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- Natalia Garcia presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on her research on (mis)diagnosis of eating disorders
- Anushka Kaiwar presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on her research on the adoption of racist identities by racist individuals
- Jill Ramey presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on her research on honor ideology and differential blaming of men and women who have been sexually assaulted.
- Sharon Dubon Zelada presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on her research on motivations to confront prejudice
- Mitch Reinhart presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on his research on honor ideology and threats against masculinity prompting muscle-building responses in men
- Tam Vu Chi presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on his research on shifting individuals from more external to more internal motivations to confront prejudice
- Jordan Whittier presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on her research on creating and validating a scale to quantify motivations for adhering to honor ideology
- Mitchell Ashton presented at the Union College Steinmetz forum on his research on honor threats and responses
April 2023
- Welcome to Keira Salt who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Jonah Brenner, Conor O'Dea, Samantha Rapp, and Corinne Moss Racusin had a paper titled, "Perceptions of Parental Responses to Gender Stereotype Violations in Children" accepted to Sex Roles.
March 2023
- Marileisi Vizcaino Perez successfully completed her senior thesis!
- Jill Ramey successfully completed her senior thesis!
- Mitch Reinhart successfully completed his senior thesis!
- Gabriela Gavala received a $500 Union College Student Research Grant to fund their project examining the effectiveness of self-made captchas to improve data quality in online research!
- Emily Deyst and Tam Vu Chi received a joint $1,000 Student Research Grant to fund their project examining the efficacy of a short online intervention to reduce performative activism!
- Welcome to Bella VanMeter who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Hailee Park who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Norah Schloneger who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Albert Martinez who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Alexis Cameron who will be virtually joining our research lab for the rest of the 2023 year through the SPUR program!
- Welcome to Alayna Barton who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Alexandria Archer who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Keira Salt who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Kristin Budziak who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Sydney Lewis who will be joining our research lab for Fall 2023!
February 2023
- Conor O'Dea was chosen to be a Social-Personality Undergraduate Research (SPUR) mentor!
- Mitchell Ashton presented a poster titled "“Yes it was that bad”: Understanding how subjective wealth and honor ideology predict threat assessments and aggressive responses" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Sharon Dubon Zelada presented a poster titled "Look Good, Feel Good: Internal and External Motivations to Confront Prejudice Differentially affect Decisions to Confront" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Natalia Garcia Moreno presented a poster titled "Fatphobia, lack of training, and their effects on misdiagnosis of eating disorders" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Anushka Kaiwar presented a poster titled "Are racists reclaiming the term racist? A novel examination of slur reappropriation" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Alina Whiteside presented a poster titled "Masculine honor beliefs and empathy for bullied children" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Jordan Whittier presented a poster titled "The creation and validation of a scale assessing the motivations underlying honor ideology" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
- Conor O'Dea presented a poster titled "The post Roe v. Wade era: a pre and post examination of political ideology, laws, and abortion rates" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta!
January 2023
- Mitchell Ashton received a $390 Union College Student Research Grant to fund their project examining the effect of bystanders on men's responses to reputational threats!
- Jordan Whittier received a $490 Union College Student Research Grant to fund their project aimed at creating and validating a scale to measure motivations underlying honor ideology in men!
- Anushka Kaiwar received a $390 Union College Student Research Grant to fund their project examining the the effects of racist individuals adopting racist identities on antiracists' abilities to confront prejudice!
December 2022
- Conor O'Dea has accepted a tenure track position at Butler University to start in Fall 2023!
- Welcome to Tam Vu Chi who joined our lab for the Winter 2023 term!
- Welcome to Gabriela Gavala who joined our lab for the Winter 2023 term!
October 2022
- Natalia Garcia received a student research grant in the amount of $450 to fund their Seward Fellowship study examining the accuracy of eating disorder diagnosis based on fatphobia and the BMI of the patient
- Jillian (Jill) Ramey received a student research grant in the amount of $390 to fund their thesis study examining perceptions of blame for women who have been sexually assaulted as a function of masculine honor ideology
- Welcome to Emmy Deyst who joined our lab for the Fall 2022 term!
