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Special MBR Section: SMEPStudent Paper CompetitionAbstracts, 2012Keith WidamanPublished online: 29 Mar 2013.

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Multivariate Behavioral Research, 48:144–145, 2013

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Special MBR Section:SMEP Student Paper Competition

Abstracts, 2012

In 2003, the Board of Trustees of the Society of Multivariate Experimental

Psychology (SMEP) implemented a student preconference, so this year’s student

preconference represented the 10th annual student preconference. In 2012, a

large number of proposals were submitted for student preconference presenta-

tions. These proposals were evaluated through a competitive process in which

student presenters from the 2011 SMEP student preconference acted as referees

for the current submissions, supervised by a student organizer and the past-

president of SMEP. Student presentations from previous years have been of

uniformly high quality, and manuscripts based on student presentations have

subsequently been published in MBR, attesting to the high quality.

Proposals for the current year were once again deemed to be very strong.

Because of the high quality, eight proposals were selected for oral presentation,

as in prior years. But, this year, an additional 12 students were selected to give

poster presentations. The 8 oral presentations were made on the morning of 11

October, and the 12 poster presentations were made during an evening session

on the same day. All student preconference presentations were made at the

venue hosting the 2012 SMEP annual meeting, the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel

in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

In 2008, the SMEP Board of Trustees and the Editorial Advisory Board

approved publication of abstracts from student presentations in our journal. In

this issue—the first issue of 2013, we continue the tradition and publish the fifth

set of abstracts from the student presentations.

Xin (Cynthia) Tong from the University of Notre Dame served as preconfer-

ence organizer. Lisa Harlow from the University of Rhode Island, the SMEP

past-president, and Scott Hofer from the University of Victoria, the SMEP

coordinating officer, oversaw and aided the process. The student reviewers who

served as the selection committee (who presented papers at the preconference

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SMEP STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION 145

in 2011) were Steven Babbin (University of Rhode Island), Ruth Baldasaro

(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Jonathan G. Boyajian (University

of California, Merced), Jason M. Bryer (University of Albany), Carl F. Falk

(University of British Columbia), and Keke Lai (University of Notre Dame).

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