Recently, Avery Machuk, a senior at Oakland University and research assistant here in the FF-PTG Lab, gave a step-back presentation regarding her honors college thesis on changes in social anxiety. In her presentation, she investigated social anxiety and social anxiety disorder, as well as some of the data collected from her study. Avery presented two Read more

This past week, Taylor Elam, a current PhD student in the FF-PTG Lab, gave a presentation in preparation for her departmental talk this week. She started out by explaining some of the pertinent topics that related to her thesis such as resilience, post-traumatic growth (PTG), interpersonal sensitivity, and self-privilege.  Here at the FF-PTG lab, we Read more

This past week, Paxton Hicks, a first-year graduate student and former undergraduate research assistant and lab manager of the FF-PTG Lab, presented a step-back presentation regarding his current thesis project on the depenetration processes of self-disclosure. Paxton began his presentation by informing the lab of the existing research on the topic of self-disclosure. He found Read more