Psychology

Recent Presentations

Talks Co-Presented by Reed Psychology Students and Current Faculty Within the Last Five Years at Professional Meetings and Conferences

(Students' names appear in bold type. Presentations are listed in chronological order.)

2013

McMahon, J. M. & Oleson, K. C. (January, 2013). Mortality salience and the university worldview: Exploring the terror management benefits of an intrinsic orientation. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Wise, A. A. P., & Oleson, K. C. (January, 2013). The contribution of belongingness uncertainty, self-doubt, and perceived effort expenditure to domain identification and persistence of women in STEM fields. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Westgate, E. C., Wormington, S. V., Oleson, K. C., & Lindgren, K. P. (January, 2013). Better late than never? The relationship between adaptive and maladaptive procrastination styles, alcohol use, and academic performance. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Wormington, S. V., Westgate, E. C., & Oleson, K. C. (January, 2013). How do college students approach difficult academic tasks? A qualitative investigation. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

2012

Anderson, K.G., Briggs, K., & White, H.R. (2012). Personality, drinking motivations and consumption: Predictions across emerging adulthood. In M. Cleveland & H.R. White (Chairs), Understanding alcohol use among non-college emerging adults. Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.

Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Brown-Schmidt, S., Hammond, C., López, L., Nguyen, E., & Yiu, L.  (2012, February). I know what you are thinking: a study of bilingualism and perspective-taking ability. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science, Psychology session, Portland, OR, February, 2012.

Corpus, J.H., Haimovitz, K., & Wormington, S.V. (2012, April). Creating rich portraits: A mixed-methods approach to understanding profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. In L. Linnenbrink-Garcia & J. H. Corpus (Chairs), Considering the whole student: The use of person-centered approaches to characterize and study motivation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

Federow, M. & Oleson, K.C. (January, 2012).  Perceptions of academic advisors’ implicit theories of intelligence, self-doubts about abilities, and achievement goals.Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Goldberg, S.A., Todd, G.I.S., Schuette, L.M., & Currie, P.J. (2012). Effects of systemic ghrelin and cocaine administration on ethanol consumption in the rat. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, 15 October.

Goldberg, S.A., Todd, G.I.S., & Currie, P.J. (2012). Ghrelin antagonizes the stimulatory effect of cocaine on ethanol self-administration. Appetite, 59, e22. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Zurich, 10-14 July].

Grimaldi, E.M. & Anderson, K.G. (2012). The role of academic motivation and drinking motives in collegiate drinking. Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Larisch, R., Wilkinson, G., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). Free birds: Relations between individual and group behavior in a free-ranging social environment. Poster presented at the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Conference, Seattle, WA.

Schuette, L.M., Gray, C.C., Wauson, S.E.R., Davis, K.R., & Currie, P.J. (2012). Mesotelencephalic ghrelinergic signaling in reward and limbic function. Program No. 707.18. 2012 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. New Orleans, LA: Society for Neuroscience. Online. [Presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, 13-17 October and jointly presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, 16 October].

Sosa, F., Berg, D., Eversz, D., Talbot, E., Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). Group and individual choice in a dynamic social environment.  Poster presented at the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Conference, Seattle, WA.

Talbot, E., Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). Group and individual behavior in a social foraging paradigm: Sensitivity to changes in resource ratios.  Poster presented at the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Conference, Seattle, WA.

Tan, L., Hackenberg, T.D., Talbot, E., Sosa, F., Berg, D., & Eversz, D. (2012).  Social foraging in variable environments: sensitivity to rate and quantity.  Poster presented at Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Columbia, SC.

Volker, D. & Oleson, K.C. (April, 2012). Self-complexity deconstructed: The role of integration and differentiation of the self-concept in resilience. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Burlingame, CA.

Wauson, S.E.R., Voss, W.,N., Davis, K.R., Schuette, L.M., Angeles, M.J., Bauer,  P.E., Davidson, G.D., Heichman, S.L., Khawaja M., Kuziel, G.M., Naiman, M.S., Nguyen, E.T., Perry, J.G., Turvey, M.E., Yee, M.N., & Currie, P.J. (2012). Amygdalar urocortin and endocannabinoid modulation of ghrelin (rat acylated)-induced anxiety. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, 15 October.

