PGSA Fall 2019

NewsletterDecember 2019

Contents

Welcome New Faculty! ... 2

Meet the First Years ... 3-4

Graduate Student News . . . 5-7

Football and Fun ... 8

JE. Department of

Psychology

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Caitlin Hudac Rajesh Kana

Laura Stoppelbein Mengya Xia

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Alexandra Fisher Allison Birnschein Andrea Decker

Bobby Faulk Brandon McCormick Charlotte Kinrade

Elizabeth MacNeil Giana Angotti Hannah Apostolou

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Jacob Miranda Josh Golt Kaleigh Nance

Kelly Doud ell Rebecca Revilla Shayne Lin

Steve Hakim Taylor Popp

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Student-Authored Publications:

Capriola-Hall, N.N., Ollendick, T.H., & White, S.W. (In press). Gaze as an

indicator of selective attention in adolescents with Social Anxiety

Disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Clarkson, T., Kang, E., Capriola-Hall, N.N., Lerner, M.D., Jarcho, J., &

Prinstein, M. (In press). Meta-analysis of the RDoC social processing

domains across units of analysis in children and adolescents. Journal of

Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.

Erickson, S. L., Salekin, K. L., Johnson, L. N., & Doran, S. C. (In press).

The predictive power of intelligence: Miranda abilities in individuals with

intellectual disability. Law and Human Behavior.

Lacey, M. F., Neal, L.B., & Gable, P.A. (2020). Effortful control of

motivation, not withdrawal motivation, relates to greater right frontal

asymmetry. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

McDonough, I. M., & Popp, T. E. (2019). Linear and nonlinear

relationships between cognitive subdomains of ability discrepancy and

Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. Neuropsychology.

Muskett, A. E., Capriola-Hall, N.N., Factor, R., Ryan, S.M., & Scarpa, A.

(In press). Repetitive behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder:

Associations with depression and anxiety symptoms. Research in Autism

Spectrum Disorders.

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Student-Authored Publications:

Reardanz, J., Conners, F.A., McDonald, K.L., & Singh, N. (2019). Peer

victimization and communication skills in adolescents with Down

syndrome: Preliminary findings. Journal of Autism and Developmental

Disabilites. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04238-z

White, S.W., Smith, I., Miyazaki, Y., Conner, C., Elias, R., & Capriola­

Hall, N. N. (In press). Improving transition to adulthood for students

with autism: A randomized controlled trial of STEPS. Journal of Clinical

Child & Adolescent Psychology. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2019.1669157

Wilhelm, R. A., Miller, M. W., & Gable, P. A. (2019). Neural and

attentional correlates of intrinsic motivation resulting from social

performance expectancy. Neuroscience.

Other Academic Accomplishments:

Nicole Capriola-Hall was awarded the ABCT Autism Spectrum and

Developmental Disorders Special Interest Group Student Award and

John E. Lochman Graduate Scholarship!

Personal News:

Congratulations to Andrew Bontemps on his marriage to Alena Borgatti!

Congratulations to Chris Breeden on his marriage to Caroline Branton!

Congratulations to Nicole Ferretti on her marriage to Charles Greenberg!

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Presenting and Enjoying Downtime at Conferences

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Football Games and Other Social Events