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Faculty Change From Within: The Creation Of The Wmsure Program, Cheryl L. Dickter, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Hannah A. Franz, Ebony A. Lambert
Faculty Change From Within: The Creation Of The Wmsure Program, Cheryl L. Dickter, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Hannah A. Franz, Ebony A. Lambert
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Underrepresented students have less knowledge of research experiences available on campus and are less likely to feel supported by faculty than represented students. To address these issues and increase the number of underrepresented undergraduate researchers, faculty at the William & Mary created the William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (WMSURE). Community based and participatory research methods were used to work with students in developing research questions and in collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data about their academic and personal experiences. This led to the development of academic and research advising services, workshops, faculty education, and research funding to …
Autistic Traits And Social Anxiety Predict Differential Performance On Social Cognitive Tasks In Typically Developing Young Adults, Cheryl L. Dickter, Joshua A. Burk, Katarina M. Fleckenstein, C. T. Kozikowski
Autistic Traits And Social Anxiety Predict Differential Performance On Social Cognitive Tasks In Typically Developing Young Adults, Cheryl L. Dickter, Joshua A. Burk, Katarina M. Fleckenstein, C. T. Kozikowski
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The current work examined the unique contribution that autistic traits and social anxiety have on tasks examining attention and emotion processing. In Study 1, 119 typically-developing college students completed a flanker task assessing the control of attention to target faces and away from distracting faces during emotion identification. In Study 2, 208 typically-developing college students performed a visual search task which required identification of whether a series of 8 or 16 emotional faces depicted the same or different emotions. Participants with more self-reported autistic traits performed more slowly on the flanker task in Study 1 than those with fewer autistic …