Rounds, J., & Gregory, C. (2018, June). Examining the incremental validity of career fit on work outcomes. Poster presentation at the Society for Vocational Psychology 2018 Conference.

Lleras, A., Xu, J., & Buetti, S. (2018, May). How do differences across visual features combine to determine visual search efficiency in parallel search? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2018, May). Is there a relationship between object recognition ability and visual search efficiency? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Yang, P. L., Clevenger, J., & Beck, D. M. (2018). A horizontal advantage for attention: enhanced performance for targets located horizontally to an exogenous cue. Poster presentation in the 25th Object Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Memory conference (OPAM), New Orleans, USA.

Talks

Buetti, S., Xu, J., & Lleras, A. (2019, April). How do differences across visual features combine to determine visual search efficiency in parallel search? Talk given at Attention & Perception Brown Bag.

Laurent, H., Finnegan, M.K., Kern, S. (2018, September). Mother’s Neural Response to Their Infant’s Positive Emotion and Risk for Psychopathology. Symposium conducted at the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Indianapolis, IN.

Grant, N., Rodriguez N., Ogunfemi, N., Neville, H.A., Groth, S., Smith, A. F., Hill, T., Perez, A. (2018, July). #PowerUp: Amplifying Youth Voices through Youth Participatory Action Research. Oral presentation presented at American Psychological Association, Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race) Conference, Austin Texas.

Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2018, April) Predicting visual search efficiency. Talk given at Attention & Perception Brown Bag.

Kim, J. Y., Hsu, N., Newman, D. A., Harms, P. D., & Wood, D. (2018, March). Leadership, Network Influence, and Gender: The Role of Normality Evaluations, Teams Research Incubator, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Yang, P. L., Beck, D. M. (2018). A Horizontal Advantage for Attention. Oral presentation in the Attention and Perception division proseminar of University of Illinonis, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Papers

Griffith, J. M., Crawford, C. M.,Oppenheimer, C. W., Young, J.F., & Hankin, B. L. (2019). Parenting and youth onset of depression across three years: Examining the influence of observed parenting on child and adolescent depressive outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Kern, S., & Laurent, H. K. (2019). Childhood abuse predicts affective symptoms via HPA reactivity during mother-infant stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 19-25.

Sahakyan, L., Kwapil, T. R., & Jiang, L. (2019). Differential impairment of positive and negative schizotypy in list-method and item-method directed forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000645

Sahakyan, L., Kwapil, T. R., Lo, Y., & Jiang, L. (2019). Examination of Relational Memory in Multidimensional Schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research, 211, 36-43.

Kim, J. Y., & Park, Y. S., (2018). Malicious Envy and Benign Envy in Organizations: The Relationships with Perceived Fairness, Self-Esteem, and Counterproductive Work Behavior, Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 31(1), 103-121.