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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Reflection on My Personal Experience with Race
Written in Fall 2019 for Psychology of Women: A Race Class and Gender Perspective My experience with race has been a complicated one because of repeated shifts in my racial and geographical environments during my early childhood. For the first four years of my life my family, consisting of my mother, father, and myself, was […]
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 […]
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, […]
Research Proposal; Equine Socialization
Abstract In order to determine ways to increase horse health, three studies were created to analyze importance of socialization in overall horse health. The first proposal, a correlational study, correlated horse health, using the Equine Guelph Horse Health Check scale, and socialization using a Pearson’s r test to determine whether or not socialization was a […]
A Critique of Research On Self-Disclosure in Therapy
Written in the Spring of 2017 Introduction To Self-Disclosure In counseling, there are many different methods a helper can use to facilitate the helping process. The different methods used vary from helper to helper, and are based on perceived success, training, past experience with different methods, and the theoretical school of psychology of the helper. […]
