York U was well represented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the (somewhat cold, fairly donut-y) city of Portland, Oregon from February 7-9, 2019.
See below for our faculty, post-doc, and graduate student presentations!
Amy Muise – Talk presented at the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award Address in Close Relationships Pre-Conference
- Fanning the flame: The role of sexual communal motivation (see SPSP blog post here).
Rhonda Balzarini (post-doc)
- Detriments of unmet sexual ideals and buffering effect of sexual communal strength (talk).
- Not on the same page: Unmet sexual ideals and the buffering effect of sexual communal strength (talk).
- Responses to sexual advances and satisfaction in romantic relationships: Is yes good and no bad? (poster)
Meghan George
- Facing expectations: An exploration of apologetic facial cues (poster).
Justin Friesen (former post-doc)
- Situational influences of trust on intergroup biases in face processing (talk).
Joshua Guilfoyle
- Initial development and psychometric properties of a State Apology Scale (poster).
Francine Karmali (former grad student)
- Friend or Foe? Exploring the impact of social cues on intergroup processing (chaired symposium with Kerry Kawakami; see SPSP blog post here).
Ronda Lo – Advances in Cultural Psychology Pre-Conference
- The effect of culture on load and distractor processing (poster).
Chanel Meyers (post-doc)
- Detecting biracial identification: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate (talk).
Jessica Padgett
- National identity and the construction of history: A Canadian perspective (poster).
Joshua Quinlan
- The role of genre and transportability in the cultivation effects of videogames (poster).
Stephanie Raposo
- Self-expansion is linked to greater relationship and sexual well-being for couples coping with low sexual desire (data blitz at the Close Relationships Pre-Conference, poster at the main conference).
Mariko Visserman (post-doc)
- Taking stock of reality: Biased perceptions of romantic partners’ costs for sacrifice (poster).
- With or without you: Exploring relational and personal self-expansion among romantic partners post-relocation (poster).
Alexandria West
- Growing through our cultural differences: The role of self-expansion in intercultural couples’ relationships (poster).
![Current and former York SP members posing in front of the classic Portland sign at SPSP 2019.](https://www.yorku.ca/health/research/sp/wp-content/uploads/sites/387/2021/06/IMG_5538-2.jpg)
In addition to SPSP, York U representation is abundant in other 2019 conferences (see below!).
Jorida Cila (former graduate student) (American Psychological Science, May 2019)
- Identity and pragmatic motivations predict choices and preferences of baby names amongbicultural individuals (poster).
Ronda Lo (Asian Association of Social Psychology, July 2019)
- Birds of a feather flock together, except for my brother: Cultural variation in the effect of sibling differentiation on well-being and sibling relationship quality (poster).
Kashmala Qasim (Muslim Mental Health Conference, April 2019)
- The role of social support in seeking counselling from Imams versus peer support groups in Muslim women (talk).
Kashmala Qasim (Canadian Psychological Association, June 2019)
- Faith-based coping in Muslim Syrian refugees facing financial threat in Toronto (talk).
Stephanie Raposo (Society for Sex Therapy and Research 2019 Annual Meeting, May 2019)
- The benefits of self-expansion for couples coping with female sexual interest/arousal disorder (poster).
Stephanie Raposo (International Association of Relationship Research mini-conference on “Positive action in relationships”, June 2019)
- Broadening and building in the bedroom: Relationship processes that enhance couples’ sex lives (chaired symposium).
- The benefits of self-expansion for couples coping with low sexual desire (talk).
Jessica Padgett (Asian Association of Social Psychology, July 2019)
- Openness to interracial relationships: Perspectives of East and South Asian Canadians (poster).
Alisha Salerno (American Psychology-Law Society, March 2019)
- A qualitative study of police experiences of adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Canada (talk).
- Eggplants, nude pics and stalking, oh my!: Women’s experiences with male predatory behaviour online (talk).
Elysia Vaccarino (Midwestern Psychological Association, April 2019)
- Confronting prejudice and apathy: The effects of social context (talk).
Mariko Visserman (post-doc) (International Association of Relationship Research mini-conference on “Positive action in relationships”, June 2019)
- A quasi-signal detection analysis of perceiving a romantic partner’s sacrifices and the impact on gratitude in daily life (talk).
- I will follow you, but it will cost me: Trailing partners’ exchange motives predict lower relationship quality through costly perceptions of relocation (data blitz).