Union College Psychology Department

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Congratulations to all the students who presented their research at Steinmetz!

Catherine Walker’s BIWED lab and Conor O’Dea’s ASTRA lab both took advantage of the excellent weather to have end of year dinners. Thanks to all of our awesome students!

Happy Steinmetz Day! Come support fellow students at their interdisciplinary presentations today!

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Christopher Niemiec to campus on Thursday during common. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Join us as we welcome Dr. Psyche Loui to campus tomorrow!

Have questions about majoring or minoring in Psychology? Want advice on how to achieve your Psychology goals?

Come chat with the Psychology Dept. chair, Professor Bizer tomorrow during common hour!

📣Attention Psychology Majors and Minors! 📣 Psi Chi is an International Honor Society in Psychology. Scroll to read 10 reasons you should join! Applications are due Friday. More information in your Union email!

Check out this new faculty-student publication titled “Limited Imagination: Effects of Constraints and Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity on Idea Generation”

Congratulations Professor George and Kaila Lasher’21!

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EDHFDZV8JBGK7RUZH63S/full?target=10.1080/10400419.2023.2182038

Welcome back! We hope everyone has had a great first few days of spring term!

Today’s student shoutout goes to Aida Girma (Neuroscience Major)! Scroll to read about her senior thesis!

“My name is Aida Girma, and my thesis aims to better understand the relationship between parenting styles and overcoming mental fixation in creative idea generation. We hypothesized that participants that report having caregivers with more authoritarian-like parenting will likely display fewer ideas, fewer original ideas, and be more mentally fixated by the presence of distracting information (i.e., worse creative performance), while authoritative-style parenting should be associated with better creative performance. So far, we are observing that greater parental support is positively associated with overcoming mental fixation, and with cognitive flexibility. I am working on this project with Professor Tim George.”

AAUW and Wicker Wellness is hosting an Eating Disorders Awareness Event tomorrow!

Join us as we welcome Dr. Corinne Moss-Racusin to campus on Thursday!

Professor Conor O’Dea’s students are representing Union College at the SPSP 2023 conference!

Join PSY213 in welcoming Dr. Rebecca Martin!

Attention Juniors! Psychology/Neuroscience Thesis Info Meeting!

Happy Friday! Join us next Thursday for a presentation by our very own Professor Malatras. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Join us as we welcome Professor Thomas R. Zentall on Thursday at common hour! Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Attention seniors! Did you apply to Graduate school? Are you curious what your next steps should be? Join Professors Malatras and Walker this Wednesday!

Today’s psychology student shoutout goes to Hannah Crodelle! Scroll to read about her senior thesis!

“My name is Hannah Crodelle and I will be investigating the psychological underpinnings of conspiracy belief along with Professor Hart. I will be testing a mediation model in which I hypothesize that individuals higher in attachment anxiety will be more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, and that this tendency is better explained by their heightened levels of schizotypy. In conducting this original research, I hope to provide a better understanding of what natural predispositions differentiate a conspiracy believer vs. non-believer.”

Join us as we welcome Prof. Corinne Moss-Racusin on Thursday at Common lunch! Lunch and refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Alumni Spotlight! Scroll to read about Dominique Toscano’s journey and accomplishments!

Dominique graduated from Union in 2020 with a major in psychology. Dominique is a second year student at Marywood University's Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program (Psy.D.) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her professional contribution that is exploring the effects of stress mindset (if an individual views stress as enhancing or debilitating) and chronotype (if an individual is a morning/evening person based on their internal biological clock) on psychological well-being. Dominique is also currently working with a variety of clients at Marywood's Psychological Center as a student therapist. She hopes to work with children, adolescents, and college aged populations in either a university counseling setting or private practice. She has been enjoying graduate school and is excited for the future!

Today’s psychology student shoutout goes to Alina Whiteside! Scroll to read about her senior thesis!

“My name is Alina Whiteside and my thesis involves exploring individual psychological aspects in workplace environments. Specifically, I am investigating the relationship between psychological ownership (ownership one feels over their work) and adult attachment styles on workplace behaviors. I am working on this project with professor Joshua Hart.”

Happy Monday! Check out this new faculty-student publication titled “Social Model Hospice Residential Care Homes: Whom Do They Really Serve?” Congratulations to Professor Weisse and Alice Cheng ’23!

https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DK26CYMTFDFKX6GBJQ36/full

Happy Saturday! Today psychology student shoutout goes to Nuo Chen. Scroll to read about her senior thesis!

“My name is Nuo Chen and my thesis is aimed at better understanding the influence of bilingualism on memory. I hypothesized that bilinguals will outperform monolinguals under specific conditions - when sentence stimuli are presented under auditory and visual modalities. So far, the results have not supported this hypothesis, but I have learned a lot about research and bilingualism through this experience.”

Welcome back to all our our students! We hope everyone had an amazing first few days of classes! If you have any questions, check out our “how-to” page on our website (link in bio).

Join us tomorrow as we welcome back Chris Chabris! Hope to see you all there! Pizza included!

Join us Thursday for our first speaker in our speaker series!