Reid Conference

Central Grounds Garage 

The Central Grounds Garage is conveniently located under the University Bookstore at 400 Emmet Street, and is near Newcomb Hall, Memorial Gymnasium, Brown College, and the Clemons Library. Hourly parking may be paid via the ParkMobile app.

• 8:45-9:15     Registration and Coffee

• 9:15-9:20    Welcoming Remarks: Chris Mazurek, Ph.D.

                                              Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology

                                              University of Virginia

• 9:25-11:00   Oral Presentations I (12-13 minutes each) 

                             Emily Davis

                              Jacob Moore

                              Katerina Scott

                              Madeleine Ames

                              Boris Nakashyan

• 11:10-12:00  Poster Session I 
• 12:05-1:00   Lunch Break
• 1:10-2:00     Poster Session II
• 2:10-3:45     Oral Presentations II (12-13 minutes each)

                              Hope Keller

                              Emily Eppard

                              Sara Ibrahim

                              Lexie Xirui Li

                              Haylee Ressa 

• 3:50-4:00     Appreciation Remarks: Chris Mazurek, Ph.D.

Please follow American Psychological Association style guidelines closely. Abstracts are not to exceed 250 words and the research should be independent student research. Your faculty advisor should not be listed as a coauthor, but should be included on a separate line.

See the example below:

            American Children: Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors

            Jane Smith

            Advisor: Dr. Jones

            Grandest University

Childrens' emotion regulation ability has been shown to influence psychosocial development, but this research has relied primarily on data from Western cultures. Given the important influence of culture and context on emotion processes, the current study examined emotion regulation and its  associations with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Ghanaian and American youth. Participants were 142 children from Ghana and 147 children from the United States, ages 8-15, who completed questionnaires assessing the coping, inhibition, and dysregulation of sadness and  anger, frequency of emotion experiences, presence of depressed mood, and aggressive behavior.  Regression analyses indicated that sadness and anger regulation do predict uniquely to depressive and aggressive behaviors in both.

Students applying to present  research must be currently enrolled  as an undergraduate. Presentation content should bear on psychological theory and involve empirical analysis.  Analyses need not be completed at the time of application, but completion by the time of the conference should be feasible.

Talks are one-person presentations by the undergraduate student. Faculty advisors are to be noted separately.  Talks should be planned to take 12-13 minutes, and will be followed by up to 5 minutes for questions. Students should also share their talk on the Open Science Folder.

Visit the Office of Undergraduate Research for Oral presentation tips.

How to present using Zoom Tips

Applicants for a poster presentation may have their name listed on only one poster. Multiple student authors are allowed for a given poster, but only one student should submit the application. Faculty advisors are to be listed on a separate line.  For the virtual conference, presenters should create a PDF version of their poster to present in zoom breakout room. Students should also share their poster on the Open Science Folder. 

Visit the Office of Undergraduate Research for Poster presentation tips.

• Alcorn State University

• Bates College 

• Boston College 

• Brandeis University 

• Campbell University

• Christopher Newport University 

• Clemson University 

• College of William & Mary

• Cornell University

• Dixie State University

• Duke University 

• Fordham University 

• George Mason University 

• George Washington University

• Hollins University

• James Madison University 

• Longwood University 

• Loyola University Maryland 

• Mary Baldwin University

• Meredith College 

• New York University 

• Northwestern University 

• Ohio State University 

• Old Dominion University 

• Pennsylvania State University 

• Rochester University 

• Saint Louis University

• St. John's University

• Saint Mary's College of California

• St. Mary's College of Maryland 

• Stonehill College

• Sweet Briar College 

• Syracuse University 

• University of California Santa Barbara 

• University of Hawaii

• University of Maryland 

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Virginia

• University of Washington 

• Vanguard University of Southern California

• Virginia Commonwealth University 

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 

• Washington & Lee University 

• Yeshiva University

If you have any questions, contact us here: [email protected].

• 7:30-8:30     Registration and continental breakfast  [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

• 8:30-8:45     Welcoming Remarks: Chris Mazurek, PhD | Director of Undergraduate Studies, UVA Psychology [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

• 8:45-10:15    Oral Presentations I (4 student presenters) [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

• 10:30-11:30   Poster Session I [Location: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room]

• 11:30-12:30   Lunch Break

• 12:30-1:30    Poster Session II [Location: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room]

• 1:45-3:00     Oral Presentations II  (4 student presenters) [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

• 3:20-3:30     Appreciation Remarks: Chris Mazurek, PhD | Director of Undergraduate Studies, UVA Psychology [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

• 3:30-4:30     Keynote Lecture: Angela Gutchess, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University | How do Culture and Age Affect Memory [Location: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room]

Professor of Psychology and
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
http://www.brandeis.edu/gutchess/

Angela Gutchess’s research investigates the influence of age and culture on memory and social cognition using behavioral, neuroimaging, and patient methods. She attended Boston University for her BA/BS degrees, University of Michigan for her PhD with Denise Park, and completed Postdoctoral training at MGH/Harvard with Dan Schacter. Currently, she is a Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, with appointments in Neuroscience and the Volen Center for Complex Systems. Angela is on the Psychonomic Society Governing Board and is the Chair for 2023. She has served an Associate Editor at Cognition, Memory & Cognition, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Memory. In addition to her empirical research, she has published books on cognitive aging: The Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging, and The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective (co-edited with Ayanna Thomas) and serves as the co-organizer (with Suparna Rajaram) of the Culture & Cognition pre-conference at Psychonomics.

16th Annual Reid Conference (Virtual Format), Friday, April 15th, 2022, 8:30 am - 4:45 pm

• 8:30-8:45        Welcoming Remarks

  • Chris Mazurek, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, University of Virginia

• 8:45-10:15       Oral Presentations I (12-15 minutes each):

  • Finn Connor, Examining Racial Congruence, Achievement Level, and Family Status as Characteristics of Role Models for Women in STEM.

  • Sara Yosif Ahmed, How Does Maternal Growth Mindset Relate to Children’s Emotion, Regulation, Language and Literacy Skills?

  • Hannah O'Connor, Language Use on Social Media in Female and Male Young Adults with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Ian Adoremos, Identifying Neurogenetic and Phenotypic Biomarkers of Prefrontal Network Connectivity Alterations in Children with Autism

• 10:30-11:30     Poster Session I (view the program/directory)

• 11:30-12:30     Break

• 12:30-1:30       Poster Session II (view the program/directory)

• 1:45-3:15         Oral Presentations II (12-15 minutes each):

  • Mihret Niguse, Identifying pathways between caregiver experiences of discrimination and adolescent disruptive behaviors

  • Lauren Kelso, The Effects of Biased Lineups on Strong and Weak Face Recognizers

  • Molly Gonenne, Grief & Social Media following the Dissolution of a Romantic Relationship

  • LiChen Dong, The Scarr-Rowe Interaction at Wave I & III in National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

• 3:15-3:20         Appreciation Remarks: Chris Mazurek, PhD

• 3:30-4:45         Keynote: 

  • Stephen Linn Chew, Professor of Psychology, Samford University, Student Trust in the Teacher: A Critical but Overlooked Variable for Student Success

Please note: Titles and abstracts listed in the program may have slight changes.  Please refer to the Open Science Folder for the latest versions.

You may view the accepted talks and posters on the 2022 Reid Conference Open Science Folder (OSF)

Zoom is the online software we will use for the conference.  Please be prepared: 

Create a zoom account (if you don’t already have one), and upgrade to the latest version of zoom before the conference.   

• Create a General Zoom Account (Non-UVA) or UVA student Zoom account
• How to update Zoom
• Participating in Breakout Rooms (You will be “self-selecting” the breakout rooms during the poster session, this shows you how)
• Tips for a good ZOOM connection

2021 Program Schedule (pdf)

Please note: Titles and abstracts listed in the program may have slight changes.  Please refer to the Open Science Folder for the latest versions.

You may view the accepted talks and posters on the 2021 Reid Conference Open Science Folder (OSF)

• 8:30-8:45     Welcoming Remarks: Frederick Smyth, PhD | Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology University of Virginia

• 8:45-10:15    Oral Presentations I (4 student presenters)

  • 8:46     Kathleen Gilmer | Rethinking the Traditional Approach to Speaking and Listening in Initial Conversations

  • 9:08     Brigitte Alexis Lieu | Reducing the self versus other Liking Gap: Using Construal-Level Theory to increase perceived liking in conversations

  • 9:30     Lauren Hall | Exploring the Emotional Impacts of Fatal Police Shootings of Black Civilians

  • 9:52     Maya Stephens | Predicting Retrospective Emotion Recall among Suicide Attempters using Text Messages

• 10:30-11:30   Poster Session I

• 11:30-12:30   Break

• 12:30-1:30    Poster Session II

• 1:45-3:15     Oral Presentations II

  • 1:46     Olivia M Walker | Knowledge Sharing Behaviors and Expectations in Professional Virtual Communities

  • 2:08     Alison Goldstein | Epigenetic Modification of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Moderates Developmental Trajectories of Amygdala Functional Connectivity and Social Interaction 

  • 2:30     Alexandra Tucker | The Effects of Social Media Use on Social Connectedness, Mental Health, and Risk Taking Behaviors During COVID-19 Quarantine

  • 2:52     Parnia Ashari | Examining how Iranian Mother-Daughter Relationships Influence the Adult Daughter’s Psychosocial Development

• 3:15-3:20     Appreciation Remarks: Frederick Smyth, PhD

• 3:30-4:30     Keynote Lecture: Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD | Mechanisms of Threat Control in Humans

• 4:30-4:45     Being Human in Psychological Science | Informal Q&A with keynote speaker, Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD, about her path in psychological science. All are encouraged to turn camera’s on and participate.

Attending as a Guest? Please register here.

Zoom Link | Password: Reid

Using Zoom:

Zoom is the online software we will use for the conference.  Please be prepared: 

Create a zoom account (if you don’t already have one), and upgrade to the latest version of zoom before the conference.   

• Create a General Zoom Account (Non-UVA) or UVA student Zoom account
• How to update Zoom (watch video)
• Participating in Breakout Rooms (You will be “self-selecting” the breakout rooms during the poster session, this shows you how)
• Tips for a good ZOOM connection

Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience | Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Mechanisms of Threat Control in Humans

Animal models of associative threat learning provide a basis for understanding human fears and anxiety.  Building on research from animal models, I will explore a range of means maladaptive defensive responses can be acquired and diminished in humans.  First, I will outline how extinction and emotion regulation, techniques adapted in cognitive behavioral therapy, can be used to control learned defensive responses via inhibitory signals from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to the amygdala.  One drawback of these techniques is that these responses are only inhibited and can return, with one factor being stress. I will then review research examining the lasting control of maladaptive defensive responses by targeting memory reconsolidation and present evidence suggesting that the behavioral interference of reconsolidation in humans diminishes involvement of the prefrontal cortex inhibitory circuitry, although there are limitations to its efficacy.  Finally, I will describe two novel behavioral techniques that might result in a more lasting fear reduction by providing control over the stressor and introducing novelty.  

• Zoom Link | Password: Reid
• 3:30-4:30 EST Lecture
• 4:30-4:45 EST Being Human in Psychological Science (​Informal Q&A with keynote speaker, Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD,about her path in psychological science. All are encouraged to turn camera’s on and participate.)

Participating students were invited to publish their talk or poster through the Center for Open Science “OSFMeetings” online platform. Please visit the following site to access participating talks and posters for the L. Starling Reid Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference 2020:

https://osf.io/meetings/Reid2020/