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2013 NEPA Progam Book Time All NEPA Events Will Be Held in Beacon Hall Period Room Event Center Event Center Room Student 135 B C 331 Lounge 1st Floor 2nd Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor 3rd Floor Honor Session Paper Featured Symposia Societies Posters Type Sessions & Graduate Speakers (& Papers) Education 9:00 AM Prejudice Psi Chi and Psi Ken Relational General Poster to and Image Beta: Benefits Keith Pulse Session I Formation of Belonging (8) (9) (10-44) 10:00 AM (3-6) (7) 10:10 AM Issues in Psi Chi and Psi Kelly Science General Poster to Development Beta: Leadership Brownell Writing Session II (45-48) Exchange (50) (51) (52-86) 11:10 AM (49) 11:20 AM The Distinguished Contribution Awards (87), the NEPA General Meeting (88) and the NEPA to Presidential Address (89) are the only activities scheduled for the 11:20 AM to 12:30 PM time 12:30 PM period and will convene in Event Center C. 12:40 - 2:40 Graduate Technology 12:40 PM Theoretical and General Poster Education and Clinical Issues Session III to Symposium Sleep (90-93) Science (99-133) 1:40 PM (95) (98) & Immediately followed by Society 1:50 PM Neuroscience, Symposium Mindfulness General Poster Memory and the Becoming a (97) and to Professor Session IV Social Brain Treatment (139-178) 2:50 PM (134-137) (96) (138) 3:00 PM Online and Festschrift Psi Chi Clinical General Poster to Internet for Speaker Psychology Session V Behavior Joan Bombace (184) (185-188) (189-224) 4:00 PM (179-182) (183) The New England Psychological Association and Psi Chi welcome your attendance at the 4:00 PM awards and end-of-meeting reception (225) in the Student Lounge on the 3rd Floor. 12:40 PM to 2:00 PM HUS Honorary Undergraduate Scholar Awards and Fellows Plus 40 (94) Awards Event Center A (2nd Floor) 2013 NEPA Annual Meeting Page 1 The New England Psychological Association would like to thank Housatonic Community College for hosting the 2013 Annual Meeting and recognizes the following organizations, grants, and individuals for contributing to the success of the 2013 Annual Meeting: • Anita T. Gliniecki, M.S.N., President, Housatonic Community College • Elizabeth Roop, M.S., Academic Dean, Housatonic Community College • Claudine Coba-Loh, M.S., Professor and Chair, Housatonic Community College Behavioral and Social Science Department • Behavioral and Social Science Department, Housatonic Community College • Housatonic Community College Facilities • Psi Beta Chapter of Housatonic Community College • Psychology Club of Housatonic Community College • Cindy Lidman, M.S., Administrative Assistant, Housatonic Community College • Camilla Constantini, A.S., Executive Assistant to the President of Housatonic Community College • American Psychological Association Education Directorate • Psi Chi • Psi Beta • American Psychological Association Science Directorate • Society for the Teaching of Psychology 2013 NEPA Annual Meeting Page 2 Event Center Rooms A, B, C NEPA Registration ! Poster Sessions Room 331 ! 2013 NEPA Annual Meeting Page 3 Friday Evening Beacon Hall Event Center C Dinner, By Prior Reservation (1) 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Keynote Speaker (2) 6:45 PM – 7:45 PM Opening Comments Anita Gliniecki, M.S.N. President, Housatonic Community College & Elizabeth Roop, M.S. Dean of Academic Affairs, Housatonic Community College Daniel Schacter, Ph.D. (Harvard University) The Seven Sins of Memory: An Update Introduced by Dov Kugelmass, Ph.D. (Three Rivers Community College) Over a decade ago, I proposed that memory errors could be classified into seven fundamental categories or “sins”: transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. During the past decade, much has been learned about each of the seven sins, especially as a result of research that has combined the methods of psychology and neuroscience. This presentation will provide an update on our current understanding of the seven sins, with a focus on the sins of absent-mindedness (failures of attention that result in memory errors) and misattribution (when information is mistakenly assigned to the wrong source, resulting in memory distortions such as false recognition). I will discuss recent research on absent-mindedness that has examined the role of mind wandering in memory for lectures, and will present evidence indicating that interpolated testing can counter such absent-minded lapses. I will also discuss recent research that has clarified both cognitive and neural aspects of misattribution, and consider evidence for the idea that misattribution and other memory sins can be conceived of as byproducts of otherwise adaptive features of memory. 