Student Poster Award Finalists

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Dear GSC members,

We are proud to announce the finalists for the GSC Student Poster Award. The 35 finalists will display their posters at the first poster session at SPSP, where the winners will be selected. Come to the Thursday evening Poster Session to see the Student Poster Award Finalists present their work!

Finalists and Poster titles:

 

Shana L. Cole, New York University : Seeing is for Moving:  Biased Distance Perception, Affective Signals, and Optimal Action

Abbie Wazlawek, Columbia Business School: Thanking down; A polite way to imply authority

 Adam Kent Fetterman, North Dakota State University: Go With Your Heart or Use Your Head?: When Body Organs Become Decision Making Structures 

 Shane F. Blackman, Princeton University: Perceptions of Conformity to the Self versus Others

 Ryosuke Asano, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Why communication properties influence subjective well-being in close relationships: The mediational role of relational efficacy

 Tara Jeanne Collins, University of Kansas: Tempted by the fruit of another: The interaction of perceived alternative partner quality and investment on relationship satisfaction and commitment. 

 Elizabeth Keneski, University of Texas at Austin: Normative relationship development: Is the "average" relationship better?

  Stanislav Treger, DePaul University: Did he make you laugh? Experimental evidence that humor use and interpersonal attraction are mutually transformative 

 Sabrina Pei Chun Thai, University of Toronto: Commitment Determines Reactions to Superior Romantic Relationships

 Meanne Chan, University of British Columbia: Family conflict and cardiovascular reactivity: The role of discrepant threat perceptions

 Kathryn Lynn Boucher, Indiana University- Bloomington: Cheating threat: Stereotype threat increases instances of cheating

 Mia Steinberg, Miami University: Working Together To Change STEM Attitudes: Communal Experience and Its Effect on Communal Goal Affordances and Interest in STEM

 Mark J. Brandt, DePaul University & New York University--Abu Dhabi: Gender Inequality and Gender Differences in Authoritarianism across 55 Societies

 Danielle J. DelPriore,  Texas Christian University: Where's Your Daddy:  Father Absence and Women's Attitudes Toward Sex Without Investment

 Jessica M. Salerno, University of Illinois at Chicago: Give the Kid a Break-But Only if He's Straight: Moral Outrage Drives Biases in Juvenile Sex Offender Punishment Decisions

 Cody D. Packard, Claremont Graduate University: Opposition Toward Legalizing Same-Sex Partnerships: Threat and Reactance

 Teri Kirby, University of Washington: Concentrating on Stimuli Increase Their Likeability and Association With Self?

 Sarah Gaither, Tufts University: The Effects of Interracial Roommates: A Longitudinal Study
Keywords: interracial relationships, roommates, intergroup contact, interracial interactions

 Y.Jenny Xiao, New York University: When closeness breeds contempt: Perception of physical closeness leads to intergroup discrimination

 Ines Jurcevic, University of California, Los Angeles: "They said it, not me": Whites Use of Racial Minorities' Negative Evaluations to Justify Bias

 Christopher K. Marshburn, University of California, Irvine: Speaking of Race: Confronting Race in Interpersonal Interactions

Kristin Laurin, University of Waterloo: Let go and let God: Outsourcing punishment duties to a controlling God

Paul Conway, The University of Western Ontario: Moral Credentials versus Moral Identity: Temporal Perspective Moderates Whether Moral Self-Perceptions lead to Assimilation versus Contrast Effects on Prosocial Behaviour

 Amber DeBono, Winston-Salem State University: Why Am I Left Out? Interpretations of Exclusion Affect Anti-Social and Pro-Social Behaviors 

 Jin Seok Pyone, Cornell University: Not Getting Stuck in the Trees: Positive Affect can eliminate the Maladaptive Influence of Low-level Construal in Intertemporal Preference

 Sebastian C. Wagner, Department of Psychology, Columbia University; Department of Psychology, University of Frankfurt:Proactive versus reactive barrier planning: Investigating the effects and underlying mechanisms of two different types of planning for implementing behavior change

 Amy M. Garczynski, Saint Louis University: Is the Self a State? State-dependent memory with active self-aspects

 Jacob Shane, University of California, Irvine: Perceptions of past, present, and future social status: Causal conceptions and control strivings as mediators

 Jennifer Howell, University of Florida: Reducing Information Avoidance Through Affirmation

 Matthew Baldwin, University of Kansas: Looking Back for Freedom and Control: Nostalgia, Autonomy, and Competence

 Ana Isabel Lage-Ferreira, ISCTE.IUL Lisbon PORTUGAL: Emotional clarity and psychological adjustment: a longitudinal study with first-year college students

 Kathleen Rives Bogart, Tufts University: Perceiving emotion of people with facial paralysis: Evidence for holistic integration of multiple communication channels

 Michael Maniaci, University of Rochster: Caring about Carelessness: Measuring Participant Inattention Using the Attentive Responding Scale

 Lucas A. Keefer, University of Kansas: Attachment to Objects as Compensation for Threats to Close Interpersonal Relationships

 Tamar A. Kreps, Stanford Graduate School of Business: Consequentialist Explanations Appear Less Moralized