Student-Authored Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Allison, S. T., Goethals, G. R., & Spyrou, S. P. (2020). Donald Trump as the archetypal puer aeternus: The psychology of mature and immature leadership. In K. Bezio & G. R. Goethals (Eds.), Leadership, populism, and resistance. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Burnette. J., Babji, A., Oddo, L., & Knouse, L.E. (2020). Self-regulation mindsets: Relationship to coping, executive functioning, and ADHD. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 39(2), 101-116. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2020.39.02.101

Burnette, J., Knouse, L.E., Vavra, D., O’Boyle, E., & Brooks, M.A. (2020). Growth mindsets and psychological distress: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 77, 101816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101816

Crawford, L. E., Knouse, L. E., Kent, M., Vavra, D., Harding, O., LeServe, D., Fox., N., Hu, P., Li, P., Glory, C., & Lambert, K. G. (2020). Enriched environment exposure accelerates rodent driving skills. Behavioural Brain Research, 378, 112309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112309

Hoyt, C. L., Allison, S. T., Barnowski, A., & Sultan, A. (2020). Lay theories of heroism and leadership: The role of gender, communion, and agency. Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000422

Kochel, K.P., & Rafferty, D. (2020). Prospective associations between children’s depressive symptoms and peer victimization: The role of social helplessness. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38(1), 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12301

Lowder, M. W., Ryan, G., Opie, J., & Kaminsky, E. (2020). Effects of contrastive focus on lexical predictability during sentence reading: The case of not only but also constructions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820949155

Allison, S. T., Goethals, G. R., Marrinan, A. R., Parker, O. M., Spyrou, S. P., Stein, M. (2019). The metamorphosis of the hero: Principles, processes, and purpose. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 606. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00606

Bodalski, E., Knouse, L.E., & Kovalev, D. (2019). ADHD, emotion dysregulation, and functional outcomes: Examining the role of emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 41(1), 81 – 92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-018-9695-1

Bukach, C. M., Stewart, K., Couperus, J. W., & Reed, C. L. (2019). Using collaborative models to overcome obstacles to undergraduate publication in cognitive neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:549, 1-5.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00549

Oddo, L., Knouse, L.E., Surman, C. & Safren, S. (2018). Investigating resilience to depression in adults with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 22, 491 – 505. doi: 10.1177/1087054716636937

Reed, C., Bukach, C. M., Garber, M., & McIntosh, D. N (2018). It’s not all about the face: Variation reveals asymmetric obligatory processing of faces and bodies in whole-body contexts. Perception, 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618771270

Allison, S. T., Cromwell, K. E., & Spyrou, S. (2018). Heroic leaders. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. New York: Springer.

Allison, S. T., & Toner, A. C. (2017). Radical heroic leadership: Implications for transformative growth in the workplace. In R. A. Giacalone, & C. L. Jurkiewicz (Eds.), Radical thoughts on ethical leadership (pp. 151-168). Charlotte: Information Age Publishing.

Knouse, L.E., Teller, J., & Brooks, M. (2017). Meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral treatments for adult ADHD. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(7), 737-750. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000216

Allison, S. T., & Cairo, A. H. (2016). Heroism and mental health. In H. Freidman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of mental health (pp. 315-318). New York: Elsevier.

Allison, S. T., & Cecilione, J. L. (2016). Paradoxical truths in heroic leadership: Implications for leadership development and effectiveness. In R. Bolden, M. Witzel, & N. Linacre (Eds.), Leadership paradoxes. London: Routledge.

Allison, S. T., & Setterberg, G. C. (2016). Suffering and sacrifice: Individual and collective benefits, and implications for leadership. In S. T. Allison, C. T. Kocher, & G. R. Goethals (Eds), Frontiers in spiritual leadership: Discovering the better angels of our nature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fox, M.C., Freeman, S., Baldock, Z., & Berry, J.M. (2016). The role of encoding strategy in younger and older adult associative recognition: A think-aloud analysis. Psychology and Aging, 31(5), 471-480.

Berry, J., Williams, H., Thomas, K., & Blair, J. (2015). Perceptions of competence: Age moderates views of healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease. Experimental Aging Research, 41, 157-176.

Fox, M. C., Berry, J. M., & Freeman, S. P. (2014). Are vocabulary tests measurement invariant between age groups? An item response analysis of three popular tests. Psychology and Aging, 29, 925-938.

Berry, J.M., Williams, H.L., Usubalieva, A., & Kilb, A. (2013). Metacognitive awareness of the associative deficit for words and names. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 20, 592-619.

Research Conference Presentations

Kochel, K.P. & Costello, L. (2020, March). Associations between gender atypical behavior and peer relationship difficulties. Poster accepted to the meeting for the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, California.

Kochel, K.P. & Gardner, S. (2020, March). Examining racial disparities in student and teacher perceptions of school climate. Poster accepted to the meeting for the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, California.

Lowder, M. W., Ryan, G., Opie, J., & Kaminsky, E. (2020, March). Effects of contrastive focus on lexical predictability during sentence reading. Poster presented at the 33rd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Lowder, M. W., Zhou, A., Cardoso, A., & Pittman, M. (2020, March). Dissociable effects of lexical repetition within clauses versus across clause boundaries. Poster presented at the 33rd annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Ward, M. & Kochel, K.P. (2020, March). Does social competence buffer depression’s effects on children’s peer relationships? Poster accepted to the meeting for the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Diego, California.

