Many IUP students, faculty members, and alumni of the department are active scholars. On-going research is essential to progress in the science of Psychology.
Here is a listing of the titles of projects from the last few years.
Faculty and Student Publications and Presentations
Books
Thornton, G, Jett, S, & Zanich, M. L. (2007). Resources in thanatology in D Balk, C. Wogrin, G. Thornton, & D. Meagher (Eds.). Handbook of Thanatology: The essential body of knowledge for the study of death, dying, and bereavement. New York: Routledge.
Raeff, C. (2006). Always separate, always connected: Independence and interdependence in cultural contexts of development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Goodwin, B.J., McHugh, M.C., & Touster, L.O. (2003). Who is the woman in the psychology of women? In P. Bronstein, & K. Quina (Eds.), Teaching a psychology of people: Resources for gender and sociocultural awareness, 2nd Ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Kaniasty, K. (2003). Klęska żywiołowa czy katastrofa społeczna? Psychospołeczne konsekwencje polskiej powodzi 1997 roku. (Natural disaster or social catastrophe? Psychosocial consequences of the 1997 Polish Flood). Gdańsk, Poland: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne (www.gwp.pl). Received the 2006 Individual Award from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Raeff, C. & Benson, J. B. (Eds.). (2003). Social and cognitive development in the context of individual, social, and cultural processes. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Brass, J.E., & Federoff, L. M. (2007). Psychological benefits of water aerobics for fibromyalgia patients. International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, 1, 255-268.
Hatfield, D.R. & Ogles, B.M. (2007). Why some clinicians use outcome measures and others do not. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 34(3), 283-291.
McHugh, M.C. (2007) Women and sex at midlife: Desire, dysfunction and diversity. Part of the Invited AWP/SWP Science Track: Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives. Association for Women in Psychology, San Francisco, March.
McHugh, M.C. Chair, Organizer and Discussant (2007). What counts as violence? (re)Conceptualizing dyadic interactions. Symposium presented to Association for Women in Psychology, March, San Francisco.
Meil, W. M. (2007) The use of Case studies in teaching undergraduate neuroscience. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 5: 53-62.
Mundy, P. & Newell, L. (2007). Attention, Joint Attention, and Social. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(5), 269-274.
Pavloski, R. (2007). Latent emergent order and its detection in attractor neural networks. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems: An International Journal for Theory and Applications (Series B). Special Volume: Advances in Neural Networks–Theory and Applications, 14(S1) 271-279.
Hatfield, D.R. & Ogles, B.M. (2006). The influence of outcome measures in assessing client change and treatment decisions. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(3), 325-337.
Luo, D., Thompson, L.A., & Detterman, D. K. (2006). The criterion validity of tasks of basic cognitive processing. Intelligence 34(1), 79-120.
Luo, D., Chen, G.; Zen, F.; & Jiang, Y. (2006). The cognitive etiology of mild mental retardation (Accepted by Intelligence)
McHugh, M. C. (2006) What Women Want: Challenging the Medicalization of Women’s Sexual Problems. Special Issue of Sex Roles
Ogles, B. M., Carlston, D. L., Hatfield, D.R., Melendez, G., Dowell, K., & Fields, S. A. (2006). The role of fidelity and feedback in the wraparound approach. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 15, 114-128.
Pavloski, R. (2006). An attractor lattice model with latent emergent order. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and the Life Sciences, 10(3), 319-340.
Raeff, C. (2006). Individuals in relation to others: Independence and interdependence in a kindergarten classroom, Ethos, 34, 521-557.
Raeff, C. (2006). Continuing to consider the complexities of independence and interdependence Human Development, 49, 135-137.
Raeff, C. (2006). Multiple and inseparable: Conceptualizing the development of independence and interdependence. Human Development, 49, 96-121.
Roehrich, L., Meil, W., Simansky, J., Davis, W., & Dunne, R.. (2006). Substance abuse in rural Pennsylvania: Present and future. Center for Rural Pennsylvania study report.
Book Chapters
Bokszczanin, A., Kaniasty, K., Szarzyńska, M. (2007). Community psychology in Poland. In S. Reich,M. Riemer, I. Prilleltensky, & M. Montero (Eds.), International Community Psychology: History and Theories. Springer Press.
