Reflections From Our Chair
Welcome to the 2025-2026 Psychology Department Newsletter! The days are getting longer and, if this winter has been any indication, we are in for some warm spring weather. For myself, I am enjoying a return to my sleep routine now that the 2026 Winter Olympics have concluded, where WWU alumnus, Breezy Johnson, won gold in the Women’s Downhill competition (at 2 AM!). I’m delighted to share with you the many other impressive activities of our faculty, students, and staff. We awarded 282 degrees to undergraduate students by the end of the 2024 – 25 academic year. Our faculty published 36 articles in refereed journals (with 77 student co-authors!) and presented 48 talks and posters with 147 student co-authors/presenters!
Presenting research at professional conferences has a positive impact on our students’ research and career potential, through networking and sharing ideas with other researchers. Last year, 54 students received support to travel to professional conferences in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York City, Denver, Columbus, Houston, Victoria, BC, and more. Thanks to your generous donations on Give Day 2025, and notable support from Foundry10, this year we are on pace to surpass this number with almost 90 students attending or planning to attend a conference this year! For the last three years, Foundry10 has donated to the Psychology Department student travel fund, and last year, Foundry10 donated $15,000 on Give Day! Check out their fascinating education research at foundry10.org. This year’s Give Day is April 8th, 2026. You can find a link to Give Day 2026 here and on our Psychology Department website: www.wwu.edu/psychology
Save the date, as we have upcoming events this spring! Each June, we celebrate student scholarship during PsychFest, which showcases impressive student research and projects from laboratory groups and classes. At PsychFest in June 2025, there were 68 student presentations, as well as a lunchtime careers talk by alumnus Becky Wood (Centralia College) and a Keynote presentation by Dr. Jordan Shannon of Seattle University. This year, PsychFest will be on June 5, 2026, and alumni and guests are welcome to attend the Keynote presentation, either in-person or by registering for remote access. This year’s speaker is Dr. Fade Eadeh from Seattle University. In addition to PsychFest, this spring we will also be hosting the Psychology Graduate Reception. So, if you or someone you know is graduating from Psychology this spring, be sure to drop by the Skybridge after the graduation ceremony, where you can mingle with the faculty. We enjoy meeting the friends and family who have supported our graduates and celebrating their accomplishment!
Our ability to maintain this incredible level of student engagement and research productivity is due to students continuing to major in Psychology. The Seattle Times reports that most Washington state universities have yet to return to pre-COVID enrollment levels (except for UW). Funding challenges and reduced enrollment university-wide have resulted in budget shortfalls that affect staffing levels and departments. In Psychology, we made the difficult decision to place our Psychology: Human Development undergraduate major in moratorium, and starting next year, our Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's program will also be in moratorium. On the positive side, the School Counseling Master's program will nearly double in enrolment next year, and undergraduate enrolment in the Psychology majors is holding steady. Although we are still in the midst of a fluctuating campus environment and still adapting to the staffing losses experienced last year, there remain reasons to be positive about the future in the Department of Psychology.
We welcomed new faces to the Psychology Department this year. Dr. Evan Ardiel has now joined us on campus this fall. Dr. Ardiel is an assistant professor in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program. His research focuses on mechanisms of neurodevelopment. Dr. Samantha MacDonald is a non-tenure track faculty member who is teaching courses in statistics and research methods. Samantha is an alumnus of the WWU Kinesiology Master's program and earned her doctorate in Positive Organizational Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. Finally, Brooklynn Horat, who graduated from our department in 2016 from our Master’s in Clinical Mental Counseling program, is now supervising practicum in the same program.
In June 2026, Dr. Larry Symons will retire from WWU. Larry has skilfully served the department in almost every capacity, and it is hard to think of someone who has given more. We are happy to celebrate retirement with Larry, but sad to see him go.
We value our Psychology Department community for its continued support. If you would like to stay updated with events, please follow us at @WWUPsychology on Instagram. Thank you again for all of your ongoing support and your continued interest in the Psychology Department!
With gratitude,
Jacqueline Rose, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology
Give Day 2026 is April 8, 2026!