Cloonan, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2020, February 27-29). “It’s part of my responsibility to help”: Developing a measure of motivations for extrinsic emotion regulation [Poster presentation accepted but canceled]. 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Abrash, R.W., Mais, L., Thompson, M.M., Knouse, L.E., & Barkley, R.A. (2019, November). ADHD symptoms and impairment across the adult lifespan [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Atlanta, GA, United States.

Lowder, M. W., Ryan, G., Opie, J., & Kaminsky, E. (2019, November). Effects of lexical predictability and syntactic structure on fixation times during reading. Poster presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Patel, V., Szumel, N., Knouse, L.E., & Burnette, J.L. (2019, November). ADHD and avoidant coping after failure: The Role of negative emotions and self-regulation mindsets [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Atlanta, GA, United States.

Harding, O., Hu, X., Li, P., Knouse, L.E., Lambert, K. & Crawford, L.E. (2019, May). Teaching rats to drive: A novel method for spatial navigation research in rats [Poster presentation]. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, DC, United States.

Wirtz, M., Leonhardt, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2019, May 23-26). Further examining the relationship between social class and empathic accuracy [Poster presentation]. 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Nonterah, C. W., Workman, K., LeViness, P. (2019, August). Racial Disparities in student wellness. Paper presented for symposium at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Opie, J., Ryan, G., Kaminsky, E., & Lowder, M. W. (2019, April). Effects of lexical predictability and syntactic structure on fixation times during reading. Poster presented at the inaugural Virginia Area Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Kochel, K.P. & Maki, M. (2019, March). Investigating pathways from children’s depressive symptoms to peer relationships: The role of teacher support. Poster presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

Kochel, K.P. & Stomski, M. (2019, March). Are dysphoric children with depression-linked behaviors at elevated risk for peer relationship disturbances? Poster presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ryan, G., Opie, J., Kaminsky, E., & Lowder, M. W. (March 2019). Effects of lexical predictability and syntactic structure on fixation times during reading. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Cloonan, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2019, February 7-9). “It’s part of my responsibility to help”: Developing a measure of motivations for extrinsic emotion regulation [Poster presentation]. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Aste, M.B. & Knouse, L.E. (2018, November). A self-report measure for self-regulated learning in the undergraduate student population [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Washington, DC, United States.

Wirtz, M., Siddiqui, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2018, October 19-20). Who rides the emotional roller coaster?: Examining emotion variability as a link between socioeconomic status and well-being [Poster presentation]. 41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Raleigh, NC.

Kochel, K.P., & Rafferty, D. (2018, July). Transactions between children’s depressive symptoms and peer relationship difficulties: The role of social helplessness. In Interpersonal relationships, health, and well-being. Paper presented at the International Association for Relationships Research Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Fox, N., Crawford, L. E., Knouse, L.E., Vavra, D. T., Kent, M. H., & Lambert, K. (2018, June). When behavior drives neurobiological explorations: A preliminary investigation of rodent driving responses and accompanying biomarkers of stress adaptation [Poster presentation]. 27^th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Boca Raton, FL, United States.

Wilkins, S., Yusuf, T., Vavra, D., & Nonterah, C.W. (2018, May). Social Support Effects on Success Navigating Kidney Transplantation Evaluation. Oral presentation at Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Farmville, VA.

Yusuf, T., Worthington Jr., E. L., Cairo, A. H., & Nonterah, C. W. (2018, May). The connection between organizational affiliation, trait forgiveness, and the development of other positive attributes. Oral presentation at Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Farmville, VA.

Kochel, K.P., & Sweezy, S. (2018, April). Self versus teacher perceptions of social competence among sociometric and perceived popular preadolescents. Poster presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Adolescence, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bodalski, E., Hoyt, C., Knouse, L.E., & Forsyth, D. (2018, March). ADHD and the dark side of leadership [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA, United States.

Philip, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2018, March 1-3). You’re overthinking it: How restrained eating may be harming your social life [Poster presentation]. 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Siddiqui, S., Wirtz, M., & Lundberg, K. B. (2018, March 1-3). Finding friends (and foes): Do lower-status individuals show greater sensitivity to social cues?[Poster presentation]. 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Wirtz, M., Siddiqui, S., & Lundberg, K. B. (2018, March 1-3). Who rides the emotional roller coaster?: Examining emotion variability as a link between socioeconomic status and well-being [Poster presentation]. 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Colon, R., Lundberg, K. B., & Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L. (2016, November 4-5). Social class and social leanings: Do lower socioeconomic status individuals have a greater desire to engage with others? [Poster presentation]. 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Asheville, NC.

Gao, H., & Lundberg, K. B. (2016, November 4-5). Higher socioeconomic status predicts greater psychological and physical well-being, but only if you don’t believe status is important [Poster presentation]. 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Asheville, NC.

Bagwell, C.L., Kochel, K.P., McHugh, K., Salzman, S., Silverman, M., Rojas, R., Wolf, E., Gleckel, E., Horoz, N., Rodowsky, E., & Rosenwerg, R. (2016, April). Are depression and happiness associated with friendship quality in emerging adulthood? A dyadic approach. In R. Schwartz-Mette (Chair), Impacts of positive and negative emotional adjustment on friendship experiences: Moderators and mediators. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

Thai, R., Murphy, C.J., Caruso, C., & Knouse, L.E. (2016, January). The impact of brain-based vs. behavioral explanations of efficacy on the perceived credibility of treatments for depression [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, CA, United States.

Kochel, K.P., Bagwell, C.L., McHugh, K., Salzman, S., Silverman, M., Rojas, R., & Wolf, E. (2015, March). Corumination, friendship quality, and depression: Dyadic patterns of influence among emerging adult friendship dyads. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.