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Recent Student Research

Most renowned psychology programs offer few opportunities for undergraduates to conduct research with faculty. Not so at the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ! 

We encourage all of our students to engage in research. In fact, Scranton pyschology students present and publish with faculty at a much higher rate than national norms. In the 2023-2024 academic year, for instance, 23 former and current Scranton students coauthored conference presentations (resulting in 11 conference presentations) and 7 Scranton students coauthored journal articles/book chapters.

Our students gain psychology research experience through four avenues. They can:

  • Volunteer their time as a research assistant without academic credit.
  • Participate in the Faculty/Student Research Program, a university-wide program, for transcript recognition.
  • Enroll in Undergraduate Research in Psychology (PSYC 493), which provides both academic credit and transcript recognition. 
  • Conduct research and write a thesis as part of the Honors Program.
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Below are recent conference presentations and journal articles co-authored by our students. Their names are designated with an asterisk (*).

2024 Presentation & Articles (through May 2024)

  • Betancourt, A., *Carrera, C., & *Bull, M. (2024). Who said what to who: Understanding microaggressions using the Peer-Authority Microaggression Scale. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference: Philadelphia.
  • *Burke, J., Karpiak, C., Voltzow, J., Mulhall, D., & Muir, S. (2024, February). Belonging, self-efficacy, and retention in STEM in economically marginalized students. Poster presented at the 2024 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association: Philadelphia.
  • *Dang, M. K., *Jamieson, G. J., *Charneski, A. C., & Norcross, J. C. (2024, February). Personal statements: What APA accredited programs request. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association: Philadelphia.
  • Hopkins, E. J., & *Nessel, E., (2024, March). Transmission of gender stereotypes through play. Poster presentation at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society: Pasadena.
  • *Jamieson, G., *Nagle, C., *Carrera, C., & Karpiak, C. (2024, February). Observer perceptions of microaggressions: A comparison of two qualitative approaches. Poster presented at the 2024 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association: Philadelphia.
  • *Koegler, E., & Hopkins, E. J. (2024, March). Does the familiarity of religious events affect possibility judgments? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association: Philadelphia.
  • Nolan, J., *Jamieson, G., *Bobko, A., *Stanczak, O., *Hacker, C., *Trautfetter, E., *Bock, E., & *Basalyga, O. (2024, February). Validation of the Short Environmental Action Scale (SEAS). Poster presented at the 2024 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association: Philadelphia.
  • Norcross, J. C., *Dang, M. K., *Jamieson, G. J., & *Charneski, A. S. (2024). Personal statement requirements and application fees for graduate school in clinical and counseling psychology: What’s it gonna take? Eye on Psi Chi, 28(4), 30 -32. .
  • Reynolds, J.J., Estrada-Reynolds, V.C., *Stanczak, O., *Trautfetter, E., *Rocha, M. (2024, March). Does Being Guilty Cause Police Avoidance? Poster presented at Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia.
  • *Stanczak, O., *Williams, M., Reynolds, J.J. (2024, March). Predicting perceptions of the justification of officer-involved shootings using decision trees. Poster presented at Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia,
  • *Trautfetter, E. S., & Warker, J. A. (2024, March). The effect of event type on false memory in a misinformation task. Poster presented at the. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia.
  • Vento, E., *Stauffer, E., *Lona, E., Betancourt, A., & McDermut, W. (2024, March). Family Environment Adjective List: Factor analysis of a new 6-item scale. Poster presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference: Philadelphia.
  • Warker, J. A., *Czerwinski, E., *Dang, M. K., *Fick, E., & *Jones, M. (2024, March). Getting the punch line: Effects of verbal working memory on joke comprehension. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia.
  • *Trautfetter, E. S., & Warker, J. A. (2024, March). The effect of event type on false memory in a misinformation task. Poster presented at the. Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia.
  • Vento, E., *Stauffer, E., *Lona, E., Betancourt, A., & McDermut, W. (2024, March). Family Environment Adjective List: Factor analysis of a new 6-item scale. Poster presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference: Philadelphia.
  • Warker, J. A., *Czerwinski, E., *Dang, M. K., *Fick, E., & *Jones, M. (2024, March). Getting the punch line: Effects of verbal working memory on joke comprehension. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference: Philadelphia.