Donations offered during Give Day help provide vital scholarships and travel awards to students! Thanks to the generosity of many donors, last year we raised approximately $17,250 for student scholarships and travel awards! We hope to exceed this amount in 2026!
Thank you for making a difference! We are grateful to everyone who participates, including Foundry10, anonymous donors (who provide instrument funding for the Merle Prim Scholarship for Diversity and Inclusion), and the many individual donors. Thank you for supporting our learning community and for making a difference in the lives of our students!
Previous Chairs of the Department of Psychology (L-R): Drs. Ron Kleinknecht, Dale Dinnel, Larry Symons, and Jim Graham).
Congratulations to Dr. Larry Symons! Retirement Celebration: June 20, 2026
Dr. Larry Symons is retiring in June. Larry is hosting an Open House on June 20, 2026, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. All are welcome! Please RSVP to Ruth Hackler at hackler@wwu.edu for details.
Larry joined the Department of Psychology in Fall 2000. He skillfully taught Introduction to Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Experimental Approaches to Research and Statistics, and the Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience. Larry served as Department Chair from 2010-2018. His research concentrated on the perception of faces and how the brain processes them. Congratulations, Larry!
Dr. Feng Cao
Dr. Feng Cao presented new research on how the brain processes both taste and aversive experiences at the Circuit Regulation of Fear and Extinction Learning Symposium at SfN 2025 in San Diego. In the seminar, Dr. Cao showed how the gustatory thalamus, which traditionally been thought to relay taste signals, also plays an important role in processing unpleasant and threatening events. By recording brain activity in mice, neurons in this region become active not only during taste perception, but also in response to pain and fear-related memories. When these neurons were artificially activated, the animals showed stronger fear and avoidance behaviors. When the neurons were silenced, these aversive responses were reduced. Dr. Cao’s work expands understanding of how sensory and emotional information are integrated in the brain and highlights a new role of the gustatory thalamus in signaling danger.
Dr. Brianna Delker
Dr. Brianna Delker (THRIVE Lab Research). Over the past several quarters, 15 student research assistants in the THRIVE Lab (Theory, Healing, and Research on Interpersonal Violence Exposure) have been working with lab director Dr. Brianna Delker to develop and implement a collaborative research study, Who Counts as a Survivor? A Scrapbooking and Social Change Project. In this project, we invited participants to create scrapbooks that explore and reflect on everyday experiences of interpersonal violence survivorhood within their cultures and communities. Across four structured group scrapbooking meetings with college student participants--peer-facilitated by trained RAs--we aim to build community and critical consciousness of dominant cultural norms about what experiences ‘count’ as traumatic. Along the way, we are also providing participants with basic training in qualitative data analysis methods, toward increasing undergrad student access to supervised research experiences. The ultimate aim of this participatory-action-inspired project is to empower young adults to creatively envision social actions that promote affirmation and liberation for survivors. Special appreciation goes to all the THRIVE Lab RAs and their remarkable work: this project would not have been possible without their insights, ingenuity, flexibility, and whole-hearted dedication this academic year. Examples of RA scrapbook collages are included here. We are looking forward to sharing more about the design and results of the scrapbooking project at PsychFest 2026!
Dr. Jennifer Devenport
Western Washington University’s Mock Trial team delivered an impressive showing at the February 2025 Regional Tournament in Seattle, placing in the Top 10 and narrowly missing qualification for the Opening Round Championships. In a competitive field, Western’s students stood out for their preparation, talent, and professionalism. The team celebrated three individual honors: Sabrina Neal earned an Outstanding Attorney award, Bridget Keough also received an Outstanding Attorney award, and Matthias Davis was recognized as an Outstanding Witness. Founded in Fall 2024 by seven students passionate about law, the program has quickly gained momentum. Under the mentorship of faculty advisor Dr. Jennifer Devenport, the team has quickly built a reputation for excellence, fostering an inclusive, highenergy environment that is already producing impressive competitive results and signaling enormous potential for the team’s future.
