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Psychology Graduate Student Earns Honorable Mention on Conference Poster
Congratulations to Katherine Lucas and the members of the Clinical-Disaster Research Center on earning an honorable mention award for their poster at ReslienceCon. Please see below for the poster citation Lucas, K., Hampton, B., Fortner, S.R.M., Pavlacic, J.M., Schulenberg, S. E. (April, 2022) Role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between resilience and post-traumatic stress. […]
UM Psychology Undergrads Earn Admission to Graduate Schools
Congratulations to the following seniors who earned admission into graduate school in psychology! Benjamin Hardin – MA in Psychology, Wake Forest University Brandon Ballard – MA in Applied Social Psychology, Loyola University Chicago Elizabeth Robinson – M.A. Program in Psychology at San Diego State University
UM faculty and student collaborate on symposium examining emotion regulation in health conditions in virtual national conference
Clinical psychology graduate student, Sara Witcraft, and assistant faculty Aaron Lee, PhD, and Laura Dixon, PhD collaborate on a symposium talk that examined the influence of emotion regulation on physical health conditions (e.g., gastrointestinal distress, asthma) at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 54th annual virtual convention in November 2020. Please see the attached […]
Sara Witcraft & co-authors publish manuscript in General Hospital Psychiatry
Clinical psychology graduate student, Sara Witcraft, and department co-authors publish manuscript in General Hospital Psychiatry examining the influence of anxiety sensitivity on acute health care use among adults with COPD.
Graduate Student Natasha Wood Receives Research Grant to Study Extremism
Natasha Wood was awarded a research grant for her project: “The rejected loner: The role of social isolation and ostracism on extremist beliefs.” The project is being funded by Psi Chi. The research will shed light on the factors that lead to radical extremism. It will use a broadly representative national sample, and experimentally investigate […]
New Publication by Dr. Joseph Wellman
In Dr. Joseph Wellman’s latest research, which was accepted at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, he and colleagues examine the question “Is LGBT progress seen as an attack on Christians?”. As social policies have changed to grant more equal rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, some Christians in the U.S. […]