2013 NEPA Annual Meeting Page 4 Saturday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Room 135 Paper Session I Prejudice and Image Formation Melissa-Sue John, Ph.D. (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Chair 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM (3) A Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis Of College Immigrants’ Experiences: Identity, Friendship Formation And Ethnic Conflict Melissa-Sue John, Ph.D., Ivon Arroyo, Ph.D., Philip Blake & Agatha Gorniesiewicz (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Central issues in intercultural interpersonal relationships among US immigrant populations were examined, specifically, the perceptions of identity, intercultural friendship formation and intercultural conflict among Asian, Latino and European college students at a private New England technology school. Through an interpretive analysis of focus groups and statistical analysis of survey data, the study reveals that immigrants’ identification may depend on salient identities, and intercultural friendships are formed based on opportunity, frequent contact, openness to experience, receptivity of other nationals, multicultural ideologies, and experiences with racial/ethnic conflict. Understanding these processes may promote greater intercultural contact and understanding in school settings. 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM (4) The Intergroup and Identity Processes Underlying Implicit Prejudice Against Hispanics Alexandra K. Margevich, M.A. (Rutgers University, Newark) & Luis M. Rivera, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, Newark) In the present research, we investigated whether egalitarian motivations and values, implicit African-American prejudice, explicit Hispanic prejudice, and social desirability concerns relate to implicit Hispanic prejudice. We also tested three predictions: (a) implicit Hispanic attitudes should differ as a function of ethnic-racial group membership (non-Hispanic vs. Hispanic); (b) learning about the historical plight of Hispanics in America should lead to increased ingroup favoritism amongst Hispanics lower in stigma consciousness; and (c) an American group affirmation should lead to increased implicit Hispanic prejudice amongst highly identified non-Hispanic Americans. Our results help elucidate the processes underlying implicit Hispanic prejudice. 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM (5) The Role Of Gender Status In Implicit And Explicit Negative Self-Stereotyping Valerie L. Laws (Rutgers University, Newark) & Luis M. Rivera (Rutgers University, Newark) The structure of society affords men a high social status relative to women. The present research examined if status affects men and women’s implicit and explicit associations between their self-concept and negative stereotypes (i.e., 2013 NEPA Annual Meeting Page 5 Saturday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM negative gender self-stereotyping). Participants completed a reaction time measure of self-stereotyping, and self- report measures of self-stereotyping and self-esteem. Results revealed that both men and women exhibited implicit negative self-stereotyping, but only women exhibited explicit negative self-stereotyping. Also, among men and women, strong implicit negative self-stereotyping was marginally associated with high self-esteem; however, strong explicit negative self-stereotyping was not associated with self-esteem. 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM (6) Women's Negotiations Of Social Discourses Of The Body Kathryn Abell, B.A. (Clark University). Sponsor: Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D. (Clark University) Women are the subject of specifically gendered discourses of control regarding the body. Any woman in this social context will have a complicated relationship of acceptance and rejection of these social discourses, particularly when her relationship to feminist ideology is considered. This study examined this qualitatively, taking care to consider the woman as an active agent. Some women appropriated dominant discourses of the body, such as through using health as a justification, or the experience of policing. Others were in conflict with these discourses, while others rejected them outright. Overall demonstrating the salience of these dominant discourses of the body. Event Center Room B Psi Chi and Psi Beta The Benefits of Honor Society Membership (7) Martha Zlokovich, Ph.D. (Executive Director, Psi Chi) Deborah Harris O’Brien, Ph.D. (Trinity Washington University; Psi Chi Eastern Regional Vice-President) Melanie Arpaio, M.A. (Sussex County Community College; Psi Beta President) Samvel Jeshmaridian, Ph.D. (Technical Career Institutes; Psi Beta Eastern Regional Vice-President) Introduced by Michael Amico, Ph.D. (Housatonic Community College) This presentation will discuss the benefits to Psychology students of joining Psi Beta (National Honor Society in Psychology for Community and Junior Colleges) and Psi Chi (The International Honor Society in Psychology; undergraduate and graduate students at 4 year colleges and universities). Included in the presentation are membership requirements, how to start a chapter and awards and grants sponsored by these organizations
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