Dr. Josh Kaplan
Student researchers in Dr. Josh Kaplan’s lab attended this year’s Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, CA. Students presented several posters of their work investigating the therapeutic impacts of cannabidiol in autism spectrum disorder and against the harms caused by early life stress. (Photo 1). Dr. Josh Kaplan received an NIH R15 grant to optimize cannabidiol-based treatment strategies in autism spectrum disorder. The grant expands his lab’s research activities through the purchase of new equipment, reagents, and providing student research stipends. Students actively participate in research projects. Photos show Gabi Quinn adding solution during electrophysiology experiments (photo 2), Aashir Ahmed beginning experimental preparation (photo 3, and Dr. Josh Kaplan pulling micropipettes to use in electrophysiology experiments (photo 4).
Dr. Barbara Lehman
Dr. Barbara Lehman has been collaborating with researchers from Bhutan’s Centre for Bhutan and Gross National Happiness Studies (CBS). In June 2025 she participated in the international Bhutan Meditation Conference with a theme of Science, Mindfulness and Meditation. Her talk on Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Mortality Salience is shared online here. In January 2026 she traveled again to Bhutan. During this visit she began her work to help build research capacity at CBS by leading research methodology and statistics workshops. The governmental employees at CBS conduct important research, but do not have any formal training in psychological research or in program evaluation. In addition to offering these workshops, Barbara and her CBS collaborators began exploring ways to analyze and publish research using their large and nationally representative dataset. These data were originally collected to assess Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness. To date, CBS has used the data for governmental reports but has not completed more complex and theoretically-informed multivariate analyses. Their first collaborative project will examine the role of religiosity and socioeconomic differences in predicting well-being in Bhutan. They plan to conduct similar analyses using an existing sample of Bhutanese Buddhist monks and nuns. Another trip is planned for Fall 2026 when Professor Lehman will be on leave from the University. The research and travel have been funded through the John C. Street Endowment.
Dr. Anne Riggs
Dr. Anne Riggs was awarded a fellowship through the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany in 2025. The Center for Advanced Studies aims to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary dialogue on new and pressing questions in a variety of disciplines. Dr. Riggs was a fellow for a project investigating the origins of morality alongside a group of philosophers, developmental psychologists, and comparative anthropologists from 8 different countries. Along with her family, she lived and worked in Munich from March-August, 2025. During this time, she was also invited to present her research at the Jean Piaget Society in Belgrade, Serbia, the University of Regensburg, and the University of Munster. Dr. Riggs’ lab is currently collecting data on the first of many collaborative projects conceptualized during the fellowship.
Dr. David Sattler
Sixteen undergraduate students in Dr. David Sattler’s Seminar in Social Psychology course presented their class project, “When fact becomes fiction: Effects of social media truth queries and majority influence,” at the Western Psychological Association conference. Travel funding provided to students by donations to the Department of Psychology allowed six students to travel and present the work at the conference. Dr. Sattler received a grant from the U.S. Department of State to conduct a workshop in Tonga for the Young Pacific Leaders program. Dr. Sattler served as a delegate for the Kingdom of Tonga to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Azerbaijan, where he spoke with John Podesta, Former White House Chief of Staff, about pressing issues regarding climate change. With colleagues at the National University of Mongolia, Dr. Sattler conducted a project in extremely rural areas of Mongolia to examine the impacts of climate change on nomadic eagle hunters.
The Behavioral Neuroscience major at WWU is well into its 20th year serving students. The official BNS degree major code started in 2005. Prior to 2005, several students were awarded self-designed interdisciplinary bachelor’s degrees combining courses in Psychology, Biology, and Chemistry. With State-appropriated funding in 2007 (BRAIN funding), several faculty joined the BNS program and a Director position was established, along with program and classroom support positions. The BNS curriculum has evolved to include a BNS series courses, including statistics and methods (BNS 301 and 302), and core content in molecular neuroscience and neuroscience communication (BNS 305 and 306). In Fall 2025, a BNS minor, available to Psychology majors, became available.
Since the inception of the BNS program, 444 BNS degrees have been awarded as of Winter 2026. Currently, there are 80 BNS interest students, 71 BNS pre-majors, 74 BNS majors, and 9 BNS minors. Current BNS Faculty are Drs. Evan Ardiel, Feng Cao, Jeff Grimm, Josh Kaplan, Jackie Rose, and Kelly Jantzen. Current BNS Staff are Amara Simons (Program Specialist), Catherine Gard (Vivarium Program Coordinator), and Nate Long (Instruction/Classroom Support Technician).
