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AY 07-08 Archive
Pat Hill will be presenting a paper at the 20th Biennial Conference on Human Development, which will be staged at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Indianapolis from April 4-6. Pat’s paper is entitled: “Anything you can do I can do better: Do optimistic evaluations of one’s skills predict positive life outcomes?” (Hint: Yes)
Dan Lapsley will be a discussant at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence on a Stanford symposium entitled “New Perspectives on Youth Purpose. SRA will be in Chicago from March 6 to 9th.
Congratulations to Alexandra Corning, Dawn Gondoli, Michaela Bucchianeri and Beth Blodgett Salafia, who landed a $15,00 pilot-project grant from the Institute for Studies in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) to determine the effectiveness of an intervention for preventing eating disorders in early adolescents by intervening with their parents.
This research team will be joined by Rae Lundy and four undergraduates. The team plans to seek funding from NIH on the basis of the pilot study results.
And, speaking of ISLA awards, Jennifer Burke Lefever, Jaelyn Farris and Jody Nichoson were also awarded a $15,000 grant from ISLA to study “The impact of infant attachment status on children’s early mental and physical development.” The grant will fund the coding of Strange Situation data and help launch a pilot study that examines the link between parenting practices and child development in infancy through middle childhood.
Mark Cummings’s lab will be represented on numerous papers at the upcoming biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, which runs from March 6-9.
Amanda Mathew (an undergraduate) is first author on a poster titled "Fathers' Depressive Symptoms, Children's Maternal Attachment, and Adolescent Adjustment"
Kalsea Koss has a first author poster on "Marital Conflict, Parenting, and Adolescent Peer Victimization"
Laura Froyen (project director, ND alum) has a first author poster titled "Parental Warmth and Adolescent Anxiety: The Role of Children's Negative Perceptions of Marital Conflict"
Chrystyna Kouros has a first author poster on "Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression"
Patricia Mitchell has a first author poster on "The Effects of Father Conflict,Parenting, and Psychopathological Symptoms on Adolescent Emotional Security and Development"
Melissa George is first author on 2 poster presentations, one titled "Marital Conflict and Maternal Attachment in Childhood: Links to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms" and the other is on "Marital Discord, Parental Warmth, and Disordered Eating in Adolescence"
Kalsea Koss has a first author poster on "Marital Conflict, Parenting, and Adolescent Peer Victimization"
Laura Froyen (project director, ND alum) has a first author poster titled "Parental Warmth and Adolescent Anxiety: The Role of Children's Negative Perceptions of Marital Conflict"
Chrystyna Kouros has a first author poster on "Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression"
Patricia Mitchell has a first author poster on "The Effects of Father Conflict,Parenting, and Psychopathological Symptoms on Adolescent Emotional Security and Development"
Melissa George is first author on 2 poster presentations, one titled "Marital Conflict and Maternal Attachment in Childhood: Links to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms" and the other is on "Marital Discord, Parental Warmth, and Disordered Eating in Adolescence"
Darcia Narvaez will be attending the Board of Directors meeting of the Stanford Center for Adolescence at Stanford University on Feb. 7th and 8th. Darcia and Dan Lapsley will also conduct a day-long workshop for parochial school teachers of the Diocese of Oakland on Saturday, Feb. 9th.
Kristen Bogner Warzon is presenting a paper next month at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Her paper is titled “Students Academic Engagement and Achievement: The Role of Peers.”
Kristen is also presenting two papers at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. One paper is titled Cultural continuity and student outcomes: The role of student, family and teacher perceptions. The second paper is titled “Students’ educational cognitions and achievement: The role of peers in middle childhood.”.
But the best news is that Kristen is expecting her first child in June. You heard it hear first! Congratulations, Kristen.
Darcia Narvaez and her colleague Tracy Gleason at Wellesley College have a paper coming out in a special issue of the Journal of Genetic Psychology, edited by Nancy Eisenberg. Their paper is entitled “The influence of moral judgment development and moral experience on comprehension of moral narratives and expository texts.”
An historical note: The Journal of Genetic Psychology is the oldest continuously published journal in child psychology. It was founded by G.Stanley Hall as Pedagogical Seminary in 1893.
Nicole McNeil has a paper in press at Child Development. Her paper is titled “Limitations to teaching 2 + 2 = 4: Typical arithmetic problems can hinder learning of mathematical equivalence.”
Jerry Haeffel, “Friend of the Developmental Program”, has a paper coming out this month in Psychological Science on the genetic and environmental predictors of depression. Here is a press release put out by the American Psychological Society on Jerry’s study.
