Theme: “Scientific Reflections: Psychology as a Mirror of Society and the Self”

10:00-11:00: Pre-Conference Session, 6214 11:00-11:45: Registration and Refreshments, Callahan Center 11:45-12:00: Welcome Address, Founders Hall 12:10-2:20: Scientific Research Panels, Rooms 4402, 4403, 4404, 5402, 7402 2:30-3:30: Keynote Address, Founders Hall 3:40-5:50: Scientific Research Panels, Rooms 4402, 4403, 4404, 5402, 7402 6:00-7:00: Presentation of Awards and Reception, Cafeteria

Keynote and Invited Speakers:

Harry G. Segal, Ph.D.(Keynote)- Using Research Methods to Reconcile an Old Feud: How

Self-Report Measures and Projective Tests offer Mutual Validity in a Large Undergraduate Sample

Brien Ashdown, Ph.D.- Group Identity: Why it Matters So Much

Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.- Bad People With Bad Intentions: Stories About the Psychological Causes of

Child Abuse in the Mass Media

Richard Velayo, Ph.D. -Exemplars for Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum

Admission is free. All are welcome!

Conference contact: Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D. mcohen@sfc.edu 718-489-5459

Directions to St. Francis: http://www.sfc.edu/uploaded/documents/pdf/directions.pdf

Sunday, October 27, 2013 St. Francis College

180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn

“Scientific Reflections: Psychology as a Mirror of Society and the Self”

*For titles of presentations, please see the detailed information following the schedule grid

Pre-Conference Session

10:00-11:00 Room 6214

Cross-national dialogue with researchers from Moscow

Chairs: Harold Takooshian, Ph.D. (Fordham University via video conferencing) and Karen Wilson, Ph.D. (St. Francis College)

Registration and Coffee 11:00- 11:45

Callahan Center

Welcome Address: Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D. 11:45-12:00

Founders Hall

Time Room 4402 Room 4403 Room 4404 Room 5402 Maroney Theater (7402)

12:10- 1:10

Culture and Psychology

Sansthita Pattanaik, Rutgers University and Margaret Ingate, Ph.D., Rugters University

SungHun Kim, Ph.D., St. Francis College

Sheena Jeswani, Fordham University

Mona Khaled, Teachers College, Columbia University

Joséphine Ancelle, Marymount Manhattan College

Health Psychology

Andrea Salis, Ph.D., Queensborough Community College

Gloria McNamara, Ph.D., RD, CDN, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Petra Stofkova, Marymount Manhattan College and Megan McGee, Marymount Manhattan College

Christina Oney, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Sarah Gillette, Springfield College and Emily Ferraro, Springfield College

Mental Health

Issues

Crismeldy Veloz, Hunter College & BP Endure, Kimberly Schauder, Vanderbilt University, Lauren Bryant, Vanderbilt University, Lisa Mash, Vanderbilt University, and Carissa Cascio,

Vanderbilt University

Christopher R. Benjamin, City College of New York

Joshua D. Wright, Hunter College and Jason Young, Ph.D., Hunter College

Gen Nakao, Yeshiva University

The Birth of

Psychological Healing: From

Exorcism to Animal Magnetism to

Artificial Somnambulism

(1775-1825)

Uwe Gielen, Ph.D., St. Francis College and Jeannette Raymond, St. Francis College

Invited Speaker Bad People With Bad

Intentions: Stories About the

Psychological Causes of Child Abuse in the

Mass Media

Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.

St. Francis College

Chair: Sara Haviland, Ph.D.

Chair: John Dilyard, Ph.D. Chair: Esther Klein, Ph.D.

Time Room 4402 Room 4403 Room 4404 Room 5402 Maroney Theater (7402)

1:20-2:20

Education and

Cognitive Psychology

Robin O’Leary, CUNY Graduate Center

Yasmine Ouchikh, City College of New York and Shuhebur Rahman, City College of New York

Turkan Ocal, CUNY Graduate Center

Ivette Soriano, St. Francis College

Aging and Human

Rights Issues

Jasmin Tahmaseb-McConatha, Ph.D., West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Seojung Jung, Fordham University

Hadar Schwartz, M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center

Old Age: Society and Personality

Gladys Weinberg, TCI Technical College

Maria Diaz, TCI Technical College

Jennifer Vasquez, TCI Technical College

Psychology of

Perception and Social Psychology

Hyoseok Kim, New York University and Hal E. Hershfield, Ph.D., New York University

Noelle Malvar, New York University

A’Chane Hood-Zeigler, St. Francis College

Adi Haller, Fordham University

Invited Speaker

Exemplars for Internationalizing

the Psychology Curriculum

Richard Velayo, Ph.D.