Faculty, students, and alumni are encouraged to check in on the BNS program at the BNS website and on social media:
BNS website LinkedIn Instagram Facebook
Dr. Rachel Henesy
Development and validation of a scale to measure neurodiversity affirming and disaffirming attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of licensed mental health counselors regarding autistic adults
Grace Olsen
Grace Olsen (Experimental Psychology graduate student): I belong in science: A social-belonging intervention may improve marginalized psychology students’ grades in statistics and research methods
Cassidy Ochadleus
(Experimental Psychology graduate student): Can allies make a difference? Alleviating female gamer identity threat with social support
Dr. Kevin Delucio
Exploring the correlates of conflict in allegiance among queer & trans People of Color
Alex Park
(Experimental Psychology graduate student): Predicting power-based white identity forms in emerging adults through identity and privilege awareness
Audrienne Casidsid
Audrienne Casidsid (Experimental Psychology graduate student): The personal is political: How college students connect mental health issues to understandings of systemic inequality
Every year, the CCCR supports graduate and undergraduate students who are dedicated to learning about cultural research through tuition scholarships. Students receiving awards for 2025-2026 are listed in the Scholarship section of this Newsletter.
In summer 2025, the CCCR launched a new initiative to support undergraduate student research development. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) supports intensive research training and professional development over the summer with a CCCR mentor. SURF recipients in summer 2025 were:
Rosemary Gregg
A qualitative study of very happen Asian Americans (Mentor: Dr. Christie Scollon)
Hannah Koob
Predicting Power-based White Identity Forms in Emerging Adults Through Identity and Privilege Awareness (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Delucio)
Speaker Series
Alayna Park
Winter 2026 speaker: Dr. Alayna Park, University of Oregon. Presentation: Bridging clinical science and practice: Advancing the design, implementation, and cultural adaptation of mental health treatments. Workshop: The cultural compatibility of evidence-based mental health treatments
Kathleen Bogart
Fall 2025 speaker: Dr. Kathleen Bogart, Oregon State University. Presentation: Disability as a social identity protects against ableism. Workshop: Anti-ableist practices in psychology
Jennifer Gomez
Spring 2026 speaker: Dr. Jennifer Gómez, Boston University. Presentation: Cultural betrayal and trauma theory. Dates: May 13-14, 2026
Please contact Dr. Anna Ciao, CCCR Director (ciaoa@wwu.edu), for information about bi-weekly CCCR meetings or other events and activities. Follow us on Instagram: @wwu.cccr
Grace Olsen (Experimental Psychology graduate student) is examining ways to enhance student learning and well-being. Grace’s thesis investigates whether a social-belonging intervention can enhance a sense of belonging and self-efficacy in science and psychology among psychology students, and narrow the achievement/opportunity gap between marginalized and typically advantaged psychology students reported in the pilot study. The project was motivated by Grace’s observation and personal experience that some psychology students tend to feel anxious about required statistics or research classes, which may affect their performance. Grace is finalizing data collection and will analyze the data shortly. Grace is grateful that the WWU Experimental Psychology program has played a large role in acceptance into the Oregon State University Ph.D. in Psychology, which will promote the next journey: becoming a professor.
Grace Olsen
Zulma Guasch-Pereira began working at foundry10 in the summer of 2024 as a part-time Undergraduate Research Assistant and has served as a full-time Research Coordinator since the summer of 2025. She is part of the Career-Connected Learning and Life Skills (CCLLS) team, where she works to better understand and serve youth in their transition from school to their careers and adult lives. Her work involves every stage of the research process—from writing literature reviews, conducting data collection and analysis, to disseminating her research in articles and conferences. Some of her work at foundry10 included interviews with youth about their understanding of entry-level jobs, interviews with career and technical education (CTE) teachers about their classroom experiences, and focus groups with youth on their career-related support needs. She enjoys applying her research background to the pursuit of understanding the needs of youth, in hopes of supporting them and the future generations to come.
