This collection features publications by current and former faculty and staff in the Department of Psychology.
Faculty and staff may contribute works produced while serving at Georgia Southern by submitting copies to digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu. Please provide the version licensed by the copyright holder (e.g., the publisher) for open access publication following any mandatory embargo period.
Submissions from 2024
College Specific Depression: Analyzing the Differences Between Class Year and Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds, Pamela A. Kplivi, Jaden Deluke, Caroline O'Conell, and Virginia B. Wickline
EXPRESS: Facial Occlusion with Medical Masks: Impacts on Emotion Recognition Rates for Emotion Types and Intensities, Virginia B. Wickline, A. Shea Hall, Ryan S. Lavrisa, Kaylee M. McCook, Michael Woodcock, Marco Bani, Selena Russo, Maria Grazia Strepparava, Renee K. Nowicki, and Stephen Nowicki
Submissions from 2023
Individual Difference Correlates of Being Sexually Unrestricted Yet Declining an HIV Test, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Stephen W. Carden, Stacy W. Smallwood, Janice Steirn, and S. Mason Garrison
Increasing Character Strength Knowledge, Interest, and Skill: Preliminary Evidence for a Collaborative and Multimethod Assessment Procedure, Jeff J. Klibert, Michaela D. Simpson, Brandon J. Weiss, C. Thresa Yancey, Calla Pritulsky, Amy Luna, Hayley Houseman, and Hani M. Samawi
Essay 10.6 Motivation in the Wild: Capturing the Complex Social Ecologies of Academic Motivation, Ellen Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Justin W. Vollet, and Nicolette P. Rickert
Submissions from 2022
Perceptions of Fatigue and Safety Climate Pertaining to Residency Duty-Hour Restrictions, Michele M. Carr, Jonathan E. Friedel, Daniel O'Brien, Anne M. Foreman, and Oliver Wirth
Pandemic Partnerships: Community/University Experiences with Community-Based Learning in the COVID-19 Era, Ryan J. Couillou, Beth McGee, April S. Carr, and Tabitha A. Lamberth
Mental Health Symptoms Predicting American College Students’ Academic Performance: The Moderating Role of Peer Support, Gabrielle M. Goselin and Nicolette P. Rickert
Celebrity Admiration, Conspiratorial Belief, and Anti-vaccination Attitudes: Examining Relationships and Establishing Pragmatic Research, Nancy McCarley, Catherine Jones, and Joshua L. Williams
Further Validation of the Realness Scale: Are Celebrity Worshipers Unreal?, Lynn E. McCutcheon, Lillian Donahue, Joshua L. Williams, Sarah K. Nielson, Scott Peterson, and Terry F. Pettijohn II
Parent and Teacher Involvement and the Development of Students' Academic Engagement: A Growth Curve Analysis Over Four Time Points, Nicolette P. Rickert and Ellen A. Skinner
Mindfulness Training Improves Middle School Teachers’ Occupational Health, Well-Being, and Interactions with Students in Their Most Stressful Classrooms, Robert W. Roeser, Andrew J. Mashburn, Ellen A. Skinner, Jaiya R. Choles, Nicolette P. Rickert, Cynthia Taylor, Jessica Robbeloth, Emily Saxton, Emily Weiss, Margaret Cullen, and Jillayne Sorenson
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation, Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Justin W. Vollet, and Nicolette P. Rickert
The Complex Social Ecology of Academic Development: A Bioecological Framework and Illustration Examining the Collective Effects of Parents, Teachers, and Peers on Student Engagement, Ellen A. Skinner, Nicolette P. Rickert, Justin W. Vollet, and Thomas A. Kindermann
Comparison of Two Video Prompting Interventions to Teach Daily Living Skills to Adolescents With Autism, Jennifer Wertalik and Richard Kubina
I’ll See Your Beautified Photo and Raise You One: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Edited Social Media Photo Exposure., Wendy L. Wolfe and Leah Yakabovits
Factors in Predicting and Preventing Conspiracy Theory Endorsement: An Empirical Review, Leah Yakabovits and Joshua L. Williams
Submissions from 2021
Parent and Teacher Warm Involvement and Student's Academic Engagement: The Mediating Role of Self-System Processes, Nicolette P. Rickert and Ellen A. Skinner
Submissions from 2020
