Taylor Elam, second year PhD student, has recently presented her master’s thesis defense presentation titled, “I’ll Believe it When I See it: Assessing the Differences in Perceptions of Moral Behavior”. Elam begins by explaining the idea of person perception, which is the general tendency to form impressions of others which ties into impression formation. However, Read more

Natalie Safo, a third semester undergraduate research assistant, presented her Honors College Thesis Defense to the FF-PTG Lab this past week. All of her hard work designing this project, collecting data, and running statistical analyses to interpret her results culminated in this presentation. Natalie shared the hypotheses, methodology, results, and future directions of her Honors Read more

Paxton Hicks, a first-year graduate student and former lab manager, captivated our attention with his recent presentation on his thesis proposal titled “Depenetration Process of Self-Disclosure”. Paxton is intrigued by the exploration of Self-Disclosure, a deliberate process involving the communication of personal information to another individual, and its impact on intimacy. The concept of intimacy, Read more