McHugh, M.C. & Frieze, I. H. (2006) Intimate Partner Violence: New directions. In F. Denmark, H. Krauss, E. Halpern, & J. Sechzer (Eds.) Violence and Exploitation against Women and Girls. Annals of the New York Academic of Sciences (pp 121-141). New York: Blackwell.
McHugh, M. C. (2006) Women at Midlife and Sex: Desire, Dysfunction, Diversity. In V. Muhlbauer & J. Chrisler, (Eds.). Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives (pp.26-52). New York: Springer.
Kaniasty, K. (2006). Searching for points of convergence: A commentary on prior research on disasters and some community programs initiated in response to September 11, 2001. In Y. Neria, R. Gross, R. Marshall, & E. Susser (Eds.), 9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks, 529-542. Cambridge University Press.
Kaniasty, K. (2006). Sense of mastery as a moderator of longer-term effects of disaster impact on psychological distress. In J. Strelau & T. Klonowicz (Eds.), People under extreme stress (pp.131-147). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Meil, W. M., Boja, J. W. (2006) The Dopamine Transporter and Addiction. Drug Abuse Handbook, Second Edition, Ed. S. B. Karch. CRC Press. 430-450.
Conference Presentations and Posters
Mills, J. A. (2008, August). Use of role-playing in advanced psychotherapy supervision. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Mills, J. A. (2008, March). Prioritizing themes in psychotherapy supervision. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Alwine, T. M., & Sadler, D. D. (2007, May). Eyewitness identification confidence: Effects of postidentification feedback and misinformation. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
Bahrick, L.E., Newell, L.C., Shuman, M., & Ben, Y. (2007, March). Three-month-old Infants Recognize Faces in Unimodal Visual but not Bimodal Audiovisual Stimulation. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Berman, P. & Diorio, M. (2007). Can the Many Roles of Psychologists be Harnessed to Decrease Violence? Paper presented at the International Conference on Psychology, Athens, Greece.
Best, C.A., Strauss, M.S.,Newell, L.C., & Minshew, N.J. (2007, May). Memory for faces: A Comparison of intentional vs. incidental paradigms. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, WA.
Federoff, L. (2007, March). Psychoneuroimmunology: A Prospective Peek. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.
Garlitz, D., Meil W.M. (2007) Political beliefs and substance use patterns influence attributions of drug addicting behavior. Association Psychological Science Abstracts.
Ibanez, L.V., Lambert, B., Newell, L.C., Sheskin, M., & Messinger, D.S. (2007, May). Gaze shifting in the infant siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, WA.
Kimbler, K. J., Margrett, J.A., & Neely, T.L. (2007) The effect of experimentally-provided supportive messages on everyday problem-solving performance. Poster to be presented at the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
LaPorte, D.J. (2007) Behavioral Issues in the Elderly: Neuropsychological Testing and Competency Issues. 27th Multidisciplinary Medical Conference, Champion, PA.
LaPorte, D.J., Vaughn, E.E., & Rehil, H.A. (2007, April).The effect of 9/11 on the incidence of paranoid disorders and content of paranoid delusions. The 11th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
Margrett, J.A., Ayotte, B.A., Neely, T.L., & Deshpande, N.J. (2007, February). Assessing Everyday Functioning in Emerging and Later Adulthood: Are We Comparing Apples and Oranges? Poster presented at the Conference on Emerging Adulthood, Tucson, AZ.
Messias, E., LaPorte, D.J., Kirkpatrick, B. (2007, April). Schizoid-like features and season of birth in a nonpatient sample. The 11th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO.
Neely, T.L., Margrett, J.A., & Kimbler, K.J. (2007) The effects of age, sex, and instructions on instrumental and interpersonal problem solving. Poster to be presented at the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Newell, L.C., Bahrick, L.E., Vaillant-Molina, M., Shuman, M., & Castellanos, I. (2007, May). Intersensory perception and attention disengagement in young children with autism. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, WA.
Newell, L.C., Bahrick, L.E., & Sternstein, M.L. (2007, March). Face Recognition in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Parkinson, S., & Thornton, G. (2007). Factors associated with recognizing and responding to peers in suicidal crisis. Poster presented at the 28th annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Indianapolis, IN.
