The SP area has been busy-busy at New Orleans for both the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference on February 27-29 and the American Psychology-Law Society (APLS) conference on March 5-7!
Besides Mardi Gras, alligators, drag tours, jazz bars, and beignets, we also presented a ton of research! See below for the list of students who attended and presented (APLS attendees noted):
Rhonda Balzarini
Data blitz: The Detriments of Unmet Sexual Ideals and the Buffering Effect of Sexual Responsiveness
Emily Cross
Talk: An Interdependence Account of Sexism and Power: Men's Hostile Sexism, Biased Perceptions of Low Power, and Relational Aggression
Talk: Benevolent Sexism Appeals to, and Benefits, Highly Anxious Women
Daniel Chiacchia
Poster: The Relationship Between Perceived Control and Distress During Economic Threat
Joshua Guilfoyle
Poster: Transgressors’ power and willingness to apologize in a Japanese cultural context
Chantelle Ivanski
Poster: Judging a Book by its Author's Gender
Ronda Lo
Poster: Do self-construals shape social attention mechanisms?
Poster (by former Ph.D. student Jorida Cila): Zahra or Zoe, Arjun or Andrew? Bicultural Baby Names Predicted by Identity and Pragmatic Concerns
Nicole Mead (affiliated SP faculty)
Talk: Ascending through the Hierarchy: When Those Who Lack Power Disrupt the Social Order of Their Group
Chanel Meyers
Talk: Exploring Perceptions of Racial/Ethnic Groups Outside of Majority White Population
Madeline Nickel
Poster: The Impact of Perceived Racial Bias on Face Processing
Stephanie Raposo
Poster: Perceived Partner Sexual Responsiveness Buffers Anxiously Attached Individuals from Lower Relationship and Sexual Quality in Daily Life.
Joshua Quinlan
Poster: What we play: Multivariate descriptions of videogame genres
Alisha Salerno-Ferraro (at APLS!)
Talk: Perspectives from the ASD Community on Police Interactions: Challenges & Recommendations
Talk: To Charge or not to Charge? Police Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases and the Relevance of Rape Myths
Eric Tu
Poster: Inspiring Better Relationships: Do Charismatic People Have More Satisfying Romantic Relationships?
Elysia Vaccarino
Poster: Confronting Sexism: Perceptions of a Female Witness
Mariko Visserman
Talk: Lightening the Load: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Fosters More Favorable Appraisals of Relational Sacrifices.
Alex West
Poster (by undergraduate Alyssa Di Bartolomeo): We get by with a little help from our friends: The unique benefits of friends’ social approval on intercultural couples’ relationships over time
Back (left to right): Alex, Quinn, Arik (from clinical, an honourary SP member), Joshua Q, Eric.
Front (left to right): Ronda, Chantelle, Shayna (from UofT), Maya (former SP post-doc, now faculty at Laval), Heewon (former SP member, now at Hawaii), Stephanie.
Also, our SP people have also been awarded at these conferences! Check it out below:
Alisha Salerno (grad student) was awarded a student travel award for APLS for having one of the highest-ranked student research submissions.
Emily Cross (post-doc) was awarded the best graduate student paper from the Relationship Research Interest Group at SPSP.
Both Amy Muise and Joey Cheng (faculty members) were awarded the Sage Young Scholars award at SPSP. See photo of them below.
We loved you New Orleans... And now it's back to (somewhat defrosted) Toronto!