Pace University

Chair: Renee Goodstein, Ph.D.

Chair: Artemis Pipinelli, Ph.D.

Chair: Samvel Jeshmaridian, Ph.D.

Chair: Lloyd Klein, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker

Harry G. Segal, Ph.D. Cornell University

Using Research Methods to Reconcile an Old Feud: How Self-Report Measures and Projective Tests Offer Mutual Validity in a Large Undergraduate Sample

2:30-3:30 Founders Hall

Time Room 4402 Room 4403 Room 4404 Room 5402 Maroney Theater (7402)

3:40-4:40

Personality

Psychology and Behavioral

Neuroscience

Nancy Lang, Rutgers University, Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D., Rutgers University, and Margaret Ingate, Ph.D., Rutgers University

Abraham Dickey III, York College, Rudolf Nisanov, York College, and Francisco Villegas, Ph.D., York College

Ahmet O. Ceceli, New York University, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, New York University, and Elizabeth A. Phelps, New York University

Criminal Behavior

Nickie Phillips, Ph.D., St. Francis College and Staci Strobl, Ph.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Steven Pirutinsky, Teachers College, Columbia University

Attachment

Research

Daniel DePaulo, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Vernon E. Smith, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Masha Komolova, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Ting Lei, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Happiness,

Resilience, and Meaning:

Transforming Violence Globally

Blanka Angyal, ATOP Meaningfulworld

Renuode Charles, ATOP Meaningfulworld

Zhehan Joyce Fan, ATOP Meaningfulworld

Invited Speaker

Group Identity: Why it Matters So Much

Brien Ashdown, Ph.D. Hobart and William

Smith Colleges

Chair: Estelle Miller, Ph.D. Chair: Andrew Getzfeld, Ph.D.

Chair: Uwe Gielen, Ph.D. Chair: Ani Kalayjian, Ph.D.

Time Room 4402 Room 4403 Room 4404 Room 5402 Maroney Theater (7402)

4:50-5:50

Statistical Methods

in Psychology

Jay Verkuilen, Ph.D.,

CUNY Graduate Center, Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., Fordham University, Yuyu Fan, Ph.D., Fordham University, and Emily Ho, Ph.D., Fordham University

Katarzyna Wyka, Ph.D., CUNY School of Public Health , Jay Verkuilen, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., Fordham University, and JoAnn Difede, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College

Religion, Political

Climate and Psychology

Steven Pirutinsky,

Teachers College, Columbia University, Elizabeth Midlarsky, Teachers College, Columbia University, Ariel Kor, Teachers College, Columbia University, and David Pelcovitz, Yeshiva University

Abraham Dickey III, York College and Ian Hansen, Ph.D., York College

Attachment and

Attraction- Relationship

Science: How Far Have We Come and What Questions Still

Remain? Carolyn Kobayashi,

St. Francis College

Jeannette Raymond, St. Francis College

Dunia Gragui, St. Francis College

Korey Fisher, St. Francis College

Luke Kluisza, St. Francis College

Patrick Garvey-Mitchell, St. Francis College

Service Learning as a

Means of Self Exploration

Students from

St. Francis College will present their work (See list of students in the detailed presentation section)

Realabilities: Creating and

Assessing a New Children's Television

Show

Nava R. Silton, Ph.D., Marymount Manhattan College, Senada Arucevic, Marymount Manhattan College, Rebecca Ruchlin, Marymount Manhattan College, and Alicia Ferris, Marymount Manhattan College

Chair: Marina Gair, Ph.D. Chair: Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D.

Chair: Julie Pellman, Ph.D.

Chair: Nava R. Silton, Ph.D.

Presentation of Awards and Reception Presentation of Awards: Jennifer Lancaster, Ph.D.

6:00-7:00 Cafeteria

Detailed Presentation Titles

12:10- 1:10

Room 4402 Culture and Psychology

Sansthita Pattanaik, Rutgers University and Margaret Ingate, Ph.D., Rutgers University- Adjustment of Late Adolescent and Young Adult Asian Indians

SungHun Kim, St. Francis College- Findings from Moral Exemplars for South Koreans and their Implications for Cross-Cultural Studies on Morality

Sheena Jeswani, Fordham University- Social Support, Agency, and Depression in Filipino and American College Students

Mona Khaled, Teachers College, Columbia University- Case Study of an Egyptian Woman Attempting to Overcome Oppression While in America

Joséphine Ancelle, Marymount Manhattan College-Naming and Identity: Multicultural Naming Traditions and Their Connection to Personality and Behavior

Chair: Sara Haviland, Ph.D.

Room 4403

Health Psychology

Andrea Salis, Ph.D., Queensborough Community College- “Get Active, Be Healthy”, a Lecture and Activity Learning Community to Improve Students’ Academic Performance and Self-Efficacy

Gloria McNamara, Ph.D., RD, CDN, Borough of Manhattan Community College- Personal and Socio-environmental Factors that Influence Vending Purchasing Behaviors of College Students

Petra Stofkova, Marymount Manhattan College and Megan McGee, Marymount Manhattan College- Eating your feelings?; Food intolerance, Systemic Inflammation, and Quality of Life

Christina Oney, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College- Body, Health, and African American Women: Associations Between Body Attitudes and Well-Being

Sarah Gillette, Springfield College and Emily Ferraro, Springfield College- Self-Deception and Personal Health

Chair: John Dilyard, Ph.D.

Room 4404

Mental Health Issues

Crismeldy Veloz, Hunter College & BP Endure, Kimberly Schauder, Vanderbilt University, Lauren Bryant, Vanderbilt University, Lisa Mash, Vanderbilt University, and Carissa Cascio Vanderbilt University- The Multifaceted Empathy Test in Relation to Autistic and Schizophrenia Traits

Christopher R. Benjamin, City College of New York- Borderline Personality Traits Mediate the Relationship Between Narcissistic Traits and Self-Esteem

Joshua D. Wright, Hunter College and Jason Young, Ph.D., Hunter College- Idiographic Analysis of Negative Elaboration and Aggressive Behavior

Gen Nakao, Yeshiva University-Utilizing the Interpersonal Theory of Psychotherapy with High-Risk Adolescents in An Urban School Setting: A Theoretical Underpinning of Improvement of Attendance Based on “the Sense-of-the-Other”

Chair: Esther Klein, Ph.D.

Room 5402

Uwe Gielen, Ph.D., St. Francis College and Jeannette Raymond, St. Francis College- The Birth of Psychological Healing: From Exorcism to Animal Magnetism to Artificial Somnambulism (1775-1825)

Maroney Theater (Room 7402) Emily Horowitz, Ph.D., St. Francis College- Bad People With Bad Intentions: Stories About

the Psychological Causes of Child Abuse in the Mass Media

1:20-2:20

Room 4402 Education and Cognitive Psychology

Robin O’Leary, CUNY Graduate Center- Alphabet Knowledge and Segmentation Training in the Partial Alphabetic Phase: Learning Vocabulary in Preschool

Yasmine Ouchikh, City College of New York and Shuhebur Rahman, City College of New York - Behavioral Analysis of the Bilingual Advantage: A Pilot Study

Turkan Ocal, CUNY Graduate Center-Effects of Self-Efficacy and Strategy Instruction in Spelling of Challenging Words

Ivette Soriano, St. Francis College- Effects of Practice or Studying Conditions on Retention and Recall of Information

Chair: Renee Goodstein, Ph.D.

Room 4403

Aging and Human Rights Issues

Jasmin Tahmaseb-McConatha, Ph.D., West Chester University of Pennsylvania-The Social and Cultural Context of Aging Well

Seojung Jung, Fordham University- How Do ParentChild Relationships and General Views on Aging Influence Adult Children’s Evaluation of Their Own Aging?