Raeff, C. (2007). Resisting stereotypes: New directions in the study of culture and development. Keynote Lecture presented at the Second Annual Symposium on Women in Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Raeff, C. & Newberry, C. (2007). Free to be you and me: Young adults’ conceptions of freedom and the self. Presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, Massachusetts.
Rivera, F., & Kaniasty, K. (2007, July). Cultural scripts and earthly realities of social support dynamics in Latinos and US Hispanics. (Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), Bavaro-Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Robertson, D. U.,Federoff, L., & Eisensmith, K. E. (2007, June). Heart rate variability during trumpet playing. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Symposium on Medical Problems Of Musicians and Dancers, Aspen, CO.
Robertson, D. U. & Eisensmith, K. E. (2007, March). Construct validity for a multidimensional measure of psychological factors in music performance. Paper presented at the annual MENC Eastern Division Conference, Hartford, CT.
Robertson, D. U. & Eisensmith, K. E. (2007, March). Scratch pads and pop-ups: A model of music performance anxiety. Paper presented at the annual MENC Eastern Division Conference, Hartford, CT.
Rufrano-Ruffner, T., Short, T., VanDyke, T., & Wygonik, M. (2007, April). Cross disciplinary comparisons of students’ attitudes toward service learning. Workshop presented at Lilly East Conference on University and College Teaching, University of Delaware.
Sherburne, L. M., Watt, J. J., & Stires, L. K. (2007). Stereotype Threat Versus Priming as Explanations of 'Police Officer’s Dilemma' Bias. Poster presentation at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
Thornton, G., Manges, C., Servaty-Seib, H., Sofka, C., & Goldstrohm, S. (2007). Student participation in ADEC: Learn how and why. Symposia presented at the 27th annual conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, Indianapolis, IN.
Tremel, K.J., Meimann, L.E., Margrett, J.A., Desphande, N., Neely, T.L., & Ayotte, B.J. (2007) Self and spousal behaviors as related to health and functioning. Poster to be presented at the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Watt, J. J., Stires, L. K., & Sherburne, L. M.. (2007). Multiple Methods of Influencing Implicit Racial Bias in Shooting Decisions. Poster presentation at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
Yetsko, K., Mercadante J. & Maureen McHugh (2007, March). Relationship satisfaction as a function of gender roles, intimacy, power and aggression. Poster presented at AWP, San Francisco.
Doctoral Dissertations (with dissertation committee chair)
December 2007 Graduates
Patricia Segee – Relationships and the Experience of Home in Agoraphobia (McHugh)
Susan Turner – Reality Television and Relational Aggression (Husenits)
August 2007 Graduates
Julie Bowden – Ethical Issues in the Provision of Wraparound Services (Husenits)
Darla Clayton – Parenting Education for Low-Income Parents of Preschoolers: What is the Most Effective Approach? (Husenits)
Melissa Diorio – Warning Signs for the Prevention of Teen Violence and Suicide (Berman)
M. Bertille Donohoe – Internet usage, Self-Regulatory Skills, and Personality Traits (Zanich)
Dawn Garlitz – College Students’ Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction: Disease Model Versus Moral Model (Meil)
Stephen Kisslinger – Burnout in Presbyterian Clergy of Southwestern Pennsylvania (Robertson)
Lisa Kugler – Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Its Effects on Executive Functioning (Meil)
Virginia Martin – The Effects of Prematurity and Parent Stress on Preschoolers’ Behavior and Temperament as Reported by Parents and Teachers (Robertson)
Chriscelyn Tussey – The Role of Intuition on Decision Making Among Law Enforcement Officials (Robertson)
Binal Ward – Assessing Externalizing Behaviors Using Instruments Basd on the DSM-IV and DC: 0-3 (Husenits)
Lori Zychowski – Academic and Social Predictors of College Adjustment Among First-Year Students: Do High School Friendships Make a Difference? (Robertson)
May 2007 Graduates
Katie Dickinson – The Relationship Between Relational Forms of Aggression and Conformity to Gender Roles in Adults (McHugh)
Randall Harris – Effeminate Men and the Gender Straitjacket: Roots in Homophobia, Hypermasculinity, or Devaluing the Feminine (McHugh)
Timothy Ostrich – Biodata Prediction of Municipal Police Academy Performance (Robertson)
Honors Theses Completed
Fenstermaker, N. (2008). An investigation of the role of parental divorce in homesickness in college.
Honors Projects in Progress