Wormington, S.V., Anderson, K.G., & Brown, S.A. (2012). Preventive and risk-related school factors affecting alcohol consumption: A developmental perspective. Society for Research on Adolescence. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Wormington, S.V., & Casey, C.M., & Oleson, K.C. (January, 2012). Teaching the research process through a pluralistic ignorance project. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Wormington, S.V., & Corpus, J.H. (2012, March) School engagement and academic performance: The mediating role of intrinsic motivation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Vancouver, BC.

2011

Anderson, K.G. & Duncan, K. (2011). The predictive validity of the C-SIDE: Using simulations to assess collegiate alcohol-related decision making. In N. Barnett (Chair), Social networks and substance abuse. 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood. Providence, Rhode Island.

Anderson, K.G., Wormington, S.V. & Brown, S.A. (2011). Predictors of youth drinking: Should we consider the impact of cognitions associated with not drinking. In K.G. Anderson (Chair), Weighing the pros and cons: Understanding the interplay of cognitions to drink and not to drink across development. Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.

Brackenbury, L. & Anderson, K.G. (2011). Collegiate decision making about drug use. 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood. Providence, Rhode Island

Chapman, C.D., Schuette, L.M., Dono, L.M., Goldberg, S.A., Currie, P.J. (2011). Oxytocin mediates ghrelin-induced eating in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, Washington, 14 November.

Corpus, J. H., & Wormington, S.V. (2011, April). Profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in elementary school. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Dono, L.M., Chapman, C.D., Schuette, L.M., Goldberg, S.A, & Currie, P.J. (2011). The CB1 inverse agonist AM251 attenuates the orexigenic and metabolic effects of paraventricular nucleus anandamide. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, Washington, 14 November.

Federow, M. & Oleson, K. C. (January, 2011). Exploring achievement goals, self-handicapping and life satisfaction in a challenging mastery-oriented environment. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Hackenberg, T.D., Dennis, J., & Kappeyne van de Coppello, N.J. (2011). Self-awareness and metacognition in rats. Paper presented at the Comparative Cognition Society Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Haimovitz, K., & Corpus, J.H. (2011, April). Effects of praise on motivation in emerging adulthood. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Jacoby, S.M., Weinberg, Z.Y., Davis, M.J., Coston, E.P., Dono, L.M., Fennelly, D.A., Fong, E.L., French, M.C., Gester, W.W, Gray, C.C., Johnson, A.G., Jukar, A.M., Moeller, M.L., Schuette, L.M., Hackenberg, T.P., & P. J. Currie, P.J. (2011). Central nervous system effects of ghrelin on memory acquisition, reward, and anxiety-like behavior. Program No. 266.23. 2011 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online. [Presented at the 41st annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, 12-16 November].

Kurbanov, D.B., Currie, P.J., & Elman, I. (2011). Opioidergic mechanism of body weight gain in olanzapine-treated rats. Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 4-8 December.

Moshontz de la Rocha, H., Call, A., Harati, A., Westgate, E., Wormington, S. & Oleson, K. C. (January, 2011). Predicting the desire to seek out one’s grades when grade knowledge is optional. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Oleson, K.C. (October, 2011). Discussant. In B. J. Drury & K. C. Oleson (Chairs). Psychological perspectives on recognizing and responding to racial inequalities in the age of Obama. Panel presented at the 2nd Race and Pedagogy Conference, Tacoma, WA.

Tan, L., Canter, J., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2011). Group and individual foraging in a dynamic environment. Poster presented at the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Conference, Denver.

Weinberg, Z.Y., Nicholson, M.L., Dono, L.M., & Currie, P.J. (2011). Effects of ghrelin administration into the ventral tegmental area (VTA) on food-reinforced behavior in dopamine intact and depleted rats. Appetite, 57, S46. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Clearwater, 12-16 July].

Wormington, S.V., & Anderson, K.G. (2011). Alcohol consumption in emerging adulthood: Considering motives not to drink. 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood. Providence, Rhode Island.