Hadar Schwartz, M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center- The Psychological Effects of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking on Girls’ Bodies: Alexithymia and Psychosomatic Symptoms among Sex Trafficked Girls

Chair: Artemis Pipinelli, Ph.D.

Room 4404

Old Age: Society and Personality

Gladys Weinberg, TCI Technical College-An Ethnic Group and The Baby Boom Era Maria Diaz, TCI Technical College- Elderly Financial Abuse: The Largest Growing Crime Amongst the

Elderly Jennifer Vasquez, TCI Technical College- Stereotypes and Aging

Chair: Samvel Jeshmaridian, Ph.D.

Room 5402 Psychology of Perception and Social Psychology

Hyoseok Kim, New York University and Hal E. Hershfield, Ph.D., New York University- How Long is Now?: Examining How Perceptions of Present Duration Affect Financial Decision Making

Noelle Malvar, New York University- Power Made Me Think It: The Effect of Power on the Formation of Spontaneous Trait Inferences

A’Chane Hood-Zeigler, St. Francis College- Drab or Intimate: The Effect of Music Genres Played On Male and Female Paired Dialogues

Adi Haller, Fordham University- Law School Students’ View of Their Educational Experience at Fordham Chair: Lloyd Klein, Ph.D.

Maroney Theater (Room 7402) Richard Velayo, Ph.D., Pace University- Exemplars for Internationalizing the Psychology

Curriculum

3:40-4:40

Room 4402 Personality Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience

Nancy Lang, Rutgers University, Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D., Rutgers University , and Margaret Ingate, Ph.D., Rutgers University- Preliminary Evidence for an Unexplored Personality Dimension

Abraham Dickey III, York College, Rudolf Nisanov, York College, and Francisco Villegas, Ph.D., York College- Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease: Amyloid Beta (25-35) on Measures of Sustained Attention

Ahmet O. Ceceli, New York University, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, New York University, and Elizabeth A. Phelps, New York University- Investigating the Effects of Courageous and Avoidant Behaviors on Conditioned Fear in Healthy Humans

Chair: Estelle Miller, Ph.D.

Room 4403

Criminal Behavior

Nickie Phillips, Ph.D., St. Francis College and Staci Strobl, Ph.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice- The Cycle of Violence: Childhood Trauma, Psychopathy, and Criminal Behavior in Comic Books

Steven Pirutinsky, Teachers College, Columbia University- Is Self-Control a Confounding or Mediating Factor in the Relationship between Religiousness and Criminal Behavior? A Developmental Study of Adolescent Offenders

Chair: Andrew Getzfeld, Ph.D.

Room 4404

Attachment Research

Daniel DePaulo, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College Vernon E. Smith, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College Masha Komolova, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College Ting Lei, Ph.D., Borough of Manhattan Community College

Chair: Uwe Gielen, Ph.D.

Room 5402 Happiness, Resilience, and Meaning: Transforming Violence Globally

Blanka Angyal, ATOP Meaningfulworld Renuode Charles, ATOP Meaningfulworld Zhehan Joyce Fan, ATOP Meaningfulworld

Chair: Ani Kalayjian, Ph.D.

Maroney Theater (Room 7402) Brien Ashdown, Ph.D., Hobart and William Smith Colleges- Group Identity: Why it Matters

So Much

4:50-5:50

Room 4402 Statistical Methods in Psychology

Jay Verkuilen, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., Fordham University, Yuyu Fan, Ph.D., Fordham University, and Emily Ho, Ph.D., Fordham University- Examining Cross-Cultural Invariance in the Four Factor Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Katarzyna Wyka, Ph.D., CUNY School of Public Health, Jay Verkuilen, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., Fordham University, and JoAnn Difede, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College-The Reliability of Non-Compensatory Models: PTSD Diagnostic Criteria

Room 4403

Religion, Political Climate and Psychology

Steven Pirutinsky, Teachers College, Columbia University, Elizabeth Midlarsky, Teachers College, Columbia University , Ariel Kor, Teachers College, Columbia University, and David Pelcovitz, Yeshiva University- Religious Conflict within Orthodox Jewish Families in Israel

Abraham Dickey III and Ian Hansen, Ph.D., York College- The Instability of Political Conservatism: How Different Perceptions of Social Divide Bring Out Different Sides of Conservatism

Chair: Marina Gair, Ph.D.

