Annual Poster Session

Each year in mid-April, the Department of Psychological Science holds a poster session in which undergraduate and graduate students present their research. The event is open to students of all majors who have completed or partially completed any behavioral science research project in which they took an active role. Such projects include independent research conducted under faculty supervision, collaborative work done with a professor, honors theses, master’s theses, and independent research that fulfilled a course assignment. Students can present finalized projects, preliminary data, or predicted results. The event is informal with a friendly atmosphere, and tasty snacks are served. The next poster session will be held Thursday, April 18, 2013 in the World Languages and Cultures Lab, NQ 160.

Why should you participate?

• Graduate School admissions committees and potential employers are impressed when an applicant has presented his or her work at an annual departmental conference
• You can get experience with the final step in the research process: communicating your results and conclusions to others
• You can exchange research ideas with other students and faculty
• You can have your work recognized by faculty and peers
• You can help educate other students about research being conducted at Ball State
  Registration

Register by April 4, 2013 so that we can print name tags and certificates and so that all projects will be included in the program. The instruction booklet includes a registration form.

Questions?
Contact the program organizer: Dr. Kerri Pickel.

2013 Program

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Kaitlin Pickett, Samara Candreva, & Shelbie Sullivan Time allocation and personality study

Rebecca Schafer & Phillip Keck Off the bench: Psychosocial adaptation through adapted athletics participation in the U.S. and abroad

Carin K. Smith The Lego experiment: Video’s effect on procedural learning

Independent Projects

Stephanie Henderson & David Perkins Public assistance and public need in Blackford and Delaware counties, Indiana

Amanda Powers & Fayeann Hurley Impact of stress on eating behaviors

Kathryn J. Poznanski Multimedia and learning: A replication and extension of prior research

Nathaniel Ring Comparing traditional and cluster analyses to differentiate myths from misconceptions

Natalie Sachs, Marlenne Devia, Carin Smith, Chris Altman, Dana Burgan, & Nate Ring What do you believe? Developing accurate measures of myths and misconceptions

Kathleen Stanko, Fayeann Hurley, & Cameron Davidson Predicting sleep habits in college students: A reasoned action approach

Class Projects

Amy Dobbs, Tara Carte, & Tully Roll An exploration and analysis of ESL resources in a college learning center

James Haston, Alison Lytle, Moses Williams, & Amanda Wilson Awareness and accessibility of restrooms in Bracken to students with disabilities

Erica Mauck, Adam Ford, Haley Streby, & Aaron Wellman Analysis of satisfaction pertaining to psychology advising at Ball State University

Kelly Meredith, Marli Simpson, & Will Stuller Breaking the prejudice habit: A Virginia Ball seminar

Megan Riley, Kara Murdock, Miranda Shumate, & Ashlyn-Kate Flittner Needs and interests in implementing a peer mentoring program

Bryan Stecker, Ian Haas, Ian Pattison, Lee Nelson, & Kourtni Wippel Study abroad enhancement

Student-Faculty Collaborations

Ethan Dahl, Thomas Holtgraves, & Jean-Francois Bonnefon Dispreferred markers amplify the politeness effect on the interpretation of quantifiers

Kristina Hernandez, Byron Long, Aaron Martin, Kara Murdock, Moses Williams, Cassandra Childress, & Stephanie Simon-Dack Resting EEG correlates of interhemispheric transfer

Alex Nyquist, Lambert Deckers, & Brock Sumner Position effects and chocolate attitudes

Prabin Chandra Subedi, Rachel Marie Walker, Linh Littleford, Fredrick R. King, Victor Junior Figuereo, & Taylor D. Back Do students’ acknowledgements of racial privilege depend on the instructor’s race?

Master’s Theses

Heather M. Bauer, Brittney M. Klauser, Christopher M. Altman, & Kerri Pickel The impact of motivation to judge veracity on eyewitnesses’ memory of a suspect

Brittney M. Klauser, Heather M. Bauer, Christopher M. Altman, & Kerri Pickel Induced suspicion of deception impairs eyewitnesses’ memory of a suspect

Lindsay Marsh, Kelcey Hall, & Alex Kuka Individual differences in the hemispheric asymmetry of emotional words