April 10, 2026, 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm, SL130: Behavioral Neuroscience/Chemistry Seminar. Topic: mRNA neurochemistry
June 5, 2026, 9:00 am – 5 pm: PsychFest, Academic Instruction Center
June 5, 2026. PsychFest Invited Presentation. Dr. Fade R. Eadeh, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Seattle University, studies issues at the intersection of social and political psychology. Dr. Eadeh earned a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and has held postdoctoral appointments at Emory University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Eadeh’s research examines how experiences of threat, justice-seeking, and emotions shape social judgment and political attitudes.
Selected WWU Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations
2024-2025
Bold = Faculty Member, * = WWU Student
Selected Publications (out of 36 total)
Alam, R., Bell, A.C. & Taylor, V.J. (2025). The roles of entitativity and collective blame in conservative opposition toward BLM and anti-racism. Race & Social Problems, 17, 249-263.
Basu, A., Bradaric, B., Donley, D., Gaudier-Diaz, M. M., Grimm, J., Kaplan, J., Nahmani, M., Reynolds, E., Rose, J.K. & Tan, T. M. (2024). Proceedings of the 2023 Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Workshop at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, July 27–30, 2023. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 22(2), E4.
Camia, C., McLean, K. C., & Waters, T. (2024). Autobiographical memory functions as a stable property of narrative identity. Personality Science, 5, 1-12.
Delker, B. C., Means, K. K.*, Schwam, A.*, Patterson, A. L.*, Fogel, C. A.*, Brown, A.*, Czopp, A. M., & McLean, K. C. (2024). Perceptions of sexual assault perpetrators, victims, and event depend on system justification beliefs and perpetrator atonement. PloS one, 19(12).
Fast, A.A. & Riggs, A.E. (2024). Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Fitzgerald, R. J., Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Wade, K. A. (2025). Error rates for high confidence eyewitness identifications. Memory.
Grimm JW, Sauter F, MacDougall D, Spaulding E, Giadone S, Stensgaard K, Hardy M. Sex differences in motivation to take sucrose following abstinence and environmental enrichment in Long-Evans rats.Physiol Behav. 2025 Mar 15;291:114810. Epub 2025 Jan 10. PMID: 39798859
Gonzalez, A.M., Skinner, A.L., & Baron, A.S. (2025). Learning by example: Does positive non-verbal behavior reduce children’s racial bias? Developmental Science, 28, e13614.
Johnson, J. D., Sattler, D. N., Lou, S., Van Hiel, A., Dierckx, K., Vezzali, L., & Lawley, K.* (2025). Reactions to violent extremist groups: Militia race determines whether low and high authoritarians have “selective contextual blindness” to critical information that diminishes punishment. Psychology of Violence, 15(3), 316–327.
Lehman, B.J., Fogel, C.A., & Wiederaenders, E. (2025). How meditation promotes well-being: Applying a dual-system theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 19, e70037.
Patterson*, A. L., Delker, B. C., Musicaro, R.., Byrne, C. A., & Noll, L. K. (2025). Impact of trauma recognition on recovery optimism and blame: An experimental vignette study of sluggish cognitive tempo (cognitive disengagement syndrome). Stigma and Health. Advance online publication.
Pascual, S.*, Martini, A.*, Gambito, J., Gemar, C., Bell, E.*, Delucio, K., & Ciao, A. C. (2024). Developing a justice-focused body image program for U.S. middle schoolers: A school-based community-engaged research process. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 6, 623-643.
Wagner, J.K.*, Gambell, E.*, Gibbons, T., Martin, T.J., & Kaplan, J.S. (2024). Sex differences in the anxiolytic properties of common cannabis terpenes, linalool and β-myrcene, in mice. Neuroscience, 5, 635-649.
Warren, M. A., Torjesen, K. J., Wamue-Ngare, G., Warren, M. T., Sam, A. A. (2024). Leading change by leveraging cultural strength: When religious leaders champion gender equity with religion as a strength. In A. Akande (Ed.). Leadership and politics: New perspectives in business, government, and society (pp. 417-441). Springer, Cham.
