Amber, a third-semester undergraduate research assistant, recently completed a presentation in which she shared ideas about her independent study that she will be working on titled “Openness to Change: Influencing Factors & Negative Life Events”. Amber described the background of this study by explaining optimistic beliefs (believing good things will happen) and its ties to… Read more

Natalie, a third semester undergraduate research assistant here at the FF-PTG Lab, recently presented a step-back presentation in which she provided her fellow lab members with updates regarding her current study. Her research focuses on influence, manipulation, and the dark triad and looks at how each of these factors relate to one another. More specifically,… Read more

Last week, Jamal Madison, an undergraduate research assistant, gave a presentation on the article titled “The Effect of a Legal Prime on Clinician’s Assessment of Suicide Risk” by Noah Chase Berman, Alexandra Sullivan, Sabine Wilhelm, and Glenn Cohen (2016). Jamal describes the idea of tort liability, which is the model that predicts that mental health… Read more