A Consensus-Based Transparency Checklist, Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Zoltan Kekecs, Šimon Kucharský, Daniel Benjamin, Christopher D. Chambers, Agenta Fisher, Andrew Gelman, Morton A. Gernsbacher, John P. Ioannidis, Eric Johnson, Kai Jonas, Stavroula Kousta, Scott O. Lilienfeld, D. Stephen Lindsay, Candice C. Morey, Marcus Munafò, Benjamin R. Newell, Harold Pashler, David R. Shanks, Daniel J. Simons, Jelte M. Wicherts, Dolores Albarracin, Nicole D. Anderson, John Antonakis, Hal R. Arkes, Mitja D. Back, George C. Banks, Christopher Beevers, Andrew A. Bennett, Wiebke Bleidorn, Ty W. Boyer, Cristina Cacciari, Alice S. Carter, Joseph Cesario, Charles Clifton, Ronán M. Conroy, Mike Cortese, Fiammetta Cosci, Nelson Cowan, Jarret Crawford, Eveline A. Crone, John Curtin, Randall Engle, Simon Farrell, Pasco Fearon, Mark Fichman, Willem Frankenhuis, Alexandra M. Freund, M. Gareth Gaskell, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Don P. Green, Robert L. Greene, Lisa L. Harlow, Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Derek Isaacowitz, Janet Kolodner, Debra Lieberman, Gordon D. Logan, Wendy B. Mendes, Lea Moersdorf, Brendan Nyhan, Jeffrey Pollack, Christopher Sullivan, Simine Vazire, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
The Temporal Dynamics of Infants' Joint Attention: Effects of Others' Gaze Cues and Manual Actions, Ty W. Boyer, Samuel Harding, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Development of a Multidimensional, Multi-Informent Measure of Teacher Mindfulness as Experienced and Expressed in the Middle School Classroom, Nicolette P. Rickert, Ellen A. Skinner, and Robert W. Roeser
I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again:” Integrative Frameworks for Studying the Development of Motivational Resilience in School, Ellen Skinner, Jennifer Pitzer, Heather Brule, and Nicollette P. Rickert
Submissions from 2019
Cronbach’s Alpha Under Insufficient Effort Responding: An Analytic Approach, Stephen W. Carden, Trevor R. Camper, and Nicholas S. Holtzman
Depression, Negative Emotionality, and Self-Referential Language: A Multi-Lab, Multi-Measure, Multi-Language Task Research Synthesis, Allison M. Tackman, David A. Sbarra, Angela L. Carey, M. Brent Donnellan, Andrea B. Horn, Nicholas S. Holtzman, To'Meisha S. Edwards, James W. Pennebaker, and Matthias R. Mehl
Submissions from 2018
Direct-Gaze, Eye Movements, and Covert and Overt Social Attention Processes, Ty W. Boyer and Matthew Wang
Did Narcissism Evolve?, Nicholas S. Holtzman
Submissions from 2017
Schemas Mediate the Link Between Procrastination and Depression: Results from the United States and Pakistan, Sobia Aftab, Jeffrey Klibert, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Kanwal Qadeer, and Saima Aftab
Infants’ Motor Simulation of Observed Actions Is Modulated by the Visibility of the Actor’s Body, Ty W. Boyer, Samuel M. Harding, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Attention to Body-Parts Varies With Visual Preference and Verb–Effector Associations, Ty W. Boyer, Josita Maouene, and Nitya Sethuraman
CAHOST: An Excel Workbook for Facilitating the Johnson-Neyman Technique for Two-Way Interactions in Multiple Regression, Stephen W. Carden, Nicholas S. Holtzman, and Michael J. Strube
A Meta-Analysis of Correlations Between Depression and First Person Singular Pronoun Use, To'Meisha Edwards and Nicholas S. Holtzman
A Simulator of the Degree to Which Random Responding Leads to Biases in the Correlations Between Two Individual Differences, Nicholas S. Holtzman and M. Brent Donnellan
The Value of Psychology in Professional Domains Scale, Karen Naufel, Kent D. Bodily, Nicholas Holtzman, Rebecca G. Ryan, and Janice Steirn
Social and Cognitive Outcomes of Service-Learning: Results from a Pre-Post and Control Group Comparison, Rebecca G. Ryan
Geometric Encoding, Bradley R. Sturz
Do Eye Movements During Shape Discrimination Reveal an Underlying Geometric Structure?, Bradley R. Sturz, Ty W. Boyer, John F. Magnotti, and Kent D. Bodily
Mind Perception and Individual Differences: A Replication and Extension, Mia Tharp, Nicholas S. Holtzman, and Fade R. Eadeh
Submissions from 2016
The Effects of Adoption Openness and Type on the Mental Health, Delinquency, and Family Relationships of Adopted Youth, Laura E. Agnich, April M. Schueths, Tiffany D. James, and Jeff J. Klibert
Infants' Observation of Others' Actions: Brief Movement-Specific Visual Experience Primes Motor Representations, Ty W. Boyer and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Elementary School Students' Quantitative Reasoning: Processing Whole Numbers and Proportions, Ty W. Boyer and Natalie Branch
Risk-Taking, Ty W. Boyer and James P. Byrnes
