Recent Publications and Conference Reports by Psychology Program Undergraduates

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Partan, S. R., Yelda, S., Price, V.*, Shimizu, T. (2005). Female pigeons (Columba livia) respond to multisensory video playbacks of male courtship behavior.  Animal Behavior, 70, 957-966.

O’Connell-Rodwell, C. E., Wood, J. D., Rodwell, T. C., Puria, S., Partan, S. R., Keefe, R.*, Shriver, D., Arnason, B. T. and Hart, L. A. (2006). Wild elephant (Loxodonta africana) breeding herds respond to artificially transmitted seismic stimuli.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, 2006

Bruzgyte*, N., Alongi*, D. & McHale, J. (2006, April). The family context of toddlers’ behavioral and emotional adaptation. Paper to be presented at the meetings of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Kotsios*, S., DiLallo, M., & McHale, J. (2006, April). The significance of parents’ portrayals of their partners during doll play with toddlers. Paper to be presented at the meetings of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Landers*, T., Desrochers*, K., Zawistowski*, K., Machler*, M. & McHale, J. (2006, August). Do maternal sensitivity or coparenting solidarity alter temperamental trajectories during infancy? Paper to be presented at the 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Le*, L., Davis*, A. & McHale, J. (2006, April). What parents of different ethnic backgrounds look for in pre-schools. Paper to be presented at the meetings of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

Talbot, J, Elliston, D., Thompson*, J., Scull*, C., Lieberson, R. & McHale, J. (2006, July). Do early coparenting dynamics benefit from coherent states of mind with respect to attachment? Paper to be presented at the 10th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Paris, France.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, 2005

Cummins*, C., Romero*, A.E. & McHale, J. (2005, April) Co-parenting solidarity and toddlers’ self-regulatory competencies. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.

Jean-Philippe*, N., Davis*, S., Bell*, D., McKay, K. & McHale, J. (2005, April) Urban adolescents perceptions of community problems and solutions. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Lace*, N. (2005, December) Behavioral observations of diurnal rest in a rehabilitated West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus). 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego, CA.

Landers*, T., Machler*, M., Thompson*, J. A., Scull*, C. & McHale, J. (2005, April) Temperament, parenting and co-parenting at three months post-partum. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.

Otovic, P., Rogers, M.* & Partan, S. (2005). Salience of multisensory stimuli in pigeon courtship behavior (Columba livia).  International Conference on Comparative Cognition.  Melbourne, FL, March 2005. 

Partan, S., C. Larco*, M. Owens*, T. Bunbury*, B. Puertas*, P. Otovic, S. Roman* (2005).  Exploring “etho-robotics” as a tool for studying animal signals. Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2005.

Partan, S., S. Yelda, V. Price*, T. Shimizu (2003).  Multisensory perception of social signals in monkeys and birds.  International Conference on Comparative Cognition.  Melbourne, FL, March 2003. 

Soyka*, A., DePalma, K., Dickstein, S. & McHale, J.(2005, April) Family adjustment correlates of birth narratives told by new parents. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.

Thomas*, S., Elliston, D., Waterston, L., Thompson*, J. & McHale, J. (2005, April) What would you want to change? Parents’ views of co-parenting. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.

Thompson*, J. A., Scull*, C., Berkman, J.M., Alberts, A. E., Carleton, M. E. & McHale, J. (2005, April) Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

*Joseph, T., Pezzo, M.V., *Bass, K., & *Stephenson, M. (2003). I didn’t know it would happen: Effects of accountability and need for cognition on the hindsight bias. Poster presented at 4th annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Pezzo, M. V., *McDougal, S. J., & Beckstead, J. (2004). Making sense and taking offense, Poster presented at the 5th annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Austin, TX.

Pezzo, M.V., Parks, S.C., *Porter, J. R., & *Egnatuk, T. M. (2001). Need for Closure and the Hindsight Bias. Poster presented at Judgment/Decision Making Society Conference, Orlando, FL.

*USFSP Undergraduate Author