This year’s Red River Undergraduate Psychology Conference was hosted by Concordia College on April 1. A number of faculty members and students from the psychology department attended the conference. The following students presented projects: Jennifer R. Wenner, Allyson Schaan, & Natalie Avey: “Social Rererencing During Inauthentic Emotional Situations.” Casey Lloyd & Ethan Dahl: “Music’s Effect on Helping Behavior in Second […]
Gary Nickell, Psychology, had a paper accepted for presentation at European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Small Group Meeting on Selection and Assessment, Athens, Greece, in June. The paper “Applying Regulatory-Fit Theory to Person-Organization Fit: Prevention Focus’ Primacy in Safe Food Production” was co-authored with Dr. Verlin Hinsz from NDSU and Dr. Ernest Park from Cleveland State University.
Jared Ladbury, Psychology, presented a paper “Assessing the relationship between trust perceptions and collectivism with the social relations model” at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio, Texas. Verlin Hinsz (Psychology, NDSU) was co-author. Magdalene Chalikia, Gary Nickell, and Rochelle Bergstrom, all Psychology, also attended the meeting.
Gary Nickell, Psychology, and three undergraduate psychology students,Tiffany Bouwman, Allison Becker and Kassondra Henschel, attended the 2010 Northern Lights Psychology Conference in Grand Forks Oct. 23. They presented a research poster titled “The Influence of Highs and Lows on the Optimistic Bias.” Two additional psychology students, Trisha Page and Himani Khatri, worked on this project.
Gary Nickell, Psychology Department, had two chapters published in a new book titled Food processing: Methods, Techniques and Trends. The chapters, “Eliciting food production workers’ beliefs about factors that contribute to potential contamination” and “Food processing workers can be the first line of defense against intentional contamination,” were both co-authored with Verlin Hinsz from the Psychology Department at NDSU.