September 2022
- Welcome to Sharon Dubon Zelada who joined our lab for the Fall 2022 term!
- Welcome to Housseynatou Diallo who joined our lab for the Fall 2022 term!
- Welcome to Anushka Kaiwar who joined our lab for the Fall 2022 term!
- Conor O'Dea led a conversation about heroic behavior and drives for status through dominance versus prestige in Jill Murphy's class, "Queering the Hero's Journey!"
July 2022
- Our research team recently had a paper, "Teaching a Seminar on How to Teach Seminars in Psychology" accepted for publication in College Teaching!
- Marileisi Vizcaino Perez completed a summer research fellowship at Union College!
- Marileisi Vizcaino Perez received a Student research grant to fund their thesis examining perceptions of interpersonal rejection and masculine honor beliefs!
- Mitchell Reinhart received a student research grant in the amount of $390 to fund their thesis examining perceptions of masculine honor beliefs and motivations toward muscularity/problematic muscle drive behaviors!
June 2022
- Congratulations to Helen Wong who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Danny Debonis who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Sophia Anderson who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Gabbie Stein who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Rhys Moger who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Adenike Hickson who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Congratulations to Fletcher Fineman who graduated! Keep in touch!
- Adenike Hickson successfully completed their thesis!
- Fletcher Fineman successfully completed their thesis!
- Alina Whiteside successfully completed their Seward Fellowship project!
- Conor O'Dea completed the 2022 Faculty Development Course Incubator at Union College!
May 2022
- Fletcher Fineman received the John Lewis March Prize awarded to a senior in psychology who has shown an increased interest and ability during the final two years of college!
- Conor O'Dea received a $1,000 Faculty Research Fund award to fund research examining expectations for White men versus Black men as a function of Masculine Honor Beliefs using Virtual Reality simulations!
- Conor O'Dea was chosen to participate in the Summer Faculty Course Incubator!
- Conor O'Dea received a $1,500 award to develop a course called Psychology of Investing as part of the Justice, Equity, Identity, and/or Difference (JEID) general education curriculum
- Welcome to Mitchell Ashton who will be joining our lab in Fall 2022!
- Welcome to Jillian (Jill) Ramey who will be joining our lab in Fall 2022!
- Fletcher Fineman rocked their talk at Steinmetz 2022!
- Adenike Hickson rocked their talk at Steinmetz 2022!
- Alina Whiteside rocked their talk at Steinmetz 2022!
- Hallie Katzman rocked their talk at Steinmetz 2022!
- Molly Rusgrove rocked their talk at Steinmetz 2022!
April 2022
- Conor O'Dea rocked their talk on motivations to confront prejudice at the Union College Academy for Lifelong Learning (UCALL)
- Welcome to Leslie Quijada who is joining our lab for Spring 2022!
- Welcome to Olivia (Liv) Pachla who is joining our lab for Spring 2022!
- Welcome to Sivagouzia (Gouzia) Sivarajah who is joining our lab for Spring 2022!
- Welcome to Jordan Whittier who is joining our lab for Spring 2022!
- Welcome to Casey Davidson who is joining our lab for Spring 2022!
February 2022
- Our article, "The Masculinity-based model of Aggressive Retaliation in Society (MARS)" was published in Psychology of Men and Masculinities!
- Our article, "'Act Like a Real Man!' A Novel Examination of how Socializing Others to Masculine Honor-based Norms Bolsters Men’s Reputations" was published in Psychology of Men and Masculinities!
- Molly Rusgrove rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Danny Debonis rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Olivia Brand rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Helen Wong rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Hallie Katzman rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Conor O'Dea rocked their presentation at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco!
- Adenike Hickson received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $407.50 to fund their study examining the impact of racist language and blame on Asian Americans' sense of belonging in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Alina Whiteside received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $407.50 to fund their study examining the impact of masculine honor beliefs and empathy on how children should respond to bullies!
January 2022
- Conor O'Dea was selected to be a consulting editor for Psychology of Men and Masculinities!
- Welcome to Jacob DiIorio who is joining our lab for Winter 2022!
- Welcome to Natalia Garcia who is joining our lab for Winter 2022!
- Welcome to Alina Whiteside who is joining our lab for Winter 2022!
- Welcome to Adenike Hickson who is joining our lab for Winter 2022!
December 2021
- Sophia Anderson received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $390 to fund their study examining racist individuals' reappropriation of the term racist!
- Fletcher Fineman received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $403 to fund their study examining how motivations to confront prejudice affect personal and collective esteem after confrontation!
- Helen Wong received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $385 to fund their study examining the impact of racist language on White Americans' perceived justification of prejudice toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Julia Lima received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $390 to fund their study examining perceptions of retaliatory violence as a function of masculine honor beliefs, gender, sex identification, and sexual orientation!
- Rhys Moger received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $403 to fund their study examining how motivations to confront prejudice affects decisions to confront under varying levels of risk and reward!
- Mitchell Reinhart received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $391 to fund their study examining the impact of masculine honor beliefs on perceptions of acceptable responses to varying levels of threat!
November 2021
- Our article, "Less of a man? Masculine honor beliefs influence perceptions of hypothetical sons (and their fathers) coming out as gay" was published in Personality and Individual Differences.
October 2021
- Olivia Brand received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $71.00 to fund their research examining perceptions of violence as a way to reestablish masculinity in intimate partner relationships!
- Conor O'Dea rocked his presentation on toxic masculinity at the American Association of University Women at Union College!
- Conor O'Dea rocked his presentation on masculine honor beliefs and moral decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Union College COVID-19 symposium!
September 2021
- Welcome to Rhys Moger who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
August 2021
- Welcome to Jillian Walenda who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
- Welcome to Danny Debonis who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
- Welcome to Julia Lima who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
- Welcome to Sophia Anderson who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
- Welcome to Gabriella Stein who is joining our lab for Fall 2021!
July 2021
- Olivia Brand received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $428.64 to fund their research examining perceptions of sons (and their fathers) who come out as gay!
- Daniel Debonis received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $400.00 to fund their research examining the moderating role of masculine honor beliefs in male body-checking procedures!
- Cristina Frias-Gil received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $381.00 to fund their research examining how masculine honor beliefs predicts perceptions of intimate partner violence!
- Hallie Katzman received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $381.00 to fund their research examining how masculine honor beliefs predicts perceptions of intimate partner violence!
- Molly Rusgrove received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $254.00 to fund their research examining the effect of masculine honor beliefs and mortality salience on risk taking and response to threat!
- Fiona Shyne received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $485.00 to fund their research examining gay people's reactions to bisexual prejudice!
- Marileisi Vizcaino-Perez received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $405.00 to fund their research examining the effect of masculine honor beliefs on perceptions of mate value after being romantically rejected!
May 2021
- Conor received a $3,000 Faculty Research Fund award to fund research examining expectations for White men versus Black men as a function of Masculine Honor Beliefs using Virtual Reality simulations
April 2021
- Olivia Brand received an almost $4,000 summer research fellowship to work full time in the lab over the summer!
- Helen Wong received an almost $4,000 summer research fellowship to work full time in the lab over the summer!
March 2021
- Cristina Frias-Gil and Hallie Katzman received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $381.00 to fund their research examining how masculine honor beliefs predicts perceptions of intimate partner violence!
- Hallie Katzman received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $381.00 to fund their research examining perceptions of abortion legislation as a function of political ideology!
- Helen Wong received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $383.00 to fund their research examining perceptions of racist language related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Asian Americans!