Congratulations to Mary Wagner, who is first author on a paper that will be presented next month at the conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, which will be held in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Her paper is entitled Electrophysiological indices of age-related differences in response inhibition.
Pat Hill is the first author on a paper that he will present at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, which will be held in Chicago in March. The paper is entitled “Personal fable ideation moderates risk and adjustment outcomes in emergent adulthood.”
Darcia Narvaez, and her colleagues Clark Power, Dan Lapsley, Ronald Nuzzi and Thomas Hunt, are the editors of Moral Education: A Handbook, published by Greenwood. This two-volume set just came out a few weeks ago. Go here to purchase your copy.
Beth Blodgett Salafia, Dawn Gondoli and Amber Grundy have two papers in press. One paper will appear in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, and it is titled “The longitudinal interplay of maternal warmth and adolescent self-disclosure”. JRA is the flagship journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
Their second paper will appear in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. It is titled “Marital conflict as a mediator of the longitudinal connections between maternal emotion distress and early adolescent adjustment.”
Congratulations to Beth Blodgett Salafia for also winning the Dondanville Family Graduate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring in Arts and Letters. In addition to well-deserved recognition the award also comes with a monetary prize of $1,000. This marks the inaugural award for graduate students that recognizes excellence as both a classroom teacher and mentor in the College of Arts and Letters.
Melissa George proposed her master’s thesis topic last week. The title of her project is “Family processes and children’s attachment at age 6: Links with marital functioning and parenting.: Her committee includes Mark Cummings, Julia Braungart-Rieker, and Dawn Gondoli.
Congratulations to Julianne Turner, who received an award of $25,000 from the Arts and Letters Advisory Council, to support her current research on teacher belief change in motivation and mathematics.
John Borkowski is “BFF” to at-risk moms! So says a splendid article featured currently on the Notre Dame home page. Congratulations to John and his team. Go read the article here
Lori DeMent is a 2007 graduate of Notre Dame. In her final semester last spring she enrolled in PSY 43246 (“Self, Ego, Identity”), and wrote a term paper as part of the course requirement. That term paper has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology. Go here to have a look at the manuscript.
Chrystyna Kouros, Lauren Papp ( former ND graduate student), Tina Merrilees, Brad Faircloth and Mark Cummings are presenting a poster at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in November. The poster is entitled “A dyadic data analysis of the links between marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms among couples in long-term relationships.”
Lauren Papp, Chrystyna Kouros and Mark Cummings are presenting another poster at the ABCT meeting entitled “Demand-withdraw communication during marital conflict in the hom
Darcia Narvaez was slated to deliver a series of lectures and workshops (in Spanish) to the Facultad de Psicologia at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, the week of October 15. Although her trip had to be cancelled, this photo of Darcia teaching Spanish to middle-schoolers back-in-the-day was too much fun not to keep posted.
Beth Blodgett Salafia, Dawn Gondoli, Alexandra Corning and former undergraduate Amanda McEnery had a paper appear in a recent issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology (2007, 54, 434-446), an APA journal. The paper is entitled “Psychological distress as a mediator of the relation between perceived maternal parenting and normative maladaptive eating among adolescent girls.”
A note about Amanda. She was an honors graduate of our department and an NIH Fellow. Amanda is now in the Doctoral Counseling Program at Indiana University. Congratulation to Amanda and to her mentors.
Beth Blodgett Salafia has been appointed to the College Council as a Graduate Student representative for 2007-2008.
Congratulations also to Chrystyna Kouros, who was elected representative of the Developmental Program.
Nick Lynchard and Darcia Narvaez are presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education in New York. The paper is entitled: “A social-cognitive approach: Moral and social prototype relationships”.
Speaking of Darcia, her work is featured in an article called “Making Good Kids” in the current Notre Dame Magazine (Autumn, 2007). Go here to read the article by Carolyn Alessio.
Dawn Gondoli, Alexandra Corning, Beth Blodgett Salafia, and Michaela Bucchianeri have formed an Eating Disorders Research Group. The EDRG is currently planning a program of research and mentoring three undergraduate students who are using the Great Transitions data to complete their honors theses. The students are Jessica Badger, Ellen Fitzsimmons and Nicole Godinez.
Jessica, Ellen and Nicole are first authors on papers submitted with the EDRG to the International Counseling Psychology Conference, which will be held in Chicago.
Jessica’s paper (with Gondoli, Corning, Bucchianeri & Blodgett Salafia) is entitled “Adolescent dieting: Parental and peer approval as predictors.”
Ellen’s paper (with Corning, Blodgett Salfia, Gondoli & Buccianeri) is entitled “ The link between adolescent heterosexual involvement and dieting.”.
Nicole’s paper (with Blodgett Salafia, Gondoli, Bucchianeri & Corning) is entitled “Prior maternal control and adolescent competence predict bulimia.”
Congratulations to Mignon Montpetit and Cindy Bergeman, whose paper “Dimensions of control: Mediational analysis of the stress-health relationship” has appeared in the periodical Personality and Individual Differences (2007, 43, pp. 2237-2248).
Jenny Vaydich (photo not available), Andrea Christesen, along with faculty mentors Julie Turner and Darcia Narvaez, will present a paper entitled “A middle school academic and social climate influence on moral character” at the November meeting of the Association for Moral Education in New York. This paper is part of a symposium on “Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy”.
Congratulations to the following graduate students on their election as representatives to various committees.
Carolyn Heitzmann and Dianne Lickebrock were elected as representatives to the Department Graduate Committee.
Beccah Schweers and Mary Wagner were elected to the Graduate Student Union.
The Cognitive Program representative is Brad Dobrzenski.
The Counseling Program representative is Michaela Bucchianeri
Dan Lapsley is presenting a brief paper entitled On the Emergent Field of Catholic Education at an invited meeting on “The Revitalization of American Catholic Education” hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, CA, on September 28.
Darcia Narvaez’s paper “Triune Ethics: The neurobiological roots of our multiple moralities” is now ‘in press’ at New Ideas in Psychology, which is an Elsevier journal. Go here to have a look at a preprint.
Congratulations to Nick Lynchard, who passed his written comprehensive preliminary examination in the developmental program.
Dawn Gondoli’s 5-year longitudinal study of maternal knowledge, funded by NIMH, is featured in the current cycle of Notre Dame News and Information on the Notre Dame home page. In case you missed it, here it is.
Jody Nicholson’s research on lead paint was featured in a recent issue of Notre Dame Magazine. You can find it here.
Pat Hill contributed an article on “Egocentrism” to a book entitled The Psychology of Classroom Learning: An encyclopedia,” edited by Eric and Lynn Anderman (The Ohio State University). Here is a copy of the paper.
Four developmental graduate students presented their first year projects in the annual departmental colloquium on Wednesday, August 29.
Andrea Christensen presented a paper entitled “The relationship between motivation and low achievement.
Kalsea Koss’s paper was entitled “Prosocial behavior in middle childhood: Links to marital conflict and parenting.”.
Ryan Kreager presented a paper entitled “Exploring the moral personality aspects of Triune Ethics Theory.”
Mary Wagner’s paper was entitled “Temperament and motivation as predictors of emergent literacy in preschoolers attending Head Start.” Mary’s photo is not available at this time, unfortunately.
Congratulations on very fine presentations.
Graduate student presentations from the Counseling Program included Rae Lundy, Diane Macready, Errol Philip and Rebeccah Schweers.
Graduate students representing the Quantitative Program included Laura Lu, Melissa Mitchell and Stephen Tueller.
Congratulations to Jerry Haeffel and Brendan Baird for coming in third place in the summer faculty golf league. There were 14 teams in the league. Rumor has it that a faculty flag football team is in the offing.
Congratulations to Nicole McNeil who landed a four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Educational Sciences. Her project is entitled “Arithmetic practice that promotes conceptual understanding and computational fluency.”
Darcia Narvaez landed a fellowship from the Spencer Foundation to write a book entitled “The Science of Virtue: Ethical Expertise for Morally-Engaged Citizenship”
Pat Hill, and undergraduates Jessica Jimenez and Laura Nawrocki , along with Dan Lapsley will present a paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education (AME) in November. The paper is entitled: “Integrity, generativity and values: An examination of the Integrity Scale.”
Jenny Vaydich will also present a paper at the AME conference entitled “Perceptions of the parent-child relationship and antisocial behavior in adulthood.”
Meet A New Graduate Student!
Lori Petersen joins the Developmental Studies Group after receiving an undergraduate degree in psychology at Indiana University-Bloomington. Lori was an undergraduate RA for Linda Smith’s Cognitive Development Lab, and will now take up her work with the Cognition Learning and Development Lab under the direction of Nicole McNeil. Lori grew up in nearby Michigan City, which is apparently called “Tree City USA”, for some reason.
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