2023 Presentation & Articles

  • *Carrera, C.J. & Karpiak, C.P. (2023, August). Student perceptions of microaggressions by authorities and peers. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association: Washington, DC. (virtual)
  • *Chrysler, A. A., *Rocha, M. N, & Norcross, J. C. (2023, March). American psychologists conducting psychotherapy in 2022. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.
  • Karpiak, C.P., *Rocha, M., *Rebolledo, L., & *Cook, D. (2023, June). ‘No-Shows’ and Outcome in Community-Based Treatment with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research: Dublin.
  • *Nessel, E., & Hopkins, E. J. (2023, March). Transmission of gender stereotypes from parent to child through play. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association: Boston, MA.
  • Nolan, J. M., *Bobko, A. (2023, February). Extraversion: A double-edged personality trait in pro-environmental behavior. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
  • Norcross, J. C., & *Carachilo, C. B. (2023). Integrative psychotherapy. In H. S. Friedman & C. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of mental health (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
  • Norcross, J. C., *Rocha, M. N., & *Chrysler, A. A. (2023). Psychologists conducting psychotherapy in 2022: Contemporary practices and historical patterns of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy.
  • Norcross, J. C., Sayette, M. A., & *Burke, J. D. (2023). Obtaining letters of recommendation for graduate school. Eye on Psi Chi, 28(1). doi.org/10.24839/2164-9812.Eye28.1.24
  • Norcross, J. C., Sayette, M. A., & *Charneski, A. S. (2023). Gap year before graduate school: Pros, cons, and unknowns. Eye on Psi Chi, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.24839/2164-9812.Eye28.2.24
  • Orr, P.T., *George, J.V., *Wislotsky, A.A., *Carachilo, C. (2023). High-fat diet produces glucose intolerance, but not memory impairment, in C57Bl/6 mice. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Program #PSTR374.11.
  • *Rocha, M. N., & Norcross, J. C. (2023, March). 20 years of career development seminar in psychology: What worked and what didn’t. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.
  • *Stanczak, O., Reynolds, J. J., & *Trautfetter, E. (March, 2023). Examining juror opinions between felons and non-felons. American Psychology-Law Society annual conference, Philadelphia, PA.
  • *Trautfetter, E., Reynolds, J. J., & *Stanczak, O. (March, 2023). The impact of an empathy manipulation on the perception of juvenile false confessions. American Psychology-Law Society annual conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2022 Presentation & Articles

  • *Carachilo, C., *Goldschlager, J., & Norcross, J. C. (2022, March). Post-pandemic changes in doctoral psychology admissions: The fate of GREs and interviews. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
  • *Carrera, C., *McDonnell, C., Gadaire, D., *Dunleavy, E., & *Gilberti, H. (2022, May). Applying the Good Behavior Game to increase engagement in virtual programming. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Applied Behavior Analysis International, Boston, MA.
  • Conroy, J. C., Stamm, K. E., *Pfund, R. A., Christidis, P., Hailstorks, R., & Norcross, J. C. (2022). Career assistance from psychology programs and career services: Who is preparing psychology students? Teaching of Psychology, 49, 144-152.
  • *Dawid, P. & Karpiak, C. P. (2022, March). Predicting treatment stigma using attitudes associated with self-reliance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association,. New York.
  • *Diaz, K., & Nolan, J. M. (2022, March). Crisis at the southern border. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
  • *Goldschlager, J., *Carachilo, C., Norcross, J. C., & Sayette, M. A. (2022, March). Student race, gender, nationality, and LGBT ally groups in doctoral psychology programs. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
  • Hopkins, E. J., & *Cook, D. M. (2022, April). The effect of gender norms and division of labor on parent play styles. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, St. Louis, MO.
  • *Lenway, A. & Karpiak, C. P. (2022, March). An investigation into retention of underrepresented students in STEM majors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
  • *Marshall, S., Warker, J. A., TIan, Y., & Fischer-Baum, S. (2022, March). Investigating the relationship between speech errors and inhibition. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association. New York. 
  • Norcross, J. C., *Cook, D. M., & Fuertes, J. N. (2022). Patient readiness to change: What we know about their stages and processes of change. In J. N. Fuertes (Ed.), The other side of psychotherapy: Understanding clients’ experiences and contributions in treatment. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