Room 4404 Attachment and Attraction- Relationship Science: How Far Have We Come and What

Questions Still Remain?

Carolyn Kobayashi, St. Francis College- Effects of Attachment with a Caregiver: Daycare vs. Homecare Jeannette Raymond, St. Francis College- Favoritism in the Family

Dunia Gragui, St. Francis College- Facial Symmetry and its Role in Attractiveness Korey Fisher, St. Francis College- Interracial Attraction and Dating: Exploring Diversity and Acceptance

of Interracial Relationships and the Factors that Lead to Interracial Marriage Luke Kluisza, St. Francis College- Unrequited Love: Our Everlasting Desire to Attain the Unattainable Patrick Garvey-Mitchell, St. Francis College- Weeping Widows and Widowers: A Comparative Analysis

of Bereavement among the Elderly Chair: Marisa T.Cohen, Ph.D.

Room 5402

Service Learning as a Means of Self Exploration St. Francis College Participants

Aaron Amoros

Olivia Brennan

Alexa D’Acquisto

David Fraser

Sierra Froilan

Hamza Hami

Megan Jarrett

Jacqueline Mack

Jacqueline Marconi

Elizabeth Mendez

Milica Mladjenovic

Kate Peterson

Danielle Punzina

Dujuan Robinson

Matthew Vera

Ava Zarich

Kevin Zhu

Chair: Julie Pellman, Ph.D.

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Maroney Theater (Room 7402)

Realabilities: Creating and Assessing a New Children's Television Show

Nava R. Silton, Ph.D., Marymount Manhattan College, Senada Arucevic, Marymount Manhattan College, Rebecca Ruchlin, Marymount Manhattan College, and Alicia Ferris, Marymount Manhattan College

Chair: Nava R. Silton, Ph.D.

We would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all of the wonderful people who helped to make this

conference a success and a special thank you to Dr. Harold Takooshian for taking this conference to a

global level.

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Brien Ashdown, Ph.D.

Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.

Harry G. Segal, Ph.D.

Richard Velayo, Ph.D.

Reviewers

Giuliana Losapio Bracher, Psy.D.

Dominick A. Fortugno MS.Ed.

Andrew R. Getzfeld, Ph.D.

Jason D. Greif, Psy.D.

Lloyd Klein Ph.D.

Jane Chamedes Levine, Ph.D.

Leib Litman, Ph.D.

Irina A. Novikova, Ph.D.

Ivana B. Petrovic, Ph.D.

Artemis Pipinelli, Ph.D.

Pascal E. Sauvayre, Ph.D.

Nava R. Silton, Ph.D.

Arthur P. Sullivan, Ph.D.

William M. Verdi, Ph.D.

Session Chairs

Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D.

John Dilyard, Ph.D.

Marina Gair, Ph.D.

Andrew Getzfeld, Ph.D.

Uwe Gielen, Ph.D.

Renee Goodstein, Ph.D.

Sara Haviland, Ph.D.

Samvel Jeshmaridian, Ph.D.

Ani Kalayjian, Ph.D.

Esther Klein, Ph.D.

Lloyd Klein, Ph.D.

Jennifer Lancaster, Ph.D.

Estelle Miller, Ph.D.

Julie Pellman, Ph.D.

Artemis Pipinelli, Ph.D.

Nava R. Silton, Ph.D.

Harold Takooshian, Ph.D.

Karen Wilson, Ph.D.

Volunteers

Dunia Gragui

Suheila Gragui

Vincenza Guariniello

Carolyn Kobayashi

Ramon Perez

Jeannette Raymond

Ivette Soriano

Amanda Sullivan

We would also like to thank St. Francis College and the following organizations:

APA- Division 52

APS

SPSSI

Conference Chair: Marisa T. Cohen, Ph.D., St. Francis College

Program Chair: Karen Wilson, Ph.D., St. Francis College