Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium Presenters

The UMN’s Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event that provides undergraduate researchers an opportunity to share their research, scholarly, and creative projects with the University community. We are proud of these psychology majors who presented their research throughout poster sessions on April 18th. This was a record number of psychology presentations in the last few years!

Abigail West

Mentor: Charisse Pickron (Institute of Child Development)

Topic: “Human Facial Perception of Primates Through ERP Measurement”

Alia Mohamed

Mentor: Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Mental Health Service Preference in Rural Caregivers and Adolescents”

Andrew Kind

Mentor: Craig Marquardt (Minneapolis VA Health Care System)

Topic: “Midline Frontal Theta and Trait Negative Emotionality Amongst Military Recruits”

Anuk Dias

Mentor: Charisse Pickron (Institute of Child Development)

Topic: “Can You Show Me A Mommy And A Daddy? Are Parental Labels Associated With Unfamiliar White And Black Faces?”

Audrey Ronan

Mentor: Melissa Ertl (Department of Psychology)Topic: “How Well Does Berry’s Model of Acculturation Apply to Latina Young Adult College Students in the U.S.?”

Clarista Berg

Mentor: Jazmin Camchong (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Sex-Dependant Changes in Depression Associated With Relapse Status”

Cayden Drake

Mentor: Amanda Woodward (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Conversational Artificial Intelligence as a Statistics Learning Scaffold”

Chloe Thompson

Mentor: Juan Del Toro (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “In the Shadows of Policing: Sibling Perspectives on Cannabis Use in American Youth”

Delaney Ross

Mentors: Vivian Lee and Amelia Blankenau (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Effect of Cultural Values on Participants' Perception of Employees Involved in Workplace Romance”

Elizabeth Strock

Mentor: Deniz Ones (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Personality and Sleep: A Meta-Analysis of Negative Affect and Sleep-Wake Variables”

Ella Campana

Mentor: Bonnie Klimes-Dougan (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Impacts of Religiosity on Suicidality and Non-Suicidal Self Injury for Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents”

Ellie Suppes

Mentor: Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Mental Health Service Preference in Rural Caregivers and Adolescents”

Ethan Nguyen

Mentor: Moin Syed (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Variability in Relationship Satisfaction: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study”

Fatuma Arab

Mentor: Moin Syed (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Variability in Relationship Satisfaction: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study”

Hana Kotzmuth

Mentor: Deniz Ones (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “A Meta-Analytic Study of Compound Traits and Sleep”

Hanna Babyna

Mentor: Drexler James (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Chronically Online and Symptom Scrolling: Is Social Media’s Psychological Content Influencing Self-Perceived Health Identity?”

Jason Shulman

Mentor: Patricia Frazier (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Do Trauma Beliefs Matter? Examining the Relationship Between Trauma Belief Breadth and Distress After an Analogue Trauma”

Jax Arnold

Mentor: Gail Ferguson (Institute of Child Development)

Topic: “Applying Antiracist Research Principles: A Case Study of The CARPE DIEM Project”

Joseph Burgess

Mentor: Vivian Lee and Amelia Blankenau (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Effect of Cultural Values on Participants’ Perception of Employees Involved in Workplace Romance”

Kaia Schomburg

Mentor: Karina Quevedo (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Parent-Child Personality Transmission: Parent Aggression and Alienation in Relation to Child Aggression, Harm Avoidance, and Negative Emotionality”

Kate McKinney

Mentor: Amanda Woodward (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Influence of Social Belonging and Perceived Discrimination on Mental Health Help-Seeking in College Students”

Kalina Berg

Mentor: Gail Ferguson (Institute of Child Development)

Topic: “Applying Antiracist Research Principles: A Case Study of The CARPE DIEM Project”

Kelli Kotzlov

Mentor: Wilma Koutstaal (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Cognitive Flexibility, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Mindfulness: A Novel Test of Their Associations Using Self-Guided Transitions”

Kelsey Madden

Mentor: Moin Syed (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Variability in Relationship Satisfaction: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study”

Lana El Madani

Mentor: Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Examining the Relationship between Rural Adolescents' and Parents' Perceptions of Practical and Knowledge Barriers and their Intentions to Seek Services”

Lillianne Devereux

Mentor: Angus MacDonald III (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Cognition and Role Functioning Outcomes in Patients with Early Psychosis”

Maansi Ahuja

Mentor: Moin Syed (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Romantic Partner's Perceptual Accuracy and Relationship Quality”

Madeline Griffith

Mentor: Moin Syed (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Romantic Partner's Perceptual Accuracy and Relationship Quality”

Melanie Rodriguez-Mejia

Mentor: Melissa Ertl (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Social and Contextual Factors Influencing STI Diagnosis Among Latina College Students”

Monir Sabia

Mentor: Gail Ferguson (Institute of Child Development) 

Topic: “Applying Antiracist Research Principles: A Case Study of The CARPE DIEM Project”

Mulki Omar

Mentor: Richard Lee (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Effect of Racial Socialization on Asian American Children’s Openness towards Children of Other Racial Groups”

Nicholas Hadacek

Mentor: Colin DeYoung (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Predicting personality pathology from self-other disagreement in normative personality measures”

Nicole Vela

Mentor: Monique Nakamura (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Attachment and Intimate Relationship Conflict”

Oscar Soriano

Mentor: Bonnie Klimes-Dougan (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Investigating Differences in Brain Connectivity Between Active VS Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Groups in the Mindful Breathing Task”

Quincey Feragen

Mentor: Wilma Koutstaal (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Effects of Arts-Based Interventions on Creativity and Depression in Adolescents”

Rory McFarlane

Mentor: Scott Sponheim (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Event-Related Potential Component Analyses of the Illusory Contour Task in Patients with Psychosis”

Sara Jeremiason

Mentor: Melissa Ertl (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Sexual Orientation in Relation to Depressive Symptoms and Substance Use”

Selena Xiao

Mentor: Melissa Ertl (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Differences in Experiences of Sexism by Race and Ethnicity Among Young Adults College Student Women”

Shanze Hayee

Mentor: Bonnie Klimes-Dougan (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Exploring Linguistic Insights in Parent Interviews from an Arts-based Adolescent Depression Intervention: Utilizing the LIWC to Evaluate Data from the Creativity Camp”

Taylor Knickel

Mentor: Gordon Legge (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Dividing Attention Between Vision and Hearing in Spatial Localization Tasks”

Tyler Nguyen

Mentor: Jazmin Camchong (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

Topic: “Can Cognitive Flexibility Training Delivered During Early Abstinence Prevent Relapse in Opioid Use Disorder?”

Xin Lin

Mentor: Amanda Woodward (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Investigating the Relationship Between Metacognitive Reflection and Learning Outcome in Inferential Statistics”

Yuyi Wang

Mentor: Mark Stellmack (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Effect of Closeness of Group Members on Individual Moral Decision Making”

Zack Kunkel

Mentor: Rich Lee (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “The Impact of el Ingenio Mexicano on Mental Health Care Utilization”

Zakaria Jamari

Mentor: Traci Mann (Department of Psychology)

Topic: “Disparities in wait times and doctor visits in Black and White patients”

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