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Exploring Standardized Patients' Nonverbal Responses Toward Lgbtq Microagressions, Betty Ngo, Emily J. Noonan Phd, Laura Weingartner Phd

Undergraduate Research Events

Nonverbal behaviors play a significant role in the patient-doctor interaction as it provides cues to underlying unspoken emotions and concerns from the patient (Silverman, 2010). Nonverbal behaviors are most significant when they can be used to reinforce or contradict verbal responses. Thus, it is important for medical students to learn to identify patient non-verbal behaviors through their speech patterns, facial expressions, and body posture, and be able to relate these responses to a positive or adverse patient-physician interaction.

Rising third year medical students were video recorded taking health histories from standardized patients (SP; n = 84) of all gender identities. …

Parental Well-Being, Technoference, And Parent-Child Interactions During The 2nd Year Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Katherine Whitaker, Katherine G. Golway, Cara Cashon Phd

Undergraduate Research Events

- Parent-child interactions during the first five years of life have been associated with the child’s social and cognitive development (Edwards, Sheridan, & Knoche, 2008).

- The amount and quality of parent-child interactions may be associated with a parent’s mental health (Milkie et al., 2020).

- Mothers with depression tend to show increased withdrawal and intrusion from their infants during interactions than non-depressed mothers (Field, 1995).

- Increased distractions from technology during parentchild interactions may be associated with differences in infants’ social and cognitive development (Reed, Hirsch- Pasek, and Golinkoff, 2017).

- Technoference refers to the, sometimes invasive and persuasive, …

Inducing Cognitive Reflection And Its Impact On Contradictory Belief Holding, Meg Powers, Keith Lyle Phd

Undergraduate Research Events

Cognitive reflection is the propensity to reflect on one’s intuitions. 1 Some people are more likely than others to engage in cognitive reflection. This tendency can be measured with the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT). 2

Cognitive reflection appears to be an important individual difference factor. For example, lower CRT performance has been linked to greater belief in conspiracy theories 3 and greater social conservatism. 4 Hence, it is important to test whether reflection can be induced among people who do not spontaneously engage in it.

The present research will also test whether cognitive reflection is related to yea yeaing . …

Body Trust Moderates The Relationship Between Physical & Emotional Awareness & Eating Disorders In Adolescents, Emma G Roberts, Rowan Hunt, Cheri Levinson Phd

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Eating disorders (EDs) have a complex relationship with interoceptive awareness (i.e., awareness of inner bodily sensations; IA). Research suggests that physical hyper-awareness and tendency to distract from bodily sensations are positively associated with ED symptoms, and body trust (i.e., experiencing one’s body as safe and trustworthy) is negatively associated with ED symptoms (Lattimore et al, 2017; Merwin et al, 2010; Duffy et al, 2020). While physical awareness (PA) and emotional awareness (EA) have been shown in nonclinical samples to be beneficial for affect regulation, similar facets of IA are associated with higher symptomatology in ED samples (Price & Hooven 2018). …

The Role Of Socioeconomic Status On Infant's Expression, Kolbie A. Vincent, Katherine G. Golway, Nonah M. Olesen, Cara H. Cashon

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Most language inequality for infants begins very early in their development. For most, this disparity develops prior to 36 months (Farkus & Baron, 2000).

• Significant disparities in vocabulary size between socioeconomic status (SES) were evident by 18 months. By 24 months, there was a 6 month age gap (Fernald et al, 2011).

• 65% of low SES preschoolers in head start programs had clinically significant language delays (Ramey and Ramey, 2004)

• Maternal education is a known indicator of SES and is correlated with language input for infants (Dollaghan et al. 1999).

• At 18 months, most infants experience …

Parent Encouragement & Infant's Visual Attention, Jalena Slaton, Nonah M. Olesen, Cara W. Cashon

Undergraduate Research Events

Attention to objects appears to be linked to the development of early motor skills and experience with objects. Looking is an important aspect of object exploration, especially sustained looking to objects (Rochat, 1989).

Inhibitory Control In 6- To 8-Year-Olds With William Syndrome, Gopika Gopan, C. Holley Pitts, Carolyn Mervis

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Executive function refers to the interrelated top down cognitive processes that are integral in the management of actions, thoughts, and emotions (Diamond2013)

Williams syndrome (WS) is a genetic disorder caused by a hemideletion of 26 28 genes on chromosome 7q11.23.

Individuals with WS often have mild to moderate intellectual disability, as well as impairments in executive function. The greatest executive function difficulty for individuals with WS is inhibitory control ( Mervis & Greiner de Magalhães , in press).

We directly evaluated inhibitory control using a laboratory measure of delay of gratification in 6 8 year olds with WS. The purpose …

Do Canine Companions Reduce College Stress?, Aaron Brooking, David M. Simpson, Mindy Hatchell, Adam Van Zant, Alexis Moore, Lindsey Connors, Julianna Clarke, Sandra E. Sephton

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Introduction Rates of mental health concerns among college students are rising. A recent World Health Organization Survey of ~14,000 students revealed clinically concerning scores on anxiety, depression and substance use disorder for 31% [2][3]. With these high levels of clinically concerning scores in college students, great amounts of stress are the result, which have been negatively correlated with greater feelings of loneliness and lower hedonic well-being (satisfaction in life), without proper social support [6][10]. We explored potential mental health benefits of canine companions in the college setting by collecting psychosocial measures from both dog-owners and non-dog-owners assessing their levels of …