Are you interested in earning money for participating in a psychological study? We wish to run several subjects in a study of distance perception. Each subject will participate in six sessions, with each session lasting between 30 and 60 minutes. We will pay $15/session. If you are interested in this please contact Professor Stephen Dopkins at dopkins@gwu.edu.
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Psychology Undergraduate Research and Service Grant (URSG) Awards, January 2018 Competition
Congratulations to the First Psychology Undergraduate Research and Service Grant (URSG) Award Recipients, January 2018 Competition. The next competition deadline will be in mid-April!
Katie Allison: Funds to cover transportation costs for her work with the Metropolitan Police Department as a Domestic Violence Liaison. This internship will place Katie in the community, engaging in an outreach/support program in her area of interest, law enforcement. Specifically, she will go with police on domestic violence calls and assist with survivors; she is doing this in conjunction with Dr. Lambert’s Psyc 3592 (Field Internship).
Ashley Cheng: Work-study funding to allow her to be actively involved in developing, designing, and conducting a study within Dr. Shomstein’s lab. She will work with graduate student Joe Nah and Dr. Shomstein to develop, carry out, and analyze a study examining how semantic knowledge can affect visual attention—e.g., how presentation of the word “mixer” affects processing of baking-related items in a kitchen scene. Ashley has been learning how to program in Python in preparation.
Jacqueline Mai: For transportation costs to allow her to participate in a Research Assistantship at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) Laboratory for the Treatment of Suicide-related Ideation and Behavior. She will be working on a randomized clinical trial for military psychiatric inpatients. And will also carry out a literature review on humanistic cognitive behavioral therapy in conjunction with this work and a Psyc 3591 supervised research course co-mentored by Margaret Baer of USUHS and Dr. Sigelman.
John “Jack” Venezia: Funds to assist in paying for additional research participants in graduate student Meagan Ryan’s dissertation research in Dr. Rohrbeck’s lab. Jack assisted Meagan in identifying measures for her dissertation and also added a "Meaning of Life" Questionnaire to her research protocol with the goal of carrying out his own substudy of how "meaning of life" moderates associations between trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among undergraduate veterans.
Sidney Holt wins 2017 Outstanding Student Abstract award at the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference
Congrats to Applied Social Psychology doctoral student Sidney Holt on the 2017 Outstanding Student Abstract award at the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference! Her abstract was entitled, “I Live in this Neighborhood Too, Though”: Psychosocial Effects of Gentrification on Black men in DC.
The abstract details analyses that Holt conducted based on focus groups with Black men from Menhood, a National Institutes of Health-funded study designed to examine the effects of neighborhood and individual-level stressors and resilience on sexual risk for Black men who live in Washington, DC. Holt’s supervising professor, Dr. Lisa Bowleg is the Principal Investigator of Menhood.
Holt’s research highlighted that gentrification led participants to experience heightened police presence within their neighborhoods and in turn, increased discriminatory encounters with police; segregation and social exclusion from their new White neighbors; restricted mobility within their neighborhoods; fear of displacement; loss of belonging and sense of community; and self-blame and a sense of powerlessness to stop gentrification. All of these experiences have the potential to negatively impact health and well-being. Holt’s work fills an important gap within the social and behavioral science literature. Holt notes that although media attention about gentrification in DC has increased in recent years —DC was the second fastest gentrifying city in the U.S. from 2000 to 2010 — it’s relatively rare that researchers seek to learn about gentrification primarily from the perspective of long-time, low-income Black residents. Holt says that she hopes that her work will prompt researchers, policymakers and health providers to consider the social and mental health effects of gentrification, and not conceptualize gentrification primarily as an urban development phenomenon with only economic and political ramifications.