Wormington, S.V., & Corpus, J.H. (2011, April). A person-centered investigation of academic motivation, performance, and engagement in a high school setting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Wormington, S.V., Westgate, E.C., Call, A., Harati, A.Y.P., Moshontz de la Rocha, H., & Oleson, K.C.  (January, 2011). A person-centered investigation of academically-productive procrastination: Relations to self-doubt, concern with performance, and mastery-approach goals. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

2010

Anderson, K.G., Grunwald, I. & Grant, A. (2010). Motives not to drink in adolescence. Poster presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2010.

Brackenbury, L., Buras, M. & Anderson, K.G. (2010). Psychometric validation of the A-SIDE assessment of relapse risk for youth. Poster presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2010.

Chapman, C.D., French, M.C., Dono, L.M., Gester, W.W., Weinberg, Z.Y., & Currie, P. J. (2010). Endocannabinoid signaling in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) induces alterations in eating and carbohydrate oxidation. Program No. 191.3. Abstract Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, Online. [Presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 13-17 November].

Chapman, C.D., Coles, R.S., Cooney, H.A., Hagen, M.W., Haimovitz, K., Hilbert, B.M., John, C.S., Krishnakant, K., Kurbanov, D.B., Luehrs, E.H., Realegeno, C.S., Springate-Combs, C.A.A., Sutherland, T.M., Vasselli, J.R. & Currie, P. J. (2010). Insulin detemir attenuates the effects of ghrelin on food intake and respiratory quotient following direct injections into the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 15 November.

Currie, P.J., Anghel, A, Chapman, C. Weinberg, Z, Jacoby, S., Sutherland, M. (2010). Urocortin microinjection into the lateral septal area alters appetite and energy substrate utilization. Appetite, 54, 641. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Pittsburgh, 13-17 July].

Liddell, J. & Oleson, K.C. (2010, January). The black hole of motherhood: A decrease in perceived competence and hirability for female physics job candidates with children. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Weinberg, Z.Y., Nicholson, M.L., & Currie, P.J. (2010). The ability of ghrelin to elicit motivation when injected into the VTA and its dependence on dopamine. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience/Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 15 November.

Wormington, S.V., & Corpus, J.H. (2010, February). A person-centered approach to motivation and performance in a high school setting. Paper presented at the Oregon Academy of Science, Psychology session, Portland, Oregon.

Ziegler, S. & Oleson, K.C. (2010, January). Ambivalent sexism and evaluations of positively and negatively sexually subtyped women. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

2009

Briggs, K., Fyfe, A., Moss, A., Robboy, J., Snelling, J., & Corpus, J. H. (2009, April). Parent involvement and child enthusiasm in early literacy activities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.

Corpus, J.H., & Hayenga, A.O. (2009, April). Dangerous mindsets: Beliefs about intelligence predict motivational change. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Currie, P.J., John, C.S., Wall, D.G., Gottschlich, A., Pi-Sunyer, F.X., & Vasselli, J.R. (2009). Alterations of energy expenditure following central administration of insulin detemir in rats. Appetite, 52, 824. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Portland, 28 July- 1 August].

Currie, P.J. Khelemsky, R., John, C.S., & Higgs, S. (2009). CB1 receptor antagonism alters the anxiogenic and feeding-stimulant effects of ghrelin. Appetite, 52, 824. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Portland, 28 July-1 August].

Currie, P.J. Nicholson, M.L., Conrad, V.K., Gottschlich, A., Leora, K.E., John, C.S., & Chapman, C.D. (2009). Hypothalamic serotonin microinjections inhibit the effects of ghrelin on eating and energy substrate utilization. Program No. 470.4. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, CD-ROM. [Presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, 17-21 October].

Hayenga, A.O., & Corpus, J.H. (2009, April). Profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: A person-centered approach to motivation and achievement in middle school. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Ilyes, E., & Oleson, K.C. (2009, April). The Heat Beneath the Melting Pot: The Implicit and Explicit Stereotyping of Immigrants. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR. 

Jensen, G. & Neuringer, A. (2009, May). “Extending Generalized Matching,” Society for Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Phoenix, AZ.

Kushlev, K., Federow, M., Cook, A., Grant, A., Moffitt, U., & Oleson, K. C. (2009, April). Observers’ impressions of subjective overachievers and self-handicappers. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.

Nash, W. N., & Corpus, J.H. (2009, April). Curiosity and sensation seeking in middle school: Motivational profiles and academic achievement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.

Nicholson, M.L., Conrad, V.K., Gottschlich, A., Leora, K.E., John, C.S., & Chapman, C.D.& Currie, P. J. (2009). Paraventricular nucleus 5-hydroxytryptamine alters ghrelin metabolic signaling. Presented at the annual meeting of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Chicago, 19 October.

Oleson, K.C., Booth, M., Grueneisen, A., Lynch, S., & Yen, T.Y. (2009, February). Concern for Performance or Ability: Differing Contingencies of Self-Worth for Subjective Overachievers and Self-Handicappers. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Fl.

Powers, J.L., & Corpus, J.H. (2009, April). The way the ball bounces: Mindfulness, motivation, and juggling. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.

Ritchie, A., & Oleson, K.C. (2009, April). Thoughtful and Nonthoughtful Stereotype Change and its Persistence Over Time. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.

Siegel, C., Hoang, S.B., Conrad, V.K., Leora, K. Nicholoson, M.L., Seigel, S., Gottschlich, A., & Currie, P.J. (2009). Paraventricular nucleus injections of 5-hydroxytryptamine inhibit the orexigenic and metabolic action of ghrelin. Presented at the Western Psychological Association 89th Conference, Portland, 22-26 April

Vasselli, J.R. Wall D.G., John C.S., Gottschlich A., Pi-Sunyer F.X., & Currie P.J. (2009). Reductions of food intake and body weight by central administration of insulin detemir in rats. Diabetes, 58 (S1), A396. [Presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, 5-9 June].

Wall, D.G., John, C.S., Gottschlich, A., Pi-Sunyer, F.X., Vasselli, J.R. & Currie, P.J. (2009). Central injections of insulin detemir suppress food intake and body weight in rats. Presented at the Western Psychological Association 89th Conference, Portland, 22-26 April.

2008

Currie, P.J., Grueneisen, A.M., Wall, D.G., & Sarkodie, K.A. (2008). Anxiogenic, orexigenic and metabolic effects of hypothalamic ghrelin. Appetite, 51, 360. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Paris, 15-19 July].

Currie, P.J., Sarkodie, K.A., Wall, D.G., Grueneisen, A.M., & John, C.S. (2008). 5-HT1A receptor agonism alters the orexigenic and anxiogenic activity of ghrelin. Appetite, 51, 360. [Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Paris, 15-19 July].

Dunn, L. & Oleson, K.C. (2008, February). Social identity influence on advertising perception and persuasiveness. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Hilarides, B.D. & Oleson, K.C. (2008, February). Coming out and passing: Disability identity management in higher education. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Oleson, K.C., Ziegler, S., & Federow, M. (October, 2008). Phenotypic Expressions of Self-Doubt in Academic Contexts. In R. M. Arkin & P. J. Carroll (Chairs). The Uncertain Self. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, Sacramento, CA.

2007

Corpus, J.H., Hayenga, A.O., & McClintic-Gilbert, M. S. (2007, April). Contextual predictors of within-grade changes in children’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Poster presented at the 2007 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Corpus, J.H., McClintic-Gilbert, M.S., & Hayenga, A.O. (2007, April). A longitudinal analysis of children’s achievement goals: Between- versus within-year shifts. Poster presented at the 2007 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Gamble, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2007, February). A time-course of access to semantic vs. language information in English-Spanish bilinguals. Oregon Academy of Science 65th Annual Meeting, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR.

Koren, M., Go, J., Troxel, N., & Corpus, J.H. (2007, February). Short skirts and sexual motives: Courtship behaviors and clothing choice among adolescent females. Paper presented at the Oregon Academy of Science Psychology section, Monmouth, OR.