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

Recently, Amber Efthemiou, a senior undergraduate research assistant and lab manager here in the FF-PTG Lab, gave a step-back presentation online regarding her senior thesis investigating attitudes towards older adults’ mental health. In her presentation, she explored the two forms of empathy, cognitive and emotional, and presented some of the data collected from herongoing study… Read more