The Oregon State Psychology Department provides valuable opportunities for research experience in psychological science. This page is dedicated to the efforts of undergraduate researchers, and their collaboration with Psychology faculty.
To review the work going on in the labs, visit sites dedicated to cognition, nonverbal behavior, stress and coping, mood and cognition, and social cognition (coming soon!).
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Faculty/Student Collaboration
Following is a listing of publications and presentations involving collaboration between OSU students and faculty (student names are in bold lettering).
Barnes, J., Connor-Smith, J. K., Aguilar, S., & Wadsworth, M. (2005). Temperament and beliefs about the helpfulness of responses to stress. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.
Bernieri, F., Barkowski, B., Sommer, K., & Ochoa Evers, J. (2006). Emotional contagion in conversational langauge. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Bernieri, F., & Czaijka, A. (2006). When cell phones interrupt interactions. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Bernieri, F., & Petty, K. (2006). The influence of a handshake on personality perception accuracy. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Edwards, J. A., & Templeton, A. (2005). The structure of perceived attributes of situations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 705-723.
Edwards, J. A., & Collins, E. M. (January, 2006). Evidence for the Big Five Personality Trait structure in memory organization. Poster presented at the 2006 meeting of the Association for Research in Personality.
Edwards, J. A., & Collins, E. Evidence for the Big Five Personality Trait structure in memory organization. Soon to be resubmitted.
Edwards, J. A., & Hopkins, K. J. (August, 2004). Organization of memory for situations. Poster presented at the 112th meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
Flachsbart, C. E., Connor-Smith, J. K., Cellerini, K. E. (2005). Responses to stress: Coping mediated relations between temperament and adjustment. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.
Grider, P., Connor-Smith, J. K., & Quest, J. (2005). Observational assessment of personality traits. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.
Helzer, E. G., Connor-Smith, J. K., & Reed, M. A. (2006). When tension (and attention) is high: Temperament, social stress, and threat relevance as predictors of attentional bias to threat. Manuscript submitted for publication.Helzer, E. G., & Edwards, J. A. (2007, January). Effects of causal uncertainty on global versus local processing. Poster presented at 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Helzer, E. G., & Connor-Smith (2007). Impact of neuroticism and social stress on attentional allocation. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Hogansen, J. M., Lanning, K., Edwards, J.A., & Hooker, K. A. (1998, August). Five factors in sentence completions? An Examination of Loevinger's SCT. Paper presented at the 1998 meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Lien, M.-C., Ruthruff, E., & Kuhns, D. (in press). On the difficulty of task switching: Assessing the role of task-set inhibition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Sommer, K., Bernieri, F., Barkowski, B., Czjaika, A., & Raymond, A. (2006). Interpersonal rejection, felt security, and partner derogation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.