1 Thursday, March 3, 2016 referring to in-class procedures nor for other items. 6:00pm-7:20pm POSTER 2 Invited Speaker Westside Ballroom Salons 1 & 2 COMBINING AUDITORY AND VISUAL INFORMATION IN PSI CHI KEYNOTE: RECENT ADVANCES IN THE OBJECT DISCRIMINATION: INDEPENDENT VS. UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTION OF SUICIDAL INTEGRATION DECISION MODELS BEHAVIOR. Thursday, March 3, 2016 WILLIAM B. STOLL, YOAV ARIEH (MONTCLAIR STATE 6:00pm-7:20pm UNIVERSITY) We examined the way corresponding auditory and visual CHAIR: DEBORAH HARRIS-O'BRIEN information is combined in a discrimination task. Participants judged whether an object was a cello or a violin based on size RECENT ADVANCES IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND (visual-condition) or pitch (auditory-condition) or both PREDICTION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR (bimodal-condition). Subsequently, data from the visual and auditory conditions was used to estimate performance in the MATTHEW K. NOCK (HARVARD) bimodal condition. We found that our data favored an integration model where sensory information is linearly combined in a In his talk, Professor Nock will describe recent findings from predecisional stage. epidemiologic studies on the prevalence, characteristics and risk factors for suicidal behavior, behavioral studies on psychological POSTER 3 processes associated with self-injurious and suicidal behavior, and clinic-based studies aimed at improving the prediction of EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF READING ON COMFORT suicidal behavior. WITH EXISTENTIAL ISSUES Thursday, March 3, 2016 HIRAL PATEL (GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY) 7:30pm-8:00pm Existentialism refers to questions about our basic existence. In psychology, these include the exploration of fundamental Event Westside Ballroom Salons 1 & 2 questions about why we are here, what happens when we die, EPA BUSINESS MEETING and similarly difficult topics. We had 104 participants who Thursday, March 3, 2016 provided written informed consent who were randomly assigned 7:30pm-8:00pm to one of two conditions, experimental or comparison. We didn’t find any observed differences in existential comfort but we did find that the more the participants enjoyed reading, the more CHAIR: TERRY DAVIDSON, PHD comfortable they felt with existential issues. POSTER 4 Friday, March 4, 2016 7:00am-7:49am SEEK, PROCESS, AND APPLY: FEEDBACK ORIENTATION’S EFFECT ON FEEDBACK AND PERFORMANCE Poster Westside Ballroom Salons 3 & 4 AMANDA QUIJADA-CRISOSTOMO (THE COLLEGE OF NEW UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTERS 1 JERSEY) Friday, March 4, 2016 7:00am-7:49am Feedback orientation is an individual trait that explains the extent to which an individual believes feedback to be important and POSTER 1 feels a sense of obligation to use feedback. I examined feedback orientation as a moderator on the relationship between feedback DO ONLINE COURSES YIELD LOWER STUDENT RATINGS and performance. I hypothesized that feedback orientation would ON SELECTED COURSE EVALUATION ITEMS? moderate and strengthen this relationship. However, these hypotheses were unsupported. I explore potential explanations BRIDGET G. HANLEY, EUGENIU GRIGORESCU, THOMAS P. for these null findings in the discussion to generate directions for HOGAN (UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON) future research. Typical course evaluation forms are developed in the context of POSTER 5 traditional, in-class formats but may also be used for online courses. We hypothesized that online courses would yield lower EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY AND RESTRAINT DURING ratings for items referring to in-class procedures. The study COUPLE NARRATIVES ABOUT ROMANTIC CONFLICTS compared 9 in-class sections with 9 online sections matched for instructor, field, and level given in adjacent semesters. Contrary GEIMY BARRETO CAMPOVERDE, JESSICA MARKUS, to expectations, no differences were found in ratings for items KELSEY WOLFF, CANDICE FEIRING (THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY) 2 THE EFFECT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC FILTERS ON PERCEIVED Reactivation of emotions during recollection of conflict events ATTRACTIVENESS provides insight into regulatory processes used to guide couple behavior. This study examined emotion regulation during LAUREN POTTS, JUSTIN COUCHMAN (ALBRIGHT COLLEGE) narratives about romantic conflict in 38 emerging adult couples (60 by early 2016). Women showed greater emotional reactivity To determine how the brain would interpret attractiveness and in regard to anger and sadness than their male partners. Gender other character traits based on photos with different photographic moderated associations between emotions and relationship filters, participant’s were shown six pictures of people that were functioning. For example, more angry words were associated either black and white, sepia, or had no filter. They were then with less satisfaction for women