- Valentina Garcia received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $500.00 to fund their research examining people's motivations to confront racial prejudice!
- Mitchell Reinhart will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
- Molly Rusgrove will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
January 2021
- Paola Garcia will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
- Our article, "Moral Decision-Making and Support for Safety Procedures Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic" was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences!
February 2021
- Jordan Alvarez rocked their presentation at SPSP 2021 virtual!
- Jonah Brenner rocked their presentation at SPSP 2021 virtual!
- Conor O'Dea rocked their presentation at SPSP 2021 virtual!
December 2020
- Our article, ""I can't breathe”: Lay conceptualizations of racism predict support for Black Lives Matter" was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences (Miller, O'Dea, & Saucier, 2021)
- Daniel Debonis received a Union College Student Research Grant in the amount of $400.00 to fund their research examining the moderating role of masculine honor beliefs in male body-checking procedures!
November 2020
- Fiona Shyne will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
- Olivia Brand will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
October 2020
- Our article, "Referencing race = Racist? Examining perceptions of references to a target’s race as offensive" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology (O'Dea, Smith, & Saucier, 2020)
- Ryan Sidorski will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
- Fletcher Fineman will be joining our laboratory for Winter 2021!
September 2020
- Clifford Elike will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Cristina Frias-Gil will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Valentina Garcia will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Hallie Katzman will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Michelle Moina will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Jahnae Morgan will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
- Helen Wong will be joining our laboratory for Fall 2020!
July 2020
- Our article, "It's a man's job? An investigation of shifting (masculine) honor expectations for men and women." was published in Personality and Individual Differences (Chalman*, O'Dea, Renfroe*, & Saucier, 2020)
June 2020
- Marileisi Vizcaino-Perez will be joining our laboratory in Fall 2020!
May 2020
- An article was published on psypost.org about our recent publication, "Perceptions of Racial Slurs used by Black Individuals toward White Individuals"
April 2020
- Fitting for the month, Apryl Tovar will be joining our laboratory in Summer 2020!
- Jonah Brenner has accepted a position for Fall 2020 working with Marjorie Rhodes at NYU!
- Jordan Alvarez has accepted a position into Auburn University's clinical and counseling psychology PhD program!
- Samantha Rapp received the Caren Lane Sass '35 award for a promising senior graduate!
March 2020
- Jonah Brenner received $350 to fund his research examining backlash against gender deviant students from the Skidmore College Student Opportunity Award
- Jordan Alvarez received $300 to fund his research examining perceptions of Black individuals who benefit from diversity initiatives from the Skidmore College Student Opportunity Award
- Samantha (Sam) Rapp received $375 to fund her research examining perceptions of bullies and bully victims from the Skidmore College Student Opportunity Award
- Dante Greco-Henderson received $300 to fund his research examining the effects of masculine honor beliefs on the negative impacts of body checking in men from the Skidmore College Student Opportunity Award
February 2020
- Conor accepted a 3-5 year Visiting Assistant Professor position at Union College starting in the Fall of 2020!
- Dante Greco-Henderson rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
- Anna Loginov rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
- Rayyan Alfatafta rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
- Jordan Alvarez rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
- Conor O'Dea rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
- Jonah Brenner rocked their presentation at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans!
January 2020
- Welcome to Katharina (Xiekaixin) Lu who is joining our laboratory for the Spring semester!
- Welcome to Emilie-Anne Choi who is joining our laboratory for the spring semester!
- Conor received the SPSP Small research grant in the amount of $1,008.00 to fund 2 studies examining perceptions of bullies and bully victims
- Our article "Perceptions of racial slurs used by Black individuals toward White individuals: Derogation or affiliation?" was accepted for publication (O'Dea & Saucier)
- Our talk, "The Masculine Ideology and Societal Shootings (MISS) Model of Male Behavior" was accepted as part of a symposium to be presented at the European Association of Social Psychology (O'Dea & Saucier)
December 2019
- Congratulations to all of our students for great end of the semester laboratory presentations!
