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Psychology Department

Student-Faculty Research

The psychology faculty at Berry College are actively involved in a variety of research topics. An important aspect of our mission is to provide students with hands-on experience in designing, carrying out and presenting research findings conducted at the college.   As such, we encourage student scholarship in the form of sponsored independent research, co-authored papers and presentation of research findings at local, regional and national meetings.

2004

Bush, J. & Logsdon-Conradsen, S. (2004, February). Music for the masses: Using popular songs to teach psychology of women. Poster presented at the 16th Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology. Atlanta, GA.

Butzen, N., Bissonnette, V., & McBrayer, D. (2004). Effects of Modeling and Topic on Self-Touching Behavior. Paper and Poster presented at the 16th annual convention of the American Psychological Society, May 27-30, Chicago, Illinois. (Note. This paper was one of four winners of the APS Student Research Competition, and Nathan was the only undergraduate student of the four).

Hardy, T., & Bissonnette, V. (2004). The Relationship Between Academic Self-Esteem and Academic Self-Discrepancies. Poster presented at the 16th annual convention of the American Psychological Society, May 27-30, Chicago, Illinois.

2003

de Mayo, R. M., Diliberto, K. A. (2003).  False memory for pictures of common household chores: Evidence of a gender stereotype.  Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Psychology, 8, 62-69.

2002

Buice, M., Leach, T. & Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002).  Fitness and weight control advertisements in popular Spanish and American magazines.  Poster  presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Cantalupo, C., Hopkins, W.D, Hostetter, A., Pilcher, D., Wesley, M.. (2002). Grip Morphology and Hand Use in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Evidence of a Left Hemisphere Specilization in Motor Skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 131, 412-423.

Click here to see the study (pdf format).

Click here to see the power point poster.

Gootee, E.F., Johnson, J.M. & Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002).  Psychological and sociological perspectives on self-injury.  Paper presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Hostetter, A., Hopkins, W. D. (2002). The effect of thought structure on the production of lexical movements.  Brain and Language, 82, 22-29.

Hopkins, W. D., Wesley, M. J.  (2002).  Gestural communication in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): The effect of situational factors on gesture type and hand use.  Laterality: Asymmetry of Body, Brain and Cognition, 7, 19-30.

Click here to see the study (pdf format).  

Leonard, J., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002). The role of context, gender, and sexism in portrayals of violence on prime-time television programming.  Paper presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Leonard, J. A., Soderquist, J., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002).  A cross-cultural analysis of tobacco and alcohol magazine advertisements.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Psychological Association.  Savannah, GA. 

Nowacki, S. K., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002).  A comparison of body size in an American Vogue vs. a Spanish Vogue - Is there a difference?  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Soderquist, J., Leonard, J.A., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2002).  A cross-cultural analysis of tobacco and alcohol magazine advertisements.  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Warburton, K., Diliberto, K. A. (April, 2002). The effect of creative movement on memory recall of children’s literature. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Symposium on Student Scholarship, Berry College, Ga.

Wesley, M. J., Fernandez-Carriba, S., Hostetter, A., Pilcher, D., Poss, S, Hopkins (2002).  Factor analysis of multiple measures of hand use in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).  An alternative assessment to handedness in nonhuman primates.  International Journal of Primatology, 23, 1155, 1168.

Bryant, C., deMayo, R., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2001, March).    Investigating the role of gender in family interactions with children who have Social Phobia.  Poster presented at the 47^th Annual Meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association.  Atlanta, GA.

Bryant, C.0, deMayo, R., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2001, April).  Investigating the role of gender in family interactions with children who have social phobia.  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

deMayo, R., Dorley, J., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2001, April).  American media consumption and its effect on perceived body image.  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

deMayo, R., Dorley, J., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2001, April).  Body satisfaction in men and women: What role does the media play?  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Psychological Association.  Atlanta, GA. 

Diliberto, K. A. de Mayo, R. (2001, April). False memory for scenes of common household chores: Evidence of a gender bias.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Psychological Association (GPA), Atlanta, GA.

Hostetter, A., Cantero, M., Hopkins, W. D. (2001).  Differential use of vocal and gestural communication in chimpanzees in response to the attentional status of a human audience.   Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 337-343.

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Hopkins, W. D., Dahl, J. F., Pilcher, D. (2001). Genetic influence on the expression of hand preferences in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Evidence in support of the right shift theory and developmental instability.  Psychological Science, 12, 299-303. 

Hopkins, W. D., Fernanadez-Carriba, S., Wesley, M. J., Hostetter, A., Pilcher, D., Poss, S.  (2001).  The use of bouts and frequencies in the evaluation of hand preferences for a coordinated bimanual task in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): An empirical study comparing two different indices of laterality.   Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 294-299.

Hopkins, W. D., Pilcher, D. L. (2001).   Neuroanatomical localization of the motor hand area using magnetic resonance imaging : The left hemisphere is larger in great apes.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, 1159-1164.

Main, K. L. Diliberto, K. A., (2001, March).  Perceptual priming for nonpresented words in children on a word fragment completion test.  Paper presented at the 1st annual symposium on student scholarship, Berry College, Rome, GA.

Pilcher, D., Hammock, L., Hopkins, W. D. (2001).   Cerebral volume asymmetries in non-human primates as revealed by magnetic resonance imaging.  Laterality, 6, 165-180. 

Sickles, A., Logsdon-Conradsen, S., Gallagher, G.  (2001, April).  Wildlife surveys: Educational vs. persuasive wording.  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Singer, A. Diliberto, K. A. (2001, June).  False memory recognition due to stereotype generalizations of working women.  Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS), Toronto, Canada.

Tillery, A., Rutherford, C., Johnson-Pynn, J., Logsdon-Conradsen, S.  (2001, April).  Evaluation of a sexual abuse prevention program.  Poster presented at the Berry College Symposium on Student Scholarship.  Mt. Berry, GA. 

Forrister, J.A., Webb, C.W., Logsdon Conradsen, S.  (2000, February).  Student Perspectives on Utilizing Diagnostic Case Formulations in Abnormal Psychology.  Poster session presented at the Twelfth Southeastern Conference on The Teaching of Psychology.  Atlanta, GA.

Hopkins, W. D., Dahl, J. F., Pilcher, D. (2000).  Birth order and left-handedness revisited: Some recent findings in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and their implications for developmental and evolutionary models of human handedness.  Neuropsychologia, 38, 1626-1633.  

Hopkins, W. D., Pearson, K. (2000).  Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) handedness: Variability across multiple measures of hand use. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114, 126-135.
 

Hopkins, W. D., Pilcher, D. L., MacGregor, L. (2000).  Sylvian fissure length asymmetries in primates revisited: A comparative MRI study.  Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 56, 293-299.

Click here to see the Power Point Poster.  

Tomaszycki, M., Cline, C., Griffin, B., Maestripieri, D., Hopkins, W. D. (1998). Maternal cradling and infant nipple preferences in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).  Developmental Psychobiology, 32, 305-312.

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Geraldson, B., Hopkins, W. D. (1997).  Children’s lateralization on a finger localization task.  Perceptual and Motor Skills, 84, 1259-1264.