Graduate student Britney Webster was interviewed for a University of Wisconsin Psychology & Stuff Podcast about her research presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago!
Hear Britney talk about age and partner-type differences in the reported use of valid cues to deception in Episode 23. Britney’s interview begins around minute 16:00.
Graduate students Jennifer Turner and Britney Webster, and undergraduate student, Christopher Mugnaini, presented their research at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago in May 2016. See posters here.
Dr. Stanley, Halley Cooper-Shumway, Skyler Pierce, and Rachel Martin collected data for the American Sign Language (ASL) Expertise study at the DeafNation Expo in Columbus on April 16.
This study is funded by a Summer Fellowship awarded to Dr. Stanley by The University of Akron. Find out more about the study here
Katie Harrington has been selected as 1 of 12 researches accepted to attend the 2015 Summer Training Workshop on African American Aging Research.
The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research in the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University hosts a workshop each summer to train promising early stage career scientists committed to studying African American aging research. Congratulations Katie for being selected for this opportunity!
Rising 3rd year graduate student, Britney Kurtz, has been accepted to attend the American Psychological Association’s Advanced Training Institute workshop on Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Research this summer.
Britney received funding from the APA Advanced Training Institute and was awarded a scholarship from the Department of Psychology to attend the workshop.
Congratulations to Britney — she is working hard to change the relationships between gender and social rewards depicted in the model above (Women in Science: Yes we can!)!
MPA 2015 | April 30, 2015-May 2, 2015
All three graduate students in the Emotions and Aging Lab presented talks at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago, IL
Katie Harrington | Age similarities in endorsing useful negative emotions.
Halley Cooper-Shumway | Meta-emotion may miss the mark: An exploration of individuals’ beliefs about age-related changes in emotion perception.
Britney Kurtz | Why older couples shouldn’t lie to each other.
Britney Kurtz is now a FACS-certified coder. She passed the competency test for the Facial Action Coding System, a system for coding the action units of the face. Congratulations, Britney!
Britney Kurtz, Katie Harrington, and Halley Cooper-Shumway were awarded Travel Grants from Psi Chi to attend the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association to be held in Chicago in May 2015. Congratulations Britney, Katie, and Halley!
Dr. Stanley talks about humor and aging study on WKSU with Jeff St. Clair on his Exploradio show. Listen to the 4 minute podcast here:
A grant to study deceit detection training among older adults has been awarded to Dr. Stanley by The Retirement Research Foundation
Dr. Stanley discusses recent aging and humor study published in Psychology and Aging on 1590 AM WAKR with Chris Keppler. Listen to the 8 min interview here:
Read the article here:
Read about the aging and humor study at The Atlantic here: