This page highlights the current events, achievements, and current activities of our lab members:
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At 3pm on April 8, 2024, FF-TIP lab members took a few minute break from research to see eclipse! Amani noticed that the lights in the parking turned off when the sky got darker and then a few seconds later, it came back! Super excited! Together in Pryale!
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Routledge Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors will be published in June, 2024! Here is the link! Lab members, Taylor and Jamal, also contributed one of the chapters, titled “Changes in narrative identity: Desistance of antisocial behavior and posttraumatic growth”.
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This past week, Jamal Madison, a second semester undergraduate research assistant here at the FF-TIP Lab, provided us with an exciting update regarding his current research project. His study looks at the effects of peer influence on suicide risk assessment. Two Oakland University med students joined the lab for his presentation to discuss what the
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This past week, Wyatt Clark, a first semester undergraduate research assistant here at the FF-TIP Lab, gave an article presentation regarding people’s attitudes toward those with dementia and how personal experience may lead to changes in these attitudes. The article was entitled “Does Personal Experience of Dementia Change Attitudes? The Bristol and Gloucestershire Survey of
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Amber Efthemiou, a fourth semester undergraduate research assistant and the current lab manager of the FF-TIP Lab, presented her senior thesis defense to the lab this past week. Amber has been working diligently on her senior thesis over these past few semesters and the lab was very excited to learn about the findings that her
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Our lab’s name has changed from Free Form PTG LAB to Free Form TIP LAB as of March 1st 2024! I am very much interested in understanding and explaining how people recognize the change and when the change occurs – moment of the change or psychological tipping point. All students in this lab are pursuing
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This past week, Jamal Madison, a second semester research assistant here at the FF-TIP lab, gave a step-back presentation regarding his current research on the effects of peer influence on suicide risk assessment. He started the presentation out by discussing the current suicide rates in the U.S., noting that there is currently an average of
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Recently, Amani Qaqish, a senior at Oakland University and a research assistant here at the FF-TIP lab gave a step-back presentation on her Honors College thesis that she is currently working on with Dr. Malatesta regarding the impact of self-control on work/life balance for remote employees. In her presentation, she spoke about the methodology behind
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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
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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
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