November 2019
- Welcome to Samantha Rapp who will be joining our laboratory in the Spring semester!
- Welcome to Eric Zhang who will be joining our laboratory in the Spring semester!
- Our article "“That’s terrible!”: Examination of gender differences in perceptions of women’s responses to men’s use of sexist humor" was accepted for publication (Saucier, Strain, O'Dea, Sanborn, & Martens)
October 2019
- Rayyan Alfatafta received $498.00 from Skidmore College's Student Opportunity Fund to fund his research project on the creation and validation of a scale to measure majority group members' sensitivity to being called racist!
- Jordan Alvarez received $500.00 from Skidmore College's Student Opportunity Fund to fund his project examining the relationship between stereotype internalization and perceptions of Black scholarship recipients!
- Jonah Brenner received $116.00 from Skidmore College's Student Opportunity Fund to fund his project examining perceptions of parents exhibiting backlash toward their children for gender-deviant behavior!
- Dante Greco-Henderson received $154.05 from Skidmore College's Student Opportunity Fund to fund his research examining the effect of confrontation on perceptions of men who behave in ways consistent versus inconsistent with masculine honor beliefs!
- Anna Loginov received $335.40 from Skidmore College's Student Opportunity Fund to fund her research examining the effects of empathy and masculine honor beliefs on perceptions of extreme forms of violence in society!
- Jordan Alvarez received $235 to cover the cost of his registration to SPSP as part of the SPSP Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award!
September 2019
- Welcome to Dante Greco-Henderson who will be joining our laboratory in the Fall semester!
August 2019
- Welcome to Anna Loginov who will be joining our laboratory in the Fall semester!
- Welcome to Jordan Alvarez who will be joining our laboratory in the Fall semester!
- Welcome to Jonah Brenner who will be joining our laboratory in the Fall semester!
- Welcome to Rayyan Alfatafta who will be joining our laboratory in the Fall semester!
May 2019
- Congratulations to Bayleigh Smith and Jaylee York on their graduation from Kansas State University! Keep in touch!
- Dr. O'Dea officially became Dr. O'Dea with a successful dissertation defense
April 2019
- Conor O'Dea won the Outstanding Graduate Instructor award at Kansas State University
- Jaylee York won the Phares award for Outstanding undergraduate research at Kansas State University
- Bayleigh Smith was inducted into the McNair Scholars program at Kansas State University
- Conor O'Dea accepted a position at Skidmore College as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2019-2020 school year
March 2019
- Former lab member Angelica Castro will be attending the Counseling Psychology PhD program at Iowa State University next fall
- Conor O'Dea proposed his dissertation
February 2019
- Conor O'Dea, Jaylee York, Bayleigh Smith, Mattie O'Boyle, and Tara Magana presented their research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Portland, OR.
January 2019
- "Savage or satire: Individual differences in perceptions of subversive racial humor" was published in Personality and Individual Differences
- "Hitting below the belt: Masculine honor beliefs and perceptions of unfair fighting behavior" was published in Aggressive Behavior
November 2018
- Bayleigh Smith and Jaylee York presented their original research projects at the association for Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas (PERK)
- Bayleigh Smith was accepted into the McNair program at Kansas State University
August 2018
- Conor O'Dea successfully passed his preliminary examinations
July 2018
- Conor O'Dea was chosen as Kansas State University's nomination for the Midwestern Psychological Association's Outstanding Thesis competition
- Bayleigh Smith received a College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award to fund her research on perceptions of racial slurs as expressive and descriptive
June 2018
- Our paper, Conditional aggression: Perceptions of male violence in response to threat and provocation, was covered in The Crime Report
May 2018
- Congratulations to Mattie O'Boyle who graduated and is headed to Seattle Pacific University to pursue her degree in Clinical Psychology. Keep in touch!
- Jaylee York won a Doreen Shanteau Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her work on White Feminism
- Conor O'Dea won the Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award at Kansas State University
April 2018
- Spencer West presented his original research on racial slurs at the Developing Scholars Program
- "Social vigilantism and the extremity, superiority, and defense of attitudes toward climate change" was published in Personality and Individual Differences
- "Conditional aggression: Perceptions of male violence in response to threat and provocation" was published in Personality and Individual Differences
- "Individual differences explain regional differences in honor-related outcomes" was published in Personality and Individual Differences
March 2018
- Conor O'Dea, Steven Chalman, and Mattie O'Boyle presented their research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta, GA.
February 2018
- "Individual differences in masculine honor beliefs predict attitudes toward aggressive security measures, war, and peace" was published in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
- Conor O'Dea presented in Kansas State University's three-minute thesis competition
January 2018
- "What do you call a Black guy who flies a plane?": The effects and understanding of disparagement and confrontational racial humor" was published in Humor
- Jaylee York received a College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award to fund her research on White feminism
December 2017
- Congratulations to Steven Chalman who graduated! Keep in touch!
September 2017
- "Hard Targets: Masculine Honor Beliefs and Motivations for Muscularity" was published in Psychology of Men & Masculinity"
August 2017
- Mattie O'Boyle won a Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship to fund her research examining perceptions of minority individuals who receive academic scholarships
- Steven Chalman won a Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship to fund his research on masculine honor beliefs and perceptions of men and women who respond aggressively to threats/insults
May 2017
- Congratulations to Teresa Kearn who graduated and is moving to Spain to pursue her Masters degree in Psychology
- Conor O'Dea won the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at Kansas State University
- Conor O'Dea successfully defended his masters thesis
February 2017
- "Overt Racism" was published in Social issues in living color [3 volumes]: Challenges and solutions from the perspective of ethnic minority psychology
January 2017
- Conor O'Dea, Steven Chalman, and Angelica Castro presented their research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio, TX.
- "The role of individual differences in inciting anger and social action" was published in Understanding Angry Groups: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Their Motivations and Effects on Society
December 2016
- Congratulations to Angelica Castro Bueno who graduated! Keep in touch!
November 2016
- "The racism justification hypothesis and attitudes toward hate crime legislation" was published in Understanding Angry Groups: Multidisciplinary perspectives and effects on society
September 2016
- "Fight or flight: Perceptions of men who confront versus ignore threats to themselves and others" was published in Personality and Individual Differences
May 2016
- Congratulations to Qiwu Zhu who is graduating and moving to Shanghai to pursue an additional degree in business/finance - Keep in touch!
- Angelica Castro Bueno received a Doreen Shanteau Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her work on interracial distancing and anxiety
- Angelica Castro Bueno received an Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Undergraduate research award to fund her research on interracial distancing and anxiety
- Steven Chalman received the Rappoport Scholarship awarded to one outstanding non-traditional student
- Conor O'Dea presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association
March 2016
- "Negative emotions versus target descriptions: Examining perceptions of racial slurs as expressive and descriptive" was published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
- "The bad, the good, the misunderstood: The social effects of racial humor" was published in Translational Issues in Psychological Science
- Conor O'Dea won first place for his presentation at the Kansas State University Graduate Research Forum.
January 2016
- Conor O'Dea, Angelica Castro, Mariah Petersen, and Qiwu Zhu presented their research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, CA.
- Conor O'Dea presented at the Civil Rights Teach-In during MLK week at Kansas State University
April 2015
- Conor O'Dea and Connor Smith presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association
February 2015
- Conor O'Dea, Emma Andres, Madelyn Ray, and Derrick Till presented their research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Long Beach, CA.
December 2014
- Connor Smith graduated! Keep in touch!
October 2014
- "Out of bounds: factors affecting the perceived offensiveness of racial slurs" was published in Language Sciences
- "Slurs against masculinity: Masculine honor beliefs and men's reactions to slurs" was published in Language Sciences