{"id":5052,"date":"2018-04-03T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:00:17","slug":"psychology-news-and-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/psychology-news-and-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology News and Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>MARCH 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Jean Pretz<\/strong>, professor of psychology and department chair, and psychology major Megan Kuczma \u201918<\/strong> presented their research on creativity at the 2017 annual conference of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C. Kuczma presented work from a SCARP project in the poster, \u201cUsing Creativity and Critical Thinking to Predict College Success.\u201d Pretz gave a talk on \u201cGender Differences in Self-Perceived and Actual Creativity\u201d as part of a symposium on the Social and Emotional Bases of Creativity.<\/p>\n

Pretz also gave an invited talk at the annual meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society in Baltimore, Maryland. Her talk, \u201cClinical Reasoning and Intuition: Insights from Cognitive Science,\u201d was presented to a group of clinicians, speech and language pathologists, physicians and others specializing in swallowing and swallowing disorders.<\/p>\n

DECEMBER 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u00a0Ian MacFarlane<\/strong>, assistant professor in psychology, had a research article, titled “Genetic Counselors\u2019 Experiences and Interest in Telegenetics and Remote Counseling,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Genetic Counseling. The research study explores interest in, experiences with, expectations of and barriers to implementation of genetic counseling conducted via telephone, web conferencing or other forms of technology-enhanced communication. With the rapid evolution of technology to improve access to care among rural populations and other areas without adequate coverage of genetic counselors, it is important to understand the degree to which the field of practitioners is embracing these new methods and spread lessons to improve implementation in additional areas.<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Ian MacFarlane<\/strong>, assistant professor of psychology, coauthored the research study \u201c\u2018If It Helps, It\u2019s Worth a Try’: An Investigation of Perceptions and Attitudes about Genetic Counseling among Southern Manitoba Hutterites in the Journal of Genetic Counseling.\u201d The paper is based on another coauthor\u2019s master’s thesis at the University of Minnesota and continues to expand the literature on perceptions of genetic counseling among rural populations.<\/p>\n

Holly Gasper \u201918<\/strong> and Michael Roy<\/strong>, associate professor of psychology, presented “The Accuracy of Witness Crime Duration Estimates Can Be Improved” at the Psychonomic Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The research for this project was supported by the SCARP program.<\/p>\n

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September 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Ian MacFarlane<\/strong>, assistant professor of psychology, co-supervised the master’s thesis of University of Minnesota Genetic Counseling student Katie Plamann, whose research received the best student abstract award at the 2017 National Society of Genetic Counseling Annual Education Conference in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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June 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Students and faculty members presented at the recent Association for Psychological Science conference in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The following were completed in collaboration with Catherine Lemley<\/strong>, professor of psychology:<\/p>\n