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Fall 2019

Psychological Association Fellow, Annette Taylor

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton psychology professor Roger Reeb has been selected as a fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association in recognition of his contributions to the discipline, and his exceptional mentorship of graduate and undergraduate students.

Serving Dayton In Disaster’S Wake, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The Memorial Day tornado outbreak that devastated communities across the Dayton region put a number of University of Dayton students at the forefront of local disaster recovery efforts.

Parent Perspectives On Youth Sport Concussion Management, Corinne M. Daprano, Susan C. Davies, Elana R. Bernstein

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

Concussions are one of the most discussed health concerns at all levels of sport. While much of this discussion focuses on football and the National Football League (NFL), there is growing awareness in the sport community that the risks of concussions extend to head injuries in all sports. Much remains unknown about youth concussions, particularly in terms of how parents feel about concussions and youth sport safety regulations. The purpose of this study was to examine parents’ perceptions and attitudes toward youth sport concussions. Results indicated that despite increased awareness and education there remain gaps in parental knowledge of concussions …

Academic Guide, 2019, International Marian Research Institute

IMRI Course Listings, Program Guides, and Assorted Academic Materials

No abstract provided.

Profile: Mary Kay Jordan Fleming, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Mary Kay Jordan Fleming is a professor of developmental psychology at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati and mother of two grown children. After more than 30 years of scientific and academic writing, Mary Kay added humorous personal essays to her repertoire almost a decade ago. Encouraged by the judges' feedback from the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition in 2010, she entered again in 2016 and won in the global humor category. In June 2019, she added a first-place award for humor writing (online venues, larger readership) from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Books Of Influence, University Of Dayton

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Good books do more than illuminate the world around us — they move us to act in ways welcomed and unexpected. Faculty shine light on some of their favorites.

Flying Into Action, Natalie Schulte

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

What seemed like a perfectly normal flight to Hawaii quickly turned into a critical situation. However, two former UD EMS sprang into action.

Anne Malone And Mary Jo Riegel: Marian Library Oral Histories, Anne Malone, Mary Jo Riegel, Kayla Harris

Oral History Collections

Kayla Harris interviewed Anne Malone and Mary Jo Riegel on June 11, 2019 about their experiences as volunteers for the Marian Library. In this interview they discuss what brought them to the Marian Library, some of their favorite sets they have worked with, and their hopes for the Marian Library in the future.

Expanding World Views And Supporting Intercultural Competence: A Model For Understanding, Assessment And Growth For Teacher Educators, Shauna M. Adams, Rochonda L. Nenonene, Pamela Cross Young, Novea A. Mcintosh

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Intentional efforts for teacher education candidates to expand their worldview throughout their program of study can lead to growth in their intercultural development as measured by the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) (Hammer & Bennett, 1998). This study examines the impact of utilizing the Inter-Cultural Action Plan (ICAP), a results-guided self-designed action plan, on the developmental orientation (Bennett, 2011) of the candidate’s intercultural development as measured by the IDI. Significant impact on a candidate’s developmental orientation is identified when candidates take ownership of their experiences in the form of an action plan that includes coursework and out of class opportunities.

A Qualitative Examination Of College Disability Services For Students With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Susan C. Davies, Michael R. Crenshaw, Elana R. Bernstein

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

Adolescents and young adults are at relatively high risk for sustaining traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). These injuries can result in persistent disabilities, including a range of cognitive, physical, and social-emotional deficits that can be particularly challenging for college age students. This qualitative study explored disability services for college students with TBIs through interviews with directors of 18 college Offices of Disability Services (ODS). Respondents provided general information regarding their service model, the most common disabilities served, as well as the number of students with TBI served, and more specific information pertaining to services for students with TBI. Results indicated ODS …

College Faculty In The News: May 10, 2019, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Sociologist Theo Majka and anthropologist Miranda Hallett recently explained the practical reasons for cities like Dayton to encourage immigrants to become a part of the community. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Coaching Styles For Boys’ And Girls’ Sports Teams, Jack Murphy

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The writing process for this article began when my English 198 teacher assigned our third major essay, instructing that it was to be on the topic of gender and include original research. Being a lifelong athlete, I decided to investigate how coaching styles might differ depending upon whether one is coaching boys or girls. With this in mind, I set out to interview the coaches that I know so as to gain their insights and approaches to coaching. I developed a set of questions and interviewed four coaches of varying ages who had coached girls and/or boys at different levels. …

169th Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Service Projects On The Perceived Skills Of Engineering Technology Students, Philip Appiah-Kubi, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Client based service projects offer many advantages to instructors, students and host communities. However, instructors must carefully choose the projects in order to achieve the benefits that come with this pedagogical tool. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perception of engineering technology students on how different service projects influence performance and perceived skills. A modified perceived skill model was used to measure the perceived effect of the team based service projects on: motivation to learn, contribution to research knowledge, skills and personal benefit, and project as a learning device. The projects were either client based or non-client …

Perceiving Live Improvisation In The Performing Arts, Aili W. Bresnahan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

This chapter will explore the ways that live improvisational performances by professional-level actors, musicians, and dancers, take place at both cognitive and sub-cognitive levels in ways that are relevant for understanding perception and appreciation of the performing arts. First, evidence from cognitive science will be used to show that improvising, as in a dance or a music jam session or a scene in theatre, may involve physical responses that occur before we are conscious of the event to which we are responding. Second, this chapter will demonstrate how understanding these cognitive processes can help us to pinpoint why live improvisational …

Fraud, Sridhar Ramamoorti

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Entry in the SAGE Encylopedia of Criminal Psychology

Ud In The News April 19-26, University Of Dayton

News Releases

It was University of Dayton Week on The Academic Minute, a popular radio program produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio which is a platform for professors from top universities nationwide to share "groundbreaking research and how that research helps us understand and solve the big problems that matter to us all."

