Professor of Psychology Juvia Heuchert says Allegheny has had several groups of students in India, most recently to do eight-week internships. He says it is a fantastic learning experience with regards to knowledge gained about India and issues pertinent to newly industrialized countries. In addition, students also have their values enriched by the immersion in

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Autumn Vogel ’16 and Assistant Professor of Psychology Lydia Eckstein Jackson published the paper “Activist Theatre: The Effects of Community Performance on System Justification and Willingness to Engage in Activism” in The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. The article will appear in the September/October issue of the journal (Vol 26, Issue 5).

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Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology Robert Hancock, Caitlin Nealer ’15, and Professor of Psychology Patricia Rutledge presented “The effects of gender on underhand and overhand throwing velocity in collegiate baseball and softball players” at the 2016 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in New York City.

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Research by Katie Denning ’16, Maria Kim ’18, Alana Picozzi ’18, Natasha Torrence ’17, Osasere Edebiri ’16, Annie Utterback ’16 and Professors Sarah Conklin, Lydia Eckstein Jackson, Aimee Knupsky, and Ryan Pickering was presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in New York City in March. Katie Denning — in collaboration

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Assistant Professor of Psychology Lauren Paulson, Danielle Jones ’14, and a colleague from Duquesne University published the article “Tech it out: Implementing an online peer consultation network for rural mental health professionals” in the December 2015 issue of Journal of Rural Mental Health. The peer-reviewed journal is published by the American Psychological Association.

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Jen Foreman presented at one roundtable discussion and one poster session at the annual National Association for Gifted Children convention in Phoenix, Arizona on November 14. The paper for the roundtable session was titled “Teaching the Teacher: Effectiveness of Educative Curricula.” The poster session was titled “High Schools’ Contributions to

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Professor of Psychology Patricia Rutledge is a co-author of a recent paper, “Association between Alcohol-Impaired Driving Enforcement-Related Strategies and Alcohol-Impaired Driving,” published in Accident Analysis and Prevention. The other authors of the paper are Julie Sanem, Darin Erickson, Kathleen Lenk, Toben Nelson, Rhonda Jones-Webb, and Traci Toomey, all of the Division of Epidemiology and Community

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Assistant Professor of Psychology Lydia Eckstein Jackson co-authored an article with Drs. Lowell Gaertner (University of Tennessee) and Dan Batson (University of Kansas) titled “Can Affect Disengagement Produce Moral Standard Violation?” The article is in press at Self and Identity.

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