but not men. asked to rate each picture on attractiveness and other character traits. Several significant findings suggested pictures of people in POSTER 6 black and white were more visually appealing. PHILOSOPHY: A CATALYST FOR SELF-AUTHORSHIP? POSTER 10 CHRISTOPHER P. MARKIEWICZ (SALISBURY UNIVERSITY) THE RELATION BETWEEN INNER-TALK AND ANXIETY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY This investigation explored the relationship between undergraduate enrollment in Philosophy courses and the ROBERT WELLMAN, KENDRICK JONES (SLIPPERY ROCK development of Self-Authorship, or “the capacity to define one’s UNIVERSITY) own beliefs, identity and social relations,” (Baxter Magolda, 2001; Kegan, 1994) in college students. Analysis of student course The present study examined the relation between inner talk and histories and their epistemic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal anxiety. There is a concerning lack of research investigating the beliefs supported the hypothesized relationship. This result relation between the two; therefore, the present study was justifies giving Philosophy and Critical Thinking courses a more exploratory in nature. It was hypothesized that higher amounts of central role in college curricula. inner talk would be associated with higher amounts of anxiety. The results revealed that for certain topics there were statistically POSTER 7 significant correlations between inner talk and anxiety; however, this held for females only. EFFECTS OF CURATION ON CONTENT LEARNING POSTER 11 GREGORY BYRNE, NONE, ALTHEA BAUERNSCHMIDT (ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY) DRESS FOR SUCCESS: HOW DRESS AFFECTS CONFIDENCE AND TEST-TAKING ABILITIES E-learning is a popular and increasingly validated method of learning. One of the primary features of e-learning is the curation NICHOLAS MATTHEW MANZA (NEUMANN UNIVERSITY) of digital content, however the learning benefits of curated content have not been examined. In this experiment we In our study we investigated how confidence levels are affected examined the effects of content curation on memory. Initial depending on the type of clothing a person is wearing to take a results found no advantage for recall of curated content over test, and how this could influence test scores. Participants wore non-curated content. professional and comfortable clothes while taking a test and filled out a survey asking questions based on levels of confidence. The POSTER 8 findings of this research show that professional dress does yield a better performance on a test and the confidence associated ARE NATURE SETTINGS ABLE TO RESTORE DIRECTED with it. ATTENTION BETTER THAN URBAN SETTINGS? POSTER 12 EMILY LYNN FUNK (BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA), FRANCESCA LEE ELEZOVIC, BODY APPRECIATION PREDICTS NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF JOHN-CHRISTOPHER ANDREW FINLEY, JENNIFER MODEL EXPOSURE ON HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, BODY ADRIENNE JOHNSON (BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF IMAGE STATE PENNSYLVANIA) ELIZABETH GEFFERS (GROVE CITY COLLEGE) The purpose of this study was to see if nature environments restore attention more than urban environments. Participants Social cognitive theory suggests self-deprecating cognitive completed an attention depleting task, then viewed nature or mechanisms may aid women’s pursuit of the thin-ideal goal. urban pictures with the corresponding sounds, then completed a Participants viewed thin-ideal “YouTube Screenshots” of a thin or second attention task. Overall, the results showed that while the low-normal weight model. Exposure to normal weight models, a nature intervention was rated more restorative and led seemingly achievable goal, reduced participants’ state body participants to feel more relaxed, it did not improve attention image satisfaction. Body appreciation, which reduces the performance compared to the urban intervention. desirability of the thin-ideal goal, exhibited a protective effect, reducing self-deprecating cognitive mechanisms such as POSTER 9 decreased happiness, self-confidence, and body image satisfaction. 3 been mainly in the realm of financial risks. We find that this POSTER 13 pattern also holds for risk taking in social scenarios. WHEN A NAME MATTERS: GENDER BIAS IN THE POSTER 17 COMPETENCY RATING OF EDUCATORS IS GOD GREEN?: RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE DAWN WILKENFELD (RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY) CHANGE BELIEFS Evaluations of teacher competency are utilized for hiring SARA LOTEMPLIO (COLBY COLLEGE) purposes, tenure, and merit awards. This study examined gender biases in perceptions of teacher competency. One Despite a scientific consensus of 97%, many Americans don’t noteworthy result was a bias against males. Participants (n = believe in anthropogenic climate change. The current study 272) read a fictional vignette of either a competent or evaluated the effects of religious beliefs on climate change incompetent teacher.