2021 Presentation & Articles

Academic year 2020-2021 presentations were limited due to COVID-19
  • Nolan, J. M., *Basalyga, O., *Bock C., *Hacker, C., Grettano, T. & Schumacher Cohen, J. (2021, March). Reflective structured dialogue reduces political prejudice. Poster presented at the 2021 annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association.  
  • *Cook, D. M., *Goldschlager, J. R., & Norcross, J. C. (2021, March). What has COVID-19 wrought? Its impact on clinical psychology programs. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, virtual conference.
  • Burnham, B. R., *Zeide, J., & *Long, E. (2021). Pitch direction on the perception of major and minor tonal modes. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83(1), 399-414. doi: 10.3758/s13414-020-02198-6.
  • *Pfund, R. A., Hailstorks, R., Stamm, K. E., Christidis, P., Conroy, J. C., & Norcross, J. C. (2021). Careers in psychology course: Prevalence, structure, and timing. Teaching of Psychology, 48, 63-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628320959950

2020 Presentation & Articles

Academic year 2019-2020 presentations were limited due to COVID-19
  • Cannon, J. T., *Patel, M. U., & Marshall, S. A. (2020). Comparing the facial landmarks of famous people with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder to control using logistic regression and neural network. Poster presented at the Scranton Brain and Behavior Conference, The ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ, March 7, 2020.
  • Coviello, C.*, Coviello, K.*, Long, E.*, Golden, J.*, Wolff, C., Karpiak, C., & Goldschlager, J.* (2020, June). PCIT in a community treatment setting: Early engagement and patterns of change. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Virtual.
  • Kemp, G. N., *Mitnick, M. M., & *Adams, T. N. (2020, March). Parental depressive symptoms and economic stressors: Moderating effect of Afrocentric worldview. Poster accepted for presentation at the 125th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
  • Nolan, J. M., *Bock, C., *Basalyga, O., *DiSanto, N., & *Hacker, C. (2020, March) Content Analysis of 1,000+ Proenvironmental Behavior (PEB) Articles. 2020 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association. [Poster submitted and accepted but not presented in person due to COVID19.]
  • *Bock, C. & Nolan, J. M. (2020, March). Tire Pressure Field Experiment Testing the Effectiveness of Acknowledgment of Resistance. 2020 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association. [Poster submitted and accepted but not presented in person due to COVID19.
  • Norcross, J. C., Sayette, M. A., & *Martin-Wagar, C. A.*(2020). Doctoral training in counseling psychology: Analyses of 20-year trends, differences across the practice-research continuum, and comparisons with clinical psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
  • Norcross, J. C., & *Phillips, C. M. (2020). Psychologist self-care during the pandemic: Now more than ever. Journal of Health Service Psychology. 10.1007/s42843-020-00010-5
  • *Ziede, J. S., & Norcross, J. C. (2020). Personal therapy and self-care in the making of psychologists.  Journal of Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2020.1757596
  • *Ziede, J. S., Norcross, J. C., & Sayette, M. A. (2020, March). Pre-admission interview policies of APA-accredited programs: You will be interviewed!  Poster accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA. (Conference cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis.)      

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