Supervisors’ Gratitude and Employees’ Feelings about their Supervisor and Organization

Manuscript accepted to submitted for publication in a special edition of the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. Abstract Gratitude has been shown to be linked to many positive outcomes for individuals including psychological health and well-being, decreased physical stress, and reduced feelings of loneliness (O’Connell, O’Shea, & Gallagher 2016; Rash, Matsuba, & Prkachin, 2011; […]

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Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) and Brown Thrashers (Toxostoma rufum) Preferentially Nest in Areas with Low Levels of Artificial Light at Night

Research conducted as part of a Behavioral Ecology course in Spring 2019 Abstract Because of the increase in urban human populations and the decrease in forest areas, it is crucial that scientists focus efforts on investigating the influence of artificial light at night (ALAN) on urban wild animal populations. While behavioral and physiological changes in […]

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Cooperation in the Family Corvidae

Written in Spring 2019 Abstract The purpose of this review was to investigate the literature on cooperation in members of the family Corvidae, to examine where they excel and where they fall short. Cooperative behavior has been used in the past to investigate cognitive abilities, namely the ability to recognize kin, remembering who they’ve cooperated […]

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Male Bean Beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus) Show a Preference for Virgin Females

Research conducted for a Behavioral Ecology course in Spring 2019 Male Bean Beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus) Show a Preference for Virgin Females McKeon, E. J., Dyer, Z., Umana, J., and Levin, I. I. Agnes Scott College Abstract The male bias for choosing virgin mates has been shown in many different invertebrate species, and has many consequences […]

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Finding My Passion

Last Fall (2018), my career goals underwent drastic changes. I started off in August feeling incredibly secure in my desire to become a veterinarian, and I wanted to focus on healing animals both physically and emotionally, with the help of an undergraduate degree in psychology. This made me a bit of an oddity in the […]

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How Mock Interviews Affected Me

The mock interviews held by the Office of Internship and Career Development were incredibly helpful in discovering some of my strengths and weaknesses as an interviewee. For instance, much of the positive feedback I received was about my attitude, body language, and etiquette. The interviewers remarked that I was cheerful, but not overbearing, made an […]

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The Impact of Neonatal Hippocampal Lesions on Emotional Responses Toward Threats

Mock grant proposal written in Spring 2019 Background In recent years, scientists have begun to investigate the effects of hippocampal abnormalities on behavior, even though this structure has historically been implicated solely in the conversion of short-term memories to long-term memories (Opitz, 2014). Many of these studies have been inconclusive about the affective change in […]

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The Effects of Emotional Primers on Global Precedence

The Effects of Emotional Primers on Global Precedence Erika McDonnell and Emma McKeon Spring 2018 Abstract One particular area of visual attention that is often studied by psychologists is precedence, specifically global precedence. Global precedence describes a person’s attentiveness to global features (the whole) of a stimulus as opposed to local features (the details) (May, […]

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