The Zen Den: Artist's Reflection, Melanie Zebrowski

University Libraries Blog Archive

Immersive work designed to invoke wonder, connect humans to nature.

University Of Dayton Week On The Academic Minute, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Academic Minute, a popular radio program produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, showcased faculty research on a “University of Dayton Week."

Unsung Heroes, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Not all students park an ambulance in their garage. But not all are first responders, either, with a headquarters located in the heart of the student neighborhood.

Motivation And The Writing Process, David Harrington, Rachel Carroll

East Central Writing Centers Association 2019 Conference

This study is relevant because it looks at how to engage those students who are too often disengaged from the writing process. Many of us work with them every day in class rooms and writing centers and know how difficult it can be to find a way to motivate the student to engage with the writing process. Our work seeks to provide insight and tools to bring students willingly into the writing process.

Tending To The Tutor’S Toolbox: Addressing Embodiment, Incorporating Kinesthetic Instruction, And Training For Mental Health, Kyle Pratt, Will Chesher, Bethany Meadows, Jake Hennessy

East Central Writing Centers Association 2019 Conference

The writing center tutor skillset is ever changing and the amount of “tools” in which the tutor has accesses to follows suit. The writing center tutor must keep their “tools” sharp and their toolbox up to date. This panel of four tutor-scholars seeks to enhance the existing toolbox of our writing center tutors. We explicate this through three different avenues (abstracts below): embodiment as a tutor, kinesthetic learning/tutoring, and addressing mental health within sessions.

Panel Part One:

(AD)Dressing the Part: Graduate Tutor Embodiment and Dress/Codes

At our center, graduate tutors are also graduate teaching assistants or instructors; therefore, graduate tutors …

University Of Dayton Magazine, Spring 2019, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD.

Pretrial Publicity And Juror Decisionmaking: Effects Of Inadmissible Evidence And Coverage Of Its Exclusion From Trial, Rebecca Rhein

Honors Theses

The courts have long been concerned that exposure to media coverage regarding a case making its way through the judicial process (i.e., pretrial publicity [PTP]) may influence jurors’ decisionmaking in court. Indeed, empirical research over the past two decades has shown that PTP can influence juror decisions. PTP often contains descriptions of evidence or factors that are ultimately deemed inadmissible at trial (e.g., confession evidence), but no research to date has examined what occurs when confessions are reported to the public but later deemed inadmissible. We examined these issues using a 2 (Interrogation Quality: High vs. Low) x3 (Exclusion: Technicality …

The Melody Of Spatial Memory, Victoria Lynne Karpuszka

Honors Theses

Music has been studied extensively in psychology, including research on musically-induced emotion. However, the project reported here looked at new effects of musically-induced emotions on spatial memory. Trochidis and Bigand (2013) established that music and emotions are associated. Music of a major mode, or an Ionian mode, is usually associated with positive emotions. Music of minor modes, such the Locrian or Aoelian modes, are associated with negative emotions. These associations with the specific modes are seen by the lowering of the third and sixth scale tones.

Participants for the present study completed a spatial memory task (called the “Tower of …

The Commodification Of Education And The Threat To Public Schools, Macey Berkley

Honors Theses

With the recent push to reform the United States Education system, public schools have become under siege. Education has shifted away from educating for moral democratic citizenship, a liberal arts curriculum, to education for meeting economic demands. The aims of education have changed, and it is clear that reforms made in the late nineteenth century still resonate in the public school system today. Therefore, public schools are at risk of extinction from privatizing movements and undercuts to public education funding. Examining the implications of progressive education in the late nineteenth century and studying many key figures such as John Dewey, …

Voices Raised, Issue 54, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Newsletter editor: Anna Rose Redgate '20

In this issue:

• Community Forums Address Climate for Women Employees
• Confidential Advocates
• Women's Center Events
• Miryam Award
• Policy Interns
• Gender Equity Research Fellows
• Column by V. Denise James: Voices from Women's and Gender Studies
• Caring for Three Generations
• Other than Motherhood: A Conversation between a Mom and a Non-Mom
• From the Director's Desk: Lisa Borello

Perceiving Place: A Social Design Case Study, Mary Anne Brinkman

Honors Theses

Space is one of the most basic foundational systems for living things. No matter what happens in the world, it happens in a spatial setting. The specific design of that setting or place plays a large role in the lives of those within it.1 Other factors within place—factors that might inform design choices—also affect perception of place. Broad consensus exists in scholarly literature about the general role that history, culture, environment and social factors play into the perception of place. Past studies have supported that our perception of reality before actually observing it, actively affects the reality we then observe.2 …

Intelligence And Interpersonal Functioning In Youth And Young Adults With Varying Levels Of Psychopathic And Callous-Unemotional Traits, Marie Feyche

Honors Theses

The current study examined 30 youth and young adults ages 12-21 who were receiving therapy services at South Community, Inc. The intelligence and interpersonal functioning of individuals with varying levels of psychopathic and callous-unemotional (CU) traits was studied. Although there are a variety of conceptualizations of psychopathy, this study used the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy (TriPM), which defines the three factors of psychopathy as boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. CU traits are a downward extension of psychopathy, overlapping with the meanness factor, and are embodied by an absence of guilt, remorse, and the expression of superficial emotion. “Successful” psychopathy is a …