On April 4, 2025, Taylor Elam and Gina Reyes presented a study, “Moral Filters: Investigating How Personality Affects Perceptions of Behavior Change”, at the Graduate Student Research Conference at Oakland University. This study was based on Taylor’s master’s thesis. Prior studies suggest individuals with favorable traits, such as low neuroticism and high extraversion, openness, agreeableness, Read more

This month, Paxton Hicks, a second-year master’s student in the FF-TIP Lab, gave a departmental talk titled “Thank you for Trauma Dumping” to the Psychology students and faculty. He started by giving two scenarios, one of a conversation between Trisha and Andrew and the other of a conversation between Amy and Derrick. By using these Read more

Recently, in the FF-TIP lab, graduate student Samantha Hart proposed her master’s thesis topic on the potential effects of positive self-talk on artistic gymnastic performance. Within her proposal Sam sought to examine if various types of self-talk could improve gymnastic performance. During her presentation, Sam presented various literature providing the necessary background information on both Read more