Selected Presentations (out of 41)
Amos, A.*, Bailey, S.*, Borgford, A.*, Dawson, J.*, Dobbins, H.*, Gannaway, K.*, Grall, L.*, Habeeb, A.*, Jackson, T.*, Miller, J.*, Nyberg, H.*, Rubin-Stencel, L.*, Russell, E.*, Sandoval, D.*, Stone, E.*, Walters, B.*, & Sattler, D. N. (2025, May). When fact becomes fiction: Effects of social media truth queries and majority influence. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Chellberg, A.*, & Bell, A. C. (2025, June). Motivating anti-racism: Self-evaluation motives and racial bias feedback. Poster presentation, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Portland, OR.
Ciao, A. C., Delucio, K., Berbano, M. I.*, Park., A.*, & Ngo, L*. (2024). The impact of the Body Justice Project for early adolescents: Using community-engaged research to implement school-based body image interventions. Symposium presentation in D. Shapiro (Chair), Community-Partnered Implementation in Diverse Settings: Strategies for Identifying and Tailoring Solutions to Implementation of Novel Interventions. Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Croppi, C.S.*, Westgard, E.K.*, Heiner, G., Gauvin, J. & Rose, J.K. (2024). The Effects of Ferulic Acid on Learning with a C. elegans Alzheimer’s Model. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Dahlke, H. M.* & Lemm, K. (February, 2025). Parent reactions to children who come out as both LGB and TGD. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO.
*Denali, A.., *Lee, R., *Ly, V., & Czopp, A.M. (2025, February). If I’m With You, I Can’t Be Against You: Whites’ Strategic Self-Stigmatization in Anticipated Interracial Interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Denver, CO.
Enns-Ford, M*., Kneipp, M.*, Pane, G*., Eigen, I.*, Eckel, A.*, Jalbert, M.*, & Hyman, I. E., Jr. (2025, May). Just Asking Questions: Can an Implication Generate an Illusory Truth Effect? Poster presented at the Northwest Cognition and Memory Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
Hull, M.*, Hendricks, M.*, Snyder, K.*, Matsukura, M., Hyman, I.E., & Symons, L.A. (2025). Covert recognition during inattentional blindness: Evidence from pupillometry data. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Northwest Cognition and Memory (NOWCAM), Victoria, B.C.
Kaplan, J.S., McGillis, T.*, Muckerheide, J.*, Leland, W.*, Veliz, J.*, Patterson, S.*, Quinn, G.*, Daep, J.*, West, E.*, Fisher, A.*, Schneider, N.*, Tauxe, S.*, Koch, M.* (2024, October, 6). Optimization of cannabidiol-based medicine and developmental assessment in mice. Poster session presented at the Society for Neuroscience’s Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lehman, B.J. (2025). Buddhism, mindfulness, and mortality salience. Paper presented at the Bhutan Meditation Conference: Science, Mindfulness and Meditation. Thimphu, Bhutan. Centre for Bhutan Studies.
Peterson, K.*, Eason, A., & Gonzalez, A.M. (2025, February). Undamming Native visibility: The role of Native history in addressing systemic racism denial. Poster presented at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology conference. Denver, CO.
Riggs, A.E. & Dunfield, K. (2025). Little halos lost: the role of thin and thick language in children’s social evaluations. Talk presented at the Center for Advanced Studies workshop “The Ontogeny of Normativity: Part II.” Munich, Germany.
Tibbott, L.*, Payfer, A.*, Ertman, R.*, Anderson, F.*, Morales, H.*, & Warren, M. T. (2025, May). College students’ perspectives on which everyday goals state mindfulness is useful for: A qualitative analysis. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Las Vegas, NV.
*Welaye, J., Jantzen, K.J., & Czopp, A.M. (2025, February). But I’m Trying so Hard to be Good! Effects of Regulatory Focus on Early Social Processing of Black Faces – An ERP Investigation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Denver, CO.
The 2025 Department of Psychology Newsletter was produced by the Department of Psychology Communications Committee: Drs. David Sattler, Adrian Villicana, Jennifer McCabe.