Predictors of Opposition to and Support for the Ordination of Women: Insights from the LDS Church, Ryan T. Cragun, Stephen M. Merino, Michael Nielsen, Brent D. Beal, Matthew Streamer, and Bradley Jones
Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation among Nursing Students: Investigating the Mediation Effect of Working Memory Capacity, Christy Dubert, Autumn M. Schumacher, Lawrence Locker Jr., Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume, and Vernon Barnes
Isolated Processing of Geometric Shapes and Their Corresponding Shape Words: Evidence from a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task, Joshua E. Edwards, Ty W. Boyer, Z. Kade Bell, and Bradley R. Sturz
Stroop-Like Interference in a Match-to-Sample Task: Further Evidence for Semantic Competition?, Marshall L. Green, Lawrence Locker, Ty W. Boyer, and Bradley R. Sturz
Spatial Attention to Social Cues is not a Monolithic Process, Samuel M. Harding, Ty W. Boyer, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
"War on Terror" in Our Backyard: Effects of Framing and Violent ISIS Propaganda on Anti-Muslim Prejudice, Arthur T. Hatton Sr. and Michael E. Nielsen
Detecting the Perception of Illusory Spatial Boundaries: Evidence From Distance Judgment, Bradley R. Sturz and Kent D. Bodily
Submissions from 2015
The Development of Social Attention in Human Infants, Bennett I. Bertenthal and Ty W. Boyer
Prompting Children to Reason Proportionally: Processing Discrete Units as Continuous Amounts, Ty W. Boyer and Susan C. Levine
Signal Clarity: An Account of the Variability in Infant Quantity Discrimination Tasks, Lisa Cantrell, Ty W. Boyer, Sara Cordes, and Linda B. Smith
Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns Revisited, Angela L. Carey, Melanie S. Brucks, Albrecht C. P. Kufner, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Fenne Grobe Deters, Mitja D. Back, M. Brent Donnellan, James W. Pennebaker, and Matthias R. Mehl
The Nonreligious – Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS): Measuring Everything from Atheists to Zionists, Ryan T. Cragun, Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen
Evidence Consistent With the Multiple-Bearings Hypothesis From Human Virtual Landmark-Based Navigation, Martha R. Forloines, Kent D. Bodily, and Bradley R. Sturz
Preschool Children's Self-Reports of Fruit and Vegetable Knowledge, Preference, and Messages Encouraging Consumption, Andrew Hansen, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
The Roots of Narcissus: Old and New Models of the Evolution of Narcissism, Nicholas S. Holtzman and M. Brent Donnellan
Exploring Political Ideologies of Senators With Semantic Analysis Tools: Further Validation of CASS, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Simon Kwong, and Kirsten L. Baird
Religiousness and Social Support: A Study in Secular Norway, Marianne Nilsen Kvande, R. Johansen, A. Lehre, Michael E. Nielsen, and Geir Arild Espnes
Church Attendance and Religious Experience: Differential Associations to Well-Being for Norwegian Women and Men?, Marianne Nilsen Kvande, Christian Andreas Klöckner, and Michael Nielsen
Disfluent Fonts Don't Help People Solve Math Problems, Andrew Meyer, Shane Frederick, Terence C. Burnham, Juan D. Guevara Pinto, Ty W. Boyer, Linden J. Ball, Gordon Pennycook, Rakefet Ackerman, Valerie A. Thompson, and Jonathon P. Schuldt
Creating a Game for Psychology, Michael Nielsen
Perceptions, In-Groups, and Out-Groups: Challenges and Opportunities for Division 36, Michael Nielsen
Strategies and Resources for Teaching Psychology of Religion, Michael Nielsen and Christopher F. Silver
Comparative Psychology, Janice N. Steirn, Kent D. Bodily, and Bradley R. Sturz
Submissions from 2014
When Do Infants Begin to Follow a Point?, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Ty W. Boyer, and Samuel Harding
Fast and Slow Sexual Strategies Are Not Opposites: Implications for Personality and Psychopathology, Nicholas S. Holtzman and Angela L. Senne
A Consistent but Non-Coincident Visual Pattern Facilitates the Learning of Spatial Relations among Locations, Scott S. Katz, Michael F. Brown, and Bradley R. Sturz
Cross-cultural Models of Suicide Risk, Jeff Klibert, K. Nikki Barefoot, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, K. Bryant Smalley, and Jacob C. Warren
Resilience Mediates the Relationships between Perfectionism and College Student Distress, Jeff J. Klibert, Dorian A. Lamis, Walt Collins, Jacob C. Warren, K. Bryant Smalley, and Carrie Winterowd
Hopelessness and Suicide Proneness in U.S. and Japanese College Students: Depressive Symptoms as a Potential Mediator, Dorian A. Lamis, Motoko Saito, A. Osman, Jeff J. Klibert, P. S. Malone, and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Social Psychology for Today’s World, Lynn E. McCutcheon, Jean E. Bartels, Amy Hackney, Jason Hart, and S. M. Rauch
Understanding Masculinity in Undergraduate African American Men: A Qualitative Study, Krista Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
Being a Black Man: Development of the Masculinity Inventory Scale (MIS) for Black Men, Krista D. Mincey, Moya L. Alfonso, Amy A. Hackney, and John S. Luque
Modeling a Role of Field of View in the Extraction of Geometric Cues During Reorientation, Bradley Sturz
Asymmetrical Interference Effects Between Two-Dimensional Geometric Shapes and Their Corresponding Shape Words, Bradley R. Sturz, Joshua E. Edwards, and Ty W. Boyer
Incidental Encoding of Enclosure Geometry Does Not Require Visual Input: Evidence from Blindfolded Adults, Bradley R. Sturz, Katherine A. Gaskin, and Jonathan E. Roberts
Submissions from 2013
Infants’ Knowledge of Object Continuity and Discontinuity, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Gustaf Gredebäck, and Ty W. Boyer
Beacons and Surface Features Differentially Influence Human Reliance on Global and Local Geometric Cues When Reorienting in a Virtual Environment, Kent D. Bodily, Zachary A. Kilday, Caroline K. Eastman, Katherine A. Gaskin, April A. Graves, Jonathon E. Roberts, and Bradley R. Sturz
Reverse Deterrence in Racial Profiling: Increased Transgressions by Nonprofiled Whites, Amy Hackney and Jack Glaser
Mormon Identity and Social Context, Arthur T. Hatton Sr. and Michael Nielsen
Above and Beyond Short-Term Mating, Long-Term Mating is Uniquely Tied to Human Personality, Nicholas S. Holtzman and Michael J. Strube
People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer, Nicholas S. Holtzman and Michael J. Strube
Geometric Cues, Reference Frames, and the Equivalence of Experienced-Aligned and Novel-Aligned Views in Human Spatial Memory, Jonathon W. Kelly, Lori A. Sjolund, and Bradley R. Sturz
Examining the Role of Adverse Life Events And Daily Hassles in Suicide, Jeff J. Klibert and Dorian A. Lamis
Mormon Mental Health, Michael Nielsen
Religiousness, Social Psychology, and Behavior, Michael Nielsen, Arthur T. Hatton Sr., and M. J. Donahue
Psychology, Religion and the Internet, Michael Nielsen and Brandon Randolph-Seng
Attitudes toward Suicide and Emotional Expressivity: Gender and Culture Specific Associations with Suicide Proneness for Japanese and American College Students, Motoko Saito, Jeff J. Klibert, and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Overtraining and the Use of Feature and Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz, Katherine A. Gaskin, and Kent D. Bodily
Stroop Interference in a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task: Evidence for Semantic Competition, Bradley R. Sturz, Marshall Lee Green, Lawrence Locker Jr., and Ty W. Boyer
Environment Size and the Use of Feature and Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz and Debbie M. Kelly
Does Constraining Field of View Prevent Extraction of Geometric Cues for Humans during Virtual-Environment Reorientation?, Bradley R. Sturz, Zachary A. Kilday, and Kent D. Bodily
Professor-Student Rapport Scale: Six Items Predict Student Outcomes, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Probabilistic Cue Combination: Less is More, Daniel Yurovsky, Ty W. Boyer, Linda B. Smith, and Chen Yu
Submissions from 2012
The Roles of Beaconing and Dead Reckoning in Human Virtual Navigation, Kent D. Bodily, Thomas A. Daniel, and Bradley R. Sturz
On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the U.S., Ryan T. Cragun, Barry Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen
Teaching Psychology of Religion at a State University, Michael Nielsen
Health Risk Behaviors in Insured and Uninsured Community Health Center Patients in the Rural US South, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, and Jeff J. Klibert
On Discriminating between Geometric Strategies of Surface-Based Orientation, Bradley R. Sturz and Kent D. Bodily
Enclosure Size and the Use of Local and Global Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz, Martha R. Forloines, and Kent D. Bodily
