College of Arts & Sciences

Research

Faculty

The following faculty identify their research as diversity-related:

• Page Anderson– Culturally relevant treatment for social anxiety
• Lisa Armistead – HIV in African and African-American families
• Lindsey Cohen - Cultural differences in parent-child interactions
• Heather Kleider – Stereotyping and face identification error
• Tricia King - Stigma/discrimination experienced by those with neurological conditions
• Kelly Lewis – Empowerment implementation research with under-represented groups
• Gabriel Kuperminc – Culture/ethnicity in resilience development among adolescents
• Akihiko Masuda - Mental-health stigma; Cross-cultural studies of mental health beliefs
• Dominic Parrott - Aggression towards sexual minorities
• Julia Perilla – Domestic violence and resilience in Latino families
• John Peterson – HIV sexual risk; aggression towards sexual minorities
• Rose Sevcik - Interventions for developmental and learning disabilities
• Ciara Smalls - African American youth, racial socialization, racial identity  
• Erin Tone - Impact of sex/race/ethnicity on attention in social anxiety

Recent masters theses and dissertations examining understudied/disenfranchised populations, or from a diversity perspective:

2008

• Exploring Racial Predictors of Social Analysis in Young African American Students
• Building Positive Future Orientations: The Role of Natural Mentors in the Lives of African American Girls
• "Cool" Girls and "Hot" Boys--Impact of Cultural Construction of Gender on Punishment of Children in Vietnam
• Strong Black Women: A Scale Revision and Validation
• The Effects of Exposure to Media Portrayals of Gambling on Gambling Attitudes and Behaviors
• The End of a Legacy: Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence in Latino families
• Mediational Effects of Perceived Child Control and Parental Coping Assistance on Peer Problem Outcomes in Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities
• Implications of Filial Responsibility on Latino Adolescents' Psychological and Social Adjustment

2007

• The Mediating Effect of Trauma, Caretaker Attachment and Community Support on Outcomes in Homeless Children
•  Fear of Confirming Stereotypes in African Americans with Social Anxiety
•  The Meaning of Healing from the Torture Survivors Perspective
• Rapid Automatized Naming and Eye Movements: A Comparison Between Adults with Reading Disabilities and Normal Adult Readers
• Adaptive Functioning Following Pediatric Traumatic Injury

2008

• The Effects of Gender and Fidelity on Outcomes in the Expect Respect Program
•  The Impact of Social Context on Drug Use and Recovery Among Drug Court Participants: A Gender Comparison
•  Violence Outside to Violence Within: An Exploratory Analysis of Violence in Schools and Sexual Minority Intimate Partner Violence
•  Normative Violence?  The Impact of Gender-Neutral Language on Self-Reported Rates of Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration
• Mechanisms Through Which Supportive Adult Relationships and Future Orientation Contribute To Resilient Outcomes In Low-Income African-American Adolescents

2007

• The Re-victimization Relation in Disenfranchised Populations: Does Homelessness Moderate?
  Sociopolitical Awareness and Perceptions of Racism

2008

• Measuring Self-concept in Children with Intellectual Disability in a Reading Program

2007

• Predicting Communication Development in Toddlers With Developmental Disabilities: The Role of Initiations, Success, Effectiveness and Intervention Strategy
• Examining Parental Stress and Parental Perceptions of Children's Communication Development Following Language Intervention
• Disentangling Pathways of Adolescent Sexual Risk from Problem Behavior Syndrome
• Fluency in Children with Identified Reading Disabilities: Connections Between Non-reading Based Motor Fluency and Reading Fluency
• Auditory Processing in Children with Speech and Language Impairments

2008

• The Impact of Religious Fundamentalism, Christian Orthodoxy, and Right-Wing Authoritarianism on Explicit and Implicit Prejudice

The Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference sponsors an award for best